Check out these 6 apps that might help you stay on track with your fitness goals

Are you ready to get in shape, lose weight, and eat healthier? The keystones for success in any undertaking are setting specific goals, measuring progress, and being accountable to those goals. Smartphone apps can make achieving your goals easier than ever.
There are hundreds of apps posed as tracking tools, in which you log your workouts or calories eaten, while others automate the tracking or even offer you coaching. Some are combination of all these things. We’ve browsed through dozens and dozens of apps to bring you the six best apps to help you eat smarter, stay accountable, and get moving.

Myfitnesspal

Often hailed as one of the best all-in-one calorie-counting and exercise-tracking apps, this app has an extensive database of popular foods and restaurant menus and makes logging food and exercise simple and easy. It takes your weight, height, goal weight, and lifestyle into account before giving its recommendations, and breaks your goals into smaller, 1-month goals to keep you motivated.
Available on: Android, Blackberry, iOS, Windows Phone, and Web
Cost: Free

Nexercise

Get competitive! Nexercise keeps track of your daily exercise and publishes your score along with your friends’ scores. what better way to get off the couch than to make sure you keep up with your friends or make sure your dad doesn’t leave you in the dust?
Available on: Android and iOS
Cost: Free

Fooducate

Don’t shop without this app. Scan the bar code of a food item and this app will give you a health rating based on calories, processing techniques, and sugar amounts. It will help you identify those tricky foods that like to pretend they are healthy.
Available on: Android and iOS
Cost: Free

Nike Training Club

Like a personal trainer in your pocket. Select a workout based on the time you have and the reults you want–cardio, toning, strength, etc.–and watch videos to learn proper form. It pulls music from your own playlist to keep you in the zone. Each workout earns you points you can use to unlock features like star workouts and personal training advice. The autoshare feature uploads your results to Facebook for additional accountability.
Available on: Android and iOS
Cost: Free

Lose It!

Based on the simple principles of tracking calories and garnering peer support, Lose It! lets you manage your daily calorie intake and calorie burning for you to see how long it will take to reach your goal. You can even scan the bar codes of most food items for accurate nutritional information. The active online support community helps keep you accountable.
Available on: Android, iOS, Nook, Kindle, and the Web
Cost: Free

Zombies, Run!

You’ll be too busy running from zombies to realize you’re getting an awesome workout. This app integrates your own music into apocalyptic missions and gives you training mixed in with gripping story. Play outside or at the gym.
Available on: Android, iOS, and Windows Phone
Cost: $3.99

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Working at Home With Kids

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Working at home can be difficult for your children to understand. We discuss the best way to approach it.

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It was a Saturday afternoon, and I had work on my mind.

It didn't matter that it was a beautiful day or that I was currently "in charge" of my two kids-I had work to do. And as a male, I was asserting my right to employ tunnel vision and to forget everything around me so that I might finish this project.
"Dad, will you come and play with us?" my daughter asked. "Not now, honey," I told her. A short while later, my son tried. "Dad, are you done yet?" "No, please let me finish this," I said in a tone much sharper than I'd intended.
After a few more minutes of focused work, I heard my kids fighting in the other room. While I usually let them work out their own fights, this one sounded like it needed intervention. I broke things up and before long, I found myself in a wrestling match with both of them.
Their plan had worked! While they may not have consciously planned it, I was now firmly planted in their world. My tunnel vision had been shifted to a different focus: who would win the wrestling match. And I must admit that this was a whole lot more fun than the project I was working on.
Although I had been frustrated with my kids, it wasn't their fault. I had failed to make proper boundaries with them. I hadn't made it clear to them that I'd need a certain amount of time and space while I worked. And I hadn't told them what I expected of them.
As fathers and mothers increase their workload in this country, work and home obligations often come into conflict. We must often make the agonizing choice between spending "quality time" with our kids versus getting caught up with work. An excerpt from Robert Bly's book, "The Sibling Society" (1996) tells of the problems that fathers have in finding the time to have more "complete"lives:
"The patriarchal system's destruction of fatherhood continues in the United States today: In 1935, the average workingman had forty hours a week free, including Saturday and Sunday. By 1990, it was down to seventeen hours. The twenty-three lost hours of free time a week since 1935 are the
very hours in which the father could be a nurturing father, and find some center in himself, and the very hours in which the mother could feel she actually has a husband."
I wish that I could have more free time with my kids. I also wish that I could spend more time with my wife.
And I know in the future I'll be faced with the choice between work time or family time on many occasions. There's a lot of guilt on either side of this decision. But ten years from now nobody will care much about the project that I'm working on.
My kids, on the other hand, will grow up and think back on their childhood for the rest of their lives. The memories that we create together are eternal. Someday, these memories will pave the way for them to have memorable experiences with their own children.
The truth is that I still haven't finished that project that I was so focused on, and I can't say that it's too upsetting to me.
And I know my kids are just fine with it.

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