Your daily calorie target
Most apps compute a calorie target from height, weight and a guess at your activity level, then never revisit it. Here the target is derived from your weekly budget, and the weekly budget is corrected against what your weight actually does.
Open it in the appMeasured, then predicted
A formula is used only until there is enough of your own data to do better. Once there is, your maintenance level is measured from the relationship between what you logged and how your weight moved, and the target follows that instead.
This matters because the standard formulas are routinely a few hundred calories out for an individual, and a few hundred calories is the entire size of a sensible deficit.
It refuses when it should
If the data is too thin or too noisy to support a measured figure, the app says so rather than presenting a confident number it cannot justify. A stated "not enough data yet" is more useful than a precise-looking guess.
Questions
- Can I override it?
- Yes. You can set your own target and the app will work to it, while still telling you what the data suggests.
- How long before it has enough data?
- Roughly a few weeks of reasonably complete logging and regular weigh-ins. Until then you get the formula estimate, clearly labelled as one.
Try it
CalFitness is free to start. Your daily calorie target is in the app from the day you install it.
Related features
- Weekly energy budgetThe daily number is a slice of a weekly one, shaped around your real week.
- What you actually burnMaintenance measured from your own log and scale, not predicted by a formula.
- Macro targetsProtein, carbs and fat as targets you can reason about, not four rings.
- Weight trendThe line through the noise, not the number on the scale this morning.