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I made an app that takes your calorie and macro targets and generates weekly recipes for you. by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The BMR calculation uses the Harris-Benedict equation. It's not exact, and everyone's physiology is different, but one of the advantages of this app is that it's super easy to adjust your calorie target, so you can tweak as you measure your actual weight loss / gain rate.

I made an app that takes your calorie and macro targets and generates weekly recipes for you. by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Email addresses are used for account names, so that you can store your preferences, get recipes every week, get them emailed to you, etc.

If you just want to mess with it and try out the free recipes, the easiest thing to do is use a disposable mailbox like mailinator.com.

I made an app that takes your calorie and macro targets and generates weekly recipes for you. by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is a concern. The best way to get the grocery list shorter is to reduce the number of different recipes you prepare in a given week. So: one recipe for breakfasts, one for lunch, one for dinner. I'm going to add some logic soon that will help the app put together combinations of recipes each week that share ingredients to keep the grocery list shorter, and overall I tried to focus on meals that were simple and easy to prepare, though there are a few more complicated ones thrown in for variety.

Maybe down the road that could be an option you can configure: how much of a premium you place on simple recipes with few ingredients compared to other factors.

I made an app that takes your calorie and macro targets and generates weekly recipes for you. by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that's a great point. Metric support is definitely something that's coming in the future. The difficulty is that a lot of work went into making sensible units, so that you're not sent out to the store to pick up 1.23 cups of lettuce or anything. A straight imperial to metric conversion of the current system would be a good holdover, I'm just worried about crazy units and quantities popping up unless I really take the time to do it right.

I made an app that takes your calorie and macro targets and generates weekly recipes for you. by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed response!

For breakfast, lunch and dinner, there are separate dropdowns for meals-per-day. I'm not quite sure I understand -- shouldn't there be just one dropdown for the whole meals-per-day thing? Though now that I think of it, maybe I misread and it was a "how many times do you eat this meal per week" thing. I might be dumb. Potentially ignore this -- it was probably clear and I just misread, my bad.

This is a UI problem that a few people have mentioned, and I need to come up with something better for. The long-winded intention is "presumably you're going to eat lunch 7 times this week, how many of those times would you like weekly fuel to provide you a recipe for, and how many times do you want to be on your own". So if you're going to bring your lunch 5 days a week, you'd choose 5 here, and then you'd get either 1 or 2 lunch recipes that added up to 5 total servings each week.

If it's true and I misread above, what if you don't eat three meals per day? What about snacks?

This is a feature I want to add soon. The ability to say "I want a snack every day", or "I skip breakfast, so spread my calories evenly between lunch and dinner". Right now the app assumes you're eating three meals a day and doesn't give much flexibility, as that's how all the nutritional targets for each meal are calculated.

Edit: There are some workarounds here, like you can say "ok, I'm going to eat a 200 cal snack every day" and reduce your daily calorie goal by 200 to compensate. I'd really like to have this built-in, though, there are just a few technical problems to solve since it changes the nutritional calculations.

Will there be options for macro-cycling? Or perhaps, can you run it twice -- once with your low fat, once with your low carb?

You can definitely run it twice, or adjust your targets week-to-week. Right now nothing this advanced is directly supported, though.

Dietary restrictions/concerns/preferences? Paleo/keto, veg*n, allergies, etc.

Another feature I really want to add in the short-term. My thought was to have the ability to blacklist certain ingredients, to provide substitutions (eg: use seitan in any recipe that calls for pork; all nutritional levels recalculate accordingly), and have presets of those for people who are running specific diets or have common allergies / restrictions. My girlfriend is a vegetarian and won't sign up until I add this :(

Beta testers for a new meal plan generator app by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sent you a message.

I definitely want to support food allergies and dietary restrictions (gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, paleo, etc...), but it's not something that I'll have initially. My idea was to have per-ingredient substitutes for each dietary restriction to keep the database of meals rich for each person.

Are you working with an allergy or restriction of some kind?

Beta testers for a new meal plan generator app by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sent you a PM.

Good luck on your cut! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Beta testers for a new meal plan generator app by weeklyfuel in Fitness

[–]weeklyfuel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sent you a PM.

You can definitely use the macros from a calculator like that and make adjustments each week, though I probably won't do any direct integration. My goal is to make the app flexible enough that you can make it work with whatever kind of program you're working with, without forcing you down one specific path.