Question about the app

You just blew my mind. I didn't know we could add negative items. I knew that breastfeeding was in there as a negative food but I didn't realize that we could create our own. I think I tried it once on the app and it didn't work but that was likely a year ago (possibly longer.)

booksandchocolate12 wrote: »

I don't even see where you do it on the website, let alone on the app.

Enter a negative quantity number--instead of 1, enter -1 on a food item.

Wow... the more you know

Didn't know you could do this.

michelle172415 wrote: »

I know that on the desktop site I can add "negative" items to my food. For example, add a big mac, but then add a negative bun if you don't eat it.

Is there a way to do that on the app as well?

I HAD NO IDEA! **MIND BLOWN**

Here's how someone created an entry to remove fat by the gram:



So I would think to remove a Big Mac bun, get the nutrition data from the site and create an entry with all negatives.

i've never even done this and i've been using MFP since 2011! Interesting

Mind blown! I just do a quick add when I don't eat it the way the app has it organized! Good to know you can DO THIS!

kshama2001 wrote: »

I don't see why you couldn't do it on the app. You just have to find or create the negative entry. @CyberTone perhaps you would care to weigh in?

Prior to late 2014, MFP users were able to add negative quantities for existing food items on the Web, iOS, and Android versions of MFP. It seems the capability to do that was broken on the mobile apps in the lead up to deploying the "Verified" feature and the Premium option. From my experience and some information I found in the forum comments and Help pages, it seems iOS users lost that capability in late 2014 and Android users lost that capability in early 2015.

Also, when MFP deployed the Premium option, the Quick Add Calories function was changed, and a user could not enter negative Quick Add Calories; however, once the positive Quick Add Calories were added to the Food Diary, a user could open that entry on the Web version and change it to a negative number.

There was a period of time in late 2015 when the Quick Add Calories would not allow negative entries on the Web version and a user could not edit any entries from positive to negative. That was pointed out in this thread, but that issue has been fixed (at least for now).

As for creating private or shared food items with negative quantities for individual nutrients, I can not comment on that since I have never tried to do that.

clark614 wrote: »

Why do this?? I do not understand this. You subtract food you do not eat??? Can someone explain?

Let's say I eat out and have a salad. The restaurant calculates nutrition information for the salad + dressing, but I don't put any dressing on my salad. I can then use an entry for the dressing and input a negative serving size so that the nutrition info for the entire meal reflects me eating only the salad.

I don't think there's a way to do negative servings on the IOS app.

Cynsonya wrote: »

I use an entry for placeholder calories to bank calories through the week. Then on the weekend I use enter negative placeholder calories to use them. But I can only enter the negatives on the website. It won't work on the app.

This is genius! To clarify, you quick add whatever calories are left if you are under goal every day and then add them up and quick add a negative to the day you want them right? I'm so glad I clicked on this thread!

I do that when i go to mcds i get 2 plain mcdoubles and put them together with one bun and log -1 bun.

i guess i dont eat out enough to have to do this, but I know the option is there if i need it!

Dont forget- if it is a Big Mac, its a bun and a half