MFP Premium
James_Bergin
Posts: 84 Member
Hey all,
I've been wondering about signing up for a premium account. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it, and what their thoughts were; if it was worth it, and if so how? Any negative feedback? Looking forward to hearing back
Cheers,
James
I've been wondering about signing up for a premium account. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it, and what their thoughts were; if it was worth it, and if so how? Any negative feedback? Looking forward to hearing back
Cheers,
James
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What do you want from premium? Like what features appeal to you?0
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The only negative I can see is the cost. Some of the features like different goals per day and more precise macro controls may be of value to some of us.0
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The reporting tools are a little more robust for premium membership too. For example, on the android app, in the nutrition section, choosing a macro or micro nutrient with Premium membership will display a list of all the foods you've logged (for the time frame you're inspecting) that have contributed to that macro/micro.0
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I like it because of being able to set up the account by grams and not percentages and some of the reporting is pretty cool.0
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catscats222 wrote: »i wonder if you can set up iron goals by numbers and not percentages
same with calcium
not sure why MFP does these by percentages - not sure at all
Vitamin A, C, iron and calcium are all percentages under premium.0 -
Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).0
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catscats222 wrote: »i wonder if you can set up iron goals by numbers and not percentages
same with calcium
not sure why MFP does these by percentages - not sure at all
Vitamin A, C, iron and calcium are all percentages under premium.
Should offer a trail to market it... I would at least, around January would be ideal ...0 -
Tedebearduff wrote: »catscats222 wrote: »i wonder if you can set up iron goals by numbers and not percentages
same with calcium
not sure why MFP does these by percentages - not sure at all
Vitamin A, C, iron and calcium are all percentages under premium.
Should offer a trail to market it... I would at least, around January would be ideal ...
Oh god ...January is coming
*derpshield*0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
The database is still the same..
Premium gives you ad free, different dashboards (reports), planning by grams, availability to calorie cycle, etc..0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.
Everyone does
But verified means nothing .
They should be removed
There are so many bad entries in the database that have the big tick ..it's misleading at best, damaging to people's possible success at worst0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.
I thought they initially advertised a better database, but maybe I'm thinking about the complaints about what premium didn't offer. I'm still laughing at the "exclusive content", and there was a post complaining that one article was provided, it was a list of 10 recipes, and it can actually be accessed by anyone with an internet connection.
Awesome selling point...0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.
I thought they initially advertised a better database, but maybe I'm thinking about the complaints about what premium didn't offer. I'm still laughing at the "exclusive content", and there was a post complaining that one article was provided, it was a list of 10 recipes, and it can actually be accessed by anyone with an internet connection.
Awesome selling point...
yea, I am not too sure of all of the bonuses. I generally scan the foods I have in the database and if I can't scan it, I self validate it. And I never actually read any of the blogs. And to be honest, I am not the best at knowing all of the features, ha.0 -
Same database
Macros by grams
Macros left for the day in the dashboard (not sure if this a premium feature or not)
Macro cycling (buggy, sometimes doesn't save)0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.
Everyone does
But verified means nothing .
They should be removed
There are so many bad entries in the database that have the big tick ..it's misleading at best, damaging to people's possible success at worst
But then they'd never reach their goal, stick around and continue to pay for premium, so what's the problem, again?
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Tedebearduff wrote: »catscats222 wrote: »i wonder if you can set up iron goals by numbers and not percentages
same with calcium
not sure why MFP does these by percentages - not sure at all
Vitamin A, C, iron and calcium are all percentages under premium.
Should offer a trail to market it... I would at least, around January would be ideal ...
Oh god ...January is coming
*derpshield*
Derpshield LMAO!!!0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.
Everyone does
But verified means nothing .
They should be removed
There are so many bad entries in the database that have the big tick ..it's misleading at best, damaging to people's possible success at worst
^I agree. I've run into this issue a lot with "verified" foods being completely incorrect.0 -
PikaKnight wrote: »3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
There were discussions that it would sort verified entries differently, but I'm curious how effective the differences are. Like you've noticed, the "verified" means jack and many are just as bad if not worse than other entries.
There are check marks next to MFP verified correct entries, but I thought everyone had that.
Everyone does
But verified means nothing .
They should be removed
There are so many bad entries in the database that have the big tick ..it's misleading at best, damaging to people's possible success at worst
^I agree. I've run into this issue a lot with "verified" foods being completely incorrect.
What, you don't think "Chinese buffet - 1 plate" should be a verified food? Heathen.
/sarcasm
The asterisks/non-asterisks was such a better system than "verified" (I seriously can't even type that without a smirk).0 -
"Verified" just makes me think of celebrities on Twitter who really shouldn't be allowed access to the internet without supervision. Interestingly, the quality of their twitter content is often about as good as the accuracy of many verified foods on MFP.0
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Do the blogs work in Premium?0
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3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
Since I do a lot of cooking from scratch, most things I use I can find in system-generated entries, and those are pretty easy to differentiate from user-created entries because their syntax is fairly predictable. I verify user-created entries against the package and correct when wrong.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
Since I do a lot of cooking from scratch, most things I use I can find in system-generated entries, and those are pretty easy to differentiate from user-created entries because their syntax is fairly predictable. I verify user-created entries against the package and correct when wrong.
Are the verified foods not system generated entries?
I used to use the same wording as the nutritiondata site and found that those entries had a variety of measurments and all the correct info in it. Now I find they do not.0 -
Does premium work or are just as many things broken? If just as many things are broken, then it would be a rip off.
ETA: Ah, it looks like just as many things are broken. Definitely a rip off. "Here, pay for this thing we can't/won't fix." But hey, different things work for different companies. Good luck on selling broken stuff to your users, MFP!0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »3dogsrunning wrote: »Is the database better on the premium side? I just started logging again. I used to love MFP but the database is horrific right now. I'm not talking about multiple entries for the same thing or incomplete/incorrect entries, that's always been around for as long as I've been here but the liquid measurements for solid food items and the glitch where it goes back to the default measurement and the crazy verified food entries (like 8000 calorie stick of butter, verified).
Since I do a lot of cooking from scratch, most things I use I can find in system-generated entries, and those are pretty easy to differentiate from user-created entries because their syntax is fairly predictable. I verify user-created entries against the package and correct when wrong.
Are the verified foods not system generated entries?
I used to use the same wording as the nutritiondata site and found that those entries had a variety of measurments and all the correct info in it. Now I find they do not.
Foods show as verified for two reasons:
1. They are a system entry
2. They are a user entry that had enough other users click on Nutrition Info and answer Yes to the question Is this entry correct?
Before I answer Yes, I verify every single category, but clearly others do not.0 -
I believe that with the exception of the kielbasa, these were all system entries:
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