55-65 year old women's success?
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marjtrewin wrote: »Mk2fit -- thank you, it's all about discipline isn't it.
Well done on your weight loss - you have shown me, don't make age an excuse
Minority report: Discipline is a big factor, for sure, but experimentation and thought are good supporting players.
When I first started losing, I felt hungry, and could see that I wasn't getting ideal nutrition by eating exactly as I had, but with lower portions - even though my fat-Ann way of eating was mostly healthy foods.
By experimenting with what I ate, and when, I was able to find strategies that left me feeling pretty satiated most of the time, usually only feeling hungry when I was getting close to a meal time.
Satiation is different for everyone. Your big variables are what you eat, and when. "What" could mean, within a healthy range of each, getting relatively more protein, or fats, or high-volume/low-cal veggies. "When" is about all those choices like big breakfast or no breakfast, 1/2/3/5/6 meals or snacks, whether to save some calories for evening snacking, which meals are bigger (or maybe they're all the same), etc. So, you can try some experiments to see what works best for you.
Your MFP food diary can be a help in this. If you have a particularly "crave-y" day, review your diary and see whether you can tell why. Sometimes it's about eating (perhaps even the previous day's eating!). But you can also think about other factors that could have an influence: Exercise, stress, boredom, triggers for habit-based snacking, poor vs. good sleep, etc.
Using my diary thoughtfully really helped me gradually improve my nutrition and satiation, so that the weight loss part became easier, and required less tooth-gritting discipline (which is good, because I'm kind of a flake - discipline is not the best tool in my tool-box.
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If you find that non-food factors are influencing hunger or cravings, you can also work on strategies to improve those, like picking up a hobby (ones that require clean hands are particularly good ), or substituting a more productive habit for an unhelpful one.
Good luck!
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^^YES!!! What Ann said!!!3
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Concur!!2
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Hi there will attempt again. No did not work!!!!!0
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Hi ladies, just an update on me. Still walking my 10,000 steps though not at once. I am down in labs more again my states were 65 years old. 5'6", sw 224 and now 166.4 . Feeling better about myself. Another 17 lbs to my 1st goal. Gee that sounds more doable than when I began this journey. The one thing I have learned so far is that each day I will have to log and count calories. I don't want to gain this back. I have not scheduled my knee surgery but its getting closer I want to be pretty healthy when I do. I keep losing this thread might be nice if we make a group, not sure how to do the though, or maybe just friend one another. Feel free to add me maybe put in 60's and over?
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Hi 4th attempt at posting. Lose 90percent of post????? Anyone else experience this? Love this group you ladies are very encouraging and welcoming. I have not had success yet But I will just joined MFP challenge of 1000 miles in 2017 of exercise. My stats are : 253.2 Feb 13/17. Ultimate Goal: 150 Ming1951 congrats. I too maybe facing a knee replacement down the road so not losing the weight is not an option. Please feel free to add me as a Friend. I have tried this
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Yeah it worked. I guess not hitting the Return Button is the key!0
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Yes once you post you have to click or hit return on the reply button.
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Hi! I will turn 60 in August. I joined 5.5 years ago and lost 70 pounds in 15 months. I wasn't working so I could go to the gym when the mood struck. I logged every bite. I quit drinking soda and haven't had any since. (I had a five cans of Diet Coke a day habit.) When I went back to work the stress and the commute time killed my gym time. Then I went back over the summer and lost some and the injured my knee at work and have gained back all that I lost plus 11 pounds. Since Christmas I've lost that 11 and then gained back two after a recent trip and lots of eating out. My sugar addiction is a big problem that I am working to over come as it causes so much pain due to inflammation. I haven't been to the gym in a year and I haven't logged regularly since I started working four years ago. I am trying to get back on track with both. Good luck to everyone. Friend me if you like. I log in almost every day. When I don't it's an oversight or because i am somewhere out of data range for my phone. I give lots of support but only hit the like button for days logged in unless you are hitting some big number.1
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@odirish, MFP bumped me from 1200 to 1540 when I went to maintenance. I continued to lose at a pretty healthy clip. I went to the IIFYM website which suggested something like 1796 so I went with 1800. I am still having a bit of trouble maintaining, but if I stay 1700-2300 I seem to be OK. It IS a learning process, both for losing and maintaining. BTW, I work out only at home. Walking, running and youtube are free and there when you want/need them. Best wishes on your journey.jamiewilldo wrote: »Hi 4th attempt at posting. Lose 90percent of post????? Anyone else experience this? Love this group you ladies are very encouraging and welcoming. I have not had success yet But I will just joined MFP challenge of 1000 miles in 2017 of exercise. My stats are : 253.2 Feb 13/17. Ultimate Goal: 150 Ming1951 congrats. I too maybe facing a knee replacement down the road so not losing the weight is not an option. Please feel free to add me as a Friend. I have tried this
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I'm having trouble with posting as well. Got one above that I wanted to quote....it didn't post my comment under.... but quoted another post I didn't intend.
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Another tip for not losing big chunks of posts: It doesn't like emoticons - at least in the web version, not sure about phones. If you use an emoticon, the part of the post after the emoticon disappears when you post it. You can only us the ones built into the editor.
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I've just been reading up on some of the posts on this subject. I am 58 years old and have lost 25 pounds since August 2016 (6 months) and would love to have friends from this age category.
I truly believe it is harder to lose weight after 40-45. And there are other issues that hit us naturally at this age that doesn't help to keep our focus.
Feel free to add me to your friends list. All the motivation we can find is very helpful!
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Great thread! I'll be 64 later this morning and I want to and need to (for health reasons) lose 25 pounds. I'm tall (6 ft) and it doesn't help when friends call me "slim" lol! I have a couple of chronic health conditions and the most serious one is with my heart (rheumatic heart disease.) Because of my symptoms, I'm not able to exercise strenuously. I used to crave sugar but now I find desserts and candy too sweet. That's a good thing!
I live on my own and my diet is mostly healthy ... I just eat TOO MUCH! My blood lipid panel is not good and my BODY IS GIVING ME SIGNS THAT IT'S TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT MY WEIGHT!! SO ... I'll be really pleased to join this thread and be part of mutual support. Best wishes everyone! 5 -
Georgia, Welcome!! We're here for you!1
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My focus has really gone downhill. Going to have lumpectomy in a couple weeks, followed by radiation. As much as I know how important it is to get on track and stay with it, temptation is worse now.3
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My focus has really gone downhill. Going to have lumpectomy in a couple weeks, followed by radiation. As much as I know how important it is to get on track and stay with it, temptation is worse now.
As a breast cancer survivor myself (now 16.5 years past a stage III diagnosis), I know how challenging the motivational side can be, but good nutrition and reasonable exercise while going through treatment definitely help to limit side effects, and can even improve long-term outcomes. I wouldn't advise eating in a deficit to try to lose weight while actively in treatment, unless your medical team explicitly endorses that, but MFP can be helpful in tracking and improving nutrition, which I'm sure they'd encourage.
Sorry you're having to go through this, @cory17 - wishing you the smoothest course possible!2 -
Cory, OK if I put you on my prayer list??2
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My focus has really gone downhill. Going to have lumpectomy in a couple weeks, followed by radiation. As much as I know how important it is to get on track and stay with it, temptation is worse now.
As a breast cancer survivor myself (now 16.5 years past a stage III diagnosis), I know how challenging the motivational side can be, but good nutrition and reasonable exercise while going through treatment definitely help to limit side effects, and can even improve long-term outcomes. I wouldn't advise eating in a deficit to try to lose weight while actively in treatment, unless your medical team explicitly endorses that, but MFP can be helpful in tracking and improving nutrition, which I'm sure they'd encourage.
Sorry you're having to go through this, @cory17 - wishing you the smoothest course possible!
AnnPT77, just wanted to say congratulations on your survival record. My sister and best friend have both had breast cancer, my friend twice (breast and ovaries removed as prevention). I know it is a hard road. Wishing you continuing success.
Cory17, hope all works out well for you.2 -
Sorry folks have not posted. I was told my one of your group there are other groups for women here. Did not know this was exclusive0
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retirehappy wrote: »My focus has really gone downhill. Going to have lumpectomy in a couple weeks, followed by radiation. As much as I know how important it is to get on track and stay with it, temptation is worse now.
As a breast cancer survivor myself (now 16.5 years past a stage III diagnosis), I know how challenging the motivational side can be, but good nutrition and reasonable exercise while going through treatment definitely help to limit side effects, and can even improve long-term outcomes. I wouldn't advise eating in a deficit to try to lose weight while actively in treatment, unless your medical team explicitly endorses that, but MFP can be helpful in tracking and improving nutrition, which I'm sure they'd encourage.
Sorry you're having to go through this, @cory17 - wishing you the smoothest course possible!
AnnPT77, just wanted to say congratulations on your survival record. My sister and best friend have both had breast cancer, my friend twice (breast and ovaries removed as prevention). I know it is a hard road. Wishing you continuing success.
Cory17, hope all works out well for you.
That's so kind of you, @retirehappy! Mostly, I feel lucky to have survived, having been given only about a 60% chance at diagnosis!p.
Regular vigorous exercise improves our odds, just as it improves odds that other women will avoid breast cancer in the first place. (Weight loss also reduces odds of breast cancer.)
These days, things seem easy: Extra years i had no right to expect, and for which I'm profoundly grateful. None of us has a guarantee . . . !2 -
jamiewilldo wrote: »Sorry folks have not posted. I was told my one of your group there are other groups for women here. Did not know this was exclusive
jamiewilldo: Not sure what you mean by above statement, but people get busy with life and this thread can get busy or quiet at turns. Welcome, happy to see others who share this journey we are all on. We all find our way as we go along. Hang in there every day and you will be successful.2 -
Jamie, Agree w/Nana; this thread is not exclusive. You are more than welcome to share your journey. Have a great weekend!
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jamiewilldo wrote: »Sorry folks have not posted. I was told my one of your group there are other groups for women here. Did not know this was exclusive
Jamie, there are groups and there are message boards. I think you have misunderstood, as I think I am the one you are referring to above.
This is a message board thread, everyone is welcome and people come and go all the time.
There are also Groups on MFP, you can be active in those as well as the message boards. You join a Group, and then you can post on the threads there. Some of those are restricted, others as open as the message boards.
Hope this clears things up for you. And you continue posting here. If you need further support, join a Group.0 -
Hi. I am new to MFP and would really like to join this group. I don't actually know how to though. I am 57 and have lost and gained massive amounts of weight through out my life. About 7 years ago I took off 50 pounds by calorie counting, but being a serial yo yo dieter I started putting it back on. When I had crept back up to 140 I gave up sugar completely. This took off 25 pounds with very little effort. So my comfort or goal weight is 113 I am 5'3". I have put on 7.5 pounds in the past few months and get really scared that I won't get back on track. I love reading the posts and find them very motivational. So please add me as a friend or let me join the group!!! Thanks!! 1
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tammycoughlan wrote: »Hi. I am new to MFP and would really like to join this group. I don't actually know how to though. I am 57 and have lost and gained massive amounts of weight through out my life. About 7 years ago I took off 50 pounds by calorie counting, but being a serial yo yo dieter I started putting it back on. When I had crept back up to 140 I gave up sugar completely. This took off 25 pounds with very little effort. So my comfort or goal weight is 113 I am 5'3". I have put on 7.5 pounds in the past few months and get really scared that I won't get back on track. I love reading the posts and find them very motivational. So please add me as a friend or let me join the group!!! Thanks!!
I so empathise with this I have done exactly that up and down all my life . Last year age 70 decided enough was enough needed to eat better be stronger if I didn't want to end up a fat weak old lady Nearly a year later lost nearly 3 stone and exercise every day at home or in the gym. Keep logging foos and move more every little helps. There are lots of videos on YouTube for all levels, that's how I started. Goid luck
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Good morning, I'm 66 and have lost since I started with lower carbs and more protein/good fats. It's really nice to see others my age (or a bit younger) having success. The weather here in Southwest Michigan has been fabulous for the last few days (for February) so I've been getting outside and doing cleanup in the yard. Bending and squatting to pick up sticks is great exercise . Thanks for all your input on this thread (I've been a stalker...LOL)6
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