Carry over calorie balance day to day
I would seriously love a feature where if you end a day over/under on calories, that is reflected in the next day. This would allow users to stick to a weight goal while also living life normally, eg. eating more when out with friends one day, less another, etc. I would consider switching to a different nutrition app just for this feature.
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The specific “budget rollover” you’re talking about doesn’t exist. It does sound interesting, though, and I can see some utility for it. I can think of some workarounds:
To most directly line up with the daily budget shifting you’re describing, you could either have a “for tomorrow” category on a given day that you use the following day. So if today is the 13th, you go into the 12th and log under “for tomorrow”I initially thought negative food entries would be helpful here, but it’d just mess up your daily stats.
For most accurate data, though, I think a mindset shift would help most:
At the end of day, we’re tracking intake. All the daily budgets, BMR calculations, activity, etc, are just there to guide us during entry.
What you’re describing could be thought of as more of a weekly perspective on your budget, rather than daily. So, to use a concrete example:
On the 12th, you were 500kcal under budget. Logged. Now it’s the 13th. You go past your budget by 500kcal and log. It shows as an overage. Maybe that feels a little bad.
But if you stay on budget all week, and look at your weekly report (or even just your report summary if you enable that widget) at the end of the week, you’ll see that your average intake was exactly on budget, and your average deficit is what you want. Feels good. Mission accomplished, and your data for each day is accurately reflected.
Come to think of it, a weekly or multiday budget circle mode might be interesting. But the Report Summary widget does the job for me
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come to think of it, if you have the exercise addition to budget toggle enabled, you could also just add some dummy exercise calories for your overage to the day of. Still not as accurate for burn data, but it’d move the number up
