We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

Hello from the Chicago suburbs

shadowofender
shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
edited February 17 in Introduce Yourself
Hello. My name is Erienne and I am 23 years old. In the fall of 2012 I had joined mfp and got a lot of use out of it, losing sixty pounds in about a year. However, I tend to be obsessive in nature. Calorie counting was doing crazy things to my head and I was getting very unhealthy and insane with it.

For example, I am nearly six feet tall. When I'm in better shape, I carry a lot of muscle and I like to lift. And yet, I would try to undereat by hundreds of calories a day just because if I didn't I started to have panic attacks. I was netting something like 1000 calories a day because I liked seeing the green numbers on the screen.

So I stopped. But stopping the counting made me slack on everything and now I find myself back here. I'm motivated and ready, partially due to some situations in my life currently, I'm just a bit hesitent to truly start counting again. I'm using it more as a guideline this time, but I could use some help. The community aspect is what really helped me the last time I was here. Forcing myself to do a weekly blog check in, writing out goals, etc. for people to see really kept me in line.

I don't want to focus on the scale this time. Or the numbers, necessarily. I just want to start writing down what I'm doing so I can be more conscious. So I can get back on track. Make sense?
This discussion has been closed.

Categories