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For the long timers who just can’t commit

lexxlucci
lexxlucci Posts: 1 Member
in Introduce Yourself
Hiii! Anyone else here in a long term uncommitted relationship with MFP? I started tracking back in 2025 on and off (mostly off) for years. I’m older now, have very specific goals and I’m back (hopefully for good). Please give me some inspo, tips, and tricks that have helped you stay consistent if you have. Please tell me what didn’t work if you’ve struggled to stay consistent like I have. Hoping this is a friendly and encouraging community ❤️

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  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 754 Member
    2025 has only existed for two months lol! I'm sure that was a typo. But don't worry about the past. The only thing that matters is that you are here now and what you do from this moment on. You just have to put in the work every day and you will see the results.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/147555-speak-friend-and-enter
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,423 Member
    I think I'm in a committed relationship with MFP, because it helped me be much healthier, and that makes me much happier.

    After a learning curve, small number of weeks probably - back in 2015 - it didn't take much time to log my food, and since I'm kind of a data geek and science nerd in other ways, it suited my nature. Unlike some, logging doesn't feel obsessive or stressful for me, another plus.

    I think no one weight management method is going to be ideal for everyone, but counting calories has worked really well for me, and I love the end results. I'm not planning to break up with it any time soon. :smile:

    FWIW, I have found this to be a friendly encouraging community. If you want to say more about what those specific goals of yours are, folks might have more customized tips for you.

    My best tip is always to pick a relatively easy plan, something that's sustainable long enough to lose a meaningful total amount of weight at a sensibly gradual rate.

    Too many people show up here with a "lose weight fast" mindset, adopt a restrictive set of eating rules (maybe a trendy named diet), cut calories to the maximum they can tolerate (for a minute :D ), then maybe try to stack punitively intense, miserable daily exercise on top of that. That usually doesn't end well, but does typically end quickly, unfortunately.

    For myself, I decided I wasn't going to do anything to lose weight that I wasn't willing to continue long term to stay at a healthy weight, other than a sensibly moderate calorie deficit until I reached goal weight. That meant experimenting, finding, then practicing new, relatively happy routine habits, both eating and activity (not just official exercise but also daily life stuff). When I to to goal weight, all I had to do was add a few calories daily to stabilize my weight, and go on with those well-practiced habits pretty much on autopilot. That was 9+ years ago, and I'm still in the same jeans size now, still pretty much living the same way . . . that, after around 30 years pre-loss of overweight/obesity, and maybe 20 years early on of marginal to deplorable physical fitness during the first couple decades of the overweight/obese staged.

    With the right personalized plans, I'm sure you can accomplish your goals. Best wishes!

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