Understand Your Plan
How your targets are set, when they change, and what progress really looks like. Optional reading — day to day, your Overview and Weekly Review tell you everything you need.
- Your targets are calculated from your sex, age, height, weight, activity and goal. No equations to decode — just the result.
- Your first four weeks are a structured baseline phase — not an aggressive calorie cut.
- Starting calories may intentionally sit around 10% above your estimated maintenance starting point, while you establish consistency and ChasingBetter Plus collects reliable data.
- This means your early calorie target can look higher than expected. That's intentional — it keeps the plan sustainable while your real numbers come in.
- After the baseline phase, adjustments are based on your actual results: weekly average weight, percentage change, adherence, logging completeness, steps, photos and measurements. Adjustments are not applied automatically after four weeks.
- The CB+ target for fat loss is −0.5% to −1.5% of your weekly average bodyweight per week.