How did you found MFP?

CsBalint
CsBalint Posts: 9 Member
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My question:
How did you found MyFitnessPal?
Waiting for your storyes.

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  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    Friends at work were using it...and I love the control of calorie counting! I had to check it out.

    How I discovered the forums...whole different story!
  • FireTurtle75
    FireTurtle75 Posts: 2,014 Member
    Don't remember. That was about 6 years ago.
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    I honestly don't know
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  • Piqueaboo
    Piqueaboo Posts: 1,193 Member
    I previously used Calorie Count, but then kinda ended up here, I think google made me do it... I prefer MFP, so I stayed, been on here for years now.
  • grayblackmfp
    grayblackmfp Posts: 140 Member
    Can't remember how I ended up here. Must be getting old :D
  • BattleRopes
    BattleRopes Posts: 128 Member
    I was browsing, for a Calorie Calculator & this was the 1st website, that appeared that wasn't a "sponsored" advertisement; I only click upon official sites!
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    When my company stopped paying for Weight Watchers I was looking for something similar I could do for free and stumbled upon this.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    My doctor reminded me that people can lose weight without Weight Watchers. In my teens, I'd had some success with those paperback pocket book calorie counters, but since it was October 2016, I figured that there was probably a website for it. (I'd stumbled on one in the past but couldn't remember the name). When I typed "online calorie counting" into Google, MFP came up on the first page of hits.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    My doctor put the fear of drugs in me and I googled for some way to lose weight.
  • browneyedgirl749
    browneyedgirl749 Posts: 4,984 Member
    Google search after Lose It! wasn't giving me results.
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    In a Parents magazine. Longgg time ago.
  • beepbopbeepbop
    beepbopbeepbop Posts: 12 Member
    Personals section
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    I didn't find MFP, MFP found me.
  • JLAJ81
    JLAJ81 Posts: 2,477 Member
    Googled best place to try and pass off being a hot fit chick
  • FireTurtle75
    FireTurtle75 Posts: 2,014 Member
    I had no idea where I was going when I got here. I was just up for adventure & followed a treasure map on the back of a specially marked boxed of Captain Crunch. That led me to a mysterious island shrouded in a rainbow color fog. Once inside the fog, I had to follow a crumby pirate that went by the name A'hoy. I think his first name was Chip or something like that.
    Anyhow he led me to the center of Donut Island(that was the name of this island that I discovered), where I had to jump in the giant donut hole to pass a worthiness test. Once I made the leap, I found a magical portal at the bottom of the hole that allowed me to log into this mysterious MFP dating site. Unfortunately, I have no use fore that, but also fortunately for me also has good resources on how to not be a fat *kitten*... So here I am, at the bottom of a hole in the middle of a giant donut, surrounded by rainbow fog all thanks to a box of delicious cereal. I haven't seen Chip in a while though. If I do I'll tell him A'Hoy from all of you.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    court ordered.
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    A friend had me sign up when she did, by my profile that was 2010 :astonished: . I didn't use it (and probably didn't login) again until my youngest was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes 2.5 years ago and the nutritionist suggested using it for carb counts for him. I really started using it for myself 4 months ago.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    @CsBalint wrote: »
    My question:
    How did you found MyFitnessPal?
    Waiting for your storyes.

    I was on this spellcheck website...
  • EastLAhomie
    EastLAhomie Posts: 5 Member
    Recommended to me by my personal trainer. It's been a great help keeping a food diary. They need to improve how you enter your weight workouts. Make it more streamlined.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    edited August 2017
    I knew a woman online for years who was "my kind" and by that I simply mean, plus sized and still confident, happy, attractive, etc. Then she lost around 100 lb (over 18 months or so) using something called My Fitness Pal, and unlike most people I knew (irl) who lost huge amounts of weight, she was still her same awesome self and not some weird person who only ate watermelon and looked sad all of the time...

    I was in! Worked well for me, too. For a little bit I tried hooking other friends up with it when they lamented slow weight loss but so far most people I've mentioned MFP to just use it for a few weeks and don't see any loss and move on. I guess it isn't for everyone but it is for me...I am so glad I gave it a shot.
  • night_owls1985
    night_owls1985 Posts: 40 Member
    I found it on my app search .
  • EastLAhomie
    EastLAhomie Posts: 5 Member
    I was being evaluated by one of my trainers and he recommend I try it. I'm glad I did. It's a good food journal.
  • Jerrypeoples
    Jerrypeoples Posts: 1,541 Member
    company's HR department
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    edited August 2017
    I was overweight all my life, and starting around middle school, I read articles here and there pertaining to weight loss. Idk exactly how, but in my mid-teens, I came across MFP. A friend told me that counting calories didn't work, and I stopped using MFP after a month or so. During my first year in college, I started thinking a whole lot more about my health and weight, and the following summer, I began my weight loss. I lost the first 10-15 lbs without MFP. I just cut back my portions and did rough estimates for calories. I used measuring cups for both solids and liquids (so glad to use a food scale now lol). One day, I happened to remember this website, and I've been logging in since then.
  • RichJBenham
    RichJBenham Posts: 30 Member
    Friend of mine uses it and suggested it as i was struggling to lose as much weight per week as i wanted, eye opener in terms of calories had per day and in the 20 days i've been using, lost 6lbs
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    My Registered Dietitian made me do it.

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