Fighting Old Age like a boss!

jillcwhite

Seeing your post fighting aging was a light bulb moment that’s what I am trying to do !!! My body doesn’t move as my mind wants it too. Metabolism slowing down sucks ! I am going to keep moving & staying young at heart yet enjoying some good food & life - add me as a motivational friend if you wish

10Licker

I'm about to turn 44 and am beginning to feel the impact of middle age. Slower metabolism and slower overall weight loss which is super discouraging. Would love any advice and encouragement through the process. Thanks friends!

Diatonic12

No more massive rationalization and excuses. I'm speaking only in general because age and weight are too deeply felt principles.

Slower metabolism and slower overall weight loss followed by massive amounts of frownie faces. Don't go there. Don't let yourself become miserable over data points. Start swimming like a salmon UP-stream.

The brain is a bully and this is what the mind does when one reaches their highest weight. The brain turns it back around and works up every rationalization and excuse known to humans. It starts pointing fingers while mostly refusing to take full responsibility for the eating excursions that were going on for months or years or decades before the dawn comes to light.

Not one time during hardly any of those eating excursions does the brain speak UP or whisper one single word about what's been going on. Noooo. The brain was riding shotgun on every eating excursion. When the consequences become too uncomfortable the brain says....'Don't look at me, I didn't do it. There's something wrong with your body. That's your problem. I was just coasting on my laurels and minding my own business.'

This is a fight. That's why they call it a battle. Don't let your brain bully you now. Fight for your overall health and well being. Take the reins to the brain back and tell your brain to just shut-up. You're back in charge now.

The appetite control center is located in the brain and not the stomach. That puts all of us on a level playing field and that's where the battle begins. There's no such thing as the Finish Line.

AuthorMatthewV

Diatonic12 wrote: »

No more massive rationalization and excuses. I'm speaking only in general because age and weight are too deeply felt principles.

Slower metabolism and slower overall weight loss followed by massive amounts of frownie faces. Don't go there. Don't let yourself become miserable over data points. Start swimming like a salmon UP-stream.

The brain is a bully and this is what the mind does when one reaches their highest weight. The brain turns it back around and works up every rationalization and excuse known to humans. It starts pointing fingers while mostly refusing to take full responsibility for the eating excursions that were going on for months or years or decades before the dawn comes to light.

Not one time during hardly any of those eating excursions does the brain speak UP or whisper one single word about what's been going on. Noooo. The brain was riding shotgun on every eating excursion. When the consequences become too uncomfortable the brain says....'Don't look at me, I didn't do it. There's something wrong with your body. That's your problem. I was just coasting on my laurels and minding my own business.'

This is a fight. That's why they call it a battle. Don't let your brain bully you now. Fight for your overall health and well being. Take the reins to the brain back and tell your brain to just shut-up. You're back in charge now.

Spiritual Advisor!!!

Wait...maybe spirit animal.

Diatonic12

@AuthorMatthewV l am a grizzly bear. The half has not been told.

PKM0515

Diatonic12 wrote: »

Take the reins to the brain back and tell your brain to just shut-up.

I love this! I want to make it my profile quote. My new motto.

(Lost 85-90 pounds, doctor doesn't want me to lose any more, and now my brain is taunting me. Plus I see non-weight-related applications.)

Diatonic12

“What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us.”

This one has been ringing in my ears for weeks. 'Our minds won't let us.' When we get the brain running on all cylinders then the body follows.

@AuthorMatthewV

As you tool along you will find all kinds of opinions about 'Cheat Meals' but I don't even like the sound of cheat meals. It's just more of that old cat and mouse game with food.

Is it even possible to rid ourselves or change old neural pathways in the brain. Those deep grooves and ruts that keep one running around on a dieting treadmill for the rest of a life. I know someone who did completely the opposite of everything their brain told them to do. It started out as an experiment but they just kept at it while trying to chisel away at those deep grooves in the brain.

For the heckuva it, if you're bored of the same old routines - go ahead and do completely the opposite of what you'd normally do. Change it all UP. No more Gain and Blame Game.

Throw all of your dieting dogma and mind warp out with the bathwater. Give yourselves permission to do everything on our own terms.
Rid yourselves of every dieting book sitting on your shelves - did they change anything for you then?

Clear the decks. Clean the slate. Stop overthinking everything. Stop allowing your brain to dig you into deeper holes with food.

Take the reins back. Your brain wants you to read another dieting book or follow some brutally strict protocol... Your brain wants you to live for 'cheat meals' on the weekends and more food rewards...Flip the Switch. Turn everything on its head. Do completely the
opposite of everything you've always done that results in starting over and over and over again.

Don't overthink it. Tell your brain to shut-up and ACT.

How much of your progress are you willing to give up just to please the brain? Tell it to shut up and ACT. Keep literally moving when it tries to lead you right back to those old deep grooves and ruts. Move away from them as fast as you. Do completely the opposite every time until you can't hear that thing whine and bawl and pitch a ring-tailed baby fit. It's gonna shake, rattle and roll like an earthquake. Just roll with it until that high-pitched constant whine can no longer be heard.

pridesabtch

Ha, guy I was volunteering with called my young last week. I told him I was 47, he thought I was 35ish. I don't mind approaching 50, but I do like that many folks say I look younger than I am. It's really even ok if they are lying to me, it still strokes my ego a bit.

Missmass4

I’m 45 years old and if there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that life just keeps getting better...congrats to all of you for living your best lives no matter what your age!!