Is there a calorie threshold that prevents us from closing out food diary for the day?

AZTallguy

Hi Everyone,

To be honest first off, I've been really trying to lose this weight since joining mfp. Most days I haven't eaten my RDI for the day - half in most cases. I know not good but I'm getting better.

Sometimes I get the error message saying "You're not eating enough" and won't let me close out. Others, it says "You could be -25lbs in 5 weeks if you keep eating the way you do" but will let me close it out. Does it make any difference in the reports?

Does anyone know if there's a calorie threshold that allows you to close it out. I know I can just enter my stuff for the day and move on but I have some friends having the same issue so I thought I would ask for all of us to pass on.

malibu927

1200 for women, 1500 for men

CyberTone

The official explanation is on the MFP Help pages...
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/314052-how-does-the-%22complete-this-entry%22-or-%22finish-logging-for-today%22-feature-work-

mumblemagic

FYI it doesn't give the warning if you eat more than 1200 but net less than that - I've netted 1100 occasionally but never had the warning.

This is not an encouragement to deliberately net less than 1200 by the way. I normally net around 1500 or so but there have been odd days when I've done stupid amounts of exercise and wasn't hungry enough to eat back all the calories. This has only happened on a handful of occasions and there is no way I would allow it to become a regular thing.