Is Myfitnesspal legit when it comes to tracking your calories?
I'm a skeleton trying to bulk up. I installed the app recently, and today tried to have a full day of eating my goal amount of calories. I'm 55kg and around 6'0", so it told me I should be eating around 2600 calories per day. Challenge accepted.
But I ate a TON today, and yet at the end of the day, I'm nowhere near my daily goal. Are the amounts of calories just fucked up on the app, or do I seriously need to be eating more than double what I ate today if I want to gain weight?
I ate two bowls of cereal for breakfast, a local meat/potato/onion dish for lunch (which was difficult to find on the app so i don't know if i logged the right one), and four fried eggs for dinner with a piece of toast. All of those things seem pretty high in protein and calories to me.
Do you think that this would be enough, and the app just has its measurements wrong? Or should I literally be eating more than eight eggs, four bowls of cereal, and even more meat and potatoes every day???
The goal it sets you can be bullshit, it’s just too hard to predict without knowing your body fat percentage, height, musculature etc. You should let your weight gain/loss be your ultimate guide
Isaiah Campbell
Counting calories is a meme, my dude. Especially if you're just trying to gain weight. Eye ball stuff, round it off, add it up. It's not that difficult.
If you do insist on pulling out your phone and tediously scanning every single damn thing you eat then yes, myfitnesspal works. You will, however, quickly realize how silly you're being instead of just doing the aforementioned above.
Jason Smith
>But I ate a TON today, and yet at the end of the day, I'm nowhere near my daily goal That's why people say "i eat a lot but i cant gain waight", you actually eat like a bird but you never realized, the app kcal counting is legit, eat more
Ryan Morris
Holy fuck what a toilet
Hudson Davis
moar
also mfp is legit to count don't follow its recommendations do your own research
Zachary Brown
ps the app is mostly correct you're not eating shit weigh your food
John Gutierrez
it's next to useless if you don't live in the US, Canada, Australia aka an english speaking country that has the same big brands and names of food. You can go on myfitnessdickinyoasspal and they'll have a million of oatmeal veriations, all from stores acorss the US. but you're sure as shit not gonna see "Carrefour" or "Kaupfland" Musli on it. Europeans got BTFOd on this one.
Brayden Thomas
this thread again. Cook everything with butter, eat ice cream, put olive oil and ketchup on your meals. Its really not that hard bro.
Landon Cox
You can create your own food profiles though.
Joseph Price
>I ate two bowls of cereal for breakfast, a local meat/potato/onion dish for lunch (which was difficult to find on the app so i don't know if i logged the right one), and four fried eggs for dinner with a piece of toast. All of those things seem pretty high in protein and calories to me.
As someone bulking too, you're gonna be a little surprised at how much you have to eat. You need to be eating all day.
Brayden Robinson
Please tell me she's a pornstar
Wyatt Hughes
> I'm 55kg and around 6'0" jesus christ how I'm almost 6' and the lightest I've ever been was 68kg and I was literally starving myself to get there and permanently hungry af
Henry Adams
App works for counting. Weigh yourself daily and take a weekly average to make sure it's calculating your tdee correctly and adjust accordingly. I have it set to inactive or w/e and 1lb loss a week and every week I lose two lbs. It makes it easy but always err on the side of caution if something seems like it's wrong it probably is.
B8? You say you are a ton but your dinner was 4 eggs and a piece of toast. That's nothing.
Luis Brown
Not even remotely true. I live in Bulgaria and I find even the most obscure local stuff.
Ryder Cook
I bet when you make a shake you get out the measuring cups and make sure you get exactly 8 oz of milk, 1 tbsp of peanut butter, and 1/2 a cup of oatz, huh?
Nolan Wilson
well, lucky you then. sure as shit isn't like that for western europe, wich is weird.
Christian Roberts
>2600 isnt that maintanence amount im a 6' manlet and if I dont do at least 3.5k I dont gain weight at all
I drink my shakes with water and generally don't eat large variety of food. Also I eat same meals for 2-3 days so I just copy the meals from the previous day most of the time.
Christopher Martinez
Nah she’s an Instagram “plus size model”
Matthew Davis
It works well. If you're not gaining weight after a week or two, just add another 250 calories or so.
I used it years ago to bulk from 155 lbs otter to 211 lbs builtfat, and then used it to cut to 170 lbs later on.
Just remember a slow/steady bulk is best.
Tyler Torres
western european (dutch) here who also gets lots of obscure chinese food from relatives. It literally has everything i've ever tried. from super local small town chinese brand spices to local euro oatmeals. just use the barcode scanner. have never not had success.
Brandon Barnes
look at the toilet on this bitch
Camden Bell
Use the USDA database, myfitness pal sucks ass
Nolan Lewis
Magnificent toilet on this one, boys.
Julian Hughes
You can use the food you made over and over again.
Cooper Walker
When I lived in France the only thing that didn't work was one brand of organic chicken from Fran Prix.
Hmm yes indeed I want this woman in picture to be my mistress and use me as convenience toilet whenever she wanted. I am would be honoured to be the personal shit toilet of this godess. Her anus engulf my face to close to the suffocation and then force the shit is no greater honor and pleasure for me.
Matthew Hall
Based, hope this becomes the new milk truck just arrive.
Daniel Peterson
IM LIKE HEY WHATS UP HELLO SNIFF YO PRETTY ASS WHILE YOU EAT A BURRITO I JUST WANNA CHILL GOT A SNACK FOR US TO GO MARRIED TO THE MONEY, INTRODUCED HER TO MY NOSE SHOWED HER HOW TO RIP IT, NOW SHE REHEATIN ON LOW SHE MY BRAP QUEEN, LET ME SNIFF IT WHILE SHE BLOW WE BE COUNTIN UP, WATCH HOW FAR THEM BRAPS GO WE JUST SET A GOAL, TALKIN BRAPPIN HAM BONES AT 56 A GRAM, 5 HUNDRED GRAMS THO MAN I SWEAR I LOVE EM, HOW SHE MAKE THE BRAPS GO HIT THE RIP CLUB, WE BE LETTIN BRAPS GO EVERYBODY HATIN, THEY TURN ON THEY FANS, OH IN LOVE WITH THE BRAPS, I AINT NEVER LETTIN GO
AND I SNIFF WIDE WITH MY BABY I BE IN THE KITCHEN COOKIN PIES WITH MY BABY AND I SNIFF WIDE WITH MY BABY I BE IN THE KITCHEN COOKIN PIES WITH MY BABY
Eli King
Look at that latrine!
Liam Allen
I prefer Cronometer. also, you eat like a twink. I maintain at 4k calories. >2 bowls of cereal, WHOAH >less than 1 lb of meat and less than 1 potato for lunch, WHOAH >four eggs and a slice of toast for dinner, LMAO
Aaron Kelly
i don't understand how people find it hard to bulk. i eat 3k cals of healthy food and i'm having to cut it down to lose weight. breakfast: 4 eggs, 2 pieces of toast lunch: protein, greek yogurt, and fruit smoothie. nuts, jerkey, and sunflower seeds. dinner: 1lb beef or chicken, or tuna. 2 cans of vegetables.
that's me at 2,600 cals. normally, i would also eat a can of soup with 2 pieces of microwavable chicken for 3k cals
Carter Bell
literal retard
Christian White
jeeze i cant imagine eating 2600 calories a day. i normally have to eat around 3000 a day just to maintain
John Bell
Eggs are 60-70 calories each depending on the size, so your dinner was 240-280 calories + probably 120 calories or so for the fat you fried the eggs in. So that's 400 calories for dinner, give or take, not even 25% of your daily goal.
You do have to be careful to make sure the items you plug into MFP use accurate nutritional data, but from your anecdote you're simply not eating enough.
Jason Davis
t. J cream unfortunately
Adrian Murphy
im legit putting this in text to speech and slapping the beat on it. Its gonna b legit, cya in an hour.
Sebastian Nelson
vocaroo.com/i/s0ri8VPir3Yp
should i keep going? this got annoying to work with real quick.
Levi Diaz
>this is a lot of food. M8 except for the fact that your dinner was too small, thats maitnence or a mild cut for me. That's like having 2 beers and then claiming that you "Drank so much last night bro!"
Aaron Johnson
This dude has zero clue what it's like to be skinny. Don't listen to him, his advice is pretty shit.
Adam King
>cereal >potatoes
Need to concentrate on nutrient dense foods if you're not closer on the scale of being a food addict. I would hazard to guess your protein intake is insufficient. Keep in mind that you gain on average 1.5 pounds of muscle a month if you're doing everything right, and are on noobie gains.
Typically what people do is meal plan, or prepare their meals so its easy to eat multiple times per day. Typically that is going to be a carnivore heavy diet because plant based foods are shit for bioaviailabilty, heavy on carbs.
>"dirty bulking" is a myth for natties, unless you're young and unless you have some sort of crazy genetic metabolism
Juan Turner
Looks like the only one btfo is you, Švabo. Back to sausages and sauerkraut.
Aaron Roberts
SS+GOMAD. Do it fucking now before you starve to death.
Gavin Gomez
The biggest issue I had with Myfitnesspal is that if you aren't eating bought or canned food and instead cook for yourself you often hit a wall and can't find your meal there. This is where Chronometer is actually better, but honestly I don't know how correct the information it gives you and Myfitness pal at least has a widget which I found useful.
dirty bulk eating clean is a meme for actual body builders
Elijah Evans
Four fried eggs is just a part of my lunch and dinner, and not the main course.
You're not eating enough
Chase Edwards
Nah, it's pretty cringe. The Johnny Cash one was good tho.
Ayden Sanchez
Based and burekpilled
Mason Cooper
>four fried eggs for dinner with a piece of toast That’s like 450 calories tops my guy. None of those meals even came close to breaking 1000 calories, which is what you basically need 3 times a day.
Benjamin Lewis
For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.
One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".
Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.
I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.
Let me put things into perspective for you. I just smashed a 4lb burrito (literally. I was 4lbs heavier after eating it), and if you are approaching gaining weight with a mindset like that, you're not going to make it.
Levi Gray
Yeah blame the app for red pilling you that you actually eat like a vegan hipster fag
Isaac Robinson
>I ate a TON You ate ceral, a pasty without any pastry and 4 eggs. You've had fuck all.
I'd guess you've probably had 600 calories for breakfast, 400-600 for lunch and 400-600 for dinner.
Andrew Foster
Back to working your 150€ a month full time job stoyanovovicz.
Hunter Campbell
it is legit, but its not the best option meal planning is a better strategy to maximize yer gains, instead of going with the flow and counting how much you eat instead
Ethan Murphy
How unhealthy are you eating only packaged supermarket foods? You never cook anything?
Chase Long
>Eye ball stuff, round it off, add it up. It's not that difficult Millions of people fuck that up every day. Turns out, people are horrible at estimating and keeping track, but mostly don't realize that.
