Fasting for religious purposes

sdquail

I periodically fast for 24 hours for religious purposes. The Food Diary will not allow me to log out for the day with so few calories. Don't want to break my logging streak, but do want to observe this religious belief. Is there is a way around this conflict?

SuzySunshine99

You won’t break your streak by not closing out your diary for the day. You just have to log in to keep your streak alive.

I have a 461-day streak and haven't logged food in a few years.

penguinmama87

I can understand being annoyed by that, but you might just have to acknowledge the system doesn't work for that particular situation. I'm exempted right now from fasting because I am breastfeeding, but it would bum me out to see that number drop back to zero, for sure. I'm interested to see if there is some kind of workaround, though.

Lietchi

You don't need to complete your diary to continue your logging streak.
Just logging into MFP daily is enough, I believe, I don't think you even need to enter anything in your diary.

concordancia

I can confirm that logging into MFP is sufficient. I currently have a 10 day streak and I haven't even looked at my diary. I have the recent discussions bookmarked and come straight here.

yirara

If just logging in is not sufficient, then you might just log a glass of water or something like that. I'm sure there's a database entry for that.

AnnPT77

Just log in on your fast days.

Logging in is sufficient. Closing your diary doesn't matter, logging food doesn't matter.

I have a 2052 day streak (! even surprises me !). I log most days, but I've definitely skipped logging some, in that amount of time. Under certain circumstances, it's possible to restore your streak (maybe only once?), but I've never done that. I've skipped days or forgotten to close a day (both) within the last month, so I'm not talking about something that used to be true, but no longer is. Can't speak for the future, though!

Just logging into the app will keep your streak, even if you don't log food or close your diary for the day. The food logging may have some relationship to success, for some people, though. 😉 Your fasts won't be a problem.

If you think you might want to distinguish intentional fast days from skipped days, someday, you could create yourself a personal custom food (not sure if you could set it to zero calories, but you certainly could set it to negligible ones) or exercise, and log that on fast days.

kshama2001

You don't even need to have the food diary open. Refreshing the forums once per day is sufficient to keep your streak.

sdquail

Thank you all for the information! Looks like your experience does provide a workaround. Isn't it nice when someone has an answer and you can learn from it!