Question 1

Multimodal Tracking Explained

Accepted Answer

Using AI to Track Your Meals

Our app uses advanced AI technology to make food tracking quick, easy, and accurate. Whether you prefer speaking, taking a photo, or typing, the AI assists you in logging your meals efficiently. Here's how to get started:

How to Track Food

Access the Diary Screen

Open the Diary screen in the app.
Tap the "+" button to begin tracking your food.

Choose Your Preferred Tracking Method

After tapping the "+" button, you can choose from the following options:

Voice: Say the name of your meal or food item (for example, “One cup of cooked oatmeal”). The AI will process your input and provide nutritional details.
Image: Take or upload a clear photo of your food. The AI will recognize the items, estimate portion sizes, and calculate nutritional values.
Text: Type in the name of the food or dish. The AI will retrieve relevant information such as calories and macronutrients.
Barcode Scanner: Scan the barcode of a packaged food item to get its nutritional content instantly.

* Quick Track: Add a recently tracked meal, a saved favorite, or create a manual entry by specifying the name and calorie value.

Where have all the meals gone from my Diary?

Before you could only select Breakfast, Lunch, Snack and Dinner. With the new multimodal tracking view you get to create the number of meals you have during the day. Depending on the time of the day and the food you select, the Ai wi

Question 2

Is it possible to invite my PT, doctor, nutritionist to my account?

Accepted Answer

Currently, we do unfortunately not have any option for a PT, doctor, or nutritionist to login to your account and access your nutritional information. Instead you have the option share your data exported from your account.

The quickest and easiest way to export your nutritional data if you want to share it with a nutritionist, for example, is via our website. Here you get the option to, at any time, export your nutritional data from the past 7 days.

This file includes:

Food items
Meal type
Calories
Carbs (including sugars and fibers)
Fat (including saturated and unsaturated)
Protein
Potassium
Sodium
Cholesterol

|| This is a Beta feature so everything might not be running 100% smoothly.

If you for any reason would need your full history exported, both when it comes to food/nutrition data, but also for weight, device and account data you can reach out to our support team with a request and they will send it to you.

This file includes:

Account meta (email, register date, etc)
Food (tracked food items)
Exercise (tracked and partner exercise)
Body fat
Body measurements (both the builtin ones like waist and custom measurements)
Installs (install/uninstall records from Adjust)
Weight entries
Recipes

|| Make sure to write to us either from within the app or from the connected email. Otherwise we are unable to send you the exported data.

Question 3

Goodbye tedious tracking. Hello, Multimodal tracking

Accepted Answer

Tracking food just got easier. Our new Multimodal Tracking feature is designed to make tracking effortless and intuitive. With advanced technology, you can track meals in seconds; snap a photo, speak, type, or scan. It’s a new seamless way to track that fits into your life, so you can focus on what matters: your health goals.

Just snap it
Let your camera do the work! Just take a photo of your meal and Lifesum will calculate the calories and nutrition details for you.

Just text it
Track your meals in seconds. Type in the name of your food, and Lifesum will instantly provide calories and macronutrient details.

Just say it
On the go? Simply tell Lifesum what you ate, and it logs everything hands-free—perfect for when you’re on the go.

Just scan it
Scan the barcode, and Lifesum will take care of the details—fast and accurate tr

Question 4

What is the difference between Multimodal Tracking and the Traditional Tracking?

Accepted Answer

###### Lifesum offers two distinct tracking experiences to help you log your meals: Multimodal Tracking and Traditional Tracking. Understanding the differences can help you choose the method that best suits your lifestyle and preferences.

Multimodal Tracking (Premium Feature)

Multimodal Tracking is a Lifesum Premium feature that leverages AI to simplify food logging. It offers multiple intuitive ways to add meals:

Voice input
Text descriptions
Photo recognition

With Multimodal Tracking, you can quickly capture your meals without having to manually search through the food database. Just snap a photo, describe your meal, or speak it—and the AI will do the rest.

Features Available with Multimodal Tracking:

Voice, text, and photo tracking
AI meal categorization
Favorites
Quick Track
Barcode Scanner
Recipes
Recently tracked meals

|| Note: You won’t have access to the traditional food database while adding food directly to your Diary in this mode. However, you can still use it when creating Favorite Food Items, Meals, or Recipes under Progress → Favorites.

Diary Interface

No predefined meals (e.g., Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner) are shown initially.
Tap the "+" to start logging a meal.
You can manually choose the meal type, or let the AI estimate based on:

The time of day.
Keywords in your text (e.g., “For breakfast I had…”).
The type of food.

You can read

Question 5

Clean Eating

Accepted Answer

With the Clean Eating program you will rinse out your pantry from all empty calories* and fill it up with clean, nutrient-dense** and unprocessed foods the body needs to be happy and healthy. The plan distribution is a bit more protein and healthy fats, and a bit fewer carbs than the Lifesum Standard diet. Stock up on whole foods such as oil, nuts, fish, lean meat, fruit & vegetables. Get rid of processed foods like luncheon meats, cereals, sweets & pastries. Get rid of all preservatives, 'chemically charged foods', sugars, saturated fat and trans fat. Try to prepare all your meals at home. Don't miss a meal. Don't eat all your calories at once - distribute them across smaller, more frequent meals. Try to not drink your calories, go for healthy options such as water, water infused with fresh fruit and unsweetened green tea. Don't forget to track calories from drinks.

Eat ‘the rainbow’ - Go for colourful foods.

|| All Programs & Meal Plans require an active Premium Subscription.

Recommended foods:

Vegetables (i.e. broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, avocado, cabbage, kale, mushroom, pumpkin, zucchini, aubergine, tomato)
Legumes (i.e. lentils, black beans, kidney beans, chickpeas)
Fish (i.e. salmon, cod, herring, rainbow trout, haddock, mackerel, hoki, tuna)
Tofu
Berries (i.e. strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cloudberries
Fruit (i.e. pear, apple, banana, mango, orange, plum)
Root vegetables (i.e. potato, sweet potato, beetroot, carrot, parsnips
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Question 6

16:8 - Morning fasting

Accepted Answer

The 16:8 Morning fasting includes a 21-day Meal Plan and shopping list that will help you reach your goal. In this plan, you will eat during an 8 hour period and then fast for 16. As guidance, you get recipes that you can follow strictly or use only as inspiration. Make all the tweaks you want to fit your own dietary needs!

|| All Programs & Meal Plans require an active Premium Subscription.

How does the 16:8 Morning fasting work?

You get three recipe suggestions for lunch, dinner, and evening snack every day for your eating window of 8 hours. If you are on the Morning fast, you will skip breakfast. We suggest that you start your eating window at around 12 noon with lunch and then have your last meal, your evening snack before 8.00 PM when your fast begins again.

You don't have to follow the suggestions above but can adjust your 8-hour eating window according to your own schedule and lifestyle.

I can't find the 16:8 Morning fasting meal plan. Where can I find it?

All available Meal Plans and Programs are located under the Programs tab in the app. If you are unable to locate this Meal Plan on that page you may have some incompatible settings in the app. Please read more about the requirements for each Meal Plan here.

Here's a suggestion of food items to add to the plan for users with a higher energy requirement than what the plan contains:

Recipes in this plan i

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