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Can technology help me Lose It, or will I get lost in the numbers?

A few weeks ago I downloaded a new app for my iPhone called Lose It. It’s a calorie counter, but it also incorporates exercise, and the best part is that it’s pretty non-judgmental, as these things go. It lets you choose your own goal, and how fast you want to lost the weight, and then it just calculates the numbers for you. For example, I told it my current weight (I don’t want to talk about it) and that I wanted to lose thirty pounds (yes, hopelessly idealistic) in six months (hey, you gotta have some realism). And it told me my calorie allowance was roughly 2,100 per day. Way higher than I expected! Which is the other thing about this app: it makes me feel good about my eating habits! I have it tracking my nutrients as well, and besides the fact that I eat about twice as much sodium as I’m supposed to (yeah, yeah, whatever. Salt is gooooood), I’m pretty on-target with everything else. And I’ve been coming in under my calorie count pretty much every day. Even Easter! And I

The thing about these new blog ads...

...is that they're related to the posted content, which is smart advertising and makes sense in terms of making money, for them and for me (well, to the extent that I'll make any), but given that the usual content of this blog is weight-related, I'm kind of squeamish about the type of ads that Adsense is attaching. I don't want to encourage people to follow fad diets or take pills to lose weight, or even to lose weight at all in most cases! But this blog is the one that gets the most traffic... Any thoughts? Do you guys hate the ads? Should I ax them or should I give them a try for a while?