Logging your meals
You can log what you eat from your client app. Logging a meal by its foods gives you your own calorie and macro totals for the day. When you are not sure of the exact ingredients, you can share a photo or a note instead.
Log a meal
- Open Meals.
- Choose which meal it is — or Outside a meal if it is not on your plan.
- Eating one of your usual meals? Tap it under Your usuals, check the amounts, and skip to the last step. Otherwise, add the foods: search for each one and set the amount. As you add them, the calories and macros add up so you can see the meal take shape.
- Not sure of the exact ingredients? Choose Add a photo or note instead — handy when you are eating out or somewhere you can't check what went in.
- Tap Log meal (or Share meal if you used a photo or note).
Your meal appears in your history straight away.
If you chose a meal from your plan, your note can refer to it: “my usual breakfast” or “breakfast as planned, but half the oats.” Mention foods you skipped, swapped, or added so your coach has the context. You do not need to repeat every ingredient that stayed the same.
Setting amounts in cups, ounces or grams
Set each food's amount in the unit you think in, or the one printed on the pack.
- Tap the food to open its amount.
- Tap Serving size and pick a unit. Drinks offer ml, fl oz, cups, tablespoons (tbsp) and teaspoons (tsp). Foods you weigh offer grams, ounces and pounds. Some foods also have a portion of their own, like a scoop of protein powder or a cup of chopped onion.
- Type the amount, or use − and +. The calories and macros update as you go.
Serving size shows how much one of that unit is, like 1 cup (240 ml) or 1 scoop (31 g), so you can check it against the label.
Cups and spoons mean standard measuring cups and spoons, filled level. A mug or a heaped spoon holds a lot more.
Your history shows each food the way you logged it, like 1.5 cups, and a meal you add again from Your usuals opens in the same units. Your coach sees your amount too, with the grams or ml beside it.
If the unit you want isn't listed, that food can't be converted to it accurately yet. Use grams or ounces instead. Foods counted in pieces or servings, like an egg, keep their one unit.
Scanning packaged food
If you see a barcode button next to Search foods, you can log anything from a packet by scanning it.
- Tap the barcode button and point your camera at the barcode on the pack.
- If you're the first to scan this product, its details appear for you to check. Compare the serving size, calories, protein, carbs, and fat with the nutrition table on the pack, change anything that's different, then tap Add to Breakfast (or whichever meal you're logging).
- Choose how much you ate and tap Add to meal.
A product someone has already added skips straight to step 3. If the numbers there don't match your pack, tap Doesn't match your pack? and correct them. Your change updates that food for everyone who logs it, and meals already logged keep their numbers.
Always check against the pack in your hand. Recipes and pack sizes change, so it is the most reliable source, and a few seconds of checking keeps your daily totals right.
Logging a pack later
Took a photo of the barcode or the label in the shop, or while you were eating? Tap the barcode button, then Photos at the bottom left of the camera and choose the photo. A barcode photo carries on just like a scan. For a label photo, tap Label first.
When the barcode isn't found
If you see We don't have this product yet, you have two choices:
- Take a photo of the label: turn the pack over and photograph the nutrition table. The details are filled in from your photo for you to check.
- Add it yourself: type the details in from the pack.
Either way, the product is saved, so the next scan of it finds it straight away.
If the camera can't read the barcode, for example on a crumpled or shiny packet, tap Label at the bottom of the camera to photograph the nutrition table instead.
Getting a good label photo
- Fit the whole nutrition table inside the frame.
- Hold the pack flat, in good light, without glare. Tap the torch button if it's dim.
- When the photo is taken, the app asks Can you read every number? If you can't, tap Retake (or Choose another for a photo from your library).
- Check the filled-in numbers against the pack before you add the food. If a number was misread, fix it in place.
There is no daily limit on barcode scans or label photos.
If the camera doesn't open
If you see Camera access is off, allow camera access for this site in your browser settings. You can still tap Choose a photo to use a photo of the pack, or search for the food by name instead.
Adding photos
You can add up to 3 photos to one meal, both when logging foods and when sharing a photo or note. Choose several from your gallery, or use Add photo again. Remove a photo with its × before sharing; the first photo is the cover.
Eating several courses? Take the photos as they arrive, then log the meal once at the end. Once shared, its photos are fixed. If you selected too many, the app keeps the first photos that fit and tells you some were not added.
In your history, +1 or +2 on the cover means there are more photos. Tap it, then swipe or use the arrows to see them all. If your coach has enabled estimates, there is one estimate for the whole meal.
Logging a dish by its ingredients
Log what went into a dish rather than the dish's name. It is more accurate, and it shows your coach what you really ate.
- A mixed dish, like chicken pulao: log the chicken, the rice, the oil and the vegetables as separate foods.
- Rice and grains: log them raw, weighed before cooking.
- Oil, ghee or butter: always log it. Search oil or ghee and pick Oil, Ghee or Butter: one entry covers all three.
- Vegetables: one Mixed Vegetables entry is enough. Log potatoes separately.
- A chapati or roti: log the whole wheat flour it is made from.
- Fruit later in the day: log it as its own snack.
Eat the same meal often? Once it's logged, tap the three dots on it in your meal history and choose Add to your usuals. Next time it is one tap.
Logging yesterday's meals
Forgot to log yesterday? Tap Today at the top of your daily totals and choose Yesterday. Your totals then show yesterday, and the meals you log go to yesterday until you switch back, so you can fill in the whole day in one go. While you are on yesterday, the heading above your meals reads Log a meal for yesterday.
Next time you open Meals, it starts on today again.
Seeing what you ate on a day
Tap See your trends under your daily totals to see your week. Tap any day on the chart to see that day's totals and the meals you logged, with your coach's notes. Use the arrows to step to the day before or after, and the back arrow to return to your week.
Finding foods and meals you've added
If the food you eat isn't in the list, you can add it yourself — a home recipe, a local takeaway, or an own-brand item. Once you have added a food or named a meal, food search gains an Added by you filter that keeps those meals and foods together. Foods you log most often appear first, with a note of when you last used each.
Once you choose which meal you are logging, Your usuals shows the meals you eat most for it, right there on the page. Tap Show more to see the rest. Breakfast shows your breakfasts first, and lunch and dinner share theirs, because they are easy to swap.
Food search also suggests meals you have logged before. Give one a name to keep it in Your usuals, where you can add it again in one tap, change its foods for next time, or remove it. Meals you already logged stay unchanged.
Reach for Added by you when you are logging something you created or named: it saves searching the whole library and helps you avoid adding a second copy.
Your daily totals
When you log meals by their foods, your app shows your running totals for the day — calories, protein, carbs, and fat — so you can see how the day is shaping up.
Meals you share as just a photo or note don't add to those totals; your coach reviews those directly. You won't see coach-only estimates or scores — those stay on your coach's side.
Editing or removing a meal
You can fix a meal until your coach has reviewed it:
- Edit its details, or the foods you added.
- Delete a meal you logged.
Once your coach has replied to or reviewed a meal, it is locked so their feedback stays intact. If something needs changing after that, message your coach the way you normally would.
Coach replies
If your coach replies, their note appears under the meal it relates to. You may also see a notification in your app. You can add one short reply back with any missing context — for example, "swapped rice for potato, I was out."
If something goes wrong
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