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I am 55, so a bit older than you. But I have been working with a personal trainer for just over 2 years now. Basically, dieting/healthy eating COMBINED with weight training is going to give you best results.Trainers will tell you that weight loss is 80% eating and 20% exercise. Exercise alone keeps you toned and gives you…

Best and safest bet is see if you can hire a trainer just to go through that process with you. Everyone can lift different weights, but the most important thing is to make sure you are using the correct TECHNIQUE!! I am 54 and graduated to heavier weights over the past year. Working with weights and just going higher by…

What amazing results! I know you have worked very hard to get there!! I went from 160 in January to 140 now....that equated to dropping from a size 12 pant to a size 8, and from a large top to a medium. Fun buying new clothing, but frustrating when you just buy something and then have to replace it again!! (Like my…

Someone once posted, count it if it is aggressive enough that you work up a sweat. That being said, if I am doing short 15 minute walks multiple times a day - specifically to add to my exercise for the day. I could that - even though I am not sweating. But it is over an above my normal day walking at my sedentary desk job.…

Awesome job! You should be so proud of your accomplishments!!! Love the new clothes you get to buy, right?!

I started at 160. down to 138.8 now. Since January 2013. being very honest with MFP. If I had a dessert, it had to be a celebration, and better not be two close together :) My trainer only allowed me one glass of wine on the weekend. This careful monitoring of calories, and exercising with weights - heavy weights - has got…

My trainer tells me 80/20.....80% good, healthy eating, and 20% you can cheat. He recomends 100% healthy and mindful during the week. He has 'allowed' me to have 1 glass of wine (which I have on Friday night) and if I am going to cheat with non-nutritious food, it is likely one meal on the weekend. I have lived by this…

Height: 5'4 3/4" Age/Gender: 53 yrs Female Highest weight- 160 lbs - Jan 2013, and also when I was pregnant. (might have hit 165?) Current Weight- 146.0 lbs, and going down....diet and intense workouts since January Lowest weight- 118 in high school...but 124 when I was married at age 29 Goal weigh- 135-138 lbs. Will have…

All of the above....i.e. using body weight. However, we have a piece of equipment that is easy to use, utilizes body weight (and by adjusting body angle you increase the intensity), and is extremely versatile. It is called TRX Suspension. You buy it easily online. You can hook it up to a door (if you purchase the…

Age 53 here!! Am 5' 4 3/4" and was weighing 160. Top end of the scale for me! Had to reverse the trend that menopause seemed to have me on. For the past 3-4 years, I had upped my exercise (Zumba 2x/week plus 2 half hour drop in classes at noon at a fitness facility). No change. A matter of fact, my weight just kept on…

1) How do you feel after hearing this information? Does it make you want to wean on coffee or drink away still? I only have one cup of decaf latte daily. That is my 1 cup of milk (skim) per day. 2) Random: Do you drink your coffee black or add extra ingredients? Grande Decaf Non Fat Latte. From Starbucks, or made at home…

I try to eat my 1200 plus my exercise calories, but I find now that I am more used to eating healthy and eating less, that my net is usually less than 1200. Even when I have my one glass of wine per week, I keep my calories low. I work out 5-6 times per week. 3-4 days weight training (programs from a personal trainer that…

Can you get gluten free products there? Many people find that usual bread or pasta items, even if whole wheat, leave them feeling bloated. However, the gluten free products do not. Perhaps give it a try to give you your grains.

Same place I am at. Loving looking after ME now. Working out, eating healthy and loving the results!!! Good Luck!!

Polar as well. I have one with the chest strap. You get what you pay for with Polar. Likely so with other models. The higher the price point, the more options. Go to a sports store and have them help you decide which model is best for what you want it to do. Go as high $$ as you need to to get what you want, but don't pay…

Other plank options...hold plank AND hold one arm straight out at a time for 10 sec (no break), then each leg for 10 sec each. Rest then do again. Repeat 3 x. Ouchie!! Another is to elevate your legs onto a step. Hold plank for 45 sec. Front (45 sec) and Side planks (40 sec) can be done this way. Really challenges your…

The work you have done in the 463 days is nothing short of ASTOUNDING. And doing the workouts during the weight loss has likely given your body/skin somewhat of a chance to adjust along the way. Lose skin with that kind of weight loss is likely very disappointing, but the health that you have gained...and the self…

My trainer has been telling me for 2 years the same mantra...80% food, 20% exercise. I was doing the exercising, and wasn't really eating tons - but I am over 50 and the metabolism during menopause is very sluggish. So the 80% food was not really being tested. This January, with a 25th Anniversary vacation in Jamaica…

Love your ticker tape that has a picture of you along your journey!! Congrats to you and the amazing job you are doing!

I am 53 1/2 yrs old. Hot flashes started a few years ago. I found some herbal supplements (chaste berry) that were very successful for about 10 months, then they ceased to be effective. Then I got a period that was SOOOO heavy, that I had to go to the doctor at 10 days to stop it! I was almost anemic. So then I got…

If you have a local gym, you can usually buy personal training time. I buy 1 hours session a few at a time. Usually takes one paid session for him to evaluate what I am capable of doing (weight wise), then next session he provides me with a program geared to my goals and the weights that I can lift. Then I do this program…

Great!! Those loose clothes make us WAY happier than the number on the scale, I find!! I believe I have heard every 10 lbs is a clothing size. The satisfaction of HAVING to go out and buy a new top or new pants because something in the closet is too big and we are NEVER going to fit in it again!!! Hurray!

My trainer measures the arm (bicep) - straight out beside me, palm up. (so you need help for this one) Waist is measured at the smallest point. Hip is measured at the point where your hip bends (so he has be lift my knee up and he pokes a finger in my hip to find the spot - yup, that tickles!!) Thigh is x cm up from the…

I am 5 4" I am a woman on a mission right now, so I currently have a personal trainer who develops a program for me, measures me, and then I work at the program on my own for 4 weeks, then he gives/shows me a new one. So Jan 18/13 he measured me... then on Feb 15/13, after doing the Phase 1 of my program, he measured me…

I am 53 (54 this summer). Have lots of opinions about this menopause and how it affects our bodies. :( Was 160 at Christmas (for the second time) so this year is about getting it down to 140 and perhaps keeping it there. Currently as 154 lbs....so 7 lbs down in the 5 weeks that I have been journaling on MFP. I work in…

I am 53 and fighting the hormones that come with menopause. I have been trying to lose 20 lbs since I was in my mid 40's, and get 10-15 pounds down and then it creeps up again. I hit 160 and said "no, I will not put up with this." I would love to get down to 135 lbs, but I don't feel that is likely reasonable with…

I work at a fitness facility (in administration) and workout with programs created for me by my Personal Trainer. I asked him this question, and he said yes, eat the calories, as you need to fuel your body for the exercise. That being said, when I workout and input my exercise, which in turns adds the calories to my daily…

Wow!!!! You must be sooooo proud of yourself!!!! The dedication it has taken to get to here for you. Amazing. Keep up the great work!!!!

So here is the update....the 20 year old (who is 5'5" and weighs 160, by the way) burned 703 cal in a Zumba Toning class and 764 cal in a regular Zumba class. We were surprised that the difference wasn't greater...but that is what the heart monitor said. I will be wearing the monitor from now on (because I did buy it for…

OK....so on Tuesday I posted my heart monitor results for my Zumba class....I am 52. I burned 519 calories in 1 hour. The following are the results from my daughter's Zumba TONING class (tomorrow I will post her results from a typical Zumba class)..... Calories 703 calories average heart rate 174 max heart rate 190 I think…