New app is a pain to use

yes2pray
yes2pray Posts: 1 Member
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Too many steps to log individual items in a meal...have to bounce all over the place. Last version if app is much more usef friendly

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  • goofygirl51
    goofygirl51 Posts: 2 Member

    I’m not sure which app I have, but I’m still trying to figure out the communication and support part. I’ve been on and off fitness pal for awhile now. Not much success.
    Thought I’d buckle down and be more serious and consistent with food logging. Their plan had me on 1800 calories a day to loose 2 lbs a week.
    I took it down myself to 1500 calories.
    After 5 weeks I haven’t lost a single pound.
    I'm 59, self employed, full time job cleaning houses. Have 3 grandsons that I have 2-3 evenings a week. So I don’t have much time or energy to excercise. But I’m thinking, this may be the only way to have any success in weight loss?

    Any suggestions are appreciated

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,465 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10951573/new-app-is-a-pain-to-use

    If you want to provide feedback on the update, this isn't the place to do it. The MFP staff rarely read this section - close to never.

    If you want to communicate to them, post in one of the areas they do read, like one of these two:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/myfitnesspal-tech-support-questions

    Here, you're just talking to other MFP users like you and me, people with zero power over the software's directions.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,465 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48824621#Comment_48824621

    Hi, @goofygirl51 -

    I've found most people here in the Community really helpful. I'm pretty sure you'd get some help with these issues . . . but I'd strongly suggest you create your own thread in the Getting Started or Health and Weight Loss sections, with a thread title that's specific to your concerns.

    Briefly: For most of us, exercise is only a small fraction of the solution at most, and it isn't a necessary part. (Exercise is good for a body, worth doing for health if possible, of course.) You may not realize it, but your job cleaning houses is probably pretty physically active, so that alone is burning a meaningful number of calories!

    There are a couple of possibilities here, but I won't go into it much because you'll get more/better help on your own thread. Loosely, the main possibilities have to do with logging issues (something we all have to work through at first) or - since 1800 was supposed to make you lose 2 pounds a week - eating so few calories that you're increasing fatigue, dragging through the days, and adding stress-related water retention that masks fat loss on the scale. There may be other possibilities, too, but we'd need to ask you questions and such to really try to help.

    Please post your own thread - I think you'll get the help you're seeking.

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