Log your meals
Updated 2026-07-06
Your Daily Log is where your meal plan meets your actual day. Every meal you log — whether it was on your plan or not — feeds into your daily totals and your weekly report, so the more honestly you log, the more useful Diet2Fit becomes.
Tick off meals that were on your plan
Your weekly plan already lays out each day's meals with portions, macros, and a nutrition score. So when you eat a planned meal, you don't need to search for anything:
- Open the Daily Log tab (or tap Log Meal in the Quick Actions on Home).
- Find the meal — breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner.
- Mark it as eaten.
That's it. The portions and macros from your plan are counted for the day automatically. If you ate the meal exactly as planned, logging takes a few seconds.
Ate something different? Add it
Real life doesn't always follow the plan — a colleague's tiffin, an extra samosa, a dinner out. You can add items that weren't on your plan directly to your log, and they'll count toward your day's totals just like planned meals. See Log something that wasn't on your plan for the details.
If the dish is in front of you, the AI meal scanner is often the fastest way in: tap Try Now on the Smart Meal Scanner banner on Home, snap a photo, review, and log.
Edit portions to match what you actually ate
Plans are written in specific portions — 2 rotis, 1 katori dal, 1 bowl of curd. If you ate more or less, adjust the portion when you log instead of ticking it off as-is. Three rotis logged as two is a small lie, but small lies add up across a week and quietly skew your weekly report.
A one-time tip that pays off forever: katoris and glasses vary a lot between households. Once, on a free evening, fill your usual katori with dal and pour it into a measuring cup (or weigh it on a kitchen scale). Now you know whether "1 katori" in your house is 150 ml or 250 ml, and every portion edit you make from then on is accurate — no guessing.
Why logging now beats remembering at night
It's tempting to log the whole day in one sitting before bed. Research on food diaries consistently finds the opposite works better: people who rely on end-of-day memory under-report what they ate, and the things that vanish first are exactly the small ones — the two biscuits with 4 pm chai, the handful of namkeen, the spoon of ghee on the dal. Studies of dietary self-monitoring also show that people who log more consistently and closer to the moment of eating see better results over time.
The fix is a tiny habit: make the first bite your cue. Before you start eating (or right after you finish), open the app and log it while the plate is still in front of you. It takes under a minute, and your portions are far more accurate when you can literally see them.
What good logging looks like
- Every meal, most days — not perfect days, consistent days.
- Honest portions — edit them; don't round down.
- Small stuff counts — chai with sugar, biscuits, and fried snacks are the most commonly forgotten calories.
- Same-day logging — ideally within a few minutes of eating.
Your logged meals roll up into the Progress tab and your weekly planned-vs-consumed report, which is where patterns become visible — like a strong Monday-to-Thursday and a wobbly weekend. You can't see a pattern you didn't log.
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