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  • michaelhardie13
    michaelhardie13 Posts: 18 Member
    Angel1960 wrote: »
    Yesterday was my first day back on MFT and have managed to cook, eat and record for the last two days and hope to make it a sustainable habit! Lots of weight to lose but am taking it one small step at a time and appreciate all of the postings by others that help keep me motivated.

    Keep on keeping on!

    Vigilance in tracking is the thing that makes it work for me!
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    michaelhardie13 wrote: »
    Angel1960 wrote: »
    Yesterday was my first day back on MFT and have managed to cook, eat and record for the last two days and hope to make it a sustainable habit! Lots of weight to lose but am taking it one small step at a time and appreciate all of the postings by others that help keep me motivated.

    Keep on keeping on!

    Vigilance in tracking is the thing that makes it work for me!

    Same here!
  • anawake13
    anawake13 Posts: 99 Member
    Don't forget along with tracking its important to measure things. I'm good at looking at things and underestimating the portion size...welcome back
  • alteredsteve175
    alteredsteve175 Posts: 2,726 Member
    Simply_jae wrote: »
    71 and looking for friends to encourage and be encouraged...we can do this

    Hi, Jae. I got your note and tried to reply by way of messages. Stupid MFP software won't let me reply - it does not recognize your username. I'm going to send a friend request. Let's try that.

    Take care,

    Steve

  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    bonrose1434 wrote: »
    cherylre wrote: »
    Hi. Looking for friends 60 and older to help keep us all motivated. Maybe checking in with each other every day to keep us on track. Just started yesterday, have to lose 30 lbs. The older u get the harder it seems to get.

    HI! I'm 64 and have seriously been on my health and nutrition journey, including weight loss, since the last day of June. I want/need to lose a bit more weight than you do... About 100 lbs if I want to get down to my ultimate goal weight. But I am setting my goal in increments right now so it doesn't feel too overwhelming. I weighed 315 over 3yrs ago and got down to 265, where I have been sitting since then. I decided to get serious about not only losing weight, but learning about nutrition and the right way to eat. Since starting on this journey I've lost 10 lbs and started waking on the treadmill 3 times a week. I feel great and I know my health will benefit greatly from my efforts. I would love to have a "pal" to share things with and am a great cheerleader if you need motivating. I am very positive about all of this so would love to chat with you.



    The group The Biggest Loser has lots of support and challenges. Come join us!
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,769 Member
    Hi all struggling with 4 horse fly bites so feeling miserable at the moment. Have a good day everyone.
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    I’m considering purchasing some skin cream with retinol A in it.
    I would like to use on the areas that have begun to sag some. My arms and abdomen, but mostly my arms. They’re getting crepe-y as well as sagging.

    I’m drinking enough water. And I suspect loose skin will be unavoidable in my near future. But I’m hoping to keep it to a minimum.

    Advice? Personal experiences? Anyone? Thanks.
  • g2renew
    g2renew Posts: 155 Member
    edited July 2021
    @MargaretYakoda Personal experience: It seemed like my skin turned crepey overnight! Using adapalene (closest precursor to tretinoic acid) followed by emoillent rich lotion worked wonders!

    Specific brands I use: Differin and Aveeno Eczema. Total cost: under $50. Differin lasts about 2 months (and i use on face, neck, decolette, and arms). Aveeno looks like it will last about 8 months(use total body). The Differin has higher percentage and closer to tretinoic acid than the retinol lotions i have found in states. Compare percentages and cost. I use at night and/Or after bathing 3x week.

    I haven't noticed any tightening, but this routine is super terrific on crepey!

    Please let me know how this works for you! I am thrilled😉
  • anawake13
    anawake13 Posts: 99 Member
    Hope you are all getting ready for the week ahead. Let's all attack this battle of weight with gusto and check in next week with good results. I have been using both Nivea and NatureWell collagen for all over moisture and they have worked well on my very dry skin and are inexpensive on Amazon. Also, my dermatologist told me to just take a quick rinse in the shower rather than long, soapy showers.
  • healhierhappiness
    healhierhappiness Posts: 98 Member
    64 years old grandma here. 187.2 today want to be 160 for now. eating 1200 well lol thats the plan. so far week into this i have managed to eat close to that. I added the last 7 days up and divided and my average is 1257 a day dont do any exercise unless you count housework!!
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    g2renew wrote: »
    @MargaretYakoda Personal experience: It seemed like my skin turned crepey overnight! Using adapalene (closest precursor to tretinoic acid) followed by emoillent rich lotion worked wonders!

    Specific brands I use: Differin and Aveeno Eczema. Total cost: under $50. Differin lasts about 2 months (and i use on face, neck, decolette, and arms). Aveeno looks like it will last about 8 months(use total body). The Differin has higher percentage and closer to tretinoic acid than the retinol lotions i have found in states. Compare percentages and cost. I use at night and/Or after bathing 3x week.

    I haven't noticed any tightening, but this routine is super terrific on crepey!

    Please let me know how this works for you! I am thrilled😉

    Thank you! I’ll look for that stuff! And report results if I get anything noticeable.
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    anawake13 wrote: »
    Hope you are all getting ready for the week ahead. Let's all attack this battle of weight with gusto and check in next week with good results. I have been using both Nivea and NatureWell collagen for all over moisture and they have worked well on my very dry skin and are inexpensive on Amazon. Also, my dermatologist told me to just take a quick rinse in the shower rather than long, soapy showers.

    Thankyou. I’ll keep nivea in mind. And I’ll look for the collagen.

    As for long soapy showers…. Well, showers are not safe for me anymore. So it’s a quick rinse-scrub-rinse on the shower chair for me.
    And, honestly, some days I don’t even risk that. On those days it’s some isopropyl alcohol on a washcloth, and a quick cleanup of the pits, maybe a little witch hazel on some other areas.

    I do miss a nice long bubble bath….

  • zagadee
    zagadee Posts: 22 Member
    Hello Beautiful people 😃
    Am new here trying to find a partner who we can support each other on this journey I need motivation I have been on this journey for all my life am 50yrs now hope anyone can understand.
    We can motivate, support, encourage, advise each other I stay in Georgia Augusta.but still we find ways to uplift ourselves throughout
    Thanks
  • healhierhappiness
    healhierhappiness Posts: 98 Member
    edited July 2021
    How accurate are the calories listed on foods I put in?? Seems they are all over the place. I had a cup and a half of home made bean soup for lunch. ( ham, white beans, celery carrot onion potato and broth) It comes up as 293 calories. Sound about right ????? not crazy amounts of ham or potato.
  • Malimalai
    Malimalai Posts: 276 Member
    edited July 2021
    Hi @zagadee ! Welcome ! I'm on low carbs diet but I can be there for you. I also have open diary for friends.🍓
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,551 Member
    healhierhappiness wrote: »
    How accurate are the calories listed on foods I put in?? Seems they are all over the place. I had a cup and a half of home made bean soup for lunch. ( ham, white beans, celery carrot onion potato and broth) It comes up as 293 calories. Sound about right ????? not crazy amounts of ham or potato.

    @healhierhappiness, it can be chancy to use other people's home-made recipe entries in the food database. We don't know how much of which ingredients they used, compared to what we used.

    The most accurate method would be to use the MFP recipe builder when you make the soup, to figure out the calories in your personal soup recipe.

    However, it can work out OK to use the MFP database for homemade foods, if we're comfortable with rough approximation, and especially if the food isn't something we're going to eat very often (in a context where most of our food estimates are more precise). Personally, if I were going to do that, I'd pick one of the database entries at the higher end of the calorie options, just to be conservative, unless I had really good reason to believe my soup was lower calorie than most people's.

    Personally, I usually log my homemade foods ingredient by ingredient, using the recipe builder if it's something that's split into multiple servings. In rare cases, such as when I eat food someone else has prepared, I'd use someone else's homemade database entry, and pick one toward the higher end on calories.

    It's really a question of how precise you'd like to be. If you can lose weight successfully while being more approximate, that's not an unreasonable route to go.

    Best wishes!
  • healhierhappiness
    healhierhappiness Posts: 98 Member
    HI Ann Thank you this makes good sense. I previously used another site and had done my own logging like you suggested. I guess I may have to do that here too. appreciate your help :)
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,769 Member
    alteredsteve175 wrote: »
    Drive by check in. Hot as hell in Idaho - nine straight days over 100. I'm in and out so I get some relief, but it is still tiring.

    Wifey has an appointment with the oncologist today. Hoping for some good news. Hanging in there trying to stay sane.

    Hope everything goes well.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,551 Member
    Glad to hear you're hanging in there, @alteredsteve175, despite the challenges, including those truly wilting/withering heat levels in your area. Hoping the onco appointment goes well for both of you - I'm sure there's hope and anxiety ahead of it.

    On another front, I treated myself to a Covid test yesterday. I'm all vaxed, but was having a set of respiratory symptoms over a couple of days that included some things not typical of my annual seasonal allergies, so decided to go for a test out of an abundance of caution. (I'd profoundly hate to shrug it off, later learn I'd passed the virus to one of my friends who has health challenges!)

    Being retired, it was easy (though a mild annoyance) to stay away from other folks until I got the test results, which were negative as I'd expected. Test itself was easy to schedule, done in a drive-through clinic at a former auto service facility, took less than a hour despite a bit of a line, and I never had to get out of my car. They'd said results could take 2-3 days, but I got them back just a bit over 24 hours after the test, via an online portal. Easy peasy, and relieved to have evidence I'm not creating risk for others (even though I was assuming it'd be negative).

    Hope everyone else is having a great week!
  • trekkie123
    trekkie123 Posts: 250 Member
    annliz23 wrote: »
    alteredsteve175 wrote: »
    Drive by check in. Hot as hell in Idaho - nine straight days over 100. I'm in and out so I get some relief, but it is still tiring.

    Wifey has an appointment with the oncologist today. Hoping for some good news. Hanging in there trying to stay sane.

    Hope everything goes well.
    annliz23 wrote: »
    alteredsteve175 wrote: »
    Drive by check in. Hot as hell in Idaho - nine straight days over 100. I'm in and out so I get some relief, but it is still tiring.

    Wifey has an appointment with the oncologist today. Hoping for some good news. Hanging in there trying to stay sane.

    Hope everything goes well.

    Hoping all goes well today. It’s way hotter in Idaho than in Florida! Drink lots of water 💦
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    alteredsteve175 wrote: »
    Drive by check in. Hot as hell in Idaho - nine straight days over 100. I'm in and out so I get some relief, but it is still tiring.

    Wifey has an appointment with the oncologist today. Hoping for some good news. Hanging in there trying to stay sane.

    Hope all is okay?? Sitting around waiting for news must be excruciating. :(

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