New to board, trying to improve.

Hi everyone,

I'm a 42 year old male who is overweight and borderline near obesity. Like many people my age I have started having lifestyle related health issues because I continued to eat like a high metabolism teenager for too many years past when my metabolism reached its adult pace. I work in a sedentary job, and pretty much have a sedentary lifestyle as well. My primary health issues include hypertension, high cholesterol, acid reflux, and I have recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

The last issue is what has brought me to this site to use the diet tracking tools to help manage my carbohydrate intake. Before coming onto this site last summer I unfortunately reached a peak weight (226 lbs) I wasn't happy with obtaining. Since September 2009 I have been implementing a self imposed portion control diet in order to lose some weight, and have gradually taken off approximately 16 lbs before joining myfitnesspal.com.

I like the ease of use and relative completeness of the diet tracking tools provided on this site so far. From a diabetic's point of view it would be nice if the Carbohydrates could also be automatically broken down into "exchanges" but I am able to make the conversion through some mental math (by dividing carb grams by 15 to derive an exchange amount). I had a friend recommend this site to me (they use the iphone app actually), and I have already recommended it to other people with concerns with their weight loss or weight management.

I am looking forward to using this site as a tool to assist with reaching my goal of my BMI midpoint of 165 lbs. I am hoping that doing so will improve the quality of my life for longer.

zmortis

p.s. my forum picture is actor Malcom McDowel. My own appearance is decidedly average and uninteresting.