About this website
Calorie Trainer is a recipe and diet tracking webapp. Where it differs from the billion other recipe and diet tracking webapps is that it's for people who are serious about their nutrition, e.g. bodybuilders, fitness fanatics, people having trouble losing weight, etc.
The simple premise that Calorie Trainer makes is that all ingredients, all recipes, all consummation of food must be measured. Why? Because calories count when you're trying to get into competition shape or lose those last 10 lbs, and you need to know exactly how many calories (and macronutrients) are in that recipe that you just ate.
I wasn't satisfied with other recipe and dieting sites because they weren't precise enough. When I look at a recipe, I want to see the calories/macros of each serving. I want to see the calories/macros of each ingredient! I want to be able to change the serving size at will and see how all the calories and macros adjust.
When I eat an ingredient or recipe, I want to be able to say, "I ate 4 oz of grilled chicken" or "I ate 100 grams of oatmeal pancakes," regardless of what the "serving size" is for each of those.
This site is in BETA
I am not a company, I'm just a dude (with a passion for fitness). I made this site for myself (but I do hope other people find it useful). I rushed it out the door so I could start using it, thus it is very rough around the edges. Expect some bugs and missing features for a while, but please don't get discouraged from using it. Please post a comment on the site's blog or email me directly if you encounter any problems.
More to come!
I want to finish up the three main features of the app within a couple of months. The are...
- Creating ingredients
- Creating recipes out of ingredients
- Tracking quantities of consumed recipes and/or ingredients
After that I want to add the usual social aspects of any modern website, like some of the following...
- Commenting on ingredients and recipes
- Rating ingredients and recipes
- User profiles
- Tracking friends (so you can get notifications when they create recipes, etc)
- Integration with food databases like CalorieKing
But that's all a ways off.
About me
I've been into working out most of my life, but I've never really been in shape. The best I got was about 14% body fat at the end of college and that was using some questionable "supplements." After college, I started my career as a software developer (so I have no excuse if this site stinks, ha!). It's a pretty sedentary job and my body fat % steadily rose to about 16%, which is considered technically overweight.
After seeing one too many pictures of myself at the beach, I decided to make a genuine effort to get in shape... legitimately this time! I read Tom Venuto's e-book and off I went. I dropped 6% body fat in two and half months. That's when I developed my obsession for counting calories and weighing food.