What happens if I forget to track my macros for a day (or more than one day)?
Last updated March 11, 2025
We recommend that you track your macros every day. With a stretch goal in mind, it can be difficult to stay on plan without a comprehensive support system like our app’s food journal. However, sometimes it’s just not practical. When you cannot complete a log, we encourage you to remember these tips:
- Don’t skip logging on exceptional or outlier days. BODYSIM will fill in your skipped days with your typical habits. If you tend to not log on days that are much higher or lower in calories, protein, fat or carbs than usual, you will create a bias BODYSIM cannot remove. Always log exceptional days unless they are very infrequent, like a holiday potluck.
- Never log a partial day. BODYSIM will assume that your partial day was actually a full day and you ate very little. If you cannot log a full day, delete all foods from that day entirely.
- Keep your missed days sporadic. It’s OK to not log a typical day here and there, but avoid runs of successive days without logging. If you have a weeklong work trip or a vacation, try to log at least a few of those days.
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