Women 55yrs. & older with 75lbs. or more to lose!

Hi All, Its so nice to be able to post during the day instead of in the middle of the night. I was up very late last night as I expected. Its hard to sleep at night on my first day off. I woke around 8 and when I looked out the window and saw fresh snow, I closed the curtain and went straight back to bed. Fortunately by the time I got up again, it had warmed up and most of it was gone again. So glad as I do not think I could tolerate another round of shoveling snow.

Josie - how I envy you being able to bowl. My whole family has always bowled. 5 and 10 pin. My two sisters and brother in laws bowl in a league. I have never been able to get the hang of it. I did try for a few years when I was young, in fact met my ex husband through a league with my parents but as I got older, it was harder to do. I've had back problems since my early 20's and could never do it after that. My grandkids have asked often as I have a lane close to my home and I've taken them but just for fun. Fun for them, but I'm usually so sore afterward as to not make it so much fun.

Welcome Lori from Tx. You'll find that this is a great group of like minded women here. You've done extremely well so far with your weight loss and hopefully you will find the support here that you need to continue. We are all on the same journey, to find a healthy way to change our lifestyles and hopefully see the excess weight dissolve with the effort. Lord knows, its a difficult thing to change our lifestyles at this age but with support from others, anything can be accomplished.

Annglenn - I too have lost inches as I've gotten older. Part of it was lost with my knee replacement surgeries but the rest was indeed from arthritic changes in the spine which has caused the discs to compress. My oldest grand daughter who will be 15 this year takes great pleasure in reminding me often that I'm shrinking with age while she is now taller than I am.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful w/e. I'll drop by again later to see who else is dropping in for a visit today. Charlotte

Is there a group? I would like to join, almost 53 but so many on here are young.
Midwest US
52 (53 in Aug)
5'2" shortie
SW: 311
GW: 180
Perfect weight: 140

Eating clean food I make mostly myself (mostly). Under cancer treatment for 2nd time and its like poison causing wt loss + wt gain over and over. Healthy foods help my energy level. Want to accomplish this goal for me and my grown sons who have seen me overweight to some degree all their lives.

Oh boy, this kind of support group and tread is what I have been searching for since I joined MFP. Let me introduce myself, I am 60 years old, retired, married for 44 years, been overweight for most of my life. I have had gastric bypass surgery (failed) tried every diet that has ever, ever been written, joined WW 4 times ( back when you had to eat liver once a week) the first time and 3 years ago, my last time and nothing ever works for long term.

I have decided to do what is advised over and over again by Doctors, simply cut down what goes in the mouth, do some exercizes that fits your lifestyle, and to not be impatient to see intsant results.

I still have my doubts and fears but since January 2nd, 2014 I have eaten healthy without starving or feeling deprived, joined Planet Fitness which is cheap and fun and thank the Lord above, I have lost 23 lbs. It is now March 22, 2014 and despite going on vacation, being away from my home taking care of sister recovering from surgery and my beloved Dad with dementia, I am still losing.

I decided that when I turned 60 that there were things I wanted to do before I was old. I want to get SCUBA certified, ride a horse, and travel to adventurous places. The only thing stopping me is my weight. I started at 237 Lbs. and am now at 214. My next goal is to get below 210.

I am looking for friends who can support me and offer my support. I do have a lifetime of dieting so actually have a good store of advice, recipes, good nutrition info, etc.

My goal for this week is to get to the gym at least 3 times despite my current care giver situation.

Good luck ladies!

I really like this idea Josie & ready to jump in! I am 63 years old & also have arthritis in my knees,hip & back. So it can be limiting. I first started with MPG since 2010 when I joined a liquid protein diet doctor supervised. In two years I lost 70 pounds. I may have lost it sooner if I had not cheated. But come on now liquid protein for any amount drives you crazy or did me. So of course I gained it all back & then some. Now I am seeing an eating disorders counselor since this past September by doing portion control. I have now lost 30 something pounds. I still have my days that I mess up but they are much less. So I am looking forward to having this outlet.

Good for you:flowerforyou:
After many, many years of dieting, I decided to do it right.........jeez... what a shock, it works:bigsmile:

Saturday-food issues- Wow now that is a long story. I have dealt with an eating disorder all my life. My diagnosis is Bipolar/eating disorder. So as we all know some days are better than others. And the last few days have really been bad for me. I have been eating a lot of processed food which means a lot of sodium. I have high blood pressure which means I should not be eating this amount of sodium. But have any of you ever had your body just crave sodium. I get like that some times. Because of this problem I do not keep salt in my pantry. Feedback welcome.

Monthly challenge- drank 13 glasses of water today yeah. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Welcome to all our newbies to the group. I see that there are several.

Charlotte- hope that you are enjoying your time off.

Josie- Hope you did well with the dinner tonight. I was thinking of you. Sometimes it is hard to count calories for a more dense meat like beef. Hope there is no snow tomorrow and some sunshine.

Kathy- what a pretty photo of you!

Merrygrannie- I understand the lack of structure! Every since I retired it seems like my world is scheduled by doctor appointments and cleaning house and fighting depression because of such a schedule. I hope as I lose weight this will get better.

:flowerforyou: To all the dear ladies here as we support each other & see you tomorrow. Sleep well. :yawn:

While i am not in this age group, I am a mom of 4 kids and i work full time on nights and needs to lose about 100lbs or so. I am open to friends of all ages if anyone wants to add me :flowerforyou:

I am new to all of this. I have been using my iphone to enter everything. Now that it is on my PC, it will be easier to enter everything.
This is the first time I am even seeing message boards and this one is perfect for me. I look forward to 50+ thoughts on all of this, instead of my 20 something daughter giving me her "do's and don'ts". She It is a totally different world STARTING to get healthier and thinner et my age than her age. I am in accounting and this is the height of tax season, so I hope to find the time to come back and read and post on this board. Once I enter this, how do I come back to this exact message board. {{ I have never done a message board before, excuse my ignorance}}. HAVE A GOOD DAY, ALL!!!!

Good morning ladies,

I had a really good day on Saturday. I ate healthy, and turned down candy, chips, and my favorite, crusty french bread (ouch). I was able to get away from my caregiver tasks for and hour and went to the gym. It was a little tough doing my routine after being away for a while but oh boy did it feel good later! I felt pride that I did it and slept really good.

I have a little suggestion for those who crave chocolate but want to stay within their daily calorie limit. Dole makes chocolate covererd, frozen strawberries. They are 60 calories for a pouch, and the chocolate is the dark, rich kind. There are 4-5 strawberries to a pre counted portion. Being a carb freak, and loving any kind of sweet, this is the perfect treat for me. I usually have a packet for snack 2 times a day.

Isn't it nice that we all know and understand the struggle we share? Trying to explain to people what compulsive eating is like is just impossible sometimes. I am excited that we will all have a lower weight by April. I know we can do it.

I would like some friends if anyone is interested.

Betty Jo