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If this really works, consistently (i.e. within some reasonable margin of error), Fitbit should buy this intellectual property immediately and promote it as a w

If this really works, consistently (i.e. within some reasonable margin of error), Fitbit should buy this intellectual property immediately and promote it as a way to make calorie-intake tracking dead simple. For myself, and for many others, calorie-intake tracking was/is one of the last hurdles jumped before weight loss/maintenance efforts really achieve great effect. It's such a pain (time-consuming, tedious) to do it manually, especially if you have any reasonable amount of variety in your diet.

m_ke 10y ago
> For myself, and for many others, calorie-intake tracking was/is one of the last hurdles jumped before weight loss/maintenance efforts really achieve great effect. It's such a pain (time-consuming, tedious) to do it manually, especially if you have any reasonable amount of variety in your diet. That's one of the main reasons why we ended up working on this. I was pretty overweight as a teenager and lost over 60lbs in one Summer by really paying attention to what I ate (and exercising). I tried using a few of the calorie counting apps but they felt like a chore and really nudged me to use packaged products since I could scan the barcode to log them.