Best Weight Loss Mobile App 2018

It is well known that India is pacing with other countries when it comes to the obesity epidemic, ranking 22nd in child obesity world widely and 178 for an overall ranking.

One of the Time of India articles said a very wise line-

In today's digital world, there's very little that gets done without a smartphone. But as the (now) old joke goes, while phones are getting smarter and slimmer, the people using them are getting lazier and fatter day by day.

The drive of leading towards a healthy lifestyle looks harder to achieve with the ease of ordering food online.

Burning more calories than you consume is the primary formula every dietician, activist or fitness trainer would recommend.

Slimming applications came a long way from only remembering your diet charts to track everything from your calorie intake and reading your heartbeat.

Many apps even have a barcode scanner feature which can be used to add your daily foods to the log and keeps your weight graphs in check.

Several studies have shown that self-monitoring may promote weight loss by increasing awareness of your habits and progress 

Weight loss and fitness apps- A boon or a bane?

Fitness is not just important for overall wellness and managing many health conditions, but losing weight and keeping it off can be incredibly challenging.

Many people turn to apps with the intention of only tracking their daily calorie intake.

While calories certainly play an important role in maintaining a healthy weight, they’re not the only aspect of nutrition to consider.

Portion sizes and macronutrients (think protein, carbohydrates, and fat) are equally as essential when it comes to eating healthy. And they’re just as easily trackable through apps.

To make your journey easy we have jotted down some of the best slimming apps which suggests you tips and hacks for shedding pounds, tracking calories, and maintaining your healthy weight.

 1. Noom Weight loss coach-

Noom differentiates itself from other apps with its game-like approach to the familiar calorie counting process. It gives you points for every action performed (making it addictive).

2. VLCC Slimming app-

This app tracks your diet and activities on a daily basis, it provides an interface through which the users can be in touch with the assigned dietitian all the time. The reminders and notifications help the customer to keep track of their food intake timings and their activity routine to achieve slimming goals.

3. Obino, Indian Weight Loss Coach-

This app intends to act as a personalized weight loss coach on your mobile! Various features like meal & exercise suggestions, diet plans & water-drinking reminders are built-in with familiar measures like katoris (bowl)

4. MyFitnessPal Calorie Counter-

Calorie tracking has been refined to a fine art by this app, they have a massive food database of over 3,000,000 items. It shows you a weekly and monthly progress report with their food monitoring tools.

  

5. Adaptive

Here’s how it works: The voice of a trainer will guide you through a fitness studio-style session with music that's tailored to a wide variety of workouts. Whatever fitness vibes you’re feeling, Adaptive has something for you, says certified personal trainer and fitness nutrition specialist Jaime Mcfadden, C.P.T.Get started with a 30-day free trial.

6. Mindful Eating Tracker-

The way it works is that it takes the focus off calorie-counting and helps clients learn how to make positive decisions that will ultimately be the more beneficial to their long-term goals.

The app functions similarly to how a food journal might; you’ll log your feelings, your hunger levels, but unlike a paper journal, you’ll be able to track those feelings in graph-form. Which makes it a great option for visual learners.

7. HealthyOut-

“You can search by specific diet restriction, like low carb, the Mediterranean, paleo, heart healthy, gluten sensitive, and high protein,” explains Childress.

“It also gives you healthy modifications for items found on the menu or modifications based on the diet you are following.”

8. Nom Nom Paleo-

“There are many choices for apps to help you out with the Paleo diet, but this is one of the best,” says Childress.

“It gives you over 145 recipes, with photos, and walks you through every step of the cooking process.” The most convenient factor of this app is its remembrance power. Once you choose a recipe, it helps you make a grocery list and then emails your shopping list to you

   

9. Fitness Buddy+

Fitness Buddy + helps you create your own workout routine and add new moves into your daily regimen, or use one of the established workout plans.

You get more than 1,700 exercises to choose from so you can create a plan to stick with.

Track your fitness progress while enjoying 1,000+ videos of how-to guidance.

10. Nike+ Run Club

The Nike+ Run Club will get you moving.

The app keeps users motivated by allowing them to compete with other runners.

You can track everything from pace and elevation to distance and heart rate.

Gain real-time feedback on your runs to modify activity as you go.

Coaching plans to give you more support from the team that makes quality running sneakers.

 How has technology helped in improving human well-being and fitness?

How many times have you heard that technology is bad for health; it makes you lazier, less communicative, less efficient, stresses your eyes and brain and makes you more and more dependent on it. We hear all of the above all the time but like the two sides of a coin, if it has ill effects it also has its benefits.

Physical and Mental well-being:

Think about the x-ray machines, MRI scanners, and even the research equipment used daily.

There are people using it every day of the week to find cures to ailments, discover why diseases spread and creating ways to prevent the diseases.

Technology isn’t just in the hospital but is used in your own doctor’s office and even at home.

It’s used to prolong life and create a better quality of life for those on around the clock care.

The improvements don’t just lead to better physical health, but also supports better mental health, which in turn improves the physical health. Improved connections and relationships, offer support to everyone.

See people’s emotions through X-ray glasses-

One of the latest Business Insider editors posted- Last summer a company called 2AI Labs unveiled its "O2Amps" glasses that use filters to let you see under people's skins to better detect oxygen flow in the veins. In other words, they let you see things like when people blush or go pale.

Doctors can use it to help diagnose disease -- and they also turned out to be good for diagnosing colour blindness. 

Wearable devices that know you in and out-

These devices deliver heart-rate training, GPS tracking and navigation to enable new routes without the worry of getting lost.

They also monitor your sleep, distance covered, elevation climbed and sync all this information with your computer and phone so you can analyse your training and progress.

 Blind can see feel with google glasses-

Boston-based doctor Joseph Rizzo III and his team over at Mass Eye and Ear have developed a prototype for "smart" glasses that guide the blind around.

Similar to a walking cane, these glasses vibrate to alert the person to objects in the path.

The three main components of the glasses are, first, a camera that captures the wearer's surroundings and sends images to a GPS-enabled processor to identify objects, people, and signs.

Tiny vibrators located near the temple and back of the ear buzz when it's time to turn or avoid a physical object, and An earpiece to relay information about the wearer's surroundings -Business Insider.