Am I now a calorie-counting douche? IPhone's Lose It!

I recently started using the iPhone application called Lose it! It's the first time I've ever counted both my food and exercise calories in my life. Holy shit is that eye-opening.

Lose It! draws on a massive food database (stored somewhere on the Web) and remembers the foods you eat for easy retreival. For example, I have 1 of 3 breakfasts most days. A protein shake (all the ingredients are now in as a custom recipe); 2 eggs, a piece of toast and a cup of OJ; or a bowl of Life cereal with milk. Lose It! remembers those meals so I only have to enter them one time and then they are available for future retrieval. If I have a second helping of Life, I can just up the serving quantity. (One of my parentheticals here--I am glad Mikey's cuteness stands the test of time:



.) (Do you think I need a period after the video--I need Bryan Garner's view.)

Continuing this review, Lose It!'s database tracks calories and nutrients against goals you set (Lose 10 lbs in 10 weeks, weight maintain, etc.). I was shocked that in a normal week, 35% of my diet was fat calories--and by all measures, people would find me to be a healthy guy. Now that I'm conscious of it, my fat intake is down to 15%. Seems like that has to be good.

Lose It! also tracks your calorie burning. Like its food database, it has a thorough exercise database that even includes things like curling,



(134 calories for 30 minutes) and sexual activity (at different levels: passive-light kissing; general/moderate (13 calories for 30 minutes); and active/vigorous, ie, giving it/riding hard).

So it's a fun app to have and is helping me shed some pounds but now I'm some sort of calorie-counting fuckwad and won't eat any food without a label or without consulting this goddamn program. Which is a good thing, and judging by this, America needs to buy this program.