The Mobile Lifestyle Intervention for Food and Exercise Study

Participants will receive twice weekly podcasts and daily tips of the day, with nutrition and exercise information, audio diary and goal setting.

Diet (track by in app database), physical activity (tracked with FitBit and synced with mLIFE app), and weight (tracked with FitBit scale and synced with mL app) tracking app components. App notifications and reminders and newsfeeds.

"The gamified mLIFE app contains several components to help facilitate social gaming and support. This includes a newsfeed, to view the progress of other users, the ability to send others encouragement (likes/thumbs-up) for achieving goals, user-to-user messaging system so active users of the app will be prompted to select send encouraging messages to other group members.~For the experimental group, the app also includes features that facilitate healthy competition among participants through receipt of points for provision of social support and tracking health behaviors."

"The standard mLIFE app has the ability to send others encouragement (likes/thumbs-up) for achieving goals and a user-to-user messaging system so active users of the app will be prompted to select send encouraging messages to other group members."