I'm only 52 but I feel much older, does that count? I have exactly the same problem as you've described :-) I also overeat (binge eat sometimes) from stress.....Maybe we can swap some healthy recipes.. Or just help motivate each other! I've never been slim but now I'm more than 200 pounds and also feeling it in my joints and back... Exercise is also a particular problem for me, I always seem to have an excuse! I would be pleased to have a motivational buddy....

I've been back to tracking for almost a week and it has been working well. Today was really the first time I felt hungry... And I ate too much at dinner because I didn't want to put just a little back in the fridge, how dumb is that! Now I feel too full and I'm annoyed with myself. I hope I was doing well enough the rest of the week that this won't screw up my progress too much. I hope your mood will improve soon friend! Talk anytime you like!

Hello! I will also try to write once a week, you can be my new accountability buddy if you are willing. I really admire your commitment regarding tracking steps. I have not found a good tracker yet that seems to be very accurate, what do you use? I know that I sit too much and every day I promise I will go for a walk but usually I don't. I'm sitting here looking at my treadmill and I haven't been on it in more than six months!! Ok tell you what. By the time we talk next week I pledge to walk 30 minutes at least three times...thank-you for giving me someone to be accountable to.

I'm really sympathetic to the sleep issues, definitely that can play havoc with your eating habits too. I wonder if you were to prepare some healthy snacks before bed, ones that would fit in your daily calorie allowance, if you would be able just to eat those at night? I hope you get a good nights rest tonight anyway, and that you have a good week. Talk to you again next Sunday!!

Hello 4JOann! I'll be happy to cheer you on, it's so important to have support. I wish you a peaceful and balanced day!

I did my three walks, and boy was it hot today. I hope everyone else is doing great.

I'm also coming to grips with a life long pattern of eating disorders. Losing and gaining 100 pounds about 3 times. I'm getting up towards my sixties and have recently lost 127 pounds. When I try to switch to maintaining I just seem to revert to gaining. So this time, with the help of this app, I plan to continue daily logging and weighings as part of what I need to do forever. I would love to reach a place in my life where food does not have to be so important, and where I could trust in my ability to make reasonable choices - but it appears that may not happen for me and I can only hope to minimize the damage gping forward. I just don't have the stamina another 100 pound yo yo swing. So now I am trying to talk about feelings instead of eating them.