seeking support from abroad!

As I'm sure we're all familiar, there are TONS of excuses we tell ourselves for why we won't keep track of this or that, or that we'll start tomorrow or that this little chocolate doesn't count or I don't remember or.....

I want to stop doing that and start taking care of my body more. My biggest hurtle right now is that I live abroad, and thus have a hard time finding my foods on the tracker, but this time, I'm determined to make it happen and to stick to it. I recently discovered that you can scan a bar code and that MFP also tracks nutrition, so I'm super psyched as this will make it easier to track as well as stay healthy - I can finally track my iron! (I'm anemic)

This time last year I was 150 and felt great! It was the lowest I'd been since high school and life was wonderful. Since then, I moved to a new country, had my heart broken and had a short (but horrifying) hospital stay. I've gained 20lbs in less than six months and I want it GONE. I want to be down to 130 at the very most. Since Sept, I've been depressed and asocial and now, finally, I feel like I'm waking up from a long slumber and like I'm me again. I'm a very social person so I think this is a great site. What will really help me make this time stick is if I have people on here supporting me. I have a friend from RL on here who's an inspiration and lost 60+lbs and I realized that I'm more likely to stay on top of this if I know there's someone out there who might be reading it or seeing it in their feeds.

So.. after a long winded intro - will you be my friend? I would love some support! Especially if there's anyone on here who is currently living in Russia (or is Russian) - but any support would be GREAT!

Thanks so much!
V