Does paying for premium help you loose more?
21ttomlinson
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I have the free app and love it but it says go premium to loose more, what's your thoughts?
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When I started, I figured I might be more religious about tracking if I was paying for it, so in that sense, I suppose that it does help lose weight! At this point I'm pretty sold on the concept, but I continue to pay because 1) I hate ads, 2) I like to support things I use, and 3) I like setting goals by meal and by day (I think those are both premium only?).6
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how much you lose will come down to your calorie deficit - now how much you pay for an app....if you think paying will help you hit that deficit better, go for it...but it is certainly not necessary!4
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I never paid for the premium app and I lost my weight just fine.12
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Help! What are the advantages to the premium app besides no ads? What can you do with it that you can't do with the free app?2
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Nah. I didn't use most of the perks, but I did like having no ads2
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bonnieevans6060 wrote: »Help! What are the advantages to the premium app besides no ads? What can you do with it that you can't do with the free app?
You can set custom goals for different days and set goals by meal. I use these features extensively. There are some additional options for tracking macros but I don't pay attention to those because I don't really care about macros. You can download your data in a CSV file, which I've found handy but I imagine others wouldn't.3 -
absolutely not.3
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If you go over calories, they send Igor to pay you a special visit:
Surviving users report about 6x faster weight loss.52 -
Only if the specific features Premium offers assist you in meeting your goals. For me, they would not.3
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Only a sucker would pay £40 a year for an app just to remove advertisements!11
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Nah, not necessary. Really only useful if you want to be super nerdy with your data. I feel like I'm being nerdy enough by logging and tracking "normally."5
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If it motivates you to use it more, then it is worth it, but it is not the app that is doing the work, its you.
In the end, it's all about the effort you put it. Not where you record it.4 -
bonnieevans6060 wrote: »Help! What are the advantages to the premium app besides no ads? What can you do with it that you can't do with the free app?
You can export spreadsheets of your progress. You can find which nasty food item had that gram of trans fat.
If you could use the feature to track Omega-3 and Omega-6 ratios from total food intake, I'd pay. Until then, I'll see ads.5 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »bonnieevans6060 wrote: »Help! What are the advantages to the premium app besides no ads? What can you do with it that you can't do with the free app?
You can export spreadsheets of your progress. You can find which nasty food item had that gram of trans fat.
If you could use the feature to track Omega-3 and Omega-6 ratios from total food intake, I'd pay. Until then, I'll see ads.
Ooooh I didn't think of that.
MFP---we need omega tracking!! I want to see this too!2 -
What features does premium offer that will help you meet a specific need you have now that the free version isn't meeting? Do you need fancy macro tracking options? Do you have a reason to have different goals/day (and can justify the expense to have that show in your app)? Do you do any statistical analysis of your data and need the ablity to export data? If none of those apply; then premium really isnt going to help you lose anything but wallet weight any faster. Unless you're super-susceptible to ads and go purchasing Depends every time they show up as an ad on your newsfeed (unless you need them).4
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The only thing I've found I liked and would miss is being able to set separate calorie goals for each meal of the day. The other stuff, it's alright, but I lost all my weight without it.2
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The main thing I like about premium is that you can customize your calorie goal for each day of the week. Not getting ads was nice, too.2
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I would like to set a custom maintenance calorie goal as mine is about 200kcal higher than what MFP calculates for me. But I can live with that. I certainly don't pay £40 per year for that.2
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Some people may feel more motivated to lose since they're paying for the service. But ultimately no.2
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I got premium free for a year.....I personally wouldnt pay for it though. I don't really use any of the features.2
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I'm more about macros than just calories, so being able to input my macro goals by gramme is hugely important to me. I hated how long it took to mess around with the total calories and percentages to get them where I wanted them in the free version.
Also different goals for different days - my macros differ between training and rest days, so it's great to have that set up.
Compared to my gym membership and other money I spend on my health and fitness, I think premium's really worth it. I don't think I would have stuck with tracking without it.
But if you're not in to macros, it's probably less helpful!3 -
If you stick to your calorie goal you can lose just fine without paying anything.
I don't think paying for premium will make you lose more. There are some different features that you may or may not find useful. It is kind of like you don't need an activity tracker to lose weight or get fit but some people like having one.1 -
It says go premium to lose more because those that are willing to pay for premium are also more likely (on average) to commit to the changes necessary to lose.
I pay for premium for the reporting and customization features. As others have said, I focus on macros, and the free version is pretty weak in that area.1 -
I lost 50+ lbs on the free version. I don't mind a few ads
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JerSchmare wrote: »I would pay double for no ads. It's that important to me. You will not lose more weight, but it does have some features that also make this site better, imo.
I would pay double for no ads, too. As I currently pay nothing at all, double that would be a pretty good deal.
Ads don't bother me much. At one point they were taking ages to download, to the point that they made the app pretty much unusable. That annoyed me (in fact it was a factor in stopping me logging for a while) but that issue was fixed some time ago. Ads that load promptly and don't have popups or forcible redirections to the play store are no problem for me.2 -
Thanks guys for all the replies, info, opinions etc. I definitely have a better understanding as to what the differences are now.0
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Lol...no. There are some additional features like tracking macros by grams instead of %...just stuff like that.0
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I really don't mind the ads. ''Tis the way of life anymore online. Any website has to make money somehow. I would pay for the app if it had more features I would actually use. Those extra feauture wouldn't cause more or quicker weight loss, but I am a gadget nerd.0
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