55-65 year old women's success?

debtay123 · February 2019

ladies we are all doing great- let's keep the faith and keep encouraging each others- we can do this- slow and steady wins and we will !!!!!

slimming1960 · February 2019

Hi ladies, so glad to meet everyone. I am 58 years old. I lost 78 lb with MFP from Sept 2016 to Sept. 2018. Then I started exercising really diligently with a trainer and lost another 25 lb. Even though I still needed to lose a further 20 lb., I finally felt better mentally than I had in years. However, I had a really difficult personal life situation that set me back in March 2018. I have gained back that 25 lbs and I am starting to inch towards gaining back some of the 78lbs. I have started back with MFP logging everything. I cannot afford another round of personal training and I know that the combo of scheduled workouts and food accountability were the thing that worked for me. My goal is to start to feel more in control with my food choices and to then get back to the gym on my own.

Foodforthought125 · February 2019

So happy to find this thread! I'm 61, relatively fit but just above healthy BMI and frustrated at my own backsliding. Lost, gained, lost again, gained again the same 20 lbs, and it's totally due to hiding from the reality what I can put in my mouth. So I'm back, fresh start and committed to making this what I know it needs to be- a lifetime commitment. Nice to find so many cool 60-ish people, and thanks for sharing your successes and frustrations!

making_tracks · February 2019

Hello @slimming1960

"However, I had a really difficult personal life situation that set me back in March 2018. I have gained back that 25 lbs and I am starting to inch towards gaining back some of the 78lbs. I have started back with MFP logging everything. I cannot afford another round of personal training and I know that the combo of scheduled workouts and food accountability were the thing that worked for me. My goal is to start to feel more in control with my food choices and to then get back to the gym on my own"

Sounds to me like you're finding the right direction again. I have also had episodes in my life where I respond to difficult circumstances by comfort eating, sofa surfing and beating myself up for letting things slip. I like your step by step approach, change one small thing, see how it goes - food accountability - logging if that is what it takes is a great step.

cory17 · February 2019

Hump day for another week and then into March. Sticking with it!

brenn24179 · February 2019

I gained 25 lbs last winter and in the summer I finally lost 30 lbs, I am so happy about it but so scared I will put it back on again. This time I looked at the emotional side of it, not just calories so I am hopeing that will help. I journaled a lot about my feelings and it helped a lot! Feels good to wear my clothes again!

longkathleenann9291 · February 2019

I think we can all relate!

making_tracks · February 2019

Maintenance is harder than weight loss

dsboohead · February 2019

longkathleenann9291 wrote: »

I think we can all relate!

Yes what is the deal with this????

beachgal0626 · February 2019

making_tracks wrote: »

Maintenance is harder than weight loss

This can be so true!

debtay123 · February 2019

Well we are here for each other and we CAN and WILL do this!!!

neeceelynn · March 2019

So much inspiration here. I am reminded that this journey is a journey. Like all journeys it has ups downs stops and starts. Sounds corny but I have to stay on the road to reach the destination. Thanks to all for your support.

springlering62 · March 2019

The dietician told me to bump up my calories, that I’m probably losing too fast. I am so full right now I can barely move. And I’ve already mapped out tomorrow and it looks like a flipping feast day or something! I can’t believe how much more I get for an extra 200 calories. It’s insane. Today I had a couple of slices chopped bacon on my giant dinner salad with a couple of slices of halloumi. It felt so wantonly luxurious!

making_tracks · March 2019

I have also been told to pick up my calories but to cut back on days when I don’t train. I train 6 days per week, generally burning 3-500 calories per day through purposeful exercise. I say purposeful because I’m much more active in my everyday life than I was 9 months ago when I was at my heaviest, least fit condition. Purposeful means I’m running, cycling, circuit training or weight lifting

cory17 · March 2019

This month I will end the month at less than I started it with.

daklock · March 2019

56 days in, 21 pounds lost. Trying to go out for walks more often. I'm so inspired by all the stories on this site. Thanks for sharing your successes and struggles. We can help each other achieve our goals.

debtay123 · March 2019

When I changed my mfp from to lose1.0 a week to lose.05 a week, I gained an extra 200 calories too. I could not believe how much better I feel with the extra calories and I have just decided to go slower and be happy with any loss that I have.

springlering62 · March 2019

@debtay123 I just increased mine 200 about ten days ago, too, to slow my loss down to a pound a week, and darned if it didn’t feel like it had ramped up. I broke my “once a week weigh in” rule this morning and was down 1.2lb since Sunday. Will be interesting to see if it holds til next weigh in. It is surprising how much more I feel like I got with that 200 calories. I’ve increased meat portions, added an extra snack, and still feel like I have to jump it to get to my calorie goal now.

skytuner · March 2019

debtay123 wrote: »

When I changed my mfp from to lose1.0 a week to lose.05 a week, I gained an extra 200 calories too. I could not believe how much better I feel with the extra calories and I have just decided to go slower and be happy with any loss that I have.

I had that experience when I started -- finding it too difficult to manage at 1310 calories per day, so I was better at the 200 calories more: 1510. That worked well on my good days for awhile, but I eventually gave up --- I was feeling too defeated too often (by exceeding that caloric goal).

When I came back again, I decided to set my caloric goal at 1800 --- which would be fine for maintenance for a woman my size at ideal weight, yet still working towards a deficit. Happy to say it has been okay doing that --- without doing any tracking (while away from MFP) I'm sure I regularly exceeded that, so this was good to get me started and control my intake.

Thanks to, I think, one of our crowd (@lovesretirement ?) post about Fitbit, I finally figured out how to connect my Fitbit to MFP, and that has changed things a bit.

Anyway, I realize that with the Fitbit I have to set the caloric goal down, because those steps really add up!

I set my goal back to 1500, as I have not needed to eat the exercise yet. I am pretty sedentary, loving retirement, too, but now I have reset the Fitbit for hourly reminders to move. Now I heed those gentle reminders from the watch to get moving --- I live in an apartment, and I can get in lots of steps up and down stairs and back and forth in the halls. Otherwise, I was driving myself nuts circling around the rooms of our apartment!

Oh, yeah --- 2 lbs down in 20 days -- fine with me -- I haven't really gotten back to full activity and weight training yet.

cory17 · March 2019

55-65 year old women's success?

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