Fitness month at Mobile Nations and CrackBerry has gotten many into a get fit frenzy. I’m feeling a renewed drive to start my journey back up and reach my weight loss goal. One of my biggest problems is that I tend to forget to keep an eye on my caloric intake. Is what I’m eating healthy enough? Do I really know if I’m taking in enough calories? Can I afford to have the pretzels that I’m thinking about as I’m writing this? Probably not. It isn’t easy for everyone to remember how many calories you need or eat, or know the nutritional values for food from restaurants. A guide is all that some need to stick to the plan and drop the pounds. A guide like TrackNSlim will do just that.
This application is an effective way to set goals yourself and see how well you’re sticking to them. To set up, you enter in your weight, diet and the thresholds (calories, fats, sodium, sugar, etc) you want to work with. Now here’s what I like; TrackNSlim has a huge list of food and their nutritional values. So all you need to do is select and quantify. I’m a visual learner – I need to see how I am doing and view charts, like pie charts, to learn where I can improve (mmmm, pie charts). A daily progress screen will indicate how close you are to reaching your thresholds and will also show you when you are over them (otherwise known as being in the red).
Honestly, I don’t have the diet part completely down. I basically know what’s healthy and what’s not. It’s portion control and balance that I really struggle with. In my opinion, TracknSlim is one of the best ways to get a handle on eating before your eating gets out of hand. Nutritional information, breakdown of your intake and goal management, TrackNSlim is a great application to start to use during fitness month and beyond. You can get TrackNSlim for $2.99 from BlackBerry App World.
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Foppa_21 Feb 8, 2012 at 5:16 pm
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Love the concept, but can you actually keep this sort of tracking up for more than a few days?
shemaree09 Feb 8, 2012 at 5:24 pm
nope
gyubok Feb 8, 2012 at 8:41 pm
ofcourse not. well, at least i can't.. :(
Slamdunk61 Feb 8, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Great article. Thanks for the information on this app. Yes, I think one can keep track of their intake. Should only take a few minutes each day and it will give you valuable insight on your intake and where you stand with your goals.
The link to App World has an incorrect URL - it starts with hhttp: and should be http: Thanks!
Kerri Neill Feb 10, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for letting us know. All fixed now.
derekjdech Feb 8, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Scott! OMG cut down on the sodium and the protein!
Flexin Feb 9, 2012 at 7:05 pm
If that is grams I would say he needs to increase the protein.