55-65 year old women's success?

Posting here for the first time - such inspiring stories!

I'm 67, lost about 50 lbs. over the last couple of years, and I've kept it off for 7 months now. I still weigh and log my food most of the time because of portion creep, but it's such a habit I don't really think about it much. I'm so much healthier than I was a few years ago - just losing the weight has had such an impact on my cholesterol numbers, heartburn, blood pressure and resting heart rate. I was convinced that declining health was inevitable as I age, and maybe it is, but I don't anticipate that happening any time soon now

Side note - I had it in my mind that I'd consider myself old when I reached 100, but I just met a 102 year old woman at my nail salon last week, getting her nails done for her birthday, so now I'm re-thinking that

Here’s my 6 month progress. 40lbs down, 7.5% body fat down, gained an optimal blood pressure and recovered a prolapsed L3/L4 disc.

1,500 to 1,700 cals per day, 10k steps, 3 bike rides and two gym sessions.

@making_tracks: you are making great progress! Looking great!

I have been doing some cleaning and came across a Maxine booklet and can’t resist sending you all this page. I am thinking everyone here can appreciate it! You just keep on rocking along! When I was still working at the Post Office, my wall calendar was always a Maxine calendar. Many people would come in to check out the new monthly page..she’s one of my favorites. We may have to age, after all, we were born doing it, but we do not have to lose our sense of humor about it! Enjoy!

I love that Maxine image. She’s a fab role model

Thanks for the compliments ladies

Gym test today - set new PBS in all areas. 3:15 plank, 40 sit ups in 2 mins, 2:30 wall squat, 11 cm extension of fingers beyond toes for my sit reach. 6:30 for 1k run. BP down, recovery heart rate down, 9% drop body fat, 20kg weight dropped. 9cm off chest, 20 cm of waist, 12 cm off hips.

I had to buy new lingerie today to help hold my less wobbly bits in place.

Hello ladies, 57 here and coming back to MFP. Too many health issues last couple years and don't like the sight of naked me.
Today is Day 1 of being accountable.

Wait a minute - is this the current thread? what happened after october?

kjurassic wrote: »

I’m still here, too. Holidays are hard for me missing all those who are no longer here, plus temptation abounds (food wise). How do you cope with all of it???!!! Any suggestions?

I'm an orphaned, widowed, childless, only child.

I pretty much skate superficially over the surface of the holiday, being glad my friends are happy, kind of as if the secular holiday were a major celebration from some religion I don't practice.

When social norms require, I participate in a suitable way, kind of similarly, such as buying/making gifts for certain people close to me.

(I was raised Christian, now agnostic. If a Jewish friend invited me for Passover Seder or a Muslim friend invited me to an Eid celebration, I'd figure out what gifts or behaviors were customary, go, and behave accordingly. Same deal for Christmas, same degree of emotional engagement - happy for others, glad to be included . . . except with Christmas, I already know the drill.)

I'm kind of an analytic, not very emotion-driven person, so maybe this wouldn't work for others.

As far as the food, it's just a more frequent temptation, not a different one from other special events. Don't spend calories on things that aren't worth it, indulge in some really good treats, get nutrition covered, balance it out somehow with other eating/exercise. (I'm in maintenance; while losing, another option was to accept a temporary delay or slowdown in loss rate.)

It's possible to turn the food-fest into a giant emotional obstacle, especially with all the other emotional baggage of the holiday in play. But I think it's possible to choose not to do that - though fully accomplishing that choice may require several rounds of practice.

Every though I'm personally fine, now, one thing that still bugs me is friends who (unintentionally) deliver a swift kick to somone else's gut by literally saying (or posting on social media) "family is what life is all about" or "family is what makes life worthwhile".

I hear and celebrate their joy . . . but could ya find another way to say it, folks? The recently bereaved may not need a push in the direction that that particular phrasing sends them!