OLD and ready for change!

Hello!

I'm old too - in both age and MFP use - at 67 and nearly 8 years respectively. Now hanging around maintaining a weight loss from that first year. Looks like you and I first joined only a few months apart.

I found your thread title refreshing: I'm really tired of people saying "you're not old". In my view, I am, and as a cancer survivor and cancer widow, I think that's a really good thing (considering the only actual available alternative). It sounds like you're helping bolster the definition of "old" as being active and engaged, with goals in your sights that will be accomplished. Great stuff!

Glad to hear you're finding a course that's working for you: That's just great.

Just here to say "hi", and "welcome back" . . . and to say that getting to a healthy weight made a huge difference in my joint discomfort/pain, and I started seeing those improvements along the way, not just at the end. I used to have discomfort most of the time, and what I'd call actual pain maybe a couple of weeks a month in total, spread across the month. Nowadays, at a lighter weight and stronger, discomfort is reasonably infrequent, and actual pain quite rare. Huge quality of life improvement!

Going back to the "old" thing: I do feel younger now, in terms of quality of life, than I did even in my 40s - but it sounds like you're already more active than I was back then, so doubtless in better shape.

Wishing you great success!

Welcome! I'm also 5'1" and have about 40 lbs. to lose. I'm one week in and feeling better, already the bloating has gone down! My joint pain is constant and I'm motivated to lose the extra weight that is contributing to my pain. I was referred to an orthopedic surgeon last week for a new hip. I've decided to take this route first. I look forward to cheering you on!!

tdodge123 wrote: »

mtaratoot wrote: »

Welcome!

In addition to counting macros, you need to assure you are in a caloric deficit to lose weight. What loss rate have you set for yourself using the guided set-up? I trust it's a safe one that will work over time. It does take time. Don't give up.

I’m not sure I’m replying right? Thank you for the advice seems I am always in caloric deficit - have a few carbs left, no fat, no protein. I feel really good and really ready.

If you told MFP you want to lose weight (X pounds/kilograms per week), and you eat all of your full MFP calorie goal, you're already in a calorie deficit . . . maybe a big one, if you picked one of the faster loss rates. You don't necessarily want to eat below your calorie goal (for sustainability and health reasons), and it's not necessary to do so in order to be in a deficit (unless you set your goal at maintenance calories).

P.S. You're replying right.

😊 you’re not old.

OhioDido wrote: »

😊 you’re not old.

This almost seems to imply that there's something bad about being old, so people wouldn't want to be old?

Um what the actual heck?!? Old is pretty great, if you ask me. I know myself better, I'm more confident, I have more skills, I've learned quite a few useful things over the decades . . . it's good stuff.

I'm old. Old is good.

"Old" is not a synonym for weak, cognitively compromised, sick, incapable, disabled, or anything of the sort. Sure, some of those things can be higher risk with increasing age, but they aren't synonyms for "old". And those things aren't character faults either, anyway. Everybody's got a few challenges in their lives, seems like.

Yeah, maybe I'm not as cute to 20-somethings as I was when I was a 20-something myself, but I can't see why I'd care. I like myself fine, and that's plenty good enough. Twenty-somethings are more likely to be kind of callow, anyway.