60 yrs and up

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  • trekkie123
    trekkie123 Posts: 250 Member
    ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰congrats Pdc654. Awesome achievement!!!
  • Pdc654
    Pdc654 Posts: 317 Member
    Thanks, @trekkie123 !
  • alteredsteve175
    alteredsteve175 Posts: 2,726 Member
    Great achievement, @Pdc654. Best wishes for you as you move to maintenance.
  • Pdc654
    Pdc654 Posts: 317 Member
    edited May 2023
    Thank you @alteredsteve175 . Nice to see you posting here. I'm glad you are at least able to maintain your weight with all you have going on. I hope the cortisone injections help your wife's knees.
  • trekkie123
    trekkie123 Posts: 250 Member
    Hang in there Steve!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
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    Think I've found my people. I'm 61 and a friend was staying with me this week and she took a photo of me and . . . deary deary me. I was not happy about it.

    Anyway, May is the best month for new enterprises, so here I am.

    Welcome, @LaetitiaLouise! It's interesting that you'd mention the photo thing, because that's what triggered my dad to lose weight years back, after he retired and gained some - Christmas photos, in his case.

    The good news is that - IMO, IME - improving fitness and losing weight are both achievable at any age, and the same general tactics work across the age spectrum, with some tweaks to adjust to circumstances that are maybe more individual vs. age related.

    Please keep contributing to this thread, and if you have questions or hit some roadblocks, quite often people here - or elsewhere in the MFP Community - can help. I know we tend to feel that our age makes us special, but it's been surprising to me to see how much people with similar goals have in common, even if ages differ.

    Wishing you success!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    I see it's been a while since I've chimed in here, so maybe it's time for an update.

    First, though, how is everyone else doing? Any updates to keep this thread going as a social or tactical help to our fellow 60-somethings?

    @alteredsteve175, it's good to hear from you. You're a champ, holding the line on bodyweight with so much stress in your life for so long now. Please know that I - and I'm sure others here - are sending strength, wishing you the smoothest possible course through these difficult time. Your steadfastness is inspiring.

    Here in my life, it's finally starting to be Spring. On-water rowing season is slow to start this year - getting bouts of cold still, so the water's slow to warm up to a level I consider safe for our boats (some of which only have about 4 inches (10cm) of boat above the waterline, and are very tippy). I've had some nice bike rides out on the trails, though, and an area of Spring flooding has dropped enough to permit an additional chunk of trails to the North. (I feel safer traffic-wise biking on the trails, which start about 1.75 miles via manageable roads from my house.) Everything outdoors has greened up nicely, lots of good-smelling flowering trees and shrubs on my route.

    Even indoors at home, this guy (wax plant, Hoya carnosa) is flowering and very fragrant in the evenings - kind of a baby powder scent. (Putting photo in spoiler to save space.)
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    Besides that, there's more variety at the farmers' market now.
    Fresh local spinach and Hakurei turnips in my salad . . .
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    . . . and some delicious asparagus (broiled).
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    Yes, each of those is one serving, just for me.๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜‹
    I did get my taxes in on time, but now my state wants additional information. Best guess is that they're questioning my homestead property tax credit, for which I'm eligible some years and not others because of fluctuating income. I'm gathering a bunch of stuff to send in. It's always something, innit?

    Generally, life is good, though!


  • trekkie123
    trekkie123 Posts: 250 Member
    Best of luck Laetita!
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,797 Member
    Hi @momzilla11 we're the same age. I haven't been in this group for a long time but have been on mfp for logging, thanks for sharing. I don't meal prep but I rotate the same basic foods & try something new occasionally. I cook for me & husband & toppers for our dogs
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,797 Member
    I'm doing well after after effects of fatigue post covid. Finally having more normal energy days than less. I activated my gym membership after a long time. It has a really nice year round pool. I don't know how much I will be able to do post pinched nerve because I've learned once you have one, that part of your body gets weak & I don't want to risk another, it was very painful but I know I can go on the treadmill & swim. I still walk my dogs most every morning as I always have for about an hour. I've been maintaining at 151. My body looked more slim at that weight when I was working out a lot but like I said, I don't think I can go back to doing 3 HIIT classes a week, racquetball, stem classes, etc. We live 3 blocks away from a nice gym & I've been going for about 30 years no matter how much I weighed because I enjoy going but I'll focus on what I can do
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    Welcome, @cocobop764. I'm glad to hear that you're getting early positive results from your new healthier habits!
  • Pdc654
    Pdc654 Posts: 317 Member
    Welcome to all the new people! You'll find this a very supportive thread. In fact the entire MFP community has been instrumental in helping me throughout my weight loss. Continue to read and participate. There is so much good information and advice on this board.
  • gigglybear93
    gigglybear93 Posts: 2 Member
    Hi @barbarabunch Yes I've dealt with fatigue issues since age 40 when it really started to effect me. I played sports and pushed myself when working out before and went to only being able to walk 10 minutes a day to start and worked up as my body allowed. But even now if I push too hard I'm down for a few days. I've really learned to listen to my body over the last 20 yrs for sure. Hang in there be proud of yourself for every small step you take! I try to remember it's not what I can't do, but what I can๐Ÿ˜Š
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 400 Member
    edited May 2023
    Iโ€™ve determined, with the exception of this thread (hopefully?), that whenever I find a post that interests me enough to join in the conversation, my comment becomes the death of that thread and no more comments happen. Either my comments are so stunningly excellent that everyone else is speechless and unable to top them :D , or so mundane, boring and off the wall that it ruins the whole thread and people remove it from their bookmarks :D , or by the time I find it the post is outdated, old news and not a hot topic any more so no one reads it. Iโ€™ll vote for the first choice, hahahahahaha. :D:D:D
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 400 Member
    edited May 2023
    Just picking on myself this morning. If you can laugh at yourself, life is more enjoyable. Hope everyone is doing well today! The tiniest moment of real sunshine decided to make a brief appearance through all the black rainclouds so I got the chance to soak up a few micrograms of Vitamin D. :)
  • MaggieGirl135
    MaggieGirl135 Posts: 1,033 Member
    @SbetaK I thought that I was the death of threads! Iโ€™ve thought that it is due to the age of the thread because then it wouldnโ€™t be due to me. Sorry, everyone, for ending this thread.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    @SbetaK, @MaggieGirl135: This thread didn't end, so it wasn't you. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Š
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    edited May 2023
    SbetaK wrote: ยป
    Iโ€™ve determined, with the exception of this thread (hopefully?), that whenever I find a post that interests me enough to join in the conversation, my comment becomes the death of that thread and no more comments happen. Either my comments are so stunningly excellent that everyone else is speechless and unable to top them :D , or so mundane, boring and off the wall that it ruins the whole thread and people remove it from their bookmarks :D , or by the time I find it the post is outdated, old news and not a hot topic any more so no one reads it. Iโ€™ll vote for the first choice, hahahahahaha. :D:D:D

    I am part way through catching up, but this post stopped me in my tracks with a hearty lol moment! I have certainly felt like I was a harbinger of the end times myself here and there - I'm convinced it's the first choice ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿคฃ- back later once I'm caught up!
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    Hey all you golden oldies! Seems I have been absent for awhile, *#@! stuff happens I guess ๐Ÿ˜‰.

    I was in theme park heaven for a week recently (Disneyland, California Adventure park, Universal Studios) with my daughter, son, daughter-in-law, my 2 grandkids, DIL'S good friend + her child...quite the group to be herded around - I will confess my daughter and I ditched them, here and there...
    Got back from my trip and collapsed Thursday, then busy day yesterday and today looking after grandkids and getting caught up on watering, mail, etc.
    Weight was up 8 lbs the first morning after flight home, but as I expected it has come down since then, at least 6 lbs has - still hoping the other 2 will follow tout suite!

    Now I am out at my daughter's to pick up my cat + stay for a few days to look after hers as she left for a conference yesterday.

    Really nice weather we are having - low to mid 20s (mid 70s F) and loving having tea out on my deck - I was having a nice cold Coke Zero out on her deck when I startedreading this thread lol. Loving life โค๏ธ hopefully that translates into food satisfaction & weightloss. Cheers ๐Ÿ˜Š
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,767 Member
    @Pdc654 - wowee!! Yippee!! You are SUCH an inspiration, so happy for you ๐Ÿ’— ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŽ† ๐Ÿ’•

    And love your next set of goals, very laudable but so perfectly sensible ๐Ÿฅฐ
  • Pdc654
    Pdc654 Posts: 317 Member
    Thank you @BCLadybug888!

    I am actually looking forward to my next doctor appointment in July. Hoping the results will let me drop some of my meds. However, I'm well aware it's not just lifestyle and that there is a genetic component. Especially, for me, I may not be able to get off blood pressure meds
    totally. My mom had to start taking BP medication in her 40s. She was not overweight and walked 3 or 4 miles daily, but I'm doing my best to eliminate the lifestyle factors related to high blood pressure.