Older women success stories please!

kscharsu

How wonderful of you to share!!! I am just getting started and have approx 60 pounds to loose. Having never been heavy until my mid-40's and having struggled ever since...I am so encouraged by your story. Thank you once again!!!

LisaLouisiana

I'm 49 and doing well on my journey. I went back to eating healthy and I exercise some and the weight is coming off. I'm not menopausal yet, though, so that may influence it some, but I think the main two things are that I figured out how to eat and I'm consistent with it.

WillowWindow

Thanks for great inspiration everyone!

gabriellejayde

I'm 45. Not close to menopause yet.
I've lost around 60 pounds in the last 7 months on 1200 cals per day. Only exercise is walking.

Before:


After (from last week's vacation)

cindiva65

Im going to be 48 this year.....I plan on being fierce!!!!! LOL :glasses:

skinnyinnotime

I'm 44...I don't call myself an 'older lady'....actually I'm still a girl!! :bigsmile:

You can do it, just keep at it! :flowerforyou:

d3gus

46 with 47 around the immediate corner lol... not found it too much of a struggle so far ( 23lb lost since 9th Jan ) but a long way to go till i'm the same weight as on my wedding day 140lb ! but i'm more confident that this is my time I will reach that magical number, and each day will bring me closer to it.

It's funny because at 140lb i was in a uk size 10 wedding dress, yet with the math i was still technically overweight! not entirely convinced about these bmi numbers!! unfortunately my doctor is!!

mumtoonegirl

I'm 40, in the last year I have lost 64lbs and gone from a size 16 to a size 8 - don't give up my dear you can do it!!!!!!

fit4lifeUcan2

I'm 46 years old and lost 65 pounds in the first 7 months. The only exercise I did during that time was walking and riding my bike. I have 10 more to go that seem to be hanging on. With the winter months I didn't get out much for walks. Full time college course load has kept me extremely busy plus my 3 kids. I was able to get back out and walk the past couple of days but the weather has turned on me again. I do have a weight lifting set now and have used it but lifting has set off my MS and Fibro pains and spasms so one day of lifting for even 10 minutes has me in severe pain and spasms for over a week. For me its just not worth it. I do lift up to 80lbs but can't go above that. Still working on that last 10 pounds and not about to give up! I went from a size 14 jeans to an 8.

Just set small goals and don't look too far ahead. Once I meet those goals I award myself with something like a day at the hair dressers, shopping for new clothes, see a new movie etc. DON"T reward yourself with food...your not a dog. Do something nice for yourself.

Eatkansasbeef

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annlsinger

I'm 54, and post-menopausal. I started on October 15 in a study at UCSF. It is a pre-diabetes prevention study and the there are three components: walk 12,000 steps per day (they do a baseline assessment of your average daily steps for two weeks at the beginning and you start at that level and increase by 20% each week), count and log calories (mine were to be between 1500 and 2000), and answer a phone ap twice per day. The goal is to reduce your body weight by 10% and reduce your fasting glucose level.

It is March 12 (jus 3 days short of 5 months). I've lost 56 pounds, about 18% of my body weight, and am walking 12,000 steps (about 6 miles--takes me a bit over two hours) every day that I can. I always get the steps done on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I get alot of steps (about 9,000-10,000) in on Tuesdays and Fridays. For various reasons having to do with work and child....Wednesdays and Thursdays are a bit of a challenge, but I do as much as I can.

All steps count. I go to Curves 4 times per week (and that counts in the step totals).

I'm feeling great. I have quite a ways to go. But, what a difference 5 months and 56 pounds can make.

The study is over in a couple of weeks, but I plan on continuing just the way I have been going.

I'd love some friends here, so send a message!

twinteensmom

I joined MFP last fall but "fell off the wagon" and didn't rejoin(if you will) until after my 49th birthday last April. I decided then and there that I would reach my 50th birthday at my goal weight or damn close! Now that I am only 28 LBS from my goal, whenever I feel like it isn't coming off fast enough, I look at all the success stories and get re-inspired! You can do this. Don't listen to any of the nay-sayers. I have tried many times before to lose weight and have even succeeded to some extent only to regain it all back and then some. I truly think that the difference this times comes from really wanting this. Therefore, it is not a diet but, a lifestyle choice. Because of a changed mindset, I am actually finding it so much easier this time. I have my weak moments to be sure but, I will make it this time!

I found my earlier post and feel the need to update it, especially for the original author. I am now 8 LBS from goal and am even contemplating lowering my goal from 150 to 145 LBS. I turn 50 on April 4. I'm still not sure I will make goal by then but I will be so close, it doesn't really even matter. The point is, anyone can do this, if they really want it. It is all in the way you think about it. If you are doing this for any other reason than for yourself, you are bound to fail. It MUST be for you and you alone.

hauer01

I'm 44. I started with MFP a little more than a year ago.

Carma0410

Please don't stop, I just started yesterday and I need some inspiration.

Carma0410

So proud of you, I hope I will be able to lose like you. I am 60 and look forward to light at the end of the tunnel.

SonyaCele

i just turned 46 and losing weight this time has been easier than any other time in my life. The excuses like menopause or slow metabolism are just that, weak lame excuses. I dropped 85 pounds in 7 months with determination and effort. Put me next to any 20 year old girl, they got nothing on me. My maturity and wisdom and experience and "older woman" finances has helped make me the healthiest and best shape i've ever been in my life.

pigote

Don't give up . . . just keep going! Between age 57 & 58 I've lost 54 pounds, it IS possible. Keep moving, keep logging, use friends for support. Remember, it's more about being healthy than looking 20. I wish I had appreciated my young skin and firmer parts back then but I'm doing what I can do for being "near" 60 . . . . yikes, how did THAT happen?!

I commend you for trying - we 40+ rock!

cindygretz

I'm 43, full menopause at 30, hypothyroid since about that time. I was up to 240 being sedentary when my son left for boot camp in June of 2011. In August of 2011 I started a job that has me walking and moving constantly. In the first year I'd lost about 60lbs without changing my diet much at all then stalled, but 6 weeks ago (started biggest loser contest at work) I decided it's time.

I want to live long enough to take my great-grandchildren fishing, and I want to look good doing it, so this Biggest Loser thing is just the catalyst for a lifestyle change. I gave up my Pepsi, started looking at nutrition labels, and found this website.

So far, according to the 'official' scales for the contest, I'm down 17 lbs in 6 weeks doing nothing different than a calorie deficit. However, tomorrow a fellow 'BL' and I are starting the Couch to 5k program together. We're planning to do a 5k together in October. She's 10 years my junior but I'll be damned if I'm going to let her show me up on this one!

ColeyBear08

195 to 150is

I have lost more since the after picture but I'm not taking a new one until May.

AmyMgetsfit

I am not a success yet, but I am working on it. I have lost 16lbs so far. Only about half way there. I am 58. It is a lot harder the older you get. It seems like everything has to be in sinc for you to lose a pound, at least for me. Obviously everyone is different when it comes to how easy/hard they lose weight. I am doing more weights than I had originally planned on doing, hoping that helps to get rid of the fatty tummy that doesn't seem to want to go away.