I pay for premium but there’s a bug in MyFitnessPal where it UNDERCALCULATES my calories for the day and tells me I have more calories to eat. Look at the screenshots: I went over on my protein goal, met my fat goal exactly, and have 1 gram of carb left to eat. And yet it says I have 126 calories left??? 1 gram of carbohydrate is 4 calories. What exactly are those 126 calories supposed to be made of if not carb, protein, or fat?!
If you do out the math, I’ve actually eaten 2,000 calories, but it says I’ve only eaten 1,826??? I’ve eaten OVER my goal already.
Look at my math: I’ve eaten (123g protein x 4calories) + (242g carb x 4calories) + (60g fat x 9calories) = 2,000 calories!!! not 1,826 like MFP claims!!! What’s the point of paying MFP as a premium member if they can’t even do simple math right?!
For reference my macro and calorie goals are: 110g protein, 243g carb, 60g fat and it amounts to 1952 calories. MFP consistently tells me I have more calories left to eat than in reality. I have to do the math BY HAND and disregard what MFP tells me, SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF PAYING $49.99 a year?!
Judes525
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Macros and calories are not going to match.
Yes, they should - but they won't.
1. Foods are entered by users. They make mistakes and that will affect calculation
2. There are going to be rounding up and rounding down errors on labeling
It easily could be the other way around. There's no easy way to determine HOW a database entry is incorrect, you'll have to check your individual entries to see which ones are wrong.
Carbs, sugar, protein etc are all wrong when I check the package. I normally make the changes and add "corrected" to the item.
But as everyone said, you really cannot take the food items as being correct, otherwise your numbers are going to be far off.
If you set your macros in MFP premium, ie a certain amount of protein, carbs, fat, then MFP will give you a calorie value for your day. But if YOU actually do the math on what you've entered for macros, then the MFP calorie value is incorrect. Often by hundreds of calories. The problem starts right at the beginning, with MFP not providing anything actually useful for Premium. And in fact, providing WRONG information from the start.
No one should be paying MFP for Premium. They don't care to give us actually useful information, nor to let us export that information in any format that we can actually use. And they actively don't care. I have demonstrated problems to them, and also actual graphs and tools that would help everyone in their goals. And all those graphs are easily created from existing data that you have entered, and MFP holds onto. But will not then get back to you for your use.
And their support people just say that nothing will be changed.
NO ONE SHOULD BE PAYING PREMIUM TO THIS COMPANY. IT IS A SCAM.
I don't know why you think this ^^
(although I do agree that paying for Premium is unnecessary, and doesn't "fix" database errors - which are the fault of individuals, not the site in general)
I posted this in your thread:
Check your entries for accuracy, as that could be an issue too, but cals are otherwise what you should go by.
MFP has never promised a more accurate database as part of premium membership.
Total cals are likely to be more accurate. Clearly you have chosen entries where people didn't fully fill in the macros or filled them in inaccurately. If macros and cals are way off, cals are much more likely to be correct. Cals are also what governs weight loss/gain/maintenance, not macros.