Does my fitness pal really make you lose weight?

MyFitnessPal You know the new apps (stands for “applications”: they are those little programs for tablets and smartphones that allow you to do various things from a mobile device, and which have also become fashionable in the diet, for example the app to find healthy recipes) , which allow you to keep your calorie count / expenditure under control?
Well, apparently these apps don’t work for weight loss , which researchers say opens the way for other doubts: Does counting calories really make you lose weight?

Let’s start with the apps, and then with the news: according to a study by Dr. B. Yoshi Laing , having recommended applications such as MyFitnessPal to overweight and obese patients in Los Angeles medical centers . , which calculated the calorie expenditure of a variety of activities, and how much to consume in a day to lose weight, did not produce better results in terms of weight loss. Doctors would help patients download the app on their tablet or mobile phone and use it correctly in the first week, giving them instructions for the next. To another group, they would have recommended any physical activity they could do on their own to lose weight.

The group that used the app was enthusiastic about ita, but a greater control of the daily energy expenditure did not produce any food awareness nor did it accelerate the weight loss of these subjects, who indeed, after the first month have suffered a weight stall phase. The app-free and freer group, on the other hand, managed to lose more weight. Now: this does not mean that counting calories is useless , but that perhaps an app to monitor our energy expenditure is not quite as reliable as we hoped ; or that those who use it, proud of the results achieved, automatically eat more to reward themselves, nullifying the results. While the old methods (diet and exercise according to everyone’s attitudes and time) still continue to work.In short, here is a case in which technology does not improve our life.