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Hi, Everyone! Hope you all are having a great beginning to the new year. Lovely to see everyone commenting and so positive about their weight loss. Just participating on the thread is a victory, so whether we lose or not we're still here plugging away at it. Yay, us! My Sunday weigh in: 11/29 141.9 12/06 141.7 12/13 140.7…

Hope everyone had a great holiday! So looking forward to the new year for so many reasons. Love all the motivational sayings. Someone here on MFP posted on a thread about eating under our proper nutritional calories that always stuck with me, and I'm paraphrasing here. It's not how few calories we eat, it's how many…

Sunday Check In: Looking at a downward trend so far. Yay. 11/29 141.9 12/06 141.7 12/13 140.7 12/19 140.6

Thank you, @RubyRed427! LOL, don't be too impressed. Marching in place + low, low, impact shadow boxing + light weights is not very strenuous, mostly arm, upper body, but I'm just happy to not sit on my bum all day, which I could do very easily. I'll weigh in on Sundays to see if I actually have made any progress toward…

Agree that posting video of you without your permission is inappropriate. As for exercise, I lift weights and march in place too. Since the gym is off limits for me because of the pandemic this helps me get to a 20k step count that I hit every day. Better than nothing for sure!

Me either. Day two and ate ice too much ice cream again for a second day in a row. I also crave salt and just about everything else. OK, that's it. Back on track for sure tomorrow. I used to have a problem with Cheetos, the hot ones. They called to me from my cupboard. I stopped listening to them; now I have to do the same…

Same here with the snacking. Had ice cream cake tonight. Tomorrow is another day.

Checking in: Hope everyone's had a good week! Update: I'm 5'2.5" - 71 years old and originally lost 49 lbs. 12 lbs regained over the last 10 months so trying to get back to my maintenance weight of 130 lbs (thank you Covid 19, no gym, and now a bad knee) I'm down 1.3 lbs. as of today and trending at 140.7. That 1.3 lbs is…

I've used a paper tracker for years along with MFP. I keep notes on everything "me" in it even when I've not always tracked on MFP. It's been a real anchor for me.…

Thanks! 5 years of maintenance and it only took me 10 months to gain 12lbs. That's just scary. @jan110144 Gyms are open here too but as you said too risky. The creep is real and sad.

Hi, Everyone: I'd like to join this challenge though I only have about 12lbs. to lose by March, 2021. I'm a retired high school teacher, 71 years old and have been on MFP since 2012. I lost about 49lbs and in maintenance for about 5 years holding steady at 130lbs. I was at the gym 3Xs per week when the pandemic hit so…

Still here and still counting. Up a bit from my original 49 lb loss. Logging in everyday, staying active and now trying to drop the 9 lbs I gained. Five years and counting.

"Intuitive eating" is a foreign phrase to me. If I ate "intuitively" I'd be overweight, OK, let's be real, obese again. While the first 4 years of maintenance were good, year 5 has been a struggle even though I'm still logging and weighing food and myself. I'm actually up by a pound or two because I've been sloppy about…

@kimirayray agree with @debtay123 about changing or at least checking your stats in MFP. How tall are you and how much do you have to lose? Maybe you've set too aggressive a loss for your height and current weight. You want to fuel your daily activities even though you're not able to exercise very strenuously.

Wow, there's a whole lot of awesomeness going on around here. So nice to hear from you, @skytuner !

I feel the same way -- logging forever. I have no sense of "stopping when full," nor any sense of portions; they always creep up if I don't measure. I really have to control my portions. So many members on here write about "intuitive eating" and "listening to your body." If I did that I'd be 100 lbs heavier because my body…

Yup, still here. Greetings everyone. Still logging and weighing my food because I still want ALL the food. So sad.

Congrats! You look awesome.

:D :D :D :D :D I'm so mad I missed it. Hitchhiked around Europe instead in '71.

I'm 69 and my mother turned 98 in October. She's eats anything and everything and weighs about 110 lbs. Everyone just loves her at the senior center where she plays bingo two days a week. Of course, they don't live with her, LOL. PS: She's putting my sister and I into early graves chasing her around; at least she keeps us…

Turn on, tune in, drop out -- thanks, Timothy Leary. Those were the days.

Hi, Mary @mprocyszyn You'll do it! Hang in there, never give up!

Tried: Meal replacement shakes, Atkins, Jenny Craig, Nutri-System, low calorie/low fat, Weight Watchers (lifetime member). Nothing stuck. What worked: Joining MFP, counting calories in/out, portion control. Reading every stickie on MFP to educate myself on nutrition and weight loss. If I didn't understand something, I…

I'm well over 60 (69 years old to be exact) and I'm currently in maintenance going on 4 years now. It took me 15 months to lose 50 lbs. It can be done. What's worked for me is counting calories in and calories out by logging every bite, taste, lick of food to measure calories in and a Fitbit to measure calories out. Now…

Bumpity bump!

5'2.5" and 69 years old. Dropped 50 lbs. over a 15 month period and I've been in maintenance for close to 4 years now at a range of 128 - 132 lbs (58.6 - 59.8kg?). I have a medium frame and went from a size 16 USA to a size 2 Misses or a medium Petite. Agree with @lyndajbowyer about the pics. Also monitor inches lost…

2019 and my 70th birthday are knocking at the door and before I let them in here's what I want to accomplish. 1. Maintain my weight (128 132 lbs). It will be 4 years in February can't wait to make it past the 5th year and beyond. 2. Maintain my activity level (20 - 25K steps per day). 3. Maintain my balance, flexibility,…

LOL -- It took me 15 months to lose 50 lbs. Please don't try for 59 in 3 months. Not healthy.

I was diagnosed with BPV (Benign Positional Vertigo) in 2008 with a severe attack that sent me to the hospital for an MRI. Since then the attacks are milder, less frequent, and have now stopped. I've used the Epley Method, meclizine hydrochloride and most importantly lowered my sodium intake as high amounts of sodium swell…