How do we convince MFP we're not anorexic?

[MisforMimi 760]

No-one is consuming a 'normal' amount of calories if you're newly post-op. Is there a setting you can change on my fitness pal so that it will stop telling me I'm not eating right? TIA

[freshair 135]

Holy i was thinking the same thing!! I feel like they need to have a app specifically for bariatric patients. @alexbreacher maybe something you might want to look into

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I've heard of people making a fictitious item/placeholder that would bump up the total calories above the threshold. I am not using map right now and am still preop so I don't have that problem right now.

[B-52 7,113]

One of the very best things I did was to stop using those gadgets and paying attention to them.....

As with many things, conventional thinking, nutrition teaching, etc, do not apply to people who have undergone WLS...Dieting yes, but WLS people are in a different category....

But that's my opinion, but from experience I really started loosing weight when I broke free from what "Other" non WLS people were doing.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Why worry about what a software app says?

Ignore that silly message.

[LipstickLady 25,682]

I giggle when it tells me anything. I use it to track my food, not to get it's advice.

[MichiganChic 3,262]

You don't have to hit the complete button on your diary. Then it won't tell you anything. I love that app.

[Djmohr 6,965]

I love the program for tracking food, exercise and weight. I pay no attention to that message. I actually think it's funny.

[Bufflehead 6,358]

I like to have it post my diary on my timeline so that my friends can see it and keep me in check if I eat something wacky. And if you don't close your diary, or if you don't go over 1000 calories (for a woman, 1200 for a man) it won't post your diary message on your timeline. So if I am under 1000 calories for the day, I just do a "quick add calories" for 100 calories or so, click the "complete diary" button, then take the "quick added" calories out. So my diary gets posted and it is accurate. Screw you MFP.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

I close my diary and ignore the message. MFP is not designed for bariatric diets. I like using it to track my food and just pretend I don't see that message. It's just not a big deal.

[imsoglad56 402]

This is one of the reasons I don't like mfp. I use Daily Burn tracker and you set it for what your nutrition goals are, and then it just tells you how you're doing in relation to your goals, not some arbitrary number. The pay version tracks all nutrients, but I'm quite happy with the free version which tracks calories, fat, carbs, and Protein.

[Annek2014 58]

This made me giggle. LOL I have the same issue with MFP.

[MisforMimi 760]

Of course we're all ignoring it for months/yrs now, I just wondered if there was a setting within the app to make it stop. I think they could have a bariatric or other health status setting that ignores kcals or other nutrients and such. I've changed my macronutrient percentages to reflect my Protein goals. I'm not crying over here, believe me. I just wanted to know if ppl had thoughts or ideas.....the calorie bump could work for publishing, but you don't get that "if you continued at this rate, you'd be blank pounds in blank amount of time" ....I know that's thrown out the Water with surgery because there is no way for it to capture those metrics on the 'average bariatric patient' I just thought it was cute and quite the motivator during the pre-op phase....lol :-) Again, not crying. Not taking it seriously.....

Edited January 27, 2015 by MisforMimi

[Dolores33778 248]

We broke up a while back. It's so judgmental "if you eat like that for 5 days...blah, blah, blah".

I do like the app for keeping track of calories, but you're right, it doesn't understand our ways!

[Babbs 14,680]

I always laugh to myself when it tells me how much I *should* weigh in 5 weeks if I keep eating the calories I'm eating. (It's always like 20lbs less) I'm like "Yeah right, pal. YOU DON'T KNOW ME"