If you've used MyFitnessPal or any other kind of food logging app, you'd know that it can be daunting to log every single thing you eat. And if you've tried to follow diets to lose weight or build muscle, you'd know that there are so many strategies and that implementing them takes a lot of work and time especially when you take on the impossible task of finding adequate recipes and organizing them in a way that makes sense. Having lived through both scenarios, I am completely drawn to Eat This Much's concept.

Instead of painstakingly logging what you ate and discovering at the end of the day that you didn't meet your goal, or browsing through thousands of recipes trying to find the ones that seem to fit your goal, you just tell Eat This Much what your dietary preference and fitness goals are, and it uses its smarts to automate everything and take the guesswork out of meal planning. And you're not bound by what the app suggests: you can add your preferred restaurants, disliked foods and allergies, eating styles (mediterranean, paleo, vegetarian, etc), homemade recipes, and let the app manage those restrictions to improve its suggestions. There's a description of how it all works on Eat This Much's website.

The free option generates a daily meal plan whereas the paid $8.99/month Premium account gives you weekly meals, a grocery list, multiple family member support, manual changes if you deviate from the plan, pantry tracking, and variable goals for each day (such as in carb cycling diets).

Eat This Much has been available on Android for about a week, but it just got on our radar. It might not be everyone's cup of tea but I know that I'll be giving it a go to see if I can get along with it.

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