Life WITHOUT MyFitnessPal ... Can we do it?

I will probably be on here for life.

I like knowing what goes into my body at all times and keeping track in a diary.

I have also met some of the most amazing friends ever on here.. Never leaving them. xoxo

I haven't logged in about 3 weeks now. Doing good. yes, my ultimate goal is to quit all the non-sense of logging food. But, I've been at it for years now, so I would suggest that people keep at it until you know stuff by heart. Like I can grab a handful of raw almonds, throw them on the scale, and they will be very very close to one serving, I know this because I do it randomly sometimes with my food, even though I'm not logging. I'll throw on some rice, or whatever and just see if I'm in the ballpark, and I usually am. So, if I can at least maintain, I wont worry about it.

MFP por vida!!!!! I can't see why I would stop. Everything should be done in moderation though, so if its too cumbersome for you maybe there needs to be a modification. Good luck!

I used to doubt it... Went through about 5 months where I didn't track anything before I joined MFP and I gained 10 pounds. That was over the holidays and I wasn't exercising as much as usual due to bad winter weather and I let some bad habits creep back in.

But then I tested it again recently over vacation. Went 5 days without tracking and I only gained a pound! That was with no real dedicated exercise (did some walking around and lazy swimming) and making good food choices. So I think I could do it but as others have said, it's a great tool, why not stick with it as long as I feel I need to?

I'm pretty sure I'll be an active member for at least the next couple years. It'll probably take me another year to get to goal and then I want to maintain for a while to make sure I can do it. After that, I might lay off logging for a while just to see how I do but stay active in the social parts of the site to support my friends and help out the newbies.

MFP for life!!

^^^This!!!

I worry about what happens when MFP goes under (because, if I get healthy I plan to live to 100 and I am not sure if MFP will be here in 2076).

My doctor told me that "I won't always do this, I will just know how to do things/eat the right way". Really? I spent 35 years getting fat. It happens easily when you don't track. No matter how much money you have in your bank account, you still balance your checkbook?

MFP for life!

I don't count calories, I just like posting on the forums. And I'm still losing weight.

I have come to really appreciate MFP and the friends I have made... I am still a newbie, only 20 days in, but it has truly revolutionized my life. I am eating the foods I love and discovering new foods to love. I am also learning I can do it.
So I have to say nope, no way, not going to give up MFP. :noway: :noway:

I will use it as long as I have it. Plus I have made some AWESOME friends up here. It's not JUST about logging logging logging. :happy:

I have been on this journey for 6 years and have tracked all of that time in one program or another....its pretty much like brushing my teeth now and with the aid of phone apps is a breeze to do...Im quite positive ill be using it till the day I die lol I got up too 380 pounds at one time and clearly have a food addiction...i would say at the very most i might cut back on the number of days i track...but still at this point with only 20 pounds left to lose that seems like a long way from here.

I'm too far into losing my desired weight to want to go to another weight-loss website. Plus, Facebook is really starting to get "stale", and this place is my new "go-to" site. I have a goal in mind, and this site/ app, has really gotten me the focus and determination i have been looking for.

MFP is teaching me to pay attention to portions and such. I've already noticed a personal improvement, and since it will be at least a year till I'm at goal weight I will have plenty more time to get used to eating better. If I feel like I'm losing sight of portion control or regaining at all, I would start back up. But I don't plan on logging every bite for the rest of my life.

all day long? takes me maybe 5-10 minutes. I'm definitely staying with this site until I get to my goal weight. I've lost 8 lbs in 20 days of being with the site. That's HUGE especially since I have a retarded thyroid.

MFP for life!!

Me too... Unfortunately discipline is one of my weak points and believe me, willpower itself doesn't work in the long run. Our bodies are just too smart for that. We just fail to realize it.

I am only successful when I keep track of what I am eating and how much I am exercising. Coming back and logging every day keeps me focused on my wants and needs; logging a meal has almost become a ritual of awareness that I am making a decision to build a better life and sculpt a healthier me.

I started out logging my food when I was in middle school, over one Christmas break, with the help of my dad who bought me a book with nutritional information for food. He also got me my first Denise Austin Pilates VHS and a set of 5 lb dumbbells. I did awesome for two weeks and he was so proud of me; looking back now I know that he did not want to see me be like him; in his late 40's, bound to a wheel chair and a dialysis bag, dying of kidney and liver failure because of diabetes. I didn't keep a food log all through high school and even though I thought I was fat and ate a terrible diet, I was very active with fencing and marching band. It was after high school that I started to suffer my weight. MFP is helping me change that. It is so much more convenient to log with the MFP app on my phone when I am not at home than it is to carry around a journal with a reference book and a calculator, or to try to remember what/when I ate when I get home.