Three new app features to start 2025 with a blast
1) 🫛 Tracking fiber: feel fuller for longer and improve your gut health.
2) 🗣️ Voice logging: for long logs and quick questions.
3) 🔥 Streaks: help you stay consistent and build a habit.
🤔 Quiz (answer at the end):
The recommended intake of dietary fiber is ~30g a day, how much do people in the US consume on average a day?
FEED YOUR GUT 🫛
1) Track your fiber intake
How Fiber Helps with Weight Loss
Fiber is your weight-loss ally, helping you feel fuller longer and reducing the urge to snack. By slowing digestion, it keeps you satisfied after meals, curbing cravings. It also stabilizes blood sugar levels, preventing energy crashes that can lead to overeating. Plus, high-fiber foods are naturally lower in calories, making it easier to create a calorie deficit without feeling deprived.
What Is Fiber and How Does It Work?
Fiber is a special type of carbohydrate your body doesn’t digest. Soluble fiber absorbs water and forms a gel in your stomach, slowing the absorption of nutrients and helping you feel full. Insoluble fiber adds bulk, promoting efficient digestion and reducing bloating. Together, they help you manage hunger and support your weight-loss journey.
Other Health Benefits
Fiber is a powerhouse for gut health. It feeds the good bacteria in your gut, improving digestion, reducing inflammation, and supporting immunity. A healthier gut microbiome can lead to better nutrient absorption and a stronger digestive system. Fiber also keeps your digestive tract clean and running smoothly, preventing constipation and discomfort.
What Foods Does It Have?
Fiber-rich foods include fruits (like apples and berries), vegetables (like broccoli and carrots), whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Small swaps, like choosing whole-grain bread or adding lentils to your meals, can easily boost your fiber intake and help you reap the benefits!
Pro Tip 💡
In your customized diet settings, tell Welling you want to improve your fiber intake. Welling will then take that into account with each feedback and recommendation.
LISTENING… 🗣️
2) Speak to log
Use Voice Dictation To Log Even Faster
Imagine you just had a big shared brunch with many items or cooked a long recipe, and now you’re thinking that’s a lot of stuff to tell Welling.
Now you can use voice dictation to speak into Welling. Tap the microphone in the chatbox and start speaking. It will start dictating and you can see exactly what will be sent. Then hit Send when you’re done. Easy.
Time to give those thumbs some rest!
FIRE IT UP 🔥
3) Build habits with Streaks
How Streaks Help You Build Healthy Habits
Achieving health and fitness goals—whether it’s weight loss, muscle building, or overall wellness—depends on creating consistent habits. Research shows it takes around 21 days to solidify a habit, depending on the person and behavior.
Streaks are designed to help you build the habit of logging your meals daily, creating accountability and tracking your progress. By focusing on small, consistent actions, you’re training your brain to make healthy behaviors automatic. Over time, these habits compound, driving long-term success in your journey.
Once something has become a habit, you’re not on a health journey anymore, it’s just who you are.
How It Works
Log at least one meal every day, and your streak counter increases by one. Science shows that habit formation is fueled by rewards and repetition. Watching your streak grow provides positive reinforcement, turning meal tracking into a fun and rewarding activity.
Start your streak today. Take small steps, one foot in front of the other, and fire up your daily consistency 🔥.
🤓 The answer to the quiz is 15g. On average, people consume about half of the recommended daily intake of dietary fiber.
