How did you get introduced to MyFitnessPal?

__KailahBooBoo___
__KailahBooBoo___ Posts: 17 Member
edited November 22 in Chit-Chat
Out of random curiosity I'd like to know how you came across this app! :) My mom kept bugging me to join so I finally did and loved it ever since LOL. Go moms! And go FitnessPal!
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  • GreenValli
    GreenValli Posts: 1,054 Member
    Just the opposite with me. My daughter told me about MFP.

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  • JackieWalks
    JackieWalks Posts: 102 Member
    My brother in law
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    My nutritionist recommended that I track every bite/sip religiously on here as part of an emergency attempt to get out of Morbidly Obese status.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Googled calorie counting sites...then I noticed the INSANE amount of traffic on the forums that are mostly women wanting to lose weight, so this place is a playful prankster's wet dream...
  • mewilliams11
    mewilliams11 Posts: 139 Member
    My sister first told me about it & then one of my friends kept posting her success with this app on FB.
  • smtaylo85
    smtaylo85 Posts: 1,269 Member
    my older brother.
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  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Came across it when searching for Protein powders on line.
  • Soopatt
    Soopatt Posts: 563 Member
    I didn't know it existed until Tim, a guy who regularly comes to our geek club commenting on my Facebook, recommending it when I posted a status discussing the results of a study which showed that people who log their food intake are better at weight control. At the time I was two weeks in to keeping a pen and paper diary.

    Not knowing what to expect I popped in for a look and have been hooked and successfully logging and losing ever since. That was five months ago.

    Tim, strangely enough, seems to be the same weight or bigger. He believed so strongly in it that he persuaded me, but for some reason it didn't work for him *shrugs*.
  • Sparky_1113
    Sparky_1113 Posts: 2,886 Member
    Searched the Amazon App store for something that I could track fitness with, this looked good so I bought it.
  • The_Invisible_Boy
    The_Invisible_Boy Posts: 568 Member
    Google
  • __KailahBooBoo___
    __KailahBooBoo___ Posts: 17 Member
    Soopatt wrote: »
    I didn't know it existed until Tim, a guy who regularly comes to our geek club commenting on my Facebook, recommending it when I posted a status discussing the results of a study which showed that people who log their food intake are better at weight control. At the time I was two weeks in to keeping a pen and paper diary.

    Not knowing what to expect I popped in for a look and have been hooked and successfully logging and losing ever since. That was five months ago.

    Tim, strangely enough, seems to be the same weight or bigger. He believed so strongly in it that he persuaded me, but for some reason it didn't work for him *shrugs*.
    Hmmm interesting! I wonder why...maybe he was trying to just maintain his weight lol. I used to journal my food on a notepad too!! Until I cane across this! Man, it's great!
  • __KailahBooBoo___
    __KailahBooBoo___ Posts: 17 Member
    Google
    Lol!
  • __KailahBooBoo___
    __KailahBooBoo___ Posts: 17 Member
    neuro recommended it
    What is that?

  • __KailahBooBoo___
    __KailahBooBoo___ Posts: 17 Member
    zcb94 wrote: »
    My nutritionist recommended that I track every bite/sip religiously on here as part of an emergency attempt to get out of Morbidly Obese status.
    Oh nice! How has it been working for you?

  • sw33tp3a11
    sw33tp3a11 Posts: 4,646 Member
    I was reading a parents magazine and they recommend this site and here I am...
  • SurelyShannon
    SurelyShannon Posts: 167 Member
    I googled weight loss programs and this one came up along with spark people, but I liked the lay out of MFP
  • Alisontheice
    Alisontheice Posts: 9,611 Member
    a random web search for calorie tracking
  • CTnicktellis
    CTnicktellis Posts: 844 Member
    Learned about it in a personal trainer course. I used old school method (pen & pad) but recently decided to give this a shot.
  • jennmpantoja
    jennmpantoja Posts: 1,080 Member
    My cousin Carlee was on here and I saw her progress and eventually her happiness. So I signed up.
  • GibsonSG_67
    GibsonSG_67 Posts: 1,406 Member
    Friend of mine who raved about it, Then she stopped using it. Funny
  • mhiggi02
    mhiggi02 Posts: 5,988 Member
    friend of mine that encouraged me to get healthy. glad she did, that was 90+ lbs ago and 20+% more body fat ago
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    I was looking for juicing recipes.....and fell into it, head first.....absolutely love the food and exercise diary option....its great to have my macros figured out for me for a change.....I could live without the message boards as they are as distracting as FB was tho....lol....
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I got into nutrition and fitness before MFP and lost 20 Lbs...I was googling something about fitness and MFP popped up and decided to use it to more finely tune my diet.
  • strozman
    strozman Posts: 2,622 Member
    The misc forum was getting a little too crazy, so I bounce back and forth between MFP
  • imsnowwhite
    imsnowwhite Posts: 894 Member
    An ad on Facebook I think
  • Lifeonmars2015
    Lifeonmars2015 Posts: 667 Member
    I can't recall, but l'm glad l did
  • cklbrown
    cklbrown Posts: 4,696 Member
    Laura Wright, who plays Carly on General Hospital tweeted that she had lost 10 pounds using this site. I had tried everything else, I figured why not this too.
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    zcb94 wrote: »
    My nutritionist recommended that I track every bite/sip religiously on here as part of an emergency attempt to get out of Morbidly Obese status.
    Oh nice! How has it been working for you?
    I've lost 30 lbs so far (with who-knows-how-many to go), and haven't been bored with it in a long time! I <3 it!

  • tylahquartez323
    tylahquartez323 Posts: 1,478 Member
    zcb94 wrote: »
    zcb94 wrote: »
    My nutritionist recommended that I track every bite/sip religiously on here as part of an emergency attempt to get out of Morbidly Obese status.
    Oh nice! How has it been working for you?
    I've lost 30 lbs so far (with who-knows-how-many to go), and haven't been bored with it in a long time! I <3 it!

    Great job keep it up! :)
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