# Cheat mode

> For meals you cannot itemise — buffets, Korean barbecue, a box of pastries.

Some meals do not decompose into ingredients. You do not know how many pieces of
meat you ate at the barbecue place, and you are not about to count.

Cheat mode is for exactly that. Instead of asking you to itemise, it gives you a
few **sliders** and asks roughly where you landed.

## How to use it

1. **Switch to cheat mode**

Pick cheat mode in the input area.

2. **Describe the occasion**

It does not need detail. `Korean barbecue buffet` or `wedding dinner` is enough.
You can also pick from the suggested occasions.

3. **Set the sliders**

Kallo returns a few sliders from 0 to 10, each with a clear label at every
level. Drag to whatever matches what you ate.

4. **Confirm**

Kallo converts the slider positions into nutrition and saves it to your log.

## What the sliders are

Each slider covers a nutrient group, and every level on it is tied to a concrete
weight anchor — not a vague "a little / a lot". The labels are written in
everyday terms: how many pieces, how many bowls, how many trips back.

If the occasion involved drinks, you get a separate drinks slider that accounts
for alcohol too.

## How accurate is it

Less accurate than detailed logging, and that is fine.

> **An honest trade**
>
> A rough number for a buffet is far better than logging nothing, because a blank
> day distorts your whole week. Kallo would rather give you a coarse estimate than
> have you give up.

Cheat-mode meals are marked separately in your log, so you can always tell a
detailed estimate from a coarse one.

## Repeating an occasion

If you go back to the same place often, a past occasion can be reused. Pick it
again, adjust the sliders if today was different, and confirm.

## When to use something else

- You know what you ate → [describe the meal](https://kallo.fit/en/docs/logging/describe-a-meal).
- You weighed it → [manual logging](https://kallo.fit/en/docs/logging/manual).
- It came in a package → [barcode scanning](https://kallo.fit/en/docs/logging/barcode).

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