I just had to share this. For those with iphones....and if you don't have one yet...get one...LOL...seriously my phone has become one of those things that I wonder how I ever lived without it!

So anyway..I downloaded an app for my phone called "Tap & Track" from the itunes app store. I love it!!! it's similar to fit day but it's all in the phone so I can track my food and exercise in real time. It was $2.99 and after using it for the past week I would have happily paid more for it.

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Hmm...ok so maybe not! I just compared the numbers I get from Tap & Track to the numbers from Fitday for the same menu and they are very different...Hmmmm...gotta rethink this now

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it's hard sometimes because i think these applications get their numbers from different sources...it gets confusing knowing what to believe.

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yeah Dixie, I can see a little bit of disparity in the numbers but these numbers were way off. Not so much in the calories and carbs but in things like protein amounts and calories burned. The calories came out to within a couple hundred of what I got with Fitday. The carbs were close too...like within 4 or 5 gms. But the protein/fat ratio was way off. Fitday counted somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 gms of protein and Tap & Track counted the same menu at 189gms.

overall though I like the concept so much. I emailed Fitday to ask if there are any plans in the works to release a Fitday iphone app but I haven't heard back. I also ran the idea of creating a similar app past my son who is now licensed to create iphone apps for apple...so we'll see

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