Anybody 50+ out there?

Hi. I am 54 and find it disheartening sometimes when I track everything and am in deficit and do exercise then the scales refuse to budge. Feel free to add me. Unfortunately I am a bit of a technophobe and have no idea how to add friends. Lol

Hi Sharon I have sent you a friend request. I am 66 years old and have lost 40lbs. Anyone wanting to send friend request just tap on the persons avatar, when the next screen comes up, double tap on the persons avatar and ten choose 'invite friend'.

to friend someone open their profile and click on the button "add as friend"; the other person then has to accept the request
couple of forums on here that might help:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10549544/women-ages-50-for-may-2017#latest
and there's another group that's called "55-65 year old women's success?"

Took off weight last year and have gained it all back, lost my mojo but am here today, so that's a step I guess.

I really don't think that it's hard to lose if your older. I am 62 and have fluctuated all my life but every time I set my mind to
losing I am successful. The problem seems to be keeping it off....that's where I mess up every time. I always get lazy and go back
to big portions. If I would just get on the scale once a week during maintenance it would solve my regaining problem.
My goal back in January was to drop 30 lbs. I changed that to 40 in April and hit it in May. Now I'm going for an extra 5 lb. "buffer"

I am the worst follower of healthy eating diet plans, people would cringe at my choices. I don't weigh food, I estimate
calories counts ( but I am an excellent estimator) I don't eat icky yogurt, almond milk, flax seed or any of that healthy
stuff people here are posting about and spending hours cooking up. For me some Cocoa Puffs and coffee in the AM,
Salad at lunch, chicken and broccoli type dinners. I eat frozen dinners all the time snack on candy and chips and do minimal
exercise. Count your intake and eat less than you burn. Simple math wins out every time.

The point of all the above rubbish....don't let your age make you think you're not able to do this. Follow the calories
your allowed, remember your older and your metabolism is slower so account for that fact.
You can easily do this if you set your mind to it and don't let being a senior be an excuse! We're supposed to be
smarter than that.

Wishing you great success and looking forward to hearing of your winning loses.

I'll be 64 in a couple of weeks. As was said above, things dlow fowm, we begin to need meds and the aches and pains seem to stay. I find that any activity is better than sitting on my butt to watch television. I find that we eat out a lot. That is damaging. Quality of sleep is poor (snoring, nocturnal washroom visits, knee pain). The first step is to identify our problem. The next step is to attempt a vorrevtive action. The third step is to always feel blessed for being given another day to live. Keep trying.

I'm 58 and been on low carb/keto for 8 weeks and only lost about 8lbs. It is a slow process. My daily calorie intake has been around 1000 and find it hard to add more calories, but been told over and over that 1000-1200 is too low. I know I need to add more exercise but giving up foods I love is hard enough. I use Pinterest to save low carb recipes to replace a lot of my old favorites but now as a low carb/sugar substitute.

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SharonH912 wrote: »

Hello I'm interested in any help I can get to get this weight off. I just think that it's easier for people 50+ to understand my struggle! Please feel free to add me as a friend no matter what your age! All the help I can get will be greatly appreciated!

Yes. Fifty plus One. It's not impossible. Goctor told me to lose 10 lbs and I lost 13.

You nailed it.

Hi Sharon. I'm 57 and double the weight I should be. My son introduced me to this app and I have been using it for a whole 5 days!!

Hi there... I'm 52, will be 53 this summer. I have struggled with my weight all my life. I finally realized that my weight issue was largely tied to my emotional eating issues. So I hired a therapist on TalkSpace to figure things out. For the first time in my life, I am having success. Having tried Paleo and some other things, I really don't think losing weight is that complicated. Calories in, calories out. You want to lose weight, you need to track your calories because it is really, really, REALLY easy to eat too much food. Everyone is different but for my body (I'm tall and muscular), I need protein to kill the hunger pangs. So I make sure I am getting enough. Another thing that has worked for me: fasting. I basically don't eat breakfast any more, just coffee with milk and honey. I don't feel deprived or weak from not eating. I noticed a while back that I wasn't that interested in breakfast a lot of the time. I decided to listen to my body and it's working. I am down 10lbs since April. I had a couple of slow weeks as I was still working things out with the therapist but once I figured out my food triggers and how to deal with them and got my exercise plan in place, the weight started coming off. I'm now dropping 1-2lbs per week regularly. Exercise is crucial, you've got to be burning enough of what eat to see a difference on the scale. I have been keeping my calories to around 1200-1400/day total and I do not feel deprived at all. If you fill up on lots of vegetables and a good amount of protein, your hunger will be satisfied. FWIW, I do eat some carb but I keep the portions reasonable and I try to only eat it a few times a week. So... my recipe is: AM Fasting, Enough Protein, Tracking Calories, Exercise, Lowered Calorie Intake. I don't think it's really anything magic, just simple science. I hope you find some success, good luck!

Hi! I'm 62, I started MFP in Nov. 2010 and lost 65 lbs. in a year and a half. Over the next 4 years I gained almost 30 back by getting lazy with logging - I thought I'd learned how to control my eating but obviously not!! Things got really bad after my mom became ill and passed away, whew, that was beyond difficult. Yep, I was definitely stress-eating...which I'm prone to anyway. Something clicked at the beginning of this year, though, I decided it was time. Since January I've lost 16 by paying attention to what I eat, keeping calories between 1350 and 1450. Some days I take a break and splurge a little. All I do for exercise is walk, I have a couple of great dogs who keep me going every day, and I do a lot of gardening. I can't jog or do jumping jacks anymore due to an injured knee from doing jumping jacks, lol. Back in the early MFP days I tried to tell myself I could do heavy aerobics and jump around like a kid. It was fun while it lasted, haha. Now I've settled in on just taking long walks and eating less. Feel free to add me, I'm always open for new friends!

Hi, I'm 56 & into my third week here at MFP. Feel free to add me