I’m surprised that my calorie allowance has dipped to only 1248 a day with no cycling. This seems far too low. I train 6 times a week for triathlons and have the exercise calories added at 75% but I’ll be starving and not able to train properly on this amount. Anyone had the same or can give advice?
I coach busy professionals online and the #1 reason they fail is decision fatigue. They come home from work exhausted and the last thing they want to do is figure out what to eat.
The fix: Pick 3 "default meals," one breakfast, one lunch, one dinner, that you can rotate without thinking. You don't have to eat them every day, but on your worst, most exhausted days, you have a default that keeps you on track.
My clients who do this lose weight consistently even during their busiest work weeks. Hope this helps someone!
My net diary shows me that my maintenance calories are 1856 calories per day. I am 4’11, 23 years old, female and 110lbs. This number seems extremely high? I have it set to sedentary. To reach my goal it tells me to eat at 1400 calories per day. I’m just wondering if I’ll be making any progress :(
I self-host Immich and end up photographing most of my meals anyway, so I built a small app that turns that habit into an automatic calorie log.
The idea: point Oja at an Immich album (say, "Food"). When a new photo shows up there, Oja sends it to a vision LLM, gets back the dish + estimated calories and macros, and logs it. No manual entry, no separate app — your Immich library is the input.
How it works
Fix estimates by just talking to it
The AI guess is never perfect, so you correct it in plain English instead of fiddling with number fields:
Bring your own model — including local
No built-in AI service, no account. You choose the vision model:
Your API key stays server-side and the image is proxied through Oja — it's never exposed to the browser.
Self-hosting
It's early (v0.1.0) and the estimates are only as good as the model you feed it — but for "roughly how much was that," it's been genuinely useful, and reusing photos I already take means I actually stick with it.
Code: https://github.com/sarworld/Oja
Docs: https://docs.ojatracker.com
Would love feedback, especially on what'd make it more useful for your setup.
I've been cooking a lot at home recently to try to eat healthier. For those who cook most of their meals at home, what's your process for tracking your nutrition intake (energy, macro/micronutrient)?
Do you use nutritional tracking apps to log individual ingredients or do something else?
Curious what people have found sustainable long-term.