Buggy
I had hoped that many of the bugs were addressed, since many of the reviews are old. I just bought this, and I put in a custom recipe. The app changed my ingredients in the recipe. Argh! So I went to the support link which takes me to where I can make an appointment, not technical support. Who wants to enter each ingredient in a dish each time? Nice idea, but yeah, a spreadsheet is easier and accurate. Save your money. If tech folks fix this, I'm happy to change my review.
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Useful but glitchy
If you are following a low fermentation potential diet, this is very helpful, but not perfect. When I create custom recipes, I will often look back at my recipes to find that oddly items have been swapped out. This happened multiple times so I ended up editing the recipe to list an entirely different ingredient and that seemed to fix it but it made my recipes inaccurate. Also, sometimes when I’m on a certain day, which I’ve double checked, I go to add a food, and it puts it on the previous day. Then I have to edit it, and it goes in the right place but there’s just a variety of glitchy things like this. A couple of times I’ve added “sucrose (table sugar)” to a recipe and looked later and it said “splenda.” of course, that could’ve been an error on my end but then I would redo it and come back and find the same weird glitch!
Also, I would love it if there was someway to export a tab delineated / spreadsheet document of some kind for me to have a better view of my trends and symptoms, etc.
Also, I would love it if there was someway to export a tab delineated / spreadsheet document of some kind for me to have a better view of my trends and symptoms, etc.
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Very Impressed
I have only been using it for a week and find it very easy to track the FP values of my food. I actually started the diet after reading Dr Robillard’s heartburn/LPR book two weeks ago. For years, I have had bloating, and more recently (two years) LPR. All doctors can say is use H2 blockers or PPIs. I made mistakes before downloading the app, because flipping from page to page on my iPad Kindle was a pain. The app is a necessity imo. Thank you, Dr Robillard, for your knowledge and for creating the app. One thing, please remove avocado from the vegetable category and place it with the fruits where it belongs.
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Very bad app
Very note easy to use
Slow to fill in
Some bugs
No possibility to export data …
I do not recommend it, use Excel it is better
Slow to fill in
Some bugs
No possibility to export data …
I do not recommend it, use Excel it is better
The Diet is great, app still needs work
The app is pretty glitchy at times. I’ve used it off and on for a few years now. The diet works well if you follow it and have digestive issues.
But the app needs attention. Recently I haven’t been able to add any custom foods. When I go to add them they never save. This problem started in the past 6 months or so.
The food lists are pretty limited so being able to add custom foods is pretty important.
Maybe they should do a more community/user submitted database similar to my fitness pal..Where there is a more vast database of user submitted foods. Just an idea.
But the app needs attention. Recently I haven’t been able to add any custom foods. When I go to add them they never save. This problem started in the past 6 months or so.
The food lists are pretty limited so being able to add custom foods is pretty important.
Maybe they should do a more community/user submitted database similar to my fitness pal..Where there is a more vast database of user submitted foods. Just an idea.
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Unusable for tracking food
I’ve been using this app for 4 days. It keeps giving different FP scores for the *exact same* foods and amounts. It has done this for at least 5 different items.
It can be 5 FP for one meal, and 0 FP for the next. I have no idea which one is accurate.
I tried emailing the company via the address provided in the app, but it bounced back as the email address is no longer operational.
I’ve never paid so much for a nearly unusable app. I say “nearly” because at least I can track my symptoms on the app.
Very frustrating to be unable to use it to track food.
It can be 5 FP for one meal, and 0 FP for the next. I have no idea which one is accurate.
I tried emailing the company via the address provided in the app, but it bounced back as the email address is no longer operational.
I’ve never paid so much for a nearly unusable app. I say “nearly” because at least I can track my symptoms on the app.
Very frustrating to be unable to use it to track food.
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Overall useful, but glitchy
I’ve been using this app for about six weeks, consistently tracking my symptoms and meals. I will say that with a low (5-15/day) FP diet, my heartburn symptoms (burning sensation) have been eliminated, other symptoms have slightly reduced or stayed the same. As far as the app, it is useful for adding symptoms, noting your meals, and tracking overtime with the graph, however it is very glitchy, which frequently which makes it frustrating to use. For example, the buttons in general do not see very responsive, and either they are slow or have to be tapped multiple times to get them to do what they’re supposed to do (both the meal type/ symptom button page and the individual food items and symptoms); and many times when I hit the back button, the app closes all together. Also, when entering a new meal, almost invariably the very first item I enter ends up on the previous meal rather than the new meal that I’m entering, so I constantly have to double check what I’m entering and verify the meals after they’ve been entered.
In addition to having the glitches fixed, the app could definitely use some other practical updates as other users have pointed out, but the glitches are the main reason for the reduced stars in this review.
In addition to having the glitches fixed, the app could definitely use some other practical updates as other users have pointed out, but the glitches are the main reason for the reduced stars in this review.
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Response from developer
Hi, Congrats on your improvent regarding heartburn. We tested the app to see if we could recreate the issues you mentioned. We are not able to do so on our end. Please contact us at app@fasttractdiet.com with the details so tech support can investigate this issue further. Thanks
Makes you sign up for an account before you can use it
After paying eight dollars. You can’t even use the app right away. You have to give away personal information and sign up for an account with the company and then wait for them to send you a verification email before you can even use the app or look up anything on the food list
It didn't work for me
My initial review for this protocol was very hopeful, but it has been a year now and I can say that this did not work for me. My reflux was terrible on this diet, even when I initially kept my daily FP under 10. In fact, I then tried keeping it under 5 and still had no success. Finally, I tried an extreme 0FP experiment, eating only eggs, fish, salt and oil for several weeks. My gas went down, but my reflux was awful. My LPR was really bad. Things got much worse.
After 5 months of a strict <10Fp diet my LPR did not improve. I experimented with various low FP combinations for another 7 months to no avail.
Instead what yields improvement for me is a diet that speeds gastric transit. Doing anything I can to keep that system moving as quickly as possible reduces my symptoms better than anything else I've tried. I avoid starchy foods like rice and potatoes entirely, but I eat foods with fibre. I avoid grains, apart from white wheat flour products like crumpets and certain crackers, which are not a problem for me, which is contrary to the Fast Tract Diet's theoretical basis. Blueberries help a lot. Mashed chickpeas, blended celery are fine.
My diet is extremely limited. I can only eat about 5 foods without getting bad LPR which causes throat pain and debilitating hoarseness. To stay alive I supplement with vitamins and amino acids, which are my main protein source. It's not a healthy diet, but being unable to speak is the alternative and reflux-induced oesophageal cancer is a possibility if reflux goes on for too long.
The app itself is quite good for seeing the fibre, FP and carb content of a wide range of foods, though it's disappointing that in a year there has not been an update. It still doesn't provide important data like calories and protein content, meaning that to design a diet, other apps are required to be used at the same time, preferably on two phones so one can see the FP and macros together while choosing foods to add.
If the app alone doesn't help you, Norman recommends his consultation service. His website pushes that service fairly hard. Fair enough, that's how he makes a living. But he charges thousands of dollars for the consultations, and if you are like me and eating a low LP diet doesn't fix your reflux, that money will be wasted.
Good luck, everyone!
After 5 months of a strict <10Fp diet my LPR did not improve. I experimented with various low FP combinations for another 7 months to no avail.
Instead what yields improvement for me is a diet that speeds gastric transit. Doing anything I can to keep that system moving as quickly as possible reduces my symptoms better than anything else I've tried. I avoid starchy foods like rice and potatoes entirely, but I eat foods with fibre. I avoid grains, apart from white wheat flour products like crumpets and certain crackers, which are not a problem for me, which is contrary to the Fast Tract Diet's theoretical basis. Blueberries help a lot. Mashed chickpeas, blended celery are fine.
My diet is extremely limited. I can only eat about 5 foods without getting bad LPR which causes throat pain and debilitating hoarseness. To stay alive I supplement with vitamins and amino acids, which are my main protein source. It's not a healthy diet, but being unable to speak is the alternative and reflux-induced oesophageal cancer is a possibility if reflux goes on for too long.
The app itself is quite good for seeing the fibre, FP and carb content of a wide range of foods, though it's disappointing that in a year there has not been an update. It still doesn't provide important data like calories and protein content, meaning that to design a diet, other apps are required to be used at the same time, preferably on two phones so one can see the FP and macros together while choosing foods to add.
If the app alone doesn't help you, Norman recommends his consultation service. His website pushes that service fairly hard. Fair enough, that's how he makes a living. But he charges thousands of dollars for the consultations, and if you are like me and eating a low LP diet doesn't fix your reflux, that money will be wasted.
Good luck, everyone!
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Riddled with bugs
Great idea, but limited food choices (also very American). There is a Custom Food and Recipe option, but it is so buggy it’s practically useless. Items are awkward to add, and it logs the wrong points.
Highly recommend
Loving the app in helping me keep my SIBO symptoms under control. The diet and it’s principles just work and are the only thing that has worked to keep my SIBO symptoms and pain under control. The app makes it very easy to track my symptoms and what I’ve eaten.
Great
No idea where the bad reviews are coming from. This app is super simple and super handy. Only improvement is more food in the database as well as ability to scan a barcode but the calculator is handy when the food is not in the database. Only on day 1 of this diet and can already tell it’s the one for me.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review Sarah and happy you find the app useful.
Terrible App
I read the book and wanted to try this method of controlling GERD, but the app is horrendous. I read the reviews before getting it and expected that it wouldn’t have many foods, but dude, it seriously has almost nothing, and even trying to search for foods is ridiculous. Unless you type something in the search box that exactly matches how a food is entered, it doesn’t come up. For example, I tried searching for “shredded coconut” by typing “coconut” and then “shredded” and nothing came up. Then I tried “shredded” and “coconut” and nothing came up. Shredded coconut is on his FP food list given in the book, so there’s absolutely no reason it shouldn’t be in here. I even tried using it in conjunction with MyFitnessPal since they have pretty much everything, but you can’t track the right macros in MFP (i.e., there is no FP) and it would take forever to add all of the foods individually to the FTD app, all the while having to guess at the FP for each item. It’s an interesting concept, but man, it needs a lot of work before it can easily be applied. I don’t have the time to do all of this all on my own, and I figured that spending money on the book and the app would get me a lot more information than it has. The author has outlined some interesting ideas, but the implementation is too difficult so it’s not of much use. I really wanted to try this as a way of controlling my symptoms without medication, but this is not helpful at all.
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Response from developer
The app does list shredded coconut. When you enter coconut, about 40 entries show up. One of them is coconut, unsweetened which is "shredded coconut". There is also an entry for coconut strips, a Trader Joe's product. I will change the description of coconut, unsweetened to "coconut, shredded, unsweetened". Hopefully that will make it easier for you to spot with your search. The FP food list contains over 1100 food items with corresponding FP values which are critical for people with GERD, IBS, SIBO, etc. As we continue to add foods based on newly available glycemic index values or close approximations, there are many people using the app to get off of drugs.
Somewhat helpful
In reviewing all the point scores, this doesn’t always agree with my list of high fodmap foods, in fact some this app say are safe are red/bad on my other app! Also there are a lot of weird foods on here, but not more common food items. And why give rum a low score for example when we know alcohol is a problem for SIBO (it’s high on my other one)? I’m just not sure I trust the data but where it agrees I will use it
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Achat pour rien
Je ne reçois pas l email de confirmation lors de m ont inscription donc appli non utilisable pourtant je l ai payez
App has many bugs
I’m still evaluating whether this diet works for me, but it’s incredibly frustrating trying to create low FP recipes in this app. I’ve been attempting to change the number of servings on one recipe, and the app closes itself every time without saving any of my changes.
Also, for foods you’ve added yourself - they show up blank in a recipe, so you have to guess about what it was you added.
It’s also just cumbersome to begin with, so I wouldn’t recommend.
Also, for foods you’ve added yourself - they show up blank in a recipe, so you have to guess about what it was you added.
It’s also just cumbersome to begin with, so I wouldn’t recommend.
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Limited use poor ui
The information is helpful but it could really use a professional once over by a ui/ux designer. One thing that would help so much would just simply being able to sort by points.
Fast Tract Diet *****
This is an excellent App to help find relief from various digestion-related problems. After many years of IBS, and many years of trial and error, I was pointed in the direction of the Fast Tract Diet. This App is handy to have on your phone. It has a daily diary in which you input your food to keep track of symptoms. There is a shopping list you can add ‘reliable’ food and drink to, an extensive list of food and drink, which you can refer to in order to make good food choices, and more. The science behind the App is explained above. I for one am very pleased with the eating plan itself and intend to follow this guidance for an IBS free life. In addition there is a private Facebook group you can join for support and a published book. Give this a try!
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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Fantastic cured!
I’ve been on this diet for just over a year and In that time cured my LPR, Barrett’s, ulcer, gastritis etc. The app was really helpful when I started out to learn how to eat this way. Thank you Norm! I’ve recommended it to many friends.
no effort, save your money
Hasn’t been updated in 11 months. Also, there are FREE diet apps on the market with one million or more food items compared to this app with less than 1,000!
