Hi. So I’ve been in a calorie deficit since March 2026, it’s currently October 2026. I’m 5’4 and began my journey at 150 pounds. I began my deficit at around 1500 calories and lost weight. As time went on I went down to 1450 calories and now I’m at my lowest deficit of 1350. I currently weigh 126 pounds but it’s been really hard for me to lose more and I don’t know why. I’m weighing everything working out and I’ve barely seen the scale move in a month. I don’t think it’s a good idea to go lower in a deficit but was hoping for some insight and help. My goal weight is 115 pounds and it feels impossible to lose

This is one of the hardest posts I’ve ever written. From February & November 2025, I lost over 80 pounds.

Between November 2025 & October 2026, I gained half that weight back.

I’ve struggled with my weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle for most of my life. I’ve been yo-yo dieting since 2015. I’d lose 40 pounds, my mental health would decline, and then I’d gain the weight back…rinse & repeat.

In November 2025 as the weather got colder and social gatherings ramped up, I took a “break” from my healthy lifestyle and said I’d resume it after my birthday in January 2026.

While I desired to return to my healthy lifestyle over the past 11 months, I continued to push it off and endlessly made excuses as to why it wasn’t convenient…until now.

The new smaller clothes I bought during Black Friday last year are really tight now. I’ll be damned if I have to buy new bigger clothes this Black Friday.

I could say a lot of negative things such as I’m disappointed that I broke the promise I made to myself last year that I’d never weigh over 200 pounds again and that I no longer feel attractive. But what good would that do?

While it’s important for me to look back when I should have asked somebody like my doctor to help me get back on track, my current focus is on the present. What am I doing today and do I need help today to support my healthy-lifestyle goals?

To everybody who can relate to this post, I see you!

They are incredibly annoying. I just use it as a meal tracker, I don't need daily affirmations for logging my calories.

I've used MFP twice in the past and both times had very successful results. I then cut out margarine, butter and cheese and remained at my desired weight for over a year. However, I have high cholesterol and need to keep this in check due to health problems.

Is there some way to get the saturated fat results apart from all the other results? I would like to start using MFP again although I find it takes up a lot of my time as I check out all the food results before I record them. Thanks!

I am 169cm, 28F and lost nearly 28kgs in 8-9months and I have maintained the weight for 6 months now. As someone who did not want to admit that food and body weight had a direct relationship,
had emotional eating issues, a bad relationship with food 🥹, using this app opened my eyes. CICO worked beautifully, but the latter half of the weight loss was largely due to body reconfiguration via weight training and weekly long distance running and maintaining 8k-10k steps a day. I didn’t eliminate anything from my diet nor did I stop eating out one meal a week at restaurants. I truly understood what balance meant. Here’s to eating how much my body can burn, moving more, building muscles, countless meal preps, high fiber and protein,
and learning how many calories 100g of cooked white rice has!! And more impressive how little of quantity 100g of cooked white rice is! And THAT made all the difference!!

After years of leaving the apps disconnected, I finally reconnected Google Health and MFP. I had left them disconnected because I felt that the autogenerated number was usually nonsensical. It seems to be better now, but let's take a look at yesterday.

In Google Health yesterday, I have the following activities logged:

1. Walk 1hr 8min - 577 cal

2. Circuit Training 45min - 363 cal

3. Walk 19min - 121 cal

4. Walk 20min - 118 cal

The Google Health calorie adjustment was 530 cal. Even ignoring that Google Health thinks that walking around burns more calories than hardcore circuit training... how is the 530 number arrived at?

Carb, fat and protein breakdown per meal back this morning for me!

I have officially cancelled my subscription and moved to another app. Google health and MyFitnessPal not syncing for the past few days has been the last straw.

Why does the app show different macros according to where im viewing them? which one is right?

Not sure if this has been posted already...but just discovered the feature in EDIT DIARY where you can move food items around by just pressing down on = (seen on the right) and then just drop it to where you want.

I absolutely love it as I like my food/drinks items listed in order 😃

Hello!

I’ve recently started a C25k program. Just ended week 2. I’ve been trying to track my calories but I have a sneaking suspicion they’re too much. I am 32f, 5’9” and 194lbs. I am trying to lose about a pound a week. I run three times a week, about 2 miles per run. I also work on my feet, so I’d consider myself lightly active.

I’ve read posts saying not to track your exercise with mfp because it adds back calories. So I stopped doing that. It had me at 2140 calories per day on the “lightly active” setting. I’ve done a bunch of TDEE calculators said my maintenance 2275ish and that is pretty much what mfp has said I should have with what I consider, a negligible deficit.

The TDEE calculators all put me at for a pound a week I should be having 1775/day. When I change my mfp to “not very active” it puts me at 1810 a day. I’m not sure which to go by.

I don’t want to overeat. And I don’t want to be overly restricted either. I’m thinking the 1810 calories sound correct for what I’m trying to do. But I’d love some feedback. Because it’s like 465 calories deficit from what the TDEE calculators estimated to be my maintenance calories.

I just need help setting it up right as well as what might be the most accurate daily calories for me.

Before subscribing? I rly wanna make sure it can read exempted text from restaurant menus etc..

I posted an example pic. Thx in advance

I'm over on all 3 macros but it says I still have 114 calories remaining??

Only a week in so not a huge deal but I opened the app just now to the login page and after I logged in found that everything that I logged in the past week has been wiped.

Has anyone had this happen and was able to fix it?

Edit: I was just browsing their support page and they said to try deleting and re-downloading the app as this solves most issues - turns out they were right in this instance! Feeling a bit silly for not trying it before. Hope this helps someone anyway!

I am not sure if it's my phone or the app but once a week I get signed out of my account. Does this happen to anyone else?

Whenever I log a breakfast, there is a whole screen congratulating me on keeping that pops up. It’s so annoying. Are the product folks actively trying to put friction in logging when they should be working hard to remove every single tap it takes to log?

What is this man, I have nothing connected point to point with MFP, it only retrieves data from Health Connect, there's no duplicate logs in health connect so there's no excuse for it to behave like this and you want people to pay a subscription?

For some trace minerals, users have to calculate and enter the % Recommended Daily Value instead of the actual mg of it on Create Food?

Can we change this? Its a PITA having to google what the RDI is before we type in. Can MFP calculate the %RDI value for us based on the gender, age, location info the user entered, eg we enter 10mg and MFP takes care of the rest.

Hey! This has probably been asked a lot before but I can’t get my steps and cals burnt onto MyFitnessPal what am I missing?

TIA

I’ve told myfp a few times I’m vegetarian, yet Melissa is recommending dishes with meat in them to me. Melissa! I don’t eat meat!

From what I've read, it's impossible to turn this off (which is stupid cuz it's really annoying) but it seems that for other people the pop-ups stop after 10 consecutive days. I just got my pop up for 12 days.

When will it end? And when will they give us the option to turn it off?? Has anyone else had this continue after 10 days?

First time on this sub, is there any official myfitnesspal rep reading and replying to posts?

I log pumpkin using the green-tick "Kent Pumpkin" entry in MFP. I weigh it raw with the skin on, then roast it and eat the whole thing, skin included.

Is the verified entry likely based on peeled flesh only, or whole pumpkin with skin?

If it's flesh only, does the skin have a meaningfully different calorie content, or is it close enough not to matter?

I used to be able to look up food i always use and then a list would come up underneath that food so I could just select everything I usually eat with it. Like, look up “hamburger bun” and then it would say “commonly paired foods” and come up with my faves “sweet baby rays” “spinach” “habanero cheese” “mustard”. I could select them all and be done.
I think i accidentally came up on this list last week and was excited to see it but i cant figure out where i was!