To create your diet plan with Swole, just fill up your target number of calories and choose the number of meals in a day for your calorie goals. Swole will then generate a list of meals that you can follow to meet your calorie targets. Before generating the diet plan, Swole lets you set your meal options. For example, if you want to have a large breakfast, or eat a post-workout meal, you can set it in the generator options for the program to take into account. You can also add your macronutrient proportions, allowing you to set the kind of meals you will be eating.

Swole also lets you choose the specific food that you want to include in your generated diet plan. And once the diet plan is set, you can still edit each item to your liking.

Swole is a nice tool for automating diet plans while allowing enough customization so you can have a personalized diet plan that will work for you.

Features:

• Generates a diet plan based on your calorie targets.
• Sandbox mode lets you edit generated diet plan.
• Share your diet or post in your profile.
• Pre-select the type of meals you want before generating the diet plan.
• Similar Tools: MyFitnessPlan or read about the 5 Websites To Boost Your Brain.

Check out Swole @ www.swole.me

Eat Different is a free to use web service that helps you cut back on specific food types. You start by creating a new account or simply by signing in through your Facebook account. Next you specify which food types you would like to cut back on. These include added sugars, grains, dairy, etc. Next you specify which times you would like to update your measurements.

Whenever you update your measurements, you can add a photo and your weight along with marking how well you did with your food goals that day. Your data is collected and your progress is made visible over the course of time.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you cut back on food types.
• Lets you record measurements of.
• You can add your weight and photograph with each measurement.
• Similar tools: Deappetizer, Calorific Lite, MealSnap, NutritionToolbox, Fatburgr and ShugarStacks.

Check out Eat Different @ www.eatdifferent.com (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

The premise of Health Month is simple – create your own life-changing rules that you wish to accomplish for the month. You can set different targets or set detailed rules for each game. Some of these game include Limit Soda, Eat Whole Grains, Eat Fruit, and Limit Pasta.

Once you have installed it, click on a game that you like to start for the month. Then you can set your own rules depending on how far you are along in achieving your goals. Each month, there should be a new game waiting for you to be played.

Health Month is a nice reference tool that brings the fun back in achieving your goals and reinforcing the change of habits you so want to happen in your life.

Features:

• Plan month-long games to improve your lifestyle.
• Choose from different goals and rules like Exercise, Take A Multivitamin, Eat Greens, etc.
• Lets you work at your own pace.
• Plan the games for months ahead by using the spin-wheel feature.

Check out Health Month @ www.healthmonth.com

Calorific Lite is a free to use phone application for iOS and Android that helps you easily track your consumed calories. The app lets you easily log your food into three colors: green, yellow, and red. Healthy foods such as fruits go into green while candies and carbonated drinks go into red. If you are unsure of which color to log your food into, simply search for it in the app.

Along with the color you also have to log the size of your consumed foods. Do this consistently enough and you will have obtained a simple yet effective way to keep a track of your calories. The app, in addition to estimating your calorie count, represents your food ratio on a pie chart against the ideal ratio.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you easily keep log your food into calorie categories.
• Lets you log size of your foods.
• Estimates you calorie count.
• Represents your food ratio as a pie chart.
• Similar tools: MealSnap, NutritionToolbox, Fatburgr and ShugarStacks.

Check out Calorific Lite @ www.worksmartlabs.com/calorific (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Get Fed Not Fat is a new web service launched by the creators of Get Drunk Not Fat. This site assigns a health score – technically a health grade – to the items on the menus of popular food chains such as Subway, McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, and more. The health score for each item is based on its calorie count, amount of fat, saturated fat, trans-fat, carbs, protein, percentage calories from fat, percentage calories from carbs, and percentage calories from protein. All of these figures are displayed right next to an item’s health score. You can search for food types such as burgers, taco, chicken, etc, and for the relevant items to be displayed with the highest health scores on top.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you search for fast food that is healthy for you.
• Considers a lot of factors include calories, fats, and proteins.
• Assigns a health score to each menu item.
• Includes menu items from many popular food chains.
• Similar tools: GetDrunkNotFat, NoTakeOut and Cookzillas.
• Also read related article: 4 Actually Useful Health Apps For Your Android Phone.

Check out Get Fed Not Fat @ www.getfednotfat.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Get Drunk Not Fat is a free to use web service that lists information on various beer brands. This information includes comments on a beer brand, its alcohol per volume level, overall calories, and calorie to alcohol ratio. This information will help you decide whether or not you should change your current beer brand into something less fattening.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Informs you on various beer brands.
• Lists alcohol content and calorie content of beer brands.
• Helps decide if you should change your beer brand for one less fattening.
• Similar tools: Booze Calculator, Last Call, R-U-Buzzed and GetHighNow.

Check out GetDrunkNotFat @ www.getdrunknotfat.com (via LifeHacker) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

JustStand Calorie-Burn Calculator is a free to use web service that gives you an idea of how many calories you would burn if you started completing your tasks while standing instead of sitting. All you have to do is enter your weight in pounds or kilograms, and enter your working duration in hours or minutes. Approximate figures for the number of calories burned while standing and while sitting are instantly shown and so is their difference. The difference in amount are the extra calories you would burn if you shifted to a standing desk.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps find out how many calories more you would burn by standing up and working.
• You can enter your weight in kilograms or pounds.
• You can enter your work duration in hours or minutes.
• Approximate calorie figures are instantly shown.
• Similar tools: BMI Calculator, Ideal Body Weight Calculator and Calories PerHour.

Check out JustStand Calorie-Burn Calculator @ www.juststand.org/tabid/637/language/en-US/default.aspx (By Umar from TechCityInc)

To try out the app, download it from Apple’s App Store for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (costs $2.99 to download).  The values are not always precise and come in rough estimates (ex: Cashews: 150-614 calories)

Features:

• Get calorie count of any food by taking its picture.
• Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
• Keep track of your meals and progress over time.
• Paid app, costs $2,99 at the App Store.
• Similar tools: NutritionToolbox, Fatburgr and ShugarStacks.

Download the app from Apple’s App Store @  itunes.apple.com/us/app/meal-snap-calorie-counting/id425203142?mt=8&ls=1#

FatBooth is a free smartphone application for Android devices. Sized at 3.8 MB, the app runs on phones running Android version 1.6 and later. FatBooth lets you visualize how you would look like with a ‘few extra pounds.’

Compare the image above with this one:

As you can imagine, after you see yourself ‘fattened up’ by the app you will take a more serious attitude towards dieting.

The app can also be used as a fun tool to see how your friends would look like if they put on a lot of weight.

Features:

• A user-friendly smartphone application.
• Compatible with Android devices.
• Lets you visualize what you would look like after gaining weight.
• Helps motivate you to begin a diet.
• Similar tools: WeightMirror.

Check out FatBooth @ www.market.android.com/details?id=com.piviandco.fatbooth (By Umar from TechCityInc)

After you sign up with the service using your phone number and password, you will receive a text message every morning to which you reply with your weight. Your standard carrier charges apply while sending the SMS reply. By recording your daily weight, textWeight plots a graph of your weight loss which is visible whenever you log into textWeight in your web browser.

NOTE: Currently textWeight only supports US and Canadian numbers.

Features:

• A user friendly tool.
• Asks you your weight every morning.
• Helps stick to your weight loss goals.
• Plots a graph of your weight loss that indicates weight loss progress.
• Also read related article: 2 Interesting Ways to Track Your Weight Loss Using Twitter.

Check out textWeight @ www.textweight.com