How old are you and…
dr3107
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How old are you and where are you from? I am 65 and I live near Jay Oklahoma. Two years ago my husband and I moved from California to Oklahoma for a variety of reasons. Mainly because of family and the age of my living parents and my disabled younger sister. I learned how to cook with lots of fat and very little veggies.
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I’m 68, retired. Recently lost mum and I’m learning to cook for one.
Always lived at home and, while I can cook, mum did most cooking and meal prep.
From Fife, Scotland
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Welcome Lessennan wow Scotland! Cooking for one is easy such as this evening I had a hamburger and a cucumber with a piece of cheese. Was very easy to cook and clean up. Now I did not have the bread that most want with the hamburger.0
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Please call me Nan.
Yes, cooking for one is simple enough, either reduce the ingredients to make just enough for one or cook more and freeze, just remember if you’re freezing Spag Bol freeze the bolognese separately from the spaghetti otherwise you lose the juiciness the second time around because the liquid gets absorbed into the pasta before it freezes. Believe me it’s not pleasing to the palate.
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I am 68, retired and live in the United States in the Midwest. I have been overweight pretty much my entire life, and currently really focusing on weight loss. It has been a slow go, but over the last 20 years I have lost, and finally kept off, over 100 pounds. I still have about 85 to go, but at least I am no longer yoyo-ing. I keep off what I lose, within a ten pound range. My husband is very supportive which is great.0
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@deejoan are you following a specific diet plan? Or just managing portion size and limiting nibbles?
My main problem is that I comfort eat sweeties and biscuits when I’m bored, frustrated or stressed. Not the stress you feel when you should be somewhere NOW, but you’re stuck in a queue of traffic and it’s not moving, the kind where you’ve something you must do and can’t change the way it’s done. I’m learning to cope with them cos I’ve recently discovered they get more as we age. Managed just a few sweeties yesterday not a whole pack on a bank visit.
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What I do for combined stress relief, relaxation food management and exercise.
That’s three hours clearing weeds and overzealous pansies from part of my garden.
It was stressing me that I’d let it go for reasons beyond my control. I find gardening relaxing and when your hands are dirty…………1 -
@deejoan are you following a specific diet plan? Or just managing portion size and limiting nibbles?
My main problem is that I comfort eat sweeties and biscuits when I’m bored, frustrated or stressed. Not the stress you feel when you should be somewhere NOW, but you’re stuck in a queue of traffic and it’s not moving, the kind where you’ve something you must do and can’t change the way it’s done. I’m learning to cope with them cos I’ve recently discovered they get more as we age. Managed just a few sweeties yesterday not a whole pack on a bank visit.
I have tried many ways of losing weight over the years but what seems to work best now is tracking everything I eat, keeping my calories to 1100 to 1200 per day and keeping the starchy carbs to a very minimum. It is very slow going though at my age.0 -
@deejoan you’re my twin. I’m 68 too.
I’ve done myself a week plan of eating on the tracker to start Monday (today) to see if I can make any headway that way.
I try to plan my day of food every morning. It seems to help, because if I figure out we are going to have for dinner, then I can adjust the other two meals for their calories. It takes some time but in a weird way it is kind of fun to find new low calorie recipes to work for that days meals. Good Luck and happy tracking! By the way it is slow going to lose any weight at this age but I keep plugging along.0 -
I get it. I also freeze a lot of food items so I don't have to go to the grocery store more than once a week. It's too tempting to buy junk food if you are in the store.1
