How do I set date-specific macro targets for a client?
Override a client's default macro targets on chosen dates — refeeds, events, travel — and remove an override when it's done.
Date overrides replace a client's default macro targets on specific days. Use them for refeed days, event days, travel — anywhere a client's normal numbers shouldn't apply.
They live alongside the default targets on the client's profile → Nutrition tab → Macro Targets.
Create a date override
- On the Macro Targets sub-tab, click Create override.
- Pick one or more dates on the multi-select calendar. You can choose today or any later date — past dates aren't available.
- Set the targets for those days: calories, protein, carbs, and fat, each enabled and valued the same way as the defaults.
- Set the variance for those days. It starts at 10%.
- Click Create override.
Each override is listed by date with its macro values. Creating a new override never touches overrides you've already set on other days.
Override settings
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Dates | The days the override applies to; today or later, multi-select | — |
| Calories | Calorie goal for those days | Disabled |
| Protein / carbs / fat | Macro goals in grams, or as a whole-number percentage of the calorie goal | Disabled, in grams |
| Variance | Accepted range around the calorie goal for those days | 10% |
Delete a date override
Click the trash icon (Delete override) on the override's row. It's removed straight away, with no confirmation, and that day falls back to the client's default targets.
Overrides can't be edited in place — to change one, delete it and create it again.
Where overrides apply, and where they don't
| Place | Which targets are used |
|---|---|
| The client's diary for that day | The override |
| Your Food Log day view | The override — a date override for that day wins over the default |
| Your Food Log week view (average vs goal) | The client's default calorie target |
| The meal plan editor's day totals | The client's default daily targets only |
| On-target days and streaks | The override for its day, the defaults elsewhere |
Meal plan days aren't tied to calendar dates, which is why the plan editor always judges a day against the defaults.
Things to watch out for
- An override day still needs an enabled calorie goal above zero and food logged that day to count as on target.