Point, shoot, logged. A look under the hood at how Erasthetic identifies foods, estimates portions, and returns your macros — fast.
Three seconds is the whole product thesis. Every second beyond that is a second you spend thinking about tracking instead of training.
The first pass segments the plate and identifies each component. A chicken bowl is not one food; it is chicken, rice, avocado and dressing, each needing its own estimate.
Portion size is the hard part. Reference objects in frame — plate rims, cutlery, the bowl itself — anchor the scale.
Macros come back with a confidence score. When we are unsure, we say so rather than quietly guessing. You correct it once and we remember.
Losing fat without losing muscle is a numbers game. Here is the exact deficit, the protein floor, and the refeed cadence we program for a cut that actually holds.
The one-gram-per-pound rule gets you close, but context changes everything. What the research says for cutting, maintaining, and building.
Two of the most popular splits, head to head. Frequency, volume and recovery — and how to pick the one your schedule can actually sustain.