Hi! Looking for 50 and over for mutual support.

Hi! I am female and 57 ,- do not give up ! I did not loss until my second week and it was .6 of a pound. Since then I have lost over 4 pounds. Best thing is to remember you are doing this for your health and well being - you are not alone so hang in there! Just take small steps towards your goal and be happy when you achieve one. I stated I would be happy just to feel like my jeans were not fighting to burst! Just now I feel like we are friends- been doing this for five weeks - makes me more aware each week what I am actually eating.
Take care
Donna

Well, I'm part of the "mature" crowd,..so feel free to add me if you like.... also, I have a support group, glad to invite you.

Hi ......I am a 63 female and have just started 6 days ago....have lost 1.7kg, and have just done the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred dvd, and I think my body has just left me for I feel like jelly at the moment. And this was for 20mins, but it felt like a hour. This had better work.!!!!! So don't give up, for I am not a quitter even though I feel sick and dead at the moment.....Jillian Michaels said I will feel alive tomorrow. I have noticed quit a few of the MFP people are doing this and they feel great, so I hope I will be one of them also......Please hang in there, we all need each other's support with this life changing journey we are on......

Hi. I am 57. I lost 58lbs in about 16 months and am now maintaining. Just keep doing the right things and above all be patient - you're in this for the long haul. Those 40lbs will go and you will feel marvellous.

I'm 58 and new here also and looking for support. Feel free to add me or message me at any time. I'm online nearly every day for at least 3 hours, most evenings also. Hang in there, together we can do this!

Feel free to add me, Im in the same boat, and age, been here a few mo. and have learned alot!:happy:

It's so hard at our age to lose weight as quick as we used to...thanks to menopause and our metabolism we lose at a snail
pace. Unlike our younger counterparts though we have more knowledge and wisdom and at this stage of our lives we understand the importance of health and proper nutrition. Give yourself a break, be realistic in your goals and like or better yet love who you are.

Hi,
I turned 50 in November and have never weighed so much in my life or have the belly that I have. I seem to be stuck at a 10 pound loss. I know it takes time but I get so discouraged at times. It just seems like the scale don't move. I have started taking classed at the gym. I have been going for 2 weeks and not a pound but I know the inches are going cause my clothes fit different. It is just that I have always been a scale person and don't know how to get away from that. Suggestions anyone?

Hi, I am 55 in April and I have lost 70 1/2 pounds with ww, the last couple of pounds doing my fitness pal, ww stopped working for me kept going backwards and forwards the last 6 months. I still go to my ww class as I love the friendly people there, and I need to know that I'm getting weighed by somebody, I gained a lot of support from my friends at ww, and I can always do with more friends to keep me on my last leg of this journey.

People ask me how comes you did it this time, and thinking about it, I think it's because I don't keep reminding myself that I'm on a diet, I plod along one week at a time I'm not in a race I'm eating healthy.

There are photos on my profile of before and after fill free to have a look, and your welcome to add me, and if I can help you I will remember one week at a time and soon the pounds all mount up and you'll be in smaller sizes in no time.

Good luck

Sue

Hello all.
I am a newly turned 55 year old woman.
Glad to find this group.
seemed what we did back in our 20's and 30's
just no longer works now=(
Hang in there...

57 and looking to lose around 40+ lbs myself. Don't give up. It's a marathon not a sprint and its going to take time. It's about developing a healthy lifestyle not just "dieting" which doesnt work most of the time anyway! You can do this. Here for support!!!

I think the biggest thing we have to remember is that, in my case, I am am 100 lbs overweight and that weight took 3 or 4 yrs to put on. The gain came from a gradual loss of interest in exercise and a gradual increase in portion size. The slow and steady change in my lifestyle needs to be slowly and gradually reversed. At our age nothing is going to happen quickly or drastically without a penalty.
The goal is to watch what we eat using the tools that the wonderful world of computers have given us. Adding exercise gradually and tracking it will hopefully help you get past the hardest part, quitting! Don't expect miracles, but do enjoy the benefits of feeling healthier and more energetic as the pounds slowly disappear. I believe in a regular treat and don't freak out if I spike on calories once every couple weeks. Just throw some exercise at it and you'll feel fine.

Hello all. There are lots of over 50's people on MFP. I've been here, plugging away, for over a year now. I think the biggest thing is to just keep at it, and as someone else said, not to expect miracles overnight. This is a great place to find like minded people to support the process.

I started a month ago today. I have lost 17 pounds but need to lose 100 more. I have watched my husband become almost an invalid by getting out of shape. (not from weight, but just inactivity) and decided I was not going down that road. I had decided to have the sleeve surgery when I was introduced to this app by the dietician. It has been my life saver. With the changes I would have to make post surgery already being implemented and this app to keep track I am losing. As long as I lose 2 pound a week or 5 pound a month I will stay on course and not have the surgery, but it's coming off one way or the other. I refuse to reach 60 (December 28, 2013) and be this much over weight. If I've lost more pounds by then, I'll be on track. I've cut back 1500 to 2500 calories a day from before but I'm not hungry. ONe of the new life styles I would have to do is nothing to drink 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after a meal. the liquid pushes food on through your stomach making you feel hungry and not full quicker. It is amazing what it does. I have yet to be hungry and now I'm eating 1000 to 1300 calories a day.

Hi, I'm 51 and looking for motivated friends. Anyone can feel free to add me!