Old-ish fellow looking for like minded friends.

lesspaul

Hello.

I'll do my damndest to keep this short. I'm male, 55, and having been diagnosed with Dermatomyositis with overlap Scleroderma at age 38, I was finally forced into retirement due to my health at age 50.

Due to disease, side-effects of medication, and a newly sedentary lifestyle I gained 40 lbs and became terribly weak. Hard to get into car or open a cardboard box weak.

Over the last year I've had a lessening of the severity of my symptoms, and have weaned from pain medications. (I decided I preferred pain to the grogginess and other related side effects of the pain meds. )

I have about another 10 lbs to go, as well as trying very hard to add some activity and fitness to my life.

I believe in calories in / calories out. I was an engineer, and am married to a medical professional. I don't believe in things like "eat more to lose weight." I don't believe in magic numbers nor do I believe in starvation mode being a side effect of going under the 1200 calorie "magic number." Not meant to be an insult, but per the topic, I'm looking for like-minded friends, not folks to debate with. And if you can't already tell, I can get cranky and/or cantankerous. :laugh: