Set the maintenance estimate

What your assistant is told

Record your estimate of the user's maintenance energy — roughly what they burn in a day — effective from a date (today unless effective_on says otherwise). Returns the saved estimate. This is YOUR estimate, not a measurement. Nothing on the server computes it, and nothing else will correct it. Revise it when the weight trend stops agreeing with what they are eating: if intake has been steady and weight is flat, the previous estimate was too low, and vice versa. Do NOT assume it changes their goals. Targets carry their own absolute bounds and are untouched by this — if the user's plan should change too, call set_target as well and say so. Read get_weights and get_macro_summary before revising — and get_energy_expenditure when the user has shared their measured energy burn, which is the best single input you will get — and always pass a note: earlier estimates stay in the record, and the user sees this series as a chart of how their maintenance has moved.