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WyeGuy

50 yr old male looking to improve my fitness. Need to lose a lot of weight, but focusing on regular exercise and eating better, and theweight will hopefully ffollow. Hopefully will find some support here. Thanks, and take care.

Sharonmdenham

I've only been seriously at this since 01/02/14 but have been dieting my whole life. When I turned 50 I had an aha moment but waited until after the holidays to begging my lifestyle transformation. If you want add me I log daily and post a blog also. I'm honest about what I eat and keep an open diary to my friends so that I am accountable to all besides to myself. Good luck!

WyeGuy

Thanks! I'll add you as a friend ( I think I know how to do that!). I have no idea how to track what I've eaten. Need to do all this on my phone, so it might take awhile... ;-) Hang in there. I hope for the best for you!

toadg53

Hi. I'm 60, so a bit older than you. I've been on here since last August. It's all a journey. Tracking is fairly easy. List what you eat for each meal/snack. Also list what exercise you do. It'll tell you total calories, exercise and your deficit for the day. The forums are kind of interesting too. You could add me as a friend if you'd like. I will offer encouragement and any info I can to help you along the way. I'm on here daily, sometimes a couple/three times. Good luck in YOUR journey.

beckerkra

50 yr old male looking to improve my fitness. Need to lose a lot of weight, but focusing on regular exercise and eating better, and theweight will hopefully ffollow. Hopefully will find some support here. Thanks, and take care.

You will do yourself a huge favor if you add these 2 groups and you follow the stickied information in these groups. It will take some reading and some effort on your end to stay motivated following the information provided in these topics, but take things slow and try not to add on too much too quickly or you'll end up risking burning yourself out. Add things in slowly and after each thing becomes habitual and part of your every day lifestyle, only then add more. Not to sound completely cliche, but it really is truly about lifestyle change, plain and simple. Make the information from these groups your hobby. For example, I started this last June completely with nutrition and little/no exercise. I lost the first 88lbs of my weight loss purely on nutrition and calorie counting alone (and in 7 months time), and only just added in weight lifting January 13th (since then I've basically maintained my weight loss of 88lbs lost, but have still been losing fat as clothing keeps getting more and more loose, so I've stopped really caring or looking at the scale other than pure curiosity). I hope this information helps.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/8017-in-place-of-a-road-map

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress

Most specifically these topics from these two groups.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/833026-important-posts-to-read

serendipity57

Hi if you follow the advice from the above poster you won't go wrong, I am 59 have lost 17 kg and have never felt better and I have never deprived myself from food I love. Good luck to you you WILL succeed.