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Welcome Janice and Best Wishes :flowerforyou:

Hi, Janice! Thanks for the add! We "mature" women gotta stick together. Our challenges are so much different than when we had younger bodies. Those on the outside don't usually seem to get it - it's much harder than we're told. For example:

. I've been working out faithfully for three weeks and have not seen any changes. I know it takes time, but three weeks and nothing?

That was EXACTLY me a few months ago! Fact is, I went from very, very sedentary to working out every day, hoping to shock my metabolism into working again. HAH! No such luck! My advice? Stick with it and don't expect the scale to budge anytime soon. Here's what happens. As we get older, I'm reading, we not only lose muscle mass, but fat cells start to accumulate in our muscle tissue. Now that you're exercising, your body is doing a lot of replacing - fat cells with muscle cells, and as you're working those creaky, weak muscles, you're going to accumulate fluid as your body tries to get rid of waste products inside your muscles. Look at my diaries - you'll see I went for about 6 weeks of serious, daily exercise with a calorie deficit of 500-1000 calories per day and GAINED weight! That was horrible! That's why my signature says "Finally the scale is going in the right direction!"

Starting in September, I set my calorie-burning goal as 5000 a week - that's more than 700 a day. I rarely miss that goal since, but my weight loss is still slow, or at least much less than the numbers say it should be. The good news is I'm winning calorie-burn challenges! Bottom line - as mature women, approaching or in menopause, our bodies just don't want to change so easy...