Myfitnesspal calculator is incorrect some days

katewatts1958

I've been tracking my food for years through premium myfitnesspal. I know roughly when I get home from work what I need to eat to meet my goals. There have been several times that the math is just incorrect!!! For example: I totaled up all the protein I ate today through what myfitnesspal had totaled per meal. It totaled 139.1g on my calculator. My protein is set for 135g protein daily, the "nutrients remaining" shows 54g left of protein to eat!!! This is completely incorrect and it does it periodically. I noticed It the other day, and then POOF it corrected itself! It's happening a lot. Is there a way to refresh this app???

Retroguy2000

How do you have this set?

Please note that your goals will update once you add exercise in the cardiovascular section for a given day: your exercise calories will be added to your goal for the day, distributed according to your chosen nutrient ratio. (Premium users may opt out of exercise calories being added to their daily total, or may choose to have them distributed in a custom ratio of nutrients)

kshama2001

Like the PP said, the increase is likely due to having earned calories from exercise, which will also give you the corresponding increase in macros.

We can check this if you let us know what day this happened and change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

cmriverside

Could just be a bug..is this on an app or the website/computer?

If it's the app, reinstall. You're posting in the user's forum, not tech support.

You can report this here: https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us