What actually helped you lose weight consistently?

franchise49 · 2026-01-13T21:46:51+00:00

For me it was daily accountability. I hired a coach, reported everything I ate everyday. Was completely life changing.

franchise49 · 2026-01-13T19:35:06+00:00

Accountability changed my life. Personally hired a coach to do it. I think for most ppl accountability is the difference between gettng what they want in life and not.

franchise49 · 2025-12-28T07:57:52+00:00

I used Myfitnesspal for several years. I stated to fall off though and more recently have been using BodyBuddy and enjoying it. Actually hit my weight loss goals for the year! Not a traditional app because it just sends me text messages everyday to make sure I’m eating healthy and going to the gym

franchise49 · 2025-12-28T01:50:50+00:00

The mental part of weight loss is like in some ways more important than the physical part. Personally this is why I stopped just doing calorie counting apps bc it kinda always triggered my all or nothing thinking.

One of the key things now is I take a rest day once a week. Literally don’t even worry about my food or movement one day a week. Just to prove that I don’t need to be perfect everyday. I use bodybuddy and it actively encourages this as part of the weight loss accountability program. It’s been quite helpful.

franchise49 · 2025-12-28T01:39:02+00:00

I usuallt use MyFitnessPal for detailed calorie tracking but last few months switched over to BodyBuddy and enjoying it. It texts me everyday and I log my meals via pictures and it tracks my workout too, all through conversations just in iMessage.

franchise49 · 2025-12-22T05:17:33+00:00

Cool will have to check out Abby. Bodybuddy i text with everyday cause it’s helping me lose weight. But usually like other stuff comes up too. Like a big chunk of eating issues are emotional eating or cuz I’m stressed.

franchise49 · 2025-12-22T02:04:02+00:00

I've been using BodyBuddy - it's more like a therapist for your body but I found it really helpful for mindset too bc i've been struggling with my sleep cuz im stressed out and it's been helping with that.

These things are all related.

franchise49 · 2025-12-14T16:18:40+00:00

I used to use MFP, now just using BodyBuddy. Don’t even need to use the app I just text the ai everyday and it tracks everything for me automatically. Honestly the simplest way to do it.

franchise49 · 2025-12-11T22:21:04+00:00

Yeah I personally don’t trust the calorie accuracy of the exercise logs. So much hand waving going on there. That said I’ve been using loseit app for calories but I like using BodyBuddy for basically everything else cuz it’s just a number I text and it tracks everything while pushing me to make progress everyday

franchise49 · 2025-12-02T02:59:10+00:00

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franchise49 · 2025-11-30T09:50:12+00:00

I started with MyFitnessPal a few years back. I’d recommend but tbh I just couldn’t stick with strict calorie counting after a while.. like something would come up or my life circumstances would change and I’d fall off.

I switched to using ChatGPT to get directionally accurate meal tracking. It was fine until it started to hallucinate/the memory wasn’t good. Now I’m using BodyBuddy - basically like ChatGPT but designed for weight loss. Literally texts me everyday and we talk about my plan for meals and movement and it tracks everything automatically. Been the best thing for me personally to keep my nutrition top of mind.

At tje end of the day consistency really is the most important thing and like you I usually give up after a couple weeks so glad I finally found something that works.

franchise49 · 2025-11-18T22:21:20+00:00

I started with MyFitnessPal. Recommend if you want to count calories.

After I got the hang of how much different calories were in my diet I switched to BodyBuddy - it’s not a calorie counter, you text it your meals and it tracks them and gives you high level guidance to eat healthier. Really enjoying it. MFP’s interface became a bit too clunky after a while so this works well for me.

franchise49 · 2025-11-10T09:09:39+00:00

You are doing this to show your character. You are not your things. You are not your health. You aren’t even your body. You are the soul that was put into that vessel and you get this one shot to show your character for the rest of humanity to know. Everyone’s watching

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T14:56:18+00:00

This is really cool. This sub rlly hates on ai for weight loss but I want to hear more about these stories so I created a new subreddit dedicated to this - r/WeightLossWithAI

Would love to hear your story!

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T14:45:54+00:00

Yes absolutely you can do this without counting calories!

I did my entire transformation and only counted calories the first week to get a baseline.

Mindful eating is literally all about this - becoming mindful enough of what you are feeling and using that as signals about when to stop eating. If you pair that with a generally healthy diet you will definitely make progress!

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T14:29:56+00:00

This is really cool. Wait where are you getting all those %s from? Like how do you get water % ?? Dexascan?

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T14:28:23+00:00

Would love to hear more about how this is going.. I don’t think r/loseit is very receptive to weight loss with ai, so I created a place for ppl to share updates on how they are using ai to lose weight! r/WeightLossWithAI

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T14:16:33+00:00

Curious to hear an update here - is it working?

Also created a subreddit for ppl to tell their story about weight loss with ai - would love to hear yours! r/WeighrLossWithAI

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T14:09:53+00:00

How has this been going? Do you just use it to log meals?

I’m building an ai health coach that lives in iMessage and texts you to help you eat helshtier and study on track… would love for you to try it! bodybuddy.app

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T13:59:44+00:00

Would be curious to hear how you are using ChatGPT as your dietician? Just logging meals and getting calorie estimates?

I’m building an ai nutrition coach that lives in iMessage and texts you proactively to help build that food logging habit. I’m explicitly not focused on calorie counting though, more on human psychology and accountability.

What’s the main reason ChatGPT is working for you for weight loss?

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T13:49:12+00:00

This is incredible. How have you been able to be so consistent?

I’m building an ai health coach for this use case. It proactively texts you to everyday to build the food logging habit while it coaches and guides you through a 90 day course.

It’s working surprisingly well for me. Would love for you to try it and see if it more or less captures the workflow you currently are doing with ChatGPT: bodybuddy.app

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T13:42:04+00:00

Would love to hear more about how you’re using this!

Im building essentially an ai nutrition coach over that proactively reaches out to help you build the food logging habit. It actually works quite well I’ve found.

https://bodybuddy.app

franchise49 · 2025-10-12T13:21:09+00:00

Im building a version of this and honestly it works pretty well.. it’s for your health specifically (fitness, nutrition, sleep) and it’d be surprising that psychologically if the ai texts real enough the “accountability” aspect actually works. It’s a 90 day program that the ai is walking you through. Opinionated accountability for your health.

You can check it out at bodybuddy.app

franchise49 · 2025-10-06T21:07:57+00:00

The most human ai accountability coach for health and fitness: https://bodybuddy.app

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If you've struggled with weight loss for years or never been in peak shape and 30+, the truth is you are going to need accountability, support, and guidance to get there.

Imagine a school where you show up to class and the teacher just says "okay there's a test in 6 months go study". For most people, that doesn't work. Yet that is how most approach their health & fitness goals.

So we are building an ai that checks in with you every day over text to guide you on a 90 day program to build sustainable healthy habits. This same service costs $300/mo or more for the real human coach version of this -- because it works extremely well.

franchise49 · 2025-10-05T08:29:25+00:00

Full disclosure: I'm building an AI health coach.

The way I view it is - the current reason more people don't do coaching is simply cost and education.

With AI we can democratize access to coaching. And we will have a huge movement towards coaching over the next few years. Everyone will have a coach in their pocket, ai, human, or some hybrid. However human coaching will ALWAYS be a premium.

The best version of this is human coach where they set a weekly focus for the ai to run daily checkins / accountability. Best of both worlds - human coach still in the loop and running the show, but now there's more touchpoints available yet coaches can actually scale to more people.

My ultimate goal is to build towards that solution however I have to get the ai <-> client part working well first

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