This is the best app to not abuse calories now that summer is coming

You may be interested lose weight now that summer is just around the corner, and that for this you have found the “calorie deficit” method to be the most effective. Maybe what you prefer is just having more control over what you eat, how much sugar is in that fruit, or how much protein is in that fried egg you just cooked.

All this is done much better if we use mobile applications, and there Yazio plays wonderfully. And since I, personally, have been using it for a few months now with good results for my diet, I thought it would be a good time to tell you how it works here, more on a personal level than anything else. With a touch of experience, for example.

Use Yazio as a food diary

This “calorie deficit” or “restricted calorie diet” has a very simple theory. It’s about consuming fewer calories than you expend. How good. If you spend 2 calories every day, you need to eat 1 calorie to lose weight regularly. There we would already enter the calculation of basal metabolism, or ‘how many calories do I spend just to get to the end of the day alive’, and others to calculate how many calories we must consume. But once we know using Yazio to control calories is extremely simple.

The Yazio application asks us for information when we register and adds it to our profile. There we tell it our gender, height and weight, and with different algorithms it is able to calculate our basal metabolism. But its real strength lies in the food register, knowing what we eat throughout the day and its corresponding division into its fundamental parts. In the proteins, sugars (carbohydrates) and fats of our daily life.

Using Yazio is as simple as adding what we eat during the day to the corresponding place. For this we have on the main page a table that differentiates ‘Breakfast’, ‘Lunch’, ‘Dinner’ and ‘Snacks’. The latter, logically, is all we eat between meals. The famous “mid-morning”, for example, or the afternoon snack. Or that yogurt you ate while cooking because your stomach was making more noise than necessary.

Every time we add a food by pressing the ‘+’ button and telling the application where to classify it, Yazio offers us a search engine to locate it and its database is really powerful. But we go even further because adding food is quite simple and fast. If we can’t find anything concrete, we can scan the barcode

, and if it still doesn’t appear, we can add it. How? Showing us the food distribution of the container itself, giving it a name, and telling who made it. Thus, users also contribute to making the database larger and more powerful.

A truly powerful food database

Meals can also be logged in our diary in several ways. can choose to add portions, measure exact grams, or calculate milliliters drinks. Personally, I use a small kitchen scale that serves more hours than the TV, but everyone decides how to measure what they eat. There you go, we click on ‘Add’ and the ingested food goes into its corresponding box.

Thus, Yazio will compose a daily food diary (sorry for the repetition, but it was even funny) in which he tells us not only the calories consumed and those that remain but also the distribution of these. Yazio will warn us if we eat too many carbohydrates, or if we eat less protein than indicated. It also has a water register, by the way, to be able to measure if we are drinking what is recommended, or if we are going too far or below.

All that, eye, is what is done with the free version Well, we also have a paid version which greatly expands the nutritional information of what we eat. Personally I don’t use it, I’m continuing with the free plan and so far it’s worked out well for me, but I recognize that every now and then I wonder whether to take a look at the paid version to be able to assess the differences in day-to-day information.

Sync Yazio with Google Fit to track your daily exercise

In addition to food as such, by the way, in Yazio you can also find recipes. Recipes introduced in the application by the users themselves with their step by step, their ingredients and measures, and with their nutritional breakdown so that we know what we are going to put in our body. Without a doubt, a fairly complete app which, who was going to tell me relatively recently, has become essential in my everyday life.

And be careful with that, we’ll leave that for the end but it’s no less important for that. We can connect Yazio to services like Google Fit so that it also takes into account our consumption during exercise and not just basal metabolism Very important.