How Smart Goals Work

Smart Goals automatically adjust your daily calorie and macro targets based on your real-time activity and weekly progress. Instead of a fixed number every day, your targets adapt to how your body is actually performing.

How Smart Goals Work

Smart Goals use four signals to fine-tune your daily targets:

1. Activity integration - If you connect a fitness tracker or use Apple Health / Google Fit, Nutrify adjusts your calorie target based on how active you were today. More active days get a higher budget; rest days get a lower one.
2. Weekly weight trends - If you log your weight regularly, Smart Goals analyze the trend over time (not just day-to-day fluctuations). If you are losing faster than your target rate, it nudges calories up slightly. If progress has stalled, it nudges them down.
3. Consistency bonus - When you log meals consistently for several days in a row, Smart Goals can make more accurate adjustments because it has better data to work with.
4. Adaptive pacing - Smart Goals spread your deficit or surplus evenly across the week rather than applying it all at once, which helps avoid extreme high or low days.

How to Enable Smart Goals

1. Open Nutrify and tap Settings (gear icon).
2. Tap Preferences.
3. Find Smart Goals and toggle it on.
4. You will see four sub-settings that you can individually enable or disable.

The Four Sub-Settings

Each component of Smart Goals can be controlled independently:

• Activity Adjustment - Syncs with your step count and exercise data to modify daily calories. Turn this off if you prefer a fixed target regardless of activity.
• Weight-Based Adjustment - Uses your weight log trend to course-correct weekly. Turn this off if you do not log weight regularly.
• Consistency Bonus - Rewards streaks of consistent logging with more refined targets. This is subtle and most users leave it on.
• Adaptive Pacing - Distributes your weekly calorie budget more evenly. Turn this off if you prefer the same target every day.

💡 Tip: You do not need to enable all four. Many users start with just Activity Adjustment and Weight-Based Adjustment, then add the others later.

Smart Goals vs. Manual Targets

You can switch between Smart Goals and manual targets at any time without losing your data.

What Smart Goals Will Never Do

• Go below your Safety Floor - Even if Smart Goals calculates a lower target, it will never recommend fewer calories than your Safety Floor minimum.
• Make dramatic day-to-day swings - Adjustments are small and gradual (typically 50-150 kcal) to keep your experience consistent.
• Override your macro ratios - Smart Goals adjusts total calories. Your protein/carb/fat percentages stay as you set them.

Need More Help?

If you have a question not covered here, the fastest way to reach us is directly inside the Nutrify app:

1. Open Nutrify
2. Go to Settings
3. Tap Help & Feedback
4. Tap Report a Bug or Request a Feature

Our team reads every message. You can also email us at support@nutrifytracker.com.