MyFitnessPal, a perfect app to count the calories you eat

When go on a diet (either to gain weight, to maintain or to lose weight) it is highly recommended to ingest the appropriate amount of daily calories based on our basal metabolic rate, a somewhat heavy task in which an app like this can be very helpful.

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If there is something boring when it comes to recording calories and macronutrients in a diet, it is the fact of entering each data by hand, and possibly that is where MyFitnessPal stands out above the rest, since it has an immense food database which is also improved by its community, so we will not have problems, for example, in adding products from brands from different supermarkets, which have different nutritional values. In many apps of this type, food is proposed in a generic way, but this can lead to continuous errors in the global calculation.

The level of the database on food from United States, but surprisingly the Spanish one is not bad at all and has the main products of the most common supermarkets, including private brands such as Hacendado in the case of Mercadona, or Carrefour Discount products. And to this must be added the possibility of reading products by barcode, which makes the search even faster.

Not just calories

Although it is impressive how simple they make it for us to count caloriesThe most interesting thing about this application for me is the amount of options it gives us to exchange data with other applications. We can connect it with Withings to automatically receive the weight from the scale, with RunKeeper to record workouts without having to import them by hand, with the Jawbone UP bracelet that records our daily activity in a generalized way or with Sworkit, which encourages us to use circuits to time to train. And they are just a few examples, the total list is very extensive.

The weight monitoring we can do is no less interesting, although this part is looser and I have found that in the app itself. Withings it is more worked and it is more interesting to follow up. Of course, at no time am I saying that it is not enough, since it shows us a graph that is more than enough to follow our evolution over time and see if the diet is working as it should.

The application is free and has a fairly active social community behind it, which is interesting if you like to interact with other people when it comes to achieving your goals, either by sharing knowledge or just reading.