Days in a row counter

FatAintWhereItsAt
FatAintWhereItsAt Posts: 4 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
With the June 28th update, I could not log in. My days in a row reset to 0. Now able to log in, how do I find out how many days in a row I HAD before?? I was over 10 years. I've gone back to May, but home only shows 1 day. Assistance please in finding what it SHOULD be. Thanks!

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  • FatAintWhereItsAt
    FatAintWhereItsAt Posts: 4 Member
    Should say June 18 not 28!!
  • avatiach
    avatiach Posts: 374 Member
    I think if you email the help team they can help you.
  • FatAintWhereItsAt
    FatAintWhereItsAt Posts: 4 Member
    I have emailed them to no avail.
  • SuperKnight1
    SuperKnight1 Posts: 4 Member

    did you ever get your days in a row counter reset correctly. I’ve had that problem before several times and gotten mine reset myself. First if you missed several recent days login go diary and log at least one item per day. Search for “100 Misc calories” and log that under snacks on each day you have nothing listed. The trick is to know approximately what your counter should be or the date you first started logging. The search understand help Reset My Days In A Row Counter Tool. There it will ask you what you want to reset to. Let say for example, you know it’s over 500 but less than 700; ouch in 700 and it will then tell you the exact number you can change it to. MyFitnessPal pal knows the day you started logging in a row, but makes you figure it out. If for example it says your number can be no more than 575 put that number in, go back to Home Screen, and it should read 575 days in a row. I’ve been logging everyday since my first day on app, Jan 8, 2014. Over 4,000 days. Good luck on your fitness journey!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,148 Member
    edited March 23
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48538827#Comment_48538827

    There are two counters, and IME they're completely independent. There's a login counter, and there's a counter of days food was logged.

    Logging foods on empty days won't change the login counter. The counter-reset page will. The login increments automatically when we login. I can understand why some people might be dismayed when a long login streak is broken by a technical problem like network or app problems.

    There's also a diary days-logged counter, separate from the login counter. It is possible to update that counter by logging foods on a past empty day(s) to create a continuing unbroken sequence of days with at least some food logged.

    Personally, I wouldn't log foods on days I hadn't logged just to make it look like I'd logged every day. That would be lying to myself, seems like. My normal practice is to jot down my food as I cook/eat it on a piece of paper, then log it in MFP later. There have been times when I missed logging food one day because of being busy or distracted, but went back to the paper and logged the missing day accurately. I wouldn't log things I didn't eat, or make up things on days I truly didn't either log or write down what I ate.

    The point isn't the streak - at least to me - the point is following an eating/activity routine that got me to a healthy weight and now keeps me there. The logging is a tool to accomplish that, not to me a point of pride in itself to the degree that I'd invent entries when I didn't log/track. I can even understand setting process goals, which can be a good idea to establish those eating/activity habits as a routine. But if I have a goal of fully logging every day this week - a good goal, when starting out, perhaps - why would I fake entries if I didn't actual accomplish that goal?

    ETA: My current login counter is 3529 days. My current diary counter is 7. They're not linked.

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