{"id":4595,"date":"2011-02-11T06:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T04:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:02:26","slug":"apps-build-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/apps-build-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Apps to Build a Better Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I&#8217;m not a big social-media enthusiast. Nor do I own an iPhone, Blackberry, or any other pocket digital device. \u00a0But that&#8217;s me&#8230;\u00a0plenty of\u00a0others can\u00a0get\u00a0some inspiration\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/10\/technology\/personaltech\/10basics.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this NYT article by Owen Thomas<\/a>,\u00a0which details\u00a0how he\u00a0used his apps and social networks to lose a whopping 63 pounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For 315 days straight, I logged into a Web site or popped out my phone and confessed what I ate, how much I exercised and what I weighed. When I went to the gym, I also checked in on Foursquare, announcing my location to friends and eventually winning the rank of \u201cmayor\u201d of my local gym. When I completed my food and exercise diary, the computer informed my Facebook friends; when I lost weight, it broadcast the news to the world on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of oversharing drives some people crazy. EE Times, a publication for engineers, once asked its readers why they disliked Twitter. More than half cited this reason: \u201cI don\u2019t really care what you had for breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet in my experience, a small set of friends turned out to be intensely interested in what I had for breakfast. And lunch. And dinner. Moreover, they wanted to know whether that added up to my caloric target for the day.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems their sustained obsession with my obsession has helped me stay on track. Since last March, when I first got an iPhone, downloaded a host of helpful apps and hooked them up to my Twitter and Facebook accounts, I\u2019ve lost 63 pounds. In the year before, when I dieted and exercised in digital isolation, recording my calories in and out in a so-last-century Moleskine notebook, I lost only 20 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a limited experiment, without a control set. But Mike and Albert Lee, the developers of MyFitnessPal, the calorie-tracking app I depend upon, say I\u2019m not an isolated case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the rest of the story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I&#8217;m not a big social-media enthusiast. Nor do I own an iPhone, Blackberry, or any other pocket digital device. \u00a0But that&#8217;s me&#8230;\u00a0plenty of\u00a0others can\u00a0get\u00a0some inspiration\u00a0from\u00a0this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,28,29],"tags":[1041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9654,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}