aidan1949 Member

Thanks, folks. Very helpful. It would be good if "My Recipes" added themselves as well. The "My Recipes" I have now is too long to be of any use and Community members have said that you can't manage and sort them. I think that I'll put all my new stuff in the database after using the calorie counter in My Recipes. But it…

Thanks for your replies and ideas. I suspected that there was no way to sort the recipes having had a poke around on the desktop app, which is where I mainly access myfinesspal. The phone app workaround sounds doable but we shouldn't have to do that! Soon my recipe list will be too long to be practical to sort through so…

Thanks for the additional advice. From what people have said, I shall leave the macros alone. My doctor advises a 'balanced' diet and here in the UK, I'm taking this to mean the NHS advice at https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/

Thanks for your post Xiaolongbao. I like your methodology and I guess over time your fridge list grows to include many of the things that you enjoy. Can you tell me what "tracking macros" are, please?

Many thanks for all the replies. There are some useful things for me to try and some handy warnings and tips. Can I have a little help with the recipe builder tool? I guess it's the 'recipe' tab that I start from? So I need to do a some research on the calories etc. in a recipe, from the ingredients and then I can call…

Yup, been there. I'm back on the track to getting to where I want to be now and it feels good. People seem to say logging is good and I agree as it gives a little bit more understanding about how much control you possess for this and it's a lot! Not advocating it universally but I find the 5:2 approach works for me. It…

Thanks for your reply. I took a few attempts but I've now got the link with my FitBit working (and the repeat weight report cancelled!)

Thanks swirlybee that's helped me find my way through to the list and adding to it. Scary how quickly it builds up! In my updated list I can see checkboxes next to each item that I've put in. What is the relevance of these, please?

Thanks for your reply Kriss and the explanation. Let me tell you what I've tried... I clicked 'diary' and I saw 'Breakfast' at the top. It had remembered an entry for two slices of bread and two eggs that I had put in and it came to 220. All that it had listed was 'slice bread, 2.0 slice' and the eggs were not on the list.…

Thank you for your reply Kriss. I really am new to this! I put in dinner yesterday and breakfast today. I've done a quick calculation on a piece of paper and the Kcal score for my breakfast comes to a higher figure than is showing in my app diary. I guessed that I'd done something incorrectly when I put my breakfast into…