You're trying to lose weight and you don't want to fail, which means you need to do everything
in your power to stay motivated. There are a few scientifically-proven tricks that can
help keep you motivated, such as:
Regularly seeking more inspiration Creating habits to protect you when your
willpower falters Tracking your progress
And allowing yourself small rewards to celebrate.
Fortunately for you, clever techy people around the world have created apps to help you. Here
are 13 that you might want to look at: Fabulous
Is a science-based app designed to motivate you using behavioural economics. It aims to
help you turn your bad habits into good ones. It's not a quick fix. You have to go on
a bit of a journey with them starting with a 15-day plan to build more energy. You have
to do this before you can unlock the weight loss functionality. You can unlock the eat
healthier journey for £11.49 per month.
iWish
iWish is an app that helps you achieve your Life Goals! It offers tips for achieving common
goals, such as weight loss (although these are quite simplistic), sends inspirational
quotes to keep you motivated and helps you visualise what you want to achieve in beautiful
collages. It's £3.99 per month and enables you to track progress, set to dos, prioritise
and set reminders.
Strides
Track all your goals and habits in one place. Always stay motivated and on track with flexible
reminders. and beautiful charts to help you achieve your goals. Allows you to track goals
and shows you progress towards those goals. For example, you can track your weight or
whether you have exercised and get reminders and celebrate your goal streaks. The app is
free.
Way of Life
By using a simple system of red and green, Way of Life helps you keep an eye on your
lifestyle. You update daily specific habits such as exercise to get a visual representation
as to how you are progressing against certain habits. You can add notes to your entries
to help you remember why it's red, green or skipped. A streak of green is good, red
means you have made a poor decision. You can view trends in nice graphs. The free version
lets you track three habits. For more, it's a one-time payment of £4.99.
Stikk is a free app that helps you track your goals, including weight loss. The app invites
you to put money on the line, by committing to pay a sum determined by you to a charity
or a friend or someone else if you fail to report back or if you don't reach your goal.
Productive is another habit tracker that helps you track your victories to keep yourself
motivated. It's free for the first few habits, and thereafter it is £2.79 a month. You
can set reminders for individual habits and view your habit trends by looking at week
by week data.
Habitlist is a simple, free habit tracking app that lets you create custom habits with
their own frequency schedule and helps you track them.
Fitquote offers daily fitness-related motivational quotes to inspire you. It's free and you
can get notifications with your quotes at certain times every day.
Noom promises to give you the motivation and guidance to make a true lifestyle change.
It's much more than a calorie counter. It offers courses and customised plans, such
as the healthy weight program that is 44.99 per month. The program covers an overview
of calorie density and how to get unstuck. You get a coach who helps you through the
weight loss journey.
Coach.me
This is an app that is built around learning and support. You can set your weight loss
goals and then choose from a range of popular diets as part of a community. You can hire
a coach through the app for $19.99 a week and get support from the community on your
journey.
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