Hi,
I have a question about beancount. I read the documentation and i had the
idea of using beancount to manage a calorie budget.
essentially something like:
Start with an Initial weight in Fat calories
Base metabolic rate.
Accounts for Macronutrients such as Fat, Protein, Carbs.
I can then
You could but I don't see the point. Your body is more complex than this
and doesn't conserve nutrients in a straightforward way. Plus you'd have
only a small and fixed amount of categories anyway. You'd be better off
using a spreadsheet and processing it with custom scripts using r or
pandas. Doub
The idea is initially inspired by the idea that Double Entry bookkeeping
uses the perspective of the person.
I realize a body is more complex, and certainly not a zero sum game, but so
are the financial markets. They are treated as black boxes with trends
based on transactions etc.
I thought
Sure, you could abuse it that way. Beancount is a kind of "calculator with
buckets," really, and it doesn't really think anything special of its
currencies, so nothing prevents you from counting "calories" or otherwise
have multiple accounts for them or other things. It's just not going to do
anyth
