Calorie Targets: Profile vs. Dashboard

Your dashboard always shows the calorie target that matters right now. If you’ve committed to a calorie ceiling via a protocol, that commitment takes priority over your profile target.

Two Types of Calorie Targets

Target	Source	When It Applies
Baseline Target	Calculated from your profile (height, weight, age, activity level, goal)	Default — applies when no protocol overrides it
Committed Target	Set by an active protocol with a calorie ceiling rule	Temporary — applies for the duration of the protocol

How the Effective Target Is Determined

Rubric resolves your calorie target in priority order:

Active protocol calorie ceiling — If you have a protocol with a calorie rule (e.g., “Stay under 1,800 calories”), that ceiling becomes your dashboard target.
Profile baseline — If no protocol overrides it, your profile-based target is used. This is calculated from your height, weight, age, activity level, and goal using standard metabolic formulas.
Fallback — If neither exists (rare, typically only before onboarding is complete), a 2,000 kcal default is used.

A Concrete Example

Your profile target, based on your body metrics and goal, is 2,340 kcal. You create a protocol: “Stay under 1,900 calories for 14 days.”

For those 14 days, your dashboard macro bars show 1,900 kcal as the target — not 2,340.
Your Nutrition Index, Coach advice, and Weekly Transcript all use 1,900 during the protocol.
When the protocol ends, the target reverts to 2,340.
Your profile target has not changed — it was temporarily overridden by your commitment.

What this means for you: If your dashboard shows a calorie target that differs from what you remember setting in your profile, check whether you have an active protocol with a calorie rule. That protocol’s ceiling is your current commitment, and all scoring uses that number until the protocol ends.

Where to See Your Targets

Dashboard macro bars. The calorie progress bar shows your effective target as the denominator (e.g., “1,850/1,900”). This is always the currently active target — baseline or committed, whichever applies.

Profile screen. Your baseline target is visible under your body metrics. This number reflects your profile settings and does not change when a protocol overrides it.

Weekly Transcript. The raw data table includes a footnote indicating the source of your calorie target for that week — whether it came from a protocol, your profile, or the default.

Changing Your Baseline Target

Your baseline updates when you change your profile: body weight, height, age, activity level, or goal. Rubric recalculates using standard metabolic formulas. See Tuning Your Profile for details. Profile changes do not affect active protocol ceilings.

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