How does Nutrition work in Fitsly?
Understand the four building blocks of Nutrition — foods, recipes, meal plans, and macro targets — and how they reach your clients.
Nutrition gives you a verified food database, your own custom foods and recipes, multi-day meal plans, and per-client macro targets. Your clients log their food in the client app — by search, barcode scan, or straight from an assigned meal plan — and calories, macros, and micronutrients roll up on both sides automatically.
The Nutrition area has three sections — Foods, Recipes, and Meal Plans — and each client's profile has a Nutrition tab with Food Log, Meal Plans, and Macro Targets sub-tabs.
The pieces of Nutrition
| Piece | What it is | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Food database | A verified food library, read-only | Nutrition → Foods |
| Custom foods | Your own items — supplements, house mixes, regional staples | Nutrition → Foods |
| Recommended foods | A shortlist surfaced first in a client's food picker | Nutrition → Foods |
| Recipe database | Curated verified recipes, read-only, copyable | Nutrition → Recipes |
| Custom recipes | Your own recipes, including AI-drafted ones | Nutrition → Recipes |
| Meal plans | Days → meals → options → foods and recipes | Nutrition → Meal Plans |
| Macro targets | A client's daily goals, variance band, and date overrides | Client profile → Nutrition |
| Food log | A client's per-day diary: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks | Client profile → Nutrition |
How a meal plan reaches a client
- Build a plan in Nutrition → Meal Plans. Library plans are invisible to clients until you assign them.
- Assign it to one or many clients. Each client gets their own independent copy of the plan as it exists at that moment.
- Tailor that client's copy if you want to — the library plan and every other client's copy stay untouched.
- The client opens the plan in the client app, picks a day and a meal option, and logs a single item, a whole meal, or a recipe straight to their diary.
Because assignments are copies, editing your library plan later never changes what an assigned client sees. To change what a client follows, edit their copy from their profile.
How targets define "on track"
Macro targets set daily goals for calories, protein, carbs, and fat, plus a variance band around the calorie goal (10% by default). A day counts as on target when the client's total logged calories land inside that band, with an enabled calorie goal above zero and food logged that day. That rule drives the client's on-target streaks. The rings on the client's dashboard judge calories and each macro against the same band, and your Food Log week view shows Target met when the week's average daily calories land inside it.
What clients own, and what you own
Meal plans and macro targets always come from you. Foods the client creates, their saved foods and recipes, and their My Meals shortcuts are theirs — clients can't create meal plans or set their own macro targets.
Things to watch out for
- Your custom foods and recommended foods are hidden from a client's search until you turn those settings on for them — both are off by default. The public food database is always available.
- Deleting a plan, recipe, or food removes it from your library only, with no warning about what already uses it.
Quick answers
Can I manage nutrition from the coach mobile app?
Yes. The coach app on iOS and Android gives you the same Nutrition pages as the web dashboard, including building and assigning meal plans and reviewing food logs. On a phone-sized screen the Generate recipe button is hidden from the Recipes header; you can still reach the generator from an empty Custom recipes tab.