Making a commitment to eat healthier foods is pivotal to shedding extra pounds, gaining muscle, or just feeling refreshed. It’s not easy, but there’s plenty of help to get started.
One of the tools that I love to use is Daily Burn. Daily Burn is a free-to-use site that allows you to track your daily nutritional intake, not to mention your workouts as well. I use Daily Burn to combine the number of foods I eat in a day, so I can get a rough estimate of how many calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fats I am consuming. This way, I can easily tell if I’m eating too much bread, and if I need to instead shift to a more protein/fat based diet. There’s also a neat little water tracker that lets you see how many glasses of water you are drinking in a day(there’s a “myth” that every human being should drink at least 8 glasses a day).
A snapshot of breakfast. The progress bar at the bottom of the page and the water tracker are helpful tools.
So how exactly does this all work?
It’s actually pretty simple. You can search for the foods that you consume, and the nutrition facts will show up. If you eat something regularly, like Subway sandwiches or other healthy snacks, then you can add them to your favorites. If your food isn’t on the list, you can simply add it and name it yourself. Daily Burn keeps a calendar so you can go back and keep tabs on what you’ve been eating.
Have fitness goals that you want to achieve?
Daily Burn has a cool feature that helps you determine how many calories you should be consuming based on your activity level and the amount of weight you want to gain/lose. After you have set your preferences, your settings are automatically plugged into your nutritional tracker. This way, you can see if you are overeating or undereating.
Oh yeah, and if you work out? No problem. You simply search for the workouts you have done and plug in the data. Daily Burn will deduct the amount of calories you have burned and update your nutritional tracker.
Go ahead and check it out for yourself, it’s an awesome tool I use everyday and it motivates me to eat healthier and work out harder.
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