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[page] /quantified-self/calories · the truth mirror

Calories Audit.

1940 kcal/d baseline/ Katch-McArdle/ 0 coaching· raw truth

A calorie truth mirror. Sibling page to /quantified-self/time. Same idea: no coaching, no diet advice, no narrative - just look at calories eaten, budget left, and what was missed.

I narrate meals on WhatsApp. A script turns them into calorie entries with rough estimates. The page below is the public calories readout. Deficit math is sedentary, Katch-McArdle: deficit = tdee + active − eaten. Activity is logged separately, not baked into the baseline.

today.deficit
+2,030kcal
under tdee
eaten
0kcal
today
active
90kcal
credited
baseline
1,940kcal
sedentary tdee
entries
0
0 estimated
days.tracked
2d
since start
[01]

today

deficit readout · single day 2026-05-16

One number. One bar. One log. Under-budget is green; over is amber. Estimates marked ~; exact entries unmarked.

today.deficit
+2,030kcal
under tdee
eaten 0 active +90 tdee 1,940
calorie bar · 0 → tdee → earned (tdee + active)
tdee 1,940
earned 2,030
0 2,132 kcal
eaten0 over tdee earned
[02]

last 7 days

one row / day · eaten vs earned 2 of 7 days logged

Each row is a day's calorie bar. Green fill = eaten, against the dotted tdee line and the bright "earned" line (tdee + active). When the green crosses earned, it goes amber - over budget.

eaten
0500100015002000+
deficit
May 16
sat
1,800 +700a
+840kcal
May 15
fri
925
+1,015kcal
May 14
thu
-
no log
May 13
wed
-
no log
May 12
tue
-
no log
May 11
mon
-
no log
May 10
sun
-
no log
[03]

shape of day

calorie timing · all logged data
calories by hour-of-day· 24 bars · cumulative across all days
2
1
2
1
1
0003060912151821
peak 19:00 · 825 kcal first entry 17:56 last entry 23:49
discipline
days under tdee2
days over tdee0
avg daily deficit+928kcal/d
best dayMay 15+1,015
worst dayMay 16+840