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Kevin Rose

Zero - A simple app to track your fasting

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Zero is a simple fasting tracker used for intermittent, circadian rhythm, and custom fasting. Choose your favorite fasting protocol and Zero will track your ongoing progress. Export your data to a spreadsheet for complete control.

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Ryan Hoover
We've seen a ton of apps focused on calorie counting and diet routines but far fewer on this topic. Curious to hear from others' experience fasting for health/dietary reasons. 😊
Joel Longtine
@rrhoover I've been doing 20/4 or 22/2 fasts (fasting period/feeding period) pretty often, 36 hour fasts pretty much every week, and two 84 hour fasts (Monday night to Friday morning). It's been great. Clean, clear headed, and I like how my body feels not being require to process food. I'd be happy to chat more about it, as well. Let me know!
Nebo Radovic
@rrhoover fasting is super healthy, I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes one of the dietary trends in 2017 http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/08/he...
Roberto Mateu
@rrhoover over 2016 I've lost (and kept off) 15 pounds (7kg) with the 5:2 diet. http://5typos.net/update-on-52-diet Over the past couple of months I've relaxed the restricted calories days a bit, and moved more to skipping breakfast and drinking a Soylent2.0 for lunch whenever I go overboard on a meal (2-3 times a week). It has worked surprisingly well. I've stayed in my 77kg/170lb "zone" with minimal pain. Excited to try the app for fun. However, one of the of the best things about fasting diets is the simplicity: very little is required to remember that you shouldn't eat for 16 hours. Still, as the owner of almost every GTD app, whatever helps you get started by implementing a new workflow is useful.
Ariel Assaraf
@rrhoover Well, I fast 2 times a year for 25 hours (no water no food) and I can say that the feeling after a fast is amazing. Feeling light, more energetic and more concentrated.
ely with machine
@rrhoover I love that there is always a different perspective, and that each new perspective can yield a new product. That said, I thought "fasting" was just another word for "sleeping." #breakfast
Sarim Haq
Don't have an iphone to try it out 😞 Does it have a religious fasting program? If yes then you are looking at a market of +1.5B people and I am just counting Muslims 😮
Timothy Johnson
@sarim_haq many of the more dedicated Christian community practice as well, but I haven't found them to do it in droves, just as they believe they need to.
Sarim Haq
@timothy_joh you are right - my Catholic friend fasts twice every week but then again he is a devout.
Eduardo Quagliato
Zero Android versions. :( #sad
michael j lambie
very cool to see this. I've done a few pressed vegetable juice fasts (10 days) and had great results. This would help me keep my routine, and to add more structure around planning them. looking forward to trying some of the other fasts listed in the app! Congrats @KevinRose, @DBurka and @CalebD
Shashwat Pradhan
Quantified Fasting! The UI looks awesome
Abhinav Rege
coming for android any time soon? @dburka
Muhammad Saad Khan
No Android? Any timeline? @kevinrose @calebd @dburka
Kunal Bhatia
@viveknb and I have been intermittent fasting for most of the past two years. Vivek has definitely seen an improvement in focus, and I've seen a lot of gains in fitness. Interested to see if tracking this helps us more.
David McGraw
Outstanding timing with this as I'm just about to start experimenting with fasting. Looks great!
Travis Wright
The timing on this is perfect @KevinRose, I'm in the middle of my first fast... over 40 hours in, so far! I was looking for a great app for fasting tracking. I look forward to checking it out! Congrats!
JesperBylund
The fasting proposed by Kevin (and Hugh and the Rock) is called Leangains and I've been doing it for years. This app looks really nice, but why measure the fasting period? I only ate between noon and 8 pm. Every day. So tracking it would be kinda redundant? Really looking forward to how it evolves though!
Miriam Schwab
I'm sorry, but I have to be the doubter here. First of all, fasting makes your blood sugar levels drop. Some people don't handle that very well (i.e. me). After fasting, it takes my body hours to recover. So people, talk to your doctors first! Second, I am an observant Jew and we have six fast days throughout the year. And I can tell you that there's absolutely nothing to track: you stop eating, and then after a certain amount of time you eat. The end. What in the world are you tracking here? And finally, this strikes me as the latest hipster dietary fad. Eating Soylent and/or organic and/or kale wasn't enough, so how about we just stop eating altogether and track it according to our circadian rhythm! With an app! Woohoo! Just eat, in measure, and in a healthful way, without being extreme. And if you want to identify with poverty, support an app that prevents food waste or donate to a soup kitchen. For goodness sake.
Edward Dowling
@miriamschwab I totally get your point and I agree - we shouldn't jump on fads without researching them and ideally getting medical advice. However, every person's body is quite different and there is a lot of research to suggest that fasting is something to at least consider. Like everything in life, there is no magic secret to overnight success, we all gotta find what works best for us.
Miriam Schwab
@edowling Agreed. It's just that fasting seems so entitled too. People who lack sufficient food must look at people in the first world who are choosing not to eat as insane.
Robert S Mozayeni
Granson says fasting is a quick way to be healthy :-)
Isaiah Steinfeld
Intermittent Fasting would be interesting to try this out with too -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nebo Radovic
@dburka @calebd let me know if you need some help with discovery, it's kinda hard to find the app in the App Store if you don't have the URL...
Ariel Assaraf
@iamredlus Maybe you should start Yom Kippur?
jonathanmarcus
I am really excited to try this to start 2017!
Mark Craemer
Very useful! I personally do a single 3 to 4 day fast/month. The main issue I encounter is adherence after day 2. Really could use an app that offers peer pressure!
Rick Chen
I always wanted to try fasting but never had courage and chance to do it properly. When I saw this, I had a guilty feeling that this is meant to be for me.... especially after all the xmas food i had. Oh Lord...
Melanie Amini
I practice intermittent fasting and it definitely works. I'm interested to see how this works and if it is actually needed. It's quite simple really (for me), stop eating at 7pm and start again at 12pm the next day.