Are you going to continue using MFP?

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  • rtrcarrie
    rtrcarrie Posts: 50 Member
    I am 90 days away from my plan to stop logging daily. That will be 2 straight years of logging with the last 1 year (and a month or two) being in maintenance. I will still weigh out my portions and keep eating the healthy way I have learned to. I just feel a personal need to let go of the daily logging. It may or may not work, but I need to try it for myself. I want to be in control of my weight and my life.....not have calorie counting be in control.
  • ttcbelieve
    ttcbelieve Posts: 181 Member
    But, I'm afraid that I'll slowly start underestimating the amount of calories I'm totaling per day, and weight will creep back on. For those of you that have maintained, do you still log every day?

    You have just described me.

    I stopped logging because I was in maintenance and felt I had a very good idea of the calories in food. The weight crept back on, and I was also exercising 4-5 days/week. I went back to logging again 4 months back.

    I believe you need to continue using MFP or doing some kind of logging, even if you are logging 4-5 days per week. What I do now is weigh daily and log 5 -6 days/week
  • DeeJayShank
    DeeJayShank Posts: 92 Member
    I've been hovering around my goal weight for a few years now. I do bulk/cut cycles to gain muscle and lose fat so I still need to keep my calories fairly precise. I think the fact that I continue to improve my physique despite having got my weight to where it needed to be is part of the reason I have kept my weight off. I would not stop logging until you have at least maintained for as long as it took you to take the weight off. Even then I'd start logging again if you find yourself putting the weight back on. I would most certainly keep weighing yourself once a week. According to the National Weight Control Registry (a group that tracks people who've lost weight and kept it off) weighing ones self at least once a week was once of the traits they found common among those who've kept the weight off.

    Nice freakin work dude. Transformation to the max.
  • kimbelle_vie
    kimbelle_vie Posts: 174 Member
    I wont use MFP for life, in fact I don't use it now. What I do now is just eat in moderation and listen to my body. When I am hungry, I eat, just less. It is working now as I have almost lost my first 10 pounds. When it stops working I will resort back to it which is why I have an account.
  • paulandrachelk
    paulandrachelk Posts: 280 Member
    Yes.
  • succeedin2
    succeedin2 Posts: 501 Member
    I will it keeps me focused accountable and I have some awesome friends!

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