Phentermine and those iPhone apps
One of the certainty in life next to death and taxes, is the fact you have to cut down on the “calories” if you want to lose weight. Except, just what is this “calorie”? Well, it’s one of these units of energy scientists like to talk about and, like all good measures, there’s some disagreement about what it represents. The World Health Organization prefers to talk about kilojoules (KJ). When you talk to a nutritionist, one calorie is equal to about 4.2 KJ. When this is associated with food, the calculation is usually to look at the number of calories or KJ in a given number of grams. This makes it easier for you when you read a label telling you that, if you eat 100 grams of this particular food, you will consume approximately this number of calories or KJ.
Just reading this far has made your mind blur. You are all using variations on the “how the heck am I supposed to work all this out” line? And you would be right. Sitting with food labels in front of you in a supermarket aisle while you add up columns of numbers with your trusty pencil and notebook is not the best way to spend your early evening shopping. It’s all very well for well-meaning experts to write out the simple line, “Just eat a calorie-reduced diet”. They are not the ones struggling to work out just what to eat for tonight’s meal. Well, there’s help coming from an unlikely source. If you are the proud owner of an iPhone, there’s now an app for this. Let’s say you want to know how many calories in your favorite fruit or vegetable, your finger flicks through and gives you the answer in a few seconds. Appropriately, the app is called Lose It!
First, the really good news. This app is free to download. It takes only about a minute to have it up and running. Then it’s just a case of answering a few simple questions about your age, current weight and how much you would like to lose. The app then works out a simple “budget” to make your dream come true. You just add whatever you eat into the app. The clever thing then deducts these calories from your daily allowance and tells you how many calories you have left. The programmers have left little to chance with thousands of different foods and dishes to choose from. You should therefore have no excuse for getting a quick and reasonably accurate estimate of the number of calories (or KJ) eaten in every snack or meal.
The app has been available for about eighteen months and has been downloaded more than 5 million times. To give yourself the best chance of a successful outcome, you add Phentermine to the diet to ensure your appetite does not tempt you to add just a few more calories to your daily intake. Sadly, that’s the real world pill not some virtual analog. For now, you have to take Phentermine as a tablet but watch out for a new app. You never know how fast technology develops.
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