Why this guide exists

Leaving MyFitnessPal has one annoying catch: your data. Years of logged meals, a curated list of custom foods, a weight history — and the obvious “export everything as CSV” button sits behind the Premium paywall (as of 2026). Understandably, people assume they’re locked in.

You’re not. There are two free paths and one paid one, and — the part most guides skip — most of that data isn’t worth migrating anyway. Total time for a clean exit: 20–30 minutes.

Path 1 — Premium File Export (if you’re already paying)

If you have an active Premium subscription, use it before you cancel: File Export (in the app or on the website, under Premium tools) emails you CSV files of your food diary, exercise, and measurements for a date range you choose. This is the most complete export MFP offers.

Already cancelled? Don’t resubscribe just for this. Keep reading.

Path 2 — The free account-data download

Privacy law (GDPR, CCPA) obliges MyFitnessPal to hand over your personal data on request, subscription or not:

In the app or on the website, open Settings → Privacy Center (naming varies slightly by version) and look for a “download my information” / data-request option.
Confirm the request. You’ll get an email link to an archive of your account data.
By law this can take up to 30 days; in practice reports are usually faster. Request it first, then do the rest of this guide while you wait.

The archive is built for legal compliance, not convenience — expect raw, sprawling files. But your diary, foods, and measurements are in there, and it’s yours to keep.

Path 3 — The free printable diary

The quickest free option for recent history: on the website (not the app), MyFitnessPal has long had a printable-diary report — log in at myfitnesspal.com and look for “Printable Diary” under the food/reports section. Pick a date range, and it renders your meals as a single page you can save as PDF (still there as of our June 2026 check).

For most people, printing the last 30–60 days plus screenshotting the weight chart covers everything they’ll ever look back at.

What’s actually worth taking

Here’s the honest part: after years of logging, your MFP account holds maybe four things of real value.

Your custom foods and meals. The 20–30 items you actually eat on rotation. This is the asset — everything else is replaceable.
Your goal numbers. Daily calories and macro targets, if you’d tuned them.
Your weight history. Or at least the trend and current number.
The archive itself. Keep the export from Path 1 or 2 as a cold backup. You will almost never open it — but it beats losing it.

What’s not worth migrating: thousands of old diary entries. You’ll never re-read Tuesday’s lunch from 2023. The trend they produced now lives in your weight history; let the rest go.

Rebuilding in Calsheet

We’ll be direct: Calsheet does not import MyFitnessPal CSVs. The formats are messy, half the fields are Premium-gated, and a bad automated import is worse than a clean manual start. Rebuilding is deliberate and takes 10–15 minutes:

Open the web app — no sign-up needed; the diary is local to your device.
Run the goal wizard (sex, birth year, height, weight, activity, goal). If you had tuned targets in MFP, overwrite the wizard’s numbers in Settings with yours.
Recreate your top foods from the export — name, calories, protein, fat, carbs per 100 g. About two minutes each; your top ten covers most logged meals.
Repeated dishes become recipes — Calsheet computes per-100g nutrition from ingredients, with a cooked-weight adjustment for soups and stews.
Log your current weight as the first point of the new weight journal. Your old curve stays in the archive.
For packaged products, don’t pre-create anything — barcode scanning and Open Food Facts search fill them in as you go.

So this never happens again

The reason this guide needed to exist is that MFP treats your data as a retention mechanism. Whatever you switch to, check its exit before you move in: Calsheet exports the entire diary, food library, and settings to a JSON file in one tap, free, and restores it on any device. An export you can’t reach isn’t yours.

Weighing options beyond us? The honest landscape — strengths, gaps, and 2026 prices — is in MyFitnessPal alternatives in 2026.

TL;DR

Request the free data download (Path 2) today; save a printable diary of the last month (Path 3) meanwhile. Take four things: top foods, goal numbers, current weight, the archive. Rebuild your food library in 10–15 minutes, and pick a tracker whose export button isn’t behind a paywall.