Women in their 40s!

amandainmd wrote: »

nickylee76 wrote: »

Hi all. I’m 42 and need to lose about 20 pounds. I feel like a broken record always starting and stopping. Life gets in the way. But I’m not giving up.

I hear you! I have been trying to reconcile what everyone always says, it's a lifestyle, with the reality that I don't want to. But, I am working on it! I am in my late forties and need to lose 20-30 pounds, but honestly I am trying to look at it one day at a time.

I think when faced with the fact that you don't really want to change your lifestyle, you have a couple of choices. You can make the deliberate decision that my oldest son has done. He has decided that the joy he gets from food outweighs the joy he feels in being thin. Now, as long as that doesn't start interfering with health, there's nothing wrong with that. You may want to lose those 20-30lbs, but do you really need to? And do you want to do it badly enough to change things about your lifestyle?

If you decide you do want it enough to make some changes, decide what you can live without and what you can't. Do you like to exercise or are there things you can do to make your everyday life more active? Are you willing to start taking a walk after dinner with your husband in the evenings? Or maybe riding your bike places instead of driving if that's an option. What can you easily do to reduce the number of calories you eat? Switch from full fat dairy to reduced fat? Use PAM instead of butter/oil? Substitute zoodles for pasta and cauliflower for rice? Slightly reduce your portion sizes? Use mustard instead of mayo? You can make any number of small changes that add up without significantly affecting your lifestyle.

mom23mangos wrote: »

amandainmd wrote: »

nickylee76 wrote: »

Hi all. I’m 42 and need to lose about 20 pounds. I feel like a broken record always starting and stopping. Life gets in the way. But I’m not giving up.

I hear you! I have been trying to reconcile what everyone always says, it's a lifestyle, with the reality that I don't want to. But, I am working on it! I am in my late forties and need to lose 20-30 pounds, but honestly I am trying to look at it one day at a time.

I think when faced with the fact that you don't really want to change your lifestyle, you have a couple of choices. You can make the deliberate decision that my oldest son has done. He has decided that the joy he gets from food outweighs the joy he feels in being thin. Now, as long as that doesn't start interfering with health, there's nothing wrong with that. You may want to lose those 20-30lbs, but do you really need to? And do you want to do it badly enough to change things about your lifestyle?

If you decide you do want it enough to make some changes, decide what you can live without and what you can't. Do you like to exercise or are there things you can do to make your everyday life more active? Are you willing to start taking a walk after dinner with your husband in the evenings? Or maybe riding your bike places instead of driving if that's an option. What can you easily do to reduce the number of calories you eat? Switch from full fat dairy to reduced fat? Use PAM instead of butter/oil? Substitute zoodles for pasta and cauliflower for rice? Slightly reduce your portion sizes? Use mustard instead of mayo? You can make any number of small changes that add up without significantly affecting your lifestyle.

Thank you for your thoughtful post. The problem is I have already managed the low hanging fruit. I never drink soda, half and half or whole milk. I workout hard for about 60 minutes 5 times a week. My dinner plate is about 50% vegetables, cooked in Pam. Where I need to get it together is wine on the weekends and the occasional dinner out. Mostly, I was just whining in my earlier post!

Today's my birthday and turned 43 today. Been struggling with losing weight for the past year. I weight seems to hover between 155-157. My eventual goal is to get down to 140, but getting down to 150 is my first goal. I did buy a food scale so I can weigh out my food for a better idea on portion size for a past couple months. I have also been doing various jillian michels work out videos 4-5 times a week. I see so many success stories from people, but I don't seem to have as much luck. I went to the doctor and got my thyroid checked and it came back normal. Anyone have any advice?

I’ll be turning 45 next month. I experienced at 25-pound weight gain, and have been having a very difficult time shedding it. Feel free to add me. 😀

BigMamaYoung wrote: »

Looking at how I add people as friends? Not to sure how to use this properly

Click on their name in blue. A box will pop up that says message and one that says ignore. Then click on their name again. This will show the option to add them as a friend.

I'm 38 but I love this post and the commenters here. This is definitely not my first rodeo with MFP, but the first time I used it it really worked. I lost 20kg and kept it off for about 3 years. Then I got into a relationship which is AWESOME except I slipped into lazy ways and put on 25kg (I have PCOS and it's very easy to put weight on, very hard to get it off). I'm trying to figure out how to stay motivated and do this on my own without continually giving up when Mr Never-Gets-Fat cooks up an awesome curry or brings home a bag of chips. SIGH. I need buddies.

I lost and gained the weight back. I’m starting over and don’t plan to regain this time

Hello ladies, I just turned 47 this year and due to other changes in my life I figured now was a good time to start working on my weight and getting back into shape. Hoping for support and motivation.

Dear Women in their forties. Bad start to week as I was feeling really down and haven't slept well in a week. I just scoffed a HUGE piece of cake ... best part of 500 calories. WHY???...... I seem to be on a weight will not budge plateau.... help?

Hi ladies. For those of you on a plateau, it happens, sucky as it is. But if you are consistent with your tracking (accurately measuring everything with a food scale), you WILL lose weight. You just may need to make some adjustments if you find you are not losing over a period of several weeks. I also highly recommend a weight trending app like Happy Scale. When you don't have a lot to lose, it's easy to see losses masked by hormonal fluctuations.