My Fitness Pal made me gain weight...

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  • kennethmgreen
    kennethmgreen Posts: 1,759 Member
    Being stressed about your life and logging your calories, then blaming the logging of your calories is about as logical as cutting to a 500 calorie diet and drinking pregnant lady p.... what? What's that? You're kidding! Are you serious? Really? And now it's even at Wal-Mart!?

    Never mind.
  • sugarbone
    sugarbone Posts: 454 Member
    ... MFP did not make you gain weight. I think you are trying to comfort yourself over your weight gain. Only you control what goes in your mouth.
  • jwil1231
    jwil1231 Posts: 89 Member
    I read this article. I prefer having my food choices planned out and prepared because it keeps me from hitting the cabinets and refrigerator in a frenzy and eating a bunch of stuff that goes against what I'm trying to accomplish.
    And then I have stress because I gorged on calories :drinker:
  • StrengthIsBeautiful
    StrengthIsBeautiful Posts: 309 Member
    Your "be kinder than necessary" quote is from Mother Teresa.

    Actually, according to Google....

    "actually this is attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson"

    :laugh:

    Neither of these are correct. It was actually my supervisor that said it.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    I just read on Yahoo Health an article on naturally thin people and it said:

    "Psychosomatic Medicine showed that tracking your diet in a food journal can actually boost your stress levels, which in turn increases your level of a hormone called cortisol, and cortisol is linked to—you guessed it—weight gain."

    Of course this is not for everyone...I just had to share!
    Lol, stepping on a scale makes peoples blood pressure rise and their heart rate to increase! If a person is naturally thin, then why the hell are they tracking their food?
  • Smittyinthesun2
    Smittyinthesun2 Posts: 161
    Use common sense people. If you don't have any find someone who does and use theirs !
  • cloneme_losehalf
    cloneme_losehalf Posts: 356 Member
    Funny how all studies of the same thing get different answers. WW has preached it was what helps people lose weight for years and they have much success. My doctors have always said journal what I eat. The nutritionists said journal what you eat. And my psychologist after my divorce also offered that same advice. WOW!!! Funny how I can honestly say the ONLY time I have ever had ANY success losing weight is when I journaled what I had eaten.
  • bundmoehrchen
    bundmoehrchen Posts: 4 Member
    Wow, if someone is so stressed out about logging exercise and calories that they gain weight then they surely have no other problems in life.

    Or those people gained muscle weight and had no idea what muscles are...

    Or instead of making healthy food choices with their journal they allotted the wrong calorie count to the wrong food.

    Or it's some whiny little ***** who has no life.

    Personally I find it hard to even maintain my weight (let alone lose it) if I don't keep track of it to put me back on the right track, food wise. Let's hope I get back into logging, too.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    That depends on a person. For me tracking my food intake helped me a lot to be more disciplined & conscious of my eating habits.
  • ziggylove
    ziggylove Posts: 57
    Practically anything in life can boost stress levels. But we all (usually) get out of bed in the mornings anyway. :)
  • mommygirl81
    mommygirl81 Posts: 37
    Yep guess this doesn't apply to me because I have never been naturally thin..lol

    LOL Me either!
  • jeffpettis
    jeffpettis Posts: 865 Member
    That could be true...

    But you know what's really stressful?

    - being a big fat *kitten*,
    - feeling like a big fat *kitten*,
    - trying to find clothes while a fat *kitten*,
    - crying yourself to sleep cause you're a fat *kitten*,
    - listening to other comment on how fat your fat *kitten* is,
    - heart failure... that's stressful
    - not fitting into the booth or theater chair...... also a lil stressful...

    Yeah.. that's fricken stress. MFP logging?... not so much.

    Ha Ha!!! I Love it!!!!
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
    I personally find stress makes me lose weight. Might just be me
  • sunshine421969
    sunshine421969 Posts: 273 Member
    Everyone can get stressed from day to day,but it is on how we handle it. As for me I am not going to let stress keep me from losing weight.It maybe going slow for me, but I have noticed for example.A friend of mine showed me MFP about 2 months ago,when I first started logging in all my calories I lost 4 lbs in like the first two weeks.Then I got lazy and stopped...I would get online and log on breakfast.Then forget the rest of the day.Guess what ? I gained it all back.So 5 days ago I started logging again on MFP and have dropped 4 pounds.So I plan to stick with it and know that I will get great results! so for me, MFP is a great site to get great results!
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