I Built a Nutrition Calculator — Here's Why I Had To
I Was Tired of Guessing What I Was Eating You're out to eat. You're trying to hit your macros. You pick what looks "healthy" on the menu — and then you get home and realize you just ate 1,800 calories without knowing it. That was me. Every single week. I tried calorie tracking apps, food diaries, even handwritten logs. None of them told me what was actually in the dish in front of me — especially at restaurants like Texas Roadhouse, where the portions are huge and the nutrition info is buried somewhere nobody checks. So I built my own nutrition calculator . Why Most Calorie Counters Let You Down Here's the hard truth: most nutrition calculators online are generic. They pull average data, guess at serving sizes, and leave you doing the math yourself. The problems people hit most often: No restaurant-specific data — just vague estimates No macro breakdown — calories alone mean nothing if you're tracking protein, carbs, or fat Terrible UX — you ...