Nifty Fitness Tracker

Made a cool little discovery today. If you go to this page on the WebMD website, you can measure and keep track of your health efforts. It’s super simple and even a little bit fun!

Here’s what you do:

1.Put in your personal criteria (gender, age, weight,)
2.Enter your current level of fitness
3.Select your goal (ie. Lose 1 lb. per week, maintain your current weight)

Once you’ve filled all that in, click calculate. You’ll see your results in a column on the left. It will have calculated your BMI, necessary caloric intake (based on your fitness goal), and will tell you your ideal weight and heart rate range. How cool is that?

Step 2.
This is where you check out the column on the right. You’ll see two categories, “Add a Food to Your Plan” and “Add an Activity to Your Plan”. These tools let you measure the amount of calories per food item and also give you an idea of how many calories you are burning. All you do is enter the food and/or activity and the number of calories pops up. I was impressed with the number of options in the activity box. You can calculate how many calories you’re burning while cleaning your house, sitting at your desk, or running a mile. Handy, right?

Last thing on the page are two scales that look like speedometers. The green one measures your calories from food and the orange one measure the calories from fitness. There’s also a little bar that show where you are on your daily caloric intake and lets you know how many you have left. Read: lets you know how many more scoops of ice cream you can have.

So try it out and let us know what you thought! You can leave your comments below.

Happy Fall!