Carolina Calories

I’m sure the app developer is well-meaning. But let’s be real, he created this project not because he has any training or background in health, but because he wants to pad his resume. That would be fine, if he had not chosen to promote diet culture, which the vast preponderance of evidence shows is NOT conducive to better health. An app like this promotes obsessive calorie counting, which is really only appropriate for very, very specific populations. I would like to share my personal story. I never actually used this app but a friend did and even just with that, it absolutely fueled my eating disorder relapse. I just spent 3 months at a residential treatment center, working on restoring my weight from a BMI of 12 to 19. It’s been hell. I had to skip spring semester because of being in treatment. Again, I’m sure this project is well meaning but the developer needs to learn some humility and choose a field he actually knows something about.

This is an amazing and very useful app. I just have a few suggestions to improve it, first if you could select multiple menu items to add at a time without having to go back into the menu each time it would save a lot of time, also it treats all sugar the same so if the app could consider natural vs added sugar that would be amazing, currently a bowl of grapes will fill half of my daily sugar