No way existed to log body weight over time - only the single
self-reported value from the signup profile - and the dashboard showed
session activity but nothing about physical progress, which is usually
the main reason people keep using a fitness app.
Adds a WeightLog model (one entry per user per day, re-logging the same
day updates it rather than duplicating), a quick-add form and trend
summary on the dashboard, and delete support.
Found and fixed a real bug along the way: the first implementation used
WeightLog::updateOrCreate() with a raw ['logged_at' => $date] match
array, which silently failed to find the same-day entry because the
`date` cast stores full datetime strings ('2026-01-01 00:00:00') while
the match array holds a plain 'Y-m-d' string - so re-logging the same
day hit a unique-constraint violation instead of updating. Fixed by
using a whereDate() lookup instead, which is comparison-format-safe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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