I’ve finally gotten back into the gym and I’m going to do it smart this time. Time to get rid of this enormous gut. I am seriously a fat bastard (he says while yelling ‘Get in my belly!!’). So this week’s cool tool of the week was discovered in doing a little (and enjoyable believe it or not) research on fitness and weightlifting. I am dedicated to leveraging technology as best I can to meet my goals. The first tool I want to discuss is called FitDay - a great free online tool that allows the user to easily track calorie movement (in and out). Simply create an account and use a simple search and browse interface to find the foods you have eaten today. FitDay does the rest to estimate the entire nutritional profile of your daily diet. You can also (if you really have a lot of discipline) record all your daily activities to estimate your caloric burn-off. From there a bunch of reports can be generated, such as calories eaten, calories burned, nutritional info, weight change and activity progress. You can also define specific nutritional goals for yourself and create reports against those goals as well as keep a daily journal.

Its a superb tool for what it does. And it does it well. I never recorded my daily nutritional profile because it simply seemed to difficult. Guess what? Its not. Its easy if you use FitDay. Definitely worth checking out and potentially life-changing.