Change Starts With MyFitnessPal Plans
Getting started on a health, fitness or weight-loss journey isn’t easy. In fact, getting started is probably the hardest part of the entire journey, especially when you don’t have a plan. Once...
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2020 MyFitnessPal Year in Review
As a community, we accomplished so much this year. Believe it or not, we were able to improve on last year and meet our goals despite it being such an unprecedented year. As a community, we lost...
Introducing MyFitnessPal Meal Scan on iOS
Phones have come a long way. They’ve come so far that actually talking on them isn’t why your phone is at your side 24/7. Could we ever go back to not having a camera at our fingertips? We...
This Small Tweak Can Offer a Big Boost to Workout Motivation
These days, most people have heard of body positivity, especially anyone interested in health and wellness. There are even body-positive gyms and workouts cropping up worldwide, which offer safe...
Ask the RD: Should You Always Eat Before a Workout?
We all want to get the most out of our workouts — and proper nutrition can often make or break our ability to reach exercise and sport-related goals. Pre-workout meals and snacks can play a...
How This City Manager Is Staying Active in His Town During COVID-19
With the coronavirus pandemic causing the closures of businesses, schools, gyms and countless other establishments, people across the globe have been working, learning and working out at home. Like...
Bob Made the Decision to Get Healthy After Maxing Out His Scale
I've been addicted to something, it seems, my entire adult life. It started with alcohol in early adulthood and progressed from there. To my credit, I was great at moving past addictions....
The Art of Making Goals That Stick (Any Time of Year)
Roughly a month into the new year and statistics say most resolutions are long forgotten. Most of us set goals heading into the new year with aspirations to accomplish greatness when it comes to...
Chuck’s ER Visit Turned Into Life-Changing Weight Loss
Chuck Turocy remembers September 19, 2016, very clearly. As the Pittsburgh resident waited in the emergency room to see a doctor, he was barely able to stand upright because of shooting pains in his...
Joel Lost 240 Pounds with Small, Manageable Changes
For those looking to lose weight in the new year, Joel Reed has one piece of advice: Start small. Really, really small. After all, the 24-year-old Texas-native knows what he’s talking about....
9 Life-Changing Non-Scale Health & Fitness Goals
For so many people, the scale rules all. While the scale can be a useful tool in your health and fitness journey, it’s certainly not the end-all-be-all. After all, the scale can’t tell you if...
How a Vacation Helped Charlotte Lose Half Her Body Weight
The city of Boston is a gorgeous sight on a warm, sunny spring day, particularly the area known as the Back Bay. This is where the Boston Public Garden is decked out with colorful flowers and a...
Christy Overcame Bullying and Lost 100 Pounds
It was 2016 when Christy Justus was just starting a date night with her husband. As she slid into a restaurant booth, she made a startling discovery: She couldn’t fit. As she tried to scoot...
How Bethany Changed Her Relationship with Food and Lost 76 Pounds
While growing up in England, Bethany Robinson didn’t think much about her weight or body composition. She loved sports so much that she was always on a team, which involved plenty of year-round...
Quick Black Bean Chili Over Lime Couscous
Active time: 20 minutes Total time: 20 minutes Vegetarian and looking for a high-protein meal? Look no further than this recipe, which gives you 20 grams of vegetarian protein per serving, plus...
Mark Tried Countless Diets Before Losing 100 Pounds With MyFitnessPal
Mark Gibson is no stranger to diets. Whole30, Atkins, South Beach, Nutrisystem — he’s tried them all. Gibson has struggled with his weight for most of his life and can remember hitting 200...
Jason’s 100-Pound Weight Loss Started with Getting Sober
Jason Urban’s journey to getting healthy started with one important step: getting sober. The now-39-year-old dog walker and pet caregiver from Austin, Texas, used to live a very different life as a...
How Stephen Went from Couch Potato to Bodybuilder
For some people, the shift from unhealthy habits to a better lifestyle might be kicked off by a photo, random comment or an uncomfortable moment in a dressing room. For Stephen Ryan, there was no...
This Stay-at-Home-Mom Dropped 60 Pounds by Making Small Changes
Like many parents, Sarep Baggott struggled to find time for herself. As a mom to a 6-year-old boy and a 6-month-old girl, Baggott put all of her time and energy into caring for her young family,...
How His Father’s Death Spurred Jordan’s 100-Pound Weight Loss
At just 13 years old, Jordan Henry remembers the shock of his father’s death, and even through his heartbreak, he felt a sense of resolve. What happened to his dad, he thought, could also happen to...
Mallory Lost 100 Pounds By Avoiding Quick-Fix Diets
Mallory King may have lost almost half her body weight in 2013, but it wasn’t in the “quick-fix” way so many restrictive diets advertise. “One thing that really inspires people about my...
From Sedentary to Stage: Nicole’s Body and Mind Transformation
Putting on a bikini can feel overwhelming for many women, even if they’re in the privacy of a dressing room. Now, think about wearing that bikini in front of hundreds of people as you walk,...
Jenni Lost 80 Pounds After She Stopped Using Food for Comfort
As Jenni Buckingham grew up, she didn’t think much about her weight or health. As a normal kid who ate what she wanted and lived a pretty content life, she expected that’s how her next few...
Say Hello to MyFitnessPal on Alexa
Hands-free riding your bike: You’re a daredevil. Hands-free driving your car: You’re an early-adopter. Hands-free tracking progress on MyFitnessPal: You’re on your way to...
Elizabeth Lost More Than 100 Pounds While Eating All Foods
When Elizabeth Simion, a business analyst and MBA student in Austin, Texas, began looking for a job, she worried her weight would hold her back. Simion was all too aware of the prejudice against...
How David Turned a New Year’s Resolution Into a New Life
You’ve probably heard people’s skepticism about New Year’s resolutions. Though well-meaning, resolutions rarely lead to real, lasting change. David Rastetter, a 49-year-old from Palm Coast,...
How This Pizza-Loving Nurse Got in the Best Shape of Her Life
As a cancer center nurse, pizza restaurant owner and mother of two, Shannon Collins didn’t think she’d ever have to worry about what she ate. After all, she’d been naturally thin growing up —...
How a Family Tragedy Motivated Jacob to Get Healthy
In January 2017, Jacob Anselmo’s life changed forever. He had just learned his wife’s hard-fought battle with a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer would ultimately be a losing...
Libby Riddles on the What it Takes to Win the Iditarod
Libby Riddles made history in 1985 when she became the first female to win Alaska’s 1,100-mile dog sled race known as the Iditarod. Braving temperatures of up to 60º F below zero, getting tossed...
Lauren Lost 103 Pounds After a Life-Changing Diagnosis
Although she’d been dealing with stomach issues off and on for years, Lauren Council remembers the exact moment her pain changed everything. She recalls waking up one night in agony, feeling a...