Food tracking
Everything you log in chat lands on your nutrition dashboard, where you can review your day and week at a glance.
The daily view
- Calorie ring — your progress toward today's calorie target.
- Macro bars — protein, carbs, and fat versus your targets, so you can see at 3pm that you're behind on protein while there's still time to fix it.
- Meal list — everything you've logged today with timestamps, optionally tagged by meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack).
- Remaining — what's left in your budget for the day.
Looking back
Your calorie history charts across recent days so you can spot patterns ("weekends are where it slips") without obsessing over any single day. For a proper review, ask your coach — "how was my week?", "chart my protein for the last month" — it can summarize any period, tell you how many days landed on target, and draw charts right in the chat.
Editing and manual logging
Chat is the fastest way to log, but you're never locked into it:
- Edit any logged item — name, portion, calories and macros (down to micronutrients like fiber and sodium), meal tag, or time — or delete it.
- Log manually with the add-food button on the dashboard if you'd rather not chat. On iPhone you can attach a photo to the entry too.
Changes apply everywhere immediately — the coach sees your edits, and your daily totals update.
How Ember knows the numbers
Three sources, in rough order of precision:
- Published nutrition facts — for branded and restaurant items, the coach searches the web for the real numbers rather than guessing.
- Your own history — foods you've logged before are reused ("the usual smoothie" pulls your numbers, not fresh estimates), which keeps repeat meals consistent.
- Estimation — for home-cooked and described meals, the coach estimates from your description and any photo; more detail means sharper numbers.
If a number ever looks off, just tell your coach — "that burrito is more like 900 calories" — and it'll correct the entry.