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MyFitnessPal Tip: Customizing Your Nutrition Goals

Published July 29, 2013
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A webpage titled "Customize Your Fitness Goals" with options to set daily nutritional goals, fitness goals, and diet profile using MyFitnessPal. A dropdown menu under Carbohydrates displays percentage options with 55% highlighted. A green button labeled "Change Goals" is at the bottom for customizing nutrition goals. MyFitnessPal Blog
Published July 29, 2013
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Does your doctor or nutritionist have you following a different recommended plan than the settings in your MyfitnessPal account? Good news – you can customize your nutrition goals!

To get started customizing your goals simply login to the MyFitnessPal website – www.myfitnesspal.com. Mobile users, your login on the website uses the same username and password as the app. Once you’ve logged in, click “My Home”, then “Goals”, then “Change Goals”, and choose the “Custom” option. On that page, you can change your individual nutritional goals. When you have finished make sure you click the “Change Goals” button at the bottom of the page to instantly update your account. If you are also using a MyFitnessPal mobile app, the next time your app connects to the internet your customized goals will be reflected immediately.

Please keep in mind that MyFitnessPal distributes fat, carbohydrate and protein calories based on a percentage; these percentages can be adjusted in five percent increments. If you customize your macronutrient goals, all three goals (fat, carb and protein) will adjust to total 100%. If you have a very precise goal -for example, eating 70 grams of protein each day- you may only be able to set that goal to the nearest percentage. MyFitnessPal Tip: If you’re looking to hit a specific nutrient goal in grams or milligrams, we recommend monitoring the “total” value in your diary for this nutrient, rather than the “remaining” total.

We hope this tip about customizing your nutrition goals helps make using MyFitnessPal a more personal experience to help you stay healthy. Feel free to leave some ideas in the comments below for more MyFitnessPal Tip posts you’d like to see!

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