Question About My FitnessPal

[newbie_2025 4]

So I just joined FitnessPal.com. One of my friends recommended it in order to help me get out of my stall. She told me that maybe I am not getting enough Protein and this app will tell me exactly how much protein I am getting.

Anyways I notice that a lot of people here have joined FitnessPal so I had a question. Does the app give predictions on how much weight u will loose following your food plan? Or do I have to upgrade to premium for that? I use to do food diary.com a few years ago and what I liked about that website is that it would give me a prediction on how much weight I would loose after a certain amount of time. Also is there anyway that I can change the recommended calorie intake? Obviously I cannot eat the recommended 1500 calories that they say I have to eat. Every time I input my food log it tells gives me a warning that I am not eating enough calories. Or is there another bariatric friendly app I can use?

[rnsamantha 352]

You can adjust your calories to whatever numbers you want, but unfortunately it won't give you weight loss predictions unless you log at least 1000 calories/day. You can adjust your calorie goal in settings

[newbie_2025 4]

Ohhhh. Ok .... Thank you

[Djmohr 6,965]

Myfitnesspal is a great tracker for us to help us understand Protein, Water and even monitor calories and carbs. I have been using it since I was 1 month post op to track Protein mostly.

Unfortunately it was not built for bariatric patients so the predictor that you will see only if you log more than 1000 calories doesn't really understand the rate at which we lose.

If you eat less than 1000 calories it simply tells you how dangerous it is not to get enough calories. You just pretty much ignore these messages.

Honestly, trying to predict your weight loss and timing will become very frustrating. Predictors do not consider stalls, they assume you will continue to lose based on your calorie inputs. Stalls happen.

Bariatric patients should not be focused on calories but focused on grams of protein and wate/liquids.

[KALINY 10]

fitness pal is designed for regular people, not Bariatric patients. keep that in mind. dont take its advice about calories as a regular user, you are in a different process.

[stacy1204 22]

Try baritastic at the app store. Feels like fitness pal but for bariatric pts.

And it's free. You get all you micros for free!!

[dcain 2]

I use bariatistic and love it! I can keep track of my Water and Protein, as well as exercise. I am almost 3 weeks post op!

[Cupcake 801]

I agree with the above statements I have been using myfitness pal for almost two years and I love it just ignore the warning and listen to your doctor and body. Protein is key as well as Water you got this and congrats on your choice on being healthy.

[Dar200 285]

I use bariatistic and love it! I can keep track of my Water and Protein, as well as exercise. I am almost 3 weeks post op!

thanks for the tip on bariatistic. I started using Fitness Pal and keep getting frustrated with it.