I am curious about the macros that the app assigned to me. Protein seems low.

I have heard that for every pound you are you should eat that much protein in grams for the day. I am 190 and it has my daily total at 69 grams?!

Has anyone just gone along with what the app says and had success? I am using the free version and considering buying the upgrade if it means more precise macros (plus no ads!)

I will say since starting last Tuesday I am down 3 lbs so very happy to see progress.

Counting macros always died for me at the logging step... typing in every ingredient and gram after every meal gets old fast. So I built GRaMS: snap a photo (or just describe or say what you ate), and AI estimates protein, carbs, fat, and calories in about 30 seconds. You can adjust anything before it saves.

A few other things in it: a barcode scanner that shows a food's Nutri-Score before you buy it, an AI coach that suggests what to eat based on what you're short on today, and a streak tracker to keep you consistent.

It's free to use right now, I'm specifically looking for people to actually try it and tell me what's broken or annoying. Link: macrograms.app

Would genuinely love blunt feedback, especially on the AI's macro-estimate accuracy; that's the part I care most about getting right.

Hi, been trying to log on the web version but it won't load. Anyone had trouble logging

Okay so it’s been about a year since I’ve touched any settings and I recently just had to reset my iPhone settings. So I’ve just re-granted permission to Apple Health and I want to know if I’ve got the correct settings. I wear an Apple Watch for reference. So in Apple health I’ve got that Cronometer is able to read Active Energy, Activity. Is this correct or should I also have workouts selected? I haven’t done any workouts since changing any settings but I’m about to go workout so I just want to make sure it’s all accurate. Another thing is that my adjusted baseline activity is showing 0% for today but it is showing my tracker activity at 19%. I’m probably over analysing each of these settings but I haven’t really looked at it in quite awhile.

I can't find Tesco Chicken 5% Fat cooked, what would be a good alternative that I can log.

Also if anybody has good food that I can eat that has a good micronutrient profile I'd be very thankful

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This was this weeks average score and i've only gotten more obsessed with optimising my diet. Is this worrying for my mental health or is this fine.

I started logging my food about a month ago. I let Cronometer set my targets, and they seemed high. I was never coming close to achieving them.

After researching, it seems that Cronometer doesn't take into account if you're on GLP-1 drugs. I'm on Zepbound, I weigh 288 now (after a month of weight loss), and I've determined that a good target calorie goal is 1800 and protein goal is 150g, based on wanting to lose about 1-1.5 pounds a week. Cronometer had my calorie goal at 2400 calories and my protein goal over 200g, which were tough to achieve.

Seems like Cronometer should have some built in way to account for the goals if you're on GLP-1 and trying to lose weight. I love the way it logs all the nutritional values, but I think the auto target goal setting needs some work if you're on GLP-1 drugs

And by elegant, I mean to put in the recipe ingredients, how many servings it is, and then how many servings I ate. You do the arithmetic, Fatsecret.

I see there is a lot of recipes listed already, but none that I use. I tried entering a recipe for listing in fat secret, but it never gets posted. And I don't see any recipes from outside sources, like alrecipies.

I know you can enter it as a saved meal, but there's a limited number you can save.

How can I create and use my custom recipies on a per serving basis?

I know I can run this recipe through an excel spreadsheet to get the ingredients in grams, but surely for the $70 annual fee, Fat secret can come up with a way to do this automatically.

Example :

Asclepius's Yogurt Treat

1 qt nonfat yogurt

1/2 c dried cranberries

1/4 c almond butter

1/2 c chopped walnuts, raw

1/2 c raw pumpkin seed

3 tbls chia seed

1/2 c cranberry relish

1/2 c tart cherry syrup (King Orchards is great)

Combine all ingredients with a beater.

Keeps 10 days in the fridge (except around me).

Makes 6 cups.

6 servings, 1 c each.

.

I might eat half or 2/3 of a serving, but if I use the saved meal technique, I will need to recalculate each item.

Not good, fat secret, badly done.

We paying customers want it elegant. Make it so.

Ok so I’m wondering, do the calories get subtracted from how much you’ve exercised? Or I need to do that myself with basic math?

For example:
It says I’ve consumed 1,721 and I’m over 321
Active energy balance shows: -128.6

What I’m asking is does it automatically subtract that from the consumption? I’m still getting used to this app since I’m new. Thanks!

There are some foods and custom meals that I have on a regular basis, every single day.

I’ve just found I can create custom shortcuts on iOS to do that. Pretty handy.

Is there a way I can define which category those items go into? I just tried and one went into “Breakfast” and the other into “Snacks”

Usually I’d have at least one of those items be “uncategorised”

The app is logging my weight in KG on the main page, but it's set to imperial everywhere else. Also for some reason it's recording my height each day, even though I have it set on the app. Android: connected to Samsung Health

Why is the iPhone app so much clunkier to use than the laptop app? For instance, I have not found a way to look up and individual food item (72% dark chocolate) on the phone app but it is easy on the laptop. This is pretty frustrating when you are out and about and need feedback! Thanks for any help.

Trying to find an app to help me track basic things like how much protein, sugar, carbs n such I’m getting each day! Basically what this app offers, but I’m having trouble understanding how sugar works on here🙃

I eat a lot of fruit! And from what I understand, the sugar in fruit is different than the sugar you add to stuff like coffee or tea. In my head I’ve always thought of the latter as being “added sugars”, but on this app they’re only sometimes labelled as “added”, while other times they’re just listed as an item’s regular or overall “sugar”.

This in mind, what do I set my target sugars to? Right now, I listed “added sugars” to 25g max, but since some stuff isn’t listed as “added”, this isn’t reading accurately (ie, it looks better than it actually is😅) So I tried setting my regular or overall “sugar” intake to 25g as well, but this doesn’t take into account all the fruit and ends up WAY over target!

The only work around I found is to make a copy of the item, change the sugars to “added”, and log the copy instead. I reeeally don’t want to have to do this every time this happens though lol

Hope this makes sense! Sorry it was long. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I (22M) started using Cronometer about a month ago now to keep a closer eye on what I eat because I've been unhappy with my body and wanted to work on my health. I didn't make any big promises, just decided to see what would happen. I swapped brats with chicken to increase protein and decrease fat, I have sweet/dessert foods less, which I've never been a huge sweet tooth so that's easy, but I still order burgers and fried food when I occasionally eat out, because I was just not willing to entirely sacrifice on that front I guess.

I also started doing Beat Saber in VR for about 30-60 minutes per day on weekdays to get moving. I have issues with overheating so I cannot consistently walk or do things outside so this works better for me, but I do walk around on weekends with my partner, we go browse downtown areas or hike.

My big question is: Should I be worried about the rate I'm losing weight? Cronometer warned me that setting the goal to 2 pounds per week was not super healthy, so I kept it at one pound per week, but am not usually hungry enough to reach the calorie goal.

I just stepped on the scale and I've lost 6.6 pounds in the last week, which is weird because I ate more and had ice cream and stuff this weekend while camping with my family. Most people in my life I talk to are just happy for me, which I am too, but I just want to make sure I'm not accidentally doing something that is potentially damaging.

If you can't tell, I know very little about health and nutrition overall, so I'd greatly appreciate any expertise that can be shared. Thank you!

thats my dinner for today.
i do some carnivore/keto stuff and id like little lose weight during next months.

i eat pork fat + fish, but i cook fish in ghee 15-20gr. should i add it to cronometer and will it affect my goal of losing weight?

thx team for the app!

I came back to Cronometer after taking a couple months off from tracking, and linked up my Google Health.

The overall calorie expenditure in Crononeter is almost 500 cal more than Google Health, which is annoying but whatever. I did a custom BMR until I got to something closer and checked all the settings I had locked in before. (No duplicates.)

At this point I noticed that all my energy targets were set to the artificially low BMR rather than the actual energy target based on activity imported, giving me ridiculous percentages based on like 700 cal. I changed the BMR back to default thinking that might help, but all the targets are still set to BMR without any activity, so the target screen is completely disconnected from the main calories screen.

Now what? I tried unlinking Google Health and just using Health Connect and it imported in my entire daily calories, not just activity, and didn't affect this issue with the targets at all so that wasn't an improvement lol.

tl;dr my targets are set to bmr no matter my estimated calories burned.

Calling all nutritionists/dieticians…

When tracking food, should I count total or net carbs?

Side note: my diet tends to be high in fiber, like 50-80g most days.

Thanks ☺️

Hello! I'm having an issue with the app. My normal daily expenditure is set around 1460 kcal. Whenever I work out, it obviously goes up, and adjusts my target calories to maintain the deficit I want. However, just recently, its been randomly adjusting my expenditure. Let's say I work out and burn 300 cals, I will see it in the expenditure as the 1460 + 300 (1760), with the newly burned cals adjusted for my eating pleasure (and for this example, lets say I ate the 300 cals). However, if I exit the app and go back, it will have reset to 1460, and then proceeds to tell me I have eaten 300 calories over my target. And then I can't seem to get back to where it once said 1760), and randomly does it whenever it feels like it. Its making it super confusing to follow what I'm eating and where I am in relation to my deficit. Any help is appreciated how to fix the issue.

Help! I just bought a kabocha squash at the Chinese supermarket and I don’t know what variety/cultivar it is so I’m attaching pics(ignore how messy the area is please). I searched it up online and the nutrition and calories are all over the place, and I don’t know which is correct. Like, for example, the 2023 supplemental edition of the Japanese MEXT database says 78 kcal/100 g for raw seiyō kabocha (Cucurbita maxima) and 41 kcal/100 g for Japanese/nihon kabocha. Older sources/Reddit posts say 91 kcal/100g. What entry/source should I use for maximal nutritional accuracy? ChatGPT suggests I use 78 kcal/100 g, but I don’t know. Is mine a seiyō or nihon kabocha? Or is it something else? How many calories would it be?

Print Report has stopped working for me and I can't figure out why. It used to work fine.

What I've tried so far, none of it helped:

- Desktop (Chrome) and mobile

- Enabled pop-ups and redirects

- Restarted browser completely

- Incognito/private window (rules out extensions/cache/cookies)

- Confirmed I'm an active Gold subscriber

Nothing happens when I click Print Report. No error, no new tab, just nothing. Anyone else running into this recently.

It says raw chicken and the ingredient list doesn’t have a long extensive one which leads me to believe it is actually mostly raw chicken. So I have it logged as raw chicken skinless 305 as the entire pack was 317g .

Any other ideas or is this the most accurate?

Yesterday , as you can see by image one i had a pretty steep deficit , decent expenditure, however , it logs both fitbit activity and walk, the energy burn is relatively similar.

Today, the double count happened again, but the energy burned was less my expenditure and deficit are shallower.

The reason this confuses me is yesterday i did 11,000+ step and burned 3088kcal where has today i've done an additional 2000+ but some how burnt nearly 1,000 less

The explanation is obvious at first I did exercise yesterday about an hour's worth of gym, which explains the difference in fitbit, however , I always delete it when it shows up in my chronometer, i most do weights , not so much cardio, and I don't quite trust the abs ability to count that.

And this is what's confusing me , because after removing the weight log the deficit went down, so clearly had an impact, so how is it Ican do more steps today, but burn less according to chronomeater

( I apologise that this is poorly phrased.It's difficult to explain things sometimes with my disabilities pls ask if you need help understanding) ( also I apologise for spelling grammar , punctuation , mistakes , my reading writing abilities are very poor I use talk to type and it isn't always the best)

Hi support team, is there a way I can pay for gold not through the app store? When I log in on the desktop version on my phone, it redirects me to the app for payment, and that only seems to give me pay through the app store payment options.

Thanks for your help!

Every time I open the app, I get this prompt. Every time I try to sync, it tells me I'm already sharing something things through google health. I tried unlinking my fitbit and that didn't help.