I would start with this video from the people who developed the app itself. We want to become faster and more efficient and learning how foods help or hinder that is obviously beneficial. This can help you make better food choices and kick up your healthy habits a notch.īreaking down what you put in your mouth has many benefits for the runner. If I don’t have a goal, I don’t do as well.Įven using the app for a week, though, can show you how you are eating in much greater detail. It can be fun to track everything for a few days, but gets tedious if I don’t have a specific goal in mind…which is why having a goal for running is important for me. I am not great at using the app on a daily basis when I am not trying to lose a few pounds or make sure my carbo load is on track. Showing you where your weak spots are and making the choice to fix them go a long way to eating healthier, which in turn leads to weight loss. Most people are surprised…and not in a good way. Keeping a food diary is one of the top ways to see just how many calories you are ingesting in a day. Holding water will make the scale go up, and that’s not what we want to do in weight loss mode! Sodium, while needed for long runs for replacing what we sweat out, can also mean water retention. It is amazing to see how much sodium, for example, different foods have that you wouldn’t think of. What is interesting when you are trying to lose weight is to see the bigger picture that this app can provide. You will also be entering in your activity, and it will calculate how many calories you have burned based on the exercise and how long you did it. It also will tell you how much you are burning just sitting around, but hopefully, you are doing more than that! If you are trying to lose weight, you can tell it what your goal is and the app will figure out how many calories per day you should be eating based on your current weight. ![]() I know what I can eat for fueling if I go for a long run, so I don’t really need to make sure I am hitting the daily goal as if I’m in the final phase for a marathon. When I am not carb loading for a race, I revert the carb goal back to the RDA. You can also include your water intake if you are trying to hit a goal for that. It also has the information for whole foods as well, so just enter the name of the food and pick from a list exactly what you are eating. It will save your foods for you, so next time you eat the same thing you just have to pick out the food from a list. You can also add food manually when you are eating say an egg or drinking a cup of coffee. The neat thing about the app on the phone is it has a scanner, so you can scan a label and have the app enter the info automatically. There is also a website to enter food (manually or with the search feature, since you won’t be able to scan the barcode like you can with the phone app…see below) and look at your information. Someone who is bodybuilding will probably want to have a higher protein goal than someone like me who is wanting to store glycogen for long runs. ![]() You can set up targets to make sure you are on track for what you want. The app will also track the vitamins, minerals, caffeine and alcohol as well. The free version has so much included in it! I can even enter my own recipes and it will figure out the macros and even generate a nutrition label for them!įor example, here is the label for my fish taco recipe (without taco shell): The Cronometer App (for Google Play) is one I’ve downloaded to use for tracking these macros. Especially this week, as I am tapering for the marathon and upping my carb intake. As a runner, I want a good balance of carbs, proteins and fats. Recently on the other side of the coin, there seems to be a push for low-carb eating. Guess which my body will use in a more efficient way? I can eat a 60 calorie chocolate pudding (which I do when I want a snack…chocolate pudding rocks!) or I can eat a 60 calorie orange. The “big deal” in tracking them is to see where your calories are coming from so you can best utilize food to your advantage. These three things make up whatever calories you consume in a day. They are referring to macronutrients, which are protein, carbohydrates and fat. If you’ve been on the internet lately, you’ve probably heard people talking about tracking their macros. ![]() UPDATE- This App is no longer available for Apple, but is still available on Google Play.
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