Hey guys...

challendertina
challendertina Posts: 1 Member
in Introduce Yourself
Hey all, 👋
Newbie here, but ready to go. My age may be against me but it's never stopped me from being me and I may need a kick up the *kitten* sometimes to get motivated so I'll be needing your help... lol . I'm determined to get through this as best I can. So guys I'm here ready to listen to any advice or just for inspo from you. Say Hello 👋 ❤️

Replies

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,214 Member
    Hello, and welcome!

    You don't say what your age is, but I have to say that people succeed here at any and all ages, up to including 70s and perhaps even 80s. I lost from class 1 obese to a healthy weight at 59-60, am still at a healthy weight now, age 69. Not only was it possible, it was easier than I'd expected . . . since many people will say that things like age, menopause, hypothyroidism, arthritis, blah blah blah, are weight loss doom. (I had all of those to some extent . . . well, maybe not all the blah blah blah ;):D ).

    If a hedonistic aging hippie flake with a low willpower/discipline budget like me can do this, I think most grown-ups can, if they commit to chipping away toward the goal. My biggest advice is always to make a personalized plan that is as easy as you can make it for you.

    That approach makes motivation and discipline relatively less important. I don't know about you, but I can't maintain "motivation" for the rest of my natural life, but I do want to stay at a healthy weight for that long. That puts a premium on finding relatively pleasant (at least tolerable/practical) new routine habits than can continue almost on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging (because they will).

    Lots of people seem to get here with a "lose weight fast" mindset; adopt some kind of difficult and restrictive eating routine; then stack punitively intense unpleasant daily exercise on top of that. I think that's hard to sustain long enough to lose a meaningful total amount of weight, and doesn't much help with finding those new long-term healthy habits. There are also a lot of "I'm back after loss and regain" posts here. Not sure, can't prove it, but there might be a relationship between those two things. ;)

    Regardless of what you decide, I'm wishing you success: From experience, the results and rewards are worth the effort!
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,870 Member
    Welcome!

    There are some great threads created by our members, bookmarked to the top of each category that may be helpful. Just look for "Most Helpful Posts - whatever the category name is”.

    For example:
    You can also ask your questions in any category that interests you, read posts or questions made by other members, join a group, or add some friends.

    Here are some frequently asked questions that may also be helpful: FAQ's

Categories