Dynamic Nutrition Goals & TDEE
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Christian
would be perfect to have a more complete and well-rounded nutrition section, where weight-gaining or weight-losing plans are calculated and tracked based on weight data from Apple health and science.
Weight goals should be adjusted automatically based on the pace of weight gain/loss and changes of body composition.
MacroFactor does a pretty great job at this and is very user friendly
Leah
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Dynamic calorie target
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Christopher Gringel
Hi Bevel team,
I use Bevel and have a question or suggestion for improving my calorie goal.
The problem: For me, the calorie target is a fixed, static value. When I exercise or exercise (e.g. burn 600 kcal through weight training), my “pending” budget does not increase. The “still open” ad stays the same all day, even though I've used more through activity.
Why this is problematic for me: Other calorie apps automatically add burnt calories to the daily budget (“eat back”). Bevel doesn't do that. As a result, I underestimate my actual need for active days. Since I want to build muscle, I end up in a calorie deficit and lose weight rather than absorb.
What I want: That the calorie target is dynamically linked to daily activity, or at least an easy option to automatically include burnt calories in the daily budget. Otherwise, I would currently have to manually change the goal depending on the training day, which is impractical.
I like to pay for an app that does that for me instead of having to do the math myself.
Leah
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work out TDEE from weigh-ins and calories, not just the watch
Jordan Alexander
The other thing I'd love to see is a TDEE figure that's back-calculated from my own data rather than pulled from the watch or a formula.
The way I've seen it done is simple. Take the average calories eaten over a window, take how the weight actually moved over that same window, and work backwards to what I must have been burning. It's using two things I already log every day, so there's nothing extra for me to do.
The reason it matters is that watch burn and formula estimates are both guesses about me rather than measurements of me, and they can be a fair way out. Being able to see the measured number sat next to the device number is genuinely useful, because when the two disagree you learn something.
The app I'm using shows both side by side with the gap between them, and it's about the most useful single screen I've got. It also tells you to treat a small gap as noise and watch the direction over weeks, which I think is the right way round.
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Leah
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Make Total Energy section available as a Home Screen card and widget.
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Jerad Napier
I’ve been trying to find a way to export all of my health data to calculate TDEE, and was surprised to find that Bevel has this info ready to view but buried in the Strain section under View All Categories in the Home section. I was even more surprised that this isn’t a card that can be added to the Home Screen! This is something I think users will reference regularly despite if they’re wanting to lose, maintain, or gain weight. Please add this to the “We can do that next week!” list.
Leah
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Different kcal per day
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Luis Jimenez
It would be nice to be able to set different kcal goals depending on our training plan. Maybe a day is just active rest and we need less kcal than a full leg day
Leah
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Adjustable Active Calorie Multiplier
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João Paulo
Wearable calorie-burn estimates can vary significantly from actual energy expenditure. Rather than assuming the estimate is equally accurate for everyone, I’d love to see Bevel introduce a user-adjustable Active Calorie Multiplier.
For example, a user could set their multiplier to 85%, meaning Bevel would use:
Adjusted Active Calories = Active Calories × 0.85
This could be implemented as a simple setting ranging from 0–100%, where 100% means no adjustment.
Even better, the adjustment could potentially be specific to different workout types. For example, I might know from experience that my Apple Watch tends to overestimate calories significantly when I’m lifting weights, but seems much more accurate when I’m walking outdoors. Being able to set different multipliers for strength training, walking, running, cycling, etc. would allow Bevel to become much more personalized over time.
Importantly, this wouldn’t need to change the underlying Apple Health data. It could simply allow Bevel to use the adjusted value whenever active calories are displayed or used in calculations within Bevel.
I think this would be particularly valuable for people using Bevel for weight management. If someone’s wearable consistently overestimates their calorie expenditure, relying on the unadjusted number could make their estimated calorie deficit look larger than it actually is. Giving users the ability to calibrate the estimate to their own experience would make Bevel’s insights much more personalized.
I also think this could be a meaningful differentiator for Bevel. Most wearable ecosystems provide a single calorie estimate and don’t give users a way to account for individual differences or known inaccuracies. A simple adjustment factor would give users much more control over how their data is interpreted.
In the same vein, I’d also love the ability to manually enter a BMR rather than relying exclusively on an automatically calculated value.
For users who have obtained a more accurate BMR measurement or have a reason to use a specific value, allowing them to enter it manually would make Bevel’s energy-balance calculations considerably more flexible.
Thank you!
Leah
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Add thermogenesis (TEF) in the TDEE, to calculate the real daily kcal consumption
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Marco De Angelis
Thermogenesis in the context of TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) mainly refers to TID (Diet-Induced Thermogenesis), also known as TEF (Thermogenic Effect of Food). It represents about 10% of the total calories burned every day and is the energy spent to digest, absorb and process nutrients. It is essential that thermogenesis is also counted in the TDEE to obtain a precise figure of almost 100% of your daily consumption
Leah
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Smart caloric calculation
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Joey Guardabassi
Hello, it would be convenient to have an intelligent calorie system, which balances weight loss or gain automatically.
For example, if our habits revolve around 2,700 calories and we want to lose 350 calories per day, the application automatically sets a goal of 2,350 calories. Conversely, if the goal is to gain weight, it adds 300 calories and the goal therefore increases to 3,000 calories.
As she loses weight, she automatically recalculates an average of calories (for example every week).
If one day the application detects a change in habit or a day with less sport, it can recalculate the calorie target for the day...
Leah
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Dynamic calorie objective
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Alexandre LE GALL
Be able to have a nutrition objective with macro ratios that can change according to the activity of the day. There is already the caloric balance in the application, but having an update of the goal at mid-day, for example, allows you to adjust the requirements for less active days to keep a balanced calorie balance.
Leah
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Add calorie tracking for weight loss like myfitnesspal or lose it
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George Butterworth
Things like barcode scanning, automatically adjusting calorie goals after exercise, suggesting I want to lose 1kg a week and it builds a calorie goal for me.
Leah
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Weight scale
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Kevin Feringa
Add a weight scale and it could Calculate how much you ate and what is your goal and determine what goals you want
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