Aleks Zapat
Founder of CalCash. I build the bot and this site myself: I write the code, put the pages together and answer support. This page says who is behind the numbers here and by what rules they get published.
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Who I am and why this site exists
My name is Aleks Zapat and I founded CalCash. It did not start as a product idea — it started as my own problem. I wanted to see how much I ate and how much I spent, and no tracker survived more than three weeks with me: filling in a form for every spoonful gets old long before the habit sticks.
So I built a bot for myself. Snap the plate — the entry with calories and macros is there. Say "15 on a cab" — the expense lands in the budget. Turned out I was not the only one who needed that, and a personal workaround became a product.
I write the code myself, I build the site myself, and I answer support myself. Which means if something on a page is nonsense, it is my nonsense and there is someone to ask about it. That is the point of this page: texts about health and money should have a specific person behind them, not a faceless "company".
What I do not promise
I am not a doctor, not a dietitian and not a financial advisor. I have no medical training, and I give no personal recommendations — not about food, not about treatment, not about money.
The calculators here are arithmetic on published formulas, not advice for you specifically. The Mifflin-St Jeor equation describes an average person with your height, weight, age and sex. Your metabolism can sit hundreds of calories away from that average, and no formula knows it in advance.
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding, diabetes, kidney disease, eating disorders — see a doctor first, the calculator second
- The number on the screen is a starting point for watching yourself, not a diagnosis or a prescription
- If the math and how you feel disagree, you are right and the formula is not
Editorial principles
The rules by which numbers make it onto this site. There are three of them, and they are simple.
Where the numbers come from
Every calculation here rests on a published formula, and the formula is named: the daily target comes from Mifflin-St Jeor, the activity multipliers are the standard set from sedentary to very active, and food calories are refined against the USDA FoodData Central database. Next to the formula we put a link to the original source, so you can read it yourself instead of taking my word for it.
How it gets checked
The text of a page is checked against the code that actually does the math. If a page says "a 500 kcal daily deficit", the calculator uses exactly 500 — not 450, not 600. Claims about the bot get the same treatment: only what really works today stays on the site.
What happens when something is wrong
Mistakes happen. If you spot one, write to support on Telegram — it reaches me personally. I check it, fix the text and put the correction date at the end of the page. Not a silent rewrite, but a visible sign that the material was updated.
How to reach me
I keep no separate personal address or phone number — everything goes through the same channels as regular CalCash support. It is simpler that way: nothing gets lost and nothing goes unanswered.
Write to @calcash_support on Telegram or to [email protected]. For a mistake on the site Telegram is easier: send the page address and what exactly looked off.
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