Hi, I know how you feel. I am 52 and have struggled with my weight for years. It is a wonderful thing to join a group of people who can walk with you on your goal of getting healthy. Reaching out when you feel depressed is the first step in changing. Don't be so hard on yourself. Love yourself even if you don't feel much like it. The world is a better place because you are in it. You have wonderful gifts and talents to share with the world. Always remember that!

Wondering if you have seen a doctor regarding your depression? If you are truly depressed, it is probably not going to go away on it's own. Losing weight is hard under the best of circumstances, so I think you need to deal with the depression first.

I often write myself letters. In them I write down my feelings whats going on etc. Its a great way to unload a multitude of emotions.

Yes first I'd see a doc about your depression. See if there is something to help. For me I started exercising nearly 4 years ago. It took about 1 year before other than physically to see changes. I lost 86 pounds. I got stronger, BUT I felt a tad more cheerful too. I walk to the gym. So was it the extra sunshine, the exercising, the slight changes in my diet, all of the above I just felt better. I started with one small change to my life. I committed to exercise. No dieting. I committed to giving exercise one full year of my time. Everyone said it was good for you and I wanted to prove to my doctor that it didn't work for me. That she needed to help me with something else and quit bringing up exercise. Damn if she wasn't correct for me. I do it now like I brush my teeth. I just get it done and go on with my day.

Hi Mccourt63...i can so relate to your post and would love to see an update on how you are doing and feeling. I went into hibernation the past 24 months after the suicide of my sister. I suffered from PTSD and depression and spent the 24 months in bed...only going out when i absolutely had to...work, store, etc. During this time i put on 13 pounds and was already over weight. One day my husband came in and said "get up and just move in the room for 15 minutes". He and I did various exercises in the room, marching in place, burpees even though i could barely get down and up...after 15 minutes I felt so much better. I was so ready to be back in life that i spend the next few week just focusing on movement. Not for weight loss but to chase the Blues away and to keep them away. I know from past experience the benefits of exercise for depression. I continued with the private movement in my home and then started to venture outside to walk. If you don't do anything else, get moving. Just start where you are. walk. Walk at the mall, at IKEA, etc. Just do it for mental health. The weight loss and eating healthy will come. I started looking at my next attempt to lose weight, especially all the belly fat i have accumilated and started back with my fitness pal on 10/13. I cannot believe all the extra calories available when i track my exercise or my steps are added. I know make sure i do some sort of purposeful movement every day simply for mental health. Please post an update on how you are doing I'd love to stay in touch. I have finally woke up!

58 yrs old and need to lose 50 lbs and get my sodium down

I am 58 and have desperately struggled to get out of my increasingly fatter, sedentary lifestyle. I was always a walker, energetic. Last year a real downer, more TV and staying in bed. NOT living!!
I have felt awful, poor lab results I do not want to repeat until I have improved.
This is the end of the road!!
I have about 70# to lose. It happens one day, one meal at a time, whatever it takes to stay conscious. I'm done with feeling tired, nauseous, isolated.
Please friend me and we can do this together. It's possible. I see people all around me who are healthy and the same age or older. No more excuses!!

Hi all. I am trying to gain more control over what I eat. Used to be thin then every year it seems u put on 5 lbs and it adds up. I'm 59 and joined Pilates today. If you're depressed please go talk to your doctor. Meds really do help! Join a class at ur local rec center. You're not alone in your struggle.

Please add me as a friend too! I lost 45lbs and thought I knew what it took to lose weight. Life interupted and I put it all back. Been trying since start of 2015 to lose it and more, to no avail. My body just doesnt seem to respond anymore to low calories!! Im so lost. Not quite 50 but desperately need some friends who understand what its like to eat right and still not lose.

Hi all of you if you are truly depressed you need to seek medical help. If it's winter blues like I get you need to get active. Get up in the morning fix yourself up to meet the queen. Then you feel like facing the word. This morning I didn't do that was even to down to hit the shower so hair not done. Needless to say I stayed home and veged all day I know my bad. I need to get out of this rut I call it.
Tomorrow will need to be a better day it certainly can't get worst. But stuck to my healthy eating today so that in itself is a plus. Want to keep my b/s in a healthy zone.

See you all lighter
Linda

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SweetTooth, life has a habit of interrupting Exercise would help me but I just can't seem to make myself do it--the weather is lousy for walking.

Here in the U.P. of Michigan the weather is lousy for much of the year. I generally do pretty well with getting out there anyway. Just have to be dressed for it.

I am new to active posting and reading in this group. I found a program that works and am working on the discipline to stick with this life change. Hang in there and let's encourage one another! It is definitely tougher after 50 but I am having more success than I did in my 40s.