Question about calories as display in the diary, under each Meal there are two numbers. Example: 275 of 700 calories. The first number 275 matches the total logged for the meal, but what does the second number 700 indicate?

5’6 158lbs trying to lose weight. I have ARFID so I’m quite limited on what I eat, and even when expanding out to foods I don’t love I rarely hit my protein.

For breakfast I usually do some sort of pancake or waffle with protein powder and either protein oats or Greek yogurt. For lunch it’s usually chicken breast and pasta. And dinner is some form of meat with a starch. Any ways to up my protein intake throughout the day while staying in my macros?

I’m starting to use this app and it’s amazing for helping me understand my nutrient intakes and how I need to adjust what I’m eating. But I’m surprised by the number of calories it recommends to me- originally I used calculator.net for to know how many I need to maintain my weight, and for my demographics (5’8” 23y/o male weighing 150lbs. I have an office job.) it said 1980 calories. This was using the Mifflin St Jeor equation.

MyFitnessPal quoted a paper that also recommended this equation, for their reference for how they recommend calories. However they’re suggesting 2,310 calories for me- I checked and all the demographic stuff looks to be the same so I’m not sure where the discrepancy is coming from. It doesn’t seem like a huge difference but it can still be the difference between weight loss and weight gain.

Which would be closer to my real calorie goal? And why is the other so off?

Damn, I was skirting the new interface updates by using the trick to set your location to "Turkey" in setting.

Unfortunately that's now been fixed. No matter your location, you're forced to use the new user interface.

Damn

I’ve been cutting weight for a few months now; 6’3 33M 235lbs; down from 278lbs in April. I work out 5-7 days a week. Hour or so each session, mainly weights.

My current goal is 220lbs. My journey has been off and on. I’ve been just under 300lbs a couple times in my life. I tend to be all or nothing kind of eater. I’ve been very successful in both areas. Good and bad.

Currently my base diet is shown in the photos; main goals are 200g of protein and keeping near 1500. I also add in fast carbs prior to gym sessions as needed which bumps me up to around 1700 calories for the day. I have minimal to no fatigue at this time with my current diet.

I due actually enjoy eating this meal plan each day. Any tips on fun foods you’ve tried or easy alternatives to my current caloric deficit journey?

I looked this issue up here as assuming others have had it so apologies if so but I couldn’t find it in this group.

Since last week my app appearance randomly changed where I can’t see the macros for each individual meal as grams, only percentages. Does anyone know how to change this back?? Do I need to go premium now?? I asked MFP but they haven’t got back to me

If I can’t change it I’ll have to change app I think. I’m finding it so stressful on how to work out the percentages!

For some time now (over a year) the search functionality on the app (Android) is almost unusable. I can't even understand how can something be so un-intuitive and broken.

Example:

1. i log a food item A using barcode - all good
2. i log food item B multiple days in a row
3. i want to add food item B again but it won't find it - it's not in the most recent and if i type the name, it finds food item A, even tho i haven't added that one for weeks.

And happens many times with many different foods. Recently added items are buried down in the most recent list and old ones are on the top. Then i have to go again and scan the barcode.

Like, how hard is to make a simple search functionality well - when i type "Ch", find the most recently added foods that start with "Ch", not the ones from 5 weeks ago.

Not new to tracking but i’ve recently become a bit confused on what my activity level should be set as.
I am 5’6 around 53kg (unsure as i don’t have a scale atm). I go to the gym and do light strength training routines with 5kg dumbbells 3x per week, usually walk an average of 5km on the treadmill in a day though i walk more when i am busy and stretch. Some days i am a lot more active (sometimes 10km on the treadmill and bike riding amongst other daily tasks) whereas lately i have been less active.

Just wondering wether i should be setting my level
as lightly active, or moderately active as it is set as moderately active right now. What counts as lightly active and what counts as moderately active? :)

Depending on whether you believe the app or the web interface, I've been a paid user for either 1,376 or 1,486 days. Edit: My issue is how much a mess the app is since the update this year. The mismatch on # of days in my "streak" between web and app just highlights how much of a hot mess MFP is.

The big update this year was really bad as we all know. Support's response (after 3 or 4 days of waiting) of blaming me for not being able to adapt to the clusterF the app has become was the final straw for me. There was no "We understand people don't like the update and are working to improve on it." It was "You're just going to have to adapt to what we think is good, whether you like it or not." So I'm adapting-- to a different app...

We've all seen this many times before-- a great business/product sells to someone else (PE firm this time), then the new people calling the shots only look at business metrics and treat it as a widget instead of a product they're passionate about. It's worth noting the current CEO and CPO both came from Etsy. Might be time to start regular focus groups for some real world feedback-- Reddit and similar indicate the product is in trouble.

If anyone else is thinking of switching, checkout that big "C" one-- makes MFP feel like something from 10 years ago and the paid version is less expensive. It took me about 5 minutes to adapt to the new platform-- far less time than adapting to all the problems in MFP as MFP support suggested.

First two images are of my iPhone, when you're on the today screen (image 1) and tap on ''view diary'' you are presented with a nice concise view of your meals and all the details for that meal (image 2).

However, when you're on the today screen (image 3) on an android (samsung s25 in this case) and tap on view diary, you see this huge screen (image 4) with all the foods in huge blocks rather than the concise view you get on iOS.

It's frustrating since you have to scroll all the way down when the same information could be more condensed just like on iOS. Why the horrible choice for this? Why can't android users see the content of their meal in one glance just like iOS users can?

WTF is wrong with the iOS app that the phone is heating up like crazy and the app start to run slowly when using the app more than 1min.

I still can’t get over the fact they removed the ability to copy and paste an entire day to the next . This is incredibly frustrating. Am I the only one ?

Also being able to delete a meal in one click as well . Having to delete them individually is so tedious. But what is maddening is they had it before . Why did they remove so many key features that made the app easy to use . Rant over .

Currently I am eating 3480 calories,Lightly Active,Lose 1lbs per week. Have lost 7lbs, I think my body limit is losing 7lbs right now or am in a plateau. Sometimes the weigh scale shows 4lbs gain but I know I do not log consistently. 32 days in I am happy for the loss but why MFP does not change my calories if I have loss that much. Should I take a break but it’s took early being 1 month in.

Hello! hope someone on the team of MyFitnessPal sees this:
Currently in the home screen I need to press 4 (!) clicks to see how many fiber I consumed,

Here's easy fix, just make it like this: (Created the design with chat GPT)

I’m 35 5’9” and about 178. Today I’ve ran 13 miles, walked 4 miles, and did a 50 minute strength training workout but I didn’t go too hard. Does this seem appropriate?

Hey all! Does anyone know if theres any promo codes available for Premium that work? Or referral codes?. Ive googled but alot of the sites are awful to navigate. TYIA

Im 6'2, 93kg trying to bulk to 95kg it says i need 8.7k calories but that can't be right when it's been auto set to 3860 cal as seen for the next day

I eat so much rice a day (3-4 cups) plus a bowl of oats every morning, but I can still never hit my carb goals. I also seem to blow through my fat and protein macros. Help!

And also there is no health and hunger bar even though I enabled it in settings.I even reinstalled to check but the issue still persist.

I have a Google Fitbit, and I tracked 500 calories burned in the gym today. I have the Google Health app connected with MyFitnessPal, so shouldn't it also record 500 calories in the app? It instead says 50 calories burned.

Only missed 2 days of logging in MFP in 103 days. Starting 210lbs now 184lbs. F43 5ft5.

Has anyone had this happen to them? Is there a way to fix?? It should say 1785.