RP Diet Coach & Meal Planner 17+

The general premise of the app is great, but it’s not without problems. It had me eating so much food the first week that I gained weight. The second week, it cut my carbs roughly in half and my weight started trending downward, though I was still above my starting weight. For the third week, it again recommended that I reduce macros, but the app doesn’t give you an idea of what your new macros will be and you won’t be able to see your new macros until you make a selection. You also cannot change your selection, so if you choose to reduce macros for the next week and the app almost completely cuts carbs from your diet, which is what happened in my case, you’ll have no way to change that selection for an entire week. I know my body better than the app does, so I knew better than to completely cut out carbs, while still training heavy, so I had to select “over macros” for every meal check-in for an entire week. This is frustrating since it kills your meal adherence percentage and makes the shopping list feature useless. Overall, I’d still recommend the app with the caveat that you may have to take the macro recommendations with a grain of salt as the changes from week to week can be too extreme. That being said, I’m down 6lbs after 4 weeks. If you use common sense and don’t take the macro recommendations as gospel you’ll be fine.

Thank you for the detailed feedback! We are addressing these feature requests in our next release which is due to be released in the very near future. And congrats on the awesome weight loss!

I’ve been using RP products since around 2015. I started with the original Renaissance Periodization book where I used the principles to develop my own diet. I was somewhat successful, but found I needed some more guidance and accountability. I was fortunate enough to afford 1:1 coaching for several years where I had several successful cuts and bulks. After learning a ton and seeing great results I decided late 2021 that it was time to start venturing back off on my own. However, I still needed the accountability. So I decided to give the app a try

I honestly wasn’t sure I’d like it since I got use to a more pen/paper approach and doing math to meet my macros. I ran a maintenance diet through the holidays and have loved it. The barcode scanner and restaurant options allowed me a ton of flexibility while navigating the the holidays. The check ins offered a good mix of accountability of having to hit my macros, but also the autonomy to go against the AI recommendations if I felt it was appropriate. With the help of the app I was able to successfully maintain my weight through the holidays while still enjoying good food/drinks with friends and family.

Now that the holidays are ended I am trying my first cut to be part of the RP Diet Challenge for 2022. While I may not win the contest, I know my diet will be a success if I’m just honest with the app and do what it tells me.

Thank you for your awesome feedback! We love hearing about your experience with our app!

Overall the functionality of the app was good, and the app is cheaper than my fitness pal. The app is basically unusable because of its rigidity. If you need to make adjustments it’s impossible and leads you to entering inaccurate data just to close out the screen. You have to balance your macros if you don’t fit them exactly, you cannot be over macros for any given meal, and protein macros cannot be increased. Portion sizes are pre decided, and if you adjust them and go over for a meal you have to balance it out from other meals So your tracking is no longer accurate.
You can pull meals forward from last week, which is really convenient.
You cannot eat a meal during a time you have labeled busy, and you cannot change that time, which leads to having to enter meals at different times then they are actually eaten. If you cannot guarantee a meal time at work and mark it as busy time in the app — but some days you can grab a snack or a shake you cannot enter it in, or create a new meal for that purpose. You cannot move your training days either, so if you need to train on a day that is marked a non training day, your macros will not change for that day. If you moved training it should pull your already entered macros over for you and rebalance them so you know what you now have to eat.
I really wanted to use this, but it does not fit my lifestyle and I’m wasting time entering foods into the app that don’t actually reflect what I’ve eaten.

Thank you for your feedback. We are always improving our app thanks to feedback like yours! If you have any further feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at app.support@rpstrength.com.