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Did you check how many servings the recipe you created is for? I believe it defaults to 1, so if you didn't change it, it's including all the calories in the entire recipe in one serving.

If you're using the app, you can search your recipes by clicking on "add food" under a meal in your diary and then under the "recipe" tab, just start typing the name of the recipe. It doesn't have to be the beginning of the name. If you know it was a stew but you're not certain whether you called it beef stew or meat and…

Hi. You can use the app without being "social" with it (just log and don't post) but there are lot of community members who are happy to answer questions if you have them.

You're at a normal BMI (a function of your height and weight). Do you have a goal beyond just hitting a lower number on the scale? It's a shame for you to have such negative feelings about a number that is in a normal range for your height. Is it possible you're getting unrealistic ideas of what a healthy body looks like…

I recommend getting a kitchen food scale for more accuracy at home and to make you a better estimator when you eat away from home. I also recommend checking the database entries you use for accuracy, since it's a crowd-sourced database, plus maufacturers' recipes can vary across time and geographic borders. Best of luck.

Just spitballing here, but if the data is available on the web version, I would try uninstalling and reinstalling the app on my phone.

Goals in MFP are based on RDA recommendations and the like, which don't exist for PUFAs and MUFAs. I shoot for 50 grams of fat overall as a minimum from a variety of sources, including PUFA rich sources, since the essential fatty acids are PUFAs. I find that MFP database entries frequently don't have MUFA and PUFA…

Add fats to your diet: cook with oil; dress salads, veggies, pretty much any savory food with oil, butter, sour cream, etc; use full-fat dairy or nondairy substitutes in coffee, tea, or cereal. Some people also find it easier to drink calories without feeling stuffed. Milk and smoothies can add nutrition, but if you're…

You can do it yourself. You're the one who knows which entry you want fixed and how. You're just talking to other users here — we don't possess any magical updating powers that you don't have yourself.

In Android, they recently moved the progress link from the long "more" list to its own button on the bottom of the home page, just to the right of "diary".

But if I just stick a spoon in the honey jar and eat it plain, I'm not adding it to anything, so it's not an added sugar? Just another instance of nutrition advice making no sense.

Why should OP report back when a cording to you no one on MFP has ever used GLP? If OP comes back to talk about it, logic and your post would mean they must just be making things up. (No slight to you, OP, just commenting on the logical nonsense of this specific comment.) I do agree you would be better off relying on your…

If you're making one serving of something fresh each time you eat it, I would recommend using the "meal" feature rather than the "recipe" feature. You can adjust amounts and add or delete ingredients each time you log the meal. If you want those changes reflected the next you log the meal, you can save over it. Otherwise,…

My initial experience using MFP to track calories was a pretty steady 2 pounds a week loss for about three months before things started to bounce around a bit, with variations in water weight and food in the digestive track starting to progress less linear (less than 2 pounds for a week or two followed by more than 2…

Congratulations on quitting smoking! If you can do that, there's a good chance you can conquer weight control. First step is to figure out how much you you should be eating. MFP has a guided set-up for that, which I recommend because it will work with the way MFP is intended to work, which is not counting the effect of…

I've never had a subscription and I can see my macros. If you're using the app, you'll either have to turn your phone to view it in landscape or go into the nutrition feature.

Best of luck.

I never enjoyed sugar in my coffee -- it tasted nasty to me -- and I mostly put milk/cream in it to get it to drinking temperature immediately. Nowadays I'm just more patient about letting it cool a bit, but I still use milk/cream for bad coffee (too weak or "cooked" too long on a burner after brewing or old grounds). Milk…

How many cups of coffee are you having a day? There are calories in artificial sweeteners, but the amounts are so low that there's no point in tracking them unless you are consuming massive amounts.

Are you saying you're still at the weight you were at immediately before giving birth, or that you lost weight during labor and delivery, but nothing since? If, the latter, you could have put on water weight after the birth as your body tried to heal various injuries/traumas that can be part of the delivery process (torn…

Well, Laverne and Shirley were from Milwaukee, I believe, which is not the heart of Coca-Cola country. I'm from the Mid-Atlantic and never heard of it before the televisionHouse. I think it was more intended to be an idiosyncracy of Laverne's than a regional thing. It's essentially a cola-flavored egg cream, instead of a…

I don't believe that you can. You might be able to work around this by using the create a meal function instead. You can draw from previously logged foods for that. I find it more useful for foods that I make a single serving at a time and might want to adjust quantities and delete things I didn't use that time, such as…

Best of luck! If you have any questions about how to log, there are pinned threads under the getting started board, I think, that should help. Also, people on the board are usually very helpful.

If I bothered counting water, I would count any liquid other than alcohol.

You:re only talking to other users here, who have no ability to add features. If you want to make this suggestion to MFP, go to the link Ann posted above.

If you're using the free version, you could adjust your carb % goal to 0% or 5%, depending on your calories and how low you want your carbs. You have to pay for premium to set your carb goals directly in grams

What you weigh right now is the result of your body banking and withdrawing calories over a lifetime. Nothing magical about a day, or even a week, except how it lines up with your expectations and goals.

If you mean your own created and saved recipes, in the app just click on add food in your diary, click the recipes tab, and type a few letters of the recipe name. If you're using the website, the best you can do is click add food, select the recipes tab, and choose sort alphabetically. If you know the name of the recipe,…

You can enter the total weight of the finished recipe in grams as the number of servings. Then when you dish up your portion, enter the weight of your portion in grams as the number of servings you had. There may be a top limit on number of servings, so this may not work for a latge/heavy recipe. I prefer to set a number…

I sometimes mix milk with cocoa (that is, the dry powdered chocolate used in baking) and sugar, sometimes adding vanilla and/or almond extract and/or cayenne (powdered/dried ground red pepper). I'm not going to give specific amounts, and you can choose the type of milk (full-fat, reduced, low-fat, skim; dairy/nondairy)…