Does myfitnesspal really work?

yes!!!!!!!!! You must be honest w/yourself though. Count cals correctly.-- measure & weigh your food. Heart rate monitor helps if you plan on exercising.

It is not the tool that works , but the person who uses it.

If you are honest...LOG EVERYTHING and follow the rules...if you cheat yourself..well, then you stay the weight you are!

Absolutely. It changed my life. Counting calories is eye opening.

this.

Yep. LOG EVERYTHING. Being honest with yourself is the key... if youre really stickign to your deficit and logging everything that goes in.. no matter how small.. a pretzel here, a soda there... LOG IT.

does it work?! Have you seen the tickers around this place or do you just ignore them? :laugh:

It works but you need to log in everyday and being honest is the most important aspect. I have lost 15 lbs so far and have had more success with this program than anything else I have tried. Plus it's free!:flowerforyou:

I have been on weight watchers for about three months. I had limited success (about .25lbs a week AVERAGE - some weeks none, some weeks a pound), but was not really doing as well my efforts should produce. I have switched back to myfitnesspal completely. I figured I would keep using both to compare. Within four days, I knew the superiority of this plan. In the past I never explored the friends support, the nutritional tools, and the custom features. The nutrition tools helped me see where my issues were with WW. They also aided me in directing my daily eating. I was able to evaluate my foods in a way that works and realized that my point system allowed a very imbalanced way of eating that was not beneficial for health or my weight loss. I also see that my husband was loosing weight, but he was eating a lot of sugars and still hungry. A moody, skinny husband is not fun either. By supplementing his lunches with veggies and fruits, he was still grumpy, but by adding more at dinner instead of leaving out substantial veggies (kale, collards, asparagus), he is full and not grumpy. By using myfitnesspal, I am able to eat not only a healthy balance, but i am able to evaluate and track my eating and exercise habits as I go. I never can blow a diet. I might decided to eat something like a BLT for lunch, but I just alter my following meals accordingly with little effort. I have cancelled both our weight watchers accounts. I am glad I did it because I was able to see I was eating a very small amount and still struggling to loose. Now I am watching nutritional values on the phone app as I eat through the day. I knew I would have collard greens for my snack today based on my breakfast and lunch lacking any substantial veggies. It is the best tool I have found. Last year I started with this plan and lost, but after surgery stop tracking. Now I am back to exercising and tracking & making sure my meals are filling and satisfactory. I saw more weight loss this morning. I wish you the best.

I've done weight watchers in the past. One thing I like about MFP, besides it being free, is that I've learned a lot on here from other members. Make sure that when you plug your info into the calorie goal calculator, that it is accurate. MFP doesn't do a good job of describing activity levels, so be cautious, or you will find yourself hungry all the time, from lack of calories. Lol. Also, try to find a good way to measure your activity, such as a heart rate monitor, because you should eat back your exercise calories. Some folks just eat back half of them. I eat them when I'm hungry, which happens to be pretty often. Lol. Feel free to add me.

It does, but you have to be honest and accurate tracking everything you eat and do down. Only then can it help you stay mindful of what you're doing so you can develop better habits.

Yes, it works and is truly enlighteneing. Have lost over 12 lbs in 6 weeks through diet and excercise. The other comments are spot on. You need to track everything you eat; measure and/or weigh your food and try to get in some excercise. The other benefit is knowing what is in the food you eat (vitamins, minerals, sugar, sodium, potassium etc.) besides just the carbs, protein and fat.

Yes it does but it is up to you to log every day and be honest with what you log. I lost 47 pounds using MFP from Feb-June 2012 before my Sleeve WLS. I still log in daily and am honest with everything I log. I have logged in over 620 days now!

Does anything work? If you don't put any effort into it, of course it won't.

I wish you could just sign up & BAM - instantly lose weight each week.........In a perfect world.

Forget paying for WW, if you can follow WW then you can use MFP. Good luck :flowerforyou:

MFP provides the tool. You provide the hard work, discipline and will power.

You'll get out what you put in.

Does MyfitnessPal really work?

It works. Lost about 50 to 57 lbs before myfitnesspal which aren't numbers I've logged here. Since joining MFP(November 2012) I have lost in excess of my ticker on the scale. I have since stopped weighing myself, from the moment I determined my programme would be monitored more efficiently via tracking my visual results, measuring tape results and bodyfat percentage.

If you want a change, the time is now to commit to it. Stay the course. Do not lose focus. Measure EVERYTHING you eat in grams ~ get a food scale. Do not deprive yourself of food.

MFP is a tool to set up your goals and monitor calories eaten and calories burned if you exercise. If you honestly log and eat at a calorie deficit it works.