Older women success stories please!

Thanks for posting. You can lose weight, but it is NOT as easy as when you are younger (Just my opinion).
Don't give up. You can do it!!
Good luck in getting better health. That is so important. :flowerforyou:

My mom will be 56 next month, she has lost 60 lbs as of today. I am so proud of her and had to show her photo's off. She says I inspired her, I was bigger than her but she is taller than me.



Her goal is 135.

Your mom is awesome!! She looks great.

I'm turning 44 this week (yeah!), and I don't consider mid-forties as old, whatsoever! It is harder to lose weight yes, but it's not impossible at all. I don't think I look old either!

Older and hopefully wiser! I will be 62 next week! I intend to get down to goal in the coming months...I've played with maintenance this entire year, while all the time "wishing" I was twenty pounds lighter! I've faced the demons . . . I'm ready to work for my success story!

Thanks for friending me and hope we can encourage each other along our success journey!

Blessings. Happy Thanksgiving.

Sad to hear that older is 45, I assumed 60+.

hi

just turned 53 in october.. and have been at this since August.. I have lost 25 pounds on here and another 5 before I started here.. I am not presently exercising but I have just been more accountable to myself and making myself aware of my triggers in how I got overweight in the first place.. I have a long haul ahead of me.. another 100 pounds to lose.. but I am taking it in small steps and proud of myself instead of wishing it would magically fall off overnight.. My fitness pal is a realistic approach to weight loss and you meet great friends along the way

good luck Diane

Your only as old as you feel....as you lose weight you def feel like a 20 year old I know i feel better and better each day...who cares about age

Well, I may not look like a 20 year old but after losing more than 90 pounds my weight is what it was when I was 20 years old. I feel *much* better as a slim active healthy 50 year old than I did as an obese depressed discouraged 45 year old. Do not give up hope. Keep trying until you find out what works for you and your unique body. I had to change pretty much my whole diet but it's been totally worth it.

I've lost 40 lbs. between age 45 and 47. Took my skin a while to bounce back, but it's close. Best advice I can give is to keep moving. I did not go very low calorie--1650 when I was only working out a little but walking every day, 1850 once I started going to the gym 5 or 6 days a week, and now I'm maintaining at a little over 2000. I'm 5'3" and in what my doctor calls "early" menopause, but had a hysterectomy 9 years ago.

I'm a big advocate of weights for women. You don't have to lift heavy if you don't want to, but as we get older, we need a base of muscle since we lose it faster and faster the older we get. I do a weights workout 3 days a week (several different ones so that I'm not bored) in addition to 3 days of cardio and still walking every day. Don't get sucked in by the "muscle burns more calories" folks, tho. The increase is minimal, particularly if you lose a bunch of weight. I burn very little just doing nothing even tho I only have 20% body fat. That's why I am also a big advocate of just moving. Take a 10 minute walk break every hour or so.

I'm 54 and lost 58 pounds so far! I don't find it any harder to loose weight now than in my 20's! It's never been easy! But I am a very determined person and once I make up my mind I put my heart into it. The last time I lost weight (135 pounds) I was 28 years old, when I was 40 I decided to have my last child and steadily put all the weight back on. UGH. So now I am taking it off and going to weight watchers. The difference now than before is I am concentrating on health and diet. By eating healthy, cooking health and making smart food choices my husband and daughter lost weight without even trying - neither had much excess weight but are both proud and focusing on health now too.

Tips: plan your meals around your vegtables and add you're protien (meat) as a addition. I use to pull out the meat and than try to figure out what to make with it. Example, potatoe? Mava and cheese? Rice? And oh yeah let's not forget the frozen corn nibblets! Lol

Now I choose my veggie and I try to eat something new. This fall it's squash, make the best squash soup and planned my meal around that. We had whole wheat Italian bread and a great salad and everyone was happy and satisfied and loved it! The other dat I decided to make mashed cauliflower, people rave about it so that was my focus and then I choose to make broiled chicken and an d brussel sprouts ( anther new favorite my family loves), awesome meal.

My husband is not an adventurous eater but because he so supportive of me hen tries everything and can't believe how great everything is. I enjoy eating more now than when I was eating whatever I wanted.

Just change your focus and don't think of it as dieting and depriving I don't. I think of it as yummy and making good healthly choices. Good luck to everyone, young and old - we can do it!

ETA: I loose an average of 1.5 a 2.0 pounds per week!

With my forties approaching, I found that I couldn't get rid of my stomach and I really couldn't blame having kids anymore. I started jogging/walking, and now with this app I can see how many carbs I am eating, which was so much more than I thought I was. Hoping that it will help to be on this, and I am training for my first full marathon in May. Thumbs up to all of you.

I have lost 30 pounds or more 4 different times in my life, then put it back on plus more. I'm so mad at myself! The last time was in 1989 on a 480-calorie-per-day diet through Weight Loss Clinic (curse them!). As I regained weight, I told myself that I was done with dieting and would let my body settle where "it wanted to be". In 2009 on New Year's Day, I weighed 207. Ack! I abandoned the "let my body settle" plan and actively started on a campaign to improve my fitness and reduce my weight. I exercised like a maniac in 2009 and lost 15 pounds, which was SOOOOO disappointing. I didn't realize then that you couldn't get rid of excess fat with exercise alone. Since then, it's been up-down-up-down, starting a new diet plan on one day, abandoning it within hours. Repeat.

Anyway, here I am, age 58. Something finally clicked about my eating habits in September 2012, and I have done pretty well since then. I've lost 11 pounds (4 before MFP). I decided to weigh in again on Thanksgiving morning and am so nervous about it. I haven't had many slip-ups in my diet, but I'm so scared that the scales will show 0 loss. My clothing doesn't fit much differently since the last weigh-in. Anyway, not being an eating machine anymore is its own reward, but I want fat loss to follow.

I've been exercising a little, but I really need to step that up. I don't want to be all flabby. I really fear the amount of loose skin I might end up with.

I'm 42. I started Aug 2011 at 238lbs size 24. Today I'm ~170 (I don't weight myself often) and I am a size 8/10 depending on the cut.

I lift heavy and I work out 3-5 x a week .. cardio/yoga/lifting/swimming with lifting 3x a week for 2.5 hours total.

I EAT.. that's the best part. I eat enough to keep my muscles happy and my body strong. I eat more and I lose weight.. or I don't gain weight and still lose inches. The number doesn't matter too much to me. I just want to be toned and look healthy.

good luck, friends are always welcome.

I'm 64 and as you can see, I have had a bit of success. Don't throw in the towel, it's not just about how you look but how healthy you are and how good you will feel!

Bump to read more of this later. All these stories are so great! You all rock! :drinker: