Has anyone logged medications in the app?

Question

I have several chronic medical conditions and have to take a significant amount of medication every day. I know that these medications often affect my weight and appetite. Has anyone found a way to track this or is this something to just do outside mfp? 🤔

AnnPT77 · Answer

You can use the diary settings to have up to 6 meal slots.   You can name them anything you want, including being able to rename the breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks slots if you wish.  Therefore, you can add a section for medications.

You can also add foods yourself, and add your medications as a food.  If they don't have nutrients or calories that MFP tracks, add them without nutrients.  (It may give you a message saying it would be better if you added nutrients for your "food", but it will let you add a food without the nutrients.)  I can't recall whether you can add a zero calorie food, but you can add them as 1 calorie if it does require non-zero calories, no big deal.

herblovinmom · Answer

I do track those things some days. I renamed one of the categories in my food diary “supplements”.

Cysso · Answer

I do not track these things, but there's a section on the web site (cannot say whether or not it's on the mobile app as I'm not with my phone) at the very bottom titled "Today's Food Notes". You could write your medications and how you think it's affecting your weight and appetite there? Or I found some medications in the food database. Maybe you could find your medication and/or create your own so that you can track it to whatever meal you take it with?