Lose It! – Calorie Counter

there are SOOO many things to love about this app. i cant even list them all. to go along with the title, this is even one of the best apps i have ever used in my life! all you need to do is record all of your current stats, and then you can immediately jump on from there. there is a variety of different plans to chose from. i chose the one in the middle, mainly because i am not in a huge rush to reach my goal weight. this plan estimates that you should lose about 1.5 pounds a week (which is actually a lot). im already a week in and ive lost almost 2 pounds!!! this is not the only amazing feature, though. when it comes to tracking your meals, you can chose from a large variety of user-generated (unverified) and verified foods and drinks. you can also create your own recipes and meals! you can even track your workouts, in which you can select how long you were active and which category you were active in. just when you thought this app couldnt get any better, there is a social tab!! in this tab, you can see how other people that use the app are doing. this can really motivate you, trust me!! you can see posts from real people, talking about how they are managing their weight loss so far! it is really helpful to know that there are people out there that had the same thoughts as me and are succeeding! long story short, i would give this app more than 5 stars if i could! also, if youre reading this, have a good day ❤️ -brandyn rodrigues/brwndyn 🤍

First, I will say that this app is really wonderful. I started using it about 10 years ago and it helped me lose about 40 pounds in the first year. It just made me very conscious of what I ate, in part with just keeping track of it by entering it, and in part, it was helping me understand where all the calories came from. It was actually very easy to lose the weight by knowing what piled on calories, and what I could fill up on without worrying. I got to my goal, and I have kept at that stable weight for the past nine years and I think it’s great. And my eating is much healthier in addition to being at a good weight. The second thing is that the technical support is great. The app was very easy to use, but over the last few months, it became very sluggish and frustrating. I didn’t think to actually reach out to customer support but instead I wrote a review with only two stars instead of 5 that I’d previously rated it, complaining about it. Well, technical support reached out to me and asked for some information, and then they just made a suggestion - that I make sure all my data was backed up online, which it was without doing anything, and then delete and reinstall the app. I did that, and it completely fixed the problem. I don’t think I’ve ever had an app technical service person reach out to me proactively from a review, start a dialogue, and then give me a solution to fix the problem. Kudos to you guys!

Weight loss is a personal journey. Everyone does it for their own reasons. Whenever I get to a point where I don’t like the way I fit into clothes or the way I look in the mirror, I know I can go to LoseIt!, start tracking, and achieve my goals. Every time I use this app I end up eating less and I’m way more conscious of my food choices, which end up being much healthier. Even my skeptical trainer says the app is good. I paid for the premium this time around so I can track my protein and cholesterol/saturated fat. My only wish is that I could track grams of calcium in food since I have osteoporosis. My only criticism is that sometimes the portions aren’t correct even when scanned(bag of Trader Joe’s beef jerky is not 90 cal, it’s 360cal), and it’s much better to weigh or measure your food and use that number as portion size than the number of something in a serving (13 shrimp weigh more than the serving size in grams - 10 shrimp was the actual number corresponding to the 85 grams for the serving). It’s important to compare the portion size to the actual size (that corresponds to the calories listed in the serving on package and LoseIt!), and be honest with yourself about portion size if you want this to work. This is true in all weight loss apps. Overall, I love this app and the data provided gives me exactly what i need to keep motivated. I am sure that LoseIt! will be with me for a long time!