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55 plus readers, multiple health problems

sueanddennis31
sueanddennis31 Posts: 2
edited January 8 in Introduce Yourself
I love this site. I was in a slump. medicating my pain and illnesses. I know that I will always need some meds but less is definitely better!!! I have energy now, have the will to live longer and healthier. slowly starting out and the craving in the evening are so hard. the key during the day is to keep busy. any ideas how to stop that evening snacking?

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  • jbs2travel
    jbs2travel Posts: 68 Member
    I also love this site. I find that I stay on track when I have to list and post everything. I take quite a few meds and have been diagnosed with lots of illnesses. I agree that the evenings are the hardest. I play card games on my computer - and time seems to pass quickly and I am not thinking about eating. I have to eat protein before bed and the hard part for me is sticking to the protein and not eating chips, etc. Hang in there, I know that together we can do this.
  • sueanddennis31
    sueanddennis31 Posts: 2
    thanks!! u can too!! Just started Snap FItness and think I will love it. CRAVINGS quit please!!
  • mary94523
    mary94523 Posts: 2
    Hello. I've recently turned 60, have some health problems that I don't consider to be terribly serious. However, the treatment and fatigue caused me to stop exercising and I subsequently gained back weight I had worked very hard to lose. Now, it seems as if the weight is glued on me! I am eating healthy and have started walking, but the scale does not budge. Sometimes I think that being post-menopausal has something to do with it. I need to lose about 35 pounds but my short-term goal is about 10 lbs. in the next two months. If I keep doing what I'm doing, I technically should be able to get there, but the results just aren't showing on the scale. If you have any advice, I'll take it. Thank you for listening.
  • sd_dilligaf
    sd_dilligaf Posts: 146 Member
    55, on meds, bipolar type II, and the goal is to lose 35 lbs..

    I just retyped that sentence three times. I kept writing "try" or "working on" and these phrases imply excuses. Yoda is right. Thee is no "try", there is only "do".

    Today is the first day in 5+ months I have NOT eaten office candy. It has been a cumpulsive thoughtless eating habit that I would lie about on my previous MFP account. So what is so special about today? Because I am not trying, I am doing. And for the first time oin long time I do not feel guilt or shame or bad about myself.

    This is difficult stuff we are doing. Our brains are wired in part to defeat us. We have to choose what is right and find discipline and determination and listen to our body when it tells us "I feel much better; thank you!"

    This time my expectation is not to lose X number of pounds in Y weeks. It is not to exercise X minutes a day, Y days a week. But I will track all of that. The goal is to lose weight and exercise; to do it. The tracking is the feedback that I can use to revise or adjust what I am doing. But if I lose 1 gram or 1 pound, I am losing and I am succeeding.

    This is what I have learned from my past mistakes on MFP. Good Luck!
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