Scanning Spotted Owls!

I found an article on fox47news.com by Stephanie Miller, written on May 24th, 2012, in which she was reviewing the MyFitnesspal app for her new iPhone 4S. She had recently switched from an Android, which also has a MyFitnesspal app available.

The writer compared MyFitnesspal to a web based site she previously used to track calories and exercise called The Daily Plate. She raved about MFP and the mobile accessibility.

And What Does This Have To Do With Spotted Owls - You Might Be Wondering ~

According to the author of this article, she not only likes the ease of counting calories on-the-go, but she also likes the bar code scanning capabilities because she can now scan the calorie content of her favorite coffee drink, which is called the Biggby Reduced Calorie Spotted Owl.

Mobile Fitness!

Personally, I have not felt compelled to download the Android app to my phone as I'm not quite as serious about counting calories as some other die hard MyFitnesspal types. I did come accross several outdated articles about the launch of the MFP app for Android, which apparently occurred in 2010. I also learned that MFP claimed to have more than 1 million members at the time of the Android application launch.

I'd be curious to know how much the membership has grown since the launch of the smartphone applications. I would suspect there are many more users of MyFitnesspal since going mobile because you can now monitor your daily calorie intake and activity on-the-go.

Blogs on MyFitnesspal:

I recently explored and read some of the Blogs on MyFitnesspal. I noticed that people are not afraid to "tell all" in the Blogs and apparently the rules aren't enforced for Blogs like they are in the community posts and chats. People went into great detail about their personal lives, including a story about binging and a rape. Another story was full of "bleeped out" profanity. I was shocked that people would publish such details about their lives for strangers to read and they included full color photos. A little discretion might be in order.

Spotted Owl To Go. . .



Tina Hastings