What do you consider a successful day?

tammi42015
tammi42015 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
I am on and off of MFP. I like it but I have a hard time staying motivated and staying focus. I recently decided instead of jumping in with both feet like I usually do, I will start slower. But when starting slower, I wondered to myself, how do I know when I had a successful day? Will I feel it internally? Will it be on the calories I list on MFP? Would it be something else? How to you measure a successful day? And at what point are you picking up where you left off or starting over after a non-successful day?

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,758 Member
    As it pertains to MFP and the goal of losing weight ...

    A successful day is one where I stay under my calorie limit.

    An even more successful day is one where I've done a reasonable quantity of exercise. I always feel like I've accomplished something in a day if I've even done as little as an hour's walk.


    When I'm on a mission to lose weight, it is rare for me to have an unsuccessful day. I tend to stick to my goals.


    But life isn't all about MFP and losing weight, and one of the things I found helpful when I was losing the bulk of my weight was to focus on other things ... like the university courses I'm taking in addition to working full time. The amount of work I have to put into those courses puts any thoughts about food on the back burner. I just eat the usual every day ... I know it is under my calories so I don't have to worry about it ... and I focus on things that really matter like getting good marks in my course.
  • 1meh
    1meh Posts: 94 Member
    edited September 2017
    A successful day is one where I'm alive at the end of it. Hey, I like to keeps goals manageable.

    Seriously a successful MPF day is one where I am 100% honest with tracking. This lets me 1. Identify problems as well as 2. Makes me more mindful of what I'm eating. This second one keeps me on plan. And yes, this means tracking the three (ahem 10) pieces of candy I ate from the receptionist's candy bowl.

    Once I got better at tracking, I worried more about always staying under my goal and eating more veggies and less sugar, but for the first week or so, I think just learning to be REALLY honest with me was a very good start.
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