Hello. As for me.... I am moxie, middle aged (50), overweight by 80 lbs, and finally found a good comprehensive online diet aide. MFP. I have done this before, but with notebooks, a pencil, and a paperback calorie book. It works, but a PIA. I was just re-starting my current weight loss regimen, with the notebooks, when I found MFP. I also bought a food scale and got on to my Schwinn Airdyne bike I had bought 6 yrs ago.
I believe in eating healthy....and as un-processed as possible. Like everyone else, I grew up with too many food choices, and not enough nutritional information to know what a portion looks like. Or any decent food scales either. I used the mechanical one for years. BUt it was very inconvenient and inaccurate, so I tossed that one eventually. Then, it was back to just eating what I wanted, and however much I wanted.
My main reason for getting back on track....... middle age has finally announced itself that it is here. Sore joints, poor sleep, breathlessness, all over body pain. Etc. It was NOT pretty. I was getting acid reflux at night, heartburn all day, snoring more at night, up all night with trips to the bathroom, kidney stones. And dealing with peri-menopause.
My last weight loss was back in 2007, when I had decided to relocate myself to South Carolina from Kansas. That by itself was a 1,000 mile move. All by myself. I had to prepare myself to get back into the job market, look for housing, etc....all while not having any net work of friends and family to fall back on when I got here. So, I made up my mind t lose the weight.
Losing weight in your 40's is much easier before menopause issues.
Back to 2013. Due to the recent health concerns, I made up my mind to get with the program. Being unemployed, and miles from any gym facilities, I do as much healthy cooking and living from home as possible. We got chickens to have farm fresh eggs, and hormone free chicken meat. We grow a garden when we can. We buy a 1/4 beef steer for grass fed beef comsumption. We only drink tea, milk and our well water. We limit our store purchased sea foods and shell fish. We limit our sugary snacks and treats. I weigh and measure all portions.
So far, since starting this weightloss journey the first week of Jan 2013, I have lost 10 pounds. DH has lost a few more pounds.

Hi! I'm 32 years old and over the last year I've transitioned to paleo style of life. I've lost 30lbs in the last year, but more importantly, I greatly improved some serious GI issues I having. I've completed three Whole30s and feel more amazing every time I do one! I'm not perfect, but the majority of the food I eat is local, grass-fed, organic...etc. I still drink woodchuck occasionally and sometimes even eat processed candy. I would say that 90-95% of the time, I eat pretty "clean". I can't see myself ever going back to eating processed convenient "food" again. I'm always looking for more information about nutrition and health. I read articles every day to try to educate myself. I might even share some of them with the group if you don't mind :happy:

My husband has transitioned to this lifestyle with me. We both eat paleo(ish), do Whole30s together and go to CrossFit (yes, we drink the koolaid!). His lifestyle change has been a 180. He motivates, impresses and shocks people every day with what he's done. Today, his dental hygienist commented on how much healthier his gums are since the last time he was there!!! :noway: So.. of course he told her that it was probably from the way he's been eating! He's a walking paleo/whole30/CrossFit billboard.

I guess that's it. I'm glad to be here. As Neko said, the forums are a lil cuh-razy :ohwell:

I read somewhere...long ago...that if you're going to put spread on your bread...it might as well be the real thing. Real butter. Unsalted.
I did that for a few years, then we switched to margarine. Now, I am back to butter.

Thank goodness, the list of chemicals in margarine is scah-ary! :sick: