Using Your Phone to Help You Lose Weight

In the last few years we have seen an explosion in apps on or cell phones. Some of these apps are just for fun and plain useless. I have found an app on my Palm Pre Plus that allows me to me to keep track of my Weight Watcher points. The name of the app is Points Calculator. It allows you to figure out the amount of points things are based on calories, fat, and fiber. My favorite feature though was the ability to tally up points as you go along. I find it a pain in the butt when I am out in public places to pull out a tracker and write down everything I'm gonna eat or just finished eating. That sort of idea is what makes it hard to track because I will put it off to another day.

I always have my cell phone with me. So, I will never forget my cell phone like I forget my tracker. That and I really don't like pulling out my tracker in front of people because of all the questions. I would rather just pull out my phone, for all anyone else know, I could be texting. It has made keeping track of points much easier. Well, so far anyway, I have only been tracking like this for two days. The downside to keeping track of your points like this is you can't really check off all the other little goodies like fruits and vegetables, and liquids. To be honest, I haven't really been good at all about doing that. For right now, it is perfect because I just need something that will help me stay under my daily allotted points.

So, if your a visual person, it takes these things:

and compresses them into this:

Till tomorrow...

Josh