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Check-ins

Check-ins

Review two weeks of food logs, weigh-ins and workouts in one check-in.

See a recommendation and the reason behind it. Accept it or keep your current plan.

Updated Written for Good Enough 2.0

A check-in result proposing new daily calories, with Update my targets and Not this time buttons.
A suggestion, not an automatic change.
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How it works

The app reviews your weight trend, food logs, workouts and estimated daily calorie burn. It asks about energy, hunger and sleep if you haven't already logged them.

It recommends keeping your plan, changing calories or training, taking a lighter training week (a deload), or taking a diet break. Calorie targets generally need at least four weeks before an adjustment. See the method for the rules.

  1. 14 days of logs
  2. Trend
  3. One suggestion
  4. You decide

Read the method →

Before your check-in

  1. Check when you're due

    The Coach tab shows when your next check-in is due, plus your weigh-ins and logged days so far. It needs at least 7 weigh-ins and 10 days of food logs in the two-week period to assess a calorie change.

    In the appCoach › Next check-in

    The check-in countdown card showing days to go, weigh-ins and days logged so far.
    A check-in every two weeks.
  2. Weigh in, and measure if you like

    Log your weight daily or every other day. You can add your waist and other measurements too. Weights from Apple Health come in on their own.

    In the appSettings › Take measurements

    The body measurement sheet with weight, waist and more measurements.
    Weigh in, and add measurements if you like.

Run a check-in

  1. Start the check-in

    When it's due, tap Start check-in on the Coach tab. If you've had your body fat measured, enter it. If not, tap I don't have one.

    In the appCoach › Start check-in

  2. Take progress photos, if you want

    Take front, back and side photos with similar framing to last time. They're saved on your phone, in your iCloud and in your photo library.

    If you allow an AI photo review, the app sends your current and previous photos to Google's Gemini AI through our servers. The review describes visible changes without assigning a body-fat percentage. The review copies are deleted afterward; your saved photos remain. You can skip any pose or tap Skip photos this time.

    The progress photo screen with front, back and side poses.
    Progress photos are optional. AI review needs your permission.
  3. Say how the two weeks felt

    If you didn't log energy, hunger and sleep during the two weeks, the check-in asks now. It takes a few seconds.

Accept or decline the change

  1. Read the result

    The result summarizes your progress and explains the recommendation.

  2. Accept or decline

    Tap Update my targets to accept. When the suggestion is to hold or rest, the button says Keep going, Start the break or Got it.

    Tap Not this time to decline. Your targets stay the same, and the app stops suggesting that change.

See past check-ins

  1. Review or undo a change

    Past check-ins and what changed lists every check-in and its outcome. Tap Undo this change to reverse one you accepted.

    In the appCoach › Past check-ins and what changed

    The Check-ins screen explaining what's worked out from your logs, what's asked, and what has changed so far.
    What changed and why.

Good to know

  • TipRegular weigh-ins help the check-in assess your weight trend.
  • TipKeep logging when you miss a workout or go over your calorie target. Those days help explain your progress too.
  • TipBefore your first check-in, open What happens at a check-in on the Coach tab to see how it works.
  • TipYou can review past recommendations on the Coach tab.

Questions

Every two weeks. The Coach tab counts down to the next one.

The check-in still runs. With fewer than 7 weigh-ins or 10 logged days, it keeps your targets as they are and tells you why.

No. Every change is a suggestion. Nothing changes until you tap to accept it.

Routine calorie adjustments are capped at 250 calories a day or 15% of your target, whichever is smaller. Changes under 50 calories aren't suggested. A diet break returns you to maintenance and can exceed that cap.

Only if you allow an AI photo review. Review copies go through our servers to Google's Gemini AI and are deleted afterward. Your saved photos remain on your phone, in iCloud and in your photo library.