Repeat goals on specific days with carb and macro cycling
  • 25 Mar 2022
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Repeat goals on specific days with carb and macro cycling

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If you have a Premium subscription, you can repeat your main diet, energy (calorie or kilojoule), and macro goals on specific days of the week. For example, you can set weekend goals that are different from weekday goals, or set unique goals on alternating days such as Tuesday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This feature helps athletes and fitness enthusiasts track carb-cycling diets.

Tip: If you have a Premium membership, you can also set macro cycling goals for calories/kilojoules, fiber, starch, sugars, specific fats, dietary cholesterol, glycemic load, and more. For details, see Set detailed macro and energy goals.
  1. Go to Settings icon Settings.
  2. In the Goals section, select Macros Calculator icon Macros Calculator.
  3. Adjust your goals in the Step 1, My Calorie/Kilojoule Goals section and the Step 2, Macronutrient Goals section to the goals that you want to follow on specific days. For more information about setting energy goals (calories or kilojoules) and macro goals, see Set your main diet, energy, and macro goals.
  4. Go to the Step 4, Carb & Macros Cycling section, and select Show.
    Note: The Carb & Macros Cycling > Show option is not available if you turned on Smart Macros or Ease Into My Diet.
  5. Select the Specific Days option.
  6. Select the days that you want to follow your adjusted goals. For example, if you want to follow your adjusted goals only on weekends, select SA (Saturday) and SU (Sunday).
  7. Optional: To apply the adjusted goals to past days in addition to future days, select Show Advanced, then select Apply to Past & Future Days.
  8. Select Apply Macro Goals to apply the adjusted goals to the days that you selected. The original energy goals (calories or kilojoules) and macro goals that you created still apply to the other days of the week.
  9. Repeat Steps 3 through 8 to set new energy goals (calories or kilojoules) and macros goals for other days.
    Important: The days selected for your previous set of goals will still be selected. Unselect those days and select the new days you'd like to set macro goals for before selecting Apply Macro Goals.

Carb Manager will track your unique goals on the days you selected and will continue to track the goals you previously set for all other days. To confirm your changes, go to the daily log, toggle the dates forward and view the goals in your My Macros chart for each day of the following week.