One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2010 was to lose some of the weight I had been steadily gaining over the course of the last ten years or so.  This was no small task as my lifestyle consists almost exclusively of sitting.  Oh and eating junk food.  So, I knew I was going to have to make some changes.  One of those changes involved paying better attention to the foods I eat.  I found that if you record everything you eat, then you think twice before eating all of that junk food (also, reading labels is a great way to stop eating). 

I scoured the iTunes App store and came up with about half a dozen apps which promised to help me lose weight by tracking everything I eat.  After thoroughly evaluating each of these, I finally settled on Lose It!, which offered the most intuitive interface and a pretty nice library of foods and restaurants. 

Apparently, I am not the only one who thinks Lose It! offers a fantastic solution for those of you looking to improve your health a little (or a lot).  My good friend Clinton Fitch, whose public weight loss of over 60 pounds should serve as an inspiration to us all, has also been using Lose It!.  Clinton posted a review of the free app over on his website.   Like most people who have tried to lose weight, Clinton found that knowledge of what you are eating is one of the most important tools available to you, and Lose It! is a fantastic knowledge database.  Though as Clinton notes in his comprehensive review, this is just one of the myriad of tools in the Lose It! toolbox.

Check out Clinton’s full review (and weight loss chronicle) over at Clinton Fitch, and then download this free app from the iTunes App Store.