How do I use Nutrition in Fitsly?

The Nutrition section has three areas — Foods, Recipes, and Meal Plans — that work together so you can build meal plans from a verified food database, your own custom foods, curated Fitsly recipes, or recipes you generate with AI, and then assign those meal plans to clients.

Foods

Foods covers the food database you and your clients search when logging or building meals. There are three tabs at the top of the Foods page.

• Food database — Millions of verified food items you can add to recipes or meal plans.
• Custom foods — Your own food items, for anything missing from the database or where you want exact nutritional information.
• Recommended foods — Foods you recommend to clients.

Add a custom food

1. Open Nutrition, then Foods.
2. Click the Custom foods tab, then click New food.
3. Enter the Food name and, optionally, Brand.
4. Enter Serving size and pick the Serving unit.
5. Enter Protein, Carbs, and Fats. Click Calculate from macros to auto-fill Calories, or enter calories manually.
6. Optional — expand Micronutrients (optional) to add fiber, sodium, sugar, vitamins, and other micros.
7. Optional — drag and drop a food image, or click choose file.
8. Click Create Food.

Recipes

Recipes has two tabs.

• Recipe database — Curated Fitsly recipes with images, which you can add into your meal plans.
• Custom recipes — Recipes you create yourself, either from scratch or with the AI generator.

Create a custom recipe

1. Open Nutrition, then Recipes.
2. Click the Custom recipes tab, then click New recipe.
3. Enter the Recipe name and an optional Description.
4. Optional — drag and drop a cover photo, or click choose file.
5. Click Create Recipe to open the recipe editor.
6. In the editor, add foods, instructions, cooking time, recipe servings, notes, and related recipes.
7. Save your changes.

Generate a recipe with AI

1. Open Nutrition, then Recipes.
2. Click Generate Recipe.
3. In Recipe Description, describe the recipe you want — for example, a gluten-free, low-fructose spaghetti bolognese.
4. Optional — fill in Dietary Requirements (optional) with restrictions or preferences.
5. Click Generate Recipe. Fitsly returns a name, description, ingredients with macros, cooking instructions, and an estimated cooking time.
6. Review and edit the generated content. The recipe text is AI-generated, so spell-check and adjust the wording to match your tone.
7. Drag and drop or choose file to add a cover photo (the AI does not produce one).
8. Click Save Recipe. The recipe lands in your Custom recipes tab and opens in the recipe editor for further edits.

Set recipe servings

The total macros and calories shown on a recipe are for all of its ingredients combined, not per serve. If a recipe contains 300 g of pasta and the serving size of pasta is 50 g, the recipe makes six servings.

1. In the recipe editor, find the Recipe servings card.
2. Click the pencil icon to Edit servings.
3. Enter the number of servings, then click Update. Per-serve calories and macros are recalculated.

Add related recipes

Related recipes appear at the bottom of a recipe in the client app under "If you like this recipe, you might also like…". They are useful when bundling recipes into ebooks or related collections for clients.

1. In the recipe editor, find the Related recipes card.
2. Click the + icon to Add related recipes.
3. Search for and select the recipes to link, then save.

Meal Plans

Meal plans group recipes and food items into named meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, etc.) across one or more days. You can build a single repeating day or several days that rotate.

Create a meal plan

1. Open Nutrition, then Meal Plans.
2. Click New meal plan.
3. Enter a Meal plan name and an optional Description.
4. Click Create Meal Plan. The meal plan editor opens.
5. By default a sample day (variation) appears with a meal already added. Use the pencil icon on a meal tab to rename it (for example to "Breakfast").
6. To add another meal, open the variation menu (the three-dot icon) and click Add meal, name it, then click Add Meal.
7. With a meal selected, click Add recipe to pull in a recipe from the Recipe database or your Custom recipes, or click Add food item to add a single food (for example, a medium Pink Lady apple as a snack).
8. Calories and macros add up automatically as you add items, so you can see what the day totals.
9. When the plan is complete, save it.

You don't have to build out a full week. A single repeating day is fine — clients will just repeat that day.

Assign a meal plan to a client

1. Open the client's profile and go to their Nutrition section.
2. In Meal Plans, scroll to Assigned meal plans and click Add.
3. Select the meal plan, then click Assign meal plan.
4. The client receives the meal plan in their Fitsly app.

Things to watch out for

• The total calories and macros on a recipe reflect the full ingredient list, not one serving. Set Recipe servings so per-serve numbers are accurate before assigning the recipe.
• AI-generated recipes are AI estimates. Verify the nutritional details and ingredient list before using a generated recipe with a client.
• AI-generated recipes do not include a cover photo. Add one yourself before saving so the recipe looks finished when assigned.
• Recipes pulled from the Recipe database are pre-built for one serve. Double-check the ingredients still suit the client.
• If a food item isn't in the database, or the database entry is wrong, add it as a Custom food instead of editing logged values manually.