Calorie Counter - MyNetDiary 12+

Love this app

I’ve never wanted to use an app to help in my weight loss journey as it’s so much flaffing about! However I came across this app and it’s so easy to use, either by scanning bar codes or searching for foods (easily) I’ve been using it for a year and it’s been brilliant and has definitely helped me to track my calories, fats, carbs, and proteins. I love the ease of adjusting targets and calorie budget. I’m only using the free version and it’s got so many features giving you the chance to try it out before deciding if you want to upgrade to premium. The only slight downside is that the foods listed tend to be American options however that said most foods have a ‘generic’ option and you can easily weigh in grams to get exact weights and calories. Once you’ve scanned and added favourites it’s so quick to add them again for further meals. I can honestly say I’ve found this super helpful and have not missed any food logging as it’s so quick and easy, and it’s certainly helped me to be accountable. I’ve introduced this to a friend who is such a technophobe and even she can use it and it’s helped her loose a stone so far too! I’ve loved the graph that shows you the loss and the automatic adjustment of calories is you haven’t lost or you have gained. Brilliant!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for sharing your fantastic experience with MyNetDiary! We're delighted to hear that our app has been a helpful and easy-to-use tool in your weight loss journey. It's great to know that features like barcode scanning and the detailed tracking of calories and nutrients have been beneficial for you. We appreciate your feedback regarding the food database and are always working to improve our app's usability for a global audience.

It's inspiring to hear about your success and that you've even recommended the app to a friend with positive results. We're glad that the free version offers enough features to meet your needs and that the graph and calorie adjustment tools have been especially useful for you.

Thank you for being a part of the MyNetDiary community, and congratulations on your achievements!

Great but would like a few more features added

So it shows you how many calories you have consumed via an apple outline that slowly fills in as you log more food. Next to this it shows how many calories per meal, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks and how much exercise and water. What I would really like is a meal section for drinks, not just water, so it then tracks the number of calories I consume via drinks so I can see if it’s too many or too sugary, but I can also see if I have drunk enough. I know I can track water but that doesn’t allow for water with sugar free cordial or such so I then have to record the cordial separately and then I’m order to see how many drinks I have had, I need to check under each meal, breakfast, lunch etc. I want a total drinks count without having to search even if it’s a measure rather than count, eg ml.
I would also like to be able to track my fasting, but not like a lot of calorie apps do it where they just say now you should be fasting, now you should be eating. I want to actually be able to press a button to say I have started fasting and I have stopped fasting so it actually records the actual amount of time fasting.

Give it a whack

I am notorious for starting health and giving up within a few days, like an absolute idiot I started using this app 4 weeks before Christmas, I was solidly using it for 3 weeks and dropped a stone (I’m 5foot 7 and weigh 15 stone, so it’s really not hard to drop lots of weight quickly in the beginning) and then of course Christmas hit, I stopped using the app because honestly I thought it would probably judge me for the levels of crap I was shovelling into my fat face and I gained it all back in a week.
Now here is where our story becomes a trifle different to subsequent dalliances with health , ordinarily I would just give up now. “Screw it I’m always going to be fat, what’s the point “
But OH CONTRAIRE this app has actually caught my attention enough that I’m back, and I’m going to do it.
The pedometer is cool, except I forget to take my phone with me most places so most days it looks like I do absolutely nothing in a day, but that’s my fault.
So yeah, it’s worth a crack tbf, even the free version is comprehensive enough that fat pos like me can actually make a difference to their lives.