Ryan Haines / Android Authority
If I’m being honest, I’m terrible at tracking my nutrition. The minute you ask me to install another app and start logging everything I eat is the moment you tend to lose me. It’s not because I don’t care (I’m very conscious of what I eat), but rather because I don’t want to take the time when I already have apps for my steps, sleep, stress, and whatever else.
But when Garmin announced it would bring nutrition tracking into its Connect Plus experience, I decided I had to give it a try.
After all, if I no longer had to worry about MyFitnessPal or any other third-party plugin, I would be making my life easier. So, I updated my Garmin Connect app, added a nutrition tab to the bottom row, and started logging what I ate and drank for a week. Here’s how it went.
Would you trust Garmin with your nutrition data? 2 votes Yes 50 % No 50 %
If only you could taste a picture
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Right off the bat, Garmin tries to make its nutrition tracking as easy as can be. By shifting away from MyFitnessPal, you no longer need a separate app, and it’s pretty easy to trade one of the existing tabs in your Connect app for a dedicated nutrition interface. In true Garmin fashion, that means giving yourself one more data-rich display to track calories and macros just as easily as if you were tracking steps.
And, as someone who isn’t terribly familiar with tracking nutrition, I’ll admit I was a little confused at first. I’m a distance runner, which usually means that as long as I’m getting enough carbs and calories in me, I’m fine. I’ll run off everything else, so I keep a light eye on nutrition at best. But when faced with a Garmin interface that asked for photos or at least barcodes of everything I consumed, I realized I would have to lock in a bit more.
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