...has logged in for 180 days in a row!

I made MFP my homepage, so everyday when I log in I am seeing this site first. I am having the same problem, mostly with my family, so I can't think of anything else right now, but would love to hear some other ideas...

Congrats on the log ins. I think it is a crucial part of our success. I love MFP and have also been telling everyone about it. I love the app on my phone. So extremely easy to use. Its the first time in my life that I feel that I have a key to long lasting success. Good luck everyone!

I think the biggest thing for me, in keeping my "streak" alive is having a smart phone. Before I had one, I'd log in 5-6 days a week, but there were just days when I didn't want to get on the computer, and it had nothing to do with MFP. The phone makes it so much easier for tracking food and logging in consistently.

Hopefully even if they're not logging onto MFP every day, they're still tracking what they eat! That's the biggest part.

I don't understand why are yall trying to get your families to do anything......Take care of yourself. Maybe they don't want to change their lives right now.

My husband has no interest in changing his lifestyle... even though he is on cholesterol medicine, has sleep apnea, and his doctor has told him he needs to lose weight. I've tried to get him on board and nothing has worked. I don't say anything to him anymore. Losing weight and changing your whole lifestyle takes immense committment. He's not there and he may never be and I have to be ok with that.

Congratulations on getting to 180 days.

As for your family well I have posted on my facebook telling my friends who want to lose weight to join the site and nothing. I think it is up to them.

I don't understand why are yall trying to get your families to do anything......Take care of yourself. Maybe they don't want to change their lives right now.

Seriously? Look, no one can be successful at weight loss until they are vested. This is true. But I think the spirit of Carl's question is obvious: when you care about the people around you and you see them making a token effort (as evidenced by his OP in which he talks about their inconsistency) then you want to do whatever you can to help them find that internal drive to be successful.

I'll share this with you, Carl, from a personal perspective. I joined about a month after you and did so BECAUSE MY WIFE WAS HAVING SUCCESS...I was successfully hustled by my wife from inactivity and inconsistency to a highly consistent (not 180 in a row yet, man, but closing in) and successful "loser." Here's what she did that worked for me.

Modeling Good Behavior. She didn't put it in my face but rather showed me how successful she was being through her actions. It was done positively. Little things like working more veggies into family dinners under the auspices of getting the kids to eat more. Seeing her up early EVERY DAY to do her exercise and watching her plan to eat well EVERY DAY motivated me to try it. (In other words, what you are already doing is crucial!)

Open Conversations. We are flat out open with each other since undertaking this together. Good days, bad days, planning, support...you name it and we talk about it in a non-judgmental and supportive way. The communication was crucial.

No Pressure. My wife never pressured me to do more...until I was vested. It was all passive modeling until I reached that point. In the end, it was me approaching her and asking "What's that sit you're using?" and when I struggled, low pressure encouragement to keep going in spite of the challenge.

In the end you cannot force anyone to be more committed, but through example and openness you can have a positive impact on their ability to find their own motivation. As a colleague of mine from our psychology department has noted, it has been show in research to take a person 32 - 34 days to fundamentally change a behavior. Keep being the shining example you've been and hopefully more of your loved ones will choose to follow your example. You are doing and have done a great job, and caring about the success or failure of those around you enhances this success in my eyes.