![]() Using My Fitness Pal encourages the development of perfectionistic, dichotomous, and obsessive thinking about numbers relating to weight, calories, shape, and macronutrients. In fact, My Fitness Pal was recognised as a significant risk factor for eating disorders and also their maintenance (Pennesi & Wade, 2016) It is important to know the dangerous of calorie counting and apps such as My Fitness Pal: A memory of me being at the bar and putting another whiskey diet coke into the app to see if I was “allowed” it still stands out to me as my first indication I might have taken this too far.įortunately, I was able to recognise this before it got out of hand and stop calorie counting before it took control. I am losing weight, my BMI was in a healthy range, what was the harm? It was not until I noticed about the days where I had social evening plans where I was restricting food quite significantly so I was able to consume alcohol and still be “safe” for the day. I did not feel as though I had problem with calorie counting. It motivated me to “restrict better” trying to see how few calories I could consume in a day get that same rush I experienced the first time I saw the scales drop. The rush of seeing a smaller number each time I stepped on the scales, I had not felt anything like it before. ![]() It was not until I started to see the numbers go down on the scale did the calorie counting become a real issue. I had a holiday coming up and just wanted to feel a little more confident. Like many others I first began counting calories as way to help and manage weight loss.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |