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Bad news about Weightgrapher. In my experience with Libra (daily use!), if it's pushing for subscriptions, IME it's not pushing very hard. I maybe see a quick, easy-dismissed one-page reminder every few days. It's not obnoxious, at least to me . . . not obnoxious enough, apparently, since I haven't subscribed yet. 😉
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Well, since the overwhelming majority of posters here either want to be or have been losers at one point or or another . . . . 🤣
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"Servings in grams" is not necessarily the same issue, at least not in the posts I've seen about that topic over the ten years I've been using the app. Also, if you want a feature to be added, posting about it here in the Recipes section isn't going to accomplish that. The MFP staff don't read every post in the Community.…
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Honestly, for weight loss, exercise is a lower return on invested time and energy than managing the eating side of the equation, for most people. For the typical person doing typical amounts of exercise, the exercise burns around 5% of their total calorie expenditure, according to research. It might range up to 15% of…
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Hello and welcome! I'm also a vegetarian, and found MFP very helpful for weight loss as well as for getting good nutrition on reduced calories. It was the perfect tool for me. As context, I lost from class 1 obese to a healthy weight back in 2015-16 after having been overweight/obese for around 30 previous years. I've been…
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I agree with OP, and want to double underscore one thing she said: Report them. Report them. Report them. Don't just delete and block them. Report them to MFP via the Help function, by DM-ing one of the MFP staff, whatever is easy. One way MFP is UNLIKE other social media apps: MFP takes this seriously. They will act on…
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Hello and welcome! I'm also a breast cancer survivor (stage III back over 20 years now), and also had estrogen receptor positive tumors so HRT was not an option. I started MFP at 183 pounds, reached a healthy weight in just under a year, and have been maintaining a healthy weight for 9+ years since, 130-point-something…
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Hello and welcome! Y'know what? You're almost exactly the age I was when I joined here: I joined in July (2015!?!) and turned 60 that November. I'm now 69, have been maintaining a healthy weight since that loss. I think it is possible . . . and that if a hedonistic aging hippie flake with near-zero motivation/willpower can…
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Hello and welcome! I'm also a senior, 69 now, 59-60 when I lost around 50 pounds. Since then, I'm maintaining a healthy weight, so I think it is possible . . . especially if a hedonistic aging-hippie flake like me, a woman with limited willpower/discipline, can do it. 😉😆 Honestly, I think slow and steady is the way to win…
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Hello, and welcome! As context, I lost around 50 pounds and have stayed at a healthy goal weight around there for 9+ years since. Some people choose to log their eating long term (I do), but other people use different tactics, like preplanned eating patterns or intuitive eating. I think a key thing is to have a maintenance…
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Hello, and welcome! It can work: I joined MFP at age 59, needing to lose around 23kg. In just under a year, I'd reached a healthy weight, and have been at a healthy weight since, now age 69. FWIW, I also have bad knees (osteoarthritis, torn meniscus), and some other things (hypothyroidism, osteoporosis, other…
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Hello Susan, and welcome! I'm also a cancer survivor, stage III breast cancer nearly a quarter century ago now (!). I'm also an MFP long-timer, having used it at first for weight loss and to tune up my nutrition as you're mentioning, and continuing now to stay on a good nutritional and body-weight track. It's been a very…
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Some of the trending apps will enable a data import from another source, potentially a generic CSV file in the right format. That'd still be sharing data with another company, though.
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It sounds like you want to add a particular commercial packaged food that has a nutrition label as your own food. I'll try to answer your questions. Personally, I usually use the weight rather than an abstract number of servings when I log. Here in the US, commercial labels nearly all include the weight in grams of a…
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You mention both being overweight and weight maintenance, so I'm not clear about your current status, but will try to respond to some specific points. (Brace yourself for a TL;DR reply, too, because I'm like that. 🙄😬) You say "My BMI is approximately 25.8, placing me in the overweight category. My doctor has discussed my…
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Wow, that's a big change in your photos - nice work!
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Probably eating more of any healthful food that you personally don't find too filling to reach a moderate calorie surplus? What food that is will vary individually, but some common ones would be higher-fat foods like nuts, nut butters, seeds, avocados, more fats like olive oil used as dressings and in dips. Some people…
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There is no hack. Drop the whole concept. Everything that works takes patience, persistence, and something close to consistency. Spring up there is right: Fat loss (if there's fat left to reasonably lose), strength and cardiovascular exercise, and for sure posture. Influencers these days distort what is normal and…
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Here's a third one that it wouldn't let me add to the post above:
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I'm F69, for context, 5'5", 130lbs. Retro above is a way better source of weight training advice than I am. I might know a little more about femaleness and health, though. 😉 All his advice is good above, but I want to add a few things: With your goals and current situation, I'd completely rule out the "lean out more"…
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Hey, it's a process. 😉 Yup, just keep tweaking things in a positive direction, and there will be larger positive consequences in the long run. It's not essential to be perfect every day. What works instead? Being pretty good on average the overwhelming majority of the time. 🙂
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Sort of. It will count net carbs rather than total carbs, and show those net carbs on various pages/reports in place of total carbs. Just as in free MFP, it will also track fiber and let you report on that or change one of your diary columns to show it. I can't illustrate the net carbs feature for you even though I have…
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OP, please take dietary advice from your medical treatment team, not from random people on the internet, especially random people who give you no context about themselves or their credentials . . . doubly especially when those people are repeating common internet clickbait generalities. While I shared dietary advice I was…
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If you don't use a weight trending app now, maybe consider that? I find it useful in maintenance, and definitely did during loss. I started using it part way through loss, having started - well before weight loss, actually - putting a dot on graph paper for every daily weigh in. X-axis, date; Y-axis weight - taped on the…
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Good - because you CAN achieve your goals, and believing you can is a good first step. Not gonna lie, it won't be easy every second - it isn't for anyone - but it's achievable with patience and persistence. Make a sensible, moderate plan, and you'll increase your odds of success. If you continue with MFP, and feel up to…
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A piece of that is some high-clickbait "influencers" who lie, saying that the (photoshopped, posed, professionally lit/photographed) bodies they have today came from the program or supplement they're hawking. It didn't, but claiming it did - and that it can happen quickly - is how those leaches make money.
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As far as I can see, the Android pages I posted are identical to the Apple pages you posted, except for the formatting error in text on the section with percent of calories from each meal that's on the total calories view (which may have something to do with font settings on my phone rather than MFP anyway). I cropped off…
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No, it's not necessary to portion out into separate, equal containers. Just set the number of servings of the recipe to the total number of grams in the whole finished recipe. If my pot of soup is 2574 grams, that's 2574 servings. If I eat 200g, I log 200 servings. If I eat 223g, I log 223 servings. I don't have to portion…
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Of course more rowing, 3 seat in the quad, moderate steady state because the crew wanted that on account of windy conditions, so I worked on technical stuff, mostly suspension and glute engagement. About 7k, fairly equal amounts of zones 1, 2, and 3. Resting HR has been 48 and below every day for the past week, which makes…
