Proper diet and nutrition is one of the most essential components to being healthy and living a long life. What we eat becomes our diet, and our diet plays a major role in deciding how healthy we are and how well we take care of our bodies. A proper diet must be approached with balance, variety, and moderation. I used the application MyFitnessPal to help me track my food and beverage intake. Based on my current weight and the fact that I want to loose around 20 pounds the app allowed me 1,520 Calories a day and would adjust my Calories based on how many steps I took that day and exercises I recorded. Unfortunately, the three days I took to log my food intake were some of the busiest days of the week for me. When I am busy or pushed for time the nutritional value of my food tends to decline tremendously. On Thursday I had time in the morning to have breakfast and pack a lunch to take to work whereas Friday and Saturday I was rushed for time and had to make decisions on the fly and I ended up choosing fast food on those days.
On Thursday, I ate and drank 817 Calories worth of food, which was way below my recommended, but I ate energy dense foods and was not left hungry. My sodium was low at 868mg and my cholesterol was also …show more content…
They are pretty good at having foods entered from restaurants and I also like that they allow you to use their barcode scanner to automatically enter the food in for you. The only thing I believe they could improve on is the exercise feature of the application. It is difficult to gage what the mean by their intensity ratings and what I consider to be my intensity ratings. Also, It only counts the steps that it records you taking while you are holding your phone. I tried to connect my fitbit and the app would not display my total step and Calories burned from those steps. I ended up having to do the math myself and use the fitbit app as well as
On Thursday, I ate and drank 817 Calories worth of food, which was way below my recommended, but I ate energy dense foods and was not left hungry. My sodium was low at 868mg and my cholesterol was also …show more content…
They are pretty good at having foods entered from restaurants and I also like that they allow you to use their barcode scanner to automatically enter the food in for you. The only thing I believe they could improve on is the exercise feature of the application. It is difficult to gage what the mean by their intensity ratings and what I consider to be my intensity ratings. Also, It only counts the steps that it records you taking while you are holding your phone. I tried to connect my fitbit and the app would not display my total step and Calories burned from those steps. I ended up having to do the math myself and use the fitbit app as well as