55-65 year old women's success?

Doinitin2015

Hi there love sun fish blog that is exactly what I think of then it is do confusing I find now so much information .... So I went to a dietician three weeks ago and well I have not list a thing I just don't know which way to turn I go to see her today and get her thoughts, I am 55 female with 50 pounds to lose I am 5'3 and 199 pounds, I don't expect big wright losses but I need something to feel success at present with her following canada food guide ....not working? Thank you

Doinitin2015

Sorry for spelling errors rushing out the door to work

piccpicc

What a great series of posts. I am relatively new to Fitness Pal but not to some of the same issues you cite. Post menopausal makes a difference but complicates metabolism. Lost 60 lbs 5 years ago...25 lbs has slowly crept back on but scales heading in the other direction again thanks to Fitness Pal and The Diet Fix. I would recommend pilates as a great exercise in between cardio activities. After retirement from the very busy world of high school teaching, I found very part time work in an incredible pilates studio and 75% of our clients are 50plus. I take as many pilates classes as I can fit in. Very easy on the joints...positions are not held for very long and excellent for maintaining pelvic floor etc.

patpiepoli

Hi all. I'm 55, post menopausal and also finding it harder to lose. About 5 yrs ago I lost 50 lbs on weight watchers but put back on about 30. My goal is to take that back off with the help of MFP and
and exercise. I rejoined a gym and at my husband's urging have a trainer who so far has taught me strength training workouts and is working up a cardio routine. The idea of a trainer scared me but he is great about keeping me accountable without making me do things that I'm not capable of doing. I justify the expense because the healthier I am the less $$ spent on medical care! Good luck to everyone. It is tougher to lose as we get older, but the feeling of accomplishment as we meet daily diet and exercise goals is even sweeter!

OldWomanRuns

Reading your post and so many of the others - I believe I wrote them myself! Sounds so very familiar. Did lose a good number of pounds back in my early 40's - fell off that wagon and managed in my journey through every restaurant in town to gain 60 (20 more than lost). Having trouble even getting through menopause at 55 - the Dr put me on an HRT (I'm weaning myself off this month) and was determined to get healthy. Walking down the hallway at work (flat floor) and being winded when I got there just irritated me at myself. Lost about 15 pounds with extreme difficulty - then an officemate introduced me to MFP and voila` started dropping weight and getting much more active. Maintained a healthier weight (not ideal, but healthier) from July of 2013 until September 2014 - then didn't watch my caloric intake or maintain being as active and yep - back came 15 pounds! Struggle to figure out that maintenance issue being an older person. So, here I am again determined to figure this out. Actually inspired by so many of you that we CAN do this! We may be out to pasture - but we are not under the pasture yet!

Jewels211

piccpicc wrote: »

What a great series of posts. I am relatively new to Fitness Pal but not to some of the same issues you cite. Post menopausal makes a difference but complicates metabolism. Lost 60 lbs 5 years ago...25 lbs has slowly crept back on but scales heading in the other direction again thanks to Fitness Pal and The Diet Fix. I would recommend pilates as a great exercise in between cardio activities. After retirement from the very busy world of high school teaching, I found very part time work in an incredible pilates studio and 75% of our clients are 50plus. I take as many pilates classes as I can fit in. Very easy on the joints...positions are not held for very long and excellent for maintaining pelvic floor etc.

Thanks for the info on Pilates. I bought a Pilates kit a couple of years ago & then never even opened it! :-p but I think I know where I packed it away, & I need to find a way to do strengthing exercises that are easy on joints. Pilates sound like an answer!

trina1049

OldWomanRuns wrote: »

Reading your post and so many of the others - I believe I wrote them myself! Sounds so very familiar. Did lose a good number of pounds back in my early 40's - fell off that wagon and managed in my journey through every restaurant in town to gain 60 (20 more than lost). Having trouble even getting through menopause at 55 - the Dr put me on an HRT (I'm weaning myself off this month) and was determined to get healthy. Walking down the hallway at work (flat floor) and being winded when I got there just irritated me at myself. Lost about 15 pounds with extreme difficulty - then an officemate introduced me to MFP and voila` started dropping weight and getting much more active. Maintained a healthier weight (not ideal, but healthier) from July of 2013 until September 2014 - then didn't watch my caloric intake or maintain being as active and yep - back came 15 pounds! Struggle to figure out that maintenance issue being an older person. So, here I am again determined to figure this out. Actually inspired by so many of you that we CAN do this! We may be out to pasture - but we are not under the pasture yet!

Yes, we're all struggling with the yo-yo-ing diet woes. We can do this. It just takes longer. Sadly, we'll have to keep exercising and watching what we eat until we are under the pasture.

Jewels211

dlmciver wrote: »

Hello All-
I just found this thread and I'm inspired by the energy! I'm trying to catch up with everything. I'm turning 60 in August, and I want to solidify a healthy path as I look forward to retirement in the next few years. I have lost and regained 100+ pounds 2X. I have fallen apart when I "get close". I have 135 pounds to lose. I'll be checking in often.

Welcome! And you CAN do this! The support here--sometimes even unknowing--is so great. This morning for instance, with a sore knee, a cough from sinuses, & just feeling a bit shaky & low on energy, I had almost talked myself into doing my time on the ol' treadmill at a slower speed. But then I thought of some here making themselves head out to belly dancing or Zumba classes because they knew they needed to even when they didn't feel up to it, & I thought I am NOT going to wuss out on this! So I got in my time at my fairly new higher speeds & felt great afterwards!

dogbydog123

I am 62, disabled, and in April I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes. It was past time to get healthy. I have lost 40 lbs since early July. This is my half way point. I am totally motivated! My wt mgmt dr at Univ of Ky suggested I use this app and it has really helped. I do individual and class exercise for free at Lexington's Senior Center. I take Cymbalta for chronic pain which can make wt loss a challenge, but I am meeting it head on. I have been losing about a lb a week. That may slow as I continue to lose, but I will not allow myself to get discouraged. For 7 mos now I have walked past the dough.uts that get set out here at the Center. I just walk on by.

Snooozie

We can indeed still accomplish whatever we want at this stage of our lives... there are a few different challenges for most of us now, but it's a learning process - change happens over time and as long as we keep working towards what we want for ourselves, and are willing to make the changes ... we can absolutely do it!!

I succeeded at reaching my goal weight, and then quite frankly i got a little too cocky when i hit that "magic number" and never gave any thought to maintenance; just figured i was "done"; the end, I made it, yay me, yada yada.... yada.

Almost six months in and 15 pounds regained, (and I avoided getting on the scale much because even though it was getting harder and harder to squeeze into my clothes, it was just a pound or two.. here and there.. uh huh ... ya.. ok... but eventually i hopped on and faced the reality... and it finally hit me (i'm pretty sure it was during a hot flash btw) that i had missed a very important lessson.. as someone above said.. ) I would never be "done" - i would have to continue this for the rest of my life... and I had a mini meltdown LOL.. because i was omg i SO do not want to have to do "this" forever!! Tracking, logging, calorie counting... I'm being completley honest here; I was quite miffed, angry and resentful. And i went on a bit of a bender, eating crap up the wazoo out of rebelion LOL.. (beause me stuffing my face with crap will "teach" mfp.. ya... it was not one of my finer moments LOL).

I never left MFP.... I continued to log but mentally i was still angry..

It took a few days but when i eventually dragged myself up out of the pile of empty potato hip bags and chocolate bar wrappers, and empty ice cream tubs (i don't even like ice cream btw..) I had to perform an attitude adjustment on myself. That took another couple of days, but thankfully with a lotta conversations with myself and with help talking it out with friends here, i began to realize it wasn't such a big deal after all... I was kinda making a mountain out of a molehill...because really, basically it just comes down to the fact that for the rest of my life, I'll simply have to pay attention to what and how much I eat. That's it. period. point. I was making it out to be way more complicated and fearful that it was going to be a lifetime of hard work... like when I first started - I had so much to learn at first about nutrition and label reading and muscles etc... and the importance of moving our parts every day.. my head felt like it was going to explode from jumping from one idea to the other trying everything i read on a forum back then LOL.. til i finally found what worked for me.. and yes it WAS a lot of work and a lot of effort put in to losing that 50+ pounds... but NOW i already have the tools i need to not only lose these regained pounds, but to succeed at maintaining my weight and healthier lifestyle " to infinity and beyond" so to speak.. if i simply just keep paying attention, every single day. Not much to ask of myself after all, for what i get in return!

jeanniebeanie59

great stories everyone, like most I lost 10 lbs over a yr ago and now gained them back plus a few more. rying to loose 10 by Easter. Small frame 5.1 inches and weigh 130 goal is 115 but 120 would be fine. So hard to loose the weight but happy with 1 lb a week loss . I just get lazy and dont feel like excersing ...make excuses for my self all the time. I just have to do it and not procrastinate . I have a total gym machine which I like alot ..I feel its quite a bit like pilates. We can do it ...keep it up. Thanks for all the great posts!

sodakat

Thanks Trina and Snoozie for always keeping it positive (and funny)!!!

bonniepwest

Oh, Snoozie! Are you in my head or what? When my doc told me I was pre-diabetic I wanted to slap him! And the poor nutritionist in his office--I told her she was going to be my whipping boy for a while until I got over being so angry. So not fair to them, since it was, so to speak, my "just desserts" over a lifetime of bad choices. Didn't matter, it still "wasn't fair!" I finally simmered down, and instead of rebelling and eating everything I wanted to, I jumped in with both feet and started logging and counting not only carbs but calories. I'm down 20 lbs since November. Boy, that'll show 'em.

trina1049

bonniepwest wrote: »

Oh, Snoozie! Are you in my head or what? When my doc told me I was pre-diabetic I wanted to slap him! And the poor nutritionist in his office--I told her she was going to be my whipping boy for a while until I got over being so angry. So not fair to them, since it was, so to speak, my "just desserts" over a lifetime of bad choices. Didn't matter, it still "wasn't fair!" I finally simmered down, and instead of rebelling and eating everything I wanted to, I jumped in with both feet and started logging and counting not only carbs but calories. I'm down 20 lbs since November. Boy, that'll show 'em.

Don't we all wish we has started losing weight the right way instead of the fast way?

And thanks, Sodakat, for your kind words!

candicer

Every night I come on board and read the days posts, and every day I am so encouraged by all of you!

I've had a good week - finally! Cutting my calories has finally caused me to loose a couple pounds (actually down 3!). I hadn't weighed myself in about 10 days, so it wasn't all overnight!
- I had seen my dr last week and they took blood for multiple tests. Everything came back fine except one thing - and this surprised me! I am severely low in Vitamin D! She put me on prescription dose (50,000 mg per day!!!!) for a month. I asked why couldn't I just go out in the sun more? She said that's fine, but we need to get it back up quickly so it doesn't start to affect my organs. How scary is that. Who knew . . .
- Going into the weekend on a positive note!!!

sodakat

candicer wrote: »

...x I am severely low in Vitamin D! She put me on prescription dose (50,000 mg per day!!!!) for a month. I asked why couldn't I just go out in the sun more? She said that's fine, but we need to get it back up quickly so it doesn't start to affect my organs. How scary is that. Who knew . . .
- Going into the weekend on a positive note!!!

I've been taking 5,000 units of Vitamin D3 for about a year and 1/2 half now. This was something I decided to do on my own after doing a lot of reading/research. I live in South Dakota (hence the screen name) and we get no beneficial UVA rays between Sept and April (roughly) because the sun azimuth is too low. I know Vitamin D3 can be stored by the body, but not for 6 or 7 months.

After a year I had my blood tested to be sure I wasn't taking too much. My level was 75 and my doctor told me that was very good. 90 is about as high as one should go, she said. I'm sticking with the 5,000 units daily.

Its the only supplement I take. Oh, and FWIW, last summer I spent almost every single day exposed to the sun all day long, because I worked as road construction flagger. I was a bit concerned I might be getting too much Vitamin D. Nope.

--Kathy

cathy120861

i have been thinking of adding D vitamin. does one need only d5 or a d complex? is it best taken as a pill? or in some other form?

sodakat

Here are a few good reads on Vitamin D. I have tried capsules and tablets and prefer capsules. Swanson (http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-highest-potency-vitamin-d-3-5000-iu-5000-iu-250-sgels) has a good price, IMO and that is the brand I use but its a personal choice. I am not trying suggesting anyone take this, please, its just something I do and I suggest a blood test just to be safe but heads up you may find it is not covered by insurance. My doctor said its not a "routine" test and I ended up paying for mine, both the blood draw and testing even though I had blood drawn for routine annual screening of the blood pressure med I was taking. Its not real expensive to have blood drawn and tested however, IMO.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-do-i-get-the-vitamin-d-my-body-needs/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/vitamin-d/background/hrb-20060400
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-929-vitamin%20d.aspx?activeingredientid=929&activeingredientname=vitamin%20d

SbetaK

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bonniepwest

My vitamin D levels are low as well. I take 3000mg daily, 1000 of which are in the multi-vitamin I take. I'm hoping that it will have improved when I get my next labs done.

So I don't really know what I did differently, but I lost 3.2 lbs this week! That was after my pastry disaster last weekend, and I was determined to not let it affect me, so maybe I was just more careful about logging and meals.

Rhumax67

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cathy120861

My daughter lost 8 pounds 12 ounces today! And my first grandchild was born -- I have attached a picture of our Jonah. Baby is doing great, although my daughter is feeling rather beat up. My plane was cancelled, so i wont be flying down to be with them until this afternoon. As i have mentioned many times before, seeing Jonah's heartbeat on teh ultra sound was the start of my weight loss journey. I have lost 34 pounds so far and am planning to be at my goal weight by his first birthday!

jules92761

Canndicer I am also on 50,000 iu prescription vitamin d. My endocrinologist said I'd probably be on it forever.

lovesretirement

cathy120861 wrote: »

My daughter lost 8 pounds 12 ounces today! And my first grandchild was born -- I have attached a picture of our Jonah. Baby is doing great, although my daughter is feeling rather beat up. My plane was cancelled, so i wont be flying down to be with them until this afternoon. As i have mentioned many times before, seeing Jonah's heartbeat on teh ultra sound was the start of my weight loss journey. I have lost 34 pounds so far and am planning to be at my goal weight by his first birthday!

Congrats to you and yours on the birth of your grandson. He's an excellent incentive for healthy living!

trina1049

Cathy120861 -- Congratulations! He's precious. You'll be a healthy role model for him. Enjoy your time with him.

sodakat

Congratulations Cathy! Enjoy meeting your inspiration!

snowflake930

Congratulations Cathy, on your new grandson!

luluinca

Congrats Cathy, to you and your daughter. Grandchildren bring such joy!

sun_fish

Congratulations Cathy! Grandchildren are so much fun!

branbuds

What a beautiful baby!! Congrats to the new grandma!