Jeanmrob: I have reached a healthy weight, but I'm still struggling. I do exercise here at home using a treadmill and my 1.5 or 3.5 dumb bells. Recently I started using toning ropes that I found hidden in my closet. The big problem is that I do LOVE my junk food. I try to control it, but sometimes it controls me (lol). I'm sure I could lose the last 5-10 pounds that I want to lose if I would eat less junk food and more veggies and fruits.

Anyway, we are all struggling. This lifestyle change is a difficult one and will take awhile. If you would like to add me as a friend, please send me a request and we can do this together.

Hi Jean,

Admitting that it IS a struggle..and letting us know, means you really are on the right track. I find just being able to
express my fears, thoughts, triumphs and failures here has made the whole process really doable for me. I found that
some of your ideas are new to me and give me a great idea for keeping on the right track. You are helping others..and
I would like to be able to say thank you...and give you as much support as you would like!

Great suggestions from all of you! Thanks for posing this topic. It has helped me to read all these suggestions! Thanks everybody. :flowerforyou:

Love the posts. The thing I try to keep in mind is that this is (for me) a life commitment to be healthier. So, a few days (or even weeks) of struggling is not much compared to the years I'm hopefully adding to my life. And whatever time I have left, I'll enjoy the time much more if I'm healthy, eating right and exercising.

Bump to keep this going.

Hope everyone is having a GREAT Labor Day weekend. I work Sun and Mon. so enjoying Saturday with my DH.

I agree, this post was so inspirational. I read one time that for us older folk, over sixty, just two extra spoons of food a day and we can gain twenty lbs. That really shook me. When I started thinking about it, that would probably be somewhere around a couple hundred calories a day. Of course, who knows what the optimum calorie count for any of us is. I have tried to figure that number out for years. So the truth of all this is, we are never going to get this whole thing figured out completely. There is a learning curve that is constantly changing, as we age and depending on what we eat and how much we move. Which, as all of us know, changes daily. I realize I am going to have periods of weight gain, and hopefully some times of weight loss.....this see/saw will continue the rest of my life. This place is such a great help because when I diligently list what I eat, and scan what I can into my I-phone....well I just can't lie to myself about what I am putting into my mouth. I know we all get tired of being out of control, and heaven knows I spent at least the last four weeks out of control....but miraculously, I am snapped back in this week. I hope you all know, we can support one another, talk each other off the ledge, and away from the brownies and hot fudge sauce. I am so glad I returned to fitness pal.

Love this post, helps me want to continue....in answer to Granmana ...you would love a LIKE button, can I say I was on another program before where there was a like button and I did not like it becomes so just not personal after awhile..Instead of getting 10 ''I LIKE''.... I rather read a good post like this where we verbally all encourage and say to our friends nice things......just my thought on the like button :flowerforyou: