Will MFP ONLY keep 4 pages of food items?

That's correct, but it's 4 pages for each "meal" category if you select it that way. Things drop off All Meals quickly, but can be found in Afternoon Snack, for example. If you really want to hold items, set up a "meal" and log a tiny quantity, or put that item in the My Foods.

Also, if you know when you had it last, you can click on quick tools under that meal and copy to the current date. (It will copy to the same meal on the new date, but if you are eating it for a different meal, the copying process moves it to the top entry in your "recent" foods, so you can then easily add it to the correct meal and then delete it from the wrong one.)

I think 4 pages is simply not enough space to hold onto all the food that a health conscious person eats. I consume a wide variety of food, and this is a big problem for, to have to add food all the time. It would be lot easier, if they allotted more space for each person so we can save 10 pages or so. Setting up a meal won't work for me, because i am eating different kinds of food for each meal each day. So, its rare that i replicate the same exact meal within a week or two.

hortensehildegarde wrote: »

If I understand what the previous posters said, we can easily see more than 10 pages worth of things if we select a category from the drop down where it says "Or, add your favorites for: All Meals" it will show the last 4 pages of food entered in that category only.

I only have 3 categories but that's 12 pages of foods alone. If you wanted more pages you'd just add more categories to split out your logging.

I looked at the dropdown menu now that you have pointed out. It seems like i can have only 4 categories - it shows Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. So, for example, i went into "Add food under Dinner -> select Dinner in the drop down menu". Then, it goes backwards in time to show 4 pages worth of dinner. You don't get 12 pages of dinner items that you possibly consumed over last 2 months. I do not see a way to "create" categories apart from the 4 i mentioned above. Hopefully someone from MFP is reading these forums, and could put in a suggestion/request as a feedback. I would love to be able to hold onto 10 pages worth of Dinner material, so that i don't have to type up things each time, and verify accuracy of the nutritional data, before i can add it to my diary. I am pretty serious about my program, and have seen substantial results due to my efforts, and MFP has been a big part of it. If i can not find a workaround for this problem, i might have to check out other websites, to see if something fits my needs. This site was my first and top selection.

buddhaseeking wrote: »

hortensehildegarde wrote: »

If I understand what the previous posters said, we can easily see more than 10 pages worth of things if we select a category from the drop down where it says "Or, add your favorites for: All Meals" it will show the last 4 pages of food entered in that category only.

I only have 3 categories but that's 12 pages of foods alone. If you wanted more pages you'd just add more categories to split out your logging.

I looked at the dropdown menu now that you have pointed out. It seems like i can have only 4 categories - it shows Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. So, for example, i went into "Add food under Dinner -> select Dinner in the drop down menu". Then, it goes backwards in time to show 4 pages worth of dinner. You don't get 12 pages of dinner items that you possibly consumed over last 2 months. I do not see a way to "create" categories apart from the 4 i mentioned above. Hopefully someone from MFP is reading these forums, and could put in a suggestion/request as a feedback. I would love to be able to hold onto 10 pages worth of Dinner material, so that i don't have to type up things each time, and verify accuracy of the nutritional data, before i can add it to my diary. I am pretty serious about my program, and have seen substantial results due to my efforts, and MFP has been a big part of it. If i can not find a workaround for this problem, i might have to check out other websites, to see if something fits my needs. This site was my first and top selection.

You can create up to 6 meal categories. Go to http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings and it's about halfway down the page under "Meal Names"

Also if you save items to your My Foods section it will show all the pages of My Foods entries when you pick that tab (after you select Add Food then to the right you click on My Foods tab) - I have 13 pages of My Foods items currently and can toggle through all 13 pages to find what I need.

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Thanks Phrick. That helps. I will put in a suggestion at the place you suggested - because it does looks like they allot more space for each user, but it is simply in different sections than the "default" settings. I will wait a little longer, to use the features that has been pointed out by you, and then write the feedback.