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How to change calorie goal

yn7xp8zqy8
yn7xp8zqy8 Posts: 5 Member
in Getting Started

I am trying to change my calorie goal but when I click on the # of calories I get a dialog box that says I have to change my nutrients to percentages instead of grams. So I click on the nutrients and change the view to % but the little check mark to make the change doesn’t work. It’s there but unclickable. How can I change my calorie count total?

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,319 Member

    Browser on a computer, or app on iOS or Android? On the computer you go to Goals → Edit Daily Nutrient Goals. There you change the total number of calories. You can also run through the guided setup again. There's a link right above that option.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,816 Member

    I didn't try this myself because I didn't want to mess up my carefully-set goals, I admit. But have you tried leaving your macro goals in grams, but changing the macro goals to the gram levels you want them to be at the new calorie level?

    I agree with you that what you're describing ought to work, though I kind of get why you get the initial directive to change to percentages. Either calories are going to drive macros, or macros are going to drive calories. With macros in grams, changing the calorie number would put calories and macros out of sync. I don't understand why you can't change to percents, though.

    I'm wondering whether maybe not very many people do this, so there could be an unrecognized bug. Given that possibility, I wonder whether changing the macro gram goals might change the calories, as a workaround . . . but maybe that won't work either, in which case I fear the answer might be to open a support ticket via the Help function.

  • yn7xp8zqy8
    yn7xp8zqy8 Posts: 5 Member

    on the iPhone app.

  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,762 Member
    edited March 29

    You can work around this. I just tried.

    I set my daily calorie goal manually based on past experiences. I let MFP determine my macros and figured out what those numbers were, then I used those numbers to set my macros by grams. I don't want to reset my goal, but I tried to see if it would work. It did. I didn't ask it to save the result so it would not change, but I bet a half bagel you can make it work, Here's what I did:

    1. Write down the current goals in grams
    2. Change to percent
    3. Change the calorie goal
    4. See what macros are presented
    5. Write that number down.
    6. Set your macros back to percentages.
    7. Tweak the percentages as needed within reason to get the daily calorie goal to match.
    8. Note that whether you set your macros as grams or percent, the number will increase if you log exercise. If you are trying to hit a particular macro goal, just ignore MFP telling you that you need to increase it.

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