Curious about everyone's journey with myfitnesspal

LivingtheLeanDream

Its free and I have great friends on here who are so supportive
MFP has been a great tool in making me aware of how much I consume, I tell everybody about it, at least I do until their eyes glaze over in boredom lol

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goatsoapgirl

I love this tool.... i have lost 11 lbs since Jan 24/2015 and have another 30 lbs left to lose... Fitness Pal keeps me on track daily!!

Sandcastles61

NisgaaNative wrote: »

I am a new first time user and once I was setup I like using it to track. I don't enter as I go but instead have a form I use. At the end of the day I enter it into program. The only thing I would change about it is how the water is entered. It does me no good entered as one item at the bottom. I like to see that I kept myself evenly hydrated throughout the day. I wish it could do this and keep the tally. I'm sure I have much more to learn about using this program though.

There's an app called Water Tracker some people use to help them with their water intake and I think you can set it for reminders.... But I'm not very familiar with it overall

atypicalsmith

brookemartell wrote: »

thumbs up to everyone who is taking a step towards a healthier life. I know I struggle sometimes with sugar intake, which is something I'm really trying to work on as I go through my weight loss journey. Since I started my regiment back in January I am already seeing results and feel a lot better, both physically and mentally.
Thank you all for sharing your stories with me!

You're doing great!

mumblemagic

RunRutheeRun wrote: »

For the first time in my life I lost the weight eating what I wanted in moderation and have kept it off. No silly starving myself either!
MFP and logging my foods has made me very aware of calorie content and thats a good thing, my motto is that knowledge is power
I also learned that if I exercise that means I can eat more - win win

This. No starving myself, eating in moderation, more exercise = more cookies.

In addition to finally feeling in control of my food and my weight and my comfort eating, I am lighter than I have been for 8 years, and am fitter than I have ever been, even fitter than when I was competing nationally at fencing.

I spent a few years "trying" to lose weight and failing. Then I made an (admitedly nerdy) resolution in the summer of 2013: "Do or do not, there is no try". I stopped trying, and did. This little change in the way I thought about it has made such a huge difference. Now every day I get on the scale and I've lost weight, it's a little victory, a little thing that says I can do this, I have willpower, I am a do-er not a try-er.

I can look back over 2 years of data and see where I ate too much, where I lost loads, where I did loads of exercise. It's so motivating for me to have graphs proving my success.

rainbow198

Although I don't track my food here (I've been using a pencil and notebooks for 3 years), this website has been amazing for me. I discovered it when I was losing and doing research on fat loss and keeping it off. I did not sign up here until I hit maintenance, but I was always lurking gathering information and trying and learning about new things.

I learned to have a better relationship with food such as the importance of eating enough, I don't have to starve or cut food out (just work it in, bank calories or burn some of it off), also I can delay breakfast and it won't harm me.

I'm close to hitting my 600th day log in streak. Logging in everyday helps me to stay on track and I enjoy trying to help or cheering people on my feeds.

I have met some truly wonderful people here. People in my real life are not interested in health and fitness so here I chat with my MFP buddies about all kinds of things from struggles and bad days to NSV's and good days and vice versa.

People who knew me when I was overweight and obese always ask me "how did you do it?" "What did you use?" I mention MFP and I always get the glazed eye, disappointed looks. If you want it bad enough, you have to work for it and get it!

It took me about 16 months to lose 80 lbs and I've kept it off with ease for 2 years. Honestly, without MyFitnessPal I don't know where I would be now. I was all over the place in the past when I tried losing because I did not have the proper knowledge. But I still work hard everyday to keep it off and I'm always reading and researching.

LITtlerMeCO

Sandcastles61 wrote: »

NisgaaNative wrote: »

I am a new first time user and once I was setup I like using it to track. I don't enter as I go but instead have a form I use. At the end of the day I enter it into program. The only thing I would change about it is how the water is entered. It does me no good entered as one item at the bottom. I like to see that I kept myself evenly hydrated throughout the day. I wish it could do this and keep the tally. I'm sure I have much more to learn about using this program though.

There's an app called Water Tracker some people use to help them with their water intake and I think you can set it for reminders.... But I'm not very familiar with it overall

You can also just add it as you drink it. You will have to figure out which meal to put it with. You can also rearrange your meals--my order is Breakfast, Morning Snack, Lunch, Afternoon Snack, Dinner, Evening Snack--not perfect but it would get you close to what you want.

LITtlerMeCO

asflatasapancake wrote: »

The diary and the database helped me tremendously. There are a lot of helpful people on here. There are also a lot of nasty, crazy people on here. So, it's a little like life. Only in another dimension.

^True, I use the block feature when I find someone really nasty/crazy--most claim it's "the Internet" but I think most are just hungry (people should just reply with a picture of a Snicker's bar because I highly doubt they would ever say the things they do here to someone in person).

sunflowa77

Love this tool. Have been using it for 125 days and just wanted to know what I was eating and start to eat better. Have lost 5kg (don't really want to loose more). But am loving the maintence stage. Am eating much more variety now that I track it. Love that there are recipes and that I can import them from my favourite websites. It's been great to see how much sugar I was eating and maintain a healthier eating plan.

What I also love is when I have a bad day, I can balance out the sugar/fat intake and watch this over the weekly data plan.

NikonPal

brookemartell wrote: »

Hi everyone! Looking to get some feedback on how myfitnesspal has helped you in your weight loss journey. I've used it before and it really helped me in the past, but I'm trying to get back on it to help hold me accountable for what I eat. I'm getting back into an exercise routine, but it's always the food that gets me because of my cravings!

I FAILED at every attempt to lose a significant amount of weight over an extended period of time – until MFP

Partial story here:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10080664/lost-191-lbs-photos-success-after-999-failures/p1

RoxieDawn

The cyber community of MFP has its krazy people and some really helpful and nice people too!

Been here since November 2014 (lost 9.5 pounds) and working on "looking better naked" as I have met my weight loss goal!