Dinner with friends, outings to the restaurant, cocooning at home ... Even when you have good intentions, it is sometimes difficult to adopt a balanced diet - and stick to it! Fortunately, we can surround ourselves with good people to be supported. And thanks to smartphones, you can now slip into your pocket a nutritional coach to always have the right advice at your fingertips.
Guide to consume seasonal food , calorie counter, slimming recipes, connected coach ... Here are 5 apps to download to help you have a balanced diet.
Seasonal fruits and vegetables: an app to buy fresh produce
No healthy and balanced diet without quality products, and therefore seasonal. As there are tomatoes year-round on the supermarket stalls, however, we tend to get lost a little. Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables (for Android) and Smart Market (for iOs) help us choose the right products.
Thus, we cook according to the rhythms of nature. When we eat better, we also eat less because the quality tends to compensate. To slip into your basket before going shopping at the market.
Seasonal fruits and vegetables: on Android, free
Malin Market: on iOs, 0.89 €
MyFitnessPal: an app to count calories manually
Once the meal on the plate, difficult to know exactly the number of calories that engulfs. Very often, we pay attention the first days, we count mentally, we add additions ... then very quickly, we give up. Too tedious.
With the MyFitnessPal app (calorie counter), we can now know precisely what represents a particular food in terms of caloric intake, but also its composition more thorough. Hand-feeds - the app lists more than 6 million foods! -, we can scan the barcode of a food and indicate its physical activity . The app then gives us the number of calories raked up and spent. A real logbook that can be very useful in dieting.
MyFitnessPal: on iOs and Android, free but premium paid
Lose it! : an app that counts calories from a photo
With this application, you can compose your own slimming program, indicating its weight of the moment and its objective on the scale. Like a benevolent coach, the app monitors the nutritional balance thanks to the information delivered daily, offers some good exercises and helps us compose healthy menus.
The icing on the cake, since the last update, a new feature is available: Snap it! . The principle is simple, we photograph his plate and the app decors our meal. She is able to recognize foods, calculates calories in real time and even builds a nutritional profile of our plate. Only downside: the app is (for now) available in English only ...
Lose it! : on iOs and Android, free.
iGourmand: an app to learn how to cook light
More light than a big cookbook, the iGourmand app offers 101 recipes at less than 400 calories, for light and balanced meals. Practical, you can take it everywhere with you and even take a look when you are planted in the middle of the shelves of the supermarket, in full dilemma against his cart. And who says slimming recipes does not necessarily mean green salad. As the name suggests, this app offers gourmet ideas for weight loss associated with the pleasure of eating. An ally of choice in weight loss, to consume without moderation.
iGourmand: on iOs, € 1.99
Maïa Coach: a real slimming coach behind the screen
Maïa Coach is the application associated with the food rebalancing program Maïa Baudelaire. This method puts us in touch with a nutritional coach, a dietician who motivates us on the phone and we compose personalized slimming menus. Thanks to the app, we can stay in touch with our slimming coach all day long. A small photo of the plate, sent to "our" dietician, who analyzes our meal and gives us his advice to better rebalance the menus, and voila.
This is the complementary tool we needed to stay motivated when starting a weight loss program. And as Maïa Baudelaire's speech advocates more food rebalancing rather than diets, one validates twice rather than one!
Maïa Coach: on iOs and Android, free (but requires to subscribe to a coaching to use all the features)
