does myfitnesspal work for YOU!?

I have found my weight loss to be on par with the prediction. But I know it sure is hard to imagine at first. I promised myself to log EVERYTHING. If I have a sample or a bite of something I log it. The difficulties in logging little things like this, keep me from eating them...and when I do eat them it holds me accountable for them.

This site is working for me. I hope you find it to work for you too.

I have been doing this for four weeks now. I Log EVERY SINGLE calorie I put in my mouth and every single calorie I burn in the gym. It keeps me aware of how much time I am working out and how many calories I eat.. It makes me really focus on portions and being sure I eat lower calorie stuff so I can still get enough in me for the entire day.. Its been amazing

In 4 weeks.. Ive lost 17lbs!! Its been wonderful.

Yes, it does. I don't find logging hard at all.

So far, so good!

That said, any tool is only going to be as good as the person using it. Unless you have some specific health issues, I think the numbers on MFP are applicable for the vast majority of people, and there's no need to try to second guess the numbers or go for a much larger deficit than MFP suggests.

Also, by looking at the specific calorie levels on MFP I finally learned why someone like me who only needs to lose 20-30 pounds shouldn't expect to lose at a 2 lb/week rate. Now that I know that 1 lb/week is realistic (and so far I've actually lost 6 pounds over just under 5 weeks), I don't get disappointed in my rate of weight loss, and i just keep feeling encouraged and ready to keep at it.

Hell yes, it does! I log from home, work, & on the go with my cell phone. I've made a really great friend (I met on here!)who makes my life so much more interesting. I'd say 200lbs in 8 months says it works like a charm.:noway: :drinker:

Holy cr@p!! That is awesome!!! I hope I can get to ONEDERLAND by my birthday in 17 weeks...that will be 45 lbs off in that amount of time. I don't know if I can, but I would LOVE to be there by the time I turn 32!!

This site DOES work. I am the first to admit that logging calories seemed like a HUGE waste of time and energy, however I have sucked it up - considered the fact that I have been up and down and up and down my whole life - and I was kinda tired of being on that roller coaster. I have tried everything else BUT doing it the healthy way AND for the right reason (ME!). Three months later, I was down 28 lbs - totalled out to 9.33 lbs per month!! I haven't been perfect all the time, I have my off days, but when I feel like quitting, I take it to my friends and they are SO wonderful at lifting my spirits and seeing me through!

I couldn't have done this without them.

Hell yes, it does! I log from home, work, & on the go with my cell phone. I've made a really great friend (I met on here!)who makes my life so much more interesting. I'd say 200lbs in 8 months says it works like a charm.:noway: :drinker:

I love it here! I keep track on my phone the support here is amazing! Also I've made a great friend on here who is upbeat, funny and charming and keeps me motivated and inspires me to work harder!

You better believe it!! MFP is an amazing tool for accountability (that thing that makes you lose the weight) and the support and encouragement you get along the way is the added bonus, the icing on the cake.

Oh, I misread the topic. I thought it said "do your myfitnesspals work for you?" Then i was going to say, "no" and watch all my friends disappear! (I am just kidding right?!)

In all seriousness, I have been logging continuously for around 4 months now and have achieved great results (11 kgs of weight loss but lots more strength and energy as well!) Although I feel that I was always nutrition savvy (though exercised relatively little over the past decade or so) Its the first time that I have used a "food diary" to monitor my calories and I find that it has been really useful to me. Not just from a calorie control point of view but also in helping me recognise when I am more likely to over-eat. It is a really useful accountability tool!

I have also found all the encouragement that I receive from mfp friends (and these forums) fantastic too. There are days when I feel it is great to be able to keep myself in check by reading other's comments. There are days when motivating others motivates me too! This really is a great community!

so yes overall, myfitnesspal does work for me. And yes, all you myfitnesspals also work for me too. Hang on... that doesn't sound right does it? Where are you all going? Oh oh....

Works for me too. As long as you don't cheat and lie to it, MFP is a friend you can't do without!!!

Before, I'd pick at things and not think about the calorie content - now, I log EVERYTHING, even if I go over my limit, as it gives me something to look back on if I have a good/bad week, and makes me so much more aware of how much I'm eating.

Take last night for example - I always ease back on a Friday as it's my weighing day - (it works for me, doesn't work for everyone I know) - I ate a huge bar of fruit and nut chocolate that I'd seen on sale - wouldn't normally worry about having eaten such a huge bar (the old me) but it put me nearly 800 over for the day, so as I'm dog sitting at the moment, I took the dog for a walk, and as soon as the pool opens this morning I'm going for a swim.

I think if I stopped using MFP now I'd gradually slip back into my old ways - it's so easy to do. I've come too far to undo all the good I've done so looks like MFP is a lifelong buddy!

I log everything, even on my bad days...it keeps me true to my word. MFP does work - but it takes effort on your part to make it work. As earlier posts stated, the predictor for weight loss in 5 weeks is pretty much on par. I weigh myself weekly on MFP and I track everything - from the computer all the way to tracking via my iPhone on the app. It's great!!!

It is an awesome too,, but you have to putthe work in. I've found the biggest thing has been the support of my friends. Also, joining contests has motivated me.

It is not accurate with it's predictions for me, However. It takes me about twice as long to reach where it predicts, but as long as I'm losing, I'm okay with that.

The site doesn't work... YOU make it work!

It's a tool, like any hammer or screwdriver. If you pick it up and use it correctly, it does what it's supposed to do. But there's nothing magical about the site or it's plan. It's just basic math.

There *is* something magical in having amazing supportive friends, though.

Also one more thing, do you actully wieght that much in 5 weeks or close to there?

I actually made a note once of the "you'd weigh X in 5 weeks." It said i'd weight 208 lbs in 5 week mid september, which equated to October 20th. I was currently 221 lbs

On October 20th i was 211 lbs, so it was pretty close.

It has worked for me. I've been doing this for about a year, combining the food logging with exercise, and have gone from 198 lbs down to 169 which is pretty darn close to my target weight; And recent studies that have been in the news point to the methods used in MFP, namely keeping a daily log of what you eat and exercising, to have more consistent and long term effects than just dieting. MFP isn't a diet, it's more of a lifestyle change. I'm sure you could do the same with any other method of tracking your food, but this website makes it fairly painfree to do so. The main thing, I think, with achieving any long term goal, is to realize that it takes multiple small steps to get there. Don't do MFP if all you're looking for is a quick 5 week fix. But if you want to look and feel better a year from now, or 2, or more, then get started. After all, in a year, you'll still be a year older, but where do you want to be? Good luck.

MFP is the ONLY thing that has worked for me.