Total Daily Portions
For the nutrition portion habits, I would love to be able to set a custom total of portions for the day rather than per meal.
For example: I might tell a client to eat 4 palm sized portions of protein daily or 8 handfuls of carbs daily.
I would like to customize the number of portions and I don't really use it per meal but per day.
Emily Cramer
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Nat
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Ditto for this. I assign portions for the entire day, and have recommendations per meal (for example, 1-2 portions of protein per meal) but the goal is to eat a certain total by the end of the day. The portions per meal are just recommendations to help spread the total out across all meals. So if I want 5 portions of protein/day, they might want to do 2 for their first meal, 1 for their second, and either 2 for their last one or 1 for each of the last two meals they eat (if they decide to eat 4x that day instead of 3x). If I were to just say "2 portions of protein per meal" and they decide to eat 4x that day, they'd have 8 portions of protein that day instead of just 5. That's not necessarily harmful, but makes it hard to prescribe portion recommendations accurately while still being flexible for clients, and forces us to set strict recommendations that under- or overshoot daily targets unnecessarily.