myfitnesspal.com support thread 4

[jchocchip]

old thread here

Support thread for those of us trying to log our food and exercise on myfitnesspal

Thought I'd be brave and start the new thread off!

Mummyinggnome - hello and welcome! My calorie allowance is currently 1740 as i have alot to lose :)

Dontpetthesweatythings - I would be inclined to go more for what the bike said. MFP is notorious for seriously over exaggerating calories burned. I now use a heart rate monitor when i exercise and it's amazing what the difference is between my HRM and what MFP says! :)

RGPargy I am not a bad cook but would not know where to start with a cheese straw so maybe not so much out of pity!

Welcome Mummyinggnome, I have 1360 at the moment but more when I started. I'm almost at the point of maintaining now.

No idea dontpetthesweatythings, I tend to under estimate exercise and over estimate calories so I know I'm definitely under.

I turned down cake again :) I did have a Muller Crunch Corner though which was nearly as bad - 201 calories rather than 250. However, of the two, I made the healthier choice.

I'm feeling a bit "meh" about the gym tomorrow. Am meant to be going on Saturday too, maybe that's why I feel so "meh" about tomorrow.

Man up LV, you always enjoy it when you get there...

I have also lost inches rather than weight.
Which is fine

I think someone was asking that earlier today!

Mummyinggnome

I have 1200 cal daily allowance.

Which I find quite difficult to eat. Like this week I haven't had the internet for a couple of days so I haven't been able to log everything on the computer so I have eaten what I would normally but like to day I have only eaten about 1000cal. So will have to force my self to eat something else later although I'm not hungry.

Hello there!

I have been on MFP for a few months on and off
I was wondering if MN had a thread about MFP , and im glad i've found you!
If anyone wants to add me as a friend on MFP (same nickname) Id be very happy! Hopefully, we could keep eah other motivated :)

My allowance is 1480 cal a day and i have about 2 stones of baby weight to lose...
Id be very happy to lose one stone by the end of august as im going on holidays the first two weeks of sept....

mummyinggnome- cant find you on MFP?? If you add me (same name) we should be ok :)

Really - seriously!

I have put my heart in to MFP this week and yet I have stayed the same not even a friggin ounce off

I'm going to keep at it and see if there is a delay which can happen am prob kidding myself and weigh again next Friday but really!!!!! It seems so unfair.

Snap bexsy

It's demoralising isn't it.

Yes it was me asking about inches - thanks ihatethecold.

Bexsy you have my sympathy, I did six weeks mfp and loads of exercise and lost nada! Well depressing. I have done over two months now and lost a pound and a half, it's laughable.

But I think you just have to keep going, maybe shake up your meals, eat more salad (boring) and drink more water. Don't lose heart anyway, you will get there!

Well, after a week of really trying with the food and the gym, I have lost...

1lb.

Seriously, I thought if you had loads to lose it fell off???

I've got 74lbs to go...

OK great thanks for the replies on the calories burned. Must get a heart rate monitor !

ihatethecold - I have also lost inches (wel centimetres actually!) rather than weight.

fell off the wagon the past two days am gutted because I felt loads better when I was exercising and eating well now I feel beurghhh.
Have got some scales arriving this morning (gulp) so will weigh update and start again.
Wish me luck.

Bexsy and lollipop - Start something new (new gym routine, new breakfast , walk more etc...) sometimes it helps when you are stuck on a plateau... Good luck

Comewhine - don't beat yourself up! It happens to everybody (me the first!)
Start from fresh today, don't get too demoralised by your new scales today if they indicate something higher than expected.
Good luck!

It sounds like there at some struggles for some of you, I know it sometimes doesn't make sense - good weeks mean not much loss and bad weeks with big losses! But keep going it will catch up with you, and think of all the other health benefits - all the exercise benefits

I need to up my exercise, misrable weather means I haven't been going out for walks. I have DVDs but time
spent in the house is used for napping! I'm going back to my aprents this weekend, so chinese for tea on Saturday! Im just going to log everything and hope I can exercise!

Hello all, I'm new to MFP but not new to dieting - have been successfully using Paul McKenna to shift 3 stones of weight last year and now need to use PMcK and MFP to lose another stone and learn more about actual calories.

I have a quick question. I exercise every day - alternating swimming and running. It gives me a lot of extra calorie allowances each day that I don't use up. But in the course of a week or fortnight I may very well use up on weekends away or parties or eating out. My common sense says that if I only eat, eg 1200 cals a day during the week and "bank up" exercise calories for a bit of relaxed weekend eating eg an extra 1000 cals then that's okay?

I'm not saying that I necessarily eat that much extra on the weekends, but I like to be more chilled regarding eating at the weekend as it's friends and family time.

Thanks Totsky, I have weighed and am 10st 10 which I'm ok with I was almost 14 st in January.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.

I can't seem to budge from 10st 4lb, it makes me laugh that I am that bothered tbh, as in January I would of been very happy at 10st 4
lb and never believed I could of got here. I am hoping all this new walking will help and shift the last 13lbs. I still haven't got my new scales but may try to pick some up today :)

Hi everyone.
I started Mfp and shredding last week in the hope of losing some weight.
I was half a stone lighter when 9 months pg with dc1.

So far I've lost a pound despite having my period and I've got my fingers crossed that I'll lose some more.

My Mfp name is the same as my MN name . Please feel free to add me.

Your calories have been really low recently bexsybooboo, maybe that's it? Or perhaps it is just that next week you will see it. I do the same week in week out and some weeks I put on a lb and some I lose upto 3lb so I really don't know what the answer is. Keep going and I'm sure you'll see results :).

I was thinking that of myself, cinnamon. This is the first week in ages I've done 3 classes plus daily dog walk and I've found it quite tricky to eat my calorie deficit. I'm probably tipping into starvation mode... Grr its such a balancing act!!!

Not sure what happened there, I thought I'd posted that message this morning, came back now to read and found it was still going?!? So will now reply to everyone else!

Sorry ViviPru and LollipopViolet that you're disappointed :(, not sure I can see you diaries on mfp to comment on them.

comewwhinewithme sorry to hear you've had a few bad days and good luck with the scales!

Welcome BsshBossh, I think alot of people do that with calories, I personally don't struggle at weekends as I often have late breakfasts and have dh home so don't have time bored and reaching for food!

That's really rubbish MonsterBookOfTysons, I had 10 days this month without losing but have lost some the last few day. Put on a bit this morning but it is now totm. Fingers crossed the walking does it for you, I know how miserable it can make you :(

Welcome crazygracieuk, good start to using mfp :)

I'm MissPhirefly on MFP :)

I rarely eat my exercise calories ViviPru and I've lost almost 5st so I'm not sure how much truth is in that but I am not an expert at all and everyones bodies work differently!