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by silviogutierrez 3881 days ago
Great suggestions all around. I'm actually a few days away from integrating with HealthKit, which takes care of some low hanging fruit.

For example, I know that when I walk 10,000 steps a day (or run, dance, or backflip), I burn my TDEE is around 2500 calories. However, on a very rainy day like today, if I walk 0 steps - a true sedentary day - it would definitely impact my TDEE. I'd argue even enough to not average out in the long term.

Sure, 7500 one day and 12000 the next averages out. But 0? Imagine a rainy week? So in that case, proper integration and adjustment of your targets for the day would be useful.

I imagine something similar could be done for fitbit, etc.

Another low hanging fruit is integrating with scales: manually entering my weight every day is easily automated.

I do plan to eventually add exercise tracking for progression, but as we agree, encouraging "the eat back what you burn off" is not a good direction for most.