The most prominent item on your Home screen is your daily budget - either an apple (if the primary nutrient you track is calories, which is the default diet type) or a circle (if you changed the primary nutrient to carbs, protein, or something else.) If you are meeting your budget goals, the apple/circle will be green; otherwise - red or orange.
If your goal is losing weight
Green apple/circle means you are under your budget. All is well :).
If you are over your budget, but you consumed fewer calories than your Weight Maintenance Calories, the color would be orange. It's a warning that while you are still losing weight, it's not as fast as you planned.
If you are over your budget and your consumed calories are also over your weight maintenance calories, you are gaining weight. The color would be red.
If your goal is weight maintenance
If your target weight is the same as your current weight, you are maintaining. Since most folks use our service to lose weight, weight maintenance for most of our users means maintaining their weight loss. Thus, our app uses the same color system as for weight loss. If you are under your budget, the apple/circle would be green. If you are over budget but under "weight maintenance calories," it will be orange; otherwise - red.
If your goal is gaining weight
Generally, to gain weight, you need to consume more calories. For the current "today" day, the system avoids using the red color even if you are under budget. Seeing red the entire day starting in the morning after eating breakfast is unpleasant and de-motivating (and you can always eat a bit more!) So, if your goal is gaining weight, the apple/circle is always green for the current day.
For days in the past, the apple/circle will be green if the budget is exceeded and red if that day is under budget.
If your goal is changed
Our system calculates your goal by comparing your current weight with your target weight. If your target weight is less than the current weight, then your goal is weight loss. If greater - it's weight gain. If the target weight is the same as the current weight - it's weight maintenance.
If one day you weigh in and find that you exceeded your weight loss target by one pound (congratulations!), then, from dieting perspective, your weight goal becomes "gaining weight" - after all, your current weight is one pound less than your (old) weight target. Weight gain color rules will apply on that day - see above. So, upon reaching your weight target, make sure to review and update your plan using the My Weight Goal & Plan > Weight & Calories section, setting a new weight target if you wish so.
Please notice that if you enter a weigh-in for a day in the past and it changes your goal from weight loss to weight gain, then the apple/circle for that day may change its color. Suppose your weight goal for yesterday was weight loss, and the apple was green - you were under budget. Now you enter weigh-in for yesterday, and it overshoots your weight target by one pound. From dieting perspective, your yesterday's goal was gaining weight, and as you were under budget, you did not eat enough to gain, and so the apple/circle for yesterday will change its color from green to red. Even updating your plan will not affect yesterday's color, as all plan updates are effective starting today. This is normal, so make sure to log your weigh-ins on the same day and always keep My Weight Goal & Plan current!