I know fried chicken isn't the healthiest option, but I got some today at a restaurant, had a thigh, wing, and leg. When I go to add "fried chicken" all I see are other store brands like Hardees or whatever. What should I pick? (sorry if dumb question but I'm new to Chronometer and love it so far)
I'm 5'8'', 42F. I got a Garmin watch and Cronometer app so I could start doing CICO. I lost about 10 pounds in ~4 months going for a 250-calorie deficit every day, from around 165 pounds to 155. I'm fairly active and easily get 11-12K steps per day, plus doing suggested daily workouts from the Garmin (usually 30-40-minute base runs).
Those first 10 pounds seemed really easy...like where has CICO been all my life when I've struggled with body image. (Granted I've never been majorly overweight but still had big self-image and self-confidence issues my entire adult life...also admittedly the Garmin and Cronometer make it a LOT easier to track.) I feel so good being 155 pounds, I don't think I've been this light since high school.
Trouble is when you lose weight, your basal metabolic rate drops, as does your daily recommend calorie intake. Now on rest days it is only 1300 calories. Even when I run and burn around 400 calories that I can eat back, I'm just ravenous. This has happened before CICO too when I was training for half-marathons--I start off feeling like I'm losing weight and then suddenly I get overwhelmed by a crazy high appetite. I'm hoping now that I'm using Cronometer and can better track my macros, that at least I can get more of my calories in proteins--I was eating waaaaaaay too little protein before. But the scale has been stuck at 155 for about a month now. I'd like to lose another 5 and then maintain.
Anyone else struggle with this? How did you overcome it?
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I am trying to connect Apple Health on the Cronometer app on my iPhone 13 Pro Max on the newest iOs. But whenever I do so, a white screen (or black when in dark mode) keeps popping up from below filling up my whole screen and mostly goes back down within a second. Mostly, cause sometimes it also sticks and I need to force close the Cronometer app.
Reinstalling does not help, because once I do, it seems fine, but that is because the connection with Apple Health is not there anymore. When I reconnect it, the white screen is back. This is very annoying. Anyone else has this problem or better: a solution?
Thanks in advance.
Hola gente,estoy intentando hacer un cambio físico y llevo unos meces,estuve pesando y anotando todo lo que consumo para cargarlo en gemini y saber cuántas calorías consumo en el día, me e dado cuenta que le erra bastante al calculo y en ves de estar en déficit siempre e deja en mantenimiento o superavit..me recomidan alguna IA o app en la que pueda cargar esos datos y sea más precisa y confiable
I already knew that I didn’t set a target for those macros because it says “41.3 g” and not “41.3 g / 100 g”. So the dots don’t tell any new info. But they make it so hard to read the data at a glance!
This is new because I’ve had Cronometer gold for years and this only started in like the last few days.
How do I turn it off??? Thanks in advance!
Edit: three year gold subscription, colors are fine, fat should never have been a red warning color
I have many recipes that use sourdough starter in them.
Our starter is
• 1 part flour
• 1 part water
I could simply make a recipe with these ingredients, but is there anyway to indicate the fermentation/natural yeast?
I also want to be able to be able to put in my roll recipe and not have it show flour twice, but flour once and starter once.... Is this a thing?
I've used cronometer a long time but don't typically consume my baked goods
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.
This is a treat meal (out of state relatives visiting & 4th of July) but still trying to be moderately healthy/conservative.
Hi folks!
Does anybody have a method - or a YouTube tutorial - about how they come up with weekly meal plans and then input them into Cronometer?
In the most streamlined way possible?
Thanks!
I've been using cronometer for a week now without realizing I could link it to Apple Health. All I'd like to have it do is add in my workouts and daily expenditure from Apple Health to cronometer.
The thing is, after I link Apple Health I keep getting this blank pop up every couple of seconds. It always happens when flipping through days or different tabs in the app, and if I just sit there and don't do anything it still randomly does it on it's own. On top of that, workouts/expenditure only appear when I first go to a day, then the pop up happens, then they're gone afterwards. This behavior goes away when I unlink Apple Health. I've already tried reinstalling the app multiple times. Has anyone run into this?
Can I somehow average out the weight dashboard? My weight gain/loss seems so irregular and I just want to see if im gaining or losing and dont want to read the 50 spikes on the dashboard
When I add this chicken, is this the raw weight or cooked? And is oil accounted for?
I’m a petite woman (5’3”) trying to lose about 20 pounds and just started with this app. I’m a bit confused about my energy target because I always thought it was a general rule of thumb that you can’t drop below 1200 calories a day (as I understood it, this is also why it’s so hard to lose weight when you’re short). Am I misunderstanding? I’ve already checked to make sure I didn’t enter any of the form details incorrectly.
I sync Garmin → Cronometer. Same day, two different totals:
• Garmin: Active 1,290 + Resting 2,030 = 3,320 total burned
• Cronometer expenditure: 3,721
Breaking down the Cronometer number: my custom BMR is 2,025, and the imported "Daily Activity (Garmin)" entry shows 266 min → Active: 1,290, Resting: 406 (= 1,696 kcal). So 2,025 + 1,696 = 3,721.
It looks like the 406 "resting" in the Garmin import is the BMR burned during my tracked minutes — which my full-day BMR of 2,025 already covers. So it seems counted twice. If I add only active (2,025 + 1,290 = 3,315) it basically matches Garmin's 3,320.
Questions:
Is this expected behavior for the Garmin integration?
Is there a setting to stop Cronometer from adding the resting portion of imported activity on top of BMR?
Is the intended fix just to lower my custom BMR, or something else?
TEF is off, Baseline Activity is set to 0/Custom. Thanks!
I think they’re just fine. I appreciate you Cronometer team.
Hey everyone!
We just dropped a brand new episode of Discovering Nutrition, and this one is all about AI!
I had the chance to sit down with Aaron Davidson, our CEO, and ask him a bunch of the questions we've been hearing from our community about AI, how we're using it at Cronometer, and what our approach might look like moving forward.
With AI becoming such a huge part of our everyday lives (and the health space particularly), it felt like a really important conversation to have right now. I am so proud to work for a company that values transparency and is willing to have these discussions!
If you've got some time, I'd love for you to give it a listen (or watch!) and let us know what you think.
PS. Happy Canada Day to all of our fellow Canadians! 🇨🇦🧡
Is the app double counting my Expenditure? It says I'm burning 4000 calories when I know I'm 1800-2500 usually.
How do I fix this?
