60 yrs and up

springlering62 wrote: »

BCLadybug888 wrote: »

I am absolutely thrilled to announce, as of today's weigh-in, I am down 75 lbs since joining MFP August 2021!!! 🎆
I lost almost 50 in the first year, but then spent 18 months up & down, slowly losing ground...😐
But in 2024 I was the comeback kid 😃 and now I am on 🔥 for 2025! 🤩

That’s wonderful!

I always picture what certain weights would be as a shopping cart full of roasts, bags of potatoes, or a giant bag of dogfood etc.

You’ve offloaded a whoooole lot of merchandise there! 😅

I did that at 50 lbs...put 5 bags of potatoes into a cart! Could not imagine 'carting' that around 24/7 haha!

I now think in 5 gallon water jugs (the kind that sit on water coolers) - 84 lbs will be jug#2!

Thanks everyone for the congrats 😊 🥰, and know I am pressing on.

@springlering62
Oh dear! How awful re xanthan.

I love serrated grapefruit spoons so much I bought a set for my daughter's house 😄 - they're great for hulling strawberries too.

@springlering62

Do you have any friends who are gluten intolerant and like to bake? Xanthan gum can work as a binder for gluten-free baked goods. It's also allegedly a good thickener for vegans. I can totally see a local pizza shop use it to add to both the crust AND the sauce for vegan and gluten-free pizza. The bonus is more REAL pizza for the rest of us.

Beware; some grapefruit spoons are built better than others. I have one very good one and have given away an awful lot of them that don't work very well.

Hi! I'm also 63. Please add me to the list to support and motivate each other on our weight loss journey. I've been a member of MyFitnessPal for a few years (on and off). Every time I have reached my weight goal, I stopped using the app, thinking I know how to eat healthy and don't need to track my food...BIG MISTAK- I've gained the weight back every time! This time I know once I hit my weight goal (15 pounds to lose) I need to continue to use app. It's easy to think I know how to eat healthy and even easier to underestimate the calories and portions I'm eating. All the motivation and support here will be so much appreciated.
We are in this together!

CathyOleary wrote: »

Hi! I'm also 63. Please add me to the list to support and motivate each other on our weight loss journey. I've been a member of MyFitnessPal for a few years (on and off). Every time I have reached my weight goal, I stopped using the app, thinking I know how to eat healthy and don't need to track my food...BIG MISTAK- I've gained the weight back every time! This time I know once I hit my weight goal (15 pounds to lose) I need to continue to use app. It's easy to think I know how to eat healthy and even easier to underestimate the calories and portions I'm eating. All the motivation and support here will be so much appreciated.
We are in this together!

Hi, Cathy, and welcome to the thread: You just added yourself to the list, because all you need to do to participate in this is post on the thread, which you've done.

Come back here anytime and post whatever you like: Updates, questions, challenges, ideas.

Wishing you success with your goals!

I lost 4 lbs for my first week of BodySlims round 2, surprised (and delighted 😉) it was that much as I was still using the program principles since last round ended (Dec 4). I am on 🔥!

That is very cool to see in the pictures! In person, I am sure it was phenomenal!

springlering62 wrote: »

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Wonder how many calories this burns?

For you, or for that utterly adorable tabby housemate you have? 😻

Since I know there are a couple of plant people here, I hope you'll indulge me. I have several air plants of different species/varieties. One is Tillandsia ionantha 'Mexico', a small cluster of plantlets that looks like an angry knot. As mine grew, it broke in two, and quite a few months back, one of the tiny plantlets separated from the herd. I decided to see if it would live. So far, so good. I have to admit, it's so tiny that I'm afraid I'll lose (misplace) it!

This is the whole group. Normally they live in small dishes on my kitchen windowsill, though the tiny one sits on a shell. This arrangement is just for their portrait, with a US dime for scale.

Good Day Everyone,
I'm back after being gone for a few years. In the past, I've used this site for weight loss. It has worked, but now at 60 I'm dealing with what so many of us deal with, chronic pain. My goal is to track my food and learn what my pain triggers are. I know that some of them are processed foods and meats, potatoes, dairy, sugar, soy, and if I eat rice and fruit within 12 hours of each other, I'm going to pay for it. I think wheat and maybe even grass-fed meats may be culprits, but I'm not sure. I just know when I eat the wrong foods, trying to lay on my bed a night, the pain is excruciating in my back, hips, groin, and down into my legs. Can anyone else relate?
I am proactive in my treatment. My husband and I see a chiropractor on a regular basis. She does a lot of cupping and gentle work. We're set up for our first acupuncture visits next week. I have a home vegetable garden or buy from the farmer's markets, and I use a homeopathic doctor for guidance. I'm starting her food elimination program today for the month of February to help me learn my triggers.
I guess my question for you folks would be, I'm looking for a good app to track everything. I thought about getting an iPhone, but I not sure. If anyone else is in the same situation as me, what have you used? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Here's a picture of a current harvest.
Have a great day,
Julie

jusa1011 wrote: »

I guess my question for you folks would be, I'm looking for a good app to track everything. I thought about getting an iPhone, but I not sure. If anyone else is in the same situation as me, what have you used? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I think My Fitnesspal is a good tool to track everything. Since you've used it in the past, you already know how it works.

Good luck with the elimination diet. That would be a huge challenge for me, but it might really help you figure out what foods are fine and what foods cause trouble. Your situation sounds more challenging because you know you have foods that you can eat just fine by themselves but that when combined cause problems. That could add a lot of time and effort. If it works though, it will be worth it.

While MFP is a great tool for tracking what you eat, and you can even make notes about the day to find out what days you do and don't have pain. I don't think it creates a searchable database though. For that perhaps you can build a spreadsheet to not only track what you eat and when you eat it, but how you feel in an hour, six hours, and maybe 24 hours later. You could even use some kind of scale (like zero to nine) to assess the amount of pain, if any, you have. You can then sort all the data according to any of the parameters. You could sort by the pain amount and all the things that you ate on days that you had high pain would flow to the top. A second level sort could also sort by the name of the food so you can see how many times eating it ended up with pain. You can also reverse sort or just look at the bottom to see what doesn't cause pain. If you have foods that sometimes cause pain and sometimes not... then you need to reassess what is really going on.

BCLadybug888 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Since I know there are a couple of plant people here, I hope you'll indulge me. I have several air plants of different species/varieties. One is Tillandsia ionantha 'Mexico', a small cluster of plantlets that looks like an angry knot. As mine grew, it broke in two, and quite a few months back, one of the tiny plantlets separated from the herd. I decided to see if it would live. So far, so good. I have to admit, it's so tiny that I'm afraid I'll lose (misplace) it!

This is the whole group. Normally they live in small dishes on my kitchen windowsill, though the tiny one sits on a shell. This arrangement is just for their portrait, with a US dime for scale.

My goodness, the tiny plant let is a mere speck, you do well to keep track of it! Do you think they naturally propagate by breaking off and blowing in the wind?

Tillandsia are bromeliads. They do propagate by budding off new plants, but probably aren't blown by wind. They likely are designed to just fall and ideally land somewhere that they can grow.

They also produce flowers and can reproduce by seed. When the plant flowers, it's nearing the end of its life. Sometimes the flowers are showy. I have only one left; the rest have all died. I have had some buds that I couldn't keep alive. I might get myself another one or two as the one I have has been kicking along for maybe ten years. Neat plants. Spanish Moss is a Tillandsia.

I had one that flowered and stayed alive for years. I am wondering if the one I have left flowered. Probably not.

They are fun for sure.

I keep propagating staghorn ferns too. Bad habits I have.

mtaratoot wrote: »

I had one that flowered and stayed alive for years. I am wondering if the one I have left flowered. Probably not.

They are fun for sure.

I keep propagating staghorn ferns too. Bad habits I have.

Love Staghorn ferns, too bad I don't live closer and could take one off your hands 😇. I too have a lot of houseplants, at least 25 - every window on the main floor is lined with them - only one is a duplicate offspring, Chinese Money plant. But some are different varieties, like dark green + variegated Rubber plant, 2 African Violets with different coloured flowers, green and purple Shamrock...

Prelogged my day. I’m already a “Goal Getter after my first exercise of the day, with recommendations to improve.


Recommended? Get more protein. It already shows 170 logged.

Yep, it’s beta. 😂

There’s a large pay parking lot between the house and the Square. The HAD and I walk past it every morning on our way to the Square. He’s a looong dog and it takes a while for stuff to work its way to the other end of him.

Every morning there’s a clutch of about seven young women who park there and walk together to the huge salon nearby. I catch snatches of conversation.

“Need to lose weight”. “Cant wait to be paid”. “Always broke”. “Cant seem to lose a pound”.

I look at these gals, fashionably dressed with their requisite IG hats, obvs expensive spray makeup layers, dressed to the nines, clutching their XXL Starbucks frappes, heaped with whipped cream, every single morning and think “ah, youth.” So far I’ve resisted the urge to insert myself.

To be fair, the salon is owned by an “Influemcer”
who just built a multimillion dollar home on the main drag in town. I suppose the youngsters have expectations to meet to work there. I’d hate, but he’s such a sweet guy, brought himself up from nothing, and I’m happy for him, even though I just say “hi” when he runs past.