For a class project (which I plan to take out of the classroom), I’m working on designing an app that helps people become aware of their dietary patterns and improve their diet while focusing on practicality and de-emphasizing calorie counting.
It really should not take any longer than 5 minutes to fill out and it is designed to be completely anonymous. I would greatly appreciate it if you could fill this out and share it with people who are outside the of the Quantified Self community to help me diversify my sample.
I have not yet read or completed your survey. I was curious if you’ve read Burn. Calories are the main driver of weight loss, maintenance, or gain. Not being a nutrition researcher I did not know the extent to which the body compensates with exercise, or rather the implications that exercise is not the driver of weight loss it is sold to be. What philosophy undermines your work?
Hey, sorry for the delay in response. I have not read that book but thanks for sharing about it; I should check it out. I think the philosophy underlying this particular project was the idea that people tend to look for and be interested in simple solutions. There’s a good amount of research suggesting that ultra-processed foods lead to increased calorie consumption, which drives weight-gain, so I’m sort of focused on how we can help people reduce ultra-processed food consumption so as to more easily enable weight loss and improve health in a fairly simple way.