A confession to the MFP Police

This was already on my clipboard from another thread, and well, I'm feeling all teary eyed.

I feel shame because I'm probably going to spend the rest of the day thoroughly lodged in the first category. Oh well.

As long as you don't later try to claim that you are never mean and people just don't like to hear that they are wrong, works for me! :flowerforyou:

Hey now. I'm not being mean.

Just a little trolly.

I think I love you for this post!!


Oh I want to add my confession -

I wait until the end of the day when I know I'm not going to eat anything else - then I work out how many squares of chocolate I could eat with the remaining calories I have left and sometimes .... just sometimes, I eat that chocolate goddammit! :happy:

hahahaha i do this sometimes

I don't log most days. I guess I'm at goal but it scares the **** out of me.

Hey now. I'm not being mean.

Just a little trolly.

Well, it is Friday, and some of us are stuck at home, bored and sick, so you are serving up some entertainment value. Troll + non-mean = useful and appreciated.

(Covering the bases.)

Thank you for being REAL about it! Wish more people had the same wonderful attitude as you, and not the the Exercise/Calorie Nazi's that we have all had to endure! Good on ya! And a huge congrats on your success!

One day I'll meet one of these exercise/calorie natzi's that everyone claims prowls the boards saying if you're not perfect you won't succeed :noway:

Thank you for being REAL about it! Wish more people had the same wonderful attitude as you, and not the the Exercise/Calorie Nazi's that we have all had to endure! Good on ya! And a huge congrats on your success!

Nazis?

Harsh

JenniferTSmit Selector
Joined Apr 2012
Posts: 258
September 06, 2013 2:41 pm
QUOTE:

I have no problem with people making suggestions. I know myself, that I didn't start to see weight loss until I logged what I ate. If I suggest a person log if they are not, and that makes me the MFP police, so be it.

Congrats on your success!


Thank you! I also have no problems giving and taking suggestions. Taking suggestions and learning different things is how I lost the weight. I am referring to people that are just mean and rude and make fun of other people because they do not know everything or they are trying and doing it all wrong. That's all. There are some mean people on here. And I am positive that you are not one of them!






I agree with both comments. We are here to support one another not judge. There is a difference between saying something to help and saying something to make a person feel small (mind wise). Just as it was stated, we've all been there at one time or another otherwise we wouldn't be on this site.

1. I do not log every single little thing that goes into my stomach. I have a little creamer in my coffee every morning.... I don't log the coffee or the creamer. I also have a jar of sugar free hard candies on my desk..... I eat probably 6 of those a day. Oh, and I just had a chocolate and I have no intention on logging that either.

--Fine, as long as you're losing weight...

2. I did not even know or understand what TDEE was until I googled it a couple months ago. Now I get it and I still have no intention on using it.

--I know what it is, but I don't calculate it or follow it.

3. Some days I do not eat my exercise calories back.

--I never routinely do this. For one thing, I'm afraid I'll have overestimated my exercise calories.

4. Some days I am in starvation mode. Sometimes this will last for more than a day.

--You have never been in starvation mode. Not eating for a couple days does not put you there.

5. I do not drink enough water. I am lucky if I make it to 6 cups in a day.

--As long as you're losing weight...

6. I do not use a HRM. I use the calories burned MFP says. If I am on a treadmill, I will use that amount. Occasionally I will get curious and google "calories burned

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" just to see what that says.

--I use a HRM only to see how hard my heart is working and how quickly it recovers from cardio. It's not a calorie calculation tool.

7. I do not weigh or measure my food. I never have. I follow the hand guidelines that I have seen and heard many times.

--As long as you're losing weight... I don't do it all the time, but I find that using a digital scale is helpful.

8. Some weeks I only weigh myself once, some weeks I will weigh myself 7 times. Sometimes I weigh myself more than once in a single day. It depends on how obsessive I am and wether or not I weighed myself and shortly before I had a good poop. Honestly, you can loose a whole pound just by going to the bathroom somedays.

--As long as you're losing weight... I try to weigh myself at least a couple of times a week.

9. There are weeks when I am lazy all week and the only thing that will make me happy are pop tarts. 400 calories of toaster pastry goodness. And on those days, I do not log my pop tarts because I do not want to see what I did.

--As long as you're losing weight. If you log, however, you get better results by being consistent.

10. I used to be fat..... just like you.

--I've never been fat. I figured out what worked for me a long time ago.


There are no rules, ordinances, or laws. The things you've listed are merely GUIDES. Some people don't have the independence to treat them as such.

GREAT POST! I love my friends who cheer me on. I makes me boil when someone who does not walk in my shoes gives me advice that I have not asked for.