Those who have never wondered why their favorite jeans have become small, can proceed to reading the next article on "Lifehacker". To those of our readers who know what extra pounds are, and who have experienced this difficult struggle with excess "kg" and "cm", I want to tell you one of the ways to control your diet and your weight.
In fact, there is nothing complicated or even new in organizing a healthy lifestyle and maintaining the right weight. Tips and rules announced many years ago, namely – gym, movement, restriction in total calories and in the amount of carbohydrates – all this works for most people (we exclude cases of diseases and serious metabolic disorders). Following these absolutely banal rules, you can put your body and your health in order with a minimum of effort. I know it's hard to believe, but the first step for those who have decided to lose a couple of kilograms should be ... reading the packages of products that you buy in stores. Interesting discoveries await you. It turns out that 100 g of chocolate is 500 kCal, a third of the daily norm of a person who wants to lose weight. And a pack of ice cream? And a few packs of chips? A nut? These numbers don't seem so impressive individually. Well, just think 100 grams of pistachios is only 600 calories. Plus a can of beer. Plus 2 kg on the scales...
Let's put aside emotions and epithets, and return to the language of numbers. Having started losing weight, you need to find a table of caloric content of products and study it thoroughly. Just read how much your favorite food "costs" – one piece of cake, a glass of wine or a glass of juice. After that, get into the habit of counting calories for your daily diet. To do this, you can find a huge variety of programs, services and applications for mobile on the Web.
— for desktop
Recipe Calc is a recipe calculator that can count the calorie content of dishes prepared by the user. In addition, the program already has a list of ready meals with their calculated energy value.
— online
Wolfram Alpha – this search engine will quickly give you an answer about the number of calories in a given product. Only the query needs to be set in English, for example, like this
"Calorie" — this online service will calculate the body mass index and give recommendations on nutrition. You can keep a food diary on the same website. And based on its results, you can build a graph.
"Healthy Russia" — a calorie counter is also available on this portal along with a goal setting system
— for mobile
DietCalc – can count calories and make a weight loss schedule. There are several diets to choose from in the program database
L3Solution NutriData – the program has a calculator that estimates the total energy value of foods and the composition of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
Calorie Tracker is a free program that can count calories according to a given diet
CaloriesME is another mobile program that can count calories when eating, but also during such daily activities as sleeping, driving in a car or office work
— for iPhone
FoodScanner — this program allows you to get data on the calorie content of the product using the barcode on the product. The FoodScanner database contains more than 200 thousand products, the list is constantly updated.
Walk n` Play is another app from the AppStore catalog, with which you can count calories and assess your level of physical activity, that is, calorie expenditure as a result of various activities.
