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bcgolfpages8695
bcgolfpages8695 Posts: 2 Member
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Hi everyone, I am 65 years old just starting to diet and exercise and my goal is to lose enough weight to throw out all my clothes and buy new ones in the summer

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  • Ace_Brisbane
    Ace_Brisbane Posts: 8 Member
    Welcome! New clothes are always a good incentive!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,599 Member
    Hello, and welcome!

    Depending on where you're starting, that should be an achievable goal. Why do I say "depending"? Well, I lost around 50 pounds here at age 59-60. I found that moving down one size at the start of that was quite a few pounds . . . but the closer I got to goal weight, the fewer pounds there were between sizes. Pounds wise, it was linear, even gradually slowing intentionally as I got closer to goal. Size wise, the changes came at increasing speed!

    Decent odds you can lose enough weight by summer to need to drop in size, though - Summer's a way off yet.

    You and I are very different motivationally, I've got to admit. For me, having to buy all new clothes from the underwear on out . . . that was probably the single worst thing about weight loss. Man, I hate to clothes shop! Yeah, I know that's weird. :D On the plus side, it's been part of my motivation to stay at a healthy weight since, so I don't have to go through that again. Nine plus years since loss, so far, so good - same jeans size throughout. Admittedly, that's a smaller factor in staying at a healthy weight compared to the overall health and quality of life benefits of being at a healthy weight, once I got a taste of that . . . but the wardrobe thing is in the mix, for me. ;)

    Quite seriously: I'm cheering for you to succeed. Getting to a healthy weight is more than worth the effort, bringing quite a few quality of life improvements. If getting into a new wardrobe is one of those benefits for you, I'm cheering for you to accomplish that, too.

    Best wishes!

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