MFP Premium
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Pay? No Way!0
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It is apparent that MFP corporate is spending their tech dollars developing the premium features, rather than fixing the myriad bugs that exist in their current free version. I find some of the website and app issues annoying, but not enough to jump ship yet. I've used SparkPeople and FitDay for free calorie counting in the past, but I do enjoy the MFP community, friends and challenge groups here. Sticking with MFP free version for now.0
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Hopefully, as more people sign-up, the Premium Features continue to roll in. Also, for anyone who didn't notice, MFP did roll-out some new functionality to ALL users -Starting today, for all users:
Verified foods: We now have hundreds of thousands of foods in our database that have been verified for calorie and nutrition content—this will help take the guesswork out of logging.
Get better insights with improved graphs: Spot opportunities to improve what you eat by visualizing it in new ways. View your calorie and nutrient intake by day, by week—even by meal!0 -
Hopefully, as more people sign-up, the Premium Features continue to roll in. Also, for anyone who didn't notice, MFP did roll-out some new functionality to ALL users -Starting today, for all users:
Verified foods: We now have hundreds of thousands of foods in our database that have been verified for calorie and nutrition content—this will help take the guesswork out of logging.
Get better insights with improved graphs: Spot opportunities to improve what you eat by visualizing it in new ways. View your calorie and nutrient intake by day, by week—even by meal!
Yay! Yay! Hoooray!
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Hopefully, as more people sign-up, the Premium Features continue to roll in. Also, for anyone who didn't notice, MFP did roll-out some new functionality to ALL users -
Starting today, for all users:
Verified foods: We now have hundreds of thousands of foods in our database that have been verified for calorie and nutrition content—this will help take the guesswork out of logging.
Get better insights with improved graphs: Spot opportunities to improve what you eat by visualizing it in new ways. View your calorie and nutrient intake by day, by week—even by meal!
People have already started threads on how they really liked the old nutritional information page.
Also, the verified foods is only useful if they made it so you can filter out all of the garbage, user-submitted entries from the database.0 -
I agree that Under Armour is just trying to monetize MFP. I'll switch apps before I pay for a subscription for features that are (in my mind) not cost-justifiable. Fortunately, I set my macros goal before the Premium was launched, but now, of course, if I need to change those macros, I have to pay. Ridiculous! If there was significant improvement in the app, I'd consider it. For me, being able to track measurements is crucial. However, not having a "Total Inches Lost" report, but rather each bit of progress displayed only graphically with no numerical summary is mindboggling. I had to develop an Excel spreadsheet to supplement MFP so I could track my inches lost/area and as a total. Reporting tools might entice me to upgrade. Till then, I'll be shopping other apps if needed.0
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Jilllybeanns wrote: »
No, I just like the options and felt it was with $4 a month. There's nothing to defend in my mind. If you don't think it's worth it, don't pay for it. Simple as that. The argument that UA is going to let the free version die on the vine is silly. Just don't expect bells and whistles for free.0 -
I've been having issues since the recent upgrade. My goals are set to lose 1 lb per week and that was allotting me approximately 1670 cal per day. Ever since the upgrade and the premium option has become available my calorie goal has defaulted to 1200 cal per day. Is this happening to anyone else?0
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$10 /mth is a gym membership at planet fitness and like anything else if you don't use it then it won't work. I rather stick to the free version of MFP.0
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DO NOT have mfp premium...My MAIN reason for liking mfp is that it is FREE...I did Weight Watchers for a year, but got tired of paying for it, stopped, and gained all the weight back...Weight loss is hard enough without having to PAY to do it...Just my opinion...0
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How do you access "verified" foods?0
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I never had an issue with this site until the last few updates, the main page can't even calculate my calories left without giving me an error message. I'm starting to think they're killing the site to sell this premium package. I don't have a smart phone so i couldn't get it even if i wanted but seems to me the quality of the main site is going down since they started the premium stuff. This keeps up i'm going to just use a piece of paper to figure out my calories.0
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I'm having the same issue...now I'm thinking I should just get the premium but I just want the old mfp...I didn't need all of those updatesjessicaebullock wrote: »I've been having issues since the recent upgrade. My goals are set to lose 1 lb per week and that was allotting me approximately 1670 cal per day. Ever since the upgrade and the premium option has become available my calorie goal has defaulted to 1200 cal per day. Is this happening to anyone else?
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If they did get rid of the free service and went to a paid service the only way I would join is if they had a department dedicated to maintaining an accurate food database. Also, I would be fine with keeping the user food database, but it should be made separate from the "official" database. It does suck trying to weed through all the inaccurate items in the db. The food database is the most vital part of this website/app I just wish it was improved and cleaned up.0
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Not paying.
I'm on maintenance, so all I care about is the calorie count.
Entries in grams? Big deal. I don't know a gram from a kilo-Newton or a mega-Pascal. Second verse? I don't need to know; don't care to know.
I'm willing to spend an extra 5 minutes/day on a spreadsheet instead of paying one penny.
No ads? Big deal. Adblocker is free.
Sorry, UA.
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I'm so confused by all these "bugs" people are having. I have never had an issue with my app or with accessing it in my browser. What kind of issues are y'all having? I love MFP and I understand the reason for making a paid option. I do not believe for second that they will make the free option disappear. There are a ton of apps that are free but have premium options you pay for.0
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I don't think there's enough to justify switching to premium right now. I'd rather that $10 a month go into savings to help build my buffer before paying for fall semester classes. The free version works fine for me, I only occasionally run into bugs, and I'm happy with what I use right now. If they offered a much better way of counting exercise calories by syncing properly to fitbit or something similar, that might be worth looking into, but as of now, there's just not anything premium offers that I care about. I'm not saying I wouldn't pay for a premium membership in the future (as long as the free version doesn't get nerfed), but not right now.0
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HappyCampr1 wrote: »
Really? I've never seen the big green check. However, there is an asterisk next to the user submitted items. My point is if you search for "Orville Redenbacher popcorn" all that should show up is 1 verified item for each flavor/type of Orville Redenbacher popcorn. Not 50 of the same item all with different portion sizes and inaccurate macros.
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rjmudlax13 wrote: »HappyCampr1 wrote: »
Really? I've never seen the big green check. However, there is an asterisk next to the user submitted items. My point is if you search for "Orville Redenbacher popcorn" all that should show up is 1 verified item for each flavor/type of Orville Redenbacher popcorn. Not 50 of the same item all with different portion sizes and inaccurate macros.
I also don't see a green check mark, but then maybe I've never logged a "verified" food. In that case, the database of "verified" food is way too small and incomplete to work.
Here's the secret of the database: Just about everything is "user submitted." MFP relies primarily on users to keep the database correct. The problem is that there is very little oversight, so duplicate or inaccurate entries never get cleaned up. For example, if I search for "Clif Bar White Chocolate Macadamia Nut" - this has the nutrition facts on the wrapper, so I can easily verify it - there are a whole bunch of entries. Nearly all of them are correct (they should be because this one is easy to find nutrition facts). None of them are verified. There is a lot of duplication, which makes things messy. Now try to do this with something that is not as easy to look up the nutrition facts.
*There is 1 item that comes up with that search that is provided by the manufacturer, Sodexo Campus, which is not the item I'm eating.0 -
Who is verifying the foods? The ones I've checked are wrong. They'll also go out of date with every product size, serving or recipe change. Who's going to monitor that internationally?
As for premium-
Macros - adjust the percentages until your required gram goals are shown.
Exercise calories - don't want them? Don't log them.
The app and site are still ridiculously bugged, and I find it hard to believe an MFP tech uses it to try and log their food accurately. Editing database while multifood adding still loses the selected foods. It's been at least four years MFP. You still can't correct food items when scanned, at least four years MFP.0 -
HappyCampr1 wrote: »rjmudlax13 wrote: »HappyCampr1 wrote: »
Really? I've never seen the big green check. However, there is an asterisk next to the user submitted items. My point is if you search for "Orville Redenbacher popcorn" all that should show up is 1 verified item for each flavor/type of Orville Redenbacher popcorn. Not 50 of the same item all with different portion sizes and inaccurate macros.
I'm sorry. 99.5% of the time I'm using the app instead of the website. I didn't realize the web still had the asterisks. I guess the app is where the verified checks are because this is what I see there....
There is not even a verified item there for each type of popcorn that Orville Redenbacher makes.
Just to see if it works on the Android app, I went ahead and tried my search for a specific product and got no verified items there. When I search for "Clif bar" (a much more broad/vague search), I actually got some verified items. I log sometimes using the web browser and sometimes using the app. This is the first time I've seen the green check mark and I've been using both since 2013.
Recap: So the only way to find verified items is to search using a really vague search, which brings up more results... some of which are verified (none of the verified items are what I am eating, though). Basically this is my original point: There are too few verified items in the database, and otherwise the database is a mess.0 -
So what do you do when the ingredients and therefore nutritional content of a verified item changes? It will no longer be verified, but MFP will say it's verified...0
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For those if you using premium. I know you can turn off exercise calories but does it still show exercise performed but not change calorie allowance. I am considering changing as I follow a specific plan from a coach and calories/macros change throughout the week. I really enjoy getting g the credit for exercise though.0
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Thanks that helps a lot.0
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I think there are a few places it's not fully integrated, or at least to me it seems so. For example, when you complete your diary for the day, if you (or anyone else) goes in to view it, your exercise is included so you'll always show as being under your goal if you didn't eat back those calories. Also when the information blurbs come up in your diary (if they are turned on) they seem to assume you are including exercise calories in your goal. To me it seems like MFP forgot those items had logic to include exercise calories and didn't change the code to allow for the new option. Other than that is works great.0
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