Just a quick reminder for some, a diet as a means to an end very well may have a strange set of meals in order to meet the criteria for weight loss/mass gain. As nice as it'd be to eat 2000kcals and have a steak and potatoes for dinner everyday, you may instead have to eat that cup of avocado and a glass of milk for its nutritional value:kcal
Swole.me - The automatic diet planner
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#62Like the idea and site. Issues I had:
I signed up. Thank you for making signup and logging in easy. However, I was then presented with this page:
However, this page (logged in, mind you):
Would have been better, at least on the initial log in.
The Not Sure? button got lost. I didn't notice it. In fact, I'd written out a suggestion for you to do the exact thing you did with the popup and calculator. Maybe change the text to "Figure out how many calories you need" or something like that. Something more accurate.
Overall though, a great start.
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#63Needs a little refinement. It's suggesting I eat 6 eggs a day and while I am no expert, that sounds excessive.
I eat a 6 egg, mushrooms, and bell peppers omelet for breakfast topped with salsa. I highly recommend it. I feel much better than the days I have oatmeal for breakfast. And it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare.
Geez, a six egg omelet seems like it would be a ton of food to get through.
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#64Love it. Have not signed up, please offer OpenID...
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#65Hey 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…
This is a really fantastic idea. Especially for people who have issues with eating, I would love to sit down and use this site with them and show them how to get the proper amount of food.
(1) It needs tweaking for vegetarians/vegans. (2) My 'breakfast' for 1400 calories had 6 eggs and 1 apple, that's a whole lot of eggs for one meal.
Love the idea. Please keep working on it.
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#66I loved the Paleo button. Made it a lot easier to get started!
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#67It told me I should eat a cup of avocado and 2 cups of skim milk for dinner. I'm confused and rather appalled by the thought of having that for any meal. Additionally, I've heard stories of it telling people to eat 8 eggs for breakfast, so I'm a bit wary. (No, the 8 eggs for breakfast was not a diet for Gaston, either)
I was told to eat 6 eggs for breakfast + yogurt (and banana?) as part of a 4 meal/2000 cal plan. I love eggs... but six?! That's just crazy talk.
Well, to quote Gaston:
"When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs, every morning to help me get large"
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#68Very nice! Any plans for a mobile version? (iPhone / Android) I can imagine this has even more value when you have it around all the time on your mobile, combined with push notifications? Good luck with the app!
Thanks! I'd definitely like to at some point. What did you have in mind for the push notifications? "4pm. Eat some nuts!"?
Indeed, something like that would be awesome.. reminders in general! :)
Re: Swole.me - The automatic diet planner
#69Very nice! Any plans for a mobile version? (iPhone / Android) I can imagine this has even more value when you have it around all the time on your mobile, combined with push notifications? Good luck with the app!
Thanks! I'd definitely like to at some point. What did you have in mind for the push notifications? "4pm. Eat some nuts!"?
As a huge fan of swole.me and long-time lurker of it - you could add in push notifications right now using Boxcar (boxcar.io). Disclosure: I helped build it. ;)
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#70There 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…
Your body makes most of the cholesterol in you, it's a vital pre-hormone.
How much you eat barely changes the amount produced by your body.
If you want a better lipid profile, eat more eggs and fewer carbs.
Everything above is really well established fact at this point, propagandists like AHA to the contrary.
When in doubt, ask the practitioners, at say, leangains.com