Profile and targets

Your profile does two jobs: it sets your daily targets, and it tells Kallo how you cook. The two are independent, and only one of them ever reaches the AI model.

Initial setup#

Setup is three screens and takes about two minutes. You can skip it and come back — the sidebar will keep the thread until you finish.

Screen 1 — Origin and language#

The country you grew up in and the country you live in now. This shapes how Kallo reads dish names and default portions — the same dish name means a noticeably different serving size from one region to the next. You also pick your display language here.

Screen 2 — Body metrics and goal#

Weight, height, age, biological sex and activity level. From these Kallo derives your TDEE — total daily energy expenditure — then applies your goal on top:

• Cutting — a target below TDEE.
• Bulking — a target above TDEE.
• Maintaining — a target at TDEE.

The aggression slider decides how far. Push it further and change comes faster — and gets harder to sustain. Kallo will say plainly when the pace you picked is a sharp one.

Screen 3 — Cooking habits#

This is the part most apps skip, and the part that moves estimates most:

• Whether you cook with a lot of oil or a little.
• Your default rice portion.
• Your default protein portion.
• Whether you finish the broth.

The same bowl of noodle soup differs a lot between someone who drinks the broth and someone who leaves it.

An important boundary#

The full detail is in the privacy policy.

What goal adjustment does#

Every estimate is a range, not a point. When that range is collapsed to the single number stored in your log, your goal decides which end it collapses toward:

• Cutting — the cautious end: the upper bound for calories, carbs and fat, the lower bound for protein.
• Bulking — the opposite.

This is deliberate. If you are cutting, underestimating a meal hurts you more than overestimating it.

Changing things later#

Everything above is editable in Settings at any time. Changing your weight or goal recalculates targets immediately, and you see the new target before you save.

Meals you have already logged are not recalculated — they keep the figures they had when you confirmed them, so your history never rewrites itself behind you.