Having recently received my food recommendations from a recent Viome Gut Microbiome test, and daily macros advice from my functional nutritionist session, I was keen to get started on revised meal planning.  But the list of foods is long (a good thing), and math is not my forte – so I was stuck at the starting line.

Thankfully, Viome was one step ahead of me, as usual.  Into my email popped a tutorial on using A.I. and specifically ChatGPT to create meal plans, menus, shopping lists and more.

I was skeptical, as all GenXers are, but the tutorials were too easy to screw up.  Before I knew it, I had a weekly menu, prompts saved and macros tallied. Too simple to avoid and even easier to update weekly.

The prompt I started with, as recommended, was:

Please create a weekly breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu for me using the foods: [insert your approved foods here]. But please avoid these foods in the meals: [list any foods to avoid or restrict here].

And after the initial week’s meals were generated, I applied the second prompt:

Can you adjust those menus based on the following macros: Protein per meal = 37g, Carbs per meal = 17g, Fat per meal = 20g,  Calories per meal = 585

I’ll link the Viome article here, if you want to give it a try.  I highly recommend it and will keep you posted on the results of my A.I. assisted experiment.