200M JOURNEYS · COUNTINGWeight loss that doesn’t unravel by week six.
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No starvation math. No “good food / bad food”. Just 20 million foods and a tracker that learns your real life.
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5.5 Million 5-Star Ratings
“I lost 40 lbs in 18 months without ever feeling like I was on a diet. The tracker just made eating intentional.”
Jason L.
“Down 28 lbs in a year. No fad, no cleanse — I just logged what I actually ate.”
Iain M.
“It’s the first weight-loss app that didn’t make me hate food. I’m two years in and still here.”
Dinah L.
“Lost 35 lbs and kept it off for three years. The weekly trend line saved my sanity.”
Jennie S.
“I’ve done Noom, WW, every quick-fix app. MyFitnessPal is the one I’m still on at 14 months down 52 lbs.”
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Lose weight without losing your sanity. In 1-2-3.
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Track without obsessing
Log food faster than you scroll Instagram. No food guilt. No perfection.
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Watch the week-to-week
Forget the daily scale spike. Weekly trend lines tell the real story of progress.
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Eat the foods you actually like
Build a sustainable plan around real food. No 7-day cleanse. No miracle macro.
35+ apps and devices
Sync steps, weight, workouts & sleep — the full picture of progress.
If it’s edible, it’s in here
20M+ foods. No bad food. No good food. Just food.
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“I tried Noom, Weight Watchers, every macros app. MyFitnessPal stuck because it didn’t lecture me. I lost 52 lbs in 14 months and I’m still logging on the days I want to.”
Sarah B., 34 — Denver, CO
“I was 307 lbs, and today I am 199 lbs. The trick was logging at the same time every day. No streak pressure, no shame. I just kept going. Year four and counting.”
Larry S., 51 — Phoenix, AZ
“Lost 38 lbs over two years — slow enough that nobody noticed until they did. The weekly trend line let me see the wins through the noise of daily scale swings.”
Brooke N., 42 — Portland, OR
“Down 64 lbs from my heaviest. What worked wasn’t the diet — it was data. Once I saw what 200 calories actually looked like across foods I love, the choices got easier.”
Rohit S., 38 — Austin, TX
“The biggest realization is that I can do better. It is actually possible to eat healthy, and the food can taste good. MyFitnessPal helped me overhaul my habits.”
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No. The goal isn’t logging forever — it’s building the habits underneath. Most members stop logging daily after about six months, but keep the awareness that helped them lose the weight. Logging is a tool, not a sentence.
Start with the free account and create your plan in 90 seconds — no card required.
Want a deeper plan? Premium adds barcode scan, macro targets, and meal planning to make the first six months easier. Try Premium free for 7 days.
No color-coded shame. No “green / yellow / red” foods. No moralizing about a slice of pizza. MyFitnessPal gives you the data — calories, macros, micros — and trusts you with what to do with it.
No coaches selling you a worldview. No points system that punishes you for choosing a banana. Just the largest food database in the world (20M+ foods) and a tracker that adapts as your habits change.
Start your free account and try the difference for yourself.
No. You can track for habit alone — many of our most successful long-term members never set a target weight. Pick “build healthier habits” at signup, log what you eat, and the data does the rest.
If you do want a target, we use the Mifflin-St Jeor equation and your activity level to set a calorie range. We won’t let you set a goal that’s under-resourcing your body — sustainable loss only.
Then you have a bad week. There are no streaks to break, no public shame, no “you’ve missed 3 days” pop-ups. The tracker waits for you, exactly where you left off.
Members who keep weight off long-term aren’t the ones who never miss — they’re the ones who come back the next Monday. We make coming back the easiest part. Check your calorie needs anytime and pick back up from where you actually are, not where you wish you were.
After the first week, about 90 seconds a day for most people. The app remembers your meals, your portions, and your usual grocery list. Barcode scan, voice log, and meal copy do the rest.
The first week takes a little longer — that’s where the database is learning you. By week three, logging breakfast is faster than reading a label.
Connect your Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, or smart scale and the rest of the picture — steps, weight, sleep — syncs automatically.
From our experts
The Sustainable Loss Playbook
Crash diets fail in predictable ways: too few calories, too many rules, no margin for a real life. Here’s the science-backed approach that actually outlasts the first six weeks — built around small, repeatable changes rather than heroic restriction.
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Why Week Six Is Where Most Plans Die
Six weeks in, motivation drops. Life happens. The early weight comes off easily — and then it doesn’t. We dig into the metabolic and behavioral reasons most diets stall here, and how the people who keep going actually get past it.
Read more on MyFitnessPal blog ›
5 Foods That Make Tracking Easier (Not Harder)
When you’re trying to lose weight, the friction is in logging the messy stuff — restaurant meals, mixed dishes, your kid’s leftovers. These five staples log fast, satisfy real cravings, and give you a known-quantity baseline to build the rest of your week around.
Read more on MyFitnessPal blog ›About MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal has supported 200+ million weight loss journeys — and counting. Members use it to track real food, real days, and real progress without the moralizing, streak shame, or “you cheated” pop-ups that doom most diet apps by week six. With a 20M+ food database, weekly trend lines instead of daily scale spikes, and 35+ integrations with the devices you already wear, MyFitnessPal is the weight-loss app that’s still there at month twelve.