I mean the thing is I suppose it’s opening up a way for you to be able to get as close to counting calories as possible!! And I’ve known many people who really struggle with anything to do with it so even the effort to take the photos and ‘eyeball’ in this way is brilliant if it’s enabling that for you. Would just worry lots on someone fully relying on it as I know AI can hallucinate and get itself a bit ‘confused’ sometimes. I’ll be honest it’s a bit different but when I began my journey I didn’t weigh anything, due to how much I had to lose I had much more leeway to have errors and whilst I was tracking, it probably wasn’t always completely to the point. But, there’s no way I’d have done it at all weighing everything at that point, whereas two years on I now am able to and it was all part of that journey! If you’re losing I’m sure you’re doing something right, just maybe keep in mind if things seem to slow down or anything it may need tightening up with the guesstimates. Sorry if that’s unsolicited advice!

Mostly came up with it myself, but it grew out of how I already work. I run a ton of automations professionally. Instead of manually doing the same exports, formatting, cleanup, reporting, etc. over and over, I increasingly use AI to handle the repetitive parts and get me to the useful data faster. This is basically the same idea applied to weight loss. I've always been disciplined about exercise. I like working out, I get my steps in, and I go for walks throughout the day whether it's raining, freezing, or hot as hell. Exercise has also been great for my mental health. The missing piece was food. I'd been tracking my morning weight for a long time and it basically hovered in the same range. I started using ChatGPT for simple questions like "roughly how many calories is this?" and quickly discovered that some foods I thought were relatively harmless were absolute calorie bombs. Over a few weeks that turned into logging basically everything I eat. I give it portion weights, ingredients, restaurant meals, recipes, etc. I also give it my workouts, steps, and morning weight. Now I'm slowly automating the boring parts. My workouts are logged in one worksheet. My steps feed into another. ChatGPT can read those and compile everything into my calorie tracker. I started with a more pessimistic model, but then I thought I needed the more "realistic/middle" estimate to keep it honest. The goal is to keep both models in a deficit, and then the scale is the final proof of both models. So far, it's working. The scale is moving down, roughly 1lb per week since I began tracking this way. I'm 6'2", male, SW around 230, CW 223, GW around 210. So far it's been incredibly useful for keeping me honest. If I'm craving whiskey or dessert, I can tell it what I want, it can look at what I've eaten and done that day, and basically say either "yeah, that fits in your current deficit" or "do you actually want this enough to blow the deficit?" It's also great when eating out. I can gi...