Should I choose the Separate or Combined Daily Totals view?

There are two different ways you can view your Diary – with separate food and exercise targets or a combined food and exercise target.

Which setting you use, depends on your goal, and your activity level.

Separate Diary view – if your goal is to lose weight and you are just starting to try and exercise more, this is the best setting for you.

It keeps your food and exercise targets separate, so you can clearly see how many calories you've burned through additional activity. The exercise calories are not added onto your food target to eat back.

Combined Diary view – if you are trying to lose weight and already exercise a lot, this setting may suit you better as it gives you the option to eat calories back.

It assumes you are fairly active every day and deducts your 200 calorie exercise target from your food allowance at the start of the day, on the expectation you will always achieve this (which is why your GOAL is 200 calories less than the Separate Dairy view). Once you exceed your 200 calorie exercise target, the calories you burn are added onto your food allowance so you can eat these back. We recommend the Combined Diary view to people who do a lot of exercise, as they will require the extra calories to fuel their higher activity levels.

To change your diary

In the app

Tap the blue menu button to the right of the search bar > Diary Preferences > Diary Totals.

On the website

Click on Settings – link above your diary. Then click on the Change diary layout & daily totals link and select your preferred diary view under the Daily Totals heading.