Learning more about MFP

Welcome to you and your friends!

MFP has a Groups feature that you may like; on the desktop site, go to Community > Groups. On the mobile app, go to the hamburger menu > Community > tap the speech bubble icon > Groups. You can set up basically a private forum to chat with each other, post recipes and progress photos, etc. Or you can make it public if you want to allow other people to join you on your journeys. You can also just add each other as friends and like/comment on each other's news feed posts, if you don't want to set up a whole group, but those interactions will be visible to any other friends you all have.

As far as making the actual weight-loss process easier, if you aren't currently in the habit of counting calories, give yourself a week or two of just honest logging. Log everything without necessarily trying to stay under-budget, so you can see how you do eat before getting caught up in ideas about how you should eat. That way it's easier to see where you can make sustainable changes, rather than throwing out all of your habits and routines and building brand-new ones from the ground up. Also, if you don't already have one, get a food scale and weigh everything you eat. Volumetric measures (cups and spoons) are OK for liquids, but solid food needs to be weighed and logged by mass, the margin for error is just too large otherwise.