# Know Exactly How Many Calories You Have Left — Meal by Meal

SlimAI’s home screen shows calories eaten, your goal, and calories burned in one ring — plus a recommended calorie range and a live status for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack.

Most trackers answer one question: how many calories have you eaten today? That is useful at midnight and almost useless at 7 p.m., when what you actually need to know is how much dinner you can afford and whether you still owe yourself a meal.

The SlimAI Calorie Tracker dashboard answers the second question. One ring holds eaten, goal, and burned. Macro bars run against your own targets. And every meal carries its own recommended calorie range with a status — Over Limit, Not taken, Need to Eat, or Optional — so the day turns into decisions instead of a single running total. Eat smarter, not stricter.

## The Problem: One Daily Number Does Not Tell You What to Do

“You have 640 calories left” sounds like an answer until you try to use it. Left for what? Is that dinner, or dinner and a snack? Did you skip lunch, so part of that number is a meal you still owe? Should you eat now or stop for the day?

A single total flattens the day into one figure and hands the planning back to you. So people guess: they under-eat early, overshoot at dinner, then discover the problem after the plates are cleared. The information arrives, but it arrives too late to change anything.

SlimAI Calorie Tracker splits the day into the units you actually eat in. The home screen shows where you stand overall and what each remaining meal has room for, so the number in front of you maps onto a decision you are about to make.

## Your Day at a Glance

The centre of the home screen is a single ring holding the three numbers that define the day.

- **Eaten, goal, and burned side by side:** Calories eaten, the day’s goal, and calories burned sit together — 2100 eaten, 2100 goal, 34 burned — so intake and activity are read as one balance instead of two separate screens.
- **A red state when you pass the goal:** The ring turns red with a warning icon once the day moves past your goal, so the state of the day is obvious at a glance rather than something you have to calculate.
- **View Details for the full picture:** A View Details link opens the breakdown behind the ring, so the summary stays readable while the detail stays one tap away.
- **Streak and plan visible in the header:** Your streak counter sits in the header alongside your plan badge, so consistency is part of the same first glance as today’s numbers.

## A Calorie Range for Every Meal

This is the part of the dashboard that changes how the day is run. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack each get their own card with a recommended calorie range and a live status, so you can see which meals are done, which are still owed, and which are optional.

Ranges are recommendations, not rules — Dinner “252-274 Kcal recommended”, Snack “315-342 Kcal recommended”. They give you a target band to aim at instead of a single number you either hit or miss, and they shift with what the rest of the day has already used.

The statuses are the practical part. Each one tells you what to do right now.

- **Over Limit:** That meal used more than its range — Breakfast “2100/342 Kcal — Over Limit”. It does not end the day; it tells you the remaining meals are working with less, and the other cards adjust accordingly.
- **Not taken:** The meal has not been logged and its range is still available — Lunch “378-411 Kcal recommended — Not taken”. If you skipped it, you can see exactly what it was holding.
- **Need to Eat:** You still owe yourself this meal. Dinner “252-274 Kcal recommended — Need to Eat” is the prompt that stops a day from ending accidentally under-fed after a heavy morning.
- **Optional:** There is room for this one if you want it, and no obligation if you do not — Snack “315-342 Kcal recommended — Optional”. Flexibility with a number attached, rather than a vague sense of having some room left.

## Macros Against Your Own Targets

Below the ring, macro bars show fats, protein, and carbohydrates as a percentage of your target together with the gram fraction behind it — Fats 100% (120/120) g, Protein 90% (108/120) g, Carbs 100% (138/46) g. You see how far along you are and the actual grams that produced it, without opening another screen.

These bars run against your goals, not a generic template. If you set your own daily calories and gram-level protein, fat, and carbohydrate targets with Custom Calorie & Macro Goals, the dashboard measures the day against those numbers — so a coached macro split or a nutritionist’s plan is reflected on the home screen from the first meal.

For the fuller view of protein, carbohydrate, and fat tracking across days, see the Macro Tracker page. Both are linked below.

## A Week You Can See

Above the ring, a day strip runs across the week — Thu 23 through Tue 28 — with a progress ring on each day and today highlighted.

Past days keep their rings, so you can see at a glance which days met the goal and which did not, and tap back into any of them. One heavy day stops looking like a failure when the six around it are visible in the same row.

Streaks sit alongside it as a consistency signal. The aim is a readable pattern over time rather than a verdict on a single day — no one day decides your progress, and SlimAI does not promise outcomes.

## Food and Workout in One View

A Food / Workout toggle sits on the same screen as the meal cards, with a food search beside it, so logging a meal and logging a session are two states of one dashboard rather than two apps.

Logged workouts produce estimated burned calories, and those feed the balance in the central ring — which is why eaten, goal, and burned appear together rather than separately. Intensity and duration drive the estimate, and the same “Learn how we suggest — Sources & References” link discloses the method behind it.

Burned calories are estimates, not measurements, so treat them as context for the day rather than an exact figure. The workout side is covered in full on the Workout Tracking page, linked below.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do I see how many calories I have left today?

The SlimAI home screen shows calories eaten, your daily goal, and calories burned together in one ring, with a View Details link for the breakdown. The ring turns red with a warning icon once the day passes your goal, so where you stand is visible at a glance.

### Does SlimAI tell me how much to eat at each meal?

Yes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack each carry a recommended calorie range on the dashboard — for example Dinner “252-274 Kcal recommended”. The ranges are recommendations that reflect what the rest of your day has already used, so you get a target band rather than a single pass-or-fail number.

### What do Not taken, Need to Eat, and Optional mean?

They are the live status on each meal card. “Not taken” means the meal has not been logged and its range is still available. “Need to Eat” means you still owe yourself that meal. “Optional” means there is room if you want it and no obligation if you do not. A meal that used more than its range shows “Over Limit”.

### Does SlimAI show calories burned against calories eaten?

Yes. Calories eaten, your goal, and calories burned appear side by side in the central ring — 2100 eaten, 2100 goal, 34 burned, for example. Logged workouts produce estimated burned calories that feed that balance. Burn figures are estimates, not measurements.

### Can I see past days and streaks?

Yes. A day strip across the top of the dashboard shows the week with a progress ring on each day and today highlighted, so you can see which past days met the goal and tap back into any of them. A streak counter sits in the header as a consistency signal.

### Does the dashboard follow my custom macro goals?

Yes. The macro bars measure fats, protein, and carbohydrates against your own targets, showing both the percentage and the gram fraction — Protein 90% (108/120) g, for example. If you set custom gram-level goals, the dashboard uses those numbers rather than a generic template.

Source: https://www.slimai.ai/features/daily-calorie-dashboard

## Try SlimAI

To try SlimAI, download SlimAI Calorie Tracker from the Apple App Store or Google Play and start the 3-day free trial; SlimAI Premium is then $1.49/month or $11.99/year (about $1/month), and can be cancelled anytime from the Apple or Google account that manages the subscription.

- Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slimai-calorie-tracker/id6749062571
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slimai.app
- Desktop (QR code): https://www.slimai.ai/download