Anyone used to use Sparkpeople? Friend me!

ladyofbugglake
ladyofbugglake Posts: 37 Member
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I just switched from SparkPeople due to myfitnesspal's superior mobile app (really SP? get it together already!).

I was sad to leave the good community I belonged to there... but a barcode reader that actually works is sooo worth it, amirite?

So help me feel like I belong again! Friend me! (is that how it works here?)

BTW, I'm a 30ish female. I try to eat Paleo as much as possible, but it ends up being part-time at best.
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  • candysashab88
    candysashab88 Posts: 73 Member
    ok how do we friend on here.
  • Jamesever
    Jamesever Posts: 54 Member
    I like this.
  • mrsgirwin1
    mrsgirwin1 Posts: 3 Member
    Excited to give this a try.
  • IllustriousBee
    IllustriousBee Posts: 70 Member
    SP refugee here. I'll gladly accept new friends.
  • PKM0515
    PKM0515 Posts: 3,089 Member
    candysashab88 wrote: »
    ok how do we friend on here.

    To add friends (I use the Web version, so App might be a bit different):

    1. Click on the name below the person's profile pic.
    2. Click on the person's name again on the pop-up window.
    3. Press "Skip" if you get a download message.
    4. Click the "Add As Friend" button on the person's profile page.

    Hope this helps! 😃
  • Sioranth
    Sioranth Posts: 306 Member
    Happy to make some former-SP friends as well!
  • ANDEC11
    ANDEC11 Posts: 114 Member
    I am checking out My Fitness Pal. Previously was on SparkPeople. I had account here years ago but consistently used Spark. Change can be good, right???
  • Marilynsretired
    Marilynsretired Posts: 5,543 Member
    Have been with SP for 18 years and now they are shutting it down - so here I am. Looking for some SP friends - friend me and I will accept - the more the better.
  • lignss
    lignss Posts: 7 Member
    edited June 2021
    So happy to find some fellow Sparkers here! After almost a decade with SP, it's sad but I'm glad to find some cool things here. Will gladly accept friends!
  • JUJUEU
    JUJUEU Posts: 2 Member
    I'm from SP, also. It's a long journey, so I need to keep up the obsession and community.
  • carolina_girl_69
    carolina_girl_69 Posts: 97 Member
    Another sparker here. Glad to see so many folks continue their health & fitness journey!

    :)
  • TamiVsTheTrail
    TamiVsTheTrail Posts: 75 Member
    Another SP here, looking forward to getting started here :)
  • FultonMO
    FultonMO Posts: 3 Member
    Checking this site out. Will finish Summer BLC/Invincible Indigos before I do much here.
  • eabl81
    eabl81 Posts: 5 Member
    I've been a sparker since 2012. I'm hoping to meet more sparkers here as I slowly transition to this site. I'm thinking this one just might work for me and am looking to make new friends.
  • rondajo56
    rondajo56 Posts: 556 Member
    Hi everyone! I too am from SP. I joined a group called NEEDING SUPPORT WITH WEIGHT LOSS. The group was started by my leader from SP. Check it out. Join us. WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE!!
  • ThursLins
    ThursLins Posts: 1,681 Member
    Hi! I joined SP in 2010. Got down to my goal weight, but have struggled a bit trying to maintain. Had just recently found the 5% Challenge teams, which was the extra motivation I needed. I was MondayLins on SP.
  • PKM0515
    PKM0515 Posts: 3,089 Member
    edited June 2021
    ThursLins wrote: »
    Hi! I joined SP in 2010. Got down to my goal weight, but have struggled a bit trying to maintain. Had just recently found the 5% Challenge teams, which was the extra motivation I needed. I was MondayLins on SP.

    I'm not a "challenge" sort of person, but there are lots of challenges to join here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/challenges

    Also, you might want to check out the MFP Groups section. There are challenges there as well: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/groups

    Hope this helps! :)

  • dianebeckner01
    dianebeckner01 Posts: 5 Member
    Just came over from sparkpeople because they are closing their site to make room for their new site, I checked out their new site and was like "Good grief!" . I don't need to answer a bazillion questions about how I'm feeling before every meal just to get to the food diary. A place for me to just jot a note for myself would be enough. So here I am, and so far so good. Would be happy to friend anyone! I'm 54 years old, doing the old fashioned calories in, calories, out, but real food ( no artificial anything), not processed, carbs from fruits, veggies, and whole milk dairy, but very little from breads, rice, pasta, etc. I do have a tsp of sugar in my coffee.
  • milliekitty2
    milliekitty2 Posts: 1 Member
    Hello Fellow Sparkers! I hope we can all find our place here at My Fitness Pal! I too was on Spark for 14 years and am looking forward to getting acclimated to this site and finding the support that is helpful to staying on our healthy living journey!
  • ItsTime2BMe
    ItsTime2BMe Posts: 163 Member
    Nice to see you here - I'm tracking in multiple worlds but I think this will be my primary one - it just depends where some of the challenges end up!
  • tiffanylyn13
    tiffanylyn13 Posts: 1 Member
    HI- fellow Spark Sistas! Happy to find some of you! I'm still on SP til they close but figured I better stat looking around some of the other sites. Hopefully this one works for me.
  • lianatherunner
    lianatherunner Posts: 45 Member
    I'm also a Sparker. I like the food database here better. I weigh all of my food and I often have to make a new entry on SP because their food database doesn't know how to calculate serving sizes. I'm sad to leave because I'd been on SP since 2008 and it helped me a lot. However, the things I liked about it are available here, too.

    My name on there was syzygy922. I'm glad to see some familiar names here! I have some SP friends who haven't logged in for years now and I wonder if they'll find their way here.
  • vparks5915
    vparks5915 Posts: 20 Member
    Hi I’m here from SparkPeople too. It was a way of life for me since 2013 , and I felt some kind of way that they’re closing it down.I’m Vlrprks on Spark. However life does go on and I’ve started adjusting to MFP. The database like you said for food is way better here. I’ll miss spinning the Spark wheel but the point of all was to be consistent with using the tracking of goals. I thank Spark for that and I’ll continue it here. I kinda wilded out last week with my food because of that disappointment as well as personal stuff going on. Then I realized that I’ll just keep going , and that getting used to something new is a part of life. Nice meeting fellow Sparkers here! I wish you the best in your journey. I’m sending you a friend request.
  • bcharie
    bcharie Posts: 4 Member
    Yup, I'm here from Spark. I'm sad they are shutting down, 13 years on there, a lot of relationships that have helped me on this journey. So far MFP, seems ok.
  • brownwilliam77
    brownwilliam77 Posts: 1 Member
    Hey whats up everyone!!!
    any one from texas?
  • Qriousity
    Qriousity Posts: 82 Member
    Totally right - the food tracker is SOOOOOOOOOO much better!! Wish I’d switched ages ago. I’m missing the community a bit so love this idea of building our own 😊. Now to see if keyboard emojis actually work on MFP….🤣
  • kerrilnmckay
    kerrilnmckay Posts: 2 Member
    Hi everyone! I am new here! Not too sure how to navigate the platform just yet ,but learning. Hope to inspire and be Inspired on this journey!
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Hi, and welcome to mfp Community. Im not a Sparker but wanted to say hi and I hope you enjoy all we have to offer here. The mfp community is choc full of all sorts of challenges, groups, advice and plain good old fashioned friendship.

    Welcome 🙂

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