60 yrs and up
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Welcome and best of luck!2
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I am 66 and have a thyroid problem and stage 2 diabetes. I started in late September to log my foods and go to the gym three times a week. So far I have lost 17 pounds. I started at 266. I still need to loose 109 lbs. It isn't easy but I am doing all I can to get of the meds. Whatever you do don't quit, if you have a bad day tomorrow is a new day to start again. Never give up hope.3
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brendarosen1954 wrote: »I am 66 and have a thyroid problem and stage 2 diabetes. I started in late September to log my foods and go to the gym three times a week. So far I have lost 17 pounds. I started at 266. I still need to loose 109 lbs. It isn't easy but I am doing all I can to get of the meds. Whatever you do don't quit, if you have a bad day tomorrow is a new day to start again. Never give up hope.
Good luck it is possible my hubby did it, good luck.1 -
I have such a difficult time keeping up with the message board! How do you know where you left off?
What fitness trackers do you use? I don't want to wear one on my wrist, and I don't want to (really, it's "can't") remember to carry my phone around with me all day. I saw that FitBit Inspire can be put into a clip, has anyone tried that?
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@laurabeverlyhills29 When you say you don’t understand how to use this, do you mean MFP or this thread? For this thread just read posts and post when you want. A support group is key to losing. I too have another one I follow besides this one. I follow this thread since there are age issues to losing weight not just life. The other one is one with women who have a similar amount of weight to lose and is really supportive. If it is MFP than let us know and we will try to answer your questions.
@brendarosen1954 Great progress. I am 67 and was 266 last year. Down 20+ lbs but working for more. I am trying to not have to go on any meds. Keep up the good work.
@mrsbfe If I have been on more often it is easy to find the last time. If it has been a while don’t worry just go back as far as you want and read what is helpful. Respond when you feel called to but don’t worry about responding to everything. Just start where you are. I gave up on one thread that everyone responded to everyone and there were so many posters. I have another thread where I am concentrating on losing and getting fit with women who have the same amount to lose. I try to check it every weekday because it helps me to lose. This one I try to check regularly enough that I can see my last post and keep track on how others are doing. However sometimes I just read the last page or 2 and go from there. No worries.
As to tracking I had a fitbit Versa(smart watch) and I loved it but it started to irritate my skin. I am just using a fitbit zip now and it is only a glorified step counter but it syncs with MFP. I will look at the Inspire. So I am in the middle of my 2nd week on my new job.
The 1st week I got little exercise and we had take out too many days so I gained a bit. This past weekend I tried to do meal planning and we got groceries so we should be cooking healthy food again at home this week. Although my weekly average wasn’t high I was high a few days last week and I do better when we cook at home. I also got my strength training in on Sunday to make up for missing it last week. We took a short walk Monday and since I have the day off today I plan to get in some exercise. So the plan is to get back to meals at home this week and start to establish more exercise each week. When I work fulltime I have trouble cooking at home and exercising. So that is what I am working on now besides just dealing with having a new job and doing it remotely. This time around at least I don’t have the commute. Also since my home office is in my art room in the basement I get a lot of stairs now.
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I was trying to insert an image of my cat "forcing" me to sit on the couch instead of go for my morning walk, but I'm not having any success. Is there a size limit? A secret code? A limit to number of cat pics on the internet? I've resized it twice, and tried it with both the little camera icon and the picture icon (what's the difference?) Anyway, I spent way too much time on that so he's gone on his way and I'm off to go on my walk with the goats.
@KeriA Thank you. Over the last few years I've been trying to undo 50 years if perfectionism, so I was ridiculously stressing over reading every post from whatever point I was at last. 🙄
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H there! I'm 68, a grandmother of 8. I've been married for 49 years this coming January. I've put on 20 of 50 original pounds lost since Covid lockdown. Decided I needed to do something about it. I'm depressed enough about the sad situation.I don't need to be depressed about my weight, too. So here I am. I originally lost tge 50 pounds on Medifast and kept it off till the Pandemic hit. This time I'm using Wonderslim (Diet Direct) because it's less expensive than Medifast. I look forward to joining in.4
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I was trying to insert an image of my cat "forcing" me to sit on the couch instead of go for my morning walk, but I'm not having any success. Is there a size limit? A secret code? A limit to number of cat pics on the internet? I've resized it twice, and tried it with both the little camera icon and the picture icon (what's the difference?) Anyway, I spent way too much time on that so he's gone on his way and I'm off to go on my walk with the goats.
@KeriA Thank you. Over the last few years I've been trying to undo 50 years if perfectionism, so I was ridiculously stressing over reading every post from whatever point I was at last. 🙄
The tech part: I've found that sometimes I can't load a photo (repeated tries), but if I try a few hours later or the next day, it works. Or, at roughly the same time, it fails to upload to MFP on my laptop or phone, but will upload from my tablet (. . . and sometimes not from the tablet, but it works from one of the others). I'm tempted to think it has something to do with load/capacity, but don't know if issues with network speed from my side (timeouts) or issues on the server side.
Try at a different time, maybe from a different device. Your avatar photo of (what I assume is) your cat is adorable, so it would be fun to see the couch-anchor one. 🙂
If you mean the camera icon/picture icon inside MFP forum when you're posting, the camera inserts just a link (to the photo elsewhere on the MFP server, when it's your photo), and the landscape-y picture icon inserts an inline image (the actual photo should appear in the post itself). In theory. Because sometimes IME the inline image becomes a link (not very often). 🤷♀️
These "only sometimes" answers are not ones I like giving: I'm a retired IT person, from the software side. I'm pretty good at "black box" testing (where you try things, in order to determine how the software works under the covers). This photo-related experience hasn't been satisfying, for that Me.
Now, back to your post: Goats?!? If you can make photos work, we really could use a photo of the goats, too, I think. 🙂1 -
H there! I'm 68, a grandmother of 8. I've been married for 49 years this coming January. I've put on 20 of 50 original pounds lost since Covid lockdown. Decided I needed to do something about it. I'm depressed enough about the sad situation.I don't need to be depressed about my weight, too. So here I am. I originally lost tge 50 pounds on Medifast and kept it off till the Pandemic hit. This time I'm using Wonderslim (Diet Direct) because it's less expensive than Medifast. I look forward to joining in.
Welcome, Karen: Wishing you much success!
I think I would have trouble, personally, with something like Medifast/Wonderslim, because I really needed the extra practice managing calories with regular food/eating, in order to handle weight maintenance smoothly. But I know many people are very successful with those kinds of diet strategies, so I hope it will work great for you, again! 🙂1 -
@AnnPT77 Thanks for the tip! I'm from the time just after punch cards. I used to build and program PCs, and remember getting so excited when I could get a 20 MB hard drive. I hated Windows because I had no control like with MSdos, and now I'm at the point where I have to ask my daughter how to use my damn phone.
I'll try again tomorrow, I'm done for the night. 2 -
Hello ppl, from South East Queensland, Australia.2
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The best food plan is the one you can stick to. I eat almost exclusively at home. I don't invite guests, I don't accept invitations to eat of someone else's home and I rarely eat restaurant food. Thus I can create a meal plan that works for me. I like repetition so once I have a few good ideas, I am set.
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As requested - goats and cats (I haven't gotten the hang of resizing)We also have a variety of chickens, turkeys, and guinea fowl who wander over from next door. We live on 13 acres, mostly woods, in southern OH (or BFE). If you watched Green Acres, then you'll understand why it took me a very long time to get used to living here. As a domestic violence survivor, this wonderful man to whom I'm now married was worth every adjustment.
Jumper (rescued from the edge of a bridge) He's going to be huge, at 6 months he's already almost 9 lbs.
Bob is a case of who rescued whom.
Squeakers is so named due to the fact of her communication style.
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As requested - goats and cats (I haven't gotten the hang of resizing)We also have a variety of chickens, turkeys, and guinea fowl who wander over from next door. We live on 13 acres, mostly woods, in southern OH (or BFE). If you watched Green Acres, then you'll understand why it took me a very long time to get used to living here. As a domestic violence survivor, this wonderful man to whom I'm now married was worth every adjustment.
Jumper (rescued from the edge of a bridge) He's going to be huge, at 6 months he's already almost 9 lbs.
Bob is a case of who rescued whom.
Squeakers is so named due to the fact of her communication style.
Oh, yay, photos worked! And oh, yay, wonderful cat and goat photos! Your cats all look so plush and healthy. Probably the goats look healthy, too, but I don't know much about goats 😆 (is the front one pregnant?).1 -
Oh, yay, photos worked! And oh, yay, wonderful cat and goat photos! Your cats all look so plush and healthy. Probably the goats look healthy, too, but I don't know much about goats 😆 (is the front one pregnant?).
No, that's just the way they look. When they're pregnant their sides get round. I'm glad you liked them.
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This is a kitten, yes a KITTEN, that my husband rescued off of a bridge several months ago (he was tiny). I'm certain he's actually a wildcat that found it's way to civilization. He is only 6 months old, nearly 9 lbs, huge paws, fat/solid tail, and purrs loudly when he bites one's hand. He's afraid of one of the current cats, but is constantly fighting (maybe playing?) with the other one. I can't imagine how much larger he's going to get. Also, I am procrastinating this morning - hence the collage and fascination with this strange breed.
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Update: Here's a picture of a bobcat hybrid. Yikes!
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This is a kitten, yes a KITTEN, that my husband rescued off of a bridge several months ago (he was tiny). I'm certain he's actually a wildcat that found it's way to civilization. He is only 6 months old, nearly 9 lbs, huge paws, fat/solid tail, and purrs loudly when he bites one's hand. He's afraid of one of the current cats, but is constantly fighting (maybe playing?) with the other one. I can't imagine how much larger he's going to get. Also, I am procrastinating this morning - hence the collage and fascination with this strange breed.
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I hit my first goal - 10 lbs gone! 2
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Congrats!!! Way to go!1
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Great Job!
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I hope everyone is doing alright, doesn't look like there's been alot of conversation for awhile. Did everyone wake up from their Turkey-induced sleep?
Yesterday was my last day with the MFP challenge I've been signed up with since last fall. I'm going to try handling maintenance on my own. It is a great group to be associated with, almost as good as this group here!
Again, hope everyone is doing well and not slid into winter hibernation.
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teresadannar wrote: »I hope everyone is doing alright, doesn't look like there's been alot of conversation for awhile. Did everyone wake up from their Turkey-induced sleep?
Yesterday was my last day with the MFP challenge I've been signed up with since last fall. I'm going to try handling maintenance on my own. It is a great group to be associated with, almost as good as this group here!
Again, hope everyone is doing well and not slid into winter hibernation.
I'm still here (seemingly, I'm always still here 🤣) . . . maybe because (being vegetarian) I didn't eat Thanksgiving turkey? 😉
Instead of driving halfway across the state as I usually do to join relatives for Thanksgiving (not a great plan this year IMO), I did my first solo at-home Thanksgiving. I decided I was going to cook whatever I wanted, and eat however much of it I wanted . . . and did. (It was delicious.) Up a couple pounds next day, now down below where I was pre-Thanksgiving. 😉
It's looking like on-water rowing season is pretty much over, unless we get an rare unseasonable warm/calm day, but we're lucky it lasted as long as it did. Thanksgiving day started the annual Concept 2 Holiday Challenge, 200k on the rowing machine between then and Christmas Eve, and I've set off to see if I can complete it again. (It requires a level of consistency and persistence that are really alien to my nature, and at 65, I'm not as physically resilient as I once was, so we'll see how it works out.) 35,469 meters done, as of close of business yesterday; about to get on with today's 8k or so.
My previously-reported ultra-slow vanity pound banishment effort of the past year seems to be reaching closing chapters. I'd noticed around last October that I was pushing toward the need to buy bigger jeans . . . and I do hate to shop! As of now, I'm starting to feel like that same size is pretty loose, so I need to stop losing an maintain soon, or I'll risk the shopping thing: Don't need that *ever*, let alone in a pandemic.
Been having various interventions (YAG procedure, cataract surgery on one eye) trying to get my vision into a more functional state. One eye (the YAG one) is now really good, and the cataract one isn't going to get much better than 20/100 or thereabouts unless I have another procedure on it besides the cataract surgery. Since the totality is functioning OK now, I'm going to hold off on more interventions for the time being.
That's pretty much it, in my world. No hibernation for me, yet; but nothing of great interest happening, either.
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Finally back watching what I’m eating. Holiday season is the worst for trying to maintain. I don’t weigh myself because if I have a scale in the house I am on it at least 20 times a day. I can tell right away from my clothes that I’ve gained weight. So, happy to say I’m back!!!!
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season! COVID be damned!!!!!2 -
@trekkie123 I am right there with you with getting on the scale multiple times a day, though I am managing not to get upset no matter what the number is- I know I am on a downward trend and that is what matters. (It is interesting to see how my weight changes throughout the day.) I can't stop weighing myself completely because that is how I ended up where I am now. I can ignore the clothes not fitting
.I am pleased that although I ate whatever I wanted on Thanksgiving I got right back on track and am lower than I was a week ago! 0 -
It's so great to hear from you all!
Ann, your dedication to rowing is incredible, I'm sure you have had some on-water experiences story-telling worthy.
On the subject of calorie counting...I must admit, I've been sipping a bit too much of Bailey's, Kahlua, and Butterscotch Schnapps in my coffee and hot cocoa, although still measuring it out, 50 ml of the Irish Cream eats up the day's spare.1 -
teresadannar wrote: »It's so great to hear from you all!
Ann, your dedication to rowing is incredible, I'm sure you have had some on-water experiences story-telling worthy.
On the subject of calorie counting...I must admit, I've been sipping a bit too much of Bailey's, Kahlua, and Butterscotch Schnapps in my coffee and hot cocoa, although still measuring it out, 50 ml of the Irish Cream eats up the day's spare.
That sounds yummy, Teresa: I have to admit, I've been spending probably more than an optimal number of my discretionary calories lately on things like craft beer, too. I just try pretty hard not to stint nutrition goals to do it. Being in maintenance, and adding exercise most days, is a help with that.
On the subject of scales and bodyweight: I think it helps that I'm a pretty unemotional gal, so the scale doesn't normally freak me out at all, but it has been interesting to me to weigh daily under consistent AM conditions. It's something I've done for literally years, even before trying to lose weight. I feel like it gave me a good handle on what causes my own personal body to retain water or otherwise randomly fluctuate (such as high sodium, lots of high-fiber food in a late supper, unusual exercise/activity, etc.), and actually took some of the stress out of the situation, by making it understandable. Often, I can predict fairly closely how much weight gain - that isn't fat 😉 - will show up the morning after some unusual eating or the like.
Mostly, I pay attention to the trend over multiple weeks: Whether those random fluctuations bumpily head downhill (losing), uphill (gaining), or stay cycling in more or less the same weight region (maintaining). From experience, maintaining or very slow loss/gain can literally take months to become clear, even from the trend. (I do use a weight-trending app, Libra for Android in my case, but even it mis-predicts the longer term trend sometimes. 😆) I'm glad to have been at this calorie-counting thing for a few years now, so have confidence in the process and in what my calorie target should be for the results I'm pursuing.
Happy Wednesday, everyone!
Oh, total digression: My tiny cactus (yes, in a triceratops planter I made from a plastic kids' toy) has a tiny white bloom, and more buds coming on. So fun to see, as Winter creeps toward us, here in Michigan!
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