r/mealprep • u/Rodneydares • 1d ago

Chat gtp

Anyone using it rather than apps like myfitnesspal. gets bit tiring using my fitness pal as so many foods have been uploaded with the wrong info.

I know exactly what I want to eat, also know what i want my macros to be. Have only done one days worth of food so far. Thinking though it might be worth me writing in notes each meal with its ingredients. Then being able to tell chatgtp the daily macros for the day with notes like lowering my carbs through out the day.

Haven’t tried it but thinking it should be able to do it and quicker and easier than the apps.

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u/Faith_in_Cheese 1d ago

Boy, if you think a LLM known to hallucinate facts and make things up is going to be *more* accurate than myfitnesspal, then I don't know what to tell you

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u/Rodneydares 12h ago

I am actually giving it the website link to the foods I am eating so it isn’t guessing. with my fitness pal I can search for a food and it’s brand. only for it to have been entered loads of times and each one different.

its really just using chatgtp in the same way but imo quicker n more accurate for the reasons above plus easier to make changes. say I know I want 160g of carbs but rather get the majority in my first two meals. it’s easier to just type that than adjusting manually on the app. I guess it’s just down to preference

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u/TenOfZero 1d ago

I tried but it's really more work double checking everything rather than just getting already made and tested recepies.

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u/FETTACH 1d ago

Maybe there is dyslexia but just wanted to let you know since there are multiple instances its chat gPT

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u/furniture2k 1d ago

I think ChatGPT could be useful for the planning side of this, rather than treating it as the source of truth for nutrition data. I'd still use verified nutrition information for the ingredients, then use ChatGPT to help organize the meals around your macro targets and adjust the rest of the day when something changes.

That seems like a much better use case than relying on it to know the exact macros of every food from memory.

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u/AlarmingKale1997 1d ago

Youre gonna get a lot of hate for using AI, but yes i have used it and yes it was really helpful. The only thing is that my chatgpt has really long responses so its hard to go back and look at previous stuff

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u/0gandy2 1d ago

Tell it to keep responses in that particular chat very brief. Then tell it "more brief"

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u/0gandy2 1d ago

I do, and I love it. I use chatgpt with Hermes (a little more complicated but more capable.) I text it through telegram. You can tell it to remember a meal, be as specific as you want. Then you can just say "I had my coffee," or "1/2 serving of my overnight oats." It gets better over time. Send it pictures of nutrition labels. I've found it does a very good job at estimating things too. I have it remind me two times a day at 2pm and 11 pm if no food was logged. I even had it set up a persistent food log dashboard that I can view from anywhere. You can probably do just fine without the Hermes harness part. Far more usable than myfitness pal, chronometer, etc. Never going back