MFP + Jawbone UP Food Tracking Wishlist
deadlystingnyc
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I know the latest update to the UP app broke the MFP meal importing, and I know a fix is coming soon, but this got me thinking about a couple of annoyances that I wish would be addressed by future updates:
1) MFP-logged meals import to UP under their meal heading names, rather than as a list of what was actually tracked for that meal. It would be much more helpful to see the full meal list in UP as entered in MFP (i.e. "Svelte Protein Shake & Bialy" vs "Breakfast").
2) Any entries under Snacks get lumped together in one combined entry when imported to UP. So if I have a mid-morning snack, a pre-workout snack after work, and a post-dinner snack - all logged at different times throughout the day - I end up with one entry in UP called "Snacks" containing the nutritional information for every snack I ate during the day, usually placed on my UP timeline around when the first instance of snacking occurred. This leaves me with a very inaccurate picture of how often I ate throughout the day. I know that MFP itself consolidates all of the day's Snacks entries under one heading, so perhaps the only way to accomplish multiple Snacks entries in UP would be for MFP to implement a system where we could indicate distinct snacking entries (i.e. Snack 1, Snack 2, Snack 3 or something similar) so they can be imported as separate meals.
Anybody else have any feature requests to add?
P.S. The automatically generated event on my Activity Feed about me posting this topic is broken in the iOS version of the app. Instead of an active link to the thread (as it appears on the website) it says: deadlystingnyc posted a topic: <a class="forum-post" href="/topics/show/135879-mfp-jawbone-up-food-tracking-wishlist">MFP + Jawbone UP Food Tracking Wishlist
1) MFP-logged meals import to UP under their meal heading names, rather than as a list of what was actually tracked for that meal. It would be much more helpful to see the full meal list in UP as entered in MFP (i.e. "Svelte Protein Shake & Bialy" vs "Breakfast").
2) Any entries under Snacks get lumped together in one combined entry when imported to UP. So if I have a mid-morning snack, a pre-workout snack after work, and a post-dinner snack - all logged at different times throughout the day - I end up with one entry in UP called "Snacks" containing the nutritional information for every snack I ate during the day, usually placed on my UP timeline around when the first instance of snacking occurred. This leaves me with a very inaccurate picture of how often I ate throughout the day. I know that MFP itself consolidates all of the day's Snacks entries under one heading, so perhaps the only way to accomplish multiple Snacks entries in UP would be for MFP to implement a system where we could indicate distinct snacking entries (i.e. Snack 1, Snack 2, Snack 3 or something similar) so they can be imported as separate meals.
Anybody else have any feature requests to add?
P.S. The automatically generated event on my Activity Feed about me posting this topic is broken in the iOS version of the app. Instead of an active link to the thread (as it appears on the website) it says: deadlystingnyc posted a topic: <a class="forum-post" href="/topics/show/135879-mfp-jawbone-up-food-tracking-wishlist">MFP + Jawbone UP Food Tracking Wishlist
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Is this only for food tracking wishes?
I log my exercise in UP because the burns are way more accurate than MFP's one-size-fits-all-guesstimates. But that means nothing about my exercise appears in my newsfeed.
I also wish weight would sync from MFP to UP. I hate having to manually adjust my UP weight all the time.0 -
Oooh, how about transferring water consumption from MFP to UP as well?0
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Another thing that would be nice is if UP could import our nutrition goal settings from MFP. I have my percentages in MFP set to allow for more complex carbs since I eat a plant-based diet, and my overall caloric goals are lower in MFP than in UP, which advises to eat 100 calories less than its projected estimate of what you will burn throughout the course of the day. It's a bit confusing to have the apps measure you using two different sets of criteria, and since we can customize the settings more on MFP, I would definitely prefer they get used over UP's non-customized estimates.0
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To customize your UP nutritional goals go to the green food tab, scroll to the bottom, then click the words "Nutrition Facts" (mine says "% based on your custom goals," because I've already customized mine).0
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MFP does allow you to add new categories. I created "Post-workout", for example. Unfortunately, when it syncs, it often puts it at a weird time in UP, so you have to manually edit the time. But other than that, it's fine.0
