"They're made out of... meat."
"Ugly bags of mostly water"
Calories In / Calories Out is a simplification; but one that seems to work for me. I use that concept along with a trend graph of my daily weight (an idea from The Hacker's Diet by John Walker) to help me lose weight (an off-again on-again campaign).
The graphing of weight is to provide feedback of how your diet is going. It is important not to look at each daily weight since that will fluctuate quite a bit. Having a big dinner one night will cause the next morning's weight to be much higher for example - but that is not 'weight gained' - it might just be temporary - your body will shed some of it once it has passed through your system.
To keep track of my weight and graph this trend I have created this Ruby on Rails application.
I hope that this application is useful to others too.
Enjoy.
This application is another in a line of such applications. I have written this in:
- Lisp (with gnuplot for graphing)
- Bourne Shell (again with gnuplot)
- Excel with native graphs.
I offer it with no guarantee nor warranty; and I am not giving you any specific health/diet advice. That is to say: I am not a doctor nor do I even play one on TV. So make your own decisions and take responsibility for your own health.