Giving up MFP is not giving up!

purplehair82
purplehair82 Posts: 5 Member
in Motivation and Support
Dear My Fitness Pal,

Thank you for showing me just how little protein I was eating. Thanks to you, I know that my daily supplement still isn't enough, and I modify my diet accordingly.

However, since I started counting calories, I have been at the high end of where my weight usually sits. I tried tracking diligently. I sometimes ate my extra exercise calories, and sometimes I didn't. I tried eating below my suggested caloric intake. I tried eating less on one day, more the next day. I tried a complicated chart another member sent me. And still, my weight hovered, or even crept up.

So, here is my new plan. Those twenty minutes a day that I would spend planning and tracking my food will now be spent exercising, in addition to the running and weight training I already do. Maybe I'll do yoga, or pilates, or just go for a walk.

And trying to stay within my 1200 calories, or, depending on the day, trying to hit it? From now on, I am going to listen to my body, and allow it to tell me when, what and how to eat.

My last weigh-in I was 128, only four pounds higher than where I'd like to be. My Fitness Pal, even if I had attained my goal through you, counting every calorie isn't worth it for me. I'll let my body do the counting from now on.

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,341 Member
    Good luck, I hope it all works out for you.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    ok
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Best of luck.

    The good thing is that if you do ever feel the need to try something else this option is always available as an alternative.

    It's good to have options.
  • mamadon
    mamadon Posts: 1,422 Member
    Ok then. Mfp was a lifesaver (probably literally) for me.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    OK. Bye.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Hmm. I typically log my food on MFP when I am doing something else, like feeding the baby, driving in the car (as a passenger! Safe MFPing) or waiting for my food to finish cooking or be delivered if I am eating at a restaurant. I'm not sure I could workout at those times.

    I guess I could run alongside the car...
  • trinatrina1984
    trinatrina1984 Posts: 1,018 Member
    Thanks for letting us know.
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  • SuperC_85
    SuperC_85 Posts: 393
    rkalllison wrote: »
    purplehair82 wrote: »
    Dear My Fitness Pal,

    And trying to stay within my 1200 calories, or, depending on the day, trying to hit it? From now on, I am going to listen to my body, and allow it to tell me when, what and how to eat.

    Did you bother to think that 1200 was TOO LOW??? Bet not, huh?

    Thats what I am thinking too...


  • Kate7294
    Kate7294 Posts: 783 Member
    See you later alligator !
  • caitconquersweight
    caitconquersweight Posts: 316 Member
    How much weight are you looking to lose? Depending on your height, 128 could be a perfectly healthy, normal weight. I mean it might not be where YOU personally like to be, but still.

    How long have you been trying to lose weight? Have you been doing it consistently for a couple months, or are you one of those who has done it for two weeks and said "IT'S NOT WORKING I QUIT"?

    1200 could be too few calories for your body. Again, it's all depending on your height and age.

    But whatevs, bye. I couldn't have lost my weight without MFP.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    It takes you 20 minutes a day to log what you're eating?

    You're doing something wrong ...
  • kendalslimmer
    kendalslimmer Posts: 579 Member
    Good luck! I actually never try to eat back my exercise calories - if it happens though, it happens - and MFP is doing wonders for me. Maybe you'll come back here some day... :smile:
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    I'm going to assume you just weren't logging accurately. Good luck outside of here, though.
  • littleburgy
    littleburgy Posts: 570 Member
    edited October 2014
    Were you measuring portions with a proper food scale? It's not worth counting calories if they aren't counted accurately. To each their own on this, though. I am at maintenance and take breaks from logging from time to time but doing it periodically has helped.
  • phyllb
    phyllb Posts: 735 Member
    Best of luck. Different things work at different times for people. I hope the extra excercise pattern gets u where u want to go

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