Living a healthy and active life takes a lot of extra work as a parent. But with the help of an arsenal of gadgets and apps I’ve found it’s possible to gain an advantage in this daily battle. I am a parent of three girls all under the age of six which means my attention is split between a barrage of demands. It’s hard to be a good parent, involved father, and physical fitness book-keeper at the same time. These specific tasks are not mutually exclusive but I figured that there were tools to make the overall process more efficient.
My goal was to find a way to track what went into my body and track the calories I was able to burn off throughout the day. The experiment that I was going to run was to test the popular hypothesis that the best way to influence dietary change is to be aware of what you’re eating and in what quantities. So I needed to find a way to easily track my intake and the second half of the plan was to monitor my activity. So I did what any other person would do in my situation. I took the advice of fitness celebrities and random people on the internet.
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