nutrients consumed would be way better than nutrients remaining

Chrismilesart
Chrismilesart Posts: 4 Member
edited April 2 in Health and Weight Loss

there was an old discussion about this from 2023, but I'm just bringing it up again because I'm assuming many users would prefer a change in this feature. I'm a new user, but after looking into it, it appears that in the food diary view, you cannot see how many nutrients you have eaten for the day. Instead, it shows you nutrients remaining to achieve your goal. And it appears there's no way to change this. I have mine set to macro nutrients focused, because I'm tracking protein, fat and carbs as well as calories. In order to know how many nutrients I have consumed for the day, I would have to have my calories goal memorized, my protein goal memorized, fat and carb goals memorized. Then I have to do a calculation in my head for each one of these figures, adding or subtracting the nutrients remaining to or from my memorized goal figures. That is just crazy. One of the most basic and fundamental functions of a calorie and nutrient tracker should be to tell you how many calories and nutrients you have eaten in a day. am I missing something here?

(I'm referring to the phone app here. In my case, iOS. The website is great, and has all the necessary information very well presented. But I plan and hope to be using my phone much more than my computer to track data, because it's so much more convenient.)

4/2/2025 - I reposted this comment under feature suggestions and ideas, but I can't figure out how to delete this post here under health and weight loss. If a moderator sees this post, please delete. Thank you.

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  • megd44
    megd44 Posts: 445 Member

    If you look at the nutrients tab at the bottom of you diary, it brings up the macris and micrs in three columns, consumed, goal and remaining. That may help for your purposes. I check it as I am logging to make sure I am hitting my macros, especially protein, and calcium

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,046 Member

    What Meg said. Also, for the nutrients tracked on the diary page, there's a total at the bottom - once something is logged - for what's been consumed as well as what's remaining. I'm not sure what else you're looking for here?

    The app, when rotated into landscape mode, though in my case Android, so maybe there's an Apple bug:

    And on web browser MFP: