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Hello everyone, I'm looking for a supportive community as I restart once again. I'm 52 years old, single mom of a 13 and 8 year old and I live in Mexico. Since I turned 50, I have found it extremely difficult to lose weight. Small changes that would have shown some results in the past do nothing. The weight just won't…

So proud of myself. I tried to get breakfast at my hotel (egg white wrap) but the line was too long. Then I tried to get an egg white piadini at Starbucks but the line was too long. So I ended up at McDonalds and got a sausage egg mcmuffin and hash browns. I looked it up and couldn't believe how many calories!! 600!! but…

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Thanks everyone! Yes, it's chronic insomnia but most nights I wake up at 2 or 3 and read for an hour and then go back to sleep. Last night, I woke up at 2 and just stayed up all the way till 5 when the trainer came. Thankfully he went very easy on me and did lots of stretching and nothing too intensive. The poor guy has to…

Good morning! My name is Rachel and I was hoping I could join you all. I turned 50 this year and I definitely have a whole different metabolism than I did when I tried to lose when when I was younger. A little background on me: I live in Guatemala, where I work full time for the US government. I have two amazing daughters,…

Hey all, I think the OP is long gone. :)

So, does sore throat count as above or below the neck?

I've been doing really well at working out every morning and staying under my calories and this morning I bailed on my workout so my goal is to get back on track, even if it's just the minimum. Goals: complete 30 minutes on treadmill (either at lunchtime or immediately after work) make good choices and eat a reasonable…

Thanks!! Great advice!! I will try to be truly selective. :)

a million times yes! My scale has been at the exact same number for about a month. Now, I get that I haven't been weighing my food but the last time i tried MFP, I didn't weigh my food and lost 30 lbs. I wouldn't even mind if the scale went up but it's been exactly the same forever!

Maybe try some wraps (less bread) with interesting salad type fillings? I'm guessing he wants something he can eat with one hand while driving or on the phone or radio. I'm not emergency personnel but I've worked some crisis task forces and done duty shifts and I know that it's hard not to do the stress eating as well. I…

I'm in a similar boat. When I was younger, I just had to regulate my eating a little, work out more and the weight would come off pretty quickly. Now, at 48, it seems like I'm doing much more work and getting much less reward. :(

Twin!! CW 196 (as of this morning, don't register in MFP till weekly weigh-in Monday) H 5'5.5" A48 GW 140 Friend me!

trying again

So, I have one of these and there are a couple of things you can do. It really helps to make sure you have shoes that are very wide in the box so that they don't pinch the sides of the feet in and increase the rubbing on the neuroma. The podiatrist can also give you a steroid injection that works for about 6 months but…

Thank you all so much for your help!! Your words mean so much to me and really help me to remember how this works and the things I can do. Thanks so much for taking the time to help get me back on track. okay, here's my update. I stopped with the buttercream frosting. I started tracking again. I realized that the big jump…

I'm so sorry that you're going through this. I'm having that kind of day myself and it sucks to feel like we can't do this. But we know we can, we've done it before. We just need to get our heads sorted out and dive in. You can do it! I can do it. Let's just start.

okay, now you've done it! Now all I want is cheesy bacon grits with poached egg! But I love them on sauteed spinach.

but sooo worth it, right?

I'm trying to worry not to much about numbers or sizes but focus on how many days in a row I log everything and how many days in a row I exercise.

Thanks for the great advice! I'm not too worried about it. I just thought it seemed strange when I don't feel I'm eating all that much protein but I'm in the red. I'll keep focussing on the overall calories and see how it goes.

I posted the picture on my profile to remind myself why i need to do this. Hard to admit I really look like that.

wow, so nice to hear that I'm not the only one! I have a photo where I'm with my boss and my boss's boss. She and he are both tiny people and I absolutely look like a giant!

Thanks ejinvt! It's just when i see a group photo and there are all these nice normal sized people and then me, I feel enormous!

correcting spelling :)

take one, put it inside your desk and don't eat it until all the others are gone. Then, enjoy!

I'm only 47 but I would love to join you all. I've definitely found that it's so much harder to lose weight at this age, than 10 years ago. and this past year, I started experiencing all kinds of aches and pains (plantar fasciitis, bad knees) that I thought would be waiting for me in my 60's. I look to all of you in your…

wow, this is very helpful! Lot's of good info here and at least I don't feel so alone. Most of my colleagues are younger than me, and some of the older ones (who also have knee problems) have given up and are on their way to morbidly obese. I know I have a hard time losing weight (or staying the same) when I don't exercise…