On my blog, I bragged about eating 1000 or fewer calories a day and to this day I know the calories of the foods I ate most often for when I was away from my phone or after I deleted the app. The app then tells you “if you eat like this every day you should weigh _ pounds in 5 weeks.” I can be 10 pounds closer to the ‘ideal’ body in FIVE weeks? Sign me UP. At the end of every day, you submit your net calories for the day. What 12 or 13-year-old won’t jump on the ‘opportunity of a lifetime?’įor those of you lucky enough to not know what My Fitness Pal is, it’s a diet app where you input your food, water, and exercise throughout the day. but apps like My Fitness Pal, Livestrong, LoseIt! and more give you the tools to go to any means necessary to get you to ‘love yourself’ and get that ideal body. The internet tells you to hate the way you look from day one based on ads, skinny teas, weight loss programs, etc. My Fitness Pal not only destroyed me, my relationship with food, my relationship with my body, and my ability to love myself, but it also did the same to a whole generation of boys and girls. A lot of my college friends have told me they used MFP in middle school and high school as well. I deprived my body of the food it so desperately needed for years because an app said if I kept at it I’d lose weight in no time.Įveryone I knew had My Fitness Pal. If you went below 1000, they showed a little message that that wasn’t necessarily healthy and that you should be eating more, however, you could still eat as low as you wanted. Back when I used it, there was no minimum.

Now, MFP has a minimum daily calorie intake of 1200 calories. When I was in high school, Tumblr was super popular and I had a few thousand followers where I posted the same things like my blog as well as reblogged gifs and photos of workouts, tips, and the ‘ideal’ body that every girl lusted after. I’m eating good food, treating my body right, and I haven’t felt this good about my body for a long time ever.īefore I had this blog, I had a fitness blog in my sophomore and junior years of high school where I basically just blogged about the current workout I was doing, what I was eating, and how school and life were going. I’ve recently rediscovered my love for health and fitness and have been working out pretty consistently for the past month or so.

Myfitnesspal 30 day shred