60 yrs and up

Greetings, all you seasoned citizens. Haven't posted here in a while. Life is still chaotic. My wife's cancer remains dormant, but she is not doing anything to improve her general physical condition. It's very frustrating, but watching her slowly deteriorate has made be very aware of the need to keep moving and active, regardless of your limitations.

I also have a sister who has some serious health problems. She is in intensive care right now while they try to sort out her issues. And I'm 3000 miles away and can't do anything except wait for news.

I have been diligently logging food and trying to eat well. I am down about 3.5 lbs. in the last 30 days with minimal exercise. Saw 199.3 on the scale this morning - haven't been in Onederland for awhile. Have started walking again the last few days as well. That is the one bright spot in my life, and I am going to keep it up.

Good to see all you keeping up your efforts to improve your health. The community here is a great source of inspiration.

Welcome Mere! Feel free to post your goals or struggles and we can try to help.

I am home (yesterday) from my cruise & extra days in Maui - but unfortunately my daughter and I both came down with Covid after getting off the ship. We still toured around Maui in our rental car as that was in isolation anyway and just didn't go in anywhere. My worst symptoms were an incredibly sore throat (like Strep) and my ears plugged up for a couple days. My daughter had the killer sore throat too - so painful to swallow!

Fortunately we had enough days between symptom onset and return date for the 5 day quarantine period, and were on the mend by then, that we were ok for flying home. Came home on a red eye flight and had a great sleep in my own bed so that's a plus too.

Still congested and headache but happily my weight is only up 2-3 lbs so hoping I can take that off easily. Cancelled our family dinner for this weekend, not sure when I will cook my turkey now! Glad to be home and thoroughly enjoyed the cruise. Aloha!

Old Texas Airborne soldier here...doctors and wife have said I've gotta drop some pounds and log everything that goes in my mouth. Bad knees & feet will welcome any loss I achieve; overweight, diabetic, high BP, high triglycerides, ptsd but kicked cancer's butt 3 times so far but it killed my thyroid's functionality.

Yesterday I turned 70 years old. Today I feel so much better and can do so much more than I could a year ago. In the last 15 months I have lost over 90 lbs and have so much more energy. I know it's been said many times before but never let age hold you back from doing the things you want to do. You can lose weight. You can take up new activities. You can increase your fitness. When you put your mind to it and stay consistent in working toward your goals it can be done. I have about 15 or 20 more pounds to lose but I know if I keep doing what I'm doing I'll get there. And with the tools I've learned here and help from this community, maintain my loss and continue to improve my health and quality of life.