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protein requirements
I don't know if I agree with what has been said regarding protein amounts needed, as far as I am aware from a leading Heart specialist vegetarians and animals get their protein from plants. Cattle Sheep etc don't have protein themselves they get it from the grass and plants they eat. The strongest animals in the planet the elephants and the gorilla's and in roman times the gladiators were and are vegetarians. Protein requirements I understand from the many doctors who support a WFPB diet state there has never been anyone who has suffered from a deficiency in protein and that you don't need a lot of vegetable to sustain your daily requirements. Everyone choice I know and I originally thought big chunks of steak were the only source of protein available.
Re: no oil WFPB diet
I don't want to be a party-pooper, but 700 calories, very little protein, to a sedentary 74 years old guy means very little dietary IGF-1 in a context of downtrending IGF-1 and that it's an invitation to sarcopenia or myiopenia, that is, loss of muscle tissue. You are probably loosing significant muscle tissue together with adipose tissue and that may be deleterious in old age. Please refer to the research from the eminent biogerontologist Valter Longo . I would check out this aspect attentively.
Re: no oil WFPB diet
less than 1,000 cals sounds too extreme to me. and i agree with the multi vitamin, being i can't meet my nutritional needs from food for less than 1,300-1,400 cals...
remember biological processes take time, like watching a plant grow in the dirt i wouldn't try and rush it so much...i'd wonder if this would explain why some people get lose skin and others don't, losing weight...
and it sounds like i eat like Susan, WFPB, but about once or twice a month i splurge and get a burger or steak....
Re: Custom categories / Tags
I am also very interested in seeing this feature in the future. The amount of recipes I have into the app is growing, and managing them is getting harder and harder. Being able to use custom tags or ingredient tags would be very helpful, and the calorie filter for custom recipes sounds like a dream. The currently available tags are useless and irrelevant for my type of diet.
Thank you!
Custom categories / Tags
Problem definition
For someone that creates a lot of recipes, there are no way of categorizing them that fit my need. I have problems finding recipes that I know I have created, and I get a lot of irrelevant recipes showing up when I try to find the right recipe to add for a given meal.
Story #1
As a user, I need to be able to assign my recipe to one or more of my custom meal groups, in order to easily find it next time.
(You don't want snacks showing up in your dinner meal group for instance)
Story #2
As a user, I want to be able to customize the category & tags that is available on a recipe or food, because the current list contains a lot of irrelevant categories and items.
(In addition to assign recipes to meal groups, I want to tag/categorize my recipes/foods as diary, fish, bird, red meat. And I want to hide all the default tag/categories because they just add clutter and are not useful)
Story #3
As a user, I want to be able to filter & sort on different meal groups, categories & tags, because that will help me find the recipe I'm looking for much easier, and will also present my meal options in a structured way. For instance, I know I have chicken in the fridge, then I want to see all my recipes that uses chicken as a base.
Story #4
As a user, I want to filter on calories when looking for a recipe, because I have xxx amount of calories left in my calorie goal, and I want to filter for my recipes that fits that calorie goal.
Most of Cronometers competitors, that I've tried, enables you to categorize recipes into meal groups. Fatsecret had this in their free version which I used most recently before Cronometer.
I want some feedback from the Cronometer team if any of the features above is in the backlog, and if not, if they want to put them in the backlog, and if so, how high they will prioritized.
Tracking Veggies
I'm terrible at eating vegetables. It would be nice to be able to track vegetables per day
Re: no oil WFPB diet
YES!!! I'm doing UWL. Recently had a class with Chef AJ...so inspiring! How are you doing....did you start July 14?
Re: Search diary entries for food
The "project" is 15 years old. You get tired of working on the same thing your whole life. I've been there. You're enthusiastic for a period of time, you get wealthy, and then you want to work on something different with your time. Maybe that's not the case, but the weird stuff they're adding while ignoring basic features tells me that's the case here. The creator/developer is working on his 68 mustang and he has some vegan dietitians writing code.
Re: Vegan weight loss
Hello
I am a new vegan (wished I'd done it years ago) and loving it. I have struggled with my weight for the last few years due to menopause and underactive thyroid and faddy diets. I changed to vegetarian in May (to support my young daughter) and then gradually changed to a vegan lifestyle.
I have noticed that what I thought was a wheat intolerance may have been a dairy intolerance as my bloated abdomen has disappeared and I can actually see a difference in my shape which is really encouraging. I do 3 HIIT sessions a week and run once a week and feel like I have a new lease of life.
I just need to make sure I am hitting all my nutrient needs which is why I joined cronometer to see where I am. I need to increase my protein.
Hope to share ideas along the way!
Vegan Friends
I am looking to friend some vegan women cronometer individuals in the hopes of swapping healthy vegan recipes. I just joined and don't know anyone else on cronometer let alone that they are also vegan. Is there anyone who is vegan who would like to share their recipes as I am trying to balance my nutrients and stay within 1400 calories.