Fitocracy Macros – How much should I eat to lose weight
By Fitocracy, Inc.
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Description
Brought to you by Fitocracy, Mashable's 'Top Innovation in Health & Fitness' winner, 'Macros' is a super-simple macro and calorie counter for people who are tracking their macronutrients (macros for short) to help them reach their fitness goals, whether that's losing weight, or building lean muscle.
Why count macros instead of just counting calories?
When most people embark on a diet, they only count calories, not macros. This often leaves people prone to many of the typical side effects of dieting – feeling hungry, lacking energy, and being irritable. Targeting macronutrients allows you to counteract these side effects. With the right macros, you can remain full all day, stay energetic, and build lean muscle to give you that 'toned' look.
One member of Fitocracy’s 'Weight Loss Made Simple' Fitocracy Group Fitness program said, “This new way of dieting was life changing. I lost 10 lbs, all while remaining incredibly full – sometimes too full. My energy was sky high and I will never go back to pure calorie counting again.”
Coming soon
• The option of searching for and adding foods from a nutritional database for a more automated macro-counting approach
• Fiber counting
• Water counting
• Alcohol counting
• Syncing with Fitocracy to back-up your data
• The option to share your macros with your Fitocracy Group Fitness trainer
Get even more at www.fitocracy.com
• Get support and motivation from our amazing community
• Get Free workout routines designed by top-tier trainers and coaches to go hand in hand with your diet plan
• Browse other users' profiles and find out what works for people just like you
What's New in Version 1.0.1
Who it's for
• People that want a simple way to *manually* track their protein, fat and carb macronutrient consumption for each meal
• People that want to view a history of their macro and calorie consumption
• People that want to see their average weekly macros and calorie consumption
• People taking part in 'Fitocracy Group Fitness' programs - http://www.fitocracy.com/knowledge/group-fitness/
Customer Reviews
Fantastic Food Monitoring App
This app is great to monitor what you eat. It's not just counting calories, which I love. It IS only effective though if you actually DO log your protein, carbs, and fat intake. If you do so, it is so great to see how many calories you eat throughout the day. It also makes it a little fun since you want to reach the calorie goal the app gives you by the end of your day. I'm the biggest fast food and junk food junkie and this app has turned me into a totally different person when it comes to my fitness and health goals! (well along with my own ambition.) keep up the good work!
One thing though is I wish we could put in grams down to decimal points. Some of the foods I eat have let's say 3.5 grams of something and I always have to round it up or down and put in a single digit. Other than that I love it though.
Off to a great start
Super handy, elegantly designed, and has easily integrated it's way into my life (which I can't say for most food-tracking apps). The catch at this point is that you need to know the macros of your food so you can enter them manually, as there is no database to pull in yet (though they plan to incorporate this later). I also sorely miss the ability to sort & search through my favorite foods list, as it's getting rather lengthy and it's arranged ONLY by entry date. Even alphabetical sorting would be a huge improvement. With a database + better sorting functionality this would easily be a 5-star app.
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This app earns 4 stars for being the only app I can find that has training and rest days separated. Extremely useful. Missing from it are two key things: It does need to integrate a food database a la MyFitnessPal integration... Maybe even the ability to log foods in MFP and have that populate on this app. Secondly, it has no flexibility for variations in burned calories. I might want to go for a jog on a rest day, but the app shouldn't be forced to show that as a day blown by hundreds of calories.
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- Free
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Updated: Jan 15, 2014
- Version: 1.0.1
- Size: 15.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Fitocracy Inc.
- © 2013 Fitocracy
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.