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I'm also a married mom in my 30s looking to lose that much if you want to add me! I'm more of a crochet kind of person (although with the kids I'm struggling to do my own crafty things) and I like my plants and reading and convincing people I meet to read with me. (I'll try to avoid that here, but no promises that I won't…
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Okay, so I'm officially too young to join (you are welcome to be grumpy about that), but I'm now in perimenopause (probably, but apparently one can only know that in hindsight, so I'm working on assumptions). I'm hoping I can see what I have to look forward to. I recently read The Menopause Manifesto, and it actually made…
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I'm only 37, but I've been old and grumpy my entire life. (Hitting 35 and realizing I could call myself "middle aged" has been a high point in my life so far.) I'm joining. Dare you to kick me out.
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I've done both on and off. My Fitness Pal wins (even the free version) in terms of access to information and ability to create a community. Noom probably wins if you're a beginner and need someone to organize the information for you, but I found their food coloring coding system to be really annoying, and my brain always…
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Add me! I'm 37, mom of 4 little ones, and I know what it feels like to feel frustrated that I've lost the progress I've gained. I want to go back for a doctorate in a few years, and I really want to change my habits now before life gets even wilder. I have over 100 pounds to lose.
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Thank you (and everyone else here) for dropping all your knowledge! I read (I think in Atomic Habits) something along the lines of "If you fall in love with the habits, results will come." I've been trying to focus on that through this. I'd rather lose the times as slow but make it permanent rather than lose it fast but…
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Thank you! I have been lurking in forums since early 2013 (but let life get in the way of actually changing anything into now) and posted here exactly because I knew how knowledgeable people here are! It seems like a really great way to get started is to see what advice the successful people-- the ones who have changed…
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This makes sense! Maybe the anomalies who can do that are able to metabolize food to repair and grow muscle tissue while using stored energy for basic metabolic stuff. Do you know if increasing strength in existing muscle tissue increases BMR, or is that only increased by the growth of new muscle tissue? (Or am I way off…
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Thanks for all this, especially the extra resources to check out! I lost a significant amount of weight mostly running almost a decade ago, and then put it back on plus some, and I realize looking back that a lot of the loss was probably LBM. I'm trying to do it the right way this time.
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I love the point you make about women not necessarily knowing their baseline. So true. And osteoporosis too! I know I'm nearing perimenopause, if not in it already, and that is so important for bone health as we age.
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I've gone up and down in weight a lot, and I've had 6 pregnancies with 4 live births. Two of my pregnancies required major bed rest. Getting yourself healthy before pregnancy sounds like a great plan, but here is some food for thought: a severe caloric deficit is going to mean that you lose more muscle than your want to,…
