I am a Mac guy.  I have a Macintosh computer, and an iPhone.  Apple makes the best products out there.

A couple of days ago I got message from Apple about their Applications Store pick of the week, called Lose It.  Lose It is a program made by Fit Now, and allows the user to create a calorie budget, and keep track of their weightloss goals.

So I have been using it for a couple of days, and although I don’t totally have it down yet, it looks like it is a pretty good program.  It has a whole bunch of different foods in their database and you can customize the different types of foods, and recipes that you eat.  You can also add different types of exercises to the program, put in the calories burned during the different exercises, and it then takes your food intake and your exercise amount to come up with a total caloric budget.

It appears the key to the program is to get it set up over a period of time with the types of exercises you do, along with the foods you eat.  For example, Judo was not on the list of exercises, I added it to my list, went onto the internet and found a website that had estimates of calories burned for 10 minutes of Judo done.  I inputed that information, and then when I go to Judo, I can have a pretty good estimate of the amount of calories I burned during a 90 minute session.   It looks like it will be a pretty functional program for those that need to lose, maintain, or gain weight based on the desired goal.

In order to view Lose It you can download iTunes here, or you can visit the Lose It website here.