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I've got the honesty :) Diet drinks? Yuck! You want to start eating for life; that's what we want to teach our kids so they never have to feel like this. Feel free to add me:)

I was just thinking that the water aerobics people at my mother-in-laws retirement community are like a little support group. Friendship might get your mom coming back. Swimming is the best low I Pact workout.

Yoga and Tai Chi are good starts. I think there was a work-out for bad knees in a recent Prevention Magazine. There is a magazine on the shelves now (I think by Prevention also) that is a Yoga for weight loss special and it shows adaptions for overweight people that might be useful for an older person.

I took my 2 kids to a super fantastic pool today. It had an industrial water slide, at least one story high. I swam for an hour and they went up and down and up and down the stairs to the slide. 4 hours later I drug them away :)

Hey chickie, I believe we know each other (if you went to AHS). Don't give up. Keep exercising. Maybe ficus just on that. Then maybe work on things one meal at a time. And stick around here to read up on how to eat :)

One thing that I've done is to put a light on a timer so it comes on and shines in my eyes like the sun. But make sure you are getting enough sleep :) Sleep deprivation leads to depression and bad eating.

Hallo Frua!

I'm thinking you need to go somewhere and move :) Don't let the demon scale set you on a "bender." I am a real fan of no scales at all. Eat for health and move for health and eventually weight will come off the right way. Scales screw us up.:smile: :flowerforyou:

I just adjusted my activity level and now I'm 1570 :)

I gave up on "diets". I did ok with WW the first time but not the 2nd. Reading "you on a diet" changed everything. I lost so much I could shop in the "regular" section for the first time in 10 years. It provides principles for eating for life.

Hey ladies, I'm not quite in your boat, but I'm full of motherly advice :) Try starting a thread specific to who you are and the kind of friends your looking for. Might search to look for a similar topic from the past then friend some folks. Usually there are plenty of responses.

There's an article in the current (august) issue of prevention magazine that might interest some turtles. It introduces the Health at Every Size ( HAES) movement. HAES focuses solely on learning to live, eat, & move healthfully with no overt focus on weightloss because all the pressures to be thin/lose weight have really…

Ninja Turtles! So fabulous. I am firmly in the turtle camp. I try not to look at scales and I try not to get too caught up in other people's lbs, but it is tough sometimes. Even knowing that scales are the devil, if i weigh and don't see a lower number, I get down. My main focus is to get in the health habit. I have had…

The book You on a Diet really explains the how and why of belly fat in detail. Although, you can't choose were to burn fat in exercise, there are several principals of eating and lifestyle that can help. Belly fat is the fat used first when the body needs extra calories and it is the first storage spot when you eat more…

Welcome! MFP is a great resource. Feel free to add me if you want another bud :)

Well, a first thought is look for others that want to get moving. I'm motivated now because of a work-place group. The got started because of a contest run by the state health insurance plan. Before that, though, you can look into your food intake. Make your food choices as healthy as possible and that might help you feel…

Um, just some ideas. Are you getting enough sleep? A deficit is bad for your overall mindset. Second, the first weight calculator I Googled said the ideal weight for 5'6" is 139, so I'm thinking that your desire to go lower could be about something else. Third, if p90x is the shake stuff (google again) You are the second…

I give my kids w. Wheat flat bread and we make pizza' with part skim mozzerella. Mine won't do veggies on pizza but maybe yours would.

Had another silly thought this morning. Staying satisfied that "other" way helps. The satiety signals come from the same place in the brain. Just sayin. :wink:

For people who crave chocolate, I've read that it helps to put a piece of 70% Dark chocolate in your mouth and meditate. I was thinking about the week of extreme cravings and how we can get so busy we forget to eat. So wouldn't it be cool if you could schedule that week with some very involving activity and better yet…

You sure have the right mindset. All I have right now is extending my home yoga from 20 to thirty minutes at a time.

One thought is to use a pedometer to get a measure on the moving part, though it won't help with the lifting part. :smile:

I'm a fan of ditching the scale. I don't have one. I use my mother-in-law's when I want to weigh in. We let the scales mess us up even when we know better. Tuesday, I was at her house and weighed. Then we went out for several hours. When we got back, I stupidly weighed again and it was 2 pounds higher. That can't have been…

Hide it! Better yet, ditch it! If we build good habits and follow a healthy plan, the weight can work itself out.:smile:

First, are you allowing yourself enough food? Do go by the calories MFP gives you. Second, are you spreading the food out in little bits. Try to eat something every 3-4 hours. Third, are you eating lots of processed food and/or simple sugars? These break down quickly and then send out signals that make you hungry again.…

Currently I'm just working out at home with a nifty book on Om Yoga. I used to go to a deep stretch class at the Y. and loved it. Yoga might not be the way to burn calories, but most people could use to work on their flexibility. All the cardio doesn't do that. Plus the meditative part of the practice is something many…

A) I've seen a suggestion that you keep your hands busy by taking up video games, knitting and so forth. B) I've noticed that if I eat "just a bite" of simple sugars/carbs, I end up in a munchy loop. I try the good fat and protein like with almonds followed by something high fiber like whole wheat bread.

I'm anti scale. They just depress people even when you're doing fine. Focus on eating for health and moving and put the scale out of sight. "My" scale is at my mother-in-laws. :smile:

Welcome :)

Feel free to add me. I agree with the first response; your calorie total is pretty low if you need to loose 50+. You don't want to start off by lowering your metabolism. :smile: