Giving up MFP is not giving up!

purplehair82

Dear My Fitness Pal,

Thank you for showing me just how little protein I was eating. Thanks to you, I know that my daily supplement still isn't enough, and I modify my diet accordingly.

However, since I started counting calories, I have been at the high end of where my weight usually sits. I tried tracking diligently. I sometimes ate my extra exercise calories, and sometimes I didn't. I tried eating below my suggested caloric intake. I tried eating less on one day, more the next day. I tried a complicated chart another member sent me. And still, my weight hovered, or even crept up.

So, here is my new plan. Those twenty minutes a day that I would spend planning and tracking my food will now be spent exercising, in addition to the running and weight training I already do. Maybe I'll do yoga, or pilates, or just go for a walk.

And trying to stay within my 1200 calories, or, depending on the day, trying to hit it? From now on, I am going to listen to my body, and allow it to tell me when, what and how to eat.

My last weigh-in I was 128, only four pounds higher than where I'd like to be. My Fitness Pal, even if I had attained my goal through you, counting every calorie isn't worth it for me. I'll let my body do the counting from now on.

Alatariel75

Good luck, I hope it all works out for you.

TavistockToad

ok

msf74

Best of luck.

The good thing is that if you do ever feel the need to try something else this option is always available as an alternative.

It's good to have options.

mamadon

Ok then. Mfp was a lifesaver (probably literally) for me.

KarenJanine

OK. Bye.

3dogsrunning

Hmm. I typically log my food on MFP when I am doing something else, like feeding the baby, driving in the car (as a passenger! Safe MFPing) or waiting for my food to finish cooking or be delivered if I am eating at a restaurant. I'm not sure I could workout at those times.

I guess I could run alongside the car...

trinatrina1984

Thanks for letting us know.

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SuperC_85

rkalllison wrote: »

purplehair82 wrote: »

Dear My Fitness Pal,

And trying to stay within my 1200 calories, or, depending on the day, trying to hit it? From now on, I am going to listen to my body, and allow it to tell me when, what and how to eat.

Did you bother to think that 1200 was TOO LOW??? Bet not, huh?

Thats what I am thinking too...

Kate7294

See you later alligator !

caitconquersweight

How much weight are you looking to lose? Depending on your height, 128 could be a perfectly healthy, normal weight. I mean it might not be where YOU personally like to be, but still.

How long have you been trying to lose weight? Have you been doing it consistently for a couple months, or are you one of those who has done it for two weeks and said "IT'S NOT WORKING I QUIT"?

1200 could be too few calories for your body. Again, it's all depending on your height and age.

But whatevs, bye. I couldn't have lost my weight without MFP.

rml_16

It takes you 20 minutes a day to log what you're eating?

You're doing something wrong ...

kendalslimmer

Good luck! I actually never try to eat back my exercise calories - if it happens though, it happens - and MFP is doing wonders for me. Maybe you'll come back here some day...

malibu927

I'm going to assume you just weren't logging accurately. Good luck outside of here, though.

littleburgy

Were you measuring portions with a proper food scale? It's not worth counting calories if they aren't counted accurately. To each their own on this, though. I am at maintenance and take breaks from logging from time to time but doing it periodically has helped.

phyllb

Best of luck. Different things work at different times for people. I hope the extra excercise pattern gets u where u want to go