Top 10 Free Weight Loss Apps for your iPhone or iPod Touch
February 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured Content
Staying on a weight loss or fitness regiment is difficult enough at home and even more so when you are out of the house at work, running errands, at social functions, or away on business.
Keeping track of your progress is essential to reaching your goals and most of us do not walk around everyday carrying food diaries, calorie counters, or body mass index tools.
And you don’t have to.
We have tracked down some of the best, free weight loss and fitness tools and apps available for download for your iPod Touch, and iPhone to help you stay on the path to success and, many are as easy to use as text messaging your BFF the joke of the day.
Restaurant Nutrition
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch with 2.0 Software Update
This restaurant nutrition application allows users to view nutritional information about fast food and popular restaurant menus including Pizza Hut, On the border, Jack in the Box, Dominos, Del Taco , and many others and track what they have eaten.
Updated frequently with new menus, multiple users can turn on diets to track calories, carbs, protein, and fat to quantify their weight loss progress.
Each time a restaurant appears in the program, the map button near it will open the maps application to show all of that restaurants nearby locations.(Yay! Just what I need, a GPS of fast food locations.)
Nike Women Training App
Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch 2nd Generation.
This app is a personalized training application where you can create your own workout using the 5 fundamental areas of athleticism : Cardio, Core, Strength, Balance and Flexibility.
Use your iPhone or wifi on your iPod Touch to access dynamic training videos , your schedule or invite friends to little competition.
Fit now
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch with 2.0 software update.
This app allows you to stay on track and on budget by recording your daily food and exercise schedule.
- Enter and track Nutrients (Fat, Carbs, Fiber, Protein, Etc)
- Graph of weight loss progress over time
- Enter weight using decimal precision
- Ability to delete custom foods, exercises, and recipes
- Ability to reset starting weight
Web MD Mobile
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch with 2.1 software update. 
Need help understanding drugs, vitamins, and other supplements or over the counter medicines ? This app will provide information on usage , interaction information, side effects, and other warnings and precautions. You can search by name or use the Web MD pill identifier.
It also provides Medically reviewed first aid information including treatments procedures for children’s safety, and instances like bug bites, and visual guides to CPR, choking and other potentially emergency situations.
Stress Reducer
- Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch with 2.2 update
If all you need is a couple of minutes to relieve a little stress, this app is literally the seashell on the beach.
Select the picture of your favorite shell, and put your iphone up to your ear (or external speaker on ipod touch) and hear the ocean waves through your seashell and feel the world just wash away.
Each shell has different sounds of ocean waves, sea gulls, and other sea sounds to help you relieve stress, if even for a moment.
Live Strong
Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch with 2.0 Software. 
If you are watching what you eat, this app will tell you how many calories are in a glazed donut, or the tuna melt you are about to order , this app will do the trick.
With it, you will also have access to Lance Armstrong’s The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG.com, a nutritional database of more than 450,000 food and restaurant items (also a free service).
You can also find the amount of calories you can burn in their database of exercises and activities.
Additional online features include support groups, forums, and on a variety of topics and expert Q and A.
iPump
Compatible with iPone and iPod Touch with 2.0 Software. 
iPump Workout contains 2 full body workouts that target your major muscle groups. They are designed in order to help you gain strength, lose weight and build endurance.
It also includes sample workouts from iPumps more than 19 workouts available in the app store.
App includes:
- Exercise images, video and audio coaching
- Specific reps, sets and rest intervals
- Play your music at the same time.
- Track sets, reps, and weight in less than 5 taps
- Logs saved by workout , time, and date.
- and much more.
iTrail Maps -Ski and Snowboard Trail Maps
Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch with 2.2 Software Update.
Winter sport enthusiasts, skiers and snowboarders can now use their iphone or ipod touch to download trail maps of their favorite ski and snowboard resorts. You can use the maps without cellular service since they are stored in your device.
Over 675 resorts currently available with frequent updates.
Body Mass Index Calculator
Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch with 2.1 Software Update.
With BMI Calculator you can easily calculate your Body Mass Index and convert to either cm or inches, kg or lbs. By inputting you height and weight, the app will indicate your BMI category, for example: Underweight, or Obese.
On The Go Pilates: Lite
Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch with 2.2 Software Update
The free version of this app is a custom designed Pilates Program designed by S.C.S. Pilates Connection and will change the way you look ad feel.
The program is designed to enhance posture, balance, flexibility, and strength.
This is a sample of the full version including warm up, leg program and cool down.
2 Fat
Compatible with Both iPhone and iPod Touch
No that’s not your mother talking….This simple little app does one thing. It tells you your body fat percentage. Input your sex, weight and waist size and 2 Fat will estimate based on a commonly used formula to tell you the percentage of fat on your body.
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