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Good morning,I am a 60 year old woman.Looking to chat with women in the same age group!

Gottliebba
Gottliebba Posts: 2 Member
in Introduce Yourself
I am married,and we have one daughter.I enjoy knitting/crochet.I would like to find healthy,low fat recipes.Also,would love to chat with other women about staying motivated,and making conscious lifestyle changes.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,688 Member
    Hello, and welcome!

    You might like this thread:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10718336/60-yrs-and-up/

    Lots of nice 60+ people there, some of them men, but they're good'uns. ;)

    Don't panic if you open that up and see old posts. Like any long-running thread in the MFP Community, the newest posts are at the end, on the high numbered pages. You can jump straight there using the arrows/page numbers near the bottom of the first page.

    I'm in that demographic, but more of a Community forum participant and not a great MFP friend on the timeline side of things, realistically. I joined back in 2015 at age 59, lost 50-some pounds (obese to a healthy weight), and have stayed at a healthy weight since, now age 67. That, after about 3 decades previously of being overweight/obese - most of my adult life.

    Such a major quality of life improvement, way more so than I would've imagined up front: It's worth the effort. On top of that, it honestly took less effort than the arduous scenario I'd imagined: Win/win!

    I'm a believer in minimizing the amount of motivation needed: It's not my long suit. My approach was more about making manageable, tolerable (even enjoyable) changes that gradually took me to a healthy weight, and let me stay there. There's a lot of popular mythology that diet and exercise has to be some miserable forced march, as if being fat were a sin we needed to expiate. IME, that's not true. Finding new, sustainable, enjoyable (or at least tolerable) habits has worked pretty well for me: No misery involved, just some analysis, problem solving, changes in habits.

    I crochet a little, but in recent years do more jewelry making and mixed-media visual journaling.

    Wishing you success here!
  • saralou74
    saralou74 Posts: 5 Member
    Hi I am 49 love crafting hate exercise need to lose 3.5 stone.
  • Gottliebba
    Gottliebba Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you,Ann,and Sara Lou(what a sweet name!🌸).I am responding to friend requests…but not sure it is going through.2 people have asked to be friends..but,not sure I am doing it right?Anyway,we will see!
    Yes,Ann,Weight/Dieting is portrayed as miserable,and very hard to attain.But,for many,a lifelong fat trap.It almost sounds as if you have incorporated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy into your approach.Though,it may not have been a conscious effort.Course,I’m no therapist,but pretty sure that principal would be part of their writing.I think….🤨
    Sara Lou..would love to see your crafting pics.If…there is a way to send pictures?

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