Change calorie intake vs outtake

[Emmmmmm]

Hi. I was looking to talk to someone about the app. Under the nutrition and calorie part the app compares the calories in vs calories out. For someone with an eating disorder it can be very triggering when it says “over” calorie intake when you are only at 1,000 calories. I think it’s a change that needs to be made

[YojanaFitbit]

Hello @Emmmmmm! This is a great suggestion, thanks for sharing. Keen to hear what others think?

[ashwolve]

I can understand the reasons for the suggestion but it is an at the moment thing and whereas you could be over by 0900 in the morning if you don't eat anything you can be under by 1200 - I personally go by this to regulate my intake so find it beneficial to have the current outlay - maybe an option to allow users to choose between daily or by the minute (current) intake would be beneficial to both parties so the daily amount would only show over if at 2000 at night you are over your say 2400 a day limit with no chance of it coming back inside limits by 2359

it also shows how much you need to burn to get back into range on the calories at current time so would be easy to regulate what you need to do to get back into limits whereas this would not be available on the daily amount selection (if implemented) until you are over the daily amount I only mention this because a disorder can go both ways and both require different actions so an option to choose would be a better idea as you can choose between kg/pounds  ml/ounce and miles/km so a real time / daily option would be more beneficial IMO.

[gtg947h]

I find the daily "pacing" function to be absolutely useless.  I don't spread calories throughout the day and sometimes will "front load" with a larger meal early on (I'm a big fan of "breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper") so I just go by the "calories remaining" estimate on the home screen tile. 

I'd rather just disable it. 

[ashwolve]

@gtg947h @Emmmmmm Hi Folks not sure if this is relevant to either of your needs but you can remove the cals in/out tile from the dashboard would that help at all?

Mobile press and hold tile this takes you to the edit page then click the - sign on the tile you wish to remove

PC/Laptop Dashboard hover over tile and it will change to show a cog on the bottom left and a bin on the top right click the bin symbol

on the food log page if you don't scroll left on the food plan section you prob wont see the under or over scale either

in both cases you can activate the tile again at a later stage should circumstances change on mobile click and hold any tile to get back to the edit page on the PC dashboard top left is a 9 square grid click there and it will show any de-activated tiles and can reactivate from there

Just a suggestion that may work in the meantime while Fitbit find out how popular the option to either delete food plan or some other option as I mentioned above

Kind Regards

Wayne

[gtg947h]

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@Emmmmmm wrote:

Hi. I was looking to talk to someone about the app. Under the nutrition and calorie part the app compares the calories in vs calories out. For someone with an eating disorder it can be very triggering when it says “over” calorie intake when you are only at 1,000 calories. I think it’s a change that needs to be made

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No, because that's about the opposite of what I want to do.  The number on that tile--which shows total estimated calorie budget for the entire day-- is what I go by; the number inside the tile (that tries to prorate your calories throughout the day and show you how you're doing so far) is useless to me.

For example:

When I first get up, the dashboard tile (Android app) says something like  "0 of 3,200 cal".  That's great. 

When I tap that tile, I see something like "0 calories in, 397 out., 220 calories remaining".  That's useless to me. I don't snack and graze a little here and there all day long, and I eat my last meal of the day no later than about 1830.  It'll show me as being "over target" after eating a 300 calorie breakfast at 0600. 

I guess they figure everyone goes to bed at midnight, sleeps in, and eats late?  Or grazes?

[ashwolve]

@Emmmmmm - apologies @gtg947h i misread the comment yes that is what I think I was trying to get to ...here I may be wrong but this is what I was thinking

the orange square is the one I was thinking you could remove

the green square gives you the total of whats left if you hover over this it will give you the eaten and daily total

the above is for the PC version

this is the mobile tile unfortunately when you click on it it will take you to the food log page which will have the progressive in out slide

until there is a way to provide other options for this you may want to use the mobile app for the dashboard and if possible use another device to log your food - its not ideal I now and wish there was something else I could suggest for you - the only other thing would be to download another app that is compatible with Fitbit and log food from there - my suggestions here would be either MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary you will have to log into one of those then follow the instructions in this link https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1742/?l=en_US&c=Topics%3AX3rd_Party_Integration&... should you wish to try this method thus bypassing the mobile page with the Under/over section in or the food log page on Fitbit.com

when you say When I tap that tile, I see something like "0 calories in, 397 out., 220 calories remaining".  That's useless to me. I don't snack and graze a little here and there all day long, and I eat my last meal of the day no later than about 1830.  It'll show me as being "over target" after eating a 300 calorie breakfast at 0600. I understand that it is daunting to see on over budget but keep in mind if possible this is for that exact moment in time and will change as time goes on if that is any consolation

if not sorry I am out of ideas and hope that something is sorted for you soon

All the best

Kind Regards

Wayne