Eaten vs spent — example

This example weighs calories eaten (measured from the log) against calories spent — which no diary truly measures, so it’s estimated as a range from several published formulas. The balance between them is a range too, never a single figure. Over weeks, the direction matters more than any one day.

≈ one week (7 logged days) of the example diary

Across the week, eaten sits about 188–308 kcal below the estimate a day — a modest deficit, if the estimate is right.

Spent is estimated from 5 published BMR formulas × your activity setting (lightly active) — a band, not a number. Logged workouts would refine it later.

Spent is estimated from formulas, not measured — over a longer stretch the direction matters more than any single day’s number.

This is a fixed example, not a real person — the same invented week feeds every example report. Your own diary reports are private and built only from what you log.

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