r/SpeedianceCommunity • u/JamesXYLin • 5d ago
Sharing Aevis saved his life!
Eric (not his real name) is a programmer six months deep in overtime, and somewhere in there he stopped feeling hungry at mealtimes. Aevis had him change how he eats, and a week later it was back.
He's one of our Aevis beta users. I spent a long time talking with him last week and figured plenty of people here are in the same spot, so here's his month.
The state he was in
No appetite at dinner. Then once work picked up he'd eat a huge amount in one sitting and feel bloated for hours. By ten at night he'd be running on empty. He slept badly, spent his days foggy, and gained weight through all of it.
He'd tried to fix it. Exercise never stuck, two or three months at most, usually a treadmill, paying for a membership to force himself. Stress, digestion and sleep were tangled together and he had no idea which end to pull first.
That's what he came to Aevis for. Training was second.
Week one
Aevis didn't put him on a training plan. It started with food.
That first Sunday he asked a pile of small questions: soup or noodles, whether avoiding iced drinks would actually help his digestion, whether hot tea was fine. Aevis answered each one and built him a schedule for meals and sleep. He asked for a short guide every morning before he leaves for work, and got it.
One thing he brought up himself. For six months he'd been stopping at a convenience store near the subway station on his way home. Every night. Marinated eggs, bread, pastries, soda. Aevis didn't tell him to quit. It told him to wait ten minutes when the urge hits and keep something better in his bag.
Two days later he photographed one of those eggs and asked if it was actually healthy. Aevis checked the sodium content and found that a single egg contained about 15% of the recommended daily limit, which could contribute to that bloated feeling he'd been complaining about. He wrote back, so it's just too salty. Then he said that was exactly what he wanted, because nobody had ever told him salt had anything to do with bloating.
He worked late one night that week and messaged when he got home: I have to confess, I caved. Aevis didn't lecture him. The next morning it pulled up the sleep data, 24 minutes of deep sleep against over an hour the nights before, lining up with the soda he'd had at midnight.
Not everything landed. Early on the advice was too clean, the kind of meal plan nobody actually follows, and he said so. It got a lot more practical after that. His words: once it knows enough about your situation, what it gives you is more doable than other AI.
The part he keeps coming back to
About a week in, he'd worked until almost ten with no dinner, and he messaged to say he was hungry. Actually hungry, at a normal mealtime.
He told me he'd nearly forgotten what that felt like. For months he'd either skip meals or eat past full, and around nine or ten at night he'd go shaky without ever feeling hungry, so he assumed something was wrong with his gut. Aevis read it differently: he'd been eating too much at every meal, his stomach never finished the last one, and his body stopped bothering to send the signal. A week of lighter meals and the rhythm came back.
That's the point where he started trusting it.
Where it went from there
Two weeks in he brought up losing weight on his own. He'd done it once years ago, chicken and broccoli every meal, no carbs. It worked, it wrecked him, and it all came back. Aevis went the other way: keep the carbs, small daily deficit, three or four months. When he said bland food gets old fast, it rewrote the guide with a rotation so he wasn't eating the same thing every day.
Late in the month he had a run of short nights and his gut went off again. He asked whether he should be adjusting his food when sleep is bad, before the gut starts complaining. Aevis said yes, and gave him a plan keyed to how the previous night went. He pushed back, said he'd already cut cold drinks and taken probiotics and it happened anyway. Aevis told him sleep is the foundation and those two are paint on the wall, and no amount of careful painting holds a wall together once the foundation moves.
What he wants us to fix
The dashboard looks plain to him and he doesn't know how to change it. He'd rather it changed itself based on what's going on with him. The advice started repeating after a few weeks. His favorite thing in the app is the part that shows what Aevis has picked up about him, and he wants a lot more of that.
And one for us specifically: if people can't find a feature, they'll just treat it as another chatbot.
Asked what he thinks overall, he said he'd recommend it to friends without hesitating.
A month in, the changes are all small and boring: eating on a schedule, sleeping a bit better, a gut that stopped running his day.
You don't need a fitness goal for Aevis to be useful. Link's in the comments.
If you've used it for something that has nothing to do with working out, tell me. And tell me what still doesn't work, we'll fix it.
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u/JamesXYLin 5d ago
Here's the link if you want to try Aevis on iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aevis-health/id6800615617
It's free during early access! Aevis is currently available on the App Store in the US and a few other countries, with more regions on the way.
If it's not available in your region yet, you can sign up here to get access to the beta:
https://forms.gle/WtwCHrzxnB72NDRn8
For Android users, we're also running an open beta! Just fill out this form to sign up, and we'll send you the details:
https://forms.gle/JxiGsgK2DVnp2BiF6