I love exercise.. but honestly, I've been slacking.
My move consumed me and was out of commission for a couple of weeks. I need to get back on it!!!

I really didn't log until this year. I lost weight w/o logging on MFP but kept accountable to P90X journals and things like that. So this new year's resolution was to start logging more.

Thanks for the kind kick in the butt.

Also, about 2 months ago or so, I hit a plateau and although I was seeing great results in my body from running and heavy lifting, the scale suddenly not moving discouraged me.

Not logging??? Tisk tisk! I do not understand. That's the point of the site and how I found it to begin with on my phone. Really?

My fave group on this site is the StrongLifts for women group because it's all about lifting and the ladies are supportive no matter where you are with your lifts. My fave lift now is well all lifts because they're empowering and yield the best results for me at least. I'm stoked because I learned the difference between the overhead press, push press, and Olympic something else press with a staggered stance that was legit just from posting a simple question in the forum. A few different female lifters responded with some great feedback and now my entire training has shifted for StrongLifts. It's pretty awesome.

Single Peeps is for singles so obviously dating is discussed. The first question I posed on here I was shocked at the detailed and thought provoking feedback and I appreciated it! Sometimes it's hard to see outside the box when you're in the box. Having objective opinions is great. I do feel funny posing feedback on specific dating scenarios with people because that's just me, but I can see the value in it to get that objective out-of-the-box feedback.

Back to Will90210's point. If you're not committing to your fitness goals specific to MFP then why be on here? Just join a dating or single/divorced support forum. If you slack on yourself, people will see you as a slacker! Nobody wants to partner with a slacker.

Happy logging and sexy dating! :drinker:

I didn't log today because I had a "feeling sorry for myself" day which led to grazing which led to overages, I'm sure. But I've been plateaued for so long, I have no idea what I am doing. My weight is up a few pounds and I am trying to focus on my workouts and getting stronger (just bought one of the NROL books) and I know I am more fit but not happy my weight is stuck stuck stuck. I have struggled with my calories so much...that logging is just frustrating. I can give you advice all day long that a person is not defined by a number...either a weight or a size, but when my own weight or size stays the same I am really hard on myself. Today was a mental health day, don't beat myself up day and just make it through day.

I recently joined this group because there seemed to be a lot of funny, insightful, and cool folks of a variety of ages and singleness.

I will continue to try to log food and exercise; continue in my journey to a healthier and fitter me; and try to figure out how to be single again after 20 years.

I log everything, exercise and food!

I didn't log today because I had a "feeling sorry for myself" day which led to grazing which led to overages, I'm sure. But I've been plateaued for so long, I have no idea what I am doing. My weight is up a few pounds and I am trying to focus on my workouts and getting stronger (just bought one of the NROL books) and I know I am more fit but not happy my weight is stuck stuck stuck. I have struggled with my calories so much...that logging is just frustrating. I can give you advice all day long that a person is not defined by a number...either a weight or a size, but when my own weight or size stays the same I am really hard on myself. Today was a mental health day, don't beat myself up day and just make it through day.

I recently joined this group because there seemed to be a lot of funny, insightful, and cool folks of a variety of ages and singleness.

I will continue to try to log food and exercise; continue in my journey to a healthier and fitter me; and try to figure out how to be single again after 20 years.

I'll be your lifting partner! :flowerforyou:

Thanks! That would be awesome.

I haven't been logging my foods as much lately because I've been logging since Jan of 2011, so I have a pretty good idea of what I stuff my face with.

I've only started logging again this week since I started the Paleo challenge so I can see the nutrients and ratios I'm getting out of the food, just for pure curiosity's sake.

As far as working out.. I have a love/hate relationship with it. It's hard while I'm doing it (cause I always do intense hard sht), but I love myself after I'm done, and I love the way it makes me feel and look. I love being a badass. I love reaching fitness goals more than I do "weight loss" or even smaller clothes goals. I was way more excited when I could do a pullup than when I went into single digit pant sizes.

But that's just my two cents.

I mainly come on here for the great community. I only really surf Single Peeps because the other forums get on my nerves with all of the horrid advice and know-it-alls.

I love all my friends too. I like to comment on their stuff. Not the calories and workout posts, but when they actually post something. I suppose I like MFP because no one in real life really knows me on it so I can say whatever the eff I want.

{{{{{big hugs to everyone}}}}}

I'm taking the month of May off... was slacking towards the end of the semester with project wrap ups, final papers, exams, and the entrance exam for PhD. Decided I needed to really decompress... but then again I'm moving, so it isn't as stress-free as I'd like. With packing and moving, I've been eating out a lot, but also doing a lot more physical labor than my norm. Didn't want to wear a HRM 24/7 for two weeks, so logging would be rather pointless. Starting June 1, I'll be set up in my own place, and back to "life as normal"... or the new normal anyway. My own kitchen, my exercise equipment, etc. Logging and working out, and working on research again.

Most days I log everything (even over-indulgences) and most days I try to work out 30-60 min a day. Strangely, I find the people in the "regular" nutrition, exercise, and chit chat forums to be a little mean for my taste. I enjoy Single Peeps and a few other groups.

im pretty good at logging my food, but i'm not 100% there. there's still anywhere from 100-300 calories i'm either not logging at all or inaccurately logging because i dont use a scale.

i LOVE exercise. everyday i like challenging myself. I love how my hams and glutes are almost always sore after a lift day because i can finally do ATG squats :happy: in a few weeks i'll be changing things up a bit and will be taking krav maga. i've been wanting to take it for a few years but now i finally feel like i'm in good enough shape to do it.

I used to log my food here on MFP I stopped about over 2 years ago. I stopped logging here because of my old android phone, the LG Ally. It had lots of flaws with the main being very low on physical memory and storage. I had to constantly remove apps and other things to make room for just normal functionality. It came with Android 2.1 which didn't support the ability to move and store apps on a SD card. According to LG themselves, it was "too weak" to support newer versions of the Android OS.

After much fustrations I did research on the interwebz and found out about rooting cel phones. I rooted my LG Ally and it worked BEAUTIFULLY. I was able to remove alot of the extra "bloatware" on it and got better functionality. However the MFP app would crash. Never could get it to work properly after I rooted the LG Ally. I searched and found another site/app SparkPeople that worked with my rooted LG Ally and I track on that. I however never got used to the forums there and stuck on MFP here. I like MFP's fourms. It helps keep my long boring nights @ work entertaining. :bigsmile:

I no longer have the LG Ally. I have the Droid 4 now. It's pretty nice phone and MFP app works on it but I am lazy about starting over in a sense. I have all the favorites, meals, that sorta thing on Sparkpeople. I do track my exercises calories here with my Polar HRM.

I love exercise.. but honestly, I've been slacking.
My move consumed me and was out of commission for a couple of weeks. I need to get back on it!!!

Also, about 2 months ago or so, I hit a plateau and although I was seeing great results in my body from running and heavy lifting, the scale suddenly not moving discouraged me.

To me the number on the scale was the last thing on my mind. I never worried or cared about being fat. It was finding out I had diabetes type II back in Dec. 2009 that got me "rolling" (HA I made funny!) on the eat healthier, weight loss bandwagon. After losing 100 lbs. I reversed it and no longer have diabetes but I keep going because I can easily get it again if I revert back to my old habits like eating crap all the time, not staying active. I could stay at the weight I am now, never lose 1 other pound and I'd be happy with it as long as the diabetes doesn't return. To me the weight loss is just the added cherry on top of a sundae. Plus I enjoy it. Stress reliever and keeps me busy and focus so I don't dwell on the negative aspects of being single.

I am not where I want to be... yet. I do log all exercise and most food though usually when I leave my job I dont get back on MFP but I know how many cals I have left and use that to gauge my intake for the evening.

I really enjoy exercising when I get into it. Lately I have been struggling to find that spark again. I have not been consistent with exercise or my food. In a moment of weakness I somewhat threw in the towel last week and deleted my old account. But then I told myself I can't give up on myself so I rejoined this week. It's a struggle for me but I need to reignite myself.

I like coming to Single Peeps because like JJ said there are alot of meanies in the regular forums or know-it-alls. Some of the stuff we post here might be attacked in the regular forum. I like our little community here and I don't feel so alone being single. :flowerforyou:

I come to the forums for entertainment not usually for diet/exercise discussions. This group seems to be the best mix of active/level headed people around so it's pretty much the only place I read anymore. If I actually have a question about diet or exercise I google it.... the rest of the forums can't seem to go more than 5 posts without starting an argument.

I log everything to the best that I can. I eat at a lot of local restaurants without nutrition information so I make my best guess.
I've also become slightly addicted to exercise, I hate days when I don't get at least 30 minutes in of some form.

I am curious and as I am in single peeps a lot and value all your opinions and viewpoints I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, but I have a question.

I have some of you in my friends list and others have open diaries, and I notice a lot of you don't seem to log any food or exercise?

So my question is, for those that don't log, are you at your goal and just doing maintenance? Are you logging in other places or just not really worrying about diet and exercise?

I like this forum and a lot of our convos, but we never discuss diet and exercise on a fitness site! Jthomas started a thread about fitness once and it died?!

My favorite part of everyday is my time in the gym or on the trail/road. Is that true for anyone else or is this more of an interactive advice column for dating?


So for me I love the feeling I get from working out! I like spending my time worrying if I can increase lean muscle mass on a calorie deficit vice should I call her?! I like when I finish my last set of squats and I nearly fall over because my legs are so tired! I think it is amazing when I go back through this journal and see a month ago I was doing nearly 65 lbs less in dead lifts!

Does anyone else enjoy exercise?

I workout, run and stuff. I don't always log, I've gotten a little slack. But I need to refocuse and drop the last 15-20lbs then I'll be at my goal.

I enjoy lifting now, never used to.

I suck at life. lol.

I was actually going to put a post up today about diet and dating. Since I started dating Jersey .. my diet has gone out the window. Gone. Poof. Along with my wilpower to forge on. Before we started dating I was exercising 5-6 days a week at the very least 30 mins. Sometimes 90 mins. I logged every single bite .. over estimated calories .. now .. nothing.

I am very frustrated with myself.

I was thinking the same thing. Not just dating but trying to be socialable. It seems like most dating/social activities involve food and/or alcohol and I have a hard time finding a way not to slide when I start getting out into the world more.