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My 2 year Anniversary On My Fitness Pal
This is my two year anniversary on my fitness pal. And I have loss 98 pounds, I am 2 pounds short of my goal. My Birthday is in 2 months in April and my goal is to reach and maintain my goal weight by then. Thank you my fitness pal
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How did you make it through Christmas without gaining ?
How did you make it through Christmas and the Holiday without gaining weight? See my blog for some tips if your interested. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/mpkpbk2015
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Positive Affirmations - For Weight Loss and getting to Your Weight Loss Goals
Positive Affirmations and Positive Self Talk are good reminders and good motivation as we all go on our journey to better health and losing weight. Please share 2 or 3 of your favorites. My three are; 1.My body is healing, and I feel better and better every day. 2. I choose to be proud of myself. 3. Mistakes and setbacks…
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Weight Loss Battle -
When is it hardest for you to lose weight - and Why? And how do you overcome it? I struggle over the summer months because there are so many temptations because of vacations and travel. I try to overcome it by when I eat out on vacation I ask for a doggie bag at the beginning of my meal and put half of my meal in it.And…
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What food are you Craving Right Now - how do you handle cravings
Most of my cravings are for foods that are food carbs and I have a limited amount of carbs that I eat a day. My question for the group is how to you out there in MFP handle your cravings. I have been drinking lots of water but that has only gotten me so far any other suggestions? Right now I am craving chocolate real bad.
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Do you eat Your Exercise Calories
Do you eat back your exercise calories even when your stomach/body is telling you your full for the day.
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What diet plan are you following or Using with MFP - Is it working for you
What diet plan or program are you using with MFP e.g . Paleo, Keto, Slim Fast, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Nutri System, South Beach, One given by your doctor/dietician - Have you used it the entire time or have you changed plans/programs and how is it working for you. What do you like about it. Would you give it a 5 star…
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What's Keeping You from reaching Your Goal Weight
What is your biggest challenge that's keeping you from reaching your goal weight? Is it an external problem or internal? And what's your plan to deal with it. How long have you been on the journey to goal? How many restarts have you had?
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How long have you been on MFP, At Goal, Maintaining ?
How long have you been a member of MFP? Are you at your Goal Weight? How far do you have to go? If have met your goal weight how long have you maintained it using MFP? How is your overall health as a result of maintaining your goal weight. Suggestions for those still in process. Just wondering I have been a member for a…
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How often do you adjust your calorie goals/exercise goals
How often do you adjust your calorie goals or exercise goals on MFP? Or do you use the suggested ones? Or have you never changed them since you started? And why? Has it helped you reach your intended overall loss goal?
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What's the longest you've gone with logging your meals in MFP
What's the longest period you've gone with out logging your meals in MFP and what was the impact on your weight/fitness/diet/health - what brought you back?
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Which impacted your diet more Watching Carbs or Watching Proteins or Calories
This a poll because I have seen answers all over the place with respect to this on my MFP. And was just wondering what the overall consensus is. And what the reasoning is behind your choice. I know there are avid Keto folks, and Avid Paleo folks. And many other diets, so please humor me. I am not going to taint the results…
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Strategies To cope with Emotional Eating
Yesterday I was discussing with everyone about sabotaging our goals and the topic of Emotional Eating came up several times. So I got to thinking about how I cope with it and wondered if people would share with me how they cope on their journey to goal and maintaining their weigh. The things I do to cope are: Going…
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Exercise - How many days a week do you exercise and what do you do?
Trying to avoid the Covid weight gain and come up with some new exercises. How many days a week do you exercise ? And what do you do? Is it all Aerobic or a combination of Aerobic and Strength.
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Do you weigh in and Measure each time or Just Weigh only
On the check in screen it gives you the option of entering your weight. It also has a place to put your body measurement. Do you weigh and measure or just weigh? Please explain your logic behind doing 1 or both. Does the scale tell the whole story each week of how much you followed the plan? What insights can you get from…
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Ways We Sabotage Our Success
Lets talk about how we sabotage our success, I have identified 10 on my journey. I wrote about them in my blog and your welcome to read the details at the link but I will just list them here for discussion purposes. 1 - Good All day - but eat bad things at the end of the day 2 - Good all week but cheat on the weekends 3-…
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Milestones - How do you celebrate when you reach one
How to your celebrate when you reach a milestone in your journey to your goal. What do you reward yourself with. I recently reached my goal of losing my 100 pounds instead food which a lot of people suggested I went shopping for a new workout outfit. Then I thought back to what I did over the past 2 1/2 years. I thought…
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How many MFP friends do you have
How many MFP friends to you have supporting you on your journey? And how have they helped you accomplish and get to your goal.
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How has the amount of Sleep You get Impacted Your Weight loss or Gain
I have noticed somethings about the amount of sleep I get in relation to my weight gain or loss. And wondered if anybody else experienced the same thing. For example when I don't get enough sleep I notice an increase in my appetite and I eat more. When I don't get enough sleep I have more cravings. Also when I don't get…
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Do you use the - Weekly Digest under Reports to evaluate How your doing on MFP
I found this great tool on MFP quite by accident this morning when I went to look at a graph on my weight loss for the last year. It's called the Weekly Digest and it had so really great information that I will in the future to evaluate how I am doing. Here is the link that take you directly to it…
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Compound Exercise vs Cardio and burning calories
Can someone please explain how compound exercise burns more calories than cardio exercises. I keep getting conflicting answers. So I want to hear from the people that actually do them.
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How often do your Check your Body Fat - Where did you start and Where are You Now
How often do you check your Body Fat? Where did you start and Where are you now and what impact has your exercise program had on your BF ? Post a chart if showing trend. And what are you using to measure your BF.
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Stuck In the House - Need Good Online Cardo Workout Suggestions
I don't want to waste time searching and I know there are a lot of you that do online workouts. Texas has been in a deep freeze for the last week. I tried to go out and walk made it for about 10 minutes - in the snow. Just needed some exercise and to get out of the house which was cold anyway because the power was…
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Giving Up Carbs to lose Weight Good or Bad idea what do you think ?
I read this article at this link https://www.eatthis.com/giving-up-carbs-side-effects-news/ that talks about possible side effects of giving up carbs to shed pounds which include irritability, headaches, constipation, weakness, food cravings, keto flu (flu like symptoms). If you gave up or significantly reduced your carbs,…
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Where do you getHealthy Recipes and Do you put them on MFP
I love the MFP website but the love the MFP app too.You can type the link of the recipe in the recipe section of the app and MFP app will convert and match the ingredients and portion size and put it directly into your diary. I have found I can search for all kinds of healthy recipes. Some of my favorite sites Paleo…
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Getting Across the finish line to your goal weigh
I am so close to my goal weigh I can taste it (pun). Today I only lost .2 of a pound. I have 1.8 to go by April 6th my Birthday, It was been 2 years since I started and I have lost 98 of 100 pounds. I know things slow down and I am taking it one day at a time. I have tweaked my protein and carbs. This week I guess I can…
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How do you Hold Yourself Accountable for Your Weigh Loss or Gain
My name is Patricia and I have been a member of MFP for 2 years. I am a serial dieter and I am working on becoming a goal maintainer. In the two years I have been a member I have had successes and failures. But I have managed to lose 98 of the 100 pounds I needed to lose. Do you measure your success by what your scale…
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How many Steps to you do a day on your fitness tracker
How many steps a day do you do on your fitness tracker? And do you track anything else with the device ? e.g. heart rate, sleep, etc.
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Do you take supplements with your eating plan or do you get all your nutrition from the food you eat
I focus a lot on getting my protein in and watching my carbs and sodium. How many people take vitamins and supplements to make sure they are getting all the nutrients they need to be both fit and healthy not just lose weight. If so what do you take and how often if your comfortable sharing. Because I am a older woman I do…
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How Often do you Weigh Yourself And What Kind of Scale do you use
How often do you weigh yourself? What kind of scale do you use? Digital or just a plain bathroom scale. Do you do body measurements to guage your progress as well? Such as inches loss? BMI changes? Body fat changes?
