MyFitnessPal--how do you as someone whose undergone WLS

[ididit34 91]

I'm six weeks post op (about to be 7) and I wanted to start tracking my Protein and Water so decided to use myfitnesspal beginning yesterday. When I finalized what I eat, I received a message about how my intake was too low and would not be posted to the feed. I also got what I considered to be a long lecture about low caloric intake ad its disadvantages. Which leads to ask for those of you that use myfitnesspall, is there a special filter you apply? Also, is there another app you use for tracking?

[talkingmountain 83]

There is a free app called cronometer that you can use. Goal levels for macro- and micronutrients are set at standard defaults, but you can change them to whatever you want.

[Mistie 201]

I use LoseIt! And love it. There's a free version and you can upgrade to premium for more challenges, etc.

[ididit34 91]

Thanks for the replies!

[1041mom 31]

I use myfitnessPal if you go to the more tab and then to goals there's a place for nutrition goals and you can adjust your calories down and change the percentages for your Protein carbs and fat. That's the only way I figured out how to make it work! Hopefully that helps!!

[Bufflehead 6,358]

To get rid of the message/lecture about the dangers of eating too little, use the "Quick Add" tool and add in enough calories to bump yourself up over 1,000 calories for the day. Then click to close your diary. After you close your diary, just subtract the calories out.

The message is stupid and annoying, I agree.

[reree6898 1,164]

I use MFP but at the end of the day I just don't bother to hit the button about completing the entry, the only purpose that serves is to give an estimate of your projected weight loss at the amount of calories you entered for that day anyway and with being a WLS person that will not be close to accurate. It still shows the totals of all the Proteins and nutrients entered for the day.

[shellyd67 198]

I had a really hard time figuring it all out at first, but now I use MFP everyday. I never received any feedback at all, and most days, I'm less than 1/2 of the "normal" caloric intake per day. Maybe I'm not using correctly ? Good luck????

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

Either 1) ignore the message until you are able to eat more calories and/or 2) don't "complete" the entry at the end of the day.

MyFitnessPal is a great app. You can make it work for you even though it wasn't designed for our specific diet.

[AvaFern 3,516]

I have used MyFitnessPal for years and it is only within maybe the last 1-2 years that the under calorie warning was posted when you complete an entry. They used to let you complete your entry with really low calories and give you the "you will weigh this in 5 weeks" based on low calories. I imagine that for liability purposes they stopped doing that because they don't want to appear to advocate starving yourself so you can hit their 5 week weight loss projection. Given the huge volume of people who use MyFitnessPal, the fact that people with bariatric surgery legitimately eat fewer calories is not something that is factored into that warning. I don't care that they don't give me a projected loss, although now for the most part I am within what they deem a health range of 1200-1400 calories a day and I don't get the warning anymore. I also very rarely complete the entry because I don't care if it doesn't appear in the news feed.

MyFitnessPal is a great tool to use and the dumb little warning really means nothing in the grand scheme of using the app for what it is designed for- monitoring your food and exercise.

[rnsamantha 352]

I ignore the message and typically don't "complete" my days. I'm basically just using it to log my foods and track my Protein grams.

[wincha 18]

I'm not able to complete on some days. I keep an eye on my Protein

Edited December 5, 2015 by wincha

[ididit34 91]

Thanks everyone! I so love it here! The support is always available.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

I'm six weeks post op (about to be 7) and I wanted to start tracking my Protein and Water so decided to use myfitnesspal beginning yesterday. When I finalized what I eat, I received a message about how my intake was too low and would not be posted to the feed. I also got what I considered to be a long lecture about low caloric intake ad its disadvantages. Which leads to ask for those of you that use myfitnesspall, is there a special filter you apply? Also, is there another app you use for tracking?

I use the app and until I was eating 1,000 calories a day I just ignored the warning. It's not set up for bariatric pts so eating 400, 600 and 800 calories a day isn't going to be recognized. However I was more concerned with being able to log my calories, macro-nutrients and exercise in one easy to use app/site.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

I had a really hard time figuring it all out at first, but now I use MFP everyday. I never received any feedback at all, and most days, I'm less than 1/2 of the "normal" caloric intake per day. Maybe I'm not using correctly ? Good luck

it only triggers an warning if you close out your daily diary with under 1,000 calories a day(for females, for males it's a little higher).