25 pounds to lose!

We are sort of in the same boat. I will be 55 this year and really never had a problem with my weight until I got sick last year and spent months on steroids. That caused me to eat everything in sight. I joined MFP to help track calories and exercise and to get a little more motivation from some of the folks on here. I am by no means fanatical about it and if I want a bag of Skittles, I will have a bag of Skittles but spend a few extra minutes on the treadmill. On the advise of my doc when I first started this back in December, she said cut most of the carbs out of my meals, like bread, potato's and pasta for at least the first 6 weeks which I did and the results I saw were quick. I lost 8lbs the first 10 days from that and seriously decreasing sodium. I am down 14 so far and losing about a lb a week which is good for me, my goal is to get to 152. I always stayed between 152 and 157 before ballooning up to 190 last year. Keeping my calories around 1200 which some folks think is low but I have digestive issues and have to watch what I eat. and can't do a lot of fiber. I park at the farthest end of any parking lot where ever I go and have started using my sons weight bench to help tone up which has done wonders for my back fat and I do the treadmill a couple of days a week. Good luck to you, you don 't have a huge amount to lose so you can do it!