Your Home Screen is Getting a Makeover
Fewer taps, more data! MyFitnessPal’s new Dashboard lets you see your health and fitness progress more clearly. Throughout May and June, the Dashboard will be gradually rolled out to all...
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3 Reasons You’ll Love Your New Dashboard
Soon you’ll be able to log food, exercise, and weight from your app’s home screen Logging food, exercise, and weight can reveal valuable nutrition insights and ah-ha moments as you work toward...
Coming Soon to Your App’s Home Screen!
Dashboard will make tracking and reaching your goals easier than ever Every MyFitnessPal member should have the tools to help them be their best selves. When we realized our app’s home screen...
How MyFitnessPal Helped Jessica Lose 135 Pounds in Nine Short Months
A little accountability and a small shift in perspective can oftentimes be a powerful catalyst for a life-changing transformation. Jessica LoFrese, a 34-year-old print and marketing manager from...
After Losing 220 Pounds, JC Is Paying it Forward
Sometimes a little “nudge” is all it takes to completely change the trajectory of your life. For Miami real estate broker Jeancarlo Danies, also known as JC, a fateful trip to a cardiologist...
How MyFitnessPal Helped CC Run Hard and Love Harder
A few years ago, CC Thompson was making some big life changes. She was recently divorced, on her way to losing 50 pounds, and ready to take on a new challenge: running a half-marathon for the first...
Lexi Lost 295 Pounds By Joining Forces With Her Husband
In many ways, Lexi Reed's Instagram and Twitter handle says it all: @FatGirlFedUp. When she began sharing her story a few years ago on social media, she didn’t know she'd end up with more than a...
How Sue Lost 200 Pounds and Became a World-Class Athlete
For many people, losing weight becomes more difficult as we age. Sue Reynolds, a 66-year-old from Bloomington, Indiana, is here to prove otherwise. She began her weight-loss journey in her late...
Molly Ditched Low-Calorie Diets and Lost 98 Pounds
When someone is on a weight-loss journey, it can be surprisingly easy to jump from a healthy, balanced diet to over-restricting and living in deprivation. That’s what Molly Agnew, a 26-year-old...
The 2022 Simple Start Challenge: 14 Days to Healthier Ways
Want to change your weight, get stronger, or be more mindful? The Simple Start Challenge will set you up for success. JOIN THE CHALLENGE NOW HOW TO PARTICIPATE Go to the MyFitnessPal app...
How To Find A Workout Buddy
Hey, you don’t need to be afraid to admit: It can get lonely out there. Whether you’re on the track, in the pool or deadlifting pieces of scrap metal in the local junk yard, working out is...
Victoria Lost 100 Pounds in 1 Year with MyFitnessPal
On January 1, 2019, Victoria Feldt’s life changed. That was the fateful day she turned a New Year’s resolution — something she’d tried in the past without success — into a lasting lifestyle...
What Your Workout Music Says About You
The silent disco is the workout room. People are moving and grooving to different soundtracks and experiencing a headphone-fueled tornado of adrenaline swirling through their bodies. Traditional...
Ode to that Sweaty Guy at the Gym
To that guy with the Tarzan flow drenching the treadmill with his own personal monsoon: Pay no attention to the glares as those machines around you empty. You didn’t come to the gym to make...
Michael Tracked His Meals for 1,000 Straight Days and Lost 65 Pounds
Lifestyle changes are often spurred by events that reframe reality. For Michael Pasternack, that event was an eye-opening doctor visit in early 2019. His doctor expressed concern with his health,...
How a Crash Diet Led Kelsey to MyFitnessPal — and Much Healthier Habits
Throughout Kelsey Skolovy’s youth, she had always been very thin, even to the point she was teased by her classmates. Once she reached her early 20s, however, she got much less activity than her...
Eric Lost 140 Pounds and Ran Seven Marathons Along the Way
It takes a special type of person to run a marathon. It’s not something you can get off the couch and casually complete; it takes months of training and a serious amount of mental fortitude to...
A Doctor’s Warning Led to Tiffany’s 140-Pound Weight Loss
“I was tired of being tired,” says Tiffany Kessler, referring to the time in her life when she weighed 330 pounds at 36 years old. As a mother of two, including a daughter with cerebral palsy and...
Why We’re Changing the MyFitnessPal Color Palette — Again
Change is hard, especially when you’ve gotten used to something. Just take the review below from a MyFitnessPal member as an example. ⭐⭐⭐ Changing the colors? Why? The new...
Courtney Lost 110 Pounds by Stepping Away From a Restrictive Eating Plan
As a teenager, Courtney Llewellyn struggled with self-esteem and confidence due to her weight, but it wasn't until she was 24 years old that she decided to make some major changes — and it started...
A Health Scare Encouraged Alisha to Change Her Lifestyle and Lose 70 Pounds
From weathering the pandemic to navigating economic uncertainty, 2020 was a difficult year for countless people. For Alisha Small, the tumultuous time also included a move from Brooklyn to...
Brie Lost 80 Pounds But Celebrated Her Non-Scale Victories the Most
Nearly every weight-loss journey begins with a catalyst — an event or moment when a decision is made to get on a new track and commit to a new way of life. For some, it’s seeing a photograph of...
Jackson’s 100-Pound Weight Loss Transformed His Mindset
Although he’s only 23 years old, Maryland resident Jackson Desjardins has spent a sizable portion of his life in a dark place. And it was finding the light in himself that not only helped him lose...
Danielle Put Herself First and Dropped 50 Pounds
Like a lot of moms, Danielle Rivoli always put her family first. In 2018, after a few years staying home with her kids — following a career in corporate sales — the Long Island, New York,...
Yuri Dropped 100 Pounds and Took up Bodybuilding
Yuri Diogenes is shredded. The 46-year-old Keller, Texas, resident painstakingly sculpts his physique and competes in bodybuilding competitions, but it wasn’t always this way. In 2010, he weighed...
How Quiency Lost 220 Pounds and Gained a New Life
Welcome to MyFitnessPal’s Victory Stories series, where we share the accomplishments of real MyFitnessPal members! Whether they’ve lost more than 100 pounds, improved their health markers or ran...
This Data Analyst Used Nutrition Insights From MyFitnessPal to Lose 143 Pounds
Welcome to MyFitnessPal’s Victory Stories series, where we share the accomplishments of real MyFitnessPal members! Whether they’ve lost more than 100 pounds, improved their health markers or ran...
How Tamiko Lost More Than 100 Pounds — Twice
There’s a famous quote from Margaret Thatcher that says, “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” That could mean a number of things depending on an individual’s...
How This 40-Year-Old Lost 115 Pounds With MyFitnessPal
It’s one thing to lose weight and reach your goal, but it’s another thing entirely to stay consistent and keep the weight off long term. That’s exactly what Mark Violette has done. On the eve...
Matt’s 10-Year MyFitnessPal Streak Helps Him Maintain a 130-Pound Weight Loss
In May 2010, Matt Aghedo was watching “The Biggest Loser” on TV. Weighing about 360 pounds at the time, he noted his weight wasn’t far off from some of the contestants on the show. It was...