55-65 year old women's success?

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.

My main goal is doing all the little things that add up to my final goal of body fat % loss. For whatever reasons my fat loss % has always moved slow like a snail. Even when I’m losing pounds... and this is where I see I have had my down spirals all the time as I get so frustrated!!!

So to rid myself of the 7-8 pounds that keep me returning to the mid 150’s weight range, I’m back to my own personal Boot Camp Basics:
1) logging, 2) sleep, 3)avoid stress, 4)limited to no wine (my friends and sisters r gonna hate me), 5) LNS > avoid eating after dinner unless I’m still hungry after dinner, then I’ll have some yogurt or a protein drink 6) stay engaged on MFP 7) I’ll add hydrating and 8) exercise >I always do those but they’re part of the formula 9) weigh & measure all nutrition

I have Ulcerative Colitis and I’m a cancer survivor. Having good digestion is key for me period, and if I can focus on good digestion then it means my nutrtition is working for me and not against me.

Thanks for the thread.

Let’s do this!!!

I’m 62. The picture in white was taken in March when DH and I celebrated our 20 year anniversary. I weighed 199 lbs ( down from 208 lbs. in September) . After seeing that terrible picture I immediately went on a diet and have so far lost 16 pounds. Current weight 183. Still need another 30 to be at healthy BMI .

Teri you look great! I am 62 and just started on this intermittent fasting and I have lost about 3 lbs a week.