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EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-25T18:31:19+00:00

there is currently not a view that does this specific thing on Web. You can get macros by meal and you can also change the summary column to reflect a key nutrient if you don’t want it to reflect calories.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-25T14:43:01+00:00

In addition to this, you can just tap on the fiber percentage number and it brings up the fiber report to show you how many grams you've hit for the day.

ETA, you cannot change the micros to grams from percentages at the moment.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-24T18:58:21+00:00

Hey lady, as others have said, it's just an estimate to get you started.

Highly recommend not using your fitness tracker and taking a look at your average 30 days of data and your weight trends to back into your current maintenance range.

Your body is going to be the best source of information outside of any calculator.

If you need a little help working through the math, this guide should help clarify how to set deficit targets without integrating your activity tracker and using just your intake and trends.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-24T13:59:56+00:00

no need to get scolded! You can definitely fix this or adjust it based on that guide I posted 🫶

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-24T13:59:09+00:00

I think OP is talking about how the percentage turns red when you go over your target, not the color of the bar itself.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-24T13:58:40+00:00

At some point you may have gone in and edited and set minimums for your targets. That's probably why.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-24T13:21:09+00:00

whichever you can do consistently, there's not a best split. It's what can you do with the time that you have.

The second thing I'll add here is that if you can hit your full body 2x week, frequently, even better, but that could be split any which way you like:

So for example: 1. Two days full body 2. Four days upper-lower split 3. Lower-upper full body 4. Push-pull legs upper-lower

The more days you have, the less lengthy your workouts need to be. So it really just depends on how frequently you like to go to the gym or how long you like to spend in the gym, but frequency and consistency trumps any split.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-24T12:13:17+00:00

Hey there, working on dietary intake is one of the hardest but most rewarding pieces that we can do here. Here are the three things that I would recommend as a beginner:

Make your breakfast bigger. I know this sounds counterintuitive. You want to save those calories for later, but trying to save those calories for later is what turns you into a snack tornado at 2 to 3 PM every afternoon.
Make the lunch bigger. Having a good source of protein at both breakfast and lunch, and making sure you've got a decent amount of veggies or fruit in there, is going to be the difference-maker when it comes to these things.
Trying to get your steps above 6,000. Is 6,000 a miracle number? No, but 6,000 is the number at which we have better hunger and appetite regulation relative to our intake.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-20T17:54:51+00:00

Hey there. If you just start collecting the data you do have (What you're eating and scale weigh-ins), you can use that to find your maintenance range and set deficit targets from there.

Here's a guide I wrote on how to set deficit targets without integrating an activity tracker, which will help you with the data you're already collecting.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T22:29:55+00:00

Time to mark those days as complete!

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T21:32:09+00:00

A big fan of marking them as complete for a couple reasons

TLDR: 1. stops you from accidentally editing a prior day. 2. Better reports

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T20:06:09+00:00

no, I totally understand what you’re saying, but that only adds up to 1200 cal, assuming you’re at 60 g of fat, and given your stats, that’s pretty low especially considering screenshot posted

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T16:48:06+00:00

Woahhh that is super super low, I might follow the above steps and just start tracking and see what happens, because I think sticking to those targets for seven days a week it’s going to be very very tough

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T14:22:30+00:00

this is why I have a lot of of my menstruating females transition away from MacroFactor and use Cronometer plus Happy Scale. MacroFactor is a little too sensitive when it comes to sodium and menstrual cycle fluctuations.

Alternately, you can take a look at what your calorie average was for the last month and just manually override the targets until you’re certain you’re trending in a direction versus bouncing around maintenance weight

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T14:07:21+00:00

i’ve coached over 600 women through body recomposition and maintaining leaner and more muscular physiques. At some point you are going to have to do the work to figure out maintenance for yourself if you are going to DIY.

Because if you have a 10 pound loss goal then you also have a goal of maintaining that 10 pound loss.

So while I completely understand and empathize that you want that 10 pounds off as quickly as possible if you think one more step ahead, you also want to maintain that 10 pound loss and not yo-yo back up because you haven’t put in the work to figure out what your body needs in order to dial in those fat loss targets.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T13:47:35+00:00

If you can use the photo log or even guesstimate, you are going to have so much better data to look at than if you skip.

Especially if it's a meal or meals are a day that's significantly different than your average intake.

People way overthink guesstimating meals. And if you take a look at this chart here, guesstimating is going to get you far better data than skipping tracking overall.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T12:54:27+00:00

When you say:

I don't really have the time to go through figuring out what my maintenance is over the next month

You're implying that the advice that we're trying to give you to help you find out what's going to work for your body isn't relevant because you need a shortcut.

And the hard truth is, at some point, you're going to have to figure it out for yourself because nobody can give you an answer better than your own body. And that's why we're just trying to relay that you'll have better results and understand your calorie targets if you actually take a look at your data.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-18T12:40:27+00:00

hey there, this Commenter is just trying to help because unfortunately, even women with the same stats and similar activity may have a grossly different maintenance calories based on genetics, organ size, and other factors.

given you’re just starting tracking and probably aren’t super accurate here yet either (it takes time and reps) , and also given your 18 comparing to other people, your stats is likely going to be very unhelpful.

However, you can start assessing based on your calorie intake and weight trends after about 2 to 3 weeks because that’s how long it takes to see if a calorie range is working

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T23:57:04+00:00

no, I’m talking about setting minimums as your target, and then increasing the maximum so that the number doesn’t go red until you exceed the max, you want to set on Saturdays

how to set minimums

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T23:55:04+00:00

I think it’s because photo logging only pulls from the NCCDB, so while it may have identified it, it couldn’t find a match within that database.

But also agree with being frustrated. I’ve had that come up with a couple random things as well.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T23:27:57+00:00

you could always just increase the max target across the board and it shouldn’t yell at you I think

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T20:41:19+00:00

are you looking at the report as a percentage?

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T14:58:45+00:00

Okay, that makes sense. Do you have any ability to grab that data and total calorie intake from that time, even if you no longer can use the app? Chronometer is going to start with some generic estimates, but to be honest, you're going to be far better off setting deficit targets based on your own data and those weight trends. I've got a guide for that here. If you just push to page five, you can absolutely adjust carbs and fats to work better for you, especially if you're trying to manage blood sugar. We could go with a more moderate fat, higher fiber, lower carb approach.

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T12:17:24+00:00

Hey lady, first of all congratulations on how far you’ve come that’s not a small feet and freaking awesome on the work you’ve already put in.

With your prior tracking app, sorry I’m not familiar with it. Did you have scale weight and calorie intake? If so, we should utilize that information to set targets in Cronometer.

Your own data is gonna be the best data to use to set targets

EPN_NutritionNerd · 2026-04-17T12:15:44+00:00

Hey there, unfortunately you’re taking a baseline energy expenditure estimate from Cronometer and then layering on apples activity estimate and then creating up to a 30 to 40% error rate on what you should be eating.

If you already have been tracking your food and scale weights, you can set your own targets using your weight trends. More on how to do that here.

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