How do you incorporate 5:2 into this?

missmisosoup
missmisosoup Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I started tracking my progress yesterday & also doing 5:2 (so ate under 500cal yesterday) this app stayed I had not meet the daily requirements and was eating too less. Is there anyway to add 2 days on eating less cal?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,901 Member
    Yeah, completing the day really does nothing, just skip it.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,808 Member
    If it's really important to you to complete your diary then you can "cheat the system" by.....
    • Log your food
    • Quick add calories (1000 would do it)
    • Complete your diary
    • Delete quick add calories

    By the way I do hope you have set your 5 day calorie allowance to your maintenance level as the 5:2 plans intends? On the five days your calorie goal would be plus exercise calories if you set your calorie goal on here, on the two days you just eat 500 irrespective of exercise.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    If it's really important to you to complete your diary then you can "cheat the system" by.....
    • Log your food
    • Quick add calories (1000 would do it)
    • Complete your diary
    • Delete quick add calories

    By the way I do hope you have set your 5 day calorie allowance to your maintenance level as the 5:2 plans intends? On the five days your calorie goal would be plus exercise calories if you set your calorie goal on here, on the two days you just eat 500 irrespective of exercise.

    What I don't like about this is that you aren't being honest with yourself, you are just gaming the systemm. You will have a less reliable way to review your history.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    concordancia wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    If it's really important to you to complete your diary then you can "cheat the system" by.....
    • Log your food
    • Quick add calories (1000 would do it)
    • Complete your diary
    • Delete quick add calories

    By the way I do hope you have set your 5 day calorie allowance to your maintenance level as the 5:2 plans intends? On the five days your calorie goal would be plus exercise calories if you set your calorie goal on here, on the two days you just eat 500 irrespective of exercise.

    What I don't like about this is that you aren't being honest with yourself, you are just gaming the systemm. You will have a less reliable way to review your history.

    Why? You delete the quick add calories after you complete it so the data will be correct.
  • kgb6days
    kgb6days Posts: 880 Member
    I created a food called "Fast Day" and added 700 calories to it. Now on a fast day I enter that for breakfast. Viola! No more pesky messages about not having enough calories
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,808 Member
    concordancia wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    If it's really important to you to complete your diary then you can "cheat the system" by.....
    • Log your food
    • Quick add calories (1000 would do it)
    • Complete your diary
    • Delete quick add calories

    By the way I do hope you have set your 5 day calorie allowance to your maintenance level as the 5:2 plans intends? On the five days your calorie goal would be plus exercise calories if you set your calorie goal on here, on the two days you just eat 500 irrespective of exercise.

    What I don't like about this is that you aren't being honest with yourself, you are just gaming the systemm. You will have a less reliable way to review your history.

    @concordancia

    Gaming the system - perhaps. But 5:2 isn't an eating style or pattern that MFP is set up for.
    Your other two points aren't correct at all.

    It's being totally honest about your food intake and giving an accurate history of what was actually eaten. Which is very useful to fine tune your maintenance levels and logging accuracy.
    Did you miss the bullet point where you delete the quick add cals a few seconds after you added them?
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    Just don't close out your diary on a fast day.
  • h1udd
    h1udd Posts: 623 Member
    yeah, I dont close my diary on fast days ... but if I really needed it in my feed so people could praise me for it, then I would also quick add 1000kcal, complete the diary and then delete the 1000kcal quick add .... its a faff but it works. Just remember to delete the quick add again or it throws your weekly average out
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