The app no longer has a “busy time” feature to exclude times from meal programming.

In general, meal timing is a minor optimization in diet success, provided that you generally space our your meals and follow macro guidance (eg, more carbs in a post-workout meal). So if the app consistently programs meals for you during inconvenient times, it’s often safe to ignore the recommendation and eat your meal earlier or later than prescribed.

If you want the schedule in the app to be true to life, you have two options:

1. Manually reschedule individual meals when you have one-off conflicts. You can do this in one of three ways:
   1. Long-press the meal from the “Schedule” tab and select “Edit target macros and time”.
   2. Tap on the “…” overflow menu from inside the meal and select “Edit macros/time”.
   3. Tap on the “…” overflow menu from the “Schedule” tab, select “Edit schedule”, and change the times of multiple meals in one view.
2. Update your schedule template with manually specified meals that will persist from week to week as the app programs your schedule. This will lock meals at the times you specified, and in future Weekly Plannings, the app will program meals around those meals with an appropriate buffer.
   
   For instance, instead of “busy time” between 11:00 and 12:00, you could instead configure a manual meal in your template for 10:45 or 12:00, and the app will not likely program a meal in the 11:00-12:00 window
   
   To add a manual meal,
   1. tap on the “Me” tab and select “Schedule Template”, and
   2. tap on the “Add a manual meal” link in the “MEALS” section.

Note that when you configure a manually specified meal in your schedule template, you must also specify its macros, which the algorithm will not overwrite during Weekly Planning. We are aware of this limitation and plan to make it possible to set only the times of manually specified meals in a future update.