Getting started

NoshChat is a food log you talk to. You tell the chat what you ate, and it works out the calories, protein, carbs, fat and fiber, saves each food as an entry, and keeps the day’s count against your daily target.

Getting set up takes a couple of minutes.

1. Create an account

   Go to noshchat.runat.app and choose Sign Up. You’ll create your account on the sign-in page, then come back to NoshChat signed in. Next time, choose Sign In.

   

   This is the page you see when you’re signed out. Sign Up creates a new account; Sign In is for an account you already have.

2. Set your daily target

   Open Daily target from the menu and fill in your age, gender, weight (kg), height (cm), how active you are and your goal: lose weight, keep it, or gain. Your target appears as you type, with how it was worked out:

   • what you burn at rest,
   • what you burn with your activity, which is what keeps your weight the same,
   • and the change for your goal, about 500 kcal a day either way.

   If you already have a number from a coach or a dietitian, tick Set my own number instead and type it in.

   

   The six fields are at the top. Under them, the big number is your target, 2,200 kcal a day here, and the lines under it show how it was reached: 1,740 kcal burnt at rest, 2,700 kcal to keep your weight with this much activity, and −500 kcal for the goal of losing weight.

   Choose Save target. You can change it whenever you like. More about the daily target →

3. Log your first meal

   Open Chat and tell it what you ate:

   two eggs and toast for breakfast

   The reply says what was logged, such as Logged 223 kcal to breakfast., lists each food with its calories, and ends with a line on where your day stands. The Today tab beside the chat shows the day’s totals against your target.

   

   On the left is the conversation: your message in blue, and the reply listing each food it logged, with a line under it on what’s left of the day and which macros are short. On the right, Today shows the day so far: calories eaten of the 2,200 kcal target, with a bar, then protein (P), carbs (C), fiber and fat (F) as eaten / target and how much is still to go. Under that is a tab for each meal, listing what’s in it. The green +2 marks the two entries the message just added.

What to try next

• Fix something: “make that lunch”, “it was 50 g, not 30 g”, “remove the toast”. See Logging food.
• Tell it what you have in: “I have eggs, greek yogurt, rice and tortillas”. See Cupboard.
• Ask what to eat: “what should I have for dinner?” The answer is sized to what’s left of your day and built from your cupboard.
• Look at your week: Food log shows a day at a time, with a bar for each day of the week. See Your day.

Tip

Not sure what to say? Choose Examples next to the chat’s greeting. Each example is a button that puts it in the message box.

Tip

These pages are in the app too. Choose Help at the top, or Docs at the bottom of the menu, and the page for the screen you’re on opens beside it. It follows you as you move between screens; × closes it.

Tip

Statistics and Videos at the top open the NoshChat site, noshchat.pagews.com, in a new tab: what a day of eating adds up to across short what-I-eat-in-a-day videos, and each video food by food. Brock, the broccoli coach, presents the statistics and Avo, the avocado, the videos; you’ll meet them in the app too.