UNIQUE FOOD TRACKING APPS TO CHECK OUT IN 2020 YOUR DIET’S HIGH-TECH HELPER
If you’re the type to make New Year's resolutions, then there’s a good chance health and fitness goals are among your targets for 2020. According to the New York Post, more than 55% of News Year’s resolutions made by Americans in 2018 were health-related, covering topics like exercising more, losing weight, and eating more nutritious foods. It’s easy to set resolutions, but it’s much harder to keep them. Luckily, we live in an age where high-tech tools are at our fingertips. Having a diet and exercise assistant in your pocket (literally) in the form of a smartphone app can do wonders for staying on track, and these days your options go far beyond one-size-fits-all calorie counters like MyFitnessPal. Here are two apps to check out if you’re hoping to discover a new you this new year. MY MACROS+ Developed by weightlifters, this app is tailor-made for people who have serious fitness goals and want to track their macronutrients (macros) — carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. With more than 1.5 million food items to choose from, a weight-tracking component, and more, My Macros+ covers all
your bases. Reviewers rave about the app’s flexible goal-setting feature, which allows for intermittent fasting, calorie/carbohydrate cycling, and meal plans that include 6–8 meals per day. ATE Ate bills itself as a “visual, mindful, and non-judgmental” food tracking app. Unlike most options on the market, Ate focuses on feelings rather than numbers. Instead of counting calories, its users snap photos of their meals and input why they ate — whether they were hungry, stressed, or socializing — and how the meal made them feel. It’s an ideal strategy for those worried that too much data could trigger an obsession or disordered eating. Once you find a food tracking app you like, try pairing it with other tools that can help you meet your goals. Whether you need help shopping for healthier foods, making smart choices when eating out, or finding nutritious recipes with ingredients you have at home, there’s an app for that. Just pull up your phone’s app store and start searching!
TZ’S TEAM PLAYERS
HOW LESSONS LEARNED FROM SPORTS FORMS OUR COMPANY CULTURE
As you no doubt heard as a child, playing sports provides a plethora of benefits, ranging from better heart health to stronger interpersonal skills. The ability to work well on a team is often cited as the biggest perk of all, and here at TZ Medical, we owe a debt to sports for just that. Many of our employees come from sports backgrounds, and the values they learned in those pursuits have been instrumental in building our cooperative, goal-oriented company culture. “Through sports, I learned that paying attention to detail and active listening are important skills that are exercised daily,” says Dane Strength, a TZ inside sales representative who played football, basketball, and baseball in high school. “But most importantly, sports taught me selflessness and working together with others were the best ways to achieve a common goal.”
learned what it takes to be great, compete, work with a team, have a strong work ethic, be a leader, and not break when things get tough. I also learned that your team is only as strong as your weakest link, so you should build people up rather than tear them down.” Here at TZ, we do our best to encourage those traits and support our employees’ love of the game. We have an office softball team
and hold spirit days where everyone in the company is encouraged to show off their sports gear. Beyond that, our company culture draws inspiration from the best parts of sports culture. “At TZ, everyone takes ownership of their tasks, which allows us to challenge each other to reach our fullest potential and see results,” says Lois Ray, a lacrosse, soccer, basketball, and softball player turned mechanical engineer. Mechanical engineer and former baseball and soccer player Austin Ziegler adds, “Working on multiple projects at a time, I realized time management and leadership are huge. I have to prioritize my projects and trust that my team will complete their jobs to get the task accomplished on time.” Going into this new year, we’re incredibly grateful for all of the team players we have here at TZ Medical. We couldn’t ask for a better group of people to work and play with!
Garrett Bradd, another inside sales rep and basketball player, says, “Through sports, I
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