DQS Mobile

DQS Mobile

By Jackson Forge Studios LLC

  • Category: Health & Fitness
  • Release Date: 2014-08-22
  • Current Version: 3.3
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 6.82 MB
  • Developer: Jackson Forge Studios LLC
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 8.0
Score: 4.72368
4.72368
From 152 Ratings

Description

This is the official Racing Weight Diet Quality Score App, now with the ability to save your DQS data for as long as you want and view graphs of your progress over time! This app allows you to calculate your daily Diet Quality Score (DQS) as described in Matt Fitzgerald's book, Racing Weight. The Diet Quality Score is a simple instrument that allows athletes to measure the overall quality of their diet. The DQS Mobile app was designed to make it as easy as possible to calculate a Diet Quality Score each day. As you eat throughout the day, enter the servings of each category of food that you consume. Tap a box to consume one serving of that category, tap it again and it will become a half serving, and one more tap will set it back to zero for that box. You can tap the category name to view an explanation of what foods fall under that category. Your total DQS score for the day is shown in the upper right corner of the page. DQS data is saved for each day you track it. You can also log your weight and body fat % on the bottom of the Tracking page. We recommend you log your weight no more than once per week. The Graphs page lets you see how you are doing with your Diet Quality Score over time. You can view your data over the last week, month or year. When viewing yearly data, it is displayed as 52 week-long averages. You can view graphs showing your total DQS, your weight, or your DQS score by specific category. You can set a target weight, body fat % and a target DQS score on the Profile page.

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Reviews

  • Simple, amazing app

    5
    By elbel444
    This app’s simplicity is part of its charm. I used to agonize over putting every bite of food into my fitness pal and eventually give up. This system makes it easy to make healthy food choices and see the big picture without sweating the details. It’s been really helpful as I truly to focus on slimming down without too much restriction for my upcoming marathon.
  • The best approach to food!

    5
    By Pennyeagle
    The book in conjunction with this app has taken the pain out of ‘dieting’. I no longer have food guilt and I look forward to eating because I know that I’m filling up with nutritious energizing food that will help me recover and preform my best. I had so many concerns about my diet and goals but after using this app and reading Matts book I feel like my diet is on autopilot and I’m seeing results!
  • Awesome app!

    4
    By MaxLG
    I use this daily. My family does too. It’s simple (meaning people will use it), and has a great focus on quality of foods. It’s less helpful when it comes to quantity. One suggestion that would get this to 5 stars: include as a data point the ratio of high quality to low quality foods.
  • Working again and back to being great

    5
    By MDN4949
    I used this app all the time. I really liked it and found it very valuable. Since the most recent iOS update it no longer works. I tried sending a message to the developer first, but I did not receive a response. I hope it gets updated since I paid for it and would like to continue using it. Would change review to 5 stars if it returns to its previous functionality. Update: after not working for a vm couple weeks it now works again. As I stated, back to a 5 star review. Not sure what the problem was but I think it is a great app.
  • Game Changer

    5
    By Ozen79
    Very simple effective app that has changed my life. Thorough descriptions about the food groups really help. Excellent app
  • Quick & Easy to Use; Could Be More Flexible

    4
    By HillSlug98238
    If you’ve read Matt Fitzgerald’s books, you know that in order to make this app work for you you need to be honest with yourself. There are no hard and fast rules, and it’s easy to lie to yourself about serving size. But that flexibility also makes this app very easy to use. I sometimes have to go back and remind myself what a serving size is, but I like that logging a days worth of food can take less than a minute. I wish the app had more flexibility for omnivores. I frequently don’t eat meat. But for omnivores, legumes are counted as vegetables not proteins. I can switch back and forth, but I don’t always know at the start of the day if it’s going to be a meatless day or not.
  • Love

    5
    By luelovesgod
    Love the book, love the app. Get it-do it. Thanks to Matt for all the work.
  • Love it

    5
    By O2345ta
    Love the app’s simplicity! Other apps are so feature rich, it’s overwhelming. This one is quick and easy. I would love to be able to track legumes and meat protein in the same day.
  • When it works it’s great

    2
    By Jeenar
    The latest update was a fail. I was using this regularly but when it recently updated it won’t let you save any data. Tried to contact support over a week ago and haven’t heard back.
  • Would benefit from color coding meals

    4
    By jadefly
    As another reviewer said, I found myself confused as to whether I had already counted a particular snack in a food group that already had multiple logs. IIRC, that reviewer suggested a separate entry for each meal, but I think you could also allow us to select different colors for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack which would help a lot.

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