Want to lose weight? Use technology! It isn’t just for keeping people connected or for enhancing the home theater experience. It can be useful in helping you stay on track with your weight goals.
How it helps to lose weight
Gadgets won’t do the actual work for you, but when used properly can help keep you motivated and monitor your progress. When you track your progress, you are more likely to be successful. It can also help make the exercise experience more enjoyable.
The classics
Sports watches have come a long way from just telling time. Many also monitor the speed, heart rate and pulse. A new gadget like Fitbit is a tracker that monitors all activities.
Today’s pedometers do more than count your steps. Today’s gadgets include the touch screen Striiv, Motorola MotoActv, Adidas miCoach pacer and the popular Nike+rival, which you can connect to your computer, track your steps and even give you your GPS location. There are even pedometers that can provide EKG readings.
The bathroom scale, whether digital or analog, is also an important tool (or enemy) to those watching their weight. Today’s high tech versions can also provide a person’s body-mass index.
Go 360 to lose inches
Since game developers came up with Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360, gamers have gotten off the couch and have started moving their whole bodies rather than just their fingers. This translates to more calories burned.
Whether you simply jump, squat or dive to play Xbox Adventures and Dance Central, or want to go have a more intense training using EA Sports Active II, Jillian Michaels or Nike Trainer, using your game console to help you lose weight can make the experience more enjoyable. And this means that you are more likely to keep doing it.
The benefit in using your game console is that the sensor can check your form so you can get corrections as you are doing the exercise. Calorie counters also tell you how much you’ve burned, plus you can customize your exercise program. It’s just like having a personal trainer in your living room.
Using the iPhone to lose weight
If everyone who used their iPhone could lose a pound for every minute spent using the phone, everyone would be slimmer, leaner and healthier. We’d wipe out obesity in a second.
It can play music for you while running since the right tunes can help keep you in the zone.
Next, there are many apps specifically developed to help people lose weight such as Fitocracy, RunKeeper, Lose It and Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker.
The calendar function can help schedule workouts, while talking on the phone while exercising can help while away the time. Use the camera to take pictures of your weight loss.
Social Media
Who would have thought social media can help you lose weight? Tweet What You Eat has replaced the food journal.
Whatever technology you choose, the point is to use it and get moving. It’s still up to you to do the work.
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