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Fitness tracking is important. Whether you want to lose weight, tone up, BULK, get healthy or just get in sync with your eating habits, you want to use a fitness tracker that provides the tools, support and motivation you need to succeed.

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Fitness tracking and how to successfully reach your goals

The key to success is consistent fitness tracking. I use MyFitnessPal: Free version.

There are a few things to keep in mind when tracking on MyFitnessPal:

The more you track, the more likely you are to reach your goals. I assure you, tracking gets easier the more you do it.

It’s always better to track something versus nothing at all.
You can build the habit of tracking by logging one meal at a time.

If you can’t find an exact match for what you want to track, pick something similar.

As you track, you’ll learn about your eating habits and how to make healthier choices. You’ll also gain a better understanding of the impact of exercise on your progress toward your goals.

Simply download the MyFitnessPal app or another suitable app and add your pertinent information — enter your, height, weight, gender and your target weight. The App will provide you with a daily calorie target that’s personalized to help you reach your goals. After that, you’re ready to start tracking.

After tracking your nutrition for a few day’s, you’ll realize how important it is to not only set goals but also to hold yourself accountable. Tracking becomes a habit, like any other routine. You’ll also find that you’re part of a like-minded, supportive community with similar goals that will help motivate you especially when it gets tough.

YOUR THREE-PART PLAN FOR SUCCESS

I. FITNESS TRACKING. SET GOALS AND HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE

  1. SET REALISTIC GOALS

Thinking you can undo years of habits in a week only leads to frustration. Think SMART with a series of small, attainable goals to help you stay motivated and reach your bigger goal.

  1. JOIN A PLAN – OPTIONAL (Not part of the free version)

Go beyond logging and daily meal recommendations and join a MyFitnessPal Plan, which offers the coaching, actionable tips and education you need to achieve a health and fitness goal.

  1. STAY ON TOP OF YOUR GOALS

Tap Complete Diary: When you’re done tracking for the day, tap the “Complete Diary” button. This gives you feedback on how the choices you made during the day impacted your progress.
Update Your Weight: As your weight changes, so will your calorie and macronutrient goals. It’s important to update your weight at least weekly. Be sure to weigh yourself on the same day each week, at the same time, in the same clothes.
Visit the Progress Screen: The progress screen has graphs and charts of your progress over time. This can help you identify healthy changes you can make to your eating habits and exercise routine

  1. CREATE AND SHARE YOUR MEALS

Create custom meals that you eat all the time because they taste great, fill you up, and meet your health goals. This makes tracking easier and allows you to share them with your friends.

  1. CONNECT YOUR APPS AND DEVICES

Users who connect their MyFitnessPal account with another health app or device are more likely to succeed.

  1. GO PREMIUM – OPTIONAL (This is the paid version)

MyFitnessPal Premium offers advanced tools (food analysis, macronutrients by gram, quick-add macronutrients), an upgraded experience (ad-free, priority customer support), more customization (different goals by day, exercise calorie settings, home screen dashboard) and a broad offering of coaching Plans.

II. DEVELOP A HABIT OF FITNESS TRACKING

  1. TRACK EVERYTHING

The more honest and consistent you are in your tracking, the more useful the app becomes because you start to see patterns. Only you can hold yourself accountable, having greater success at meeting your health and fitness goals. The MyFitnessPal staff also offers insider tips on tracking here.

  1. USE TIME STAMPS

Not only can you track what foods you eat, but you can also specify when you eat it. This helps you monitor how when you eat could affect your mood and hunger levels, performance, sleep, you name it.

  1. SET CUSTOM REMINDERS

Set custom alerts and reminders so you never forget to track meals. Choose when you want to be reminded, and the app will send you notifications so you remember to track.

  1. SAVE YOUR FAVORITE MEALS

Whether it’s hard boiled eggs for breakfast, celery and peanut butter for a snack or a tuna sandwich for lunch, many of our users eat the same meals regularly. Save your favorite meals so you can add them to your diary with one click.

  1. LEARN TO SIZE YOUR PORTIONS JUST BY LOOKING AT THEM

Portion control is key to accurate tracking. The more you log, the more you’ll be aware of serving sizes and the more practice you’ll have eyeballing your portions, which leads to better tracking.

  1. SEARCH THE DATABASE

The App has an enormous food database, you should find what you want to log. In the event you don’t, you can add foods directly to the database.

When you search for a food look for symbols and icons next to items in database, they have been vetted and include complete nutrition information.

  1. USE THE BARCODE SCANNER

Simply scan a food’s barcode to enter it into your diary.

  1. DISCOVER RECIPES

Recipe Discovery lets you save recipes from anywhere on the web without having to manually add each ingredient. You can also use this tool to calculate the nutrition information for any recipe. Users who track recipes on MyFitnessPal lose nearly 40% more weight than users who don’t.

III. BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY

  1. ADD FRIENDS

When you add friends on MyFitnessPal, you’re more likely to succeed since you have an extra layer of support, motivation and accountability. You can decide your privacy levels and whether your friends can see things like your weight, diary entries and amount of weight lost.

  1. VISIT THE FORUMS.

The forums are a community to help you find advice, support, tips and tricks from other like minded MyFitnessPal users.

  1. CELEBRATE ALL YOUR VICTORIES

Appreciate the little gains as well as the big ones. Not all victories happen overnight. And if you fail, fail your way forward. Remember, Fail stands for First Attempt in Learning. Progress toward your goals and endure to the end.

Whether your a newbie or a veteran with the fitness tracker app you’ll find great value from nutrition basics to workout tips and continue to increase your knowledge and understanding of your health and fitness goals.

What ever form you decide to use to track your progress, JUST DO IT! YOU WILL THANK YOURSELF LATER!!

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