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# Food tracking

Your food diary lives in **Tracking → Food**. Logging is designed to be fast enough that you'll actually keep doing it.

## Logging food

1. Open **Tracking** and go to the **Food** tab.
2. Pick the meal you're logging and add food by:
   * **Searching** the food database,
   * **Scanning a barcode** — point your camera at the packet and the food's nutrition info fills in automatically,
   * Picking from your **favourites** or **frequent** foods — your regular meals are usually two taps.
3. Adjust the portion (foods support multiple measures — grams, servings, items) and save.

## Reading your day

The Food tab shows your running totals for calories and macros against your active [nutrition target](/nutrition/nutrition-targets.md), so you always know where you stand before dinner, not after it.

## Tips

* **Favourite** the foods you eat weekly — the first week of logging is the slowest; after that your staples are all one tap away.
* Log as you eat rather than at bedtime. Recall is the enemy of accuracy.
* If you train with a coach, they can see your food diary and give feedback — one of the main reasons coaches ask clients to log here rather than in a separate app.