How To Count Calories – Using Calorie Counters

How To Count Calories – Using Calorie Counters

Counting calories is now easier than ever. Not so long ago the only way to record how many calories you had consumed was to use calorie tables in books and then manually calculate how many calories you had taken in. Today there are many computerized calorie counters. While there are many tools on the Internet, there also seems to be a new smartphone application each week, with tools for iPhone, Android and tablets.

The wonderful thing about modern calorie counters is that all you need to do is input the amount of food you have eaten and the computer will take care of the rest. Some will provide an estimation of nutrient intake too.

iPhone Apps

MyFitnessPal - claimed to be the easiest app to use on the iPhone to track your diet and fitness. It has a huge database of over a million foods and a user friendly food and exercise log to help you keep track of what you are eating and doing.Calorie Tracker, this is a free app which calculates fat, protein and carbohydrate intake as well as calories. This is a clever app as it will display the proportion of fats, proteins and carbohydrates that you are eating so that you can attempt to stay within the idea zone for each. It supports both scientific and standard values.

Android Apps

Fast Food Calorie Counter this specifically records calories from fast food meals.Calorie Counter by FatSecret - this app displays full nutritional facts for a huge range of foods and meals.Absolute Fitness a simple user interface provides easy diet logging and management. You can export the data too