Anyone in their late 40s/just over 50?

I'll be 50 in December, feel free to add me.

I am 42, hubs is 54.
I do 2 to 3 hours cardio a day.
anyone can add me.

I'm 48 and joined here in January when I realised I couldn't fool myself any longer that clothes were just being cut skimpy:ohwell:

I work full time, have one son at Uni and one teenager at home. I do a 20-25 min Rosemary Conely workout every weekday morning, plus something else when I get home - more Rosemary, Wii Zumba, Davina Body Buff - for abot 40 mins, plus I walk to and from school. I do one Zumba class a week, and weekends I try to have a long (45-75 min) walk, weather permitting. I can just about count walking round Bluewater for 2 hours

I've reached goal weight and am just going for a couple of extra pounds off so as to have a cushion for Christmas. I haven't given up anything except second helpings - I use my allocated calories for healthy food and exercise calories for wine and treats. I weigh everything (especially pasta, and cereal as they are impossible to guess!) and use MFP calorie estimates for exercise except for the Wii Zumba. So ignore all those who say "don't eat your exercise calories" or "you must get a HRM because MFP estimates are too generous". What matters is being honest wth your logging - don't ever think "oh, I went up 5 flights of stairs so a biscuit won't matter", or "I'm really sweaty so I must have walked 4.5mph" - and you'll find using MFP will really help. But only you can actually do it. Just like having exercise dvds won't help if they stay on the shelf, MFP will only help if you use it honestly and consistently - sorry, adding it to your favourites bar is not enough on its own:laugh:

Feel free to add me! I'm always happy to support, but not afraid to give tough love!

Hi I'm 50 - going on 22.

My weight crept up from my late 30s really and I just thought it was inevitable, part of growing older.

MFP has been a miracle for me - I downloaded the app on my phone last year and I've lost over 2 stone, and about 10 years!

I can't quite believe that I'm 50, and I resent the fat years where I looked and felt older than I was. And I was suffering from sore joints and lack of strength and energy. As the fat falls away, I'm rediscovering some youthfulness and sometimes I look at my profile which says my age is 50 and it still makes me jump! I don't feel it, I feel no different to how I felt in my 20s and 30s. But now the weight has gone, my knees and hips and back agree with me.

I'm here just about every day, so happy to be friends with anyone who'll be friends with me

This was my experience, I started thinking about knee surgery, hip replacements etc. By the time I was a stone down everything was better and now I have no pain at all and more energy that I thought possible for an old boiler!

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I so agree with this! I've been watching my parents....who are struggling to move because they quit moving when they were in their late 50's and early 60's...now at 80, they are so limited! That's motivation for me!

47 here. I have a long term goal to be at a 'I'm happy' weight when I hit 50. I can always use friends along the way, anyone feel free to add me!

Im 45 and about to turn 46 next week. Yes it does work! I started in May and have lost 17 lbs. Went from size 14 to now comfortable 8. The tortoise wins the race girl! You can do this one day at a time! Feel free to friend me! Welcome to mfp!

I am nearly 50 (eep, it feels weird to even write that. I think I am frozen at 33 in my head) - and have been overweight for some 15 years, and obese for at least 5 of those. I joined MFP in 2011 but wasn't very efficient in the way I measured my intake or how I did my workout. So I would lose a couple of kilos, put them on again and convinced myself I was a hard loser/special snowflake/highly efficient at retaining fat - whatever helped convince me that this would be my life here on. Menopause is looming, and with insulin resistance, I was fairly sure I was doomed to stay fat. This changed in May this year - and the post that changed it was Sara's post (the one linked to the post above this one). After reading her posts on the ETP forum, I began to measure my food more accurately, log consistently, start a lifting program, and the weight is slowly shifting, not fast, but the trend is consistent. I also downloaded the excel spreadsheet that Heybales put up (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/813720-spreadsheet-bmr-tdee-deficit-macro-calcs-hrm-zones) and I am delighted to see the changes. I'm down 8-9 pounds since April - the inches are slowly peeling off, and even better, my blood tests for sugar came out normal. So I am now full of optimism and hope that I can make this work. Also I finally have a sustainable lifestyle, eating what I like, working out and prepared to stick my tongue out at the idea that my metabolism will fall with menopause - bleah to that, I say.

I will be 53 soon. I did exercise some over the years, but it didn't show due to my being a compulsive overeater since I was a teenager. During the last three weeks I have been motivated to change, and have been doing well. I am walking and doing weights. Just trying to figure out which way to go with the weights. There seems to be so many different opinions on what is right.

Just turned 49 last month. Been on MFP for a bit over a year (I did a profile "reset" a couple of months back). Always welcome some like-minded friends and motivators!!