Why are some people afraid to leave their FOOD diary open?
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GEEZ O'PETE!!! First, I thought my diary was open to everyone. VERY SORRY! OMGoodness!! I am my own hypocrite. ROFL. :smokin:
I love some of the responses. Very.......insightful to say the least.
Maybe I overstated it when I said, "afraid." No matter. I now know who I will ask to friend and who not!!! :laugh:0 -
GEEZ O'PETE!!! First, I thought my diary was open to everyone. VERY SORRY! OMGoodness!! I am my own hypocrite. ROFL. :smokin:
I love some of the responses. Very.......insightful to say the least.
Maybe I overstated it when I said, "afraid." No matter. I now know who I will ask to friend and who not!!! :laugh:
Its still not open:laugh: :laugh:0 -
yes, it is.0
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yes, it is.
It might only be open to friends, but to everyone else, it looks closed. I can't view it. i don't want to, but the link isn't there for me to either way.0 -
yes, it is.
Nope its not0 -
Well, dammit, I went to my profile and fixed it. WHY isn't it taking? (Where's the smiley that blows up the computer!) LOLOL0
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Mine is open. To my friends. Whose opinions I am interested in. I have zero interest in the opinions of random strangers.0
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Well, dammit, I went to my profile and fixed it. WHY isn't it taking? (Where's the smiley that blows up the computer!) LOLOL
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0 -
Well, dammit, I went to my profile and fixed it. WHY isn't it taking? (Where's the smiley that blows up the computer!) LOLOL
Did you change the specific food diary settings? Your profile security settings are different from food diary settings. Go into your food diary, then go to settings, and it's at the bottom of the page.0 -
AHA!!!!! I have found that there are TWO places to change your settings. One for the overall view and a separate one for the food diary. WHO KNEW!!!
By golly!!! I learned something new today....all by myself!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!! :drinker:
Thank you for the directions, but I found it before I saw your post.0 -
because i'm doing this for me... not for other people. Plain and simple!0
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Your before/after pic is amazing! Congratulations!0
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I posted that I had a "cheat day" one time and got told off by some fat girl who said I need to do everything in moderation and that if I was so obsessed that I needed a cheat day that I must have an unhealthy relationship with food and needed to get help! Seriously!? I gave her a piece of my mind and unfriended her...my diary is still open, but there's so many "know-it-all's" on here that are just waiting to "educate" the rest of us morons...0
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because i'm doing this for me... not for other people. Plain and simple!
I love your pic!0 -
Mine's open and if people want to say stuff great.. say stuff. I'm going to take everyones opinions into consideration but at the end of the day, I ignore about 99% percent of it. Like this comment I got yesterday that said I needed to eat more at breakfast so that my body had more time to digest the food and then I wouldn't be so hungry at dinnertime or something along those lines. I exercise right before dinner.. so a lot of the time my dinner is a bit bigger.. problem? not at all, I'm still losing weight. Did I thank the person who made the comment? Yup and if at some point my weightless stalls, maybe I'll follow that advice.0
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I don't get that on my diary, but I've made it perfectly clear that I eat what I want, and I'm not out to rid my life of everything someone on the internet says is toxic. I think that judgement is a huge reason people don't leave their diaries open. I beat myself up well enough ALLLLLL by myself, and I'm working on that. When a stranger starts putting me down, it kind of makes me backtrack, and gives that negative part of my brain a reason to put me down.0
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I keep mine set to friends pnly because I don't want random people going through what I eat and Picking my diet apart. I share with people who add me and are willing to be supportive. If someone is rude, I can delete them and move on. My diet is my business but I don't mind sharing my "secrets" with them. If you want to add me you can, but don't expect me to be nice if you tear apart what I eat.0
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I have to agree that everyone has a right to privacy and if they don't want to share their diet with total strangers, they shouldn't have to. It really isn't anyone's business what I eat and I don't really care what someone else eats, except for my friends. My diary is set to 'friends only' because they won't judge me if I screw up one day....but I have seen people make un-solicited negative comments on other people's food diaries. Just because someone wants to use MFP doesn't mean they hand over all rights to privacy.0
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I think having my food diary has helped keep me on track. My father and I will go back and forth about what each other has been eating. Helps keep me on track if nothing else, knowing he is checking up on me. Don't want to disappoint your parents. Right???0
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Mine isn't closed because fear criticism - I just use it as a tool for myself so nobody needs to see it. If I need advice on what I am eating, I will happily open it, but I don't currently feel that is the case.
I'm surprised that people actually care about this.
Exactly, I feel the same way.0
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