help deleting items from recent list

JJd4L
JJd4L Posts: 5 Member
edited November 18 in Getting Started
i can delete food items from "frequent" or "my food", but i am having some trouble deleting some items from my recent list... any help is appreciated.... thank in advance..

JJ

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  • dianemartha
    dianemartha Posts: 3 Member
    I thought it was just me , I cannot find anywhere to delete, my food list is getting longer and longer.
  • JJd4L
    JJd4L Posts: 5 Member
    u are def. not alone.. i hope we can figure this out... thanks for the reply
  • Malibugrammie
    Malibugrammie Posts: 9 Member
    Oh thank goodness!! I thought I was an idiot - I can't delete from any list. Tell me please how to do it - thanks!!
    :-}
  • JJd4L
    JJd4L Posts: 5 Member
    i input a single serving a potato rounds... thought i had the right one.. clicked it... and it showed up as 200g Fat.... um no way... i could delete it from my meals... but now it shows up in my recent items that i could accidentally click again... i would like to go thru and delete some items off the recent list... im glad im not alone
  • JJd4L
    JJd4L Posts: 5 Member
    Malibugrammie wrote: »
    Oh thank goodness!! I thought I was an idiot - I can't delete from any list. Tell me please how to do it - thanks!!
    :-}

    sorry i didnt see ur question until now... if u are in ur add food section, there are tabs.. "recent" "frequent" "my foods" "meals" and "recipes" for instance if u go under the frequent tab.... u can check a food and down at the bottom there is a "delete from list" button in the bottom right. Hope that helps... but under the recent tab, there is no delete button...
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    The Recent list just displays up to the last 100 items you, yourself, added to your Food Diary. Those food items will eventually drop off of the Recent list display after you log more items. You can not delete them from the Recent list.

    The Frequent list displays up to 25 items from your Food Diary based on an algorithm that the user can not change, but a user can in effect hide particular food items from displaying in the Frequent list.

    If you want, you can change your default display to the Frequent list, from which you can hide previous food items that you added to your Food Diary and do not want to see displayed on a list of foods. On the Web version, navigate to FOOD > Settings and change Default Add Food View to Frequent. On the mobile apps, navigate to Settings > Diary Settings and set Default Search Tabs to Frequent. Currently, one can only remove food items from the Frequent list using the Web version or iOS mobile app, not the Android app.

    The only way to have the Recent list not display those items that you added to your Food Diary is for you to go back to your Food Diary and delete all instances of those unwanted items from every day that you logged them. However, if you delete those unwanted entries from your Food Diary, be aware that your macros will not be correct for those previous days and any Reports, if you use that, will not be correct.

    Please see these articles on the MFP Help pages...
    myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/374439-how-do-i-delete-an-entry-from-my-food-diary-
    myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/152746-can-i-remove-a-food-from-my-%22most-used%22-or-%22frequent%22-list-what-if-i-change-my-mind-
  • JJd4L
    JJd4L Posts: 5 Member
    thank you thank you thank you... much appreciated...
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