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Zero — A simple app to track your fasting
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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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.
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@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.
@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.
IF is one of the easiest routines for me to follow because it's so...routine. I am app-happy like it's 2010 but not THAT app-happy. 📱📱📱📱📱📱
Would love to learn more about this and give it a try. One thing that it seems to conflict with is in 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferris it says to have protein (like eggs) as soon as you wake up. If you're fasting at night until lunch the next day, you're awake for hours before eating. Which one is best?
Download the product. I'm wondering, how important is it to start fasting at Sunset, as the app suggests via the Circadian Rhythm Fasting option? 4:30pm is too early as I usually don't eat dinner until 6. @kevinrose
Outstanding timing with this as I'm just about to start experimenting with fasting. Looks great!
Fasting is not a healthy weight loss tool for a number of different reasons.
More details here: http://www.webmd.com/diet/featur...
Intermittent Fasting would be interesting to try this out with too -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re the Fasting Type screen: "set up" is the verb combo. Setup is a noun or adjective. Guessing @aubs didn't help with this one! ;) http://grammarist.com/spelling/s...
@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.
GOOD point from my wife - intermittent slowing might be a better way to go (-:
Life is too fast these days, people don't have time to have a good TV dinner with their kids anymore. Maybe once in a while they need to slow things down and look at all of the little beauties in our lives. Saying you want to fast is like saying you want to miss it all :-(
Oftentimes you hear of great success stories where the person practices fasting as an integral part of their life - now there's no excuse not to try it yourself. Nicely done!
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. 😊
@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!
@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...
@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.
@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.
@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