I'm all for supporting people who want to lose weight and I've been known to keep the occasional food diary in the past. But I can't quite look at this PDA-style weight loss mobile software without feeling a bit depressed. Are we really so incapable of cutting back on lard and doing some exercise that we need our phone to nag us? Sure, tracking what you do is quite helpful, but personally - and this might explain why my BMI is still the upper end of normal - I'd be inclined to stuff chips and chocolate in my mouth the minute it beeped. Or lick butter.*
Still, if you think this will be a handy motivational tool then who am I to put you off? Sensei is in fact ridiculously easy to use, from the initial drag-and-drop set up process online to using and adjusting the program on your phone. It sends you alerts and advice based on the information you've provided and even offers a 24-hour support line to registered dieticians, ready to prod you back into shape. As long as The Crap Doctor Gillian McKeith isn't one of them...
*No, I've never really licked butter. Shame on you.
Alexandra Roumbas is the Deputy Editor of Shiny Shiny, where this post first appeared, and is drinking Isabelle's chocolate coffee unmolested by censorious mobiles.
