Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group

Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.

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marilyndawn77
marilyndawn77
I've used a food & exercise tracker for quite some time and today I decided to use the "BLOG" feature. Pretty cool and maybe that will make me more accountable.....Any one else using tools like this ??
deleted_user
deleted_user
That does sound like a good idea. Support in anyway is a big help. My best to you......
lorrieonline
lorrieonline
I enjoy using "myfitnesspal." I'm also using a tracking sheet based on the weightwatchers program where I track my weigh-ins. That way I get a quick glance of successes and plateaus. It's a progress chart.
marilyndawn77
marilyndawn77
I am also using my fitness pal for everything including the blog.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Do you find it difficult to remember or record your info using myfitness pal?
bebes
bebes
Being new to the site I'm still kinda trying to find my way around. I like talking about thing's and have been making use of my journal. Will def be checking out the blog feature. I also recently downloaded a diet tracker. At first I thought it was kinda cool. It keeps track of my intake, calculates the calories, BMI, all that good stuff. It also pointed out that someone my size should be doing something like a 2300 cal intake and in doing so should be able to drop between 2-5 lbs per week. I suppose it makes sense, and obviously the intake would change with the more weight I lost. I wanna believe and the only reason I'm having such a hard time with it is because everyone keeps saying, oh, you'll never lose weight on such a high cal plan, 1000 to 1200 cal is the only way to go...blah, blah, blah. I mean, I'm sure that's all true, and at this point 'm not even sure what I'm getting at. Maybe I just need to hear someone say, the diet tracker is really a good way to go???
marilyndawn77
marilyndawn77
Many studies have shown that keeping track of what you eat & drink, results in better results at the scale. Provided you actually track every bite, lick or taste.
If you are using My Fitness Pal (free app), it also has a spot called "progress" where you can see the graph move as you regularly enter your weight or you can follow your body measurements. Some folks are not on speaking terms with their scale.
Seeing what's happening is a great motivator too!!
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