Three Bite 3.0

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Three Bite is an app I made a looooong time ago when I was going through a small portion eating phase.

The idea was that I would eat a few bites and then wait X period of time before I would have another few bites. I could configure the app so I can have up to six bites per sitting and adjust how long I needed to wait between meals. For drinks, I would only consume zero calorie beverages (water, diet soda, coffee, tea).

A funny thing in the app is that if you eat more than you are allowed during a sitting then you can exercise to “remove” any extra bites.

I dunno, I don’t really use this app much anymore but at the time it made sense to me. I’m pretty sure it works if anyone can stick to it and some would argue that eating so little could have health implications.

I read a book recently called “Why Weight Around?” by Dr. Alwin C Lewis where he discusses a very similar diet called his “5 Bite Diet”. In his diet, this is what your meals look like:

• Breakfast: Cup of Coffee and a Multi-Vitamin

• Lunch: 5 bites of anything you want

• Dinner: 5 bites of anything you want

I feel like Dr Lewis’ diet is a bit more extreme than mine and he made a really convincing argument for why it’s actually very healthy for you.

Anyways, I made some significant adjustments to the app recently and I’d like to go through them here. Mainly, I completely re-designed how the app functions with a few rules in mind.

• Support dark mode

• Icons should use SF Symbols

• Modals should be swipe-able cards

• Use bottom navigation whenever possible

New App Icon that has a carrot with three bites taken out of it.

Three Bite - Home Screen is where the biggest changes happened. Before, you could only look at the last week, now you can have unlimited days entered and you simply swipe through the cards at the bottom and tap to view them. The timer now has a circular display. Viewing the day allows you to enter meals and gives you some helpful messaging.

Three Bite - Overview Screen has been greatly improved. I added ResearchKit charts from Apple to show your week’s progress as well as a circle graph to display your total summary.

Three Bite - Bite Entry is the screen you use to enter how many bites you ate at a particular sitting. In the previous version, you could also take a picture of your mean and it will show up as a backdrop. That feature was dropped as pretty much no one used it.

Three Bite - Configuration Screen is where you can adjust the settings for the Three Bite app.

Body Stack 2.0

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Here’s an app I made quite a while ago while I was experimenting with longer fasting periods (like a few days here and there). I wanted an app that allowed me to track body transformations through images and allowed me to quickly reference before/after pictures.

This app is crazy simple, just enter your weight with a photo every few days and you can slowly see your body change over time, as well as quickly compare the original Day 1 photo with your current one.

It took me, like, a weekend to throw this together, however, there were a lot of flaws in the original app that I hope I solved in version two.

Cleaned up the App Icon, made the yellow a bit darker and removed the light shadow in the icon.

Body Stack - Home Screen - this is where you can scroll through your body images and see your weight progress in the chart below. I swapped the button icons with SF Symbols and removed the yellow color. The old carousel framework I was using the scroll the images was no longer supported so I had to embed a new one without the “Reel Flipper” animation.

Body Stack - Log Entry - Here is where you take a picture of yourself and enter log data. You can see that before I was trying to track a bunch of other details, like, whether you dieted or exercised, this was not really useful in the app so it was removed.

I added three other buttons, the one on the right allows you to quickly compare this current photo with your original starting photo. On the top right you can export the current photo to your photo library. The top left button will generate a Before/After photo for you using your original and current photo and save it to your photo library.

Body Stack - Configuration View

Daily Fast 2.0

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Daily Fast is an app I made to help alert me during my feeding window while I was intermittent fasting. The design is very simple, just schedule your fasting routine and sit back and let it notify you.

The original app was fine but I wanted to clean up the design even more by supporting dark mode, moving the action buttons to the bottom for easier one handed use, updated the icons to use cleaner SF Symbols and supporting swipe-able cards instead of full screen modals. Here’s the before/after recap.

New App Icon changed to blue water drop.

Daily Fast - Home Screen - Shows the current timer and whether or not you are in your feeding window or not. Used the blue theme to match the “water” app icon and because it was better supported on dark mode.

Daily Fast - Day Selection Screen - I removed the “hint” button on the lower right. These used to tell you how to Intermittent Fast on each page but, honestly, if you were downloading this app you already knew this much…

Daily Fast - Fasting Window Configuration

Daily Fast - Feeding Start Time and Notification Screen

Daily Fast - Today Adjustment Screen - Shifted everything down to the bottom for easier one handed use.

Added a completely new view to Daily Fast where it can track your progress over the last week. I don’t think it’s very useful but I needed to add some sort of tracking system. Surprisingly Apple doesn’t have a chart library but they have great chart APIs as part of ResearchKit, which is Apple’s framework.