Is your phone sabotaging your gains?

New research suggests that popular calorie-counting and workout-tracking apps may be doing more harm than good, leaving users feeling frustrated rather than fired up to reach their goals.

That’s bad news for the 92 million Americans who rely on these platforms to track every bite and bench press, raising questions about whether the tech meant to help them is actually holding them back. 4

In the study, researchers at University College London and Loughborough University analyzed 58,881 posts on X (formerly Twitter) about five popular fitness apps.

Using artificial intelligence, the team sifted through the data and identified 13,799 posts where users expressed negative feelings about the programs.

“In these posts, we found a lot of blame an

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