60 yrs and up

@Colyan38 welcome! Not from UK, but all are welcome. I’m from Colorado, SW of Denver, in the foothills. Can you call just shy of 8,000’ the foothills, lol?

I had kind of an NSV on my walk yesterday. The toe of my shoe caught in a crack in the sidewalk and down I went landing on my hands. No serious damage, I scraped up my hands pretty good. Nothing broken. Here comes the NSV.....I hopped right up without any problem. Didn't need anything to hold on to. A few months ago I would never have been able to get up like that. If I was down on the floor I needed the support of a piece of furniture to get up.

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I had kind of an NSV on my walk yesterday. The toe of my shoe caught in a crack in the sidewalk and down I went landing on my hands. No serious damage, I scraped up my hands pretty good. Nothing broken. Here comes the NSV.....I hopped right up without any problem. Didn't need anything to hold on to. A few months ago I would never have been able to get up like that. If I was down on the floor I needed the support of a piece of furniture to get up.

I actually had something similar happen to me at work. I do dialysis on patients. I was doing it in their hospital room. We have hoses that we have to connect to a water supply. Sometimes they are across the room to the bathroom faucet. I tripped over a hose, fell on the knee I had the Tibial plateau fracture in 2015. I too hopped right up. When you don't have all that additional weight to push up it makes a world of a difference!

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@swimmom_1 yes, it is amazing what your body can do without the extra weight. Being more active than I used to be helps, too. I just feel so much better in general than I did a year ago.

Me too! I can't believe I put up with that weight for 7 years after I lost it before. I'm in a better place psychologically and think I'm going to be better at controlling my cravings for certain foods/snacks.

Hi everyone! I'm also looking for a group facing the same weight/health/age challenges. Please add me as a friend, and welcome me to the group?

I've been on WW numerous times, last year I joined again online and lost 60 pounds, and then they changed the program, and I lost my motivation and started gaining weight back. Since spending $22 a month was getting ridiculous for a program I wasn't using, I came back here. I think the key to staying with any kind of program is finding like-minded people who can cheer you on and you can cheer on in your turn.

As a trainer who's almost 60, I can attest you can get into shape at any age if the approach is smart and reasonable. I have a couple of clients who work out with me over late 50's and one of them can squat 275lbs with great form. I started training him in his early 50's though. Right now, in the best shape of his life ever.
Also have another who is pretty fit, although there are some flexibility issues that I have to work around to try to have her be completely fit.
You have to have a program that fits your current fitness level and progress from there. That's why assessments are important and not just a way where gyms try to get you to get personal training. I have about 50 clients right now and the majority of them thought they didn't need help. But with their improvement comes confidence and keeping them safe from any exercises that they shouldn't be doing.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Hey pals, sorry for being largely absent lately; I am struggling with my appetite, food choices and calories, but I am logging everything and not giving up!! I switched my target to maintenance per advice on these boards and I think it is helping to take the pressure off.
I couldn't really be up 5 lbs...but that's what the 😈 ⚖️ was showing this morning at my daughter's...back home tonight. Sheesh.

Welcome newbies!

I'm feeling happy today. I'm down 14 lbs. I have 15 more to go to get to goal. We are going on vacation Friday. I hope I can just not gain wait on vacation.

Hi All,
I am a 67 year old male. I joined MFP in 2014 at 205 lbs (recorded as 202 lbs because I didn't know my scale was off by 3 lbs) and, after about a year or so of gradual weight loss, I reached my goal weight of 165 lbs. Some months after that, perhaps it was a year, I stopped using MFP, thinking I could keep the weight off with the knowledge gained from MFP. That worked out for a while, but now, here I am again and this time, when I weighed in the day before yesterday, I was at 208 lbs. I feel I owe most of the success I had the first time around to my weight loss friends here on MFP so I am looking for some new weight loss friends. This time around, if I ever do reach my goal weight, I plan on sticking with MFP.