I'm New to MFP
vbgnia
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Please feel free to add me as a Pal. My daughter signed me up she's lost 32lbs so far with the help of MFP! I have no idea what I'm doing. ????But I'm ready to lose!
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Welcome ... Sending friend request!0
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Hi: I just joined 3 days ago myself. Turned 60 last week, and am tired of carrying around the "baby weight" that started 30 years ago and grew to an extra 150 lbs. Didn't have a clue what I was doing. But the tracking of foods eaten is motivating. I'd be happy to be a weight loss buddy. You can add me if you like.0
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Welcome.....you will soon get the hang of it......good luck and add me as a friend if you would like to
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Welcome! Just take it easy, learn to use the diary and the short cut tools and start tracking what you eat. After a while it becomes pretty obvious what is killing you (and your calorie/sodium/fat counts). Although most folks come here looking just for weight loss, MFP is really a tool that leads you to start eating balanced meals, exercising more and enjoying the resultant better health (weight loss is a by product of eating better and being more active). Good luck!0
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Something else that helps, as you get more used to tracking food, is to enter the food BEFORE you eat. I have always liked to plan meals (our main meal---usually dinner) about a week ahead. I go ahead and enter what I'm planning to make & eat when I do my weekly meal planning. It helps me balance my eating through the day so that I don't end up with a lot of calories left uneaten at the end of the day or, conversely, with too many calories consumed or being really hungry at the end of the day because I've consumed too many already.
After you've been logging for a while, investigate using other features, such as the tabs at the top of your Food Diary page, including "Recipes," "My Meals," and "My Foods" (the latter being a place to enter foods you eat that aren't in the database so that you'll be able to include it in your food diary). Most of the features are pretty intuitive, but come back and ask questions if you need to.
One tip I'll give you now is, if you like certain combinations of food, you can use the "Quick Tools," then choose "Remember meal." It will allow you to name the ''meal',' and after that you can just go to your list of meals (by clicking on the "My Meals" tab at the top of the page) and choose that---all the items will be entered in your food diary automatically, which saves a lot of time. I use this feature for favorite sandwich combinations---if I vary the ingredients slightly, I just click on the item to increase or decrease the quantity or on the red circle at the right of that item to delete it entirely. Then, just add anything else you're eating or drinking at that meal. I also use it for favorite food combos, i.e., tilapia, mango salsa, rice, and zucchini and carrots. After I've entered all those components of our fish dinner once, I add it to "My Meals" as described above. The next time we have that, I simply click on "Tilapia, rice, and zucchini" in "My Meals," and everything is entered for me---so easy and fast. If we had tartar sauce that night instead of the mango salsa, I just delete the salsa and insert the tartar sauce.
As you grow accustomed to the site and take advantage of its many features, you'll find that logging food becomes very quick and easy, not cumbersome at all.0 -
Welcome, this is a great web-site. Logging and planning are key to losing. It has taken me a year and I am still 10 lbs to go, but you can do it. I am sending you a friend request, we all try to help one another, the support really helps. You can do this!!!0
