50+ women getting ready for 2021!

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  • Joyfulandactive
    Joyfulandactive Posts: 111 Member
    My husband bought me Stilton cheese (blue cheese) and crackers in bed this morning, so started my day on the naughty side but it was sooo good! 😄 I have finally started the MFP food diary and have been walking each day.
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,669 Member
    I’m watching the final of the Great British Baking Show. Good thing I saved calories for pie tonight!
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,748 Member
    Joyfulandactive wrote: »
    My husband bought me Stilton cheese (blue cheese) and crackers in bed this morning, so started my day on the naughty side but it was sooo good! 😄 I have finally started the MFP food diary and have been walking each day.

    Cheese is my down fall but it's just so yummy
  • Joyfulandactive
    Joyfulandactive Posts: 111 Member
    Cheese is my down fall but it's just so yummy[/quote]

    Agreed! I definitely stay away from cheese when losing weight, other than a sprinkling to add flavor occasionally. My husband was so sweet, and brought me tea too, so didn't want to be rude 😄 it wasn't too much either. That became my breakfast and I stayed within my 1200 for the day.

  • RunningMaven57
    RunningMaven57 Posts: 24 Member
    I just turned 60 this month and have been in a funk for way too long. Definitely interested in joining this group to get back on track.
  • RunningMaven57
    RunningMaven57 Posts: 24 Member
    So many inspiring women here!

    A little about me:

    This November I turned 60, a milestone marking the end of one decade and the start of another. My 50’s kicked off by my having a hysterectomy and ooperectomy, putting me straight into post menopause enduring hot flashes and all the other stuff that goes along with it. Somehow, I rallied through it, completed my graduate degree in organizational leadership, lost 30 lbs., and felt great. At 55 I started running marathons, finishing 7 over the past five years, and I quit drinking, now coming up on 6 years sober, achievements I’m very proud of. However, all wasn’t well for me personally. I was in a job I hated (a job I once was in love with), my father became ill with terminal cancer, and I got caught up with all the negativity associated with Facebook, packing back on the 30lbs along with some extra. Running no longer controlled the weight, because as one nutritionist told me, “You can’t exercise to overcome a bad diet.”

    In April of last year, I retired from my job after 35 years with the company. It was the best decision I made in a long time. After completing my last marathon, I had to stop running, due to chronic injuries I’d been ignoring, losing my “go to” stress reliever, putting me in a very dark and lonely place. This past September, realizing my 60th was approaching, I came face to face with the realization I didn’t love who I’d become. While I’m so fortunate and blessed to have a husband who is so supportive of my goals, I realized I wasn’t going to change myself until I found my way back to loving me again. It was a wake up call I needed, though getting started was hard!

    Throughout October, I began journaling again, writing my feelings down along with my dreams. I bought a Dreambook journal from Dragon Apothecary for 2021, and started planning, really planning, what I want 2021 and beyond to be like. November 1 marked bigger changes, as I’ve used my birthday month to focus on learning to love me again, not as a perfectionist, but by becoming the person who truly strives to live the values I claim to aspire to.

    This has been hard. It started with severing ties with Facebook, an app I was spending up to 8 hours a day on! Ugh! Like when I quit drinking, that’s been a “one day at a time” achievement, and the benefits have been huge! I’m now sleeping 8 hours a night for the first time in years and I feel I have energy! I also started gratitude journaling, writing down each night all the things that happened during the day I’m grateful for. Along with this I’ve been exercising daily and setting small daily goals, like only eat at mealtimes or trying new exercises. Now I’m working on my diet, eliminating all processed sugars, something that’s been hard to do while helping our son and dil with child care during COVID-19.

    Weight wise I haven’t seen much change yet, but I expect that to happen. I look forward to gaining inspiration from this group and hope through our collective journeys we all find the self love and forgiveness needed to make the changes we’re committing to last our lifetimes!
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    Welcome, everyone who joined recently!
  • Chooklet57
    Chooklet57 Posts: 43 Member

    Im in, ready to refocus. Similar position to Tmac (dont have the knack yet of quoting". Lost a stack , gained some back and refocusing now. Going slow this time but hopefully not in reverse!
  • Pharmgirl19692020
    Pharmgirl19692020 Posts: 14 Member
    Anyone here been using MFP for a while? I need help with finding or creating recipes. I make a lot of my own food with just imagination as opposed to recipes. Today I made zucchini noodles with my own version of a Thai sauce. How do you count that? Or do I need to be mindful of each and every ingredient that goes in it? It’s hard to figure how much of that I can eat...
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    If just for me, I'd log all the ingredients, divide by whatever portion I ate, and note what I was considering a serving (total weight) in the comments box. (For example, if I intended it to be 4 servings and it was 1020 g, I'd note that a serving was 255 g.) Since I cook a lot for just me, this is the main way I do it -- I input while cooking and then reduce the numbers based on the servings it makes, or else I note down the ingredients when cooking, since I also mainly make-up my own recipes and if I look at recipes it's only for inspiration.

    If it is for multiple people or something I planned to make again with basically the same ingredients and wanted to remember, I'd use the recipe builder. I've never had success with the new one that supposedly imports ingredients for you anyway, so I use the manual one. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe_parser
  • Kathryn41057
    Kathryn41057 Posts: 181 Member
    Pharmgirl19692020 wrote: »
    Anyone here been using MFP for a while? I need help with finding or creating recipes. I make a lot of my own food with just imagination as opposed to recipes. Today I made zucchini noodles with my own version of a Thai sauce. How do you count that? Or do I need to be mindful of each and every ingredient that goes in it? It’s hard to figure how much of that I can eat...



    Hi!! Your best bet is to “Creat” a recipe for the noodles, and Thai sauce. That way, when you make them in future, you’ll know what amounts of ingredients to use, and you can set your serving sizes
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,669 Member
    I use the recipe creator pretty frequently for meals that I’m likely to make again, and that are more than just a few ingredients.

    I weigh the cooking dish or serving pot in grams and write that down somewhere. Then weigh (zeroing it out in between) and put all the ingredients into the recipe builder as they get prepped. When it’s all done cooking, I weigh the food in the pre-weighed pot or dish, and subtract from the pot weight to get the food weight. Then divide that weight by 100 to get the number of servings. I name it something like “Chili (100g srv)”.

    When I’m using a recipe from online, I do it the same way, but start with the URL import function. You often need to edit/adjust ingredients, but it’s fairly expedient.

    Then when I log when eating the meal that night or the leftovers, I just weigh the amount I’m eating and get my accurate calories for each 100g.

    When I make the recipe again, if I’m likely to change quantities of ingredients, I just edit the recipe.

    This does require a scale that can handle full pot weights. I have this one:

    OXO 1128380 1128380 Good Grips Stainless Steel Food Scale with Pull Out Display, 22 Pound, Silver/Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WTI8J2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabt1_q6pXFbX0XFZD3
  • bjt2017
    bjt2017 Posts: 1 Member
    I am in, at 54 it is a lot harder to lose weight now. I have about 50 lbs to lose so could definitely use the group support.- Thanks for starting this :)
  • Real_Lydia
    Real_Lydia Posts: 3 Member
    Please feel free to add me. I'm 55. Just restarted MFP today. I have to lose (48lbs) in total.
  • Pharmgirl19692020
    Pharmgirl19692020 Posts: 14 Member
    @Real_Lydia...how do I add people?
  • Pharmgirl19692020
    Pharmgirl19692020 Posts: 14 Member
    @_TMac_ where is the recipe creator?
  • Real_Lydia
    Real_Lydia Posts: 3 Member
    @pharmgirl_1963 You click on the person's name under their profile pic, which brings up their profile. Then you click "add as friend"
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,669 Member
    Pharmgirl19692020 wrote: »
    @_TMac_ where is the recipe creator?

    I’m not sure about the PC site, but on the app:

    1) At the bottom, right corner, click the 3 dots where it says More.

    2) Go to My Meals, Recipes & Foods.

    3) Click the bottom blue bar to Create A Recipe.

    4) You can then choose to import one from a website or you can start from scratch.

    It’s going to ask you for the number of servings right away. Just put in a 1 until you actually know how many grams/servings it will make.
  • bebeisfit
    bebeisfit Posts: 951 Member
    Hi everyone! I'm not new to MFP , but haven't been logging my food or exercising for quite some time. Last week I turned 59..which means I'll be 69 next year.

    Like so many others I was up and down with my weight for most of my life. I hit 260 before my 40th birthday and something clicked. It took several years with lifes ups and downs..bad relationship, job loss, parent loss and moving a couple of times. But I maintained my 80 lb loss for several years. In fact my late 40's I considered myself pretty hot.

    I've struggled to maintain a consistent exercise routine the last few years and since covid, my waistline has expanded.

    Today, I logged my food and did a short workout.

    Lets go!
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,748 Member
    bebeisfit wrote: »
    Hi everyone! I'm not new to MFP , but haven't been logging my food or exercising for quite some time. Last week I turned 59..which means I'll be 69 next year.

    Like so many others I was up and down with my weight for most of my life. I hit 260 before my 40th birthday and something clicked. It took several years with lifes ups and downs..bad relationship, job loss, parent loss and moving a couple of times. But I maintained my 80 lb loss for several years. In fact my late 40's I considered myself pretty hot.

    I've struggled to maintain a consistent exercise routine the last few years and since covid, my waistline has expanded.

    Today, I logged my food and did a short workout.

    Lets go!

    Its consistency, well done a great start!

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