Targets and Progress
How your calorie and protein targets are set, why they move, and how to read your progress.
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Common questions
Why your targets change
The user-visible reasons a Zolt calorie or protein target can move and the checks to make before changing your plan.
Why Did My Calorie Target Change When My Weight Did Not?
The TDEE, goal, cadence, preference, and data checks to make when your calorie target moves without a new scale reading.
When Progress Is Faster or Slower Than Planned
What to check in Zolt before changing a weight goal, whether the trend appears stalled or is moving too quickly.
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Do Active Calories Change My Zolt Calorie Target?
Why wearable active calories can appear in Zolt without becoming a matching credit in your Adaptive TDEE target.
Why Daily Weight Changes in Zolt
Why scale weight can move from day to day, how to read trend weight, and when a change deserves more attention.
How Zolt sets your calorie and protein targets
How your current TDEE, goal, rate, and nutrition preferences shape the targets shown in Zolt.
Read article →Why your targets change
The user-visible reasons a Zolt calorie or protein target can move and the checks to make before changing your plan.
Read article →Why Did My Calorie Target Change When My Weight Did Not?
The TDEE, goal, cadence, preference, and data checks to make when your calorie target moves without a new scale reading.
Read article →Do Active Calories Change My Zolt Calorie Target?
Why wearable active calories can appear in Zolt without becoming a matching credit in your Adaptive TDEE target.
Read article →Why Daily Weight Changes in Zolt
Why scale weight can move from day to day, how to read trend weight, and when a change deserves more attention.
Read article →When Progress Is Faster or Slower Than Planned
What to check in Zolt before changing a weight goal, whether the trend appears stalled or is moving too quickly.
Read article →