60 yrs and up

@Jthanmyfitnesspal

Apple Watch.

I’m waaaaay slower than you. Kiddie Pool Class. 2700 yards/82 minutes this morning, but I wasn’t shooting for a PB, because I’d just done an hour of upper body with my trainer. It’s a win to just be able to wiggle my arms at all after that!

and I decided to reward myself. Am enjoying some focaccia pizza with homemade dough, sauce and cheese, and a caprese salad at my favorite little corner restaurant as I type this!

I’m eyeballing that espresso with a scoop of gelato but I think I’ll be too full by the time I tuck in to the salad, which is a work of art.

Hello, 67 and dble mastectomy breast cancer 5 yr survivor. During the 5 years of treatment (luckily just a pill a day), so fatigued and unmotivated. A friend told me about MFP and I started a couple days ago. When you start logging your foods, it's a BIG wow! lol. The system tells me 10,000 steps a day and I do 2000-3000 just around the house and yard, lol, but I started walking tonight and in approx 1.6 mile did 2500. So it's doable, it just takes a mindset! Glad to meet you all and I was wondering if anyone understands "negative"calories and is there a place (here or online) that has a chart of how to get where you want on those?

@Lferraccio : My wife went through all of this, too. Please pardon some mansplaining on the topic. Anything I say here you can find elsewhere, and I expect you probably have.

The treatments reduce energy by attacking your red blood cell production. I'm sure you're getting that monitored and your doctor is having you take vitamins for it (B, D, and iron as directed). The other common advice to boost red blood cell production is weight loss (if you're overweight), and exercise, both aerobic and weight bearing.

Here's my point about exercise: It can bring up an image of being in a gym running on a treadmill or lifting barbells. While these are great, it doesn't have to be that. Every activity counts: gardening, doing housework, and walking. For weight bearing, my wife like Pilates. Water aerobics is a really fun and communal activity. Exercise (and life in general) is more fun if it's social.

Kudos for starting on this journey and Best of luck!

Welcome! I'm also a breast cancer survivor who had bilateral mastectomies, in my case no reconstruction (by choice) after a stage III diagnosis . . . almost 25 years ago, no recurrence or metastases so far. I had chemo and radiation, plus 7.5 years of the anti-estrogen drugs. I'm 69 now.

I also found logging super insight-provoking and helpful when I started here nearly 10 years ago - year of loss, maintenance since.

I don't do many steps most of the time (bad knees) but do other forms of exercise (rowing boats and machines, outdoor and stationary biking, mostly - things I started after treatment). Gradually increasing activity has a big payoff, IME, in both fitness and general quality of life. Reaching a healthy weight was also a quality of life improvement, and the combination of that and better fitness is gangbusters. As you say, it's doable . . . you may even surprise yourself, if you stick with a sensible, manageably challenging routine. For sure I did.

Negative calories? I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you talking about negative calorie adjustments in MFP from a synced fitness tracker or from an exercise app? Or something else? I'd like to help if I can.

Please do keep posting here - let us know how you're doing!

@Lferraccio im going to go out on a limb and assume you’ve got an iPhone and an Apple Watch, and are seeing something that looks like this in your daily diary:

for the record, this is an extreme example (I made up for the deficit the next day), but it illustrates the negative calorie adjustment well.

If you’re not turning your move ring at least three times a day, I’d disable the adjustment. It’s basically for people who are highly active and record a high amount of exercise or movement.

I’m set at highly active. Simple explanation:

Apple / MFP recognize that I should already be receiving extra calories for a lot of movement, and they deduct some so I don’t get double credit for the same calories.

It makes sense, and brings some more balance and accuracy to high burners, but it can utterly freak some people out. It can feel - and look- like punishment, but it seems pretty accurate, based on my experience

You might also check your settings and make sure you have your activity level correct. If you’re not, they’re saying,”wait, we gave you extra calories to eat because you told us you were active, but you’re recording sedentary type numbers.”

IMU, there are negative adjustments in MFP possible for all fitness trackers, AFAIK. I differ somewhat from Spring, though, in that I think many/most people will get more reliable results if negative adjustments are turned on.

If turned off, a person can be given added calories to eat when they're more active than MFP expected (good) but never have calories deducted when they're less active than MFP expected (maybe not so good, since if frequent it would result in slower than targeted weight loss).

Making sure MFP activity level is set on the lower side of reality will minimize net negative adjustments occurring. Some people even set activity level to the lowest possible level, even when that's lower than reality for them, so they get more adds than subtractions.

The thing Spring is showing above, where her net calorie adjustment is positive (the 1041 shown as total exercise calories), but a piece of the calculation is negative, may be specific to the Apple version, not sure about that. But for sure, other devices synced to MFP can produce a net negative, regardless of how they "show their work" in the detail section, if negative adjustments are turned on in MFP.

@daweezer for Louise, in hopes she’ll find her way here to this thread!

Scam friend bingo would be great. I'd totally start such a thread, but it'd have to be in Chit-Chat and I never post in Chit-Chat. (I've found having a post there to up the odds of getting skeezy "let's chat" FRs/DMs on top of unwelcome quasi-flirty replies right out in public. Yuck to the ugh on that stuff!)

I think another square would be "handsome widowed single dad", maybe "nearly soft-porn style hot young woman" (yes, I've gotten some of those FRs, too). No track record in the Community, locked-down profile on the MFP side: I'm not accepting that FR. I still accept ones from people who've shown themselves sensible in the Community, even though I don't much see the point of friending.

I can think of other bingo cards that could be fun here, too, like crazy blogosphere myths, but some of those might end up feeling shame-y for naïve new participants, and I'd not want people who are sincerely learning to feel that kind of way, even if I want to debunk the myths. It's a more delicate communication. The internet has enough snarky replies without creating more here . . . where IMO and IME things tend to be more welcoming and helpful than most other places.

My vote is handsome clean shaven older gent on his boat…

Agreed, they do seem to come in clusters!

@BCLadybug888 Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos from your trip to Europe! The church in Norway was so unique. What was the name of it? Please share more pictures if you want… 😊

Is anyone else having issues with the new board format? It’s removing capitals, won’t punctuate the end of sentences, and has its own mind about spellcheck.

It’s. Driving. Me. Crazy.

I place value on good English and it’s sabotaging me!

Hi All! Thanks for the recommendation to join this thread @ https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/1008025469/springlering62

@Jthanmyfitnesspal

I only visit community through the web. The iOS app is painful for that. It's good for logging food though.

I'm neither handsome nor a gent (though have occasionally been mistaken for one in MFP, confusingly) . . . but I do have a recent boat pic. Does that count? 😆😉

I promise I'm not a scammer. That was just a sneaky way to start chatting.

The start of regular on-water rowing season has me in a happier state of mind.

I have yet to get back on my non-stationary bike this season. I think I'm a little fearful of falls after November's unfortunate skull-fracture adventure . . . though I've literally never hit my (always helmeted) head while on a bike ride. Bike will happen, but possibly not until after June: Assisting at the club's learn-to-row classes in June is time-consuming.

Other than that, things are continuing fairly calmly and normally. Weight's pretty steady in maintenance, creeps down a tiny bit (a good thing, as I'd prefer to slowly creep down another 5 pounds-ish) . . . then jumps part way back up when I do something indulgent. S'allright, especially when they tell me full bone repair still has months to go. 🤷‍♀️🙂

How's everyone else doing lately?