Welcome to the tweet trends podcast. Hey, what's trending today? Hey, I mean, hey girl And you are doing the tweet trends is the quickest way to find out what's trending today Hey there. Welcome back to tweet trends So it's July JU LA I and we're speaking with a beam of AI and this time today I want to talk about trying to lose weight using AI, you know I feel like this is the best way that you can kind of find ways to cut corners as far as saving money and time Because you don't always have to go to the gym You don't always have to do all of the things and so I actually look that for apps all of them aren't 100% AI or majority AI But they use a little bit here and there to kind of give you feedback and One that in my opinion doesn't really use AI at all however, I want to mention it because it's one of my favorites because you can do a little bit of everything with it and That app is called fit on if you have not tried fit on You don't know what you're missing out on and it's free You hear me if you want to be fancy and you want to get the music to go along with the workout You can do that by all means do you boo?
But you don't have to go that route you can get the free version you can get meditations You can get yoga hit even things that I've never even heard of before I'm like what is that they just made that up with really check it out fit on FIT O and fit on anyway The other apps that I want to talk to you about Lumen drink water and simple now there is one other than I want to talk about my fitness pal that one to me Doesn't use a whole lot of AI they do some kind of estimations and I don't know if that's more with a type of algorithm a calculation that they use they'll say okay if you submit each one of your meals only back up so in my fitness pal you put your meals in what you've been eating if you've been drinking water you put it in there and at the end of the Day you can submit it and it'll tell you okay if you keep eating like this for the next however long then you'll weigh this much Well, that's kind of you know Encouraging because if you feel like you've been struggling for the longest and as somebody tells you hey What you did today if you continue that you're gonna make some progress you'd be like what oh my gosh And so I like that about the my fitness pal there was a point in time I don't know if it was free or if I paid for it for a little while where you could scan the barcode on the foods That you were eating and it would pull the nutrition information from it So you didn't have to put it in there But if you had the free version you do have to put those in individually and it can be a bit of a pain But it's free so stop complaining now those other three apps though. I'm gonna start with Lumen Lumen is not a free app and actually Lumen comes with a little device. It looks like of a type thing you You start you breathe in through it you hold your breath for 10 seconds And then you breathe out through it and what it's supposed to be doing is supposedly it is checking the levels of CO2 in your breath And by doing that it can tell you if you are burning more fat or if you're burning carbs And then it will give you an idea of how you should structure your day as far as What type of meals you should have now granted? I have only had one type of result and that is a low carb day Every day is a low carb day And when you start putting the foods in that you eat into this app you quickly realize that where you thought maybe you didn't eat that many Carbs you really eat a whole lot of carbs in a day and it helps you to be a little bit more mindful when you're making your selections So I decided you know, I'm not gonna eat as much bread because we know bread spreads So let's cut back on the bread babe and let's come up with some other alternatives I found a pizza crust that's not Flour and water, you know, it's homemade.
I've even found some zero calorie cloud bread on TikTok I haven't been able to make it like those people make it so I don't know what I'm doing wrong But I'm gonna keep trying because I want to actually test it out and see if it's actually worth the time and effort to make this bread But going back to Lumen Lumen has a lot of AI in it where it tells you things like Okay So we're looking at your nutrition. We're looking at your movement because I have it all set up with my Apple watch and everything so it gets my steps and my my activity as well and so it gives me information and tells me different things and I like that it gives me recommendations. Let's put it that way What I don't like is that like honestly still I don't know what I'm doing wrong Why I'm they have a scale from one to five So one is the fat burning side five is the carb burning side and then as you get to three in the middle three is the burning some fat burning some carbs level and so I Don't know what I'm doing That I'm not getting more burning on the fat side. I'm usually three three or four very rarely have I been a two I've never been a one I think I've been a five a couple of times recently and so for me I think what I'm gonna start doing is although I'm logging it in the app I also want to log in on paper so that I can look at it side to side and be like okay I did this and when I breathe through it I came up with this and when I did here this was the case and when I did here this was the case and now let's compare in contrast To see if we can figure out how do I get to the fat burning side more than the carb burning side?
So just saying so that's lumen Now drink water I found that app Because through the lumen and the third one that I'm gonna talk about they want you to drink fluids They tell you how much to drink in a day And so in the drink water app is kind of shape of a little person and the more you drink it fills up the water in the person's body And it then you know it kind of gives you reminders like hey, you should drink some water right now I think that's great because sometimes I don't remember to drink water is just it is what it is I don't remember I get caught up in what I'm doing and because the water is not there with me then I Don't end up drinking water what I found though that has helped is that if I have One or two containers that combined equals the total amount of water that I should be drinking and then I have one for the morning And one for the evening then I've been reaching my goal since I started doing that when I was just trying to do it Just all willy-nilly grabbing a couple water here there everywhere. I was not coming anywhere close I wasn't even in the halfway mark. So that's a little tidbit for you that was on the house completely free So use a container and then that I think it's gonna make it way easier for you But you have to carry the container with you don't make the container leave without it And then you're gonna come back at nine o'clock at night and gonna drink 89 ounces of water before you go to bed Not a good idea The last app is called simple now. I really really really really really like simple You to use simple you go you Put in your your goal weight and then you log your meals in you log your water in And simple probably uses the most AI because it has like a coach in it that talks to you And if you didn't do well reaching a goal, it's gonna ask you hey Why do you think that you didn't reach your goal like in the beginning?
It was saying that to me about my water So what do you think you could do differently and you know I was getting attitude with the thing and even when you get an attitude with the AI He's not like oh I understand it's okay, you know Just try to maybe do this try that, you know, and even on times when I had an excuse for the things It was saying to try I put it in there like well I would have but I wasn't at home and then it's like well Maybe you can see if you can leave a bottle at work and then have one at home And then that way you can still get your water and take it. I'm like, okay So you're just not gonna let up on me I get it I know these are just excuses, but with simple it does that for you and when you log in your meals It has a little scale where it'll tell you was was this meal combination a good one or could you done a little bit better? And it'll give you suggestions. It'll give you meal suggestions if if you're doing intermittent fasting It will track your fasting for you and tell you you can set the clock for how long you want to pass And then it'll tell you okay at this time you end your fast and it'll ask you hey How did you feel while you were fasting and are you feeling snacky?
Would you like some suggestions on snacks that would be good for you? And I really really like simple one because it was free Well, let me not say one because it was free that sounds like I'm really cheap but one because it gives you good information and because it's free that right there is like the kicker for the simple and you know it really When it has a little sunshine and it looks all happy because I created a meal that was like really good, you know Low and saturated fat low and sugar high in fiber, you know high in protein, you know these everything's I'm like Oh gosh, I did great And you know and it makes you feel good it makes you want to then try to put together another good meal to then see Oh, I wonder how this one is gonna get rated and there are times that I thought I had a good one And then it'll come back and say you know it was good But it was going fiber, you know You could have gone a little bit higher in fiber on that one and then sometimes you just plain old Not so much that you need a cheat day or a cheat meal But sometimes where you are and what you've got going on you can't get anything better than what you have and rather than not You can get a headache and just have a miserable day you grab something and you know that in the next meal the next day Whatever you're gonna do better. So Simple out of the ones that I'm talking about was by far my favorite Lumen you have to pay for so I don't even want to put it in the ranking Drink water I'd use as a supplement to what I was using just to try to make sure I could try to get the water in So getting the reminders to drink. I love that and then the my fitness pile I've been using that one for quite some time now Now the drawback to using four apps to try to create some better habits is that I have to put my meals in each One of them now one of them I think it might be lumen has the barcode reader But if I'm scanning a barcode reader that means I'm not eating something as organic as I should be I'm not eating fresh fruit and vegetables because I'm scanning a barcode that means it's probably more processed than anything else And so it's kind of good that I can't scan some of the stuff because you want to be eating better to have better health Not just to lose weight and be eating bad stuff junkie food or whatever you want to be eating good stuff This good for you because not only do you want a healthy weight, but you also want healthy organs a healthy body, right?
So hope this helped Thank you for joining me to hear about the way I'm using AI to try to lose weight and we'll see I've already lost about But it's not five. I was like four and some change But I'm rounding it up to five so I've already lost five pounds and it was only after maybe I was hard to say because I didn't start all of the apps at the same time and I did not Choose to weigh myself Regularly at the beginning it was like I needed to feel like I had made some progress before I actually got on the scale because I did not Want to be disappointed and I wasn't disappointed to see that those four and some change pounds were gone But I'll say that I probably did that in Maybe two weeks and two weeks time. I was able to do that So but now I'm gonna continue on this path I'll do a follow-up to this to say, you know, what's changed Did it did I continue with good progress? Did I follow up the wagon?
What happened? Why do I think it happened and hopefully if you are trying to do the same thing? Maybe you'll try these apps or maybe you'll try something else and let me know you know what if I me on X and Instagram at he That's at he why even a TTE or just look at hashtag tweet trends and I'll see you back here again. Bye