How can I turn off the calorie goal?

jen_went
jen_went Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
Hi all! Please help. I want to track my calories but the “calories remaining” part of things is counterproductive for me. Does anyone know how to turn the goal off my log/diary bit so it just says how many calories have gone in? Thanks.

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  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    To my knowledge that's not an editable function. Can you elaborate on why you find it unhelpful despite wanting to track calories?
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    There doesn't appear to be.

    But if knowing how much to still eat is undesired, that may mean you have some idea on much you do want to eat in total.

    In which case you can manually set the goal for how much to eat.
    You'll still be reminded of how much left, but perhaps more useful based on your own Dr recommended figure.
  • Italiana_xx79
    Italiana_xx79 Posts: 592 Member
    You can adjust how many calories you want per day under your personal settings.
  • neugebauer52
    neugebauer52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    MFP is free of charge and I am happy to get any information they can give me - for free.
  • SlayLikeAWarrior
    SlayLikeAWarrior Posts: 89 Member
    If I understand you clearly, I don't know if you can turn off your calorie goals. However, if you are a premium member, you can turn off 'auto calorie adjustment". Here are steps below on how do it.

    From the App, at the bottom, tap on More, then My Premium Features, then Exercise Calories Settings, turn off "Increase my daily calorie goal".

    From the Web, on the top blue bar, locate and click on PREMIUM, then Exercise Calorie Settings, in the drop down menu next to "Adjust my daily calorie goal", choose "Off" and click "Save Changes".
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited October 2019
    Danp wrote: »
    The calorie goal is kinda the central principle of MFP so you can't just turn it off.

    Best you could do is to put in crazy stats (Male, 600lbs, 7'2", 90yo, Sedentary for example). This will set your calorie goal at such a ridiculous amount that it will lose all meaning and you can just ignore it.

    I actually did that at one point, when I was trying out different strategies. I didn't change my stats, but I set my calorie goal to 88k something (not a nice round number that I can easily calculate calories remaining). The "calories remaining" number became meaningless just like you said.
  • wmd1979
    wmd1979 Posts: 469 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    jen_went wrote: »
    steveko89 wrote: »
    To my knowledge that's not an editable function. Can you elaborate on why you find it unhelpful despite wanting to track calories?

    I don’t like being told what to do 😂 And I’m an emotional eater so when I have those days and it says “600 calories remaining” it tips be over into teenage mode and I rebel! When I don’t track calories at all I am way more strict with my eating and so hoped there was a middle ground where I could track but not feel as though an algorithm was in charge of my life.

    If you have 600 calories remaining, then you need to eat those 600 calories. That’s not rebellion; that’s how the app is designed to be used. There is no “algorithm in charge of your life.” It is just a calculation of how many calories are needed to meet your goal, based on the stats you put in.

    If your goal is weight related, being “strict” doesn’t accomplish that. Your weight is determined by how many calories you take in and how calories many you burn.

    I agree that the app was designed to eat those 600 calories, however it is important to be mindful of the exercise adjustments that are given with some fitness trackers. I have a fitbit, and I know that the adjusted exercise calories I am given are not always accurate. I still eat a portion of those calories back, but that took some trial and error to figure out what was really accurate. Long story short, I am in no way disagreeing with what you said(and I don't know if these extra calories are from exercise or not), but I do think new users should use a little caution when eating back all of their exercise calories.
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