You can exercise more or adjust your goal to a slower weight loss if you find you need more calories to make it through the day. Daily Calorie Allotmentīased on your profile, weight goals and activity level, MFP will calculate your daily calorie allotment: the amount you can eat to achieve your weight goal. The quicker you want to lose weight the fewer calories you’ll get. If you enter Sedentary you will have the minimal amount of daily calories but you will be able to earn more calories through exercise each day. The more active you are in your daily life, the more daily calories MFP will allot to you. You also choose your activity level when you register: You can choose to keep your diary private, private with a password for the app, make it public or share it with friends. You may want to use these later for social purposes so choose wisely. You can add a profile picture and choose a user name. You have a choice of units: pounds, kilograms or stone. To get started with MFP you register for an account, entering your age, height, weight, gender, weight goal and activity level. I couldn’t help but be impressed as I watched him melt away during his weight loss journey. I first learned of MFP through a friend who lost 40 lbs (18 kg/2 stone, 12 lbs) in six months by using the app. But what makes MFP effective enough to gain hundreds of thousands of 5 star ***** reviews is how easy and, dare I say, fun the process of calories counting becomes. You can use its free website and apps to keep track of your calorie intake and output. Put simply, MyFitnessPal (MFP) is a calorie counter. But the way that you can keep track of your calories has been made much easier with My Fitness Pal, which uses tech to help you monitor your calories to help you achieve your fitness goals. Using diet and exercise to lose weight isn’t earth shattering, ground breaking or even new. You can lose weight when the amount of calories you burn exceeds the amount of calories you eat. If I told you that you could eat as much as you want of whatever you want and still lose weight, you may say: Be sure to check out the first article in this series, What’s Your Fitness Age? Tech + Fitness Series Part 1 to give you incentive to set your fitness goals for 2014.

Welcome to the second article in the Tech + Fitness series, covering tech to help you achieve your fitness goals. The estimated reading time for this post is 9 minutes

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