[Logging] Really need usable food/meal/consumption logging
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Robert B Vollum
Much of the value of this service comes from closely correlating consumption with glucose levels. Please find a way to (a) integrate into one or more of the many great recipe trackers (RealPlans e.g.) or consumption loggers (MyFitnessPal e.g.) and (b) improve your food database / meal tracker. What's there now (I don't mean to be too critical) is hardly usable. I want and need to track food for other reasons, and i want to do it in one place.
Michele House
I agree with this completely! I recently rejoined levels and am shocked at how hard it is to log food. Pics are guesses. I use Cronometer as I need the detailed breakdown while working with my functional med doc. He requires it. So now I'm logging food in two places which is way too cumbersome. Integration with Cronometer and similar apps is critical. And the food database in levels is very lacking so logging food in Levels takes much longer than in Cronometer and similar apps. I don't understand how this is so given that the entire purpose of the CGM and app is to track food to impact glucose levels. I wish I'd not signed up for a year and fear I'll just stop using the app. I'm early into this but honestly am not seeing the value of logging food here. Please tell me that integration is coming.
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Chris Grigsby
Chronometer, or at least fix the Android Health Connect syncing for this.
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Lynette Diaz
in progress
Lynette here from the Levels team. Also noting that food database improves should be complete by end of January. You'll likely already notice improvements in barcode scanning. Search result improvements are coming very soon.
Also recipes are available for logging as well.
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Tina
Plus one to micronutrients. I submitted this request privately when I cancelled my membership and went without Levels for several months but came back bc I felt like I plateaued. (Turns my blood glucose got a little worse so my feeling was correct). I jump back and forth between Cronometer for recipe creation and micronutrients.
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Teresa Heckel
I agree. It is one of the reasons I’ve decided to not renew my membership for 2025. LOVE Levels, but the value for the cost just isn’t there without being able to better correlate my food intake with BG levels.
Dn. Jim Reinhardt
I have to agree. I have taken to using another app (lose it) and entering the macros into levels. It is cumbersome. The problem with food addicts (like me) is guesstimates are an invitation to cheating. Taking pictures or speaking food into the app is only guesstimates. Chili for instance, can be packed with veggies and quality protein or full of carbs and fat. If you fix anything, please fix this. It is a very important part of the program... Thanks.
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Lynette Diaz
under review
Noting that we just released the ability to log recipes in the app. This will be fully available this week.
Here's how it works:
Once you give it a try let us know if it's the feature you've been looking for.
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Tina
Lynette Diaz
TL;DR - unable to complete flow. Stuck in loading with using AI and searching manually for ingredients.
The flow looks great (if it works) but running into AI not being able to analyze list of ingredients issue.
Went through this flow twice in the same session and I get the loading screen for a few minutes and then I got this error twice.
Tried searching, stuck in loading for minutes before I exited.
Force closed app (on iPhone) and tried again with searching ingredient manually flow, stuck in loading.
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Lynette Diaz
Tina thank you for letting me know!! I'll get this reported as a bug ASAP! In the meantime would you mind deleting and re-installing the Levels app?
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Tina
Lynette Diaz np! But actually I tried a test right now without deleting/re-installing and it works well! (see screenshot). I think there might have been a backend issue last night bc the normal adding food log flow was intermittently suuuper slow or flat out not working
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Lynette Diaz
Tina Yes thanks again for flagging! This appears to be fixed now!! Our engineers were able to identify the issue yesterday. ❤️
If you run into an issue like this again, the fastest way to get it flagged is by messaging support, support@levels.com.
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Michael Gussis
Agree completely. I would like to track micronutrients also.