Starting Over (AGAIN)!

Curt0959
Curt0959 Posts: 16 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
It is ridiculous when you look at the weight I have lost and gained the past 40 years. Now at 65, I’m past the point for getting serious about losing weight again and KEEPING IT OFF!

I need to lose 50 lbs. I stared walking again 4 days ago, started tracking my food intake (Fitness Pal) again yesterday, started intermittent fasting again today and plan on doing the Keto diet as much as I can. Achieving my goals is my responsibility, but I’ll take any words of encouragement I can get. At the same time, if I can be supportive of you, let me know.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,617 Member
    Hey, if a hedonistic aging hippie flake like me can lose 50 pounds at age 59-60 (and stay at a healthy weight for 8 years since after previous decades of overweight/obesity), I'm pretty sure a responsible 65 y/o like yourself can do it too. ;)

    I think motivation is a solo sport, and sincere commitment is a vital ingredient. Add a personalized plan that strives to make the path easier and more permanent rather than aggressively faster, and I think you'll have it made.

    Being fat is not a sin we need to expiate by suffering. We just need some new, practical, ideally enjoyable (at least tolerable) changes in routine day-in, day-out eating and activity habits (daily life activity, not just official exercise). Positive results will follow.

    Best wishes: The results are worth the effort, IME.
  • Curt0959
    Curt0959 Posts: 16 Member
    Thank YOU!
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,749 Member
    For encouragement, I also lost 50+ in my mid-fifties and have kept it off for the past 10 years. Being retired meant I had the time to devote to physical activity in a way that was different when I was working. There were also a lot fewer restaurant meals, so I had much better control of what I was eating every day. Eating out can get really fattening unless you are a lot more careful than I ever was. I agree with Ann, find a way of eating and staying active that you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life so you can keep the weight off once you've lost it. I did the yoyo for most of my life. I don't want to have to lose a large amount again.
  • LeeDahlen38
    LeeDahlen38 Posts: 150 Member
    I have yet to figure out how to friend request since they changed everything. Once I figure it out Ill send you one 😎
  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    Why do you want to lose weight? To make weight loss work you have to have a powerful why (it should make you cry). Good luck
  • xbowhunter
    xbowhunter Posts: 1,309 Member
    Baby steps my friend. If you stay consistent with your calorie intake at a deficit and really want it, it will happen.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,264 Member
    edited November 20
    Well, good luck this time. Keto is a restrictive diet and hope it works for you as well as it's worked for me and the vast majority that do keto properly. Intermittent fasting is utilized a lot by people on the keto diet because generally keto dieters reduce their frequency to 2 meals a day but for people that eat 4 to 6 times a day and consume more than half their calories in carbs reducing that window can be problematic to pretty much impossible and why your going to hear IF isn't important or it doesn't do anything anyway, can't blame them I guess. :)

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