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l4k2ark
l4k2ark Posts: 1 Member
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Hi i am a woman of 72 years that desperately needs to lose a lot of weight. Here I go…..

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,436 Member
    Welcome! Start by just tracking your food. Be honest with yourself. If you slip up, still track it. As you keep at it, you'll get better and better at it.
  • UnearthingEnergy
    UnearthingEnergy Posts: 1 Member
    edited April 2022
    Hi! I'm 67 and also have a lot to lose. Just starting today.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,172 Community Helper
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Welcome! Start by just tracking your food. Be honest with yourself. If you slip up, still track it. As you keep at it, you'll get better and better at it.

    Good advice: It worked for me to lose weight at age 59, obese to a healthy weight, and stay at a healthy weight since, now 66. Age is no obstacle.

    I'd suggest thinking in terms of making the process relatively easy, instead of making it super fast. Sustainable new habits can accomplish great results, with time and patience. (Extremes can be more likely to cause burnout.)

    You can do this!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,345 Member
    edited April 2022
    l4k2ark wrote: »
    Hi i am a woman of 72 years that desperately needs to lose a lot of weight. Here I go…..

    I’m going to go kinda dark before I send you success vibes. (Wishes and weight loss….. yeah right, those go together. Not.)

    You are exactly the age at which I begged and begged my mother to do something, and she just shrugged her shoulders and helped herself to more Popeyes/Cookies/Diet Pills.

    She spent the next seven years bedridden, losing first use of her feet, then legs, then hands, arms, and eventually tongue.

    Life is a gift, and WE have the choice to embrace, enjoy and love it, or give ourselves up to spoon feeding and endless episodes of NCIS.

    Good for you, deciding to do something for yourself. Now, follow through.

    Rant over. Soapbox neatly put away. Mom’s been on my mind again, strangely enough, because my beloved trainer told me Thursday she is retiring. At 74, she still flips 500 pound tires just to show she can. After she’s run 10+ miles. On a game leg. (Which, following a car accident five or six years ago, they told her to amputate, because she “wouldn’t walk again”.) She’s beautiful, she’s healthy, she’s strong, and she’s my inspiration.

    I just SMH. Mom, you didn’t need to flip tires, but for heavens sake, I don’t want to go like you did. I want to be a fighter.

    Did I mention this was dark?

    Much success to you. I’ve lost almost 100 here beginning at age 57, and am turning 60 in a few weeks. There’s a woman in one of my classes who is in her 70’s who has lost about 80, and my husband has lost 30+ since starting last august, and he’s 67.

    I can say that, since losing the weight, it’s been like regaining a second life. I don’t know how to explain other than, “Golden Years”? Bah, Humbug. These and the foreseeable years are the best ones.

    Age is no barrier. It’s our heads that are.

    Much success to you. Won’t wish you success. Wishes aren’t worth the breath used to utter them.

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