Figuring out how to lose weight is tough—and there's no reason to go through your weight loss journey alone. Whether you love swapping healthy recipes with friends, using technology to support you as you work toward your goal, or enjoy working with a professional to get the tips you need to take your weight loss to the next level, it can be helpful to lean on positive support as you work to become your healthiest self.
Introducing Evidation: a comprehensive health app
Knowledge is power when it comes to your health, and understanding your health data can provide you with the information you need to take your wellness to the next level.
The Evidation app is a simple, effective tool that helps you make the most of the data you're already tracking. Using the health-related information that you choose to share (such as data from fitness apps, nutrition apps, etc.), Evidation gives recommendations, suggestions, and information that provide you with the knowledge you need to support your well-being.
How Evidation supports your weight-loss journey
Whether you're in the process of losing fat or you're trying to reduce your overall body mass index, Evidation allows you to see how your movement is supporting your overall health goals. By keeping track of your movement patterns throughout the day and week, we're able to provide you with the info you need to keep moving.
Recent research shows that people who receive encouragement in the form of notifications tend to move more than those who don’t receive these notifications. Receiving nudges from your fitness and nutrition apps paired with the weekly insights you get from Evidation can support your forward progress.
Tracking what you eat can provide insights into your physical health and weight loss journey, and Evidation can provide you with the tips and suggestions you need to keep moving forward. When you're staying on top of your nutrition, you're better able to find patterns that can inform the decisions that help you feel your best.
Tracking your movement, nutrition, stress levels, and sleep patterns are all helpful when it comes to wellness and weight loss, but this information is even more powerful when it's analyzed on a macro level, allowing you to see connections and effects that might otherwise go unnoticed. At Evidation, we're here to help you make the most of the tracking you're already doing, pushing you toward success one day at a time.
Using Evidation to set and track personal goals
Evidation doesn't just give you the encouragement and insights you need to stay on track—it also rewards you for participating in activities that support your health. When you click on the "My Health" section of the Evidation app, you'll see your current behaviors compared to your recommended behaviors, allowing you to use research-based data to motivate and support positive changes.
If you're new to exercising, it can be tough to figure out where to start. When you connect your workout tracking apps, Evidation can provide you with workout tips, fitness-related nutrition tips (like finding the perfect pre-workout snack), and insights on how your movement is positively or negatively affecting your health.
Rewarding your steps toward wellness
No matter how you're sweating—walking, Pilates, at-home workouts, running, taking a fitness class—the Evidation app rewards you for working to be your best self. You'll also be rewarded for taking surveys, reading articles, and completing other activities that help to inform your next steps when it comes to hitting your goals.
Ways that you can earn points through the Evidation app can include:
- Completing cards: When you open the app, you'll often see a survey or short questionnaire. Filling these out provides us with the information necessary to find nuanced insights within your health data—and provides you with points to use toward cash rewards.
- Connecting a fitness app: That's right—simply connecting apps that track your health data is a step in the right direction, and we want to reward you for taking baby steps toward wellness.
- Incorporating healthy movement: Managed to take 10,000 steps? Got a tough workout in? These actions contribute to your well-being and weight loss (if that's what you're working toward), and can earn points toward your next cash out.
- Inviting others: You already know that weight loss is easier when you have community support. To encourage you to get your friends and family on board, you'll get points each time someone you invite decides to download and use the app.
Cashing out is simple. You'll earn $10 for every 10,000 points you earn on the app, and you can cash out through a bank deposit, PayPal payment, a prepaid VISA gift card, a gift card to a favorite merchant, or you can donate your cash to charity.
How Evidation can help you reduce anxiety in the weight loss process
Healthy movement and nutrition aren't the only factors when it comes to losing weight and keeping it off. Understanding the role anxiety and other mental health issues play in weight loss is key to moving toward your goals.
Often, people who are working to lose weight feel anxiety when it's time to step on the scale. It can feel frustrating when you've put in a week or month of hard work, only to see that the scale isn't showing the results you hoped for.
By looking at the big picture, it can be easier to recognize that the scale is one form of measuring progress—but it's not the only form. Evidation can help you see the connections between your weight loss and wellness efforts and other facets of your well-being, reminding you that what you're doing is paying off, even if the numbers on the scale have yet to reflect your efforts.
Making the most of Evidation for wellness and weight-loss success
Whether you're getting started with a weight loss journey or you're working to maintain your weight, Evidation can support you as you move forward. Connecting your tracking apps (we support many apps, including MyFitnessPal, RunKeeper, Apple Health, Fitbit, Oura, Garmin, Google Fit, and more) can provide you with the insights you need to learn how one behavior affects another. We're excited to support you! Learn more about how Evidation works and download the app here.
