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Well, thank you, for both your kind comments and your encouragement. (As well as for being marginally — two months — older than me!) I find it very encouraging that you lost 100 before you could really exercise, and that you could lose it without lots of exercising. Exercise being largely out of the question for me — or,…

Yes, I'm beginning to discover (via this app) just how few calories you can actually lose from exercising, however helpful and healthy it may be. Which is encouraging, and makes me feel less guilty about not training for the half marathon.

Ooooh! I've worked out how the quote thing works: you tap on the "Quote thingy below the post you want to quote and it pastes it into a box to type into. All very simple. Except that on my iPad the box with the quote pasted in was invisibly below other messages so it took me a while to work out what was going on. (I had to…

Oh, I know how hard it can be to drag your aching body out of bed when it hurts and you've just managed to find a way to lie so it hurts less, for a little while, at least. As for doctors, I wonder how many of those giving that advice have ever been in a position to need it? It must seem obvious to them that getting up and…

Glad to meet you, Esme. I'll gladly accept that friend request once it pops up. I've only been using MFP for just about two weeks, and only consistently over the last week so I'm still groping forward, finding out, or failing to find out, how this community bit works. (I still don't know how to make the quote bit work, or…

I've been an Indian food addict for fifty years, ever since the first Indian restaurants started opening in the UK, notably in Glasgow: for Glaswegians curry counts as one of Scotland's national dishes: no kidding. So I've been thoroughly enjoying reading the recipes in your thread and plan to copy them into another great…

My guess (if my aged memory serves me right) that those night-time feeds are more comfort and habit sips than anything like full feeds, in which case they may be having very little effect on your calorie needs. Sorry! But it might be (relatively) easy to get a good guesstimate, not by looking at what you eat, but at what…

I think maybe expecting someone to be available throughout the day is a bit unrealistic. I know I don't feel able to commit to that. If you don't get a positive response — and I really hope I'm wrong, and that you do — then maybe just post with a more general request for friends, saying a little about yourself so people…

I'm wondering if you're actually eating too little. If you don't eat enough your body (being a primitive animal, in essence) assumes you're facing a period of starvation, so it burns as few calories as it can get away with by not replacing less important cells, or doing less crucial procedures, and stores fat if it can. If…

Great reply, Shadow2soul!

First: don't give up. Second: why do you feel you want to? Once you're clear about exactly, in detail, why you want to give up you'll be able to see what you have to tackle so you don't feel that way. As an example, if your inner critic is telling you you'll never stick to a diet, you don't have to commit to sticking to…

Sorry about not replying in proper form, but I'm still finding out how this thing works. If someone could tell be how to do the @ thing I'd be very grateful. I tried copying one person's name then pasting it after an @ but what it then actually pasted was computer gobbledegook. (Would this have shown as gobbledegook or…

Soup! I find tins of soup the best solution for quick, lo-cal meals. I find the Baxters ones most like home-made (and as a self-confessed 'fat-because-foodie I'm fussy about such things). Several are well under 150 cals a tin which means you can have a slice of bread too if you need filling up (easy on the butter though)…

Hi, Cheryl. So good to find someone else with a lot to lose. And in the UK too. (I live in the very far north of Scotland: a bit of a contrast to London!) Feel free to add me. I'll be glad to add you once I work out how to do that.

Fybtomom said "I've have my thyroid checked regularly. It's always normal. I always secretly hope it will come back abnormal because that's easier to treat than Fibromyalgia." Oh, I can relate to that! I've read every online article I could find about problems with thyroid checking but I've now given up hope that my normal…

Hi, folks. I'm new round here, having just started using the app (which I love) after trying literally all the other diet/carb or cals counting in the App Store. Personal info: I'm 65 (am I the oldest here?), very sedentary because of chronic pain & very frequent migraines so I spend much of my time in bed, and need to…

Blimey! At 65 I appear to be the oldest person here.

I wish you all the luck in the world. My fibro story started over thirty years ago (I'm 65 now) when I was suddenly prostrated with what I now realise was ME, though back then no-one seemed to know what was going on. That's when I started inexplicably to put on weight when I'd always been a skinny size (UK) 8-10. Over time…