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In addition to good suggestions above, consider clubs in your area. Here: A local athletic shoe store sponsors walking and running clubs/teams. There's a three-county cycling association that sponsors various rides for different levels of expertise/intensity, the bike co-op does likewise, and at least one bike store does,…
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If the key goal is weight loss, the key issue is calorie balance. Intermittent fasting or low carb will help with weight loss if they make the process easier for you to follow. If they make the process harder to stick with, then they don't help reach that goal. I 100% understand that people may have other reasons to use IF…
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"A few months"? Losing 12 pounds in 3 months would be good. It would likely be safe at 261 to lose a little faster than that for a while, but a pound a week would be solid progress, something most people could sustain long enough to lose a meaningful total amount. Losing 12 pounds in 6 months at 261 pounds would be slower…
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Hello and welcome! Honestly, the way to achieve goals is to think of a step you can take in the direction of the goal, and work on accomplishing it. If you keep going, at some point you'll be ready for another step toward the goal, and you can work on that. It can be pretty amazing how small steps over a period of time add…
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Hello, and welcome back! I'm only 3639 days here, but continuously, so I'll point out that the friend function is different than it used to be. There's no longer a place on your profile where your friends can post, or read to see your weight, exercise or typed-in updates. MFP friends can send each other DMs with the…
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LOL at "old-fashioned spreadsheet". I'm one of the "tiny notebook and pen/pencil" set. For me, nothing else has worked as well for recording during workouts. I admit the apps or a spreadsheet will offer better reporting of trends and such. I'm not sure why so many answers here focus on the calories: OP seems to be talking…
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If you haven't run across it already, this would be a good read - especially be sure to read the article linked in the first post: That helps explain WHY those scale fluctuations are completely normal.
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Make a plan that will be relatively easier for you personally to stick with, but that delivers gradual weight loss . . . then buckle in and follow it. That'll work. Too many people try to lose weight fast, choose extreme eating restrictions and maybe punitively intense exercise on top of that. That usually backfires. A…
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Generally, it's supposed to be the percent defined in US food-labeling regulations. Scroll down the page at this link to find a table listing the current values: https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-facts-label/daily-value-nutrition-and-supplement-facts-labels You can reset your MFP goal percent to something other than 100,…
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Plus here in the Community they literally posted the IDs of staff that you can DM through the message function in the app. I've had interactions with them, clearly actual people. (Watching some other users interact with them in posts here in the Community in the areas the staff monitors, I wish everyone would actually…
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Finally got my scalp surgery today, after two reschedules: Moved out a week, then moved earlier in the day via a phone call this morning. A chunk of skin and stuff underneath was removed at the forehead hairline, didn't hurt (local anesthetic) but boy there were sure funny noises. Also the first time I've had a bandage…
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If you're talking about strength exercise, there's a thread here where many MFP-ers shared programs that have worked well for them: Despite the title, it has things like bodyweight strength programs, not just weight lifting. There's also a good thread about setting up your own routine: If you ask questions on that thread,…
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Sure. You can look at some of the threads in the Food and Nutrition or Recipes sections of the Community in which other people give suggestions or post what they eat. You can post your own questions there, if you want something more specific than you see by browsing around. There are also lots of recipes in the MFP blog,…
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Hello and welcome! I lost about 50 pounds with MFP back in 2015-16 starting at age 59, in menopause and severely hypothyroid besides (medicated for that, though). I've been maintaining a healthy weight since, now 69. I figure if a hedonistic, undisciplined aging hippie flake like me can do it, probably most any adult can,…
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@Overheadfan Yet another smart, insightful update from you! Nine-tenths of the blogosphere - maybe more - tries to make us think improving health has to be some white-knuckled extreme, all perfect, really fast, using only theoretically ideal tactics no matter how unpleasant they are to us personally, and just generally…
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The strength side of MFP exercise logging is pretty minimal. There are lots of good apps for logging strength exercise these days, much better than MFP. I'm pretty sure MFP will let you create custom strength exercise, but the variables are still reps/sets/weight. I don't use that feature even when I do conventional weight…
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Hello, Vesna, and welcome! I'm also 69 and female. I'm not a big walker (bad knees) but row on water and do some cycling. I'm ovo-lacto vegetarian, so neither meat nor fish for me. I've been on MFP since 2015, first losing weight for just under a year, then maintaining a healthy weight since. MFP will give you a starting…
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Hi, Alison, and welcome! I'm also a breast cancer survivor, now a long-termer at both survivorship (stage III BC diagnosed in 2000), and joined MFP in 2015. I didn't do Letrozole, but did take another aromatase inhibitor, anastrozole (Arimidex) for 5 years after taking Tamoxifen for 2.5 years. I went from couch-type status…
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What Durden said, assuming you wear the Fitbit nearly 24x7. If you don't, and just use it during exercise sessions, you can log the exercise manually. You can override the default calorie number on any MFP-defined exercise or create your own custom exercise. Be careful, though: Sometimes the number a fitness tracker gives…
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If you log a food once, it will stay in your recent/frequent foods and come up first when you go to search for foods to add. That seems pretty close to the "mark a favorite food idea". Also, some/many of the foods whose default serving size is ounces or cups have grams in the serving size drop-down list. Once you log a…
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Sunday rest day, except I did my home PT exercises. Monday, coached row, 8.4k, bow of the quad. Mild pace, mostly drills, split between zone 1/2 for me. Today, just a physical therapy session with lower body and core exercises, then a little boat-carrying while supervising the open rowing session. Suspect tomorrow…
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Generically, anything that you enjoy eating that fits in your calorie goal, tends to keep you feeling reasonably full until near your next meal, and ideally contributes something to your overall nutrition for the day. What exactly is that? Varies individually, so it may take some experimenting. I had oatmeal with plain…
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Here's an irony, from the perspective of a 69 y/o long-timer here, now in maintenance: Improving our health can help get the energy to keep things going to improve our health, IME. It's a virtuous cycle of improvements, potentially. 😉 Just don't give up, instead keep chipping away in a positive direction patiently and…
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There's a drop-down list on serving size. Many items will have both grams and ounces on that drop-down, but not all. It's usually possible to find an accurate entry with grams in the drop-down, if not as the default serving size. If not, I just assume an ounce is close enough to 28g, and do some arithmetic to get the…
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I don't know whether you'd count it as natural, but some types of extracts and bitters contain all-natural ingredients. Personally, not being sweets-centric, I like bitters a lot as a water add-in, particularly in sparkling water. They come in lots of different flavors. They're expensive per bottle, but it only takes a few…
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I agree with the others above, from the perspective of having lost around 50 pounds at age 59-60. The food side of the equation is the powerful tool for nearly everyone, but exercise is great for improving health and physical functioning, very much worth doing. One thing I'd add: As far as waking up yawning, as a fellow…
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Because the database is mostly crowd-sourced - entered by regular users like you and me, except some of them aren't meticulous about what they type. Solution: Pick accurate entries. For bonus points in the unofficial ranks of being pro-social, report the incorrect entry to MFP. If you got the incorrect entry by scanning…
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Good advice from edouardo above, though I'm always hesitant to recommend people contact folks outside MFP without getting to know them here first. I'm sure he's a good guy, but not everyone is, sadly. The one thing I'd add to his advice is this: If you're having trouble being consistent, can you maybe think of being…
