Meticulous

Meticulous is exactly what it sounds like: a systemized way to pursue your goals (all packaged together in a science fiction gamified veneer). The game is designed around building good habits through no-frills data tracking. It encourages you to break your goals into component parts, and then purposefully track and apply those components on a schedule. For instance, if you want to lose weight on a low-carb diet, Meticulous allows you to catalog low-carb ingredients, assemble the ingredients into low-carb recipes, and then lay out the recipes into weekly meal plans. Or, conversely, if you're trying to finish a dissertation, or keep your house tidier, or whatever else, the game allows you to see your new habit as a series of simple, actionable, and measurable data points (although the game is themed around weight loss and exercise, so if you *are* working on a dissertation, you're going to be getting health and fitness advice the entire time). As a habit-building tool, Meticulous isn't anything psychologically groundbreaking. But I will say that it's an intuitive combination of useful tools -- a data visualization spreadsheet, an accountability partner, and an executive assistant. And if you have an important goal that you've continually failed to reach, there are definitely worse ways to spend your money. Meticulous *will* help you gameplan a path toward success. It's just up to you to follow it.

This is a really great game! Nutrition information is not always easy to find in my home country. But in this game, you can define for yourself what is "healthy". So you don't have to worry about choosing complicated numbers. Because I always do my best to eat more vegetables! My favorite part is that nothing is off limits. Metic tracks your diet and exercise based on your weekly totals, making it flexible and easy to spread your indulgences. Whether you have a favorite food like cake or a cheeseburger, Metic can help you find ways to include it into your diet in a healthy way!

Cool idea for a game. It does exactly what it says. It helps you track data points so you can make progress in whatever it is you're trying to accomplish. A lot of the game's content is related to weight and health, so that's probably what the devs initially designed it for (and it's what I am using it for). PROS + Deceptive complexity. It looks really simple, but when you get all of your data inputted, and everything gets up and running, you really start to see how much power is under the hood. + Fun context. The game takes place on a space ship, and you get your own little robot assistant to walk you through the whole experience. The robot comes with a TON of content, and he has something new to share with you pretty much every day. + Meal planning. If you give it enough data, the game will literally plan your weekly meals for you. I'm indecicive, and when I don't plan my meals effectively, I eat like garbage. So this is a lifesaver for me. + Detail orientation. The game requires a LOT of data input, but honestly, the process kind of adjusts the way you think about food. After an hour or two with the game, it gets you looking super closely at the macronutrients in pretty much anything you eat moving forward. CONS Overwhelming. It doesn't really hold your hand, and it expects you to be diligent and detail-oriented when inputting macros and recipes and stuff. Clunky. Some of the menus can be a little unintuitive, which can get frustrating when you spend a lot of time inputting data. Lack of visual data. There aren't any graphs or anything. It's really just looking at numbers, which can get a little tedious sometimes. Overall, I'm a systems-oriented guy who wants to lose a little weight, and this game really scratches an itch I didn't know I had. It's been worth my time so far.

As you get older, you start to pay more attention to the food you eat. I can only imagine how much healthier my generation would be if we had things like Meticulous available to us when we were younger. We probably wouldn't be getting any social security by now. Haha. I did have a hard time getting used to moving around. I guess that's not a problem for young people, but my brain doesn't work that way. If you stick with it, you'll get the hang of it though. One thing Meticulous helped me with was keeping track of my sodium. It's crazy how much salt restaurants will put into your food without you knowing. I guess that's what makes it taste good. It's also good for helping keep track of things like protein and calories. Otherwise, you don't even really know what you get during the day. Good luck staying healthy. It seems like the world is stacked against us, but Meticulous gives us a fighting chance. Haha.

Meticulous gives you the freedom to set your own goals giving you more opportunities to keep track of your health in different ways. Of course, I can keep track of my calories, but I can also track how much time I spend on my phone or how many times I eat out in a week. While it does take a bit of time to set up all your goals and recipes once you get that done coming back once a week to make sure I am hitting my goals is quick and easy. My biggest piece of feedback is that there should be either different names or categories than macro, recipes, and ingredients. Overall, it does a great job of making sure I keep myself on track for my health goals and build habits to create a healthier lifestyle.

This game is a new exciting way to develop and create your own path going forward excited for the updates to come. The game has a clean design, and like many workout apps if you learn the lingo it can be very effective

It took me a few minutes to figure out how to set up the macros at first, but once they were set up, planning a weekly workout routine took no time at all!

Upon starting the game it is immediately clear how intuitive and useful Meticulous is at gamifying health and lifestyle improvements. It does so much to encourage and organize one through personal milestones. Very inclusive of different dietary and physical needs and requirements and easy to understand and stick with. It is a clear labor or passion.

Meticulous is something I never knew I needed. I've tried other weight loss programs, like Weight Watchers for example, and although I lost some weight I found it wasn't sustainable. Meticulous has helped me to develop a different relationship with my diet. By thinking about my macros on a weekly basis, I can be flexible with fitting in "guilty" foods or eating out without completely derailing my goals. In addition, Meticulous is a more well-rounded health solution by including fitness and mental well-being goals. Actually you can track any type of goal you may have, such as a budgeting goal or including more fun activities into your week. Keeping track of so many different facets of your life all in one place would be very a tedious task, but Meticulous makes it easy and fun.

As a health companion app this is pretty solid user tool for scheduling workouts regiments and diet plans. It lets you create a lot constituent elements that make developing new routine/recipes/etc pretty easily like Tricep Pulls which can be used for Upper body day/Arm day/etc without having to make the same exercise again and again. While there is room for some quality of life improvements like shortcuts to switching between the exercise and diet screens on the calendar it is mostly there for what it is trying to be.