Do MFP friends really help you lose more weight?

I will come over to your house and slap the sandwich out of your hand and replace it with a carrot. Followed by a light beating.

That's what mfp friends do.

Promises, promises....

Sigh

Friends can help in tons of ways. Some of them make a great cheering section when I 'm on track, some provide a comparison for just how healthy I'm eating and every day, when my friends start posting their exercise and calories burned, it feels like a kick in the pants to get a move on myself. They are also a great source of information and ideas which help me along the way. I'm fairly new and haven't screwed up yet, but when I do, I'm hoping I've chosen people who will give me a hard time and the encouragement I need to bounce right back.

I don't have friends either but when I first started a year ago...i lost weight but i regained all of it back... I think the support system motivates you.

Yes, for me it helps as Im competitive at heart and I loke to look at my friends food diaries for ideas for low cal meals at times.

I will come over to your house and slap the sandwich out of your hand and replace it with a carrot. Followed by a light beating.

That's what mfp friends do.

I wouldn't say they've helped me lose the weight, per sé, because I've had to put in the work. It's comments like these, however, that keep me coming back every day! If not for my friends on here, I probably would have stopped logging a long time ago because it's tedious.

I would venture to say YES. I enjoy meeting new people and having a good solid support base. Losing weight is hard enough in and of itself, why would anyone want to go at it all alone.

As a fellow Canuck, I will say, YES!. It keeps me motivated, they celebrate my successes, console me when things are going bad in diet as well as life and are just fun to read posts from. I got into challenges with my MFP friends and that has really helped.

Yes! to give encouragement and receive it is awesome, also to say the right things and give people hope when they feel they have lost it that day or week, or if I have lost the plot, they help me to keep on the straight and narrow, so yes, defo

This can be a very lonesome endeavor, but being on MFP, I NEVER feel as isolated as when I try/tried to do it on my own. Also, I can ask questions and read others' blogs, and I can obsess about my program, my progress, my foibles without my loved ones having to be dragged into it.

Currently on my job there are group of us ladies who has been working on a computer program we have been pn this "Island" for a year and a half. Yes I believe that MFP friends do help me lose more weight. They started on this and after hearing them talk I decided to join them back in Febuary since then I have lost 28 pounds.