Meet Matt.

Why Mero exists

For most of my life, food felt like something I had to either earn or fear. I was the kid in the husky section who tried endless cardio, crash diets, and random rules, lost weight, and put it back on. Nothing stuck, because I was following instructions without understanding the system.

That changed in 2022 when I learned to count macros. Food stopped being a moral test and started making sense as information: protein, carbs, fat, calories, portions, tradeoffs. I lost the weight and kept it off, and I could still cook food I actually wanted to eat.

Here is the part that took longer to understand. Knowing my targets was the easy step. The hard part was living them week to week: turning a changing training week into meals, one grocery trip, a prep session, and a decision about what to eat today. That gap, between the numbers and Tuesday dinner, is where consistency usually breaks. Mero is built to close it.

What Mero is

Mero is a training-aware weekly meal planner for people who already understand macros and train on a real schedule. It takes your targets and your training week and turns them into a plan you can follow: meals for the week, one grocery list, an ordered prep session, and a simple daily checklist. Hard, easy, and rest days do not have to look identical, and next week can respond to how this week actually went.

Mero is not a food diary, not a medical or clinical nutrition service, not a race-day fueling platform, and not a one-to-one coach. It is the planning and execution layer for macro-aware athletes who want structure without logging every bite or paying for coaching.

How Mero is built

Mero’s app plans your week with deterministic, rule-based logic, not generative AI. The same inputs produce the same plan, which makes it transparent and repeatable. Macro targets are estimated with the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, the same starting point most dietitians use. Ingredient macros come from USDA FoodData Central or a product’s nutrition label, not a generic recipe database. The guides on this site draw on recognized sport-nutrition literature, and they cite it where a claim needs support. I am not a registered dietitian, and Mero is not medical advice; the plans and numbers are examples, not personal prescriptions. For the full detail, read how Mero plans a week.

Get in touch

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