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MyFitnessPal

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MyFitnessPal Weight Management App

MyFitnessPal is a calorie-counting app for losing, gaining, or maintaining weight. You use it to track the foods you eat and meet your caloric intake goal.

Goals

When you set a goal with MyFitnessPal, you can choose to lose or gain weight quickly or slowly. The app also helps estimate your basal metabolic rate based on whether you're active all day long or fairly sedentary.

Weight Chart

If you choose to enter your weight into the app, it charts it for you over time, letting you see your progress.

Logging in MyFitnessPal

In the app, you can log your weight, water intake, food intake, and exercise. You can also write a status and post it in the app for your friends or the public to see.

Food Search

One of the greatest advantages MyFitnessPal has over other calorie-counting apps is that its database is enormous and easy to use. No matter what food you search for to log in the app, you'll find plenty of options.

Nutritional Info

Premium members of MyFitnessPal get detailed nutritional information about the foods they eat, plus a breakdown of daily consumption of macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, proteins).

MyFitnessPal (for iPhone)

A built-in scanner helps you look up nutritional information for packaged foods.

MyFitnessPal (for iPhone)

In MyFitnessPal, you can create recipes and save them, so you can accurately estimate how many calories are in the foods you make at home.

MyFitnessPal (for iPhone)

You can use MyFitnessPal to set a weigh goal, to lose, gain, or maintain your weight. You can lose up to two pounds per week, or gain up to one pound per week.

About Our Expert

Jill Duffy

Jill Duffy

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My Experience

I'm an expert in software and work-related issues, and I have been contributing to PCMag since 2011. I launched the column Get Organized in 2012 and ran it through 2024, offering advice on how to manage all the devices, apps, digital photos, email, and other technology that can make you feel overwhelmed. That column turned into the book Get Organized: How to Clean Up Your Messy Digital Life. I was also the first product reviewer at PCMag to test fitness gadgets, including everything from early Fitbits to smart bras.

Currently, I'm passionate about the meaning of work and work culture, and I enjoy writing about how managers and employees can communicate better, with or without software. My most recent book is The Everything Guide to Remote Work. I also love a good workplace drama. 

In addition to writing about work, I cover online education, focusing on learning for personal enrichment and skills development. I have a soft spot for really good language-learning software. Although I grew up speaking only English, some twists and turns in life led me to learn Spanish, Romanian, and a bit of American Sign Language. I've studied at the university level, as well as at the Foreign Service Institute, where US diplomats and ambassadors learn languages.

My writing has also appeared in WIRED, the BBC, Gloria, Refinery29, and Popular Science, among other publications.

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The Technology I Use

Squeezing every last bit of usage out of the devices I already own is the only way I can tolerate my personal consumption. In other words, I do not own the latest cutting-edge technology. I buy things that will last and try to take care of them.

My life is organized by Todoist, and my notes live in Joplin. Where would I be without Dashlane as my password manager? Probably locked out of all my many online accounts—I have more than 1,000 of them.

When I share my contact information, it's an excruciatingly long list of phone numbers, messaging apps, and email addresses, because it's essential to stay flexible while also remaining somewhat mysterious.

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