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44marsh
44marsh Posts: 1 Member
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I hit the complete diary at the bottom of the page??? Now my calories at top is a total and it’s telling me I’ll be gaining weight and in fact I’m losing. How doIrestore this please?

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  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,895 Member
    I think that you might be able to go back to that day and adjust it. Pretty sure.
    I can't figure out how to add my water. I tried all 3 ways on the page, but it didn't add it. It is a triumph for me if I can make myself drink a glass of water, I want to see it in print so that I can pat myself on the back for getting it into me :smile:
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    I never click "complete". It's pretty pointless. The estimate it gives you is pretty worthless. I would just ignore that day and move on.
  • PHOTOCHAP
    PHOTOCHAP Posts: 104 Member
    CarvedTones wrote: »
    I never click "complete". It's pretty pointless. The estimate it gives you is pretty worthless. I would just ignore that day and move on.

    ^^ This. Just log everything and don't bother "completing". All your information is safe(ish) ;)
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    Yep, I stopped 'completing' every day quite a while ago. It does nothing, the estimates it provides are (for me at least) never even in the ball park for accuracy and I really just found it a useless distraction.
  • eccentricplaza
    eccentricplaza Posts: 115 Member
    I still press “complete” so I know my friends might be more apt to check out what I did, but not for the “in 5 weeks” notification at the end. I did a refeed one day and so it was really awful!
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    CarvedTones wrote: »
    I never click "complete". It's pretty pointless. The estimate it gives you is pretty worthless. I would just ignore that day and move on.

    This and also you can still add or remove cals after you do it. All it does is give you that silly projection and post to your timeline that you completed your diary for the day. It has no bearing on your numbers (or in fact, reality) at all.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    I don't follow.

    You log all your food, hit the complete button and MFP tells you that in 5 weeks you will have gained weight? But when you weigh yourself, you're actually losing weight... Is that correct? After you log your food, are you over or under the goal/target number MFP gave you?

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,419 Member
    Just move on.

    If you ate over your calories, it's telling you that IF YOU ATE THAT MUCH every day for five weeks, you'd weigh XXX number of pounds.

    You won't and you won't.

    "Complete this day" is something I never do, it's pointless.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    Just as a reminder/context... pressing the complete button is what generates the "status update" in your feed. Some people care about that, making it not pointless.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    Are you exercising and not logging it (or logging it as "0" calories)? Did you tell MFP that you're sedentary when in reality your everyday activities involve 8,000, 10,000, 12,000 steps or even more? Are you intentionally overestimating all the food you log by large amounts because you're scared of undercounting it?

    Could you clarify what you mean by "restore"? Do you mean modify your settings because you think you told MFP something inaccurate and you want to fix it? Do you mean stop MFP from posting the projected gains to your newsfeed? (I'm not sure if it does that, because I hardly ever click on "complete" and I've turned off almost all of the automatic posts to my newsfeed.)

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