Lukas Gregor It can lead you to try to lose extra kilos, or you are simply interested in what you put into yourself during your life. It's about food and how to motivate yourself to have a more interesting and healthy diet without necessarily running around the kitchen or store with calorie charts and a calculator.
I also tried the "calculating" strategy, but somehow I didn't enjoy it. And in addition - not everyone will confirm that controlling calories necessarily leads to better fitness and a balanced diet. Application authors The Eatery they chose a different concept. Much "simpler" - in short, you keep a diary and rate the level of healthiness of your food based purely on your feelings. No calculations - just your gut feeling. I discovered that this is the way to go. While with the calculator I feel like a programmed robot, with Eatery I simply tried to have a good impression of my eating. And not only from how the food actually is/isn't healthy, but also how it looks on the plate, how I liked it, how much I put on it and last but not least - with Eatery I very quickly got an idea of whether I was actually eating variegated or I'm just making it up in my mind.
The principle is therefore simple - you start the application (the start could be faster), take a picture of the food and use the stars on the FAT-FIT axis to rate it. Your location is automatically added to the food, which can be disabled or modified, the point is to get data on the locations where (and how) you eat. I definitely recommend marking the portion size when entering food. You don't have to worry about this whole process causing your lunch to go cold, although… people around you will probably notice that you're somehow suspiciously conjuring your mobile over your plate.
Now it's up to you whether this information will be completely private to you or you will simply connect with the world (other users of the application/service). Advantage? Even if you don't know others - and have been linked to them as 'friends' within the service - other people can also rate your food. Yes, it tends to be quite subjective, and while you may judge based on the actual portion in front of you, others may only judge based on the photo. Therefore, it will not hurt if, in addition to the portion, you enter the name or the basic ingredients when entering the food. Ideally in English of course. I would recommend using keywords rather - but if there are any specific features (e.g. ORGANIC, sugar-free, vegan...) definitely mention them.
Such food then takes on a life of its own in the network of this service - it lands on people's screens in the "feed", they rate it, and your daily/weekly statistics are adjusted accordingly - a graph that also nicely compares your status with the previous week.
I really like the concept. The app doesn't force you to connect with someone directly (which you can - so you get information about your friends' meals in your notifications) and you don't even have to visit a subscription and rate other users' meals. The catch of this global strategy is knowing that everyone perceives the term "healthy food" differently. Some may include the feel of the food's appearance, others may want to intentionally screw up your stats - but then again, why would they? The FAT-FIT evaluation axis itself is already problematic, because if we were meticulous, fetus – according to various researches, fat does not necessarily lead to obesity, see, for example, the so-called paleo diet, which relies on fat intake, but on limiting carbohydrates. However, it didn't happen very often to me personally, when I once tried to practice this diet, that, for example, someone evaluated my four-egg breakfast in a negative way.
The app is supposed to serve as such a diary, you collect data, the service then takes care of statistics - weekly, which will evaluate your best food, worst food, also places where you ate better, where else. I have been collecting data for more than a month and the report is really useful, that's why The Eatery I also recommend it to those who do not need to watch their diet, in short, they are only interested in what they eat, how often and when during the day. The user interface is nice, adding food is easy, gestures are also used (the amount on the plate), but the agility was not quite ideal for me.
I have a shadow of doubt about the development - it doesn't seem to me that the application is updated very often, although honestly I have to add that I can't think of any flaws and I never she didn't fall.
Official site: MassiveHealth.com
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It looks interesting… although I really often feel like a troll when taking pictures of food in a restaurant :D and that's without The Eatery yet
Yes, I'm already joking about it :) After all, it's really exotic. In addition, some Czech dishes need to be named in English, because they are atypical. The only thing that matters is that someone else will rate it for you, not you yourself. And when I evaluate the others out of boredom, there is quite often some greasy bag with an inscription in the front, and that doesn't say much :-D
Somehow I missed the first sentence there, for an exotic, because the others take their utensils and start making sure, and exotics and eaters take pictures with a flash and come up with an English description :D in a canteen it's fine, it's worse at a communal dinner :D