Subtracting foods from diary!!

sushisuzi2

I had no idea that you can type in a MINUS (-) as the quantity and it will subtract what you didn't eat!
In my case, I have lots of burritos without tortillas. I can do what with so many things.
I'm happy. Beats searching for it...or worse, having to do the math myself.
:bigsmile:

ccchapman

Wow! Thanks, I didn't know. This will be very helpful.

ashleymariec89

confused? what?!

eventgal

Thank you for that info! I am new to this site and I was wondering if that was possible. For instance, I got a taco salad at a restaurant this weekend, but did not eat the shell. Now, I know just how to handle that! Gracias!!!

alyssamiller77

I think what she's saying is that say you entered a burrito into your diary. That burrito came in a shell, with beans, chicken, rice and cheese, but you only at the contents and didn't eat the tortilla shell itself. You can enter the whole burrito (which is probably in the database) but then as a separate food enter a plain tortilla and set the number of servings to -1 (negative one) and MFP will subtract the nutritional values from your diary (thereby taking out the calories you didn't eat in the tortilla).

heathersmilez

I think what she's saying is that say you entered a burrito into your diary. That burrito came in a shell, with beans, chicken, rice and cheese, but you only at the contents and didn't eat the tortilla shell itself. You can enter the whole burrito (which is probably in the database) but then as a separate food enter a plain tortilla and set the number of servings to -1 (negative one) and MFP will subtract the nutritional values from your diary (thereby taking out the calories you didn't eat in the tortilla).

Neat! I just created my own food the other day by subtracting feta and mayo out of Montana's Veggie Burger but that was a tedius process, this sounds fun!

GreenGettingLean

I bow to your math and computer genius. As the world's pickiest eater that will always leave some part of the meal on her plate, this is very useful info for me!

RILEYRED

THANKS SUZI,SOOO SMART!!!!!

LizC26

This is awesome!!!

proctorgirl07

bump

sushisuzi2

it was simply a fluke..I gave it a try! Honestly I am the queen of going out to eat, even while on a diet plan. Knowing I can minus out what I don't eat is a good thing.

garlic7girl

Que Bueno!!!!!!!!

Lesliecs

Wow.... that's great info to know! I had no idea you could do that either! It will be helpful in the future! Thanks for sharing!

Kagard11

NICE!

loopylinny

Awesome thanks so much for this! I made a Veggie Chilli Hotpot earlier and only used half as many potato slices as I expected to so it's good to know that I can subtract the calories I saved!

bbjlan

Okay I'm slow! I still cant figure it out. Just to try it out I entered tortilla but there is no negative sign anywhere(in the servings) for me as an option. What am I missing!? LOL Duh I get it now!!! I was trying to do it from my phone!!:ohwell:

timothy_dutton

I have wanted this feature FOREVER! So much easier to take out 1 ingredient than to rebuild the other 8 ingredients of a food. The reason I haven't been able to do it until today is that I use almost exclusively the Android app. you CANNOT add a negative serving amount on the android app. It will give you an error that you have not entered a valid amount. It only worked for me when I entered the food via myfitnesspal.com in a browser. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add this functionality to the mobile apps!

CyberTone

threetone wrote: »

I have wanted this feature FOREVER! So much easier to take out 1 ingredient than to rebuild the other 8 ingredients of a food. The reason I haven't been able to do it until today is that I use almost exclusively the Android app. you CANNOT add a negative serving amount on the android app. It will give you an error that you have not entered a valid amount. It only worked for me when I entered the food via myfitnesspal.com in a browser. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add this functionality to the mobile apps!

Users could use the add negative quantity on the Web and the mobile apps until it was dropped from the mobile apps sometime in 2014 - I can't remember the exact time period but I think it was around the time the Verified food entries were rolled out. It is now only available on the Web version.

glassyo

bbjlan wrote: »

Okay I'm slow! I still cant figure it out. Just to try it out I entered tortilla but there is no negative sign anywhere(in the servings) for me as an option. What am I missing!? LOL Duh I get it now!!! I was trying to do it from my phone!!:ohwell:

Did you figure it out? You have to type the actual hyphen in to subtract the serving size.

callsitlikeiseeit

i had no idea you could do that!

Christine_72

I see people do it with Big Macs etc who don't eat the bun. They log the big mac then separately log big mac bun -1 serving.

timothy_dutton

I've been experimenting with this today. The Web version and the Android app do behave differently. The negative serving I added on the Web shows in my android app, but the values are not subtracted out. So, the Web version says I've had 60g of carbs today, the android app says 82g of carbs. Big bummer. Looks like I'm going to have to go to the work of manually recreating the food entries from scratch.