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Thank you so much for this! It is full of great answers and packed with important info and links. I hope I will be able to keep finding it! It was a lot to take in and I will need to reread. I think one of the most important things, once you figure out how much you can or need to eat to lose some weight is the part where…

I am not a spring chicken and I have some healing injuries in shoulders and knees. The shoulder injuries led to tendonitis. So I have done the shred every second day for over 60 days. Every day would still be too much. But WOW! I have trimmed 2" off my whole being so far. I feel great. I can lift things down from high…

I have an absolute terror of being in a vehicle when there is any sign of it (after a triple flip car accident one winter and a serious ditch nose dive another), hate it when it is on top of ice so I can't walk without slipping. Love it when it means a snow day so I don't have to work. Hate being cold. Love it when it's…

a vegetable :C It's almost all I'm eating and I don't like them :C

I have lost 21 pounds. I need to lose another 15. I started doing the 30 day shred every second day since Christmas, alternating with aquacise 3 days a week plus a rest day. I have my calories set at 1410. I am 5'8". I am seeing body changes, but have only lost 5-6 pounds since starting this and two of those pounds go off…

Hi there, The best things for me are cutting out anything too processed (junk food, but also other things I don't make myself from scratch), counting calories on MFP, and strength training! I do aerobics like walking or whatever, but the strength is really making the difference to my size as well as to my overall quality…

Hey Charlene! It might be harder to lose weight now, but it is more important than ever! Like some others say, now we start to face some health issues if we don't get our weight down. Mine is starting to move now since I started intensifying the exercise and adding arm weight lifting. I have been doing Jillian Michaels 30…

Quick!!!! Start drinking lots and lots and lots of water and get rid of that sweetie jar! Sugar is one of the MOST addicting things there is. And once we start into it we just keep wanting it. It is possible the wine triggered this urge for the sweets. It sounds like your food intake is very very low so your brain is…

There are a lot more factors in the problems experienced by night shift workers than just what time they are eating. Lack of light, poor sleep, boredom and more all play a role I'm sure. And, like others say, we are not mice. Mice don't get blue because they have to work at night and wish they had a nine to five job for…

Nope. I try to eat my goal calories plus some of the extra exercise calories. After decades of yoyo'ing my body definitely hangs onto weight if it thinks I am starving. I'm almost better eating all and more than eating too little in terms of the changes I see on the scale.

One shade of grey: "No" she said. And he pestered her no more. And since she was obviously extremely attractive and great company she went off and found a guy who was rich and dreamy and capable of a healthy reciprocal relationship.

oh wow! Clearly there are a lot of us here who are over 50! I'm 51. There, I said it. It is harder to lose weight now. I'm more prone to injuries, aches and pains. But I am also wiser and more patient. I am figuring this out. The weight has started to creep down again now that I record what I put in my mouth. I also do the…

And I don't think I can post a pic of my naked belly, but I would post one in a shirt showing the full (very full) silhouette. I think it's a great idea to see the progress. And there WILL be progress, right?

OK. I tried. I can't figure out how to post a pic. I was trying and just lost the whole message. haha. So... today I switched it up by cleaning like a fury for 2.5 hours. I did it to the huffing and puffing point. Ohhhh I'm sooooo sore. But this is one clean house! Time for lots of water and epsom salts. Thanks for being…

I am walking 60+ minutes every second day and doing the 30 day shred plus often walking 20 or more minute and doing housework the other day. So far so good. Giving up? Ok. Chocolate it is. I really need to do no sugar at all. I am hoping to drop "dirty whites: wheat flour, sugar and liquid cow milk" in January.

I get a no sodium soda water. It's a generic brand. If you want the flavour use real lemon or lime. The preflavoured stuff probably contains scary things. I figured out it was the bubbles I love. Now if I try real soda it tastes funny. Triumph! More expensive carbonated waters like Perrier are my treat now. haha.

To my daughter: "Every journey poses its challenges and obstacles, but YOU DID IT! "

Usually being a recipient makes me happy because I figure someone has seen something I've posted that inspires them. But it is also a thrill when I have been inspired and sent a request and someone accepts. So yeah, BOTH! I love having friends on MFP to help me stay highly motivated.

Hi there, My name is Melody and I am one of the "older ones" around here. I have been working on my fitness and balanced lifestyle for a bit and feeling strong renewed motivation. My weight has gone down very slowly over two years, but for the most part it goes down. I have a lot of plateaus, but they seem to be part of…

Hi there, It is nice to find this Women Ages 50+ group through a friend. I am 50+ in age and bust size and hoping the latter will decrease soon! I am a clear case of "be careful what you wish for" from times being teased as a "flatsy" in my youth. I am looking forward to 2013. Lean and Mean in 2013. That is the plan. I…

some people do get quite sore from lifting. I have to go easy even with just 3 or 5 pound weights because of past (non weight lifting related) injuries to shoulders. I get pain in all my joints but building muscles eventually reduces some of the pain. If I go easy I can slowly tone. I have to work with a PT to develop my…

The women in the pix on both sides are flexing. You can have muscle and still be soft. We NEED muscle to support our joints and tendons. It also builds us up to help reduce our chances of developing osteoporosis. Our lifestyles are so sedentary we don't develop and use muscles naturally. Weight lifting or resistance…

Veggies like kale are incredibly good for us but the texture can be nasty for some of us who grew up on canned peas and frozen mixed vegetables. The best way I've had it was steamed with sliced carrots and tossed with balsamic vinegar. Balsamic vinegar can help a lot of veggies and could even flavour meat I suppose. Thanks…

I totally understand not wanting to be on the meds. I don't care what anyone says, they make me eat. But I keep a bottle of them on hand just in case. I've only needed one tablet in over two years. Sometimes I say "I'm just going to exercise/meditate/read for a while" and if it doesn't go away I'll take one. The one time I…

The most important thing we can do is love and congratulate ourselves. It has to be about us, not about what other people see or think. At first people said things to me, but it's stopped now. once in a while someone will say something like "that colour looks really good on you" and I think it's probably not the colour but…

Hey there, I love pizza too. I checked into it and it would seem that 450 is closer to accurate for Anthony's. It is 425 for a 16" s lice of the cheese pizza, and that's before you add any toppings. I have learned to love and even prefer vegetable toppings, forgoing the fat, salt and nitrates in the meet toppings. Good…

I've never done the full 14 days, not keeping track anyway, but I find it's helpful. When I take it I make sure I use a measuring cup and eat it with some frozen berries (again, a measured portion) or a sliced banana and a high fibre cereal like All Bran (measured portion). I find it's a good filling and healthy breakfast,…

I'll try. At first I thought "no way, couldn't do it" then I saw the suggestion of 10 sets of 20 through the day. For my old bones it might have to be 20 sets of 10 haha. Will try to remember to check in... sometimes I find these postings hard to find

I hear ya on that one. I've lost 20 and the way people act I've gone from HUGE to skinny... Then they start with , "but you're fine now, you don't need to lose any more." I wish people would just let each other be. I admit I like the way losing weight makes me look, but I'm also in it for the sake of easing the burden on…

me too! Actually, I'm so dorky I bring my purse into the workouts and hang it off the sides of the machines. i expect that is very annoying. But I have two jobs, each with its own cell phone, and I'm almost constantly on call, so I need the pockets at the ends of the purses to hold the phones... you get the picture. I'm…