Monday, July 13, 2009 is “Embrace your Geekness Day” according to the website “Wellcat Holidays”.
Although it may seem a bit of a stretch, here are some "tekkie" applications that you can use to improve your diet and exercise habits.
Facebook
Many, many organizations have joined the Facebook bandwagon, and the diet and fitness industry is no exception. You can search for groups or fan pages using key words, such as diet, weight loss, or fitness. A favorite national page to read is Hungry-Girl, created by Lisa Lillen, who has written two popular weight-loss cookbooks.
Twitter
Twitter is the trendy social networking location for the 140-character blurb about your life, your business, or your opinion. Some have found a use for sharing health advice. A sampling of the diet and fitness related tweeps you can follow are @eatwithoutguilt, @eatthisnotthat, @fitmenu, @fitmotivation, and @carohealthed (my personal tweets about health and wellness). Another twitter function is Tweetwhatyoueat. Follow this twitter “friend” to create and maintain a food diary.
For a more in-depth read on Using Twitter for Diet and Exercise Motivation, go to Stefan Pinto’s National Fitness Examiner page.
Cellphone Applications
Cell phones can do a lot more today than take messages and manage calendars. DietOrganizer Mobile for BlackBerry is an easy-to-use diet diary. You can record your food intake using the database of over 1000 foods and track your weight on a customizable chart. Free to try; $19.95 to buy . For $32.95, Ascendo Fitness is has a product for BlackBerry that provides a desktop companion which includes a comprehensive list of 7,293 nutrition items, based on the USDA Standard Reference Database. . There is also a free trial version. Iambic’s Health and Diet Manager offers an application for Blackberry Smartphones for those who want to get fit, or maintain their fitness for $19.95. Read the review at Crackberry.com.
For the iPhone, X-ray Technician Schools offers a comprehensive look at 20 iPhone applications to help you with many areas of your health, including diet and exercise. FitView, for example is an app that will allow you to track many aspects of exercise on your iPhone. and Mapmyrun works with your GPS to give you speed, distance, pace, running maps, training logs and more.
iTunes
Here you can get many different applications for your iPod, such as Nutrition Menu by Shroomies and Weight Tracker from the Foundation HealthCare Network. You can also download some of the latest and greatest diet audio books, such as the South Beach Diet and Atkins for Life. And search the podcasts for motivational lectures and hypnosis tracts, such as “Weight Loss Now” by Global Hypnosis.
Video Games
Of course the Wii Fit is the King of consoles that get the gamer off his or her duff, but there is also some other calorie-burning video games, such as Dance Dance Revolution for PlayStation 2 and Yourself Fitness for Xbox.
Who says the Geek buried deep within you can't also be healthy and fit?
Comments
@normaleating is another good one!
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