Keeping track of your meals can be a game changer when it comes to hitting your health and fitness goals. But let’s be real—logging every single ingredient each time you eat can be a hassle. That’s where MyFitnessPal’s meal and recipe features come in! The app makes it easy to create and save your go-to…
If you’re thinking about trying Dry January or simply re-evaluating your relationship with alcohol this new year, you’re not alone. The “sober curious” movement, along with month-long alcohol-free challenges, has been gaining momentum for over a decade, especially among young adults (1, 2). And the surgeon general’s new advisory warning about the link between alcohol…
In this Food Diaries series, we pull back the curtain on how real people fuel their lives with real-life nutrition. Each weekly diary will showcase a different MyFitnessPal member’s eating goals, habits, and go-to meals to inspire your own journey—because progress, not perfection, is what truly matters. First up: a nutritionist in Boston who spends…
On December 19th, 2001, The Fellowship of the Ring hit theaters and nerd culture was forever changed. If you’re like me, you associate these movies with the holidays and are about to rewatch all three films (extended editions obviously). I was rewatching the Fellowship recently, and I had a funny thought. While they’re in the…
2024 is drawing to a close, so I wanted to hit you with one final newsletter before the chaos of 2025 kicks off. It’s that time of year where our brains will almost automatically look back on the past year. What went right, what went wrong. What we accomplished, what we failed to follow through…
Stephen Wilson Jr. was a scientist working for Mars, Inc. (Yeah, the Candy company). One day, his boss pulled him into an office and said something that changed his life: “Stephen, you’re about to get promoted.” Normally a cause for celebration, this was instead meant as a warning by his boss. In a past life,…
Today is the most hope and optimism-filled day of the year. That’s great! Whatever goals or resolutions you’ve set for yourself, I’m excited for you! We’re all trying to better ourselves, and even though things haven’t worked out the way we wanted them to in the past, we hope this time will be different. Musician…
By now, you’ve heard about the power of protein. It’s the magic macronutrient that helps keep you full and preserve muscle mass as you lose weight. And you’re probably wondering, “How much protein do I need?” Well, we can help you figure it out. The MyFitnessPal Protein Calculator is a simple, user-friendly tool designed to…
2024 has been a wild ride. And it was no different for comedian and actor Adam Devine. Righteous Gemstones star embarked on quite the health journey in 2024, including putting on 25 pounds of “sympathy weight” during his wife’s pregnancy and then becoming a first-time Dad. The life experiences gave him the wake-up call he…
You’ve likely heard about the Calories In, Calories Out (CICO) method for managing weight. It’s probably the most popular approach—and the most effective. The concept is pretty straightforward: To lose weight, you need to consume fewer calories than your body burns. And if you consume more calories than your body burns, you gain weight. CICO…
