(Wait, that's not totally true: I actually posted on MFP once. If it ain't the Cranky Fitness comment section, populated with the most awesome fun, funny, and warm individuals on the planet, them I'm not going to bother hanging out chatting. There are forums and discussions and special interest groups all that kind of stuff! But y'all know how I feel about Fitness Communities. The program integrates with a bunch of other biometric devices too if you've got one you can check the MyFitnessPal app gallery to see if it's compatible. What's especially cool is since I just leave the fitbit usb dongle in my pc, MyFitnessPal "feels me" nearby and updates my calorie targets automatically throughout the day as I get more activity and make more food entries. I have my own independently invented system to approximate calorie expenditures for various activities and I trust that more than their exercise database.īut I am greatly aided by the whole Fitbit Force integration thing! The force does a reasonable enough approximation of calories expended through running/walking/elliptical, and I only have to enter weird things like rowing or biking. The database sucks and I almost never find what I'm looking for, or if I do, I have little conviction that the numbers are accurate. In general, the exercise tracking is pretty lame. It will tell you if you ask it, and then it will wait politely while pick yourself up off the floor and wipe the tears from your eyes. So if you want to hassle with changing your settings to see more data, it has known all along, say, how much sodium or how little potassium you were consuming. It remembers all the nutritional info though, regardless of what you choose. However, at least on the website, you have to choose only six to display at any one time. The program tracks a fair amount of different data-maybe not every micronutrient, but a lot of the basics. Hey My Fitness Pal, if you really wanna be a pal? Just add a damn search function and the option to display the entire list not broken into tiny pages, ok? There is the option to just choose from your "favorites" or most "frequent" but then the lists are too short so it's not all that helpful if you eat a reasonably diverse menu. And Mixed Nuts are under "K" for Kirkland and. Raw red bell peppers are not with the "R" or "B" or "P" foods but filed under "V" for "Vegetable, Red Bell Pepper," even though Strawberries aren't under "Fruit" but are just Strawberries. Plus, the alphabetical ordering is a crapshoot. It's often faster to start over, but then you end up with 8 different variations of the same foods clogging up your list. Plus you can't display many entries per page, so you are having to scroll through many many pages of past entries looking for that elusive cup of chopped shiitake mushrooms you swore was in there somewhere. What especially sucks about the My Fitness Pal Food Entry System: You can't search your own foods! There is only a search function for the entire database. Because it is possibly the most popular of all the systems, the bazillions of users add data all the time, so 99.5% of the time you can find exxactly what you're looking for.įor example, they even had menu items listed from my favorite takeout burger place, Burger Lounge! (Which makes the most awesome grass-fed burgers and salads but only has a handful of locations so I was surprised it was in there.) The great thing about MyFitnessPal is the enormous size of the database. So if you want to try some bat-shit-crazy diet that will leave you malnourished or poisoned, or if you're feeling half-assed and don't mind packing on pounds faster than you can say "Ben and Jerrys" and "McDonalds" and "Dominoes?" You can use MyFitnessPal to do that now! I can't honestly remember.īut you can now! So in addition to the "guided" options you can now individually decide what your weight loss, calorie, individual nutrient intake, and exercise goals are. I briefly tried this program about a year ago, and as I recall, the goal setting sucked because you couldn't customize much, or maybe even at all.
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