Getting harder as I get older

I totally agree!! You are not alone. I lost 45 pounds 3 years ago and put it all back on. Part of my problem is I’m a very picky eater. I need to eat like a “grown up” as my husband says. 😂😂
Feel free to add me and we can help keep each other accountable.

Seems I have only ever lost weight in my 40s so that's all I know haha. I do find recovering from the injuries I inevitably get is slower the older I get. Way more aches and pains. I tend to rely on lots of exercise to deal with weight issues rather than strict diets

Good news!
It might get easier in your 50's....

Less focus on career, paying off the mortgage, children being more self-sufficient meant more "me time" and my exercise volume got far higher and my fitness level went up and up.

Having said that weight control is primarilly a function of controlling your food intake and that's age independent.

sijomial wrote: »

Good news!
It might get easier in your 50's....

Less focus on career, paying off the mortgage, children being more self-sufficient meant more "me time" and my exercise volume got far higher and my fitness level went up and up.

Having said that weight control is primarilly a function of controlling your food intake and that's age independent.

You might also have finally learned to be patient and how to set your expectations. This makes it FAR easier.

I have lost weight both being pretty inactive and now fairly active. Calorie control matters the most. Move more as you can.

40s? :flowerforyou: You can do this, I swear. It isn't just mythical superhumans.

In my mid-40s**, I stopped being the sedentary soul that I had been for most of my adult life, gradually worked up through a variety of activities, ending up a frequent and enthusiastic rower, including competing in some races (on-water and machine), not always unsuccessfully. Eventually settled into a routine of 4 days on-water rowing in season, spin classes twice a week all year; some rowing machine in Winter (lower volume than on-water season, so few hundred thousand meters, usually, for the season), plus lacadaisical occasional weight lifting. Stayed obese, though, through 10+ years of that.

At 59, I finally couldn't ignore that being fat and pretty-fit wasn't cutting it, wasn't keeping my health where I needed it to be, as I aged. High cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other nonsense. Lost around 50 pounds, obese to healthy weight, in a bit less than a year. Method: Calorie counting, eating less, but pretty much the same eating style as always. That was 2015.

Now, age 64, still at a healthy weight (129 pounds this morning, at 5'5"), still active. Good cholesterol, good blood pressure.

So: In your 40s, you may just be getting started. Start. It'll be OK. Commit to it. Make it easy, sustainable, even enjoyable if possible. Be persistent. You can surprise yourself with how much you can accomplish, if you choose to, just by sustainably heading in a positive direction. It won't be long before you look back, and realize how far you've come.

** Flashback: My 40s were when my body didn't just "fight back", it tried to kill me: Stage III (locally advanced) breast cancer, the full course of surgery-chemo-radiation, a diagnosis of hypothyroidism, leading to the realization that if I was ever going to feel strong, healthy and energetic ever again, I was going to need to work at it. I don't recommend waiting for that kind of trigger. It was a bad hobby.

AnnPT77, so glad you're well now, you've been through so much. You're a true inspiration

mkeati8556 wrote: »

Bloody hell. Don’t know what to say to that. Glad you’re healthy now.

Say that you're going to commit to some improvements, get started, avoid the very negative health consequences that have higher odds of happening in your 50s/60s and beyond if overweight and inactive? I wish I had . . . .

Seriously, looking around at others my age and older: The people who have happier/pleasanter lives now are the ones with managed weight who are routinely active (I'm not necessarily saying model-slim and competitive athletes). The ones who have more constraints, conditions, medications, dietary limitations, expenses (for health and for services they can no longer do themselves) are mostly quite overweight and quite inactive. There will always be some people whose lives change in unfortunate ways through unavoidable illness or accident, but what you do when younger has a huge influence on how you're more likely to end up when older. You're still "younger", in my world, in your 40s. Choices make differences.

Best wishes!