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Smartphone app can help you lose weight

By Tim Johnson

May 28th, 2012 @ 8:22pm

SALT LAKE CITY Being in the graphics business, the subject of weight loss was an easy one for me. Who needs gastric bypass when you've got Photoshop? It worked like a charm for the Christmas cards, but it was a little less impressive in person.

I used to be big. A lot bigger. At the pool, diving boards would scream for mercy. At Sea World, I was often mistaken for Shamu's brother. So how did I lose 40 pounds? I used my phone.

A calorie counting app on my smart phone has a database of around 30,000 foods, so you can find just about anything in there. There are hundreds of apps to choose from. (In this case, I used an app called "Lose It.") Many of them can help you record not only calorie intake, but also exercise and more.

I started exercising and keeping track of what I was eating. Whatever I ate, I recorded. Whatever I did to exercise, I recorded it. It was kind of a pain at first, but you are able to quickly learn why and where the calories are adding up, and what it takes to work it all off. You simply set up a daily "quota" for calories.

Whatever you eat/drink takes away from the total. When you exercise, you add back to that total. A hot dog would set me back 450 calories, but I could "re-deposit" those same 450 calories into my quota by getting in four miles on the treadmill. It's a math game.

Sometimes it takes a little creativity. Instead of using a two-for-one coupon for the big double jumbo burger - 1400 calories - I did a little research and found out that you can get a 12-inch sub sandwich, minus the mayo and cheese, for about 620 calories.

You don't have to necessarily give up all the foods you love, you can just replace them where you can with stuff that tastes just as good. Many times you can discover great-tasting food that you'd never considered before. Before long, your tastes change and you can see the change in the mirror.

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