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ninkooner
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hi everyone

I’m Nin. 57 years old so menopausal. I’ve put on the lbs and would like to lose weight as I have about 5 weddings this year and already 4 next year

I struggle to lose weight and would love some advice

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,551 Community Helper

    Hello and welcome,

    Around the same age - I was 59 - I lost 50 pounds, and have stayed at a healthy weight for 9+ years since, now age 69. I am/was menopausal, and severely hypothyroid (medicated).

    My best advice would be to make the personally easiest-to-follow plan that causes gradual weight loss, keeps you full and happy most of the time, and ideally delivers adequate nutrition. That idea applies to both eating and activity/exercise. Keep it manageable.

    Treating special events as weight loss goal posts is IMO a subcase of using the calendar as a weight loss tool. I don't recommend that, personally. Instead, I'd recommend focusing on finding and practicing new, positive routine habits that achieve what I mentioned in the paragraph above, and that a person can continue long term, ideally permanently. It's a different mindset.

    When I make habits - behavior - my goal, I'm focusing on an area where I have total control. I can have goals of logging my food, weighing in on a certain schedule, eating X veggie servings or Y grams of protein daily . . . not necessarily all of that, but that kind of thing - whatever moves the ball down the field. I control those things via my personal choices and behaviors. If I make my goal "lose X pounds/kilos by Y date", I'm in a space where I don't have control, but at most influence. The risks of adopting extreme, unsustainable habits are higher, and I may fail for reasons that were out of my control, get discouraged and give up.

    Maybe that's just me, but that's the way I look at it.

    Wishing you success: In my experience, the quality of life improvement is more than worth the essential effort it takes to get there. Extreme measures aren't essential.

    Best wishes!

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