These applications will help you not gain weight during confinement

The confinement with which we try to avoid the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on many levels. From the economic to the emotional. That is why exercise is a great ally these days. But what if we don't have the time or desire to produce endorphins and burn calories? How can we avoid leaving with a few extra kilos after a couple of months of confinement at home? The key may be in your mobile. Of course, as long as you have enough willpower and rely on these tools to count everything you move and know how much you have to eat.

The key to gaining weight or losing weight has to do with the caloric deficit or surplus It's simple: if we take in more calories than we we burn throughout the day we get fat. If we burn more calories than we eat, we lose weight. But how to keep count comfortably and not get scared with the scale? Well, with these applications.

Google Fit

It is a basic tool to keep track of your physical activity. Perhaps it is too basic since you will have to click on the + button to add different types of exercise or activity that you are going to do. The good thing is that its design makes it really comfortable to use for all types of users And not only that, it also has a system of challenges that help you set daily goals with points and minutes of cardio. Ideal to keep you motivated or, at least, to know that you have something pending to do every day to keep that calorie consumption at bay.

Our Google Fit proposal, despite not being the most complete sports application on the market, comes because it is the most compatible Thanks to being a Google tool, it has support for transferring data from other he alth applications such as Xiaomi's Mi Fit. This allows you not only to link those calorie burned data, but also to collect the weights and he alth data that you may collect through a smart scale of this brand. Or just to have your workouts from apps like Freeletics count towards your Google account. It also collects data such as heart rate or hours of sleep if you use a Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor or Samsung quantifying bracelet Of course, you will have to look from the different applications how link your account with Google Fit.

So, with all this, you can review your goals and see the simple graphs of Google Fit without leaving workouts or weight in other applicationsBasically it is to have everything in one place. But you will need other tools to help you in this process.

Calories counter

And once we have a record of everything we do, all we need is the tool with which to control the caloric deficit or surplus that we talked about above. If you are really concerned about this aspect, the Calorie Counter application, formerly known as My FitnessPal, is your best ally And it is very complete to write down absolutely everything you we eat throughout the day. Of course, we will have to make an effort to write it down, of course.

Once you have it installed and create an account, the application allows you to set one of three goals: lose weight, maintain it or increase it Select the appropriate option to choose the necessary daily calculation of calories to create that excess or deficiency of quantity. You must also choose the amount of regular physical activity you do to help this calculation.

From here you will know how many daily calories you should eat to meet your goal. In addition, you will be able to record each and every one of the bites that you take to your mouth. Whatever it is. You only have to write it down in the application Enter breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner and add all the elements one by one. Look for the dish and delimit the amount to calculate calories. And ready. After a few days you will have a detailed record of all the calories that are being put into the body to know if you are in deficit or surplus.

You can review the history of the Calorie Counter and look at its graphs to determine in which food you consume the most calories and how your nutrition is distributed diet.Remember that this is approximate, but it is a good help to calculate quantities and nutrients.

A point in favor of this application is, in addition, that it has a step counter to calculate the amount of calories burned. Of course, it remains poor in other sports and physical activities, so you may need a sports application if you do any other training.

How to record any physical activity

As we say, if you can't stop eating to lose weight or control your current state, you can always do some more physical activity to control it. At home you may find yourself limited or limited, but there are always options: from doing strength exercises with jugs of water, to using your own body in workouts that you follow on YouTube. But there are also more affordable options such as dancing zumba or taking yoga classes Any of these options serve to burn calories.

The question is to register it in your sports applications to see if it has been enough. If you have a bracelet or smartwatch that helps you record these activities, you won't need to do much more. But if you don't have it, you can take advantage of the Google Fit application to simplify it and not have too many tools installed on your mobile.

In this application, in addition, a large number and variety of sports and activities of all kinds are quantified. Press the + button to display all the available options: there is from dancing to swimming, running, training, crossfit, HIIT, weight lifting, meditation, P90X, kettlebell, yoga and even zumba You just have to choose the type of training and click on the start button. The application will calculate the calorie burn according to the practice time.It's approximate, but it's better than nothing. Another option available in this application is to manually add training without measuring it, thus choosing its intensity to try to record it more accurately.

With all this, and maintaining your habits over time, you will be able to consult both the calories burned and the registered weight in Google Fit, while in the Calorie Counter you will be able to know the data corresponding to the intake. Now you just have to subtract the calories eaten by the calories expended, and know that if they are less than your basal rate you will be aiming for weight loss. Only with two applications, your mobile and a little willpower.