How can I skip the premium?

couruf00127

Trying to track my macros but its telling me to go premium. How can I skip it?

Lietchi

What are you trying to do precisely? Perhaps you're trying to use a functionality that is a premium feature.

couruf00127

Im trying to log macronutrients for my meals. My trainer told me that there was a way to avoid getting premium and still be able to track my meals and macronutrients.

Lietchi

You can log your meals and foods without having a premium account, I've done that for years.

Setting goals can sometimes require a premium account (for example if you want to deactivate exercise calories) but the basic functions are free.

I'm still not quite sure what your problem is: you already have an account, since you've posted a message here.
To log food, you go to your diary and then add foods based on search results in the food database. (You can't scan barcodes, that's a premium feature, in the US at least)

AnnPT77

You can track your macros in free MFP, but you can't set those values in grams. In free MFP, you can only set the macros in percents of your total calories, in 5% increments . . . or at least that was how it was when I used free MFP.

Even when using free MFP, I had macro goals (in my planning) in grams. I just looked at my totals for the day to know whether I was on point, didn't worry if MFP thought the goal was some different value. (I set my percents as close as I could get to my gram goals, when at base calories, but of course when I logged exercise, the MFP goal values didn't. I didn't care, because I was measuring myself against the goals in my head, not the ones in the app.)

If a person doesn't like that approach, there's always the "pay for premium" option.

Did your trainer give you macro goals in grams? If so, you can translate them into a percent of calories:

1. Multiply protein grams goal by 4.
2. Multiply carb grams goal by 4.
3. Multiply fat grams goal by 9.
4. Add those three results from #1, #2, and #3. That's your calorie goal. Put that in MFP.
5. Divide the calorie goal from #4 by the result from #1. Round that up to the next higher 5% (i.e., if the answer is 22, round up to 25). That's your protein percent.
6. Divide the calorie goal from #4 by the result from #2. Round that up to the next higher 5%, too. That's your fats percent.
7. Add together the result from #5 and #6.
8. Subtract the total from #7 from 100. That's your carbs percent.

Why did I tell you to round #5 & #6 up (rather than to the closest 5%)? That's just a suggestion. I suggested it because protein and fats contain "essential nutrients" that our bodies can't make out of anything else. It's always OK (IMO) to be over on those, not so good to be under. Carbs aren't an "essential nutrient" in that sense, so they're more flexible. If you want to round to the nearest 5% instead, that's fine.