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Re: Eating less calories but still gaining weight?
To follow-up on what Susan said, it appears at 1800 calories you are eating far below your BMR - in my experience this can definitely back fire - not just by having you body hold on to weight but also by making you excessively, and almost irresistibly hungry. I would second Susan about eating you BMR.
Use Cronometer the way it was designed and trust it...it says you can eat 768 more calories to get to your weight goal...so do it. I have been doing it - following those numbers fairly closely, always eating my BMR and eating the calories it says I have to eat to hit my deficit of 999 for a two pound loss per week and I have just about averaged that over the course of a year and 1/2 to the tune of 130lbs lost, easily too - without excess hunger, etc.
It sounds weird, but you just need to eat more to fuel your body and lose weight.
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
I'm a new gold user, but adding a recipe import feature would be huge. 90% of what I eat is a recipe. The idea of typing 30 or 40 recipes in is overwhelming. Realplans.com (meal planning service) is a perfect example of how to do this. You can literally copy/paste a a recipe, and realplans is smart enough to parse it out, including the measurements.
I understand it would be difficult to support every format/service, but even if you could provide an import template (for food, biometrics, ....), that would be a significant time saver.
Re: Cronometer's Got a Fresh New Look
Hate the new design, because lines take more space, and suddenly everything is more scrolling up-down to see my day. Not only the diary entry lines and needlessly large vertically (with text still being small, just too much white space), but also many long food descriptions which previously fitted on one line, now take up 2 lines! Hate scrolling, does anyone like scrolling?
Other Languages?
Hello,
I've discovered this site/app today and I am blown away, I've always dreamed of pretty much exactly this, an app where I put in what I ate and which tells me then green or red.
But none of the people I showed this app know English well enough to use it, are there any plans to translate the app to German or Polish?
Keep up the good work, very useful 
chilly
no oil WFPB diet
Are their people here following a no oil (added) whole food plant based diet such as Caldwell Esselstyn's or China Study diet?
StephenE
Feature Request: Ability to See Nutrient Breakdown Ingredient by Ingredient In Recipes
I have added a few recipes from external sites (like minimalist baker etc). Over time I have tweaked these recipes so that I get the composition of nutrients that is right for me. It all works fine. However the way that I have to go about doing it in cronometer is awkward.
For example, for a given recipe I know the amount of fat per serving. However, I cannot see which ingredients contribute to the fat in a recipe directly on the recipe page. Instead I have to copy the ingredients to my diary where I can see the breakdown -- which partially defeats the purpose of typing in the recipe. Can you please add the ability to see recipe nutrient breakdown ingredient by ingredient ?
SKI
Omega 3 - Please split EPA DHA!
Hey there, I had been eating chia seeds and I was happily watching my Omega 3 levels reach the targets on my chronometer app. After 1 year of false satisfaction I have learned that chia seeds actually have almost none of the necessary EPA & DHA and I was fooling my self.
Please extend Omega 3 to include EPA & DHA sub-levels?
dmskn
Re: Omega 3 - Please split EPA DHA!
Hi dmskn,
Thanks for the suggestion - we would like to include this data in the future.
Not all is lost! ALA is an essential fatty acid, so you are still doing your body good by consuming chia seeds. Some ALA will also be metabolized to EPA & DHA.
To learn more about omega-3 fatty acids take a look at this blog post, written by Dietitian @Susan_RD_101
https://cronometer.com/blog/understanding-cronometers-nutrient-ratios/
Best,
Beta Program Update 6/6/19
Hi Everyone,
First I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for all the time you took to give us feedback on the beta builds of the app. The issues and insights you shared helped our release process go much smoother than if we had done it alone. The team and I really appreciate it.
I also wanted to give everyone an update on the beta program and share a bit about what to expect in the future. We are wrapping up the release of the new app to the general public, and you probably noticed that we have not pushed new beta builds as frequently. This is not the end, in fact you all have been so helpful that want to keep building our beta community, so if you know anyone who wants in on the action, just tell the to send me a mail at [email protected] with the following information:
- Your Name
- Your Cronometer account email.
- Your Apple ID email OR you Google Play Account Email<- so we can flag you as a beta tester and give you access to the app.
- Your Cronometer account status, i.e. Gold subscriber, Free, or paid app.
- Your device i.e. iPhone 7, Samsung Galaxy, etc.
- The device's OS version.
Now for the fun part! We are going to focus more on user facing features now that the app has been re-built from the ground up, and all of you are going to get early access. Keep an eye out for a new build some time next week with a few brand new features. I’ll post an update once we get the release out to give you an idea of what is in the build. As always, we truly appreciate any and all feedback you are willing to share with us.
Cheers,
Spencer
SpencerD
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
I love this, but it's such a drawback that you can't import recipes from a URL as you can with recipe management systems like Paprika. I see that I'm not the only one that feels that way, but just wanted to add my voice to the chorus.
