In my 40s and weight loss

I'm 47 and peri-menopausal. This is wreaking havoc on my body. I quit smoking last year, gained 20lbs and am having a tough time losing it. Going to get back into my running schedule and train for a half marathon. I don't know what is up with my hormones but I crave more food than when I was pregnant! No fried things... but cookies... lots of cookies. Terrible! I've had it!

I have been saying this for three months. If this keeps up, I will not fit into any summer clothes. I have no choice now. I have to start losing this and get off this yo-yo diet. I lose 5, then gain 5... I have been doing this since January. ENOUGH!

Easter is coming and thank goodness everyone is health conscious in the family. Lots of healthy options on the dinner table next Sunday!

Happy Monday!

84 days before turning 40. I am guy who runs runs average 30 miles/wk in spring/summer. The weight used to shed easily but not anymore. Starting in my 80 day challenge, whatever that may mean. I'm even nervous about weighing myself! Ha!

Anyway, I could use the support. Feel free to add me.

I'm 53 and probably edging into peri-menopause (late bloomer ), eating high protein and working out every day, and losing 3 lbs per week (I'm 5'11"; women of average height should expect to lose slower)...anyway I swear by protein and exercise on top of counting calories.

lisap767 wrote: »

Hi, I'm new here. I'm 45 and have gained 2 stone in the past year so started on this journey one week ago and have lost 3lbs so far. Would really like a few buddies of a similar age to do this with if anyone is interested?

Feel free to add me - 48 and fighting to get back in shape. I have lost 11 pounds in the last 2 months and while I have a ways to go I am confident that I will succeed. You can too!

CollieFit wrote: »

jmdkurt wrote: »

Thanks for the encouragement. I've giving up on wine and instead have vodka. Counting calories is tricky. I need to work on portion control. Must start eating breakfast too.

I'm 45 and dropped 21lb since January doing nothing other than counting calories and being a bit more active.

Calorie counting isn't tricky. It's very simple. You weigh / measure everything that goes in your mouth and log it.

You don't have to have breakfast either. "Breakfast like a king, dinner like a pauper" is a MYTH. What matters is CI/CO overall and generating a calorie deficit. If you're in deficit you will lose.

Im 49 Im also restricting calories.I just started friday and zive lost 6lbs.I walk 30 min a day but will increase.

Hi, I'm 48 in Aug. and have had health issues, since I was born a premie in the late 60s. I've beat cancer, battled Crohn's, and slowly but sure, became so ill, after years of working out everyday, to where I'm almost bed ridden, Crohn's makes a person eat healthy, but the inactivity was brutal. Personal friend of mine told me to read about "trim healthy mama" lifestyle, and even though it's a completely different way of thinking about eating, from a low carber girl from the 1990s, it teaches you to switch fuels, always have protein, but switch from good carbs one meal to good fats another meal. It's sugar free, uses butter and coconut oil, lean meats (OR) chicken with skin included another time, no regular potatoes, but fantastic desserts and dark chocolate. My mom has lost 45 pounds since we started in Nov. and I've lost 35. If you google it, there is a planning book, that helps understand separating your fuels (carbs OR fats) then a cookbook each are about $12, many libraries have them to check out. There are ingredients used in SOME recipes, even as a self proclaimed foodie, I'd not heard of, but there are many "NSI" recipes, which stand for "No special ingredients" I am only able to do yoga twice a week, right now, dealing with lots of fibromyalga pain, and am considered a "turtle" or slower loser because of my age and my limitations, but my stomach and insides already thank me. I used to fitness dance, and weight train, elliptical and keep going like a machine, and now, the body pain, most days I have trouble walking, so I am a rare case, but I will tell anyone, you do NOT have to starve yourself to be healthy, and you do not have to kill yourself working out..... Learning Moderation, even at my age, is about as difficult as learning to love the body, I feel like, has failed me.... is to my unusual life.