Are there any older women trying to lose 40 lbs. more or less

JaniePoolePeery wrote: »

I forgot where "my discussions" were located!!! My husband lost 40 lbs. last year by walking 15,000+ steps per day. He is now backsliding. Personally I think he has issues with ME losing weight so he sabotages without really knowing it. This week I went to a dietitian an hopefully have gotten back on track. It will be hard because I seem to want the weight to go away without working at it!!
Thank you for the good ideas.....this time I've been writing my food in a journal and then logging it in the evening. I think this makes me more accountable.....what I mean is more reliable! I've been surprised at how much 1/2 cup REALLY is!!!

Janie, my mom used to teach weight watchers and she said it was common for husbands to start bringing their wives little gifts of chocolate around the time they started losing enough weight to be noticeable. Change is scary!

I'm 48, on my second go round of weight loss - the first loss, fifty pounds, was about a decade ago, and I kept it off successfully for several years but then gradually crept up, partly because it was just too hard to ignore my husband's snacks. He insisted on eating a dessert with every meal, including breakfast, and drinking a Coke with every meal. Just the sound of the can opening was a trigger for me! I started by having just a few bites or sips of what he was having, and then ended up eating the same food. In the end I gained my weight back and then some, and then I was diagnosed with diabetes and very sick in the hospital. I think seeing me so sick scared him and made him realize that not being supportive might literally kill me some day, because he has been much better since. He only gets desserts he knows I dislike, only eats them in front of me if I have a treat such as coffee with almond milk and cinnamon, dark chocolate, or Greek yogurt with fruit, and he has gotten a cooler sleeve for his Cokes so I don't have to look at them and opens them in the kitchen when I'm not in there. He has said that he wishes now that he had been supportive before I had permanent damage to my pancreas.

As far as logging, I really love MyFitnessPal - I carry my iPad everywhere anyway, and it takes literally seconds to log a complicated meal. It's a life changer! And I have some graduated sizes of silicon cups which allow me to quickly estimate foods, as well as a new kitchen scale. I know what you mean about learning how much a 1/2 cup is!