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Lauren Maines Mrs. Burns Sports Medicine 3 rd period March 25, 2013 NOOM Fitness Coach Cost: Free Category: Weight loss Purpose: To help someone get fit by exercise and healthy eating habits.

1 Lauren Maines Mrs. Burns Sports Medicine 3 rd period March 25, 2013 NOOM Fitness Coach Cost: Free Category: Weight loss Purpose: To help someone get fit by exercise and healthy eating habits. The Noom basically helps tract your eating and compares it to an ideal food composition for each meal or snack of the day. Then after tracking your daily meal, it will then start you on your workout or you can put what you did for a workout in a little tracking chart that has different list of exercise/fitness components. Using this app, I would rate it at a 2.5 out of 5 stars. The cons with this app also come with negatives as well. This app has a pedometer which is good because it shows you how many steps you took throughout the day. Also, the Noom shows charts on how your eating should be compared to how you really ingest. Many exercise programs have a certain exercise already set up for you if you want to do it or not, either way, with the Noom, you can complete there exercise of walking or running or incorporate your own. As many apps try to help with health tips, this app is better equipped at doing so with an easier understanding to follow. When the Noom also gives you daily health tips and challenges to accomplish or at least try, it is to see your ability to change with better looking results. For an example, Is caffeine good for weight loss? With little subtitles you can get better equipped for a healthier life style as it explains different aspects to help benefit you. It sometimes will just give you healthy tips or maybe clinics to attend for health reasons. An app without music is not a very good app at all because

2 the music helps a person stride more to endure more to achieve a better workout. With all these pros come some cons which everybody hates to hear. The Cons for this app include the pedometer because when you don t have your phone and walk, how can your steps get tracked. Plus you can just tilt your phone and it can bump up your steps and you didn t even have to move, you can be lazy and the app won t even know. On top of that, when tracking your food, the app may not have every food that you consume and will say missing results and what can you do then. You try and use the scanner, but it doesn t even work to help you out. The app even sometimes won t save what you logged, which can mess up your workout intensity. When working out, you don t know how many calories you burned and with this app wants it to be provided, but how are you supposed to know and make that judgment? Say you did Just Dance 4, you did a couple dances, but do you know how many calories you burned? No, but this app won t let you track your exercise without knowing the calories burned when obtaining exercise. This app only provides you with running or jogging as your exercise, but the apps name is the NOOM Fitness Coach.

Lauren Maines Mrs. Burns Sports Medicine 3 rd period March 25, 2013 Calorie Counter Cost: Free Category: Nutrition Purpose: To lose weight by counting you eating habits.

3 Lauren Maines Mrs. Burns Sports Medicine 3 rd period March 25, 2013 Calorie Counter Cost: Free Category: Nutrition Purpose: To lose weight by counting you eating habits. The Calorie Counter is an app for counting what you consumed each day followed by tracking your exercise. This app is like the Noom but it is better equipped and more consistent. This app is easier to follow by along with giving you recipes to stay health and keep on track. Over all using this app, I would rate the Calorie Counter a 3.5 out of 5 stars. Calorie counter has a lot of pros vs. its cons. The Calorie Counter app tracks your food that you consume including snacks as well. If the app doesn t have your food then you can take a picture of the bar code if need too. With this, the app will then save that picture so when others are putting in food and need to see if it s the right kind, they will have an easier way of finding/tracking it. Or if you are looking to make sure it is the right kind of food, it includes pictures of that item. When you track your food, the app adds up all the cabs, proteins, fats, and calories you ate all together. Therefore it helps determine how intense your workout should be. Lastly, the Calorie counter has an RDI which stands for Recommended Daily Intake and this shows you on a chart with squares each time you consume something the percentage of RDI you consumed.

4 The cons for the Calorie Counter are tracking your food; you may not have a choice of serving size it just assumes already what it thinks you had. This just shows how your results of consumption are off. Another con with using this app is it is hard to track school lunch because of the certain amount of nutrients they give you, either regular line or ale cart. Sometimes you don t know if it s the right food because school food compared to restaurant food is different. When typing in the food you ate, it sometimes has a brand or restaurant name and it may not have that certain brand or restaurant name you need, which can affect your results. Not every restaurant has the same calories on the same foods; it s all different due to that fact on the ingredients and the way it is made.

5 Out line Noom: Pros: - Shows charts on how your eating should be. -Pedometer - Music - Health tips - Free - Mark exercises Cons- Pedometer- (don t have phone= doesn t count steps and don t have to walk, it counts a step every time you tilt your phone) -May not have some of the food you eat -May not save sometimes - Only walking/running as there fitness exercise -don t know calories you burned it won t let you log it. - May not know portion so you could be benefitting yourself or not (may not have to track portion because it assumes) Calorie Counter: Pros: - Tracks your food - Gives you recipes - Tells you the fats carbs protein and cal you gained over the day - has an RDI - Can take pictures of bar code if it doesn t have your food if you still have the box or wrapper Cons: -may not have the right food may not have the right brand so throws you off a bit. - Hard to track lunch food for school - serving choice is hard sometimes

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