50+ women getting ready for 2021!

Count me in!! My Thanksgiving has past, being a Canadian but I would love to join the 50+ group??? !

@cantine66 how are you doing it? What diet plan or exercise plan are using? Any tips or advice?

Welcome Linda! I am new too, with this app. We can struggle together! Let’s make a change, not start a diet!! 😄

Hi Ladies! I just started this week. I'm at the beginning of a 100 lb weight loss. The mental shift to doing it slow and steady is starting to sink in.

I'm not new to MFP but I am NEW; New mindset, new commitment, new attitude, new priorities. I have been looking for a 50+ group, so I would love to join.

I weigh. It's not that things should weigh a certain amount (although if you have, say, a box of pasta and want to weigh out a serving you can weigh the amount defined as a serving on the box), but that using the weight is a slightly more accurate way to determine the cals. You weigh and then log that weight on MFP.

For whole foods, the best entries on MFP are the ones taken from the USDA site, also (the syntax tends to be something like "carrots, raw" or "chicken, breast, meat only, cooked, broiled") and those will always have lots of unit options, including 100 grams. So if you have 85 g of carrots, you'd log 0.85 for the 100 gram serving. For boxed stuff, you'd find the entry consistent with the information on your package and log the amount you used (so if you weigh 48 g of dried pasta and the box has 56 g = 1 serving = 200 cals, you'd log 48/56 of a serving or 0.86).

I was skeptical about weighing initially, but now enjoy it, and often see how close I can eyeball it as a game. For a while at maintenance I wasn't logging at all, but would still sometimes use the scale instead of measuring cups when cooking or to determine what a reasonable amount would be.

If you are just thinking of how to plan a meal, I'd use the amount you think seems reasonable based on what you like to eat, and then see what the cals are. Meats are typically 3 oz/serving, but I typically eat more, depending on what else I am having and where I am with respect to my protein and cal goals (it depends on the specific meat), and for veg it depends on the dish or if it's a side and how many different veg I am having in a meal (85 g raw is roughly a serving for anything but greens, I think for greens it's 2 cups raw, if you are trying to count servings).

I’ll be 50 in January, so that counts, right?

I lost 60 lbs with MFP a couple of years back. Gained back 35 before I realized what was happening, so here I am.

I’m on a 1-lb-per-week deficit, prioritizing fruit and veg. Daily walks, plus a little balance work and bodyweight exercise. Keeping it simple and easy enough to make a habit of it.

I’m a stress eater so stress reduction and healthier coping mechanisms will be critical to my long term success.

count me in, im so depressed. the only thing i can do is try and fix myself. sorry, dont have pics downloaded yet