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Go to a store where there is a variety of brands and styles, and get fitted. You can get shoes that are made expressly for walking, or cross trainers could work. Walking shoes give you support and room for your feet to move properly as you walk through a stride.

Google dumbbell workouts and you'll find lots--one has animated illustrations. There's a good mix of upper body, to get strong, total body, and that's only the first page. Maybe you can find a book that you could follow to get started. I use Strong Women Stay Young--it's aimed at women but there is a section for men to use…

Small curd, and add salt and pepper. Leave out the salt if you're limiting it.

I close mine after dinner, when I know I'm not going to eat anything else. If I think I may want something else, I wait until later. I share my computer, so sometimes I can't get online in the evening, so then I wait until the next morning to finish my diary. I use a notebook all day and write my food down so I don't…

I had trouble using the recipe calculator--guess I need to try again.

You can google "calories in home made" whatever and recipes come up often (or you can go to recipe sites on purpose) and find something pretty similar to your own meal. They usually include a nutritional count at the end of the recipe. Sparkpeople is a good place to look for nutritional figures for dishes (pot roast, or…

I don't like salads and vegetables very much but I'm going to have to eat more of them to reach my goal of losing weight. I really like to cook and I'm used to eating just what I want (which is ultimately the problem). There's lots of good advice on this thread--and welcome humor--and I'm going to try to take it. Right now…

Selling what he knows doesn't really work makes him a quack. I get spam from Dr. Oz, so that tells you something, too.

I didn't feel I could afford to join a gym either. I used the book Strong Women Stay Young by Miriam E. Nelson, which includes a plan for weight training that any age woman can do at home, using hand weights, ankle weights, and a few exercises without weights. The weights aren't expensive and you can buy them as you work…

I don't think any of those work. Diet and exercise are what work--take in fewer calories than you use.

I have a ring binder for recipes I want to try (and likely will try), a recipe keeper--plastic pages with sleeves-- for my tried and true recipes (the ones I cook all the time or have a special meaning for me or my family) and the cookbooks that I use many recipes from. The binder and recipe keeper and a couple of the cook…

I'm old, too :smile: but hope to make a dent in the weight I've gained over the past few years. You sound very motivated--Good luck to both of us, starting on this new plan!