Those with successful weightloss...

On my own. But I've never been even clinically overweight and had a healthy relationship with food. Makes it easier if you don't have to break all kinds of bad habits (eating to feel better, etc) in addition to just being more careful about how much you eat.

Plus, I do research for a living. It let me find the legitimate weight loss techniques and avoid all the fad diet/broscience stuff. I don't know how long I'd have stuck with this if I hadn't figured out to calculate my TDEE, subtract 500 and use that rather than MFP's setting. It added a couple of hundred calories to my limit. I don't do well on 1200.

MFP is all the help you need. Create your profile as instructed and do as you are told. You will see the weight come down in no time!

Here are loads of very knowledgeable people on here who can help you along the way. Also don't forget to use the "search" function if you have any questions. Lots of groups too, so pick which you like and join them.

Honestly, after years of "dieting" I can tell you now, that I will reach my goals this time...all because of www.myfitnesspal.com

:happy: Be good!

I believed, before I found MFP, that I'd continue to be 100 pounds overweight. Then my doctor began to look for a blood pressure medicine that I could take without feeling like a zombie.
THEN I realized that if I didn't clean up my act, I'd have to take BP medicine, zombie or not.
Next I realized I'd have to stop being my own worst enemy.
I started going to Paleo lifestyle lectures given by a local chiropractor.
I read everything I could find about lowering blood pressure and added a lot of the suggestions to my life.
I addressed the issue of cravings, and began to do what I could to control them.

I feel about 15 years younger,I am closer every day to leaving the obese range and entering the world of overweight, and I am one very happy woman.

Whether by yourself or with the help of others, YOU CAN DO IT!!

Im only just starting on my journey, But im on my own.

My hubby lost 100lbs last year/2012, and is encouraging me along, but im pretty much on my own.

I work out alone, stay on top of my food, etc. Friends keep trying to get me to "just skip a day", and "oh come on, come eat ice cream with us", but im staying strong. They are all skinny minnies so its easy for them to say lol.

I kinda wish I had a workout partner, just to make it less boring, but ah well, my rocking pandora station keeps me chugging along.

I'm still a work in progress but I can honestly say "No one can do it for you!" we all got here one mouthful at a time and the only way to lose it it to stop eating so much. That being said, this is a great site with great support from fellow food lovers and weight loss adventurers. Enjoy your journey and discover how great you begin to feel both with the MFP friends as well as with your own body. Share your tears, fears and accomplishments along the way-you can do this!

I've done it on my own with this site. It's been extremely helpful and eye opening to log in the diary each day - both food and exercise.

Started on my own, saw a nutritionist who put me onto MFP... saw a trainer in the gym to get started.

I lost the weight with Weight Watchers Online and have maintained the loss with MFP. I also have access to a gym.

Kinda on my own, but I bore other people with the details.

Some people use challenge groups. Losing weight is a lifestyle choice, you have to want the new lifestyle.

I did it on my own...but mine has been a journey towards better health, nutrition, and fitness...the weight loss has just been a nice bi-product, but that wasn't my primary focus. I was far more focused on the actual process and looking at ways to improve my health, nutrition, and fitness. If the scale is your only goal, it's going to be a long road to hoe

On my own with support from family and friends. I changed my nutrition and worked out at home and/or the gym. The biggest part for me was changing my nutrition and not being an emotional eater.

My MFP friends have been my only help, well and the MFP meanies that showed me it all boils down to calories in vs calories out, can't beat science. Then it was taking that knowledge doing more research and being consistent :flowerforyou:

I lost 40 lbs and have managed to stay at my ideal weight for 8 years.

The secret? Find a diet/exercise routine that fits YOU. For example, I tried the liquid meal replacements and had excellent results for a couple of months, but I couldn't picture myself drinking those concoctions for the long haul so I stopped. Same thing with Atkins, greats results but I found the low carb, high fat diet to be unsustainable in the long run.

Same thing with the gym. I used to go 5-6 times a week and always ended up getting burned out after a few months because it was taking up too much of my spare time.

Through trial and error I found that the best diet for me was IF 18/6 and the best exercise frequency was 3x a week.

Basically, stop trying to bend over backwards over diets/routines and find one that you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life without too much effort.

OOOOH --- Ain't it the truth --- "calories in versus calories out"
Yes, it is simple math - if you eat 2000 calories per day and only burn 1900 calories then in about a month, give or take, you'll put on a pound. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, or something like that. So always eat less than you burn, log your food, log your exercise and do the math!

I'm doing it on my own. Before this, I had a history of doing low-calorie diets for a while, losing 10-15 pounds, then quitting and gaining it back. What I'm doing differently this time is using exercise to allow me to eat more so that I don't feel deprived, and that is working very well for me.