MFP method actually work for anyone?

Just look at my ticker averaging between 2 and 4 pound a week

I'm 5'5 I use to weigh 225 but now I weigh 193-196 (it teeters between those) MFP was working for the last 10lbs I lost and now it has just stopped for the past 2 months.. Last month I did lower my calories but no change so I upped them again back I what it was for a 1lb weight loss instead of 2lb weightloss.. And I haven't lost anything..

Please check my diary.. I have no idea where my macros should be. I'd like to be 160lbs

I think everyone's body is different and therefore everyone's results are different. I took MFP's suggestion of calorie goals to lose 1lb a week. Do I lose 1lb a week - week in, week out? No. So far I've lost 17lbs and it's taken 5 months to do so - less than the 1lb a week MFP predict. I recently got a Fitbit and that reports that I normally burn around 2,500-2,800 calories a day and I tend to eat in the 1800-1900 calorie range so the deficit there should equal 1lb a week off...but in reality, on the ground, it's not.

I tend to think that you just have to keep playing around with the numbers until you hit a 'sweet spot' where you've got the balance between good calorie intake/calorie expenditure and weight is coming off smoothly. I've not found it yet, but at least the trend is downward, even if not as fast as others.

Works very well for me. I've lost 15 lbs. in less than 4 months, feel good, look good. I watch my calorie goal and stay under every day, but I don't bother with the complicated stuff like TDEE, BMR, any of that, I basically eat what I want to in moderation and get exercise ( living on a farm, that comes with the territory). I don't have a HRM.

It works when used correctly. Most of the time when you see someone say it isn't working it's because they aren't logging everything accurately, they aren't eating back their exercise calories, or they set the wrong goal/activity level. Someone above said that your activity level might be an overestimation, but I found the opposite to be true. I'm a housewife with no kids and chronic illness, I put in sedentary and it turned out to be too low. If you don't have much weight to lose you should have it set to lose half a pound per week, not two pounds, so that will make a big difference also.

I lose a lb a week eating back all my workout cals. I usually take 1 day off from logging during the week, too.

It works. Ive lost over 20 pounds using it. I love it. Holds me accountable for what I eat and do. As well as my friends on here keep me in chk. It def works

Most likely it took a while for your body to put on the weight? In my case it took years to "pack on the pounds". It seems only natural for it to take a while for your body to reverse direction and slowly let the pounds slip away. Be patient. This is no fad/crash diet, just a way to keep track of calories in-calories out.

The plan I got when I first signed up worked great going from 85kg down to 80kg, some weeks I even lost weight slightly faster than expected, but when I hit 79kg it did some re-calculations and I found my new daily calorie allowance was far too strict for me to stick to. I felt ravenous all the time and I was regularly going over my target. There was no longer room in my diary for a small treat, so every few days I'd crack and binge. I've now gained back one of my lost kilos so I've made some manual adjustments to my plan. I'm only 5ft high but 1200 cals a day doesn't work for me at all.

It works very well for me. My life activities fluctuate too much, so I just set my level to "Sedentary" and if I'm doing a lot of extra activities, such as intensive gardening, housecleaning, walking a lot for my job, etc...I add some of that to my diary as exercise.

I custom set my macro nutrient goal levels, as I was not satisfied with MFP's defaults for these. I upped my daily calorie goal level to 1,390, from 1,200, by entering that I only wanted to lose 1/2 pound per week. However, I'm actually losing about 1 pound every 5 days or so, which is perfect for my goals.

I don't sweat it if I go over my calorie goals sometimes, though I must admit, I don't like seeing the red color for that number. My weekly average is always a bit under my goal, so that works for me.
I don't do "cheat" days, but if I have something special going on or I'm just feeling more munchie on a particular day, I indulge in eating more than my goal calories, but I rarely ever eat anything that wouldn't be considered to be healthy foods, because that is where my taste preferences lay anyway.

I can see the difference in my body from week to week and my clothes are fitting more and more loosely from week to week, as well.
I get plenty of cardio from various activities in my exercise and in my personal activities, but I'm also lifting heavy...usually 3 days per week. That is producing amazing transformation results.

Good luck! I hope you can make MFP work for you. I went into it with much skepticism, but have found it to be invaluable toward helping me to reach my goals.

Yeah it worked. I'm below goal weight & loving it.

It has worked for me so far. If the scale is still reading the same, you may be losing body fat, but gaining muscle mass.

One suggestion is to measure your abdomen, hips, height, and neck and calculate body fat percentage using US Navy method
<<http://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Body-Fat-Using-the-US-Navy-Method>&gt;

It's one of my best tools to check out how many calories I need!, and of course, loss weight motivational stories are just amazing here!...l' ve already lost 7 Kg in 2 months! you wont regret it!