How is weight loss for people over 50?

[IndioGirl55 32]

Good Morning All

I am just bursting at the seams to share this tad bit of info

Today is my weigh in day - and last week had to get on it 3 times in an hour for it to go down 1 lb - well today is Thursday and 1st time scale said 225 - that's 2 lbs down from last week :clap2:

But what i am REALLY proud of myself for is I HAVE WALKED 13 MILES since last Friday 8/17... You have to understand i avoid exercise like the plague.. I have done curves - it was ok - really didn't care for it that much - but again i hate any kind of phyical activity..

See Nancy - I'm 52 and still acting like a little kid - I want to brag about my 2 lbs & 13 miles

[NM Sunshine 1]

INDIGO GIRL wish I could find that clapping smiley face. I'd put it right here. Congradulations!!!! Be proud of yourself because you are changing your lifestyle. Now it is time for me to get off my but and walk.

[green 6]

Good Morning All

I am just bursting at the seams to share this tad bit of info

Today is my weigh in day - and last week had to get on it 3 times in an hour for it to go down 1 lb - well today is Thursday and 1st time scale said 225 - that's 2 lbs down from last week :clap2:

But what i am REALLY proud of myself for is I HAVE WALKED 13 MILES since last Friday 8/17... You have to understand i avoid exercise like the plague.. I have done curves - it was ok - really didn't care for it that much - but again i hate any kind of phyical activity..

See Nancy - I'm 52 and still acting like a little kid - I want to brag about my 2 lbs & 13 miles

Congrats, grrl. Two lbs and 13 miles are pretty bluddy impressive!

I have to admit that although I am a member of a really great all grrls local gym, one which is only 5 minutes by foot away from my house, I haven't been there for well over a year. :think This is because the summer of 06 rolled around and it was very hot and I was away from the city quite a bit. Then I had my lapband op and then I had physio for a torn rotator cuff, a badly damaged rotator cuff because I was in denial before doing anything about it. By the time that this was responding to physiotherapy, I ruined my other rotator cuff and I am still undergoing therapy for this. Ugh!! :tired

What I have been doing is a whole lot of walking or marching. I am someone who naturally walks pretty fast and this, along with the band, the mini-meals, and eating more carefully really have worked for me. (I hope that you love walking as much as I do.)

The downside of not going to the gym is that although I am at goal (my BMI is 23.8) my middle is still kinda soft and squishy. :help:

[IndioGirl55 32]

Congrats, grrl. Two lbs and 13 miles are pretty bluddy impressive!

I have to admit that although I am a member of a really great all grrls local gym, one which is only 5 minutes by foot away from my house, I haven't been there for well over a year. :think This is because the summer of 06 rolled around and it was very hot and I was away from the city quite a bit. Then I had my lapband op and then I had physio for a torn rotator cuff, a badly damaged rotator cuff because I was in denial before doing anything about it. By the time that this was responding to physiotherapy, I ruined my other rotator cuff and I am still undergoing therapy for this. Ugh!! :tired

What I have been doing is a whole lot of walking or marching. I am someone who naturally walks pretty fast and this, along with the band, the mini-meals, and eating more carefully really have worked for me. (I hope that you love walking as much as I do.)

The downside of not going to the gym is that although I am at goal (my BMI is 23.8) my middle is still kinda soft and squishy. :help:

Thank you all.... I am still a little girl inside...once at one of my Insurance Women Confrences we had a guest speaker - who said inside all of us is a 2 yr old and since i don't have a DH I don't have alot of people to share with well i do have friends - but they don't understand what an acomplishment this is - whereas you guys do.

Green - No I don't like ANY kind of exercise - it's just something I know i have to do if i want to eat like a normal person. The nights are my very hardest - so i save all my Snacks for the evening and i am countng calories and keeping a food / exercise diary - if I didn't do this i would never lose any weight.I can't do any weights yet - hope to get ok'd when i go back on the 5th. I will be 6 1/2 wks out by then..

Once you get out of the habit of going to the gym or doing any kind of exercise (plus your other injuries :sick) it's so very hard to get back in the habit... I know - I have done all this before (diet/exercise) but once something breaks that motivation - omg it is so hard to get back. In fact this is the 1st time I have been motivated to do anything in about 8 yrs.. So that tell you how long it has taken me to get re-motivated - but the band is new and all the other diet are old - been there done that..

OMG bmi 23 You are one skinny "b" and i mean that in a loving way - I am striving to get mine to somethin like 29 which should put me at 170 lbs - I think i would look really bad at 115 lbs and i thinks that's what would give me a bmi of 23- i have been fat too long for my skin to shrink and right now i still remember lapband surgery - so i won't be having any elective surgerys for a while - but who knows - once i get to 170 (i will look like i weight about 140/130) i might want to go all the way

Never say Never

Thanks again for letting me share my good news...

[NM Sunshine 1]

Hi everyone. Wanted to let you in on my good news. I will have my lapband surgery on Sept 11 with Dr. Gonzales of TJ.

And to think that I'd never heard of the lapband a couple of weeks ago!!!!!!

[mistymoon 0]

Thanks for the welcome Indigo girl. I am so glad I found this forum

[mistymoon 0]

NM Sunshine Great news on Your Surgery date. I am going to Dr Ortiz in MX my date is the 5th. The surgery I had in 1972 was called jejunal ileal bypass. The stomach is not cut in any way but 17 ft of intestines was bypassed. You have heard of easy in easy out - yup for first year I didn't stray far from a bathroom lol. Well I ,must go and have another tasty shake take care

[LadyHR 0]

Exercise is always a struggle for me, too! Now that I am newly motivated I find myself out of town on work three out of four weeks and it is a challenge to exercise. This week, though, I have gone to the fitness center in my hotel two nights!! Baby steps....

I laughed so hard when I heard a comedian say last week "I don't like to exercise because I hate to punish my legs for something my mouth did!"

Welcome to the newest members about to be banded!

[crabcake 0]

Denise- I totally agree about the music at Curves!! Fortunately I found one that did their own thing with the music. It was a younger crowd and they didn't put up with all those oldies and religious music. It was a huge improvement over the first Curves I joined! There was one particularly grating song, something like MY GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD. Oh puleeze...

That's interesting. We didn't have much of that, mostly 60's, 70's and 80's. Although, now that you mention it, I think there was one tape similar to that. It doesn't bother me as long as the beat's pretty good. And we always asked them to change the music when it's not to our liking, mostly due to a slow beat, unless someone objected and I don't recall anyone ever doing that. I think MGIAAG is kind of slow anyway.

Ok, I have a NSV (non-scale victory for the neophytes) to share. I knew I'd lost a little and am very close to Onederland. My clothes have been a lot looser, but when I try on the next size down, it's a little snugger that I want to wear. I work at a college and today we had a convocation where faculty march. A few years ago the chapel was refurbished, and whoever the idiot was that put the seats in thought we could just all be mashed together (I mean even the smaller folk aren't that comfortable). Frankly, I'd like to mash his head in one of those tiny little seats :heh: ...but I digress.

Anyway, when we march, I usually have to kind of scoot along w/ one foot in front of the other or walk sideways, but today, I could actually walk like a normal person w/out any sidling or scooting! I was so proud I wanted to yell hey, look at me! I'm not as fat as I used to be!!!! :whoo:But, that's what you guys are for!!!

Thanks for letting me share. I haven't lost a whole lot, but wow, I was smiling like a jackass eating briers!

[Linda51 0]

It is great to have those triumps. I haven't lost much considering it will be a year in sept about 35 but at least it is something and I have really started trying since july. I like curves because it is quick. I used to be a member of a lady gym and they would require a 20 minute bike ride first before workout then do the work stations and then bike or do some other cardio for another 20 min It would take about 1 1/2 hours yuck. Maybe as my energy level increases I wouldn't mind doing that sometime. Have about 65 more pounds to go

[crabcake 0]

It is great to have those triumps. I haven't lost much considering it will be a year in sept about 35 but at least it is something and I have really started trying since july. I like curves because it is quick. I used to be a member of a lady gym and they would require a 20 minute bike ride first before workout then do the work stations and then bike or do some other cardio for another 20 min It would take about 1 1/2 hours yuck. Maybe as my energy level increases I wouldn't mind doing that sometime. Have about 65 more pounds to go

See, that's the problem. My sister is retired and she has the time to do that kind of workout, but for us girls who're still schlogging along, who has that kind of time? That's what I liked about Curves too. Twenty minutes and you're in and out and you feel good mentally and physically!

p.s., Linda, love your avatar!

[Linda51 0]

I think yours is adorable just looked at the list and that one stuck out.

[crabcake 0]

I think yours is adorable just looked at the list and that one stuck out.

Thanks, that's my sweetie Tess. She loves me just like I am! :dance:

[NM Sunshine 1]

MistyMoon, I think I read something about that surgery. Is it one where they remove a lot of the small intestine and it becomes hard to get enough Vitamins and nourishment? Has to be awful to have to constantly head for the bathroom. That happened to me because of an allergy to a medicine I was taking. But I didn't know it was the medicine until I developed angioedema (a very dangerous swelling of lips, throat and bronci) Doc said I was lucky to be alive. As for the bathroom, it seemed like I was cleaning the toilet 4 or 5 times a day. It was explosive type of diarrea. UUGGGH

Isn't it wonderful that we can now have a surgery that is reversable if need be? I hear wonderful things about Dr. Ortiz. Do you have to do the liquid pre-op diet?

[nicnaknut 0]

Phyll.. I think you have me mixed up with someone else, because I am the one that lives full time in my motorhome and I am currently in the San Francisco area... My DH and I will be leaving here on the first of October for Colorado and I will have my surgery by Dr Kirshenbaum...

MistyMoon... Wow, you sure have been through alot.. Hopefully the lap band will be the last for you. Good luck to you and enjoy those grand babies.... (I've only got 9 and 1 great-grand)

Linda.... Now that you are trying harder, I bet the pounds will start coming off faster and your energy level will increase...

Thanks from everyone regarding Curves... I've often wondered if it would be a good program to try, but I don't know if I want to commit to a year contract....