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6. Food Timing: When to Eat, When to Fast > Apps for Fasters
Apps for Fasters
You can use any digital timer to show you how long you’ve fasted (or you could just look at your watch). For example, you can use the Endomondo app with an unspecified fitness category of “other,” as shown in Figure 6-1 (we talked about this app for measuring sports fitness training in Chapter 2).
An iPhone App named IF Timer is also available, but I haven’t used it yet (Apple user, alas, with Android smartphone). Check it out at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/if-timer/id414565808?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
The Fitbit gives you a pretty good picture of how many calories you’ve burned during the fast (we also discuss this device—a pedometer with a website—in Chapter 2). I’m not too sure how useful that is, as “calories in, calories out” is probably a crude measure of what’s happening physiologically during a fast (and your weight will be affected by how well you’re hydrating during the fast, among other things).
