DISCLAIMER

Long time user (4 years), but got a dedicated mindset with it around May this year and have made good progress. Was mainly focused on the body fat %, assuming I'd reach close to 12% at about 77kg, boy was I wrong with this.

Don't be afraid to change goals due to unrealistic expectations at the beginning.

hi everyone! my semester is starting in two weeks, and I've been working on a fitness routine so I could focus on school and also gain muscle. I thought that maybe sharing with friends might motivate me more. My routine is based on healthy and delicious meals, running and working out. The rest of my time I hang out with friend and study architecture at the Israeli Technion at the moment.

My user name is : guygoldman41

Feel free to add me and tell how does your routine working out for you (:

Ask me anything.

I’ve been using MFP for one year and have lost 41 lbs. As the year has gone, after I lose a few pounds, I update my goals with my current weight. It normally reduces my calories a bit. Today I updated my weight by just 1 lb (loss) and my calories increased by 300! I didn’t change anything else. Is this a glitch? I know I can manually change it but so far I’ve liked the adjustments that the app makes. It has worked for me.

I have tried twice to get the streak counter to correctly reflect the number of days I have been logging food, but it has not worked. Instead of what should be about 62 - 65 days, it says 13. How can I fix that? Customer service hasn't solved the problem for me.

I recently took a break from tracking my calories as I was having a holiday weekend at MCM London, and I really did not want to be thinking about finding low-calorie food during my fun break, especially with how busy I was, between going to meets and finding friends and going to the hotel and Miku Expo. I decided that I'd still be *selective* with what I ate, but not restrictive like I had been for the past month of my weight loss journey. Not binge-eating, just not tracking.

But it actually provided a really useful point of comparison. Whenever me and my boyfriend go to con, we always go to this mac and cheese stall in the convention center at least once. It's overpriced but good as fuck. Back in May, I devoured the whole pot - but this year, I only finished about half, it became too much food for me. It wasn't even a "I've eaten a lot of this I should stop", it was a "I'm too full and can't finish". Which wasn't the case back during May MCM!

My body has become fine-tuned to what it can handle, and I'm now more aware of my hunger cues and fullness levels where I would've been blind to it before. I feel less bloated more often because I feel more comfortable just stopping if I feel like I'm finished.

I'm working on a school project where I need to help a company address an issue with AI. As a MyFitnessPal (MFP) user, I thought adding an AI feature to the app could be useful, but I haven't found much data on whether this is a common need. I'd love to get your thoughts on it!

My idea is for MFP to use AI to give personalized feedback on fitness and weight goals, track progress, and suggest improvements in areas like macros or micronutrient intake. This could help users stay on track and adjust their diet as needed. What do you think? I’d appreciate any feedback!

Hi y'all!

I'm a college student who gets about 10k-12k steps a day just walking to class, and I go to the gym 4-5 days a week, with at least 3 of those days including 30 mins of cardio, and every day including some kind of strength training, whether that be pilates or weight lifting.

Other than that though, I'm sitting in class or sitting at a desk working most weekdays and out partying/tailgating/generally messing around on weekends.

I have my activity level set to sendentary right now and just adding in the exercise I do and I have step tracking turned on. MFP gives me 1430 calories for maintenance right now, does that sound about right? (fyi, i am 19F, 4'11, 100lbs).

If not, what do I set it to? And, do I continue to let it track steps and add my gym workouts if I change the activity level?

Hi guys. So can someone explain to me like I’m 5 now I can possibly be over all my macros and yet still under on my cals today?! My brain can’t compute. Thanks!

I’m really considering semiglutide. I’ve tried to do it the natural way and I just cannot break 190, I’m always so snacky and I not know why I have absolutely no self control no matter what I do. Should I try it? 😕

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Following up on my last post, thank you for the help everyone! I really appreciate it. I put my current info into a calorie calculator online and in order to keep losing weight it says I need to eat ~1800 calories a day. It also gave a suggestion of "zigzag" dieting where I would eat like 1500 calories M-F and then on Saturday and Sunday I would eat almost 2800 calories. Does anyone have any experience with this as well? Not sure if I should follow something like that or just stick to a consistent calorie intake everyday. Thank you :)

So since I found that for some reason MFP doesn’t sync water intake with Apple Health I thought I would try it with a shortcut.

There is an option that MFP has to add water intake to the widget but it doesn’t work. When I execute this shortcut it adds a random value to the water intake in MFP. It doesn’t add the correct amount of water. Am I doing something wrong?

Does anyone have any idea how I could sync my water intake to Apple Health and other apps?

Hi all,

I started losing weight back in February of this year as I was severely obese and unhappy with my life. I was 6'2 and 385 pounds. Since then I've shifted my diet around a lot and as of now I've lost 85 pounds off of dieting alone as I'm not nearly as physically active as I should be. I had a quick question, I've been eating ~800 calories a day for a good while now and I feel more or less fine. I've found low calorie recipes like a 300 calorie pizza and 45 calorie turkey hotdogs so I still get full every day. I also drink a fair amount of water every day (about 85-90 fluid ounces). I've researched a good bit and almost everywhere I look including the journal in MyFitnessPal says that eating less than 1200 calories can bring negative health benefits. Can someone please advise what I should do? What I've been doing is working so I'm tempted to just keep on trucking but I'm open to outside input as well. I still have a long way to go towards my goal weight (somewhere in the realm of 225-250 lbs) and I want to get there desperately, but not at the expense of my long-term health. Any help is appreciated!

Can someone explain the whole negative calorie thing to me please? How does mfp come up with that number? How does it decide what’s positive?

Hey all. For the past two to three weeks the weekly digest has been showing an incredible amount of calories / fats consumed on one to two days normally on Sat and/or Sun. This week it's showing over 40,000 calories of fat consumed on Sat but when I check my diary there is nothing out of the ordinary and everything's reported correctly. I have reached out to support and they just tell me to reinstall the app or clear my cache which I did but I don't think is the issue. Does anyone else experience this? Anyone have a fix?

Hi, does anyone know if this is a bug or not? MyFitnessPal does not sync water to Apple Health or vice versa. On the water section for Apple Health it even shows MFP as a "water app" but when I click into the data sources & access it doesn't show MFP.

Any idea if this will be implemented or fixed?

Should I eat back the calories burned from my workouts? I’m trying to eat at maintenance calories right now and I’m not sure if eating the calories burned is gonna put me in too much of surplus (or if I don’t eat them back if I’ll be in a deficit) anybody have any experience with this? Thanks! (Also I use an Apple Watch to track calories burned if that makes a difference)

Hi all!

5'0, 148 lbs, female. I am using this for calorie goal: https://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/ I am down from 175 since starting calorie counting, yay!I started just calorie counting and then walking 2-3 miles day + biking to work 2 mile round trip 3 days a week. At that point I was eating 1330 calories daily. I took a little break from all that due to moving across the country + vacations. Now that I am settled in and trying to lose weight again, I am struggling hard with my calorie goals. (Weight goal is 125 lbs.)

For my previous calorie goals, I took the advice of choosing the lowest activity level and not considering the exercise calories. So now at current weight to lose 0.5 lbs weekly and still choosing the lowest activity level it is saying my goal 1327. I am hungry... ALL the time. This could be because my days are emptier without work? Also moved in with my partner and he eats so much so maybe I'm jealous? if that makes sense.. My actually current activity: jogging 2-3 miles about 3 times a week, one hour hot yoga 1-2/weekly. I am not walking as much, new neighborhood sucks but I drive to a park to run. Not working currently either so not doing bike commuting.

Anyways I haven't budged in weight since restarting and I am feeling so discouraged.

I'm hoping to find a black Friday deal on a walking pad.

Requirements: Needs to hold 310lbs Speed in excess of 3.5mph Incline option Can't spend over $175

Do you have something that checks these boxes and you've liked?

Hello!

Simple question. Is it possible to scan all your items that you have and then whenever you want, create any recipe you want of some of those ingredients?

To put it simply, I would scan what I bought at evening time. Then, when I find a recipe I want to use for other day, just to create one without going back to the kichen to scan bar codes and etc.

Hi, i’m a 28 year old female, 5’4” and weigh 200lbs. I started counting my calories around 12 days ago and am going off of what MFP tells me: 1,200 calories a day. Im a stay at home wife so I wouldnt consider myself active as far as daily activities but I do go to the gym Monday-Friday and do 30 mins of cardio (walking, walking on an incline/jogging.. i mix it up) and do about 45mins-1hr of weight training. I don’t do anything crazy in regards to lifting weights. I normally do mostly use dumbells (10-15lbs) and choose 2 muscle groups per day. For example: Monday ill do 3 back exercises(3 sets of 15 reps) and 3 bicep exercises (3 sets of 15 reps). I also go on a walk every night for about 45 mins around our community just to get more steps in.

Counting calories is honestly new to me and like ive said, MFP tells me to eat 1,200 calories a day based off my weight, height, goals (2lbs per week) and sedentary lifestyle. However, i recently learned about BMR, and TDEE. My BMR is 1,627 and my TDEE is honestly am not sure whether i’m considered lightly active or moderately active so i’m not sure what number to multiply my BMR by (1.375 or 1.55). Also i find weight training hard ro log on MFP so i have no idea how many calories i’m burning by lifting weights. Based on my work out description above, would you think 1,200 is too low for me to eat? If so, what would you suggest I multiply my BMR by to get the correct TDEE? i’ve been eating around 1,200 since i started. sometimes i go a little over, sometimes i go a little less but not by much so i dont think it really makes that big of a difference. But i’ve already lost 5 lbs since I started 12 days ago. So im losing more thsn 2 lbs a week which im not mad about but also have read alot of things online advising against losing anything over 2 lbs a week. I feel good with what I eat though, i dont feel like im starving myself, or like im left hungry at all. I feel like im getting used to eating that amount and even when i go a little over, i find myself getting full alot sooner than i did before. However i want to do this the right way, i dont want to lose muscle mass or be unhealthy.

Thanks in advance for any feedback, i really appreciate all the help.

Nord VPN is blocking MFP. Anyone else having this problem?

I’ve been trying to make my profile (not diary) private so that friends and contacts can’t see my progress. I’m just not comfortable with people I know just going on find contact and seeing how much weight I’ve lost/gained.

I’m on the mobile app on IOS.

If someone can help me that would be great.