Many users praised the Claude-built Telegram calorie tracker as a brilliant innovative use case that could replace apps, while others dismissed it as reinventing the wheel and warned against using AI instead of manual weighing with a scale.
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@levelsio Have been doing that as a git repo where each month is just a text file via Claude code for the past 6 months every day and lost 5kg already https://x.com/kurilod/status/2075666422433255829/photo/1
@levelsio PSA: Do not ever use AI to tell you calories. Weigh literally everything for a couple weeks till you figure it out.
@tonyszko @levelsio Do. Not. Use. AI. For Calories. Full stop. Buy a scale. Weigh the food.
@levelsio this is a brilliant use case for Claude Code!
So I am trying to hit a 500 calorie deficit every day + hit my protein goal of about 150g (2g per kg bodyweight), and I used Claude chat for that, but after a week it starts losing track so I asked it to export its data as CSV and copy pasted that into Claude Code on the VPS And asked it to build a little calorie tracker called 🥩Caltrack with a Telegram bot too, so I can log whatever I eat or drink in there either via Telegram or if I want more granular via Termius SSH on the VPS I like to do this mix of Claude Code and a dashboard/chatbot because you can ask more deep questions to it like "how am I doing", "what to improve" etc. it's just much smarter and "able" on the server than the Claude chat app by itself Anyway my goal is to get @marclou levels of body fat, which is LOW, right now we're strong and lean but we can be leaner, let's try 😊😊😊 80% of body fat is decided by what you eat, only 20% what you exercise, some say even 90% vs 10%, I agree, I eat very clean but I was mostly staying on maintenance Silly calorie dense food like yogurt with low protein, taste nice but it gets you away from your calorie deficit fast, and to figure that out you kinda really gotta track things Other people suggest crash diets like eat only sardines, we know from studies though that crash diets are temporary, you just gain it back Claude says the ideal is just 500 calories deficit per day and hit your 2g/kg protein goal and you maintain muscle and reduce body fat! So I'm doing that And this app I made helps a lot!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!
Oh I forgot to add so it scans the photos you take of food and uses xAI Grok 4 vision to calculate it
Many users praised the Claude-built Telegram calorie tracker as a brilliant innovative use case that could replace apps, while others dismissed it as reinventing the wheel and warned against using AI instead of manual weighing with a scale.
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