Like many young adults, Kaylin Gealy’s early 20s were full of changes. She graduated from college, bringing her softball tenure to an end. She also started a new career and replaced waitressing...

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...

When Chris Callen looks back at his weight loss journey over the past five years, the Ohio-based insurance agent is most struck by the numbers. First, there’s his age: He’d heard weight loss...

Like many people, Jenn Wolfe struggled with food. She turned to it in good times and bad, and she had trouble maintaining a healthy weight. These issues were magnified in 2013 when, after becoming...

When Ryan Tracey was playing with his toddler in 2019, he suddenly thought long into the future when he might have grandkids — and felt immediately he might not be around to play with...

When Victoria Brady learned her son’s weight was in the 97th percentile for his age, she knew she had to make a change for her family, but she didn’t know where to start. The 33-year-old...

After tracking her weight on MyFitnessPal since 2013, Long Island-based Jenny Hutt has finally found the sweet spot. Hutt is the talkative, charismatic host of “Just Jenny” on SiriusXM Stars...

When Maryland-based graphic designer Carmelo Rivera heard his doctor tell him he had Type 2 diabetes in 2013, he thought it was a death sentence. His father had passed away from the same disease when...

Eighty pounds lost, then 100 pounds gained. Twice. That was the history of 35-year-old Oregon resident Erica Kennett in her attempts at weight loss. As it turned out, her third effort, however, on...

Kevin Jones has three pictures of himself on the “wall of success” at a local weight-loss clinic. The 36-year-old Dayton, Ohio, resident is the only client to have reached the...

Weight loss of any kind is a highly individual pursuit, with no two journeys looking the same. It can be full of ups and downs that can be difficult to put into words, and that’s especially true...

In 2001, Juan Martinez was still a newlywed when his mother suddenly passed away. What followed was a combination of joy and sorrow in a short timeframe that caused him to lose all sense of...

As far back as he could remember, Sean Mikhail was always the biggest kid in class, in both height and weight. Even though he towered over his classmates, he tried to shrink around them to avoid...