Any over 40's out there!

You know you hear it all the time.  "The older you get the harder it is to lose wieght." or "It will caught up to when hit your 30's"  It is a well known fact that as your metabolism slows down.  I've only been on this website 4 days and I have looked around some but didn't come across anything yet for some of us older ones trying to lose wieght!  I was just on find your twin and noticed that mostly younger crowd signing in there. Couldn't go through 90 pages to find some my age.  Thought I'd start a thread to find a buddy of similiar age and stats geared to motivate those of us with the Age challenge. 

So here is mine

AGE: 45

Height 5'3 or 5'4 (been a while since I measured my self)

Wieight: 206lb

Build: Large (I think by the wrist test)

Weight Goal:135 -

Non Weight Goal - Working out 5 times a week doing at least 30-60 minutes of cardio or swimming and weights 2-3 times a week for 40 minutes,

Anyone out there that is similiar and would like to work at motivating each other!

Hi all.  I'm just back from my vacation and have to get back into healthy eating. I did not eat well or exercise much when I was away.  Somehow I only put on one pound - which so surprises me.  We did do a lot of walking while we were sightseeing so that may have saved me. 

Tammy - Hope all is well with you.  don't forget to take care of yourself.

I love doughnuts! 

I'm back from vacation and I actually lost a pound!  I have started power walking with a bit of running mixed in.  I am up to 3 miles with about a half mile of running.  My first 3 miles was finished in 41 min 41 sec.  The last one I did was 40 min 16 sec.  And I am buring almost 700 calories each time I do this!! 

Good luck everyone, and peace!

Hi all and welcome to the newbies. Hope the week is starting out well.

Just got back from the orthodontist -yes I am 43 and wear braces.   (My kids think it's pretty cool that I do.) They change wires on them about every 6 weeks and my mouth gets pretty sore and I go on a soft diet for several days.  Good for my weight not so good with the pain  I rediscovered a love for rice pudding. My mom would make it when one of us was not feeling well. Luckily Kozy Shack have a sugar free version which is not so bad. My mom's version was high octane all the way.

I told the doc that he should market adult braces as a new diet and he could make even more money then he already does :)  LOL

I won't weigh in until Thursday so maybe I will finally be in one-derland. That would be so worth the mouth pain to finally see the one first on the scale.

See you later        -Jen

Hey all,

Tammy we will miss ya.  Hope all is well.  Take good care of yourself. 

Welcome wannaloseitall  - hope cc works out for you.  Actually, what you dh says is pretty much true and exactly what cc suggests.  The formula is easy the actually putting it into practice every day isn't.  If I would do it everyday then I could see the pounds come off.  But I keep losing days specially over weekends.  I don't log my food or exercise and I'm getting so depressed with it all!  So as you say if it were just that easy!

magdalenn - don't have any idea about coconut cherry bars!  But maybe you could get the recipe and put it in the new recipes and then you'll know maybe its not as bad as you think. 

Stilltryin - good to see ya back.  hope you enjoyed your vacation.  It's good that you are coming right back at it. 

clangworthy - don't worry, be happy!  We all have our little detours.  The other day I ate a whole box of cinnamon toast crunch cereal.  What was I thinking.  I'm telling you this is not a very nice month for me.  In July I failed to log my food at least 7 whole days and looking at my analysis for the month.  I didn't get a whole day in for at least another 6 days!  Ugh!  I need to do much much better in August. 

Any way I'm not off to such a great start.  It's now 8/5 and I've only logged one day -

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Hi,

Momof2funykds - I hope all will be fine. Take Good

Clang... donuts, hey, brush it off, pick yourself up, move forward. Take a check and try to figure out why you ate 'em.

Take care all!

Carol

 Morning, Okay so I totally know I am a stress eatter so I am 100% sure that is why but I really wish I could break the habit of eatting just because I am stress.   I don't see the stress going away any time soon so I really need to get it under control and part of me is so frazzled that I don't care and that is the part that scares me.  No remorse is not good.  LOL

This is a new week and I have been good so far, but I am training a new person for my second job and the part that is stressing, is 1 she has no experience and 2 because of her my hours have been cut in half, I am not too HAPPY!!!! 

I'm a stress eater too - especially at night time.  I can rationalize eating anything when i am completely stressed out.   One thing that helps now is that I don't keep any junk in the house.  The thing I keep around is popcorn.  As long as I stick to my 100 calorie bags and not eat the kids butter popcorn bags its not too bad.  I've been keeping Italian Ices in the house too.  They help and are only around 100-150 calories depending on which ones you buy. They are sweet and take a while to eat.

I notice my calories are bouncing too too much around my 1600 per day limit.  Result no weight loss. Is anyone else finding that the daily limit is a HARD LIMIT not to be exceeded else your body will bounce up with weight?

Also found that one to two hours walking, is way better than 1/2 hour running.  No pain and body seems to like it the next day.

Morning all,

kt- I think that you are very right in that walking is much better that running.  You reach a certain point in your life when all that pounding and stress is not good on your body.  I also think that breaking it up (doing a little and then taking a break) is better than all at once but for some this might not be an option.

missykris -I was a night time eater but I found brushing and flossing your teeth is a deterrent to eating.  Maybe I'm lazy but I just don't eat if I have to brush and floss all over again.  Like the idea of italian ice , especially in this weather.

As long as you are doing weight bearing exercise it will continue to build bone and stave off osteoperosis (sorry about the spelling).

On the stress eating, no kidding, give me a loaf of Italian bread + butter. Or chocolate.  I have had to deal with it with some mindfulness meditation techniques (you can google..) But essentially, I try to stop, close my eyes and focus on what is around me - it is just a few minutes. It slows down my mind and I breath and allows me to think more clearly, It really does help to reduce stress.

C'ya

Hi guys - I got on the scale this morning and have finally entered onederland with a 199 wt.  Yeah me :)  LOL

I did and am still doing the happy dance !!  This dance will be going on for a while as I have not seen a 1 first in my weight for a few years.

Also went to the doctor on Wed and he took me off the cholesterol med. And, as I have been having no symptoms he stopped the reflux med.

Wanted to share with my CC friends. 

Jen

Congrats Jen! That is such great news!   You go girl!

thanks so much missykris.

35lb down and a lot more to go :)

*she continues doing the onederland happy dance -with surprising grace* LOL

Jen

Age 41

Height: 5' 5"

Weight 171

Goal 135

Medium build

Non-weight goal:  Become more confident

I have a hard time staying on a heathy eating plan because I love food.  I started gaining weight 4 years ago when I started a new job!  I was 135 gained 30+ #!!!!

Need some help w/motivation. 

Penny

You've come to the right place Penny.  I love this website - it has really helped me focus on my goals, learn what a healthy portion is and meet great people!  Its nice to have a place to talk with people who are struggling with the same issues.

Hi Everyone! I'm back! Things are settling here and I have a few minutes to check in with my friends.

Confession time! Ok, here it goes!  This past week I have been sabotaging myself. When I lost weight last time I got to about 170 and did the same thing I'm catching myself do now. I've been eating BAD things like chocolate bars, chips and dip, pop tarts,.... I ate all those things yesterday. In one day! I have to stop this nonsense now! I have to get beyond this point and I'll be ok. I know I will. I had eaten chinese food and I was full and just kept on eating!

Today starts a new week for me and a new goal. To stop eating all this junk! I gotta get under 170! :)

I did the same thing the last time I got down to this weight.  I think everyone notciing and making comments makes me work a little less hard and then next thing you know all the weight is back.  I'm kind of in the same place right now but hope to push through it!

You can do it Tammy!

So welcom gunther33.  Hope you find the support you need here on cc and on this thread. 

Momof2funykds - glad your back.  I've heard that there is such a thing a weight set point.  Don't know if it's true or not but I know that a lot of people have a particular weight that their body just seems to want to stay at.  So when we lose weight our bodies just want to get back to it's comfort zone.  (this is especially true when we've been that weight for a long time)  There is even a book out about it something like "Breaking you set point"  or something like that.  Anyway, I know that doesn't necessarily help but if you work through it and then remember that when you get to the maintenance stage I think you'll find you can set your body at a new low weight. 

All you other girls wish I could say something profound (spelling?) about stress eating.  However, I've been more depressed then I'd have believed possible (I am usually such an upbeat person)  I am totally struggling even to log my food and get to the gym!  Doesn't help that the water pump on my car broke just two weeks after I got it out of the shop from my accident!  Ugh!  I can't afford to fix it right now!  Can't go shopping (no fruits and veges in the house!)  I've only gone to the gym twice this week.  I walked 2.25 mile there and 2.25 miles back.  What a pain in the you know what! 

Anyway, hope all your weeks are going better! 

Today I was a good girl! lol  I didn't eat ANY junk and when I wanted a snack, I ate grapes. So this is a good start for my week. I'm striving to lose 2 lbs this week. Can I do it? We'll see! :D 

I've heard of that weight set point too. I have to get past it. I just have to! Losing weight is one of the hardest things I've ever done. I've lost weight before and it always seemed easy. Not this time though. I've been at this for 10 months now. So I certainly can keep on going! lol

Wish I could say I started my week off on the right foot. I went to a bbq yesterday and ate like a pig!  cookies, cookies and more cookies!  I am off to the gym tonight!

I'm a weak person for cookies too! I use to eat a whole package of Pecan Sandies with milk! I love oreos too, with milk!

I ate Burger King today! A fish filet w/ sm fries. BUT, I didn't eat all the fries. Probably didn't even eat 1/2 of them. But that fish was really good! When I looked it up, it was the lowest in calories at least. And I still didn't go over my calories for the day!  So not bad! :)

Took  my son school shopping. He hates school but he loves getting the new clothes and everything. I hope this year goes better for him than last year. It was a tough yr for him. He's going into 10th grade this year so I hope going into high school changes his attitude towards school. 

The scale was up this morning. Even though I ate good yesterday, it went up a whole pound. I'll see what it says tomorrow. It's hard staying on track when the sclae goes up. But it's done this before to me. Keeping my fingers crossed! :D