How much does MyFitnessPal Premium cost?
Is MyFitnessPal Premium Worth the Cost?
With the free app, your calorie goal stays the same from day-to-day. But with Premium, you can set different calorie goals for different days of the week. So cool, right? This is helpful if you alter your calorie/macro goals on workout versus rest days or if you’re doing intermittent fasting or another type of calorie cycling. How to do it: Click More (in the lower righthand corner), select Goals, then Calorie, Carbs, Protein, and Fat Goals (under Nutrition Goals), then Set Daily Goals, and finally Add Daily Goal.
You can see your macro breakdown by meal
This is personally one of my favorite features! 🙂 With Premium, your food diary will display a macronutrient breakdown for each meal you log – in both percentages and grams. I love this because you can see how your meals and snacks break down based on protein, carbs, and fat. It’s helpful for hitting your macro goals because you see exactly how your meals and snack stack up (whether you’re over or under on a specific macro). And you can easily switch between grams and percentages by tapping on the numbers.
You can set your calorie goals by meal
Premium allows you to break down your daily nutrient goals into smaller, meal-sized calorie goals to help keep you on track throughout the day. For example, if your goal is to hit 1,800 calories for the day, you can allocate 500 calories for breakfast, 500 calories for lunch, 500 calories for dinner, and 300 calories for snacks. (You can also split up your calories by percentages.) I love this feature because you can plan your day and split up your calories in a way that makes sense for YOU and your eating habits, such as starting your day with a big breakfast or always having a post-workout protein shake. How to do it: Click More (in the lower righthand corner), select Goals, and then Calorie Goals By Meal (under Nutrition Goals).
You can customize your nutrient dashboard
The nutrient dashboard shows you which nutrients you’re missing for the day as well as your progress in meeting your calorie and nutrient goals. The free MyFitnessPal automatically sets your dashboard to display food calories, exercise calories, and calories remaining. As a Premium user, you can change your dashboard by selecting from several pre-set views (i.e. Macronutrient Focused, Low Carb, Heart Healthy) or totally customizing the view by selecting up to three nutrients to track, in addition to calories remaining (just select Custom at the bottom of the pre-set views). The Macronutrient Focused view is especially helpful for tracking protein, carbs, and fat grams. How to do it: In your dairy, click the 3 dots in the upper right corner, and then select from the different views.
You can “quick-add” macros to your diary
With Premium, you can use the “Quick Add” feature to add protein, carbs, and fat the same way you quick-add calories into your food diary. This is a super convenient tool if you’re tracking macros. I actually use this feature ALL the time since it works so well with my weekly macro plans! If you’ve never used the Quick Add feature, here’s the dealio: Go to your diary, click “Add Food,” scroll to the bottom of your food list, and then click “Quick Add” at the bottom to enter your macros.
You can learn about your food choices
Premium truly helps you learn about your food choices and eating habits. It shows you the foods that you’re eating that are the highest in fat, carbs, and protein as well as the ones that are highest in calories. As a Premium user, you can customize the app to show you which foods are highest in the nutrient you care about most. For instance, you can see which food choices help you meet your protein goal for the day. This is helpful for changing your overall eating habits and consuming a much more balanced diet.
These are just some of my favorite features, but be sure to check out all of the awesome Premium features over on the MyFitnessPal blog!
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8 Comments
Did you pay for it yourself? Or do you get it for free for working with them?
Yes, I paid for it myself. I have no relationship with MFP. If I did, I would have disclosed it at the start of the post! 🙂
Are you able to track more vitamins and minerals in the paid version?
Yes! 🙂
Really don’t see how MFP can justify £40 per year for this. If you’re not careful your will spend your whole life analysing and not living.
Don’t get me wrong, I love and use the free app, as for me to lose weight, I have to log my calorie intake in order to stay focused and on track. But taking it to the nth degree and paying top dollar for it is not worthwhile in my opinion. Each to their own 🙂
$10 per month, that is almost the cost of Netflix, which do you think has more value…
It actually goes down to less than $5/month if you do it by year instead of monthly! I personally think an investment in your health is money wisely spent.
I was disappointed last year when MFP included with their update last year due to the hack they experienced the inability to use it off-line. I am currently 335 days continuous days of logging in but will be without wi-fi next week. I like the continuity aspect, but would like to be able to continue with entries while off-line. That is no longer possible. I would pay for premium if this feature was made available in premium.