65 years old and eating 1400-1500 cals,what are you eating

I'm 66 and set mine at 1300, and not eating back exercise, which is pretty minimal anyway except on golf days. I am losing slowly but pretty steadily. With so many years of yoyo dieting I'm pretty sure my metabolism has gone way downhill, and I don't think mfp takes that into account when setting goals.

Almost 62 and did great the first 6 months loing 50. Now I go up and down the 1 -2 lbs too. I tried upping for the last couple weeks.. didn't gain any extra now just starting to cut back to about 1300. I am hoping it will help. I am going to start lifting some weights a little.. everyone claims it will help. Othewise my exercise is walking, I have had to increase speed and swing my arms more now. Good luck.

I'm 65; will be 66 in November
1700
Been +/- 3 pounds from 'goal' weight for ten months

I know you don't want to hear from those younger than 60 (which I am) but I am in menopause, which for me created a DRASTIC slow down in my metabolism. What worked for me is to:

* eliminate bread, pasta, crackers (basically all WHEAT products which aren't sprouted grains) from my diet.
* drastically reduced my sugar intake, and eliminated all calorie free sweetners, except for stevia products.
* replace my oils with real butter, olive and coconut oils.
* I set MFP for a 1200 calorie day and a low activity day, then I exercise ~60 minutes / day and eat back ALL the calories I earn. I do 20 minutes of yoga and another 40 minutes of either walking or elliptical, nothing terribly creative.

When I do this, I have a hard time gaining weight, even when I eat above my daily allowance.

As soon as I add back wheat products, even if I only eat my 1200 calorie allowance, I start to gain weight and I feel bloated.

Take what you like, I know it's tough to replace wheat in our culture, but you can always try it for a few days and see what happens.

Good luck!

Hi dianefisher47, I am 62. I have been on MFP for a few months. I am 5'2 and a super small frame. I had my proverbial last 10-20ish pounds to loose (finally, after a life long loose a chunk at a time journey).

I had lost some pounds before joining MFP by faithfully doing cardio exercise and trying to be more healthy this time. I have lost 15 pounds now of which about 6 (really 8 but haven't posted it yet as I wasn't sure they were going to stay away, but they have) were with MFP. I started all of this last part of my journey in April this year and joined MFP about two months or so later.

MFP set me to eat 1200 cals and suppose to eat back exercise cals for a projected of maybe .5 pound a week or less. I did a lot of cardio with Leslie Sansone DVDs and ate back as much of the calories as I was hungry for but tried to stay at around eating back 1/2 or sometimes less of them. I learned about eating more to loose more so I increased my protein and fiber intake and tried to cut back on carbs but didn't do well with the carbs. I did well upping the protein and fiber though. (I logged everything unless I went to a carb binge really late at night b/c by then it was too late and just had to do better the next day). Other than that I was super diligent about loggin cals and thinking through everything I wanted to eat.

I'm in 'maintance' right now as I don't really want (at this time) to loose more pounds but to tone so MFP gave me an extra 70 calories not counting eating back cals. I'm struggling in this phase as it is new to me and not sure how to balance exercise/ tone/ maintain / eat.

Wishing you the best in your desire to be healthy and fit.

Izzyfit ====have you lost your 30 pounds since you have been here on MFP since January...see we have both been here since January and at first I was eating 1200 and was told I was in starvation mode and I have nothing to show for all of my hard work since January..thanks for answering

Yes that's since Jan., averaging about.8 lbs/week.