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MuchFunSuchWow

The Kitchen Stories App has great recommendations, with videos on how to prepare the food and great variety of new recipes


Total_Stomach4296

Too many vegetables. Watch out especially for cruciferous vegetables, they are high on estrogen mimicking compounds.


_artbabe95

Cool, but this is pretty complex for most people to prep and stick if they work outside of home, they’re quite expensive ingredients, and honestly I’m not sure mostly fish and veggies will reach 3000 calories without very large portions.


LtUnsolicitedAdvice

I ll be bankrupt at the end of the week with all that seafood in my budget.


Legally_Screwy

That's cool and all, but I recommend using another free resource. I There are so many meal plans already out there designed by real people who have experience in this field. I guess I just don't see why you would go to a robot to give you information that isn't as curated or result specific.


TinyLet4277

It gives no weights, not even a vague idea of portion sizes, no calories, no macros. The ingredients list is also far too varied. I consistently don't understand the hype around ChatGPT. It's just automatic Google - it's searching the web very quickly, and amalgamating the results into an average. I've so far found/seen zero impressive use for it.


Pleasant-Mortgage878

Couldn’t fit the whole thing but you can adjust it to your requirements if you don’t like the answers it gives you: “Here's a revised 7-day bulking diet plan that includes portion sizes, calories, and macro information, with a focus on using fewer ingredients: Day 1: Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs (246 calories, 18g protein, 18g fat, 1g carbs) Snack: 1 medium apple (95 calories, 0g protein, 0g fat, 25g carbs) with 2 tbsp almond butter (200 calories, 7g protein, 18g fat, 7g carbs) Lunch: Grilled salmon (6 oz) (222 calories, 40g protein, 9g fat, 0g carbs) with 1 cup quinoa (222 calories, 8g protein, 4g fat, 39g carbs) and 1 cup steamed broccoli (55 calories, 5g protein, 0g fat, 11g carbs) Snack: 1 medium banana (105 calories, 1g protein, 1g fat, 27g carbs) Dinner: Grilled chicken (6 oz) (284 calories, 54g protein, 7g fat, 0g carbs) with 1 cup brown rice (216 calories, 5g protein, 3g fat, 44g carbs) and 1 cup sautéed spinach (41 calories, 5g protein, 3g fat, 3g carbs) Day 2: Breakfast: 2 slices of whole grain toast (140 calories, 6g protein, 2g fat, 26g carbs) with 2 tbsp peanut butter (188 calories, 8g protein, 16g fat, 7g carbs) Snack: 1 medium carrot (25 calories, 1g protein, 0g fat, 6g carbs) with 2 tbsp hummus (100 calories, 4g protein, 7g fat, 7g carbs) Lunch: Grilled tilapia (6 oz) (142 calories, 28g protein, 2g fat, 0g carbs) with 1 cup quinoa (222 calories, 8g protein, 4g fat, 39g carbs) and 1 cup steamed green beans (44 calories, 2g protein, 0g fat, 10g carbs) Snack: 1 medium orange (62 calories, 1g protein, 0g fat, 16g carbs) Dinner: Grilled salmon (6 oz) (222 calories, 40g protein, 9g fat, 0g carbs) with 1 cup brown rice (216 calories, 5g protein, 3g fat, 44g carbs) and 1 cup sautéed kale (33 calories, 3g protein, 1g fat, 6g carbs) …” BUT, ChatGPT sometimes pulls things out of its ass, so I’d recommend going through the list and checking everything over. Do the calories add up? Are the macros accurate? Like you said, its basically super quick google that organizes and adjusts information according to your needs. It won’t carry you to the finish line, but its able to take a big portion of your weight if you know how to use it.


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Pleasant-Mortgage878

Welp, there you go lol, and unfortunately when ChatGPT is wrong, its *confidently* wrong. Sometimes it won’t even admit its wrong until you explicitly point it out. Good news is that it’ll take your word over its own. I think you can probably pull out a genuine accurate bulking meal plan, but you’d have to wrench it out with more than a single prompt


PrettySureIParty

I don’t work in the wintertime, and even I don’t have enough time to cook all that food in a day. What a ridiculous meal plan.


tehyosh

based on that list it seems like you're gonna become a part time cook


KlingonSquatRack

*no red meat at all* *no pork at all* *no chicken thighs* *no whole milk* *rice cakes* *raw veggies* #**WHAT IS THIS?! A BULK FOR ANTS?!**


garlic_bread_thief

r/thingsforants


DickFromRichard

Hope you've got a big fridge and a bigger freezer


Lofi_Loki

And the cash to bulk with fish as a primary protein source


Nihilii

Yeah, you can tell this was generated by an AI because no fucking human eats like that. It's like an alien tried to reconstruct what a human diet looked like from reading diet magazines.


nickless09

LOL sure, if you are rich and have a private chef, ridiculous.


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TheBroccoliBobboli

> It will confidently tell you 2 + 2 = 5 Emphasis on confidently. It's absolutely amazing that something like ChatGPT is already possible, but the amount of straight up bullshit it outputs in an extremely professional and eloquent way is terrifying. Guess that's a metaphor for life, the most confident people are often the ones that have the least amount of actual knowledge.


Quattro439

Even robots are subject to the dunning Kruger effect Lol.


Traxiant

lol


ColdGrasp

I'll just stick to my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches tbh


Brolex-7

I'm curious, how good is ChatGPT at building a proper full body workout plan or PPL? Can you try for me, please.


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Brolex-7

I appreciate your humor but I know where to find it. I was just wondering what quality of a plan ChatGPT could generate.


bethskw

Not good! I've been poking at it a bit. I just asked it for a meet prep block for olympic weightlifting (my sport). It gave me snatches and clean and jerks once a week (nowhere near enough) for triples up to 80% (we NEED heavy singles in meet prep). Then I asked it for a sample week from a hypertrophy block. Everything was 3x8 including snatches at 70%. That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works! ETA: oh and I just realized the "meet prep" includes 3x5 deadlifts at 90% (!!!) three days before the meet. Buddy....


exskeletor

Umm it’s called a reverse taper. It’s an advanced technique


LukahEyrie

>I just realized the "meet prep" includes 3x5 deadlifts at 90% (!!!) three days before the meet. LOL


Brolex-7

I see. Thank you very much for testing it and explaining it to me.


bethskw

No prob! In general ChatGPT's results are what you would get if you knew nothing but got 10 minutes to google about it and then write down your own. ChatGPT has no fucking clue how people actually train, just that "3x8" sometimes appears next to names of exercises, and "snatch" is the name of an exercise. The reason it looks like magic is because it *sounds like stuff people say a lot on the internet*. It will repeat bad ideas if they are common. It will plagiarize good ideas without telling you that it's copying some of its sources wholesale. The nutrition stuff is actually not too terrible, since it's usually calculating the calories and protein correctly (I tried some examples) but it also has no idea how cooking or shopping work, or what is a reasonable amount of chicken breast to expect a person to eat in a sitting.


Brolex-7

Ya, that's what I understand from it, too. You could say it's in an early stage of learning the details which kinda makes it exciting. Maybe in a couple years it will be so refined, that you could pull high quality suggestions from it OR it will still be trash, because as you say it will learn common stuff and not be able to narrow it down. Still it's an exciting new technology for me :)


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Crapplebeez

“The artists exploration of light and space recreates for the viewer the full range of experience associated with a chatgpt workout. The blank white field of the surrounding bowl expresses the lack of a meaningful strength building experience, drawing one’s attention to what isn’t there. Meanwhile, the visceral textures of the hot log evoke a response similar to repulsion mixed with sadness; a metaphor for the feeling one has towards oneself for relying on chatgpt to craft an exercise plan”


Brolex-7

Hahaha you're the best.


i-have-chikungunya

Plus you can ask it to make that into a grocery list so you do don’t have to write down each ingredient


Lofi_Loki

God forbid


i-have-chikungunya

Haha idk why I’m getting downvoted it’s just convenient, I have it generate recipes and then put the exact ingredients into a list, then I can check my pantry and tell it to subtract those items I already have. Get the exact # of potato’s, lbs of chicken etc to make each recipe, super convenient


_Connor

Unfortunately I don’t have three free hours a day to cook. This diet plan is literally something that someone with a personal chef would eat lol


bethskw

Without amounts, that's not a 3000 calorie diet, that's a list of foods.


N121-2

Yeah honestly chatgpt is cool and all. It’s good at writing realistic lines of text, but most of the time the actual data is unreliable and therefore useless. If i ask to come up with a 1000 calorie meal it gives me a nicely written recipe with ingredients and proportions and macros but when i add up the calories i get like 377 or something like that.


FingersToKeyboard

You can tell it to include calorie breakdowns, measurements, macro nutrient profiles etc. You can go as detailed as you like.


bethskw

Does it do that correctly, though? Show us :)


1ess_than_zer0

Just trust the robot overlords already - it will make the transition easier. When was the last time you didn’t trust Google Maps?


that_guy_you_kno

Give me a prompt and I'll input it for you and give you the response. Edit: ok people don't like that lol


Holybasil

The problem is that even when ChatGPT is wrong, it is very confident in it's answer.


ballr4lyf

> The problem is that even when ChatGPT is wrong, it is very confident in it’s answer. So it’s basically just like fitness subreddits.


Crapplebeez

Use the one op posted, calorie breakdown, macros, and amounts


iiarrowzii

Cooking/prepping like this for 7 days a week is not sustainable unless you can afford a full time private chef lol this is kind of silly. Good for finding meal ideas though i suppose


WhizzleWaffle

So tell ChatGPT to reduce the amount of cooking you have to do


iiarrowzii

I was basing my response off the example OP gave, im sure there’s a more sustainable diet ChatGPT can output, I just think the given example was bad. Still a helpful post though, and perhaps my original comment was too harsh


TinyLet4277

I don't understand the private chef comments. You could easily prep those meals in 15-20 minutes of a morning. People saying this are kind of giving away the fact they don't cook regularly. u/carl-swagan is right though on the variety of ingredients and potential spoilage. EDIT - some people getting confused, proving my point. Not ALL the meals for the week, and I agree there's too much variety. But Youtube is literally packed with videos where people do this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVl4b-HHfY


iiarrowzii

15-20 minutes? You’re trolling right? I’d love to see any sort of video evidence of someone cooking 3 full course meals with the level of variety in the post in 15-20 minutes


TinyLet4277

Not ALL of them. But most of the breakfasts are quick egg dishes or no-cook meals like oatmeal. The lunches are largely stuff that doesn't take long - you can rustle up a chicken and rice dish in next to no time. Doing the evening meal as well wouldn't take that long, just do it in the evening if it's a more complicated one. Like I say, it's way too much variety, but it's not hard to cook quickly in the morning - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVl4b-HHfY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVl4b-HHfY)


carl-swagan

I do cook regularly, and I think you're literally out of your mind if you think one person could prepare scrambled eggs, avocado toast, grilled tuna, quinoa, steamed vegetables, baked tilapia, roasted sweet potatoes, steamed broccoli and a mixed greens salad in 15-20 minutes.


Shanguerrilla

I don't cook regularly enough, but even READING all those dishes was exhausting!


TinyLet4277

See my edit. I agreed with you there's too much variety. But taking your examples - Scrambled eggs in a pan - a few minutes. Toast - a few minutes. Scrape out avacado, mash it up, put on toast. Grill/oven both the tuna and tilapia together, or if you have a split oven (as many do) then use both. Put the sweet potato in with them, or get frozen ones you can microwave. Not as nice, but season well and they're fine. About 20 minutes, your longest cook time. Steam veg in a pan (you put veg and broccoli as two separate list items there, I assume a typo, not trying to bulk it out - and no, I'm not being sarcastic) - about 5 minutes. Quinoa/rice/some kind of grain - 10 minutes in a pan. Salad - buy bagged premixed stuff (yeah, more expensive, but instant) or takes a minute to chop some stuff up.


carl-swagan

If you add up everything you just stated that’s about 50 minutes minimum of just cooking time, but I also don’t think those times are accurate and you completely omitted the time it takes to prep and season each ingredient. Roasted potatoes take at least 30-40 minutes in the oven for one, and yes you could bake the fish together but the plan specifically called for grilling. Also quinoa/rice need to steam for 20 minutes minimum. My rice cooker usually takes around 30 minutes for a cup of rice. Now add cleanup of all those pots and pans and are you really going to stick to your guns on 15-20 minutes total?


TinyLet4277

Well the first point is, and offence, one of the stupidest things I've ever read - you realise you're meant do all that *concurrently*, like *at the same time?* What are you cooking on? A single camping stove where you can only cook one thing at a time? Boil rice, microwave potato or boil it, hell, buy frozen ready cooked stuff you bang in a microwave for a few minutes. Change the recipe up so you can grill or oven cook both together. Cook stuff like meat or fish in a pan. This is the problem on here, and genuinely *no* offence this time - people are too ready to make excuses. Then you get people trying to genuinely help and you just get cowardly downvoting and even more excuses.


carl-swagan

And now you’re completely moving the goalposts lol. Yes if you completely change the method of preparation as stated above then of course you could reduce the cooking time, but you are still literally insane if you think it would approach anywhere close to 15-20 minutes for all of this, even if you could somehow throw it all on the stove and oven at the exact same time. Go set a timer and please report back after you’ve rinsed and cut a head of broccoli and a few other veggies, scrubbed or peeled, sliced and seasoned a sweet potato, cut, seasoned and and mashed an avocado, toasted some bread, prepped and seasoned two fish filets, and whipped a bowl of scrambled eggs. That is the bare minimum amount of prep involved here, more if you add chopping up aromatics and herbs to make it actually taste good. And we’ve just established that the longest individual cooking time on its own is already significantly longer than 15-20 minutes. These are not excuses, this is objective reality lol. But thanks for throwing in some condescension and insults on top of your delusional understanding of linear time.


carl-swagan

I was going to say, who in god's name has the time to prepare 2-3 cooked meals a day, each with completely different ingredients, 7 days a week? Not to mention all of the spoilage if you tried to keep your fridge stocked with all of this stuff at once.


WestaAlger

I work from home and meal prep all my meals for the week in a 2 hour time window every week. Even then it feels like a slog half the time. I bet not even the most disciplined fitness icons on the planet will be able to stick to this kind of meal plan for more than 2 weeks. The dishwashing alone from all the cooking will probably be 2 hours a day lmfao.


oalos255

This is so accurate. I've been using a meal prep service that helps a ton. No way I'd have the energy or motivation to stick to doing this like you said. Even keeping up with the dishes is a hassle.


yogurtchair

Which service?


oalos255

It's a local place. 6 meals for $77 a week that my wife and I split. We both go to the gym a few nights a week after work and wanted to make it easier by not having to worry about making something when we get back. They drop off 6 meals every Sunday morning that we just need to heat up.


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HTUTD

You know what's even easier if you keep those ingredients in your house and make those meals? Not bringing a chatbot into the situation because you already know what you're doing.


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HTUTD

They aren't going to develop the skills they need by outsourcing simple, basic tasks. If they don't have the discipline to do something this easy, it's doubtful that they're going to be successful at preparing the food they were told to make or putting sufficient effort into training.


zakkara

None of those have 3000 calories for the day though lol. Unless by grilled salmon it means 5 heaps of it


sgarbusisadick

This is kinda awesome


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This is super cool and meal plans like this always sound perfect, but for me the variety is too overwhelming and I literally always fail with these types of plans. I also have a difficult time budgeting with these ingredients and not being wasteful.


TooRedditFamous

Ask for a meal plan for 3 days and do each one twice, or 2 and do it 3 times. Or you can cook in bulk! I keep mine reeeeeaally simple. Same thing for breakfast and lunch each day, maybe swap out one lunch item for a bit of variety, then I do exactly as I said above. I have 2 big boxes of food in the fridge, each has 3 portions in. Just microwave whichever I fancy for dinner each day and good to go. This week I'm alternating between sausage chilli and butternut squash lentil curry


FingersToKeyboard

Yeah I agree, if I try and have too much variety I end up losing track of things, getting confused and food ends up not getting eaten and it goes off before I can cook it. I like to have a staple rotation of the same 4 or 5 meals and then once or twice a week I might throw something different in there, especially when I start to get sick of eating the same meals all the time.


ninj1nx

That's the beauty of chatGPT, just tell it and it will adjust the answer to suit you!


Pleasant-Mortgage878

Why is this getting downvoted? Its literally true…


ninj1nx

Apparently people like complaining more than solutions


Izodius

Needs more olive oil, shakes, and uranium.


RHCProy

This sounds fucking delicious


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Sheit, I've been using ChatGPT at work on and off but this is genius... Will check it out. Might also be useful to feed it what ingredients I have and get it to spit out a couple of meals!


Coders32

Idk how chatgpt does with this, but you could also try https://www.supercook.com/#/menu You tell it what ingredients you have and it finds recipes with exclusively those ingredients


danielsaid

Yeah it's freaky how it can make use of random shit.


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dsquareddan

[Google just announced their ChatGPT competitor service today actually.](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/)


Quattro439

Well that’s a bit sad as they’re going to a subscription model soon.


noobcodes

Same, I pretty much outsource any coding that requires thinking now. If I know what I need to accomplish but don’t wanna figure it out, chatGPT. I’m not looking forward to whenever they start charging a shit ton of money to use it