(newbitryinghard, you inspired this)
I am planning writing an excel spreadsheet that calculates all of your daily caloric needs based on your input body weight, BFP and # diaily meals, and can break them down into cals per meals, and macros per meals. I dont think anything like this exists on Tmag or, at least, is readily available. What I need is a list of the diets people would want on something like this. I have Dont Diet, Massive Eating, Cheaters Diet.
Anything else?
Sounds like a good idea. Not that it’s totally unheard of. How about adding T-dawg 2.0 as well?
/Jacob
It’s an interesting intellectual exercise, but I’m not positive it’s worth the time. In my experience, careful calculations are often off by as much as 800 calories per day in either direction, and they’re sometimes off by more than that. Any calculation a spreadsheet or a formula gives is just going to be a ballpark figure, meaning that you still have to keep your food log, weigh yourself, etc. to figure out how many calories you actually need on a daily basis.
How about a CKD or TKD ?
hmm, interesting point Chris, how bout I throw in a weight and BFP chart, that way you can track your increase and decrease in body mass, lbm, and BFP over the course of a diet. You will then be able to see trends as to how well you are gaining or cutting, and in effect, how well the diet is working for you. I guess you would also easily be able to compare different diets on the same chart. also be able to tweak the cals, as you suggested, if your slope isnt as steep (or in the right direction) as you had hoped.
Also, the point of this is to easily calculate your new caloric requirements as you obtain new BFP and weight msmts. instead of breaking out the trusty calculator, forgetting to carry the remainder, you jsut type in weight, bfp, and you get your caloric ‘guidelines’.
I hope this seems like a useful tool, rather than an exercise in macro programming.
Phatman . … . Im on it.
Let me second the vote for T-dawg 2.0…
That would rock, seeing how I just started it a bit ago.
B.
Jodgey-
As re-described, it at least sounds interesting enough to play around with. I’d definitely be interested in playing with it when you put it together. My big worries basically were the lack of tracking and the difficulty of optimizing things for specific individuals. I’m not sure that this will answer it completely, but it should be fun to try out.
WOW…sounds awesome! My vote goes towards T-Dawg 2.0. Can’t wait to see the final product. You are going to share it with us right…haha!
I have finished the TDawg 2 version. I have never done that diet, so if someone who has could check it out, and point out some stuff I may have missed. or jsut give me some pointers to make it a more powerful tool. I have started a data base on another sheet that you can punch in you qnty of each item in your often eaten list of foods, and it calcs your macros and percentages for each meal as well as daily totals. but that part is still sloppy, so we will just run with the part that calcs your daily caloric needs and the part that trends your BM gains and losses.
Just PM me, and I will email it to you. . . You need MS Excel (I saved it in office XP, but I can save it to your version of office).
Thanks guys.
Tim
While you are at it add a feature that makes your meals for you and burns off 1 lb of fat a day.
Thanks!
deezledog, already working on that. Also, the handjob attachment should be out early next week.
Like Foodworks
Glad to hear I contributed to something here, even if not directly. 