Just over 50 and beginning the journey

No success yet but I am also over 50 and just started!

I am over 50 and weight loss has been a life long battle for me....and defitenly has gotten harder in the last few years. Recommitting myself to eating better--that is my issue as the exercise doesn't bother me. I am looking for a few good friends to encourage and chat. I have looked at that over 50 and there are so many people I can't keep them straight and for me it's just reading along.....:). Let me now if we are looking for the same sort of thing, Either way, good luck in your journey.

Over 50 here also and unfortunately a yo-yo. I struggle with the last 10-15 pounds continually! But the upside is, I mostly keep at it and don't just give up. I have always struggled with my weight it seems. I am also a reader of the over 50 group. The ones that post seem very active. Not a success story yet, but a work in progress.

I'm 67 and have lost most of the weight I wanted, about 55 lbs I guess. Still working on another 10 this year after maintaining last year due to injuries.

I found it fairly easy to lose the first 45 lbs and a bit harder now that I'm leaner than when I started. I don't like to starve myself because I workout pretty hard running and lifting weights so there's that issue as well.....LOL

I have a trainer whom I work with online after he left my gym and so I post my workouts for others to see to get some idea of what they might want to try.

Any of you can friend me if you want. I'm very active here

Hi, am over 50...just ;-), and have decided enough is enough. Fed up being out of breath and having to "climb up" furniture to get up off the floor. Needing to lose 4 stone so have started going to cross fit...been twice so far and quite enjoying it, surprisingly. Cross fit trainer pointed me in the direction of my fitness pal to keep track of my progress, so i'll be dipping in and out.

Anyone else having trouble getting on food diary?

wow, truly motivating. The greatest thing I discovered this year was like minded individuals.

OP
275lbs was my peak freshman year high school, it has been 10 years sense then now, feel free to see my profile pics, I decided to take the plunge into the unknown. I worked very hard to get to those points physically but now its led me into a point now that, I feel theres no turning back!

54 years young and motivated to lose 60 (again) - hit gym regular for weights but need to up my cardio . Unfortunately a stress eater and that just sneaks up out of no where , should also meal prep better -- looking forward to journey with health minded friends

Hi all, I'm new on here, 56yrs and want to lose 26 kilos. Started this week and so far feeling great about it, getting used to measuring in macro nutrients for a protein heavy approach, have a nifty excel ss which calculates my macro needs, which a guy in Georgia US whipped up, who had been through a time of his own and won, he also created a few page doc outlining how he did it, that is what I am following. and also using a 16/8 plus a 1/6 approach. Tuesdays will now be my 1 day. doing the 16/8 has been super easy and using an 8 hour eating window and then only eating whole and fresh with an emphasis on good protein is an absolute pleasure. started cycling around the palace most days, and will start back at the gym to get on the resistance machines say 2/6 days the other 4 will be mostly cycling while we have the summer weather in London.
I am DB2 controlled by exercise and diet only, i will entirely shake that condition off, hence reversaldude, as I absolutely believe that it is a lifestyle choice not a disease. Happy to share any info and will post my journey.
Anyone out there using IF with healthy eating and exercise?

I lost 50+ pounds at age 59-60 (while hypothyroid, BTW), and am now going into year 3 of maintaining a healthy weight, at age 62. For me, it was all about changing my eating (mostly portion size), because I was already fairly active. (I didn't change my exercise activity significantly.)

Weight loss turned out to be surprisingly simpler (not always easier ) than I expected, and the rewards were huge: Formerly high cholesterol/triglycerides, now solidly normal - doctor's no longer recommending statins. Formerly high blood pressure, now normal to low normal. Pain from torn meniscus in one knee, and some osteoarthritis, formerly routinely uncomfortable and occasionally quite painful, now only giving occasional discomfort. Overall feeling of well-being, mysteriously much improved (lower systemic inflammation, maybe?).

So worthwhile: I wish I'd done it decades ago!

I didn't do any particular named diet (other than the vegetarian thing I've done for 44 years now, from thin to fat to obese to thin again). I just logged my eating here on MFP, tried to get solid nutrition, focused on eating foods I enjoy that gave me nutrition and helped me feel full, and worked my way through gradual improvement.