Older women (55+)

Hi there, I'm confused. Your profile says you've lost 225 pounds. If that's true, and you've only lost 4 pounds since January, your body is probably just trying to adjust. Did I mis-read?

Ok, I am a bit older at 56. And the weight is coming off slowly! Lost 28 since Sept. My advice would be to fill out your profile and get some active committed friends. Committed to logging their food daily and active on MFP. I have learned SO much from my MFP buddies! Have a couple friends who really are taking the weight off and it helps me to interact with them. They also read my diary and are not shy on comments about some of the stuff I eat! But they are very supportive also.

I would strongly urge you consider that. There are a ton of older people on here. What I have changed since Sept is that I eat alot cleaner and i have started exercising (in December). Its not coming off fast but that is ok, I won't have to deal with loose skin issues! And i do feel so much better. My feet and my knees are better and my balance has improved. Can't wait for it to get warmer out so I can get out and see how these lame exercise videos are affecting my walking! I don't like to go out when its below 35. I know I am a wimp. Hopefully next winter the cold won't make me so housebound.

Use these website. I have a friend who got me on this and when I am confused on something I can call him up and he walks me thru whatever issue I have.

Also start weighing your food. Got a cheap food scale on Amazon and I had no idea what some of the portions I had been consuming were. I don't weigh that much but when in doubt I do.

You can do this if you want to. Just commit to one day at a time, don't whine about blowing it yesterday. Just take it one day at a time.

Blessings!

I am almost 54 and have lost 54 pounds since May 2012. I am eating much less, have cut out a lot of carbs and exercise 120 minutes a day including cardio and lifting weights.

I'm 57 and have had a wonderful year here on MFP. I'm down a total of 59 pounds since Christmas 2011, and 42 pounds on here. I've done it slowly to lessen the saggy skin, but still have quite a bit of "yucky flab"! I had 2 months when I didn't really lose anything. So I had a look at my goals and activity, etc. I had put down that I would exercise 4x/week, but I was only doing maybe 2x. For now, I've reset my goal/calories at 2x/wk, and once I consistently am exercising 2x/wk, I will increase to 3, then 4 again. This has caused some of the saggy skin, I know, but gotta dredge up the will to exercise when it's so dang cold outside!