Intermittent fasting

shaker424

Help! MyFitnessPal won’t let me close out my day because I’m intermittent fasting (5:2) and it thinks I have an eating disorder. I am intentionally eating 500 or less calories two full days every week.

lemurcat2

That's a safeguard to try to prevent the site from encouraging anorexics. If you read the message, it absolutely does not say that it thinks you have an ED. But anyway, just don't close on those days. I never bothered closing when I logged here, it doesn't matter. If you want friends to look at your diary or congratulate you, just post that you finished your first fasting day of the week at 499 cals or what not.

scooter262

I have been trying intermittent fasting as well, but doing the 6 to 8 hour window daily. This seems to be working quite well for me. I didn’t think I would be able to go 2 days a week eating only 500 calories. I basically skip breakfast, and eat between noon and 7 or so. I don’t get too hungry in the morning, and this helps me to not snack in the evenings.

mtamashiro

Your body doesn't care if you don't close out a day in MFP.

Pipsqueak1965

Who cares - i never close my diary - it doesn't make any difference.

NovusDies

I forget that closing a diary is even an option most of the time until I see someone post a thread like this about it.

Not closing your diary only prevents you from seeing a wildly inaccurate 5 week weight prediction and from spamming your "friends" in the newsfeed with how you closed your log and were under your calories.

sijomial

If you really want to close out your diary and not seen the message about low calories....

• Quick Add 1000 cals.
• Close diary.
• Delete 1000 cals.

Voila!

freda666

shaker424 wrote: »

Help! MyFitnessPal won’t let me close out my day because I’m intermittent fasting (5:2) and it thinks I have an eating disorder. I am intentionally eating 500 or less calories two full days every week.

I set the amount of calories each day for the amount I eat on non-fasting days and then on fasting days I add in enough "Generic - Filler Calories" to leave me the amount of calories I actually eat.

NovusDies

sijomial wrote: »

If you really want to close out your diary and not seen the message about low calories....

• Quick Add 1000 cals.
• Close diary.
• Delete 1000 cals.

Voila!

Why not 10,000 cals?

sijomial

NovusDies wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

If you really want to close out your diary and not seen the message about low calories....

• Quick Add 1000 cals.
• Close diary.
• Delete 1000 cals.

Voila!

Why not 10,000 cals?

Why not indeed.

Nony_Mouse

NovusDies wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

If you really want to close out your diary and not seen the message about low calories....

• Quick Add 1000 cals.
• Close diary.
• Delete 1000 cals.

Voila!

Why not 10,000 cals?

Because then the message on your wall wouldn't say you were under your calorie goal, and that's super duper important

Danp

mtamashiro wrote: »

Your body doesn't care if you don't close out a day in MFP.

What's more MFP doesn't care if you close out the day either. All it does is pop a message in your private feed and give you a rather meaningless 'if you ate like today' message. It really serves no functional purpose and I haven't closed my diary off in over two years.