If My Fitness Pal was not available ...

1two3four
1two3four Posts: 413 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
From the end of 2011 through the summer of 2013 I used MFP and lost 101-ponds purely through calorie counting. In the fall of 2013 I gained a few pounds and over Christmas I gained a few more--IIRC, about eight total. Then between Thanksgiving 2013 and the end of May 2014 I had internet access for all of 4 weeks (Jan.-Feb.) when I actually lost those eight pounds. From Mid-February through May I gained approximately a third of what I previously lost (about 35-pounds).

The blame is all on me. I know this. I got stressed, I ate too much and I moved too little. I have a disability but it's not an inability but in the last three and a half months I've let it overtake me and combined with the other factors in my life let the weight pile
back on.

When I have MFP everything is all good... I can plan my day/week and stick to it/log it I lose weight, I win it's simple. When I don't have MFP it's like I have no idea what I'm doing and I am putting food in my mouth 24/7 and sitting on my rear.

Advice? Any and all kinds welcome.

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  • Veil5577
    Veil5577 Posts: 868 Member
    When you DO have MFP, set up your goals and stats, then copy them into a notebook. Log your food in the notebook like you would on MFP. You'll have to read labels. Do the same with exercise. Plan a routine and write down how many calories you'd burn in a given time frame.
  • levitateme
    levitateme Posts: 999 Member
    When you DO have MFP, set up your goals and stats, then copy them into a notebook. Log your food in the notebook like you would on MFP. You'll have to read labels. Do the same with exercise. Plan a routine and write down how many calories you'd burn in a given time frame.

    This. I lost 80 lbs in 2003 using nothing but a notebook and calorie values I found from searching the internet.
  • BigT555
    BigT555 Posts: 2,067 Member
    When you DO have MFP, set up your goals and stats, then copy them into a notebook. Log your food in the notebook like you would on MFP. You'll have to read labels. Do the same with exercise. Plan a routine and write down how many calories you'd burn in a given time frame.
    this

    people counted calories before the internet, it was just more a pain in the *kitten* to do so
  • tmj4477
    tmj4477 Posts: 145 Member
    Download MFP to your phone so you will always have it with you.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yup the last time I counted caloreis was in 1990...I had a little book that listed a lot of foods etc.

    I used a small book to plan out my day bam lost 30lbs...

    Oh the good ole days...before www
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Download MFP to your phone so you will always have it with you.

    you have to have internet access on your phone too..you don't have internet access everywhere..trust me I know I live in Canada and work for an ISP...

    ETA: I couldn't log while in DR due to poor connection at the resort.
  • LoupGarouTFTs
    LoupGarouTFTs Posts: 916 Member
    If it were me, while I had access to MFP I would make a chart of all of my favorite foods and recipes, charting any of the macros that I normally track. I would then do the same for the exercises I normally do. Then I'd set myself up with a spreadsheet program or print out a similar format and log everything by hand. MFP is not the magic bullet. Taking control and logging, then acting accordingly with your numbers, is what appears to help you.
  • 1two3four
    1two3four Posts: 413 Member
    Download MFP to your phone so you will always have it with you.

    you have to have internet access on your phone too..you don't have internet access everywhere..trust me I know I live in Canada and work for an ISP...

    ETA: I couldn't log while in DR due to poor connection at the resort.

    I learned this the hard way! I bought a tablet on the advice that someone said to use the app, boy was that a blow to find out I couldn't download the database to my SD card. Pssst... MFP I'd play a good price if I could download the app and a GOOD database to use. I'd even still come back to the website and use the forums and give you some ad revenue since I loathe typing on a tablet.

    Thanks all of you for the advice. My mom had one of those calorie counting books when I was a kid and I threw it away because I got pissed at her when she tried make me count my calories then. Kicking myself now.

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