In my 40s and weight loss

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  • 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!
  • Joanna2012B
    Joanna2012B Posts: 1,448 Member
    I am 41 and have lost 14lbs since January. I eat healthy and exercise everyday!
  • runbabarun
    runbabarun Posts: 89 Member
    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.
  • ChristinaOrr65
    ChristinaOrr65 Posts: 112 Member
    Hormones can certainly play a role in weight loss, especially once you get older. Another reason to incorporate exercise into your routine is because it can help to level out those hormones, as well as all the other benefits for health and weight loss. https://www.myliporidex.com/blog/optimize-natural-hormonal-production-through-training/
  • MightyLolo
    MightyLolo Posts: 504 Member
    edited March 2016
    I'm 53 and probably edging into peri-menopause (late bloomer :wink:), 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.
  • CasperNaegle
    CasperNaegle Posts: 936 Member
    I am 47 about to be 48 in April. I started my exercise, weight loss journey last March. I have lost 50 pounds of fat and added about 10 pounds of muscle. I'm quite honestly in better physical shape than I was in my 20s. I'm probably 5% body fat from actually being able to see my abs. It's been an amazing journey!!
  • toddmcarter
    toddmcarter Posts: 15 Member
    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!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,138 Member
    I'm 47 and have lost 38 pounds since 9-25-15. I just keep to my calorie goal. I still eat out and have fast food occasionally and alcohol some too. My main exercise is walking 3-4 miles per day. I don't know if hormones make it harder or not. I am losing at a rate of 1.4 pounds per week and my goal is 1 pound so it seems easier to me than it has before when I tried to lose. I think I probably need to be eating more of my exercise calories than I do. It was harder for me to lose weight in the past because I always tried restrictive eating, but just counting calories and trying to be more active really seems to be working for me. I think if you stay at your calorie goal everyday you will be able to lose the weight. I just think it is harder for some people to stay at their goal. I have certainly had some days that are easier and some days that are harder. For me the key seems to be not letting myself feel too deprived and realizing that each day is a new day.
  • frankiem1207
    frankiem1207 Posts: 18 Member
    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.
  • frankiem1207
    frankiem1207 Posts: 18 Member
    Im new on this site.Im 49 and quit smoking and balloned up.Ive been restricting calories and walking 30 minutes a day.I just started my diet last friday.Ive lost 6 lbs so far...
  • avasherr
    avasherr Posts: 3 Member
    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.
  • jmdkurt
    jmdkurt Posts: 14 Member
    All of you are so much more dedicated than me, I need to really step up after Easter. Now I know I can't blame my age...