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Welcome! You’ll find a lot of us here are 50+ women, there’s a whole gaggle of us! Are you using a program like c25k or some particular training program?

I didn’t realize this was an older post when I started reading it, hoping you’re still hanging around. Your BMI at 122 is 24.6, which is at the higher end of normal. I would say there’s nothing wrong with deciding you’re happy at a normal weight. You don’t have to consider it a failure or giving up to choose strength over…

@swenson19d My husband and I like to use a quote from the comic Achewood, “Come here and get your slap!” Oddly enough my grandmother was excellent to me, but there are hints she wasn’t a great mom to my mother. She was a professional spokesmodel and actress and made my mom feel that my mom wasn’t pretty. I just gotta learn…

I’m still around too, hanging in there. We bought a car and are waiting for delivery. In the meantime my mom is driving me berserk. The main problem I have with being in charge of my mom’s diet now is that I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. During the whole year we were buying groceries for her during Covid she…

You’re over complicating things. While a lot of what you are doing will have other health benefits, all you need to do to lose weight is eat at a deficit. That’s all that matters, not whether you eat carbs or protein or take supplements. At your present deficit you should be seeing a loss of about half a pound a week. That…

Life is continuing to kick my *kitten*, but at least I got a run in. Now I am completely failing to do meal prep work and grocery shopping for the next week on my one day off because I chose to do a long run instead, and I’m kind of wondering what everyone else would do if I suddenly had to go to the hospital or something…

Also, for a woman it’s a lot easier to hang on to muscle mass than build it. If you are fat your legs probably have some muscle just from moving you around. Lifting while losing helps hang on to that muscle.

Pull ups, military press, bent over row, deadlift, squat. I’m also fond of the ab roller which works back, arms, and shoulders as well as abs. Cutting down on fat is done by fork put downs and table push aways and has nothing to do with the gym.

A lot is going to depend on age, sex, and genetics, as well as your starting point and desired time frame. You mentioned “hot girl summer” which makes me think you are asking the minimum to look good on the beach, not on the stage at a competition. Three sessions a week of compound exercises would probably do that if they…

@HonuNui Thanks for the welcome to Hawaii! @Teresa502 Great race! I can’t imagine that much elevation, we usually get about 100 ft in 5 miles around here. Had to take my mom to a doctor’s appointment so wasn’t able to run today. I don’t feel bad about it since it was so hot and rainy that it was steaming. Then for a while…

I’m glad you’re in a better place and hope the future continues to be better and better. Just wanted to say, I have friends who deliver pizza and you were almost certainly not the only shut-in who was a regular. People who live almost exclusively on pizza due to social anxiety are surprisingly common, at least before Covid…

Awesome news! Everyone is different but for me, getting off soda was what made the rest of my diet fall into place. Drinking too much sweet soda made me crave salty, greasy foods like French fries, which made me crave sweet foods, in an endless loop! So happy you are doing well.

Sure, I’ll bite. 125 lb loss maintaining 4 years so far. My main trick is to test my blood sugar often and eat foods which keep my blood glucose within healthy levels. I am a diabetic and doing this for me means staying under about 45 g net carbs per meal and cutting out most refined carbs, which spike my glucose. I could…

Since you mentioned binge eating disorder, I have friends who have had success with medication for their binge eating disorder. I can’t recall the name of the med but apparently it’s successful in some people but not all, might be worth discussing with your doctor when you ask him your other questions. It’s possible that…

5 miles on trails this morning. Humid but not too hot. Ate so many spiders. One went in my eye socket and my husband had to pick it off my eyelid - turns out it was an arrowhead spider, they are harmless and kinda interesting looking, their butts are triangle shaped. Our trailhead looked like this! Can you believe! This…

Good news, the Xterra near my husband’s folks passed its checkup and we are moving ahead. It had some minor things wrong with it - brakes needed work - dealer replaced the pads and rotors and now all is well - alternator may or may not be weird, they are giving us a cut which would pay to have it replaced if necessary. I’m…

Why on earth would YOU have to be the one to sleep somewhere else if he has trouble controlling himself? Ugh, the thing with the kids is just terrible. I am the child of my father’s second marriage and I didn’t really understand until I was older that he completely abandoned his kids from his first marriage. It’s a thing…

I should clarify that my grandmother died decades ago, sorry that wasn’t obvious!

The right dose of synthroid can be life changing. I hope it works well for you! The rule of thumb is that a safe rate of weight loss shouldn’t exceed 1% of body weight per week. That means at 385 you can actually handle a larger deficit than MFP will calculate. And since you have an urgent medical need to lose weight…

@shanaber I’m so sorry about Hilde. She was so lucky to have you in her life. My grandmother passed on the Fourth of July. We were headed to her house as a family to celebrate and she was sitting on the sofa with the TV on - had to get the firemen out to break into the house and they were so kind. It kind of casts a pall…

Okay, don’t do this. You like your hair, don’t you? Don’t want it to fall out? How about your muscles, you are working hard so you want to keep or even grow them, right? Instead of making it up as you go along, put your stats in MFP and chose a rate of loss appropriate for how much you need to lose. In your case, you are…

It depends. If this is a small local business, try looking up similar menu items from a chain like PF Chang and logging approximate amounts. 1000 calories is enough to have a satisfying meal of some Chinese foods but a big meal of the right foods can be much more. And a lot depends on how much oil is used. With small…

Right there with ya - was supposed to be up at 5 and just couldn’t do it, slept in until almost 6. Gotta love runners. We had a pleasant morning, not exactly cool but cooler than it has been, barely in the low 80s by the time we were done and not too humid. Ran 5k easy and one mile was actually under 10 minutes which…

@swenson19d just for you… I call these guys the Trouble Brothers… Fireworks last night were so crazy I made a video of the sound. They were still going at 4 am! My raccoon buddies were up a tree when I saw them. Hopefully it will be a little quieter tonight.

How are everyone’s pets surviving the holiday weekend? My cat doesn’t care about fireworks, but I had something happen which was both touching and sad. As I have mentioned before I have a raccoon family living in the ceiling of my storage shed, which since I don’t use it at all (door rotted, needs new door) is fine with…

I’m on the board for July finally! Got 10k for the first time in a long while due to running on my day off from caring for my mother. Half on road and half on trails plus a long walk. Plus, since fireworks were at Cox park where we usually run, we came back later the same night and walked down and back along our usual run…

@swenson19d I looked up the documentary I remembered and it’s called appropriately enough “A hole in the head.” The woman is still alive and is actually a countess and cousin to the late Queen Mother! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Feilding There’s a nice fully kitted out xterra - the step up from ours - less than a…

Yep, good suggestion! As you can see from the preview pic, ankle mobility wasn’t this guy’s problem, since when he is doing it correctly his ankles don’t need to flex nearly as much. When I find myself “tacoing” forward while doing back squats the problem is often fixed by a deep breath and focus on keeping my back flat,…

Does any car insurance, or any kind of insurance at all for that matter, pay replacement value? I’ve got USAA which is the best insurance out there and never heard of such a thing. It’s cost versus depreciation which in the case of a car means blue book, since otherwise you would have people running their junkers off…

Oh, almost forgot, congratulations on being in a healthy weight range! You rock!