![]() If I need them, I can undoubtedly find them. They do change, routinely!! And how hard is it to give me my regions foods and not everyone else's? I don't want Tesco's or American foods 99.9% of the time. Honestly, the DB needs purging of brand names every couple of years. My OCD brain just can't handle it to want to correct 95% of the entries I see. Ever since I actually committed to tracking my calories as best I can, the database drives me nuts!!! Even if the brand name and item are correct, the calories and serve will be off. Do I eat more junk food than others? Less protein? Etc. I’d like to see how my efforts and results compare to population averages for people using the app. That way I can see if my extra workout routine has actually increased my TDEE, and by how much. I’d like it to calculate my TDEE every day in real time based on calories and weight, and then plot that over time. I’d also like to see seasonal changes - winter versus summer. I’d like to know if I’m eating more calories on average during weekends versus week days. That way, instead of a vague sense that I can splurge, I would have a concrete budget that I’m working from. I’d like to be able to set weekly targets for junk foods, and then see a chart that shows me what’s left for the week. More generally, how about proposing a set of meals for an entire day (again drawing from meals that I’ve already eaten in the past) that will hit all of my targets? Instead of just telling me I have 500 calories left in the day and still need to eat 35g of protein to hit my target, it should look back through my meal history and find a dinner that would fit the targets. ![]() For example, if my calories are up, is it because I’m eating a bit more each day, or is it because I had two or three days where I binged? Is it because I’m eating more carbs than before, or more fat? Is there a particular food category that’s driving the change? Etc. ![]() Obviously, I’d want to see how the current month compares with last month, or last six months, etc. I offered a few examples, but the possibilities are endless. If it worked the way it should do, this tool would be incredible. I've been hoping for years that they'll fix these glaring issues, or a more competent competitor would arise, but almost unbelievably neither have happened. It seems like their backend must be totally inefficient spaghetti code that a competent team of programmers could optimize much better. On top of that the website is slow and janky, taking multiple seconds to handle requests that a well-designed website would handle in fraction of a second (add ingredient in recipe, search, going to next page of items, etc). They don't even program in a simple arithmetic check to see if the calorie total is consistent with the grams of fat/protein/carbs to within a reasonable margin of error. Their nutrition data, the absolute core of the service they provide, is riddled with wildly incorrect information that they seemingly do not bother curating at all. I've been using MFP intermittently since about 2015, and it's so frustrating that it's still riddled with so many seemingly easy to fix problems that bothered me even back then. Just need to rant about this and get it out of my system.
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