(Food) Season's Greetings

Well, here we are again: Food Season. That's what I call the roughly two-month period between Halloween and New Year's Day when my usually good eating habits fly out the window. What can I say? Temptation abounds. And with the gorge-fest that is Thanksgiving just passed, I could use some assistance keeping tabs on my indulgences. So this year I'm trying an application called Mobile Diet & Fitness on my Treo. It was recommended to me by a friend who is one of those people who actually carries a "food journal" to track her calories/fat/carb/protein intake and her workouts. I've never been that dedicated... but even I have to admit that the Mobile Diet & Fitness app makes it pretty easy.

You just enter your stats and goals - age, height, start weight, goal weight and the time frame - and it calculates your calories per day to maintain your weight and your calories per day to reach your goal weight. Then you just enter your daily food intake via the Food Log, which has lots of food items already entered and available (even items from your favorite fast-food restaurants), and any daily exercise you're getting in the Fitness Log. The application calculates the calories, carbs, fiber, protein, fat and saturated fat consumed, as well as calories burned, and feeds the info into your Daily Chart, where you can see your daily caloric goal, total calories consumed, calories burned and your day's net calories toward your goal. Pretty darn easy.

While it won't stop you from having the extra piece of pie or from grabbing that handful of chocolates from the 2-lb. box on your coworker's desk, the Mobile Diet & Fitness app can help you keep an eye on what you're consuming this holiday season, and that's half the battle. Believe me - it can be sobering (I won't tell you my caloric intake for Thanksgiving Day - EEK), but knowledge is definitely power.  And when you're in the middle of Food Season, every little bit helps.

-Paul Araquistain, Public Relations Manager

If you want to give it a try, you can check out a trial version of Mobile Diet & Fitness at:
http://software.palm.com/us/html/display_palm_product.jsp?navCategoryld=&id=prod3640686

Here are a couple of similar applications to check out:

Diet Lose Weight with UCM

6 Health Calculators

 

Comments

[AreYouKidding?]

paul, I applaud your effort to change the conversation on the Palm blog from the flames about the deliquent att treo 750 update, but this is a bit much. it would appear Palm is not interested in addressing topics its customers are raising. it would appear that providing clarity around the actual availability of this update is not as important as a downloadable health calculator (note: which is currently shipping). since your company's techinical support seems ill equipt to answer our questions, and the same holds true for your partner att, i am dissapointed to see the same result from the head office staff too (who, btw, i was told to contact by your stellar chat-based technicans).

so, in the theme of your blog post: please cut the out the pork here and let us know if we should consider purchasing an htc device with windows mobile 6 or remain 'loyal' Palm customers.

[Bill Taroli]

I don't mean to be insensitive... but who cares about fluffy personal pieces? Where's the Linux news?!

[driazen]

Really, a healthy food and eating article? AT&T Treo 750 users have been living on this page since it was told to us as the end all and be all of release information of the WM6 update for AT&T. And last week we get an article saying soon only in more words "Just around the corner" and now we get weight loss software announcement? You have got to be kidding me...

[roman]

Palm - you are too much. It's like trying to have a conversation with someone that's always changing the topic.

I guess you don't notice that there is an elephant in the room?

Palm OS II. Where? When? How?

Or will it be canned the way of Foleo?

[Chris Wanting More]

I agree with some of the comments (I too am desperately awaiting the WinMo 6 update). More realistic info of when it will be available would be great. On the other hand, us constantly griping about information on the new OS is just nonsense. They arent going to talk about it reguarly for the next 18 (or is it 17 months now). They even said in the opening posts sometimes it will be less serious. While i understand the "some" of the complaints, i also fear that if we nitpick completely, they will go quiet and never talk again. Its been a start, not a perfect one, but progress over nothing. And by the way Paul, it is nice everyone once in a while to see new ways how people use the device, so for that, thanks.

[MartinB]

Since you cannot tell us when WinMo 6 will be available, do we get to know how much weight you lost =). See even when we are dissapointed does not mean we have to lose our sense of humor. hang in there people, fingers crossed because of the end of the year is getting very close.

[treo fan]

Hey guys, how about a REAL topic. Here are some easy topics:

* Will Palm work with Google to get the latest Google Maps working with My Location? (Wasn't the Palm version of Google Maps the first released? What happened after that?)

* What is the status of the ROM update for unlocked users of the Treo 680? We paid YOU a lot of money for these devices, but only the AT&T users got all the patches!

* Is Palm going to help the community replace the FREEware section of Palmgear? I'm sure many of your 25000 developers were developing shareware, and losing Palmgear is a huge loss for the Palm ecosystem, because freeware can drive device sales which ultimately drives payware sales.

And here are some hard topics:

* Will you join with Android? You've already lost developers with the rise of WinMo, soon more will defect to iPhone, but if you supported the APIs of Android, you could share in its glory.

* I know you can't answer this one... When is the 500p coming out for GSM users?

[sean]

Why does the Palm Centro come with a 1.3 megapix camera and the old palm connector? Where the Palm 500V, offered in europe, has the 2 megapix camera and a mini-usb connection? I smell fish

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