I've been using the Lose It! App to track my food for the last several weeks. Studies show that keeping a food diary can help you to double your weight loss.  I've found it helps me be mindful of what I eat, because I have a tendency to snack a lot, especially at night.  When I first started my weight loss journey, I used the Livestrong MyPlate App.  It was really one of the best tools I used as it helped me see clearly how many calories I was really eating each day. I attribute this tool to having helped me shed the weight to begin with. Similar to the My Plate app, Lose It! is a food and exercise tracking app. You can manually search for foods, scan bar codes of packaged food, and enter different exercises. But lately, I've been using Lose It because it is easy to use, and has a much better experience on mobile devices verses My Plate app. Lose It does a nice job of storing your foods that you enter for easy searching, since we all tend to eat the same foods over and over. Lose … [Read more...]