

Once you have done that, you will need to answer some questions about your current lifestyle and fitness goals.

To sign up, create an account with a username and password. Membership to the MyFitnessPal website is free although there’s a premium version of the app with additional features. It provides a free calorie counter to help you easily analyze your daily calorie consumption. The creators of MyFitnessPal understand that tracking your diet and calories is critical to weight loss, and this app/website makes it easy for you to monitor your diet in great detail. That’s why MyFitnessPal provides tools to help you achieve your health and fitness goals. The creators of this product recognize the fact that it isn’t easy to lose weight. SO, basically, it depends on what you want/need out of a database.MyFitnessPal is both a website and mobile app that individuals can use to help them achieve their health and fitness goals. Sure, I could have done all of that manually, but for the cost of premium, decided to take a little out of my work bonus to upgrade just for ease of use. This also allowed me to track my exercise without it affecting my weekly totals (I sometimes will bank some calories during the week for a special meal(s) over the weekend, and I couldn't do that and track my exercise with my preferred method) - again, something I couldn't do with the free version. I use a TDEE averaged over the week's activities, and generally eat the same amount each day rather than vary based on that day's calories. Neither of those were available on the free version, so I ended up upgrading. I have a few things I wanted that were not allowed in the free version (previously I was using Spark People for tracking which did offer those features) - in particular, I needed to turn off having exercise calories added to my daily calories (but I still wanted to be able to track my exercise), and I wanted the gram breakdown of the macros.
