Calorie goals now that food plan gone

[Bunger]

This didn't click for me yet and I can't seem to find a good explanation anywhere.

Current version:

Takes the calories you burned that day so far, subtracts your chosen calorie deficit and displays how much you have left at the time you look at it. That makes sense to me. I understand what's happening. You progress towards your goal every day.

Redesign:

You set a fixed calorie goal that's the same every day... and that's it? It apparently doesn't account for my activity (or lack thereof)? So on days I do little I eat too much and days I do much I might eat too little? Is the hope that it somehow just balances itself in the long run? Which is why "Key metrics - Calories intake" defaults you to "This week" and not "Today"? Is it intended that I, despite wanting to loose just a bit more weight (which the AI things knows), should eat ~1500 calories more than I'll burn today? At least according to the goal that was already there. I could change it, but to what? I don't know how to decide a value that just applies to all days no matter if I burned 2000 or 4000 calories.

[RiekoC]

Hello @Bunger 

I moved your post from the Android app help forum to the Public Preview help forum, a better fit for your question. 

[AmandaKar]

I am wondering the same! This is a HUGE feature for me. My daily calories in will be different each day and very much based off my activity and calories out. (IE, if I have a very low activity day, I will adjust and lower my food intake to hit my daily goal). This is how I stay on track and I need to be able to see where im at for the day. I hope this changes! Or maybe they take feature requests?

[Oss92m]

This is basically what was considered a bug and fixed in this post https://community.fitbit.com/t5/iOS-App/Calorie-goal-keeps-resetting/td-p/5817161

I guess, time to switch away from Fitbit or Google Health or whatever they wanna call it

[LumpyCrumpet]

Sorry to say that the "food plan" calorie target feature is something they have now specifically said is going away with Google Health. It won't exist.

I'm extremely upset with this to say the least as this feature is basically the only reason I have a Fitbit at all.

[pbaines]

I do somewhat understand not implementing the "food plan" feature - it was a bit clunky. But the dynamic calorie deficit is/was a killer feature. It helped me lose weight last year. I don't do the same amount of exercise every day, so it was good to know that I wasn't overeating on low exercise days, but that I was eating enough to avoid damage on high exercise days. 

It would NOT be hard for Google to at least allow TWO types of calorie goals. One could be a TOTAL INTAKE for each day - which is fine for people who do the same thing every day - but the second option could be the DEFICIT you hope to achieve, and then it will tell you if you need to eat more or less each day. It's really NOT hard to do. 

[Mila_M]

I am wondering if moving from Fitbit to Google Heath app will worsen it even more. It kept declining and losing both fun and useful features for the last couple years - I used to enjoy the games, and adventures - poof, gone! Now they are taking away the feature that is most valuable - to me, at least! Starting to think that after 7+ years of being loyal Fitbit premium member my membership doesn't matter to app creators anymore. Maybe I need to put my money to better use somewhere else... 😞 

[AmandaKar]

It doesn't seem like a hard feature to show! Its already tracking calories in and energy out. Just put the 2 metrics together so I can compare and color code it if im in a deficit on track or over. This is a key feature for me and I really hope it gets tweaked! Yes I can do it myself but making things easy is how people stick to to plans and goals!