u/MysticWaters-nX0

Here is how i made progress this afternoon on eradicating those giant skittle dots pooped out by a Trojan horse this week in the Cronometer design room.

I surrendered … and entered some daily targets or maximums where they made some sense for my purposes. (ie for the target weight I want to maintain now and my specific health conditions). I consulted nutrition references and AI to customize for me.

Bottomline: I could make each of these nutrient categories NO LONGER VISIBLE, which takes them off the app screen entirely. Seriously considering doing so for several of them to have a simpler, less distracting report. Right now, though, I want to see what kinds of numbers come up. Later will decide if they are consistently irrelevant to me and deserve to be hidden.

Example rationale for some of the carbohydrate categories:

I have no particular goal to eat any starch. But some will happen inevitably. So my target minimum is zero and I set a max of 120 grams.

I have diabetes as part of a genetic condition. It is well controlled, but likely will never go away (“Type 1.5”). I intentionally use allulose and monk fruit as well as Stevia. No minimum target for allulose, it will happen !!! But. Supposedly one could get GI side effects at higher quantities. I have not noticed any so far. I picked a generous range up to 55 grams per day. If I notice side effects of cramping or diarrhea near 50s or so, I can lower it back down later.

It will use Max Threshold as it’s built in default if I do not enter anything for the upper limit. However, I am functionally keeping these restricted by having a “net carb” upper limit that I intentionally set at 250.

It seems these were introduced this weekend to distinguish between when there is a target set or not.

Visually — these are VERY distracting. Can we, or do we have a choice about something much more subtle or no change from the legacy presentation.

I might be okay with small dots the size of a period or small hyphens. But. The giant gray dots are just kind of disturbing/disruptive to my concentration.

How are others here experiencing them?

I have kept wishing Cronometer had an option to set specifically for MAINTAINING weight in a specific window (such as plus or minus 2.5 pounds).

Nonetheless. I think I may have found a workaround with the current update of Cronometer. It did not seem to work this way a few months back — but is now.

Since I started losing weight 7/2024 and shortly thereafter logging daily in Cronometer (8/2024) I have lost 100 pounds (reached this by January 2026). My goal now is to stay in the zone of 95-100 pounds below where I started. I want Cronometer to predict daily calories allowed as I fluctuate slightly and naturally from day to day, but overall keeping my weight stable within this zone.

This time when I climbed back up to about 125 pounds I set a target of 122.5 pounds, but at a slower weight LOSS rate than I had before — only 1/2 pound per week now (during the primary wt loss phase I set for -1 lb per week). This current month I’ve lost faster than planned, but it was close — now I am below target at 122 (yesterday) and 122.3 (today). I notice that cronometer has switched me automatically to GAIN weight at 1/2 lb per week. That auto-switch seems like it is what SHOULD happen, though it isn’t explicitly calling this a maintenance mode. It is predicting that my date to hit target of 122.5 lb as being in the past — which is a little weird.

TRYING another TWEAK. I changed the goal to LOSE but at the slowest rate possible as an option — 1/4 pound per week. Then clicked out of the goal page. I could see it flip on its own to GAIN 1/4 pound per week because I am still just slightly below the 122.5 goal. THAT is exactly what I have been hoping to see cronometer’s built-in intelligence do … keep track of when I need to lose or gain in order to maintain the chosen target. For the last week I have been averaging very close to what it allocates for advised calories — so this seems to be reasonably accurate.

Don’t think this has happened for me before. Have been doing cronometer daily since August 2024. Rarely if ever got these to match on a daily basis, much less for a week.

The daily variance within this week for exercise and intake versus expended was definitely larger.