Swole.me - The automatic diet planner

I'm guessing the name is a play on 'swoll', which colloquially means 'muscular'.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swoll

This is great! I once tried to do something like this but gave up because of all the potential complexities. It looks like you have many of them covered. This has a lot of potential if you expand it to "real world" living. A few suggestions:

  - ability to create and save custom templates of choices (beyond Atkins...)
  - "ALL" toggle for each food group
  - database of commercial groceries (Heinz baked beans)
  - database of restaurant menus (Big Mac)
  - templates of meal types beyond "breakfast" (post workout, TV snack)
  - fix breakfast option (seems to ignore when chosen)
  - seasonal menus for produce
  - a way to cook meals for multiple people with their own preferences
  - Natural Hygiene (Fit for Life, Fuhrman) template
  - consider pricing
  - micronutrients beyond carbs, protein, fats
  - consider allergies
  - raw options
  - notifications (email, text, msg)
  - historic reporting with suggestions (especially daily calories)
  

Best wishes for a great product. Please keep us posted.

This is great -- but I'd really like to see reasoning for the choices accompany recommendations. Maybe some citations to nutritional sources. If I'm going to be eating what someone tells me to eat, I want to be able to understand what's behind their recommendations and why they believe them to be sound.

+1 for the ability to select only vegan options.

There are several comments here regarding the egg debate. Should you avoid eating too many eggs? What is the impact of eggs and other sources of dietary cholesterol on your blood cholesterol levels?

I've been wondering about this myself for some time, all the while eating cartons of egg whites for breakfast every day.

ericd posted a link[1], which appears to be a good source of information (far more than I have time to digest right now).

I only want to point out one small tidbit that I just found[2]; the American Heart Association (according to the webmd article) recommends keeping your dietary cholesterol intake below 300 milligrams per day. The same article reports that a chicken egg contains about 200 milligrams of it.

Now, I'm totally agnostic about things that I don't have time to properly research. In this case I would rather err on the side of caution, and will continue to limit my cholesterol intake.

That said, this app is nice if you enjoy eating this way (a bit of this and a bit of that; sans-recipe). This is pretty much how I normally eat, except that I never measure my portions.

A nice (premium?) feature might be a journal where you can easily record what you actually ate (in so much as it differs from the generated plan), your weight, etc.

I don't know, but maybe with enough journal data you could infer something about the user's metabolism (and average plan adherence), and make predictions about weight change.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776466 2. http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cholesterol-food