60 yrs and up

swimmom_1 wrote: »

@AnnPT77
I think having 66 days for you to celebrate sounds Great! Means I would have 65 coming up in April!

Exactly: Start planning now! 😉

I thought this group would like this theory. 🤣

Love your birthday idea, @AnnPT77. I have some catching up to do! Haha! 😁

@swimmom_1 - Congrats on the whoosh. That always brightens the day a bit.

Just back from a 4 mile walk with Daisy. Overcast w/ temps in the 60's in SW Idaho. I'm going to enjoy this unseasonably warm weather while it lasts.

I definitely like the birthday idea. I'd get 62 days!🍷🍻

We had a little snow this past week but nothing is sticking so far. It did nudge me to buy my x-country ski (Nordic) ski pass for the winter though. There isn't usually enough snow to set the tracks till mid-December so this time of year is kind of blah for me. It's dark. It's wet. Too miserable to paddle the kayak or dragon boat. Not enough snow to ski or snow shoe. Usually I take spin classes in the Fall but due to COVID they were shut down in 2020. And then the owner decided to sell all the bikes and re-purpose the space. They were the only spin classes in town so that kind of sucks but what can you do? So I walk with friends, hike with the dogs, do some yoga, and do some weights. I used to go to deep water running classes but haven't returned since COVID, but I'm thinking that's a good option because right now I'm lacking cardio in my fitness routine. I need to have purpose for my work outs so basically my year looks like this: In the spring I work out to prepare for paddling, then in the Fall I work out to prepare for skiing. And I hike and snowshoe for my dogs 🙂

Hi all! Been using myfitnesspal on and off maybe six years. I'm 63 years young, need to drop 30 lbs and it's just not coming off. Tried Keto, intermittent fasting, extended fasting, paleo. Hired a personal trainer and lift heavy three times a week. Can't get my nutrition right where this weight will come off. Help???

alteredsteve175 wrote: »

catsch1958 wrote: »

Hi all! Been using myfitnesspal on and off maybe six years. I'm 63 years young, need to drop 30 lbs and it's just not coming off. Tried Keto, intermittent fasting, extended fasting, paleo. Hired a personal trainer and lift heavy three times a week. Can't get my nutrition right where this weight will come off. Help???

Welcome to the group, @catsch1958.

Are you logging all your food? Using a scale to ensure accuracy?

I've tried different eating schedules and food plans, but none of that is really important for me. I can lose weight when I'm burning more calories than I'm eating.

Welcome catsch1958,

What Steve said is gospel. You can exercise til the cows come home but at the end of the day if calories in are more than calories out you are not gonna lose. You have to accurately count calories and hold your self accountable. You got this!

@richum1960
Which lake?

Hi everyone. I'm back. I introduced myself awhile back and then forgot about this board, so this time I've bookmarked it so I remember. Is that a sign of aging? LOL

I have about 25ish pounds to lose. Just like catsch, I've done various different eating programs; Whole30, keto, fasting, etc., but I've not found any of them sustainable for me.

I'm hypothyroid and also have SVT (tachycardia) which I take a drug for. I've been on MFP since 2013 and it's interesting to look at my weight graph. In 2018 when I was diagnosed, the graph went up on a steep diagonal and within 3 months I had gained 10 pounds. My doctor and cardiologist both acknowledge the fact that it causes weight gain. So, my cardio said I could try cutting back. I thought he said 25% which I did for a couple of weeks and the weight starting coming back down. Turns out I was only supposed to drop it back by half of that and it seems that the weight has stabilized again. I'm reluctant to change drugs because it is very effective at keeping the SVT in check.

I know that I don't get enough exercise and I don't drink enough water. I do like to walk. Usually 2 or 3 times a week, a couple of miles at a time. Do yoga once a week (should be more) and have hand weights but don't use them. I have a treadmill (which I'm not in love with, but it's better than nothing when the weather is not co-operating).

The latest program for me was a modified keto where I had altered my macros in MFP to highter protein and fat with much lower carbs. I've since set everything back to almost default, using their calorie count of 1290. The only thing I've tweaked is to lower the carbs by 10% and up the fat by 10% because I do function better on lower carbs.

That's my story. Looking forward to getting to know everyone.

catsch1958 wrote: »

Hi all! Been using myfitnesspal on and off maybe six years. I'm 63 years young, need to drop 30 lbs and it's just not coming off. Tried Keto, intermittent fasting, extended fasting, paleo. Hired a personal trainer and lift heavy three times a week. Can't get my nutrition right where this weight will come off. Help???

Belated welcome!

(Apologies in advance for what has turned into a freakin' long essay!)

I'm another in the "calories are key" camp, with a nod to an opinion I think I maybe mentioned up-thread, that personalizing one's strategies and tactics is a major success factor. Each of us has different preferences, strengths, and limitations; figuring out how to work with those is useful.

Further, I think those in our age group have a secret advantage, if we recognize and take advantage of it: We probably know ourselves pretty well by now, and we've practiced maximizing our preferences, exploiting our strengths, and working around our limitations to accomplish other life goals that involve patient work over long time periods, such as education, career, raising a family, home-making, etc.

For those reasons - for myself at least - I'm not a fan of popular named diets. We're unique individuals, and those diets are cookie cutters, and some are even gimmicks, IMO (designed to obfuscate what's simple in order to generate profit for someone(s) via book sales, for-pay training programs, etc.).

I'm not making an argument that this would work best for all (because personalization! 😉), but what worked for me was to start from what I was already eating and enjoying, start logging, get a calorie goal, and gradually tweak my eating in more positive directions. Longer term, the goal was to balance tastiness, nutrition, satiation, practicality, and more, within my calorie goal . . . but I didn't need to do all of that at once. (Humans are adaptive omnivores: If not starting with a major diagnosed deficiency, eating improvements need not be instant, can take a few weeks or months to accomplish, and that can help make them sustainable.)

This describes that kind of "gradually remodel your eating" approach that worked for me, in more detail (with some mistakes and false starts left out 😉):

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

Just the logging helped lots, for me: I found very quickly that there were things I was routinely eating that were "expensive" in calorie terms, but weren't subjectively all that important to me for happiness, nutrition, or satiation. You may not find that, since you've been on MFP for a while, but it was eye-opening for a then-newbie like me.

Others on MFP do succeed primarily by manipulating the calorie balance equation mostly/entirely on the exercise front, but similar to comments by others above, that didn't work for me. In my case, I'd proven it to myself by becoming very active in my mid-40s, but staying near the class 1 obese line (little over/under) for well over a decade . . . this was training 6 days most weeks in a short-endurance sport (rowing), even competing in races (not always unsuccessfully, in age-group terms). I lost some fat and gained some muscle (over yeeeaaaarssss) to the point of dropping a couple of pants sizes, but my weight stayed fairly constant: It was super easy to eat those few hundred extra daily calories from exercise, when I wasn't counting them. (Guilty admission: I wouldn't even have done all that "exercise" if it hadn't been super fun, so fun that I would've done it even if it hadn't been good for me. I'm a weak character, when it come to discipline/motivation. Gaming my weaknesses, that can work. 😉)

Since I'm shamelessly promoting threads here, another thing I'd mention is that daily life habits (other than exercise) can be surprisingly meaningful. There's research suggesting that fidgety people can burn a couple of hundred extra calories daily, compared to otherwise similar non-fidgety ones. I'm not encouraging fidgeting as a lifestyle necessarily, just using that as an example of small changes adding up. I don't know about you, but as I've aged, it's been easy to gradually adopt less movement-oriented habits, without even noticing. That's a thing that can be countered, too, essentially creating a bias toward movement in daily life. This is a thread where people shared ideas about that:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10610953/neat-improvement-strategies-to-improve-weight-loss/p1

TL;DR: My advice would be to eat in a way you enjoy/sustain at proper calories, find fun exercise, and create a bias toward moving more in daily life. Personalize!

Best wishes!

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dwaters1962 wrote: »

@annliz23
HI

Hi how are you doing?