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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.

Jeremy

Written by Jeremy

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

  1. On the Macro Targets sub-tab, click Create override.
  2. Pick one or more dates on the multi-select calendar. You can choose today or any later date — past dates aren't available.
  3. Set the targets for those days: calories, protein, carbs, and fat, each enabled and valued the same way as the defaults.
  4. Set the variance for those days. It starts at 10%.
  5. Save.

Each override is listed by date with its macro values.

Override settings

SettingWhat it doesDefault
DatesThe days the override applies to; today or later, multi-select
CaloriesCalorie goal for those daysFollows the default targets until enabled
Protein / carbs / fatMacro goals in grams, or as a whole-number percentage of the calorie goalFollows the default targets until enabled
VarianceAccepted range around the calorie goal for those days10%

Delete a date override

Open the override's row and choose Delete override. That day falls straight 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

PlaceWhich targets are used
The client's diary for that dayThe override
Your Food Log day viewThe 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 totalsThe client's default daily targets only
On-target days and streaksThe 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

  • Every save notifies the client. Creating or deleting an override sends the "Macro Targets Updated" push notification, the same as a default-target save, and it can't be switched off. Set all the dates you need in one go.
  • Creating a new override never touches overrides you've already set on other days.
  • An override day still needs an enabled calorie goal above zero and food logged that day to count as on target.
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