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Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by aymeric »

papa_bear wrote: post #14

Hey everyone, I made this site. It's very much a work in progress, though if your diet already looks as much like the generated output as it does mine, it will be a great tool! (i.e. eat whatever I can find that barely needs cooking, swallow a shot of olive oil, slight self hatred, etc.) I would, however, like to learn to cook, so I'm working on implementing recipes and a better food selection (it's clearly not worth…

Great app, exactly what I needed.

I am worried about eating 6 eggs per day. Isn't there a risk of cholesterol?

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by kokey »

papa_bear wrote: post #14

Hey everyone, I made this site. It's very much a work in progress, though if your diet already looks as much like the generated output as it does mine, it will be a great tool! (i.e. eat whatever I can find that barely needs cooking, swallow a shot of olive oil, slight self hatred, etc.) I would, however, like to learn to cook, so I'm working on implementing recipes and a better food selection (it's clearly not worth…

It's very good, keep at refining it. I also think you're bang on with the UI layout. You're certainly onto something here. I'm sure you'll have a million little feature requests, perhaps you should use somewhere where people can vote on them. Here's mine: - Allow capping the fat intake for a day. - Metric units.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by bambax »

When clicking on the "not sure" link to determine how many calories we want per day, one is given a choice between Imperial and Metric units; but in the generated diets this choice is apparently not present?

(Also, what is a "cup"? and how many avocados does it hold...?)

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by kokey »

VonLipwig wrote: post #19

Would be nice to have a vegetarian / vegan option which quickly checks / unchecks various things. As a vege in one day I need to eat a lot of eggs and drink a lot of milk. 6 Eggs + 1 Cup Egg Whites + 3 Cups of Milk I wonder how to make a meal out of this: 2 eggs Eggs + 1 cup Lentils + 30 grams Protein Powder + 1 cup Strawberries I think it has potential though. Will be good when there are recipes.

Omelet, humus (with a bit of pita bread), and drink the protein powder with the strawberries in a smoothie.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by ericd »

evolve2k wrote: post #18
ericd wrote: post #6

What a nice surprise! This is my brother's site. :-) If you don't fancy eating lots of eggs, etc, you can go to the sandbox mode and play around with combinations. He's planning on adding recipes soon.

Yes I was recommended 8 eggs for breakfast!

Time for costco. Seriously, though, eggs are awesome.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by baby »

evolve2k wrote: post #18
ericd wrote: post #6

What a nice surprise! This is my brother's site. :-) If you don't fancy eating lots of eggs, etc, you can go to the sandbox mode and play around with combinations. He's planning on adding recipes soon.

Yes I was recommended 8 eggs for breakfast!

Me 6. This is so unhealthy by the way, the yellow part contains far too much cholesterol to be eaten on a daily basis.

edit: Seriously? I'm not trolling, ask any dietetic guy if he thinks it's healthy eating that much eggs everyday.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by dwynings »

papa_bear wrote: post #14

Hey everyone, I made this site. It's very much a work in progress, though if your diet already looks as much like the generated output as it does mine, it will be a great tool! (i.e. eat whatever I can find that barely needs cooking, swallow a shot of olive oil, slight self hatred, etc.) I would, however, like to learn to cook, so I'm working on implementing recipes and a better food selection (it's clearly not worth…

Nice! Hope you don't mind me sharing it with HN :)

You might want to look into using Punchfork's API for adding recipes. (http://punchfork.com/api)

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by ericd »

baby wrote: post #26
evolve2k wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I was recommended 8 eggs for breakfast!

Me 6. This is so unhealthy by the way, the yellow part contains far too much cholesterol to be eaten on a daily basis. edit: Seriously? I'm not trolling, ask any dietetic guy if he thinks it's healthy eating that much eggs everyday.

Not true: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776466

You can always change the foods it's allowed to use, though, just hit the Choose Foods button.

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by bobbles »

papa_bear wrote: post #14

Hey everyone, I made this site. It's very much a work in progress, though if your diet already looks as much like the generated output as it does mine, it will be a great tool! (i.e. eat whatever I can find that barely needs cooking, swallow a shot of olive oil, slight self hatred, etc.) I would, however, like to learn to cook, so I'm working on implementing recipes and a better food selection (it's clearly not worth…

Any chance on metric measurements? Does anyone use ounce as measurement except the US?

Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

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Post by jsilence »

bobbles wrote: post #29
papa_bear wrote: post #14

Hey everyone, I made this site. It's very much a work in progress, though if your diet already looks as much like the generated output as it does mine, it will be a great tool! (i.e. eat whatever I can find that barely needs cooking, swallow a shot of olive oil, slight self hatred, etc.) I would, however, like to learn to cook, so I'm working on implementing recipes and a better food selection (it's clearly not worth…

Any chance on metric measurements? Does anyone use ounce as measurement except the US?

Yes, metric please.
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