My experience

My name is Jasmine, and this project is a response to my ongoing struggle. For a while, I only ate ~950 calories daily, the equivalent of a big mac & fries. This amount is about 27% of the 3400 calories my body needs to stay alive.

This led me to lose about 5 lbs (2.2kg) per week. This number is insane considering the CDC recommends that you loose 1-2lbs.

My experience

Context

Micro/Macronutrients

Macronutrients are a type of nutrient required in large amounts, micronutrients are the opposite. Although you don't need as many micronutrients they are still very important.

These are the physiques of bodybuilders on insane amounts of steroids, these are the people shown to teens. These teens belive that if they work hard they can make their bodies look like this,

Consequences

Insane physiques that are simply unachievable still get shown to hundreds of millions of teenagers.

This leads many to go onto fat loss diets and aggressive mass gain diets. Neither of these options is healthy, and neither of them will get you any closer to a roided-out bodybuilder with godlike genetics.

Aggressive fat loss

Agressive fat loss can have have a lot of consequences, including dizziness, fatigue, abnormal heart rhythm, low blood pressure, and feeling cold all the time. Agressive fat loss phases can also spiral down to the development of an eating disorder.

My Macro Coach

Your personal coach

Thesis

My Macro Coach is the first open-source nutrition tracker with a focus on prevention and recovery from disordered eating. This project uses a no numbers no consequences approach to tracking, backed by a real dietitian for real people. While My Macro Coach doesn't share information with users, it does share it with healthcare providers, giving them the best knowledge of you they can have.

Phase 1

• Interviews with dietitians & possible users
• Wireframes & userflows for UI/UX
• Generating a community

Intreviews

I contacted many sources to get as many interviews as possible, from NuVU Students, to eating disorder organizations and even personal trainers. Some responded, many didn't, but I got very valuable insight from everyone I did talk to.

Phase 2

• Start of app development
• Resources used mapped out
• Databases
• Languages used
• Cultivating a space for developers who want to contribute.

Phase 3

• Stable app version release
• Development of harder features
• Community built plug ins & themes
• Personalized support
• Development of community sourced features

Thank you for listening

My experience

My name is Jasmine, and this rroject is a response to an ongoing struggle I face today

For a while, I was only eating ~950 calories per day, which is about 27% of the 3400 calories my body needs to stay alive.

This led me to lose about 5 lbs (2.2kg) per week. This number is insane considering the CDC recommends that you loose 1-2lbs.

My experience

Micro/Macronutrients

Macronutrients are a type of nutrient required in large amounts, micronutrients are the opposite. Althought you don't need as many micronutrients they are still very important.

This experience happened while I was going to the gym, although just because I was going to the gym when this happened doesn't mean that the gym was harmful.

The Gym

Gym Social Media

Physique inflation

This is Arnold Schwarzenegger on a ton of steroids in the 1970s. He looks huge, but in 2024, his physique is considered mid-tier.

Physique inflation

This is a natural bodybuilder who won the MCR bodybuilding competition. He is the best of the best when it comes to natural bodybuilding. His physique is completely unachievable due to insane genetics. Nobody can recreate this physique through simply hard work.

Consequences

This amount of insane physiques that are simply unachievable but still shown to hundreds of millions of teenagers.

This leads many to go onto fat loss diets and aggressive mass gain diets. Neither of these options is healthy, and neither of them will get you any closer to a roided-out bodybuilder with godlike genetics.

Aggressive fat loss

Agressive fat loss can have have a lot of consequences, including dizziness, fatigue, abnormal heart rhythm, low blood pressure, and feeling cold all the time. Agressive fat loss phases can also lead to the development of an eating disorder.

Intreviews

I contacted many sources to get as many interviews as possible, from NuVU Students, to eating disorder organizations and even personal trainers. Some responded, many didn't, but I got very valuable insight from everyone I did talk to.

My Macro Coach

Your personal coach

App Goals

• Zero numbers, Zero consequences
• Macro & micronutrient tracking
• Grocery list maker
• Nutrition facts every day
• Live updating TDEE that responds to weight gain/loss
• Easy recipe system
• Barcode scanning
• Sleep tracking
• Personalized
• Open source & Free
• Track with your friends
• Easy for healthcare provider to see data

Timeline

Phase 1

• A few goals
• How am I going to achieve these goals
• Userflows
• How I am translating that experiences

Next steps

• Mock-ups for app and user features
• Creation of userflows
• Building a community
• Starting app development

Thank you for listening

Enjoy a healthy meal with enough calories and macronutrients. If you are worried about eating too little or too much, contact a nutritionist.