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Welcome Deb. I totally understand the need to finally take care of yourself. I have recently retired as the founder and executive director of a bereavement center for children and their families who have lost a loved one. Time to focus on us! Good luck in your weight loss journey and rediscovering yourself.8
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Good to see the carers caring for yourselves.6
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Hi everyone, just checking in as I haven’t been on this thread in a while. Here’s to us all having a super productive week with gains in health and losses in weight.
Special hugs to Steve and Kathy. Xo8 -
Hello all, thought maybe this time if I used more of the tools, like joining a group for people my age who are also trying to do battle with the bulge, that I might be more accountable and successful. My name is Maggie and I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you.
Hi Maggie,
I just joined the group recently myself. Welcome!
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Drive-by check in. My wife is making progress - back pain is lessening. She should be home by next week. That will improve her mood, I hope. Then we can start the second phase of this journey.
Good to see all of you working on your goals. Reminds me to stay on track, too.16 -
alteredsteve175 wrote: »Drive-by check in. My wife is making progress - back pain is lessening. She should be home by next week. That will improve her mood, I hope. Then we can start the second phase of this journey.
Good to see all of you working on your goals. Reminds me to stay on track, too.
That's really good news, Steve. Keeping hope that she may achieve a real remission, but even the reduced pain and good days are a wonderful thing - not that you need someone to tell you that!
Continuing to think of you both, send positive wishes.3 -
🙏great news Steve!1
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Hi everyone
I feel as if my metabolism has slowed so much it is just about in reverse!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️is it even possible for my metabolism to slow down? Can I kick start it?? A good dose of fasting or a dose of something even!!!🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️
Nice to see the blogs, inspiring
Nice news Steve. 🤗🤗
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Just now getting set up, tho it seems I joined back in 2017 and then got lost somewhere! LOL I have 2 friends who just settled in here, still need to find Ronda.
I am 68, having a rough ride at the moment but still seated and want to finish well.
I have Diabetes, Type 2, heart disease, CKD stage 3...and just want to make the most of the years I have left to me.
I still work full time and hope to continue 2 years but that's a God thing....I hope I'll know when it's time to go. I've been there 22.5 years now.
Wishing you all a blessed and joyful day....
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76 and finding it harder but hopeful. We can do it.6
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sparrow152 wrote: »76 and finding it harder but hopeful. We can do it.
I'm 71 and just getting back with it. I have about 80 pounds to lose. It is harder as we get older. The weight doesn't come off as fast and we tend to have more issues to deal with. But I am determined to get these pounds off of my poor knee joints. I wish you lots of success in your journey.5 -
Steve-good to hear positive news of your wife, and that her pain has diminished. Being back in your own home will help so much with the stress of all this. Sending daily hugs.
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alteredsteve175 wrote: »Drive-by check in. My wife is making progress - back pain is lessening. She should be home by next week. That will improve her mood, I hope. Then we can start the second phase of this journey.
Good to see all of you working on your goals. Reminds me to stay on track, too.
Good to hear Steve!
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So great to be seeing so many new over-60 participants here lately. I'm always paranoid when I mention this that I'll overlook someone new (apologies if so!), but lately I've noticed @dejavuohlala, @mh1960/Maggie, @DitzyDeb1, @bren5535, @sparrow152. Glad you - and any other new folks - are here: Hoping to hear continuing progress reports!
In my world, recent fun is helping out with my club's learn to row class. Photo is me (in orange) stabilizing my double shell (my oar blades flat on water as stabilizers) so that a new learner can practice and improve her rowing skills. (I edited the photo to hide her face because I don't have her permission to do otherwise). I just love helping introduce new people to rowing, especially when they're in our age group, and trying it out for the first time. (The woman in the photo is younger, 30s/40s probably, but some in the class are around our age. Hope I'll get to row with some of them later in the month.)
On the more irritating front, though small potatoes, an eye surgery I was supposed to have this week (pars plana vitrectomy) got deferred because of the doctor's schedule, so I'm back in wait mode to hope for better vision in my left eye (currently 20/150!). I'll have to take at least a week off regular activity (like rowing) after the surgery, which is a major drag especially during on-water rowing season, but at this point I'm impatient to get the surgery out of the way, see if it helps.6 -
Tuppence26 wrote: »Hi everyone
I feel as if my metabolism has slowed so much it is just about in reverse!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️is it even possible for my metabolism to slow down? Can I kick start it?? A good dose of fasting or a dose of something even!!!🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️
Nice to see the blogs, inspiring
Nice news Steve. 🤗🤗
It's true that the average person's basal or resting metabolic rate (BMR/RMR) will be a little lower with increasing years, and also true that there's a bit we can do about it, though I don't think it's realistic to expect speedy giant impacts. (Regular exercise including reasonable doses of intensity can improve mitochondria, for example, and help RMR/BMR; also, we can do strength exercise to keep muscle-mass higher, which has a small positive impact on BMR/RMR but - I suspect - more importantly makes it easier and more fun to be more active, so we're more likely to do it, even in subconscious ways.)
Bigger factors are (1) the impact of exercise itself on calorie burn, and (2) things we can do to increase daily life activity (NEAT). In case you haven't seen it before, this thread has some ideas about increasing daily life activity:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10610953/neat-improvement-strategies-to-improve-weight-loss/p1
Fasting: I haven't seen anything that makes me think that would have a big impact on calorie burn, either through BMR/RMR, or other mechanisms. It's super trendy, though. 🤷♀️ I'm sure others will report different experiences.
It's tempting to think that some short term strategy (like fasting) can make a quick difference, but I think that there's more realistically a gradual return on patiently investing in longer-term strategies, like strength training, improving cardiovascular fitness, creating a bias toward more movement in daily life, eating more simple foods (which take more energy to digest and metabolize, i.e. TEF (thermic efficiency of food) and that sort of thing.
As always when I'm typing: Just my opinions/experience, others may differ.2 -
In my world, recent fun is helping out with my club's learn to row class. Photo is me (in orange) stabilizing my double shell (my oar blades flat on water as stabilizers) so that a new learner can practice and improve her rowing skills. (I edited the photo to hide her face because I don't have her permission to do otherwise). I just love helping introduce new people to rowing, especially when they're in our age group, and trying it out for the first time. (The woman in the photo is younger, 30s/40s probably, but some in the class are around our age. Hope I'll get to row with some of them later in the month.)
I think I'd like to learn to row. But it's not a sport that is practiced much here in the desert. Ah well.
Best of luck with the surgery when it happens.
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It's true that the average person's basal or resting metabolic rate (BMR/RMR) will be a little lower with increasing years, and also true that there's a bit we can do about it, though I don't think it's realistic to expect speedy giant impacts. (Regular exercise including reasonable doses of intensity can improve mitochondria, for example, and help RMR/BMR; also, we can do strength exercise to keep muscle-mass higher, which has a small positive impact on BMR/RMR but - I suspect - more importantly makes it easier and more fun to be more active, so we're more likely to do it, even in subconscious ways.)
Bigger factors are (1) the impact of exercise itself on calorie burn, and (2) things we can do to increase daily life activity (NEAT). In case you haven't seen it before, this thread has some ideas about increasing daily life activity:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10610953/neat-improvement-strategies-to-improve-weight-loss/p1
Awesome discussion of NEAT!
I used to look for ways to make fewer trips, like "the lazy man's load" - carry EVERYTHING in ONE trip. I'm not down to only carrying one item at a time, but now I laugh a little when I have to make extra trips around the yard or up the stairs. 😄1 -
Hi Trekkie123. Thanks for the welcome. The hospice I retired from runs a free bereavement camp for kids every summer. It’s really fun to help these kids who have lost parents, grandparents, siblings, pets, etc. We teach them coping skills and also help them understand it is OK to laugh and have fun in spite of their loss. It’s interesting that we are retired from similar backgrounds. Good luck on your weight loss journey.
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Happy Thursday Peeps! Settling back in after 6 week road trip to visit the grandkids. Diet and steps weren’t the best. Miss the grandkids, but food and steps edging back to “normalcy”. Need to introduce some strength training into the regimen, but won’t going to the gym til active cases/R-naught goes down a bit. Our state’s path to herd immunity is thru remaining unvaxxed people getting the Covid. Too many anti vaxxers in this state. Anyways, lifting grand babies put a kink in the shoulder. Went back the chiropractor (first time since pandemic). I think she enjoyed adjusting me a bit too much! She’d go, “listen to this!” Then… crack. I’m like, “Hey! That’s me making that noise…” Just got back from Costco. Again, first visit since start of pandemic (getting new glasses). They have Costco Snacks! God is Good! Hope you-all are having a good day! 👍😎👍7
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So great to be seeing so many new over-60 participants here lately. I'm always paranoid when I mention this that I'll overlook someone new (apologies if so!), but lately I've noticed @dejavuohlala, @mh1960/Maggie, @DitzyDeb1, @bren5535, @sparrow152. Glad you - and any other new folks - are here: Hoping to hear continuing progress reports!
In my world, recent fun is helping out with my club's learn to row class. Photo is me (in orange) stabilizing my double shell (my oar blades flat on water as stabilizers) so that a new learner can practice and improve her rowing skills. (I edited the photo to hide her face because I don't have her permission to do otherwise). I just love helping introduce new people to rowing, especially when they're in our age group, and trying it out for the first time. (The woman in the photo is younger, 30s/40s probably, but some in the class are around our age. Hope I'll get to row with some of them later in the month.)
On the more irritating front, though small potatoes, an eye surgery I was supposed to have this week (pars plana vitrectomy) got deferred because of the doctor's schedule, so I'm back in wait mode to hope for better vision in my left eye (currently 20/150!). I'll have to take at least a week off regular activity (like rowing) after the surgery, which is a major drag especially during on-water rowing season, but at this point I'm impatient to get the surgery out of the way, see if it helps.
Hope the eye surgery is successful. Awesome pix! Not something I’d think I’d want to do, but cool that you do it!
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