10 Free Apps That Truly Help You Lose Weight

What if we told you that you don't have a pay a cent, step foot inside a gym, or hire an expensive personal trainer to lose weight? Sounds too good to be true, right? Guess again! We found ten free iPhone apps that deliver weight loss results in cool, innovative, and inspirational new ways! Download them to your iPhone for free now and get into shape in ways that are convenient (and fun!) for you!


1. Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker
Keeping track of your calorie budget is a bummer. It's cumbersome and confusing. But now, Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker does all the work for you! Choose from over one million foods to enter into this app, and it will record your daily caloric intake to make sure you meet weight loss goals. But that's not all. There's a free barcode scanner that works with your camera phone to capture important data from foods in grocery stores and your pantry!


2. Calorific Lite
If you're not jazzed about calculating calories, try Calorific Lite's super simple and fun traffic light-color coded categorizing system. Unhealthy foods are entered as red, nutritious choices are green, and everything in between shows up as yellow. It's that easy! This app increases your awareness of the types of foods you're consuming. Chances are, if you look at your records after a week of eating red foods, you'll become motivated to make a swift diet change.


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3. Nike Training Club
This polished, professional app is essentially a free personal trainer right inside your phone. With over 60 custom-built workouts from celebrity trainers, including one that works with Lea Michele and Rihanna, this app is worth the seconds it takes to download it. From the moment you being using it as a motivational exercise tool, you'll know you're in good hands. It's made by Nike after all!


4. Lose It!
A longtime favorite of ours, Lose It! has added new social components to its goal-based weight loss programs. Now, you can share achievements with friends, discuss hot topics on forums, and log into loseit.com to discover even more benefits of this free app. We're excited about this social addition because not only is it fun to brag about your accomplishments, but when people are aware of your health plan, it's much easier to stay accountable your plan.


5. RunKeeper
Nothing feels as good as a post-jog endorphin high! But if you don't have a running buddy or aren't sure how to measure your success, it can be challenging to lace up your sneakers and hit the pavement. Enter RunKeeper, a free app that tracks the distance you run, time spent, calories burned, and route you took. Just like Lose It!, RunKeeper has a Web site (runkeeper.com) where you can share successes with friends. The best part is you can program time, distance, or pace-based updates that come in through your headphones to keep you moving and grooving. Awesome!


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6. Daily Cardio Workout
Exercise routines can get boring, monotonous, and downright ineffective when you recycle the same movements over and over again. Thanks to Daily Cardio Workout, you can choose from a bunch of different programs to keep your workouts fresh! Whether you have five, seven, or ten minutes each day, there's a routine that fits your specific goals and expert level. Feel the burn with simple, in-home instructional videos. You can even set daily reminders to push yourself to keep up the pace!


7. Fooducate
Feel equipped for battle when you enter any grocery store with Fooducate, an app that allows you to scan the barcode on any food item. Fooducate's database assigns a grade to each item based on its nutritional value, reveals hidden ingredients the label may not advertise, and even provides alternative, healthier options. Phew! That's one little app that does a whole lot!


8. Fast Food Calories
It's nearly impossible to be health conscious when you're dining out at restaurant chains with friends. But with Fast Food Calories, at least you can attempt to order the healthiest item on the menu. With over 108 restaurants in its database, this app displays full menus and nutritional information so that you can make the best choice. It records the meals you've eaten for up to one year, so that you can get a sense of your eating habits and make the necessary and appropriate changes.


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9. YOGA Free
Not only is practicing yoga a great way to relieve stress and strengthen your core, but it's also proven to help you lose weight in a low-key, very zen way. YOGA Free offers photo, audio, and video guidance to make sure you're completing each of the 250 free poses correctly. There's also a calendar built in to track your activity, as well as the ability to share achievements with friends on Facebook and Twitter.


10. Get in Shape
Whether you're looking to get slimmer, complete a cleanse, improve your diet, or prevent illnesses, Get in Shape will help you achieve your goal with 75 available diets, ranging in duration from two to 28 days. That's not all. Also included are 30 workouts with photo, audio, and video guides to help along the way. Our favorite feature of this free app is the grocery list function that provides tailored shopping lists to help you stick the specific diet you have chosen. How easy is that!


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