If I had my MFP time over again...

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  • ErrataCorrige
    ErrataCorrige Posts: 649 Member
    I wish I hadn't gotten within 5 lbs of my goal, and thought I could do it from now on without logging. I would tell mysefl to keep logging, even in maintenance.

    Then maybe I wouldn't have gained 30 lbs back and be basically starting over 2 years later. :ohwell:
  • karenwill2
    karenwill2 Posts: 604 Member
    I wish I had never quit. That I was as dedicated in the 1st year as I am now. But now I am smaller than I was when I got pregnant with my 2nd child so now I just have to lose the weight from the 1st. Plus pictures and measurements of course. I will still lose this weight. I am 4 lbs away from 50!
  • sweeney65
    sweeney65 Posts: 24
    i would have invited my friends earlier. i did it alone for about a month to see if i'd keep it up. but the site got a lot more fun when my friends joined.

    i would have added all my measurements on day one (you can add more fields under Settings, Diary Settings)
  • BaconMD
    BaconMD Posts: 1,165 Member
    I only started with MFP at the end of December, so my wish is that I had found it back in March when I started working out. I still managed to lose a bit of weight without it, but having my nutrition on better track from day one would have me in a much better spot today, I am sure. I tried to eat better choices, but my portions were still too big, though they definitely naturally decreased over time.

    I also wish I had video-recorded lots of my journey... Being out of breath at the top of my stairs.. My first workout session, 10 minutes in, nearly dying in the middle of 40-50 mountainclimbers. My victories on the scale. The first time I ran 9.0 for 30 seconds. All of this, the best I have is audio recordings. A video would be much more awesome.

    Also I wish I had recorded measurements of my body since day one and took more pics. I don't even know what my starting weight was! My display pic shows all I know of my starting weight.

    So why didn't I do all of that? Because I expected to fail yet again, like every other time. But this time it was different, and I'm not going back. I'm not going to quit. This time it's for real.

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