Accountability Buddies Anyone?

I'm in the same boat. I used MFP for years and then got a Fitbit and started using their community and... things just got lost in the shuffle. Now I've got a new Versa 2 and I'm back on MFP trying the Hiring a Campfire Target program.

A lot of my old friends are still on here but it's been so long I want some new buddies with similar goals to me.

I'm in a similar boat. I don't find it particularly useful to have "friends" on here - I'm more looking for people who I can actually connect with and thus feel accountable to. (Nothing wrong with friends I just found in the past that I end up with a very long list of them and since I don't know anything about them in any real sense it doesn't actually help keep me on track)

Below is a copy of the thread I posted. If anyone in here is interested in what I'm proposing SEND ME A MESSAGE (if you just send a friend request I'll accept it but I won't know you were interested in forming an accountability connection and so I'll just be added to the pile of people I probably never interact with if that makes sense).
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Having been through the MFP deal before (such a sadly familiar story - successfully lost about 25kg, bounced around at an acceptable weight for a few years, life happened and suddenly realized I put about 20 of those kg back on) I know what works for me.

I think for some people there is value in big threads, checking in publicly etc and I have nothing against those ideas (in fact I use them too) but for me individual conversations work a lot better. The type of thing where I really feel like I’m getting to know someone.

So I am looking for a person or two who wants to communicate using messaging rather than a thread. Sort of a weight loss pen pal I guess! I don’t care about age/weight/nationality/gender/race/marriage status etc but I do care about the following:

1. Reliability- it’s not that we need to communicate every day or anything but I want someone who doesn’t just disappear for months at a time.

2. Writing conventions - my spelling and grammar is far from perfect but I want to communicate with someone who at least attempts to communicate with standard spelling and grammar rather than text speak or similar. I know being judgmental about this might make me a bad person but I don’t care. I just find text speak so unpleasant to read I'm not willing to subject myself to it voluntarily.

Basically I like making friends and having friends who are into weight loss will help keep me motivated.

Few rough biographical details about me to help any readers out there decide if I would be up your alley as a pen pal.

46
Need to lose about 20kg
Vegetarian
Married (to a skinny man - damn him!)
Maths teacher
Australian but spent most of my life overseas, currently under very strict lock down in Buenos Aires.
Verbose!

If you feel a pen pal type set up would be helpful to you too send me a message and tell me about yourself.