Logging your food

The + button opens the capture menu, and Search foods on it opens the full logger. Search works like a search engine: one list, best match first. Type an everyday food and the FuelPath standard version leads, with the top brands right under it. Type a brand or a restaurant (Chobani, Chick-fil-A) and that brand leads. Foods you log often move up for you. Typos are fine; the search corrects them.

Standard foods come in the forms you actually eat. Ground meat has every common blend (ground beef from 70/30 to 97/3, ground turkey 93/7 and 99/1), and you can type the blend any way: 93/7, 93-7, or 93% lean. Meats, grains, and vegetables open on Cooked, so you weigh what is on your plate with no math. Tap Raw (or Dry for rice and pasta) when you weigh before cooking; FuelPath remembers which you use for each food. A blend USDA never measured, like 96/4, is worked out from the blends on either side and says so.

Before you type anything, Your foods sits under the search field: one list of what you actually eat, starred foods pinned on top, everything else ranked by how often you log it. Below it, My foods holds your saved meals and recipes, and Browse is a menu of everyday staples by category.

The menu is yours to shape: the add box in any category saves your own foods there (elk steak, your protein shake), and Edit mode removes anything you never eat.

A Verified badge means the nutrition data was checked. If a food's numbers look wrong, open it and tap Wrong info? Fix it. Your fix helps everyone.

The + button in the middle of the tab bar works from any screen and opens the capture menu: Barcode reads a package, Snap a photo reads your plate, Label reads nutrition facts exactly, and Describe it listens while you say what you ate out loud.

Barcode, Snap a photo, and Label are one camera: switch jobs with the chips at the bottom without leaving it. Album adds photos you took earlier (several at once, each to its own meal), and Type it instead is always there when the camera is not the move.

Scanning stays in the camera. After each barcode, set the serving on the card that slides up and tap Add & scan next to keep going, or Add & done to finish. Your recent scans sit across the top, so a product you buy every week is one tap to open, at the amount you used last time. Scan more than one food and you get a quick plate review to check every serving before they all log together.

Before analyzing, you can describe each photo: type or dictate what is on the plate, the serving sizes, or anything to skip. Your description wins over the camera's guess when they disagree, which sharpens the numbers a lot.

Photo and voice come back as editable items. Review the portions before adding; you know your plate better than any camera does.

Describe it comes back as a short list: one card per food with a minus and plus on the amount. An amount you did not say is marked as guessed, so check those first. To fix something, tap the mic under the list and say it: "make the chicken eight ounces", "take off the toast", "that was dinner". Only the foods you name change.

Photograph a package and FuelPath checks for a barcode first: if it finds one, you get the exact product from the label instead of an estimate, without using a photo credit.

One iPhone quirk worth knowing: an app you added to your Home Screen asks for camera permission again each time you reopen it. That is iOS, not a fault in the app, and Allow gets you straight to the camera. Type it instead is there if you would rather skip it.

You eat the same things often, so FuelPath leans into it. Everything you log builds Your foods; star anything on the portion step to pin it to the top. Tapping any food opens the portion step with your amount prefilled, shows what today has left if you add it, and suggests a better portion when one meal is about to shortchange the next. Save as meal next to a logged meal bundles it for next time. My foods and meals, on the More page, is one searchable list of everything you have saved: filter it by favorites, meals, recipes, or foods, tap anything to edit it, and use the star to pin or unpin.

A pinned food can carry your own name for it. A barcode scan might land as Ms. Baird's Large White Bread when what you want to read is my bread, so tap Name it on that row in My foods and meals and type what you call it. It shows up under your name in the plus sheet and in your day, with the real name beside it so you can still tell what it is. Nothing changes for anyone else, and searching still finds it under either name.

Quick add on the + menu is the fastest repeat: tap a favorite, saved meal, or recent, confirm the serving, and it is in. Type the macros is right there when you just know the numbers.

Stuck at a drive-through? Tap the + and pick Eating out (it is in More too). Choose the place and FuelPath ranks its menu against what is left for this meal, using the restaurant's own published numbers.

Best fits puts the items that carry the most protein for what you have left at the top, each with a fit badge. Where the menu has a better version, a tip shows it with the real number, like grilled instead of fried or a size step. Build my order puts together whole orders (a main and a side, or two lighter mains) labeled highest protein, closest fit, and lightest.

If your coach has pinned a go-to order for that place, it sits on top. Whatever you choose goes into your order first, where you set the amounts and see your day with it added, then one tap logs it. Drinks are left off the full orders; water, diet soda, or unsweet tea keep the numbers true.

Every meal shows protein, carbs, and fat against that meal's share of your day: about a quarter at breakfast, 30 percent at lunch, 35 percent at dinner, and a little for snacks. On Today that is one thin line under the meal (blue protein, green carbs, red fat) and each food is a single line with its calories; tap a food for its macros. The day review shows every number.

While you pick a serving, the card shows your whole day as one bar per macro: solid is what you have eaten, the striped piece is this food, and the empty track is what is left. Change the amount and the stripe grows or shrinks, so you can see what a food costs your day before you add it.

When a meal runs lopsided you get one plain suggestion, like adding protein to a light breakfast or leaning on vegetables after a carb-heavy lunch. Snacks are flexible and never get nudged. It is a guide, not a grade: your day total is still what counts.

Tap any logged entry to change its meal, amount, or macros. Amounts rescale the macros for you. Swipe left to delete.

Missed a whole day? Open it from the week strip and tap Log food to this day. The same logger opens, aimed at that date, so yesterday's dinner still counts.

It works forward too. Swipe the week strip ahead and tap Plan food for that day to log what you already know you are eating, up to four weeks out. Planned days show in your accent color and count for nothing until they arrive: no streak, no XP, no health score. When the day comes, the plan is just your log, and you edit it to match what you actually ate.

The ⋯ button on every logged entry opens quick actions: move it to another meal, set the quantity, star it to pin it to the top of Your foods, or remove it.

Moving something faster: press and hold a logged food for a moment and it lifts off the page. Drag it onto any meal, including one you have not put anything in yet, and let go. A bar of all four meals appears while you drag, so you never have to go hunting for the right spot.

Serving steppers on the food card make quick adjustments easy, and the calorie field fills itself from macros in manual entry until you type your own number. Tap Nutrition facts on a picked food for the full panel: sugar, fiber, fat breakdown, sodium, and potassium when its source provides them.

Every meal and every day gets a Health Score out of 100, scored from five things: protein, fiber, whole foods, vegetables and fruit, and balance (calories near target, meals spread out, water). Same food, same score, every time; nothing is guessed.

Tap Improve this score on the Health score card (add it to Today with Edit Page) to see exactly where the missing points live: add a vegetable, pick the whole-food version, close the fiber gap. Small swaps, visible points.

Your year Health Score is the year's average, shown in the Health Score section on Progress with your last 30 days. It resets every January, only counts days you actually logged, and never nags. Your coach sees it too; it is a conversation starter, not a grade.

Once your training is in FuelPath, your training sets the day for you: race day, carb load, big day, recovery, training, or rest. It shows with a ✦ on the Day row under your streaks, with the reason. You can still tap Training, Rest, or Refeed to override it, and Auto hands it back.

Rest trims about 10 percent of calories from carbs. Refeed adds about 10 percent as carbs. Big training days add what the session cost above your usual day, as carbs. Protein stays put.

Your rings, adherence, and Daily Brief all judge the day against the adjusted target, so a lighter rest day still counts as on plan.

Sick? Tap Feeling sick on your day review and everything pauses: no scores, no reminders, and your streaks wait for you. You can mark past sick days too. When you tap I'm feeling better, you continue right where you left off.