Tips for weight loss over 50

Ddsb11

Lawcher wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

Tip - it's not your age. Eat less, move more still works.
I actually found it far easier in my 50's to lose weight, better tools like this one, food labelling, more me time.....

Only you know how much you have to lose and what you mean by slower than expected, often it's the expectation that's the problem!

As @claireychn074 points out we have choices with what to do with our time, when I retired I got even more choices and move more, exercise more and get to eat more.

sijomial wrote: »

Tip - it's not your age. Eat less, move more still works.
I actually found it far easier in my 50's to lose weight, better tools like this one, food labelling, more me time.....

Only you know how much you have to lose and what you mean by slower than expected, often it's the expectation that's the problem!

As @claireychn074 points out we have choices with what to do with our time, when I retired I got even more choices and move more, exercise more and get to eat more.

Actually menopause I had been scientifically proven to lose body fat very very slowly as estrogen drops dramatically
You don’t exercise lots more and eat lots less that will cause your body to hold on fat in shock
Speaking as a 51 year old menopause women who’s lost 100lbs it is so much harder than aged 20-40

“Starvation mode” is a myth. Please read the stickies- all of them are both profound and entertaining. Enjoy!

sijomial

Lawcher wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

Tip - it's not your age. Eat less, move more still works.
I actually found it far easier in my 50's to lose weight, better tools like this one, food labelling, more me time.....

Only you know how much you have to lose and what you mean by slower than expected, often it's the expectation that's the problem!

As @claireychn074 points out we have choices with what to do with our time, when I retired I got even more choices and move more, exercise more and get to eat more.

sijomial wrote: »

Tip - it's not your age. Eat less, move more still works.
I actually found it far easier in my 50's to lose weight, better tools like this one, food labelling, more me time.....

Only you know how much you have to lose and what you mean by slower than expected, often it's the expectation that's the problem!

As @claireychn074 points out we have choices with what to do with our time, when I retired I got even more choices and move more, exercise more and get to eat more.

Actually menopause I had been scientifically proven to lose body fat very very slowly as estrogen drops dramatically
You don’t exercise lots more and eat lots less that will cause your body to hold on fat in shock
Speaking as a 51 year old menopause women who’s lost 100lbs it is so much harder than aged 20-40

Huh?

Yeah all those POWs who built the Burma Railway came out of the jungle really fat....

Science doesn't mean what you think it means.

girlwithcurls2

A lot of age related myths about fitness and weight loss (I'm speaking as a female here) have been busted for me by people on this site. It doesn't even take an afternoon to see what some consistency and good habits can do over time. I have had to adjust some habits due to a cranky arthritic knee, but I have subbed a different activity for something that aggravates it. My oldest sister used to say to me, "But it's all easier for you! You're so much younger!" What an insult to my efforts. No, it's almost never easy. And there are plenty of days that I'd rather not do the work, but I know what results that will give me. I also know that if I slack off for a lengthy period, I can't just jump back in and "hit it hard" like I did in my 20s. Risk of injury aside, it's still not a good plan. Build up with a progressive plan, regardless of what I'm building (endurance, strength, flexibility) and be smart about it. It's not a race. The prize at the end is my health.

NovusDies

Weight makes you older. Weight loss and fitness efforts makes you younger. Don't get mentally stuck at whatever age you feel like right now. It can change.

kshama2001

girlwithcurls2 wrote: »

I have given up deciding to be fat. I lost the weight at age 46. Some of it has crept back on (I've struggled to replace a very active work out plan since COVID shut down my gym and pool), but I also know that this science fair of a 52-year-old perimenopausal woman can do this again.

My biggest struggle is that if I injure myself, the recovery time in my 50s isn't what it was in my 20s or 30s. I am much more careful, paying attention to how "hard" I am willing to go during a workout. Early in the shutdown, I crashed on a piece of furniture in my house because I was at the end of my (new) workout and tired. It set me back weeks. Other than that, age hasn't been a game changer.

Yes, I do struggle with repeated injuries, increased recovery times, and not being able to be as active as I would like.

domeofstars

Weight training might help