Three Bite 2.0 to 3.0 Comparison

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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

Three Bite - App Icon — 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.