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Thank you for the feedback. There will be an option for the metric system.

For meal plans, we calculate the users' BMI, match that up with how much weight they want to lose/gain and in how much time they want to achieve that.

Right now it takes seasonal foods into account, but not likes/dislikes, allergies.. We are working to incorporate these in the future.

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So I imagine this is primarily for people who want to lose a large amount of weight, but the BMI method is going to fall apart for people who are already fit and want to cut or add weight slowly.

For example, I'm 185 @ 5'11", but I'm also sitting around 10% body fat. By BMI I'm overweight, and I imagine the calorie deficit you come up with would be wrong.

I haven't looked (seems like I have to create an account to check), but do you allow people to enter their own daily caloric goal?

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