One application is enough for me.

With one app I monitor calories, macros and everything related to my daily diet.

A little over three years ago I began important changes in my habits regarding sports, recreation and nutrition. The first point is simple: go train. The second can be controlled using a smartwatch, but the third turned out to be the most difficult. What to eat, how much to eat, how quantities vary, whether I’ve worked out or not… After visiting nutritionists and learning the most important recommendations when preparing a dish, I decided to use apps.

Go ahead, in this post I want to reflect only my personal experience with the app that I find to be the most useful in helping us eat better. In no way should this app be used as a replacement for nutritionists and the knowledge we all need to know about general nutrition if we want to eat better.

Since I met Jacio, I eat much better.

The app I use daily is called Yazio and I use the free version. Once you set it up, it will be quite persistent in asking you to pay for the premium version. It’s quite economical (less than 15 euros per year), gives access to complete recipes (in the free one we have access, but more limited) that are really worth it, and to a list of micronutrients of what we eat. In my case, the most important thing for me is to know the amount of macronutrients and calories I eat, so I don’t need more.

In my experience, the app is more comprehensive and visual than its best-known alternative: MyFitnessPal. It’s simpler, easier to use, and, in my opinion, the interface makes everything clearer. It doesn’t look like you are using any specific application.

Like any nutrition app, it will ask us for a little information: how much we weigh, how much we want to weigh, whether we exercise, when we want to reach a certain weight, etc. Once the data is collected (it’s important to be honest), a plan will be drawn up nutrition. One of the key points is that we can change our nutritional goals for five diets:

• Standard
• Diet Jazio
• Low Carb
• High protein content
• Low Fat

In my experience, these are quite balanced options. In my case, I eat a relatively low-carb diet, as I spend most of the day sitting and only exercise one hour a day. The application in no way demonizes carbohydrates or discourages their appearance, on the contrary: the proportion of a low-carb diet is still ideal, with a little more carbohydrates than proteins and a balanced amount of fats (if we see that the latter are somewhat high). , we can switch to low fat).

The application will very clearly tell us what the balance of macronutrients and calories is. Additionally, the app syncs with Apple Health and Google Fit. This means that if we have a smartwatch, the calories we burn will be reflected in the app and the parameters will be updated in real time so that we know whether we should eat more or less.

It is enough to record the dishes we eat to get personalized data. At first glance, this may seem very tedious, but there is a trick: the application allows us to save the dishes we have prepared. That is, if you usually have a salad with tuna and tomatoes for dinner, you can save the ingredients as a set. Next time you check in for dinner, you won’t have to choose items one by one, just select “salad.”

The app also allows us to record the water we consume, indicating that the water we drink is already included in our food (which few apps do). If we practice intermittent fasting, we can count the hours in a completely personalized way.

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