Reaction to being told you cant lose weight over 50!

You can & I have

I've lost weight and I'm seventy. I feel so much fitter and have more energy.

Last year I did the 5:2 diet and lost some weight. But some went back.

This year I have reduced my sugar intake and have reduced in size down from a maximum size 20 trousers to a size 14 (not skinny leg trousers yet!).

Read carefully how much sugar is in processed food. Look at the details for 100g of the food and the percentage of sugar in the product. It can be quite shocking how much sugar is in savoury dishes, sources and fruit juice. Sugar makes us gain weight.

For more information regarding research in to the effects of sugar and how to reduce your weight read David Gallespie's Sweet Poison, and The Sweet Poison Quit Plan. Eat all you favourite foods but avoid sugar and low fat products. If you look on Amazon your can read the introductions for free. Robert Lustig on You Tube is also interesting.

At over 70 I lost 2 stone with SW and have kept it off for 2 years now. Regrettably I've been yoyoing since and failed over the next 2 years to lose more. Must try harder!

Can you tell what the 5.2 diet is please

It's a diet where on 2 days of the week you restrict your calories to 500 (for a woman) and eat normally the other five days. The two days ought not to be consecutive I think.

I believe there is a whole thread about the 5-2 diet

The 5.2 diet didn't work for me. I lost a pound on the 'fast' days and then promptly put it straight back on on the eat days although I stuck to around 1,000 to 1,100 calories. I lost a stone at Weightwatchers over a two year period, three years ago but that's slipped back on. I'm trying to cut down on fat at the moment but nothing much seems to shift it. Dodgy knees and hips stop me doing much exercise, can't even use my legs to swim. I tried rowing at the gym but that just made me hungry!
I need to loose a stone to stop being in the overweight category. Any suggestions welcome!

I eat through boredom, and when I go in the kitchen I want to eat something. Have absolutely no willpower. Before Christmas when I was told I was a type 2 diabetic I was so good and lost half a stone,but now really struggling.
But will make a new start.

menopause added weight
after menopause all but about a stone came back off.
do come from family of tall slim women tho

genetics and medicines do effect the out come

I've lost 11 1/2lbs in 5 weeks on SlimmingWorld, next weigh in tomorrow, I may have gained this week because of my birthday lunch with family yesterday (I'm 66) - but I'm back on track today and determined to lose another stone.

I'm 58 and have so far lost 6lbs at slimming world.
Last year I lost one stone for an operation.

Since the age of 19 I have been a yoyo dieter.
I need a reason to get my butt into gear.
I have tried so many times to lose weight under my own steam, but always fail.
I have to pay up and do a weekly weigh in.

This time it is for a family mi!e stone birthday party.

Having said all of that I do eat very healthy food.
Fish, veg, fruit.
But other things obviously make their way passed my lips

lot of rubbish just like the folk who say your hair stops growing when you pass 50..if mine hadn't been cut every 6-8 weeks it would be knee length..IF you want to lose weight you will

it seems to grow in more unexpected places too!
Although my eyelashes have got a bit sparse.

DH and I have lost half a stone each and I said to him this morning that this is not the time to relax - onwards and inwards is the way to go!
However, we do have a couple of meals out booked

I have recently started the 5:2 diet having read about it on this forum. I have read the book and feel quite inspired by it. I have been on it two weeks and have already seen a difference. I am feeling really positive about this eating plan

I commented when this was a new thread but just wanted to say that I have now lost almost 4 1/2 st . I am definitely over 50.

72 and lost stone and a half between last October and December
at 5 4 ( lost three inches to osteoporosis) and now just over 10stone I feel about right any lower and I ll start going wrinkly
You can lose weight at any age if you put your mind to it I put weight on when I eat too much ....simples

Well I lost 6 stone four years ago when my marriage broke up. Narcissist ex was playing mindgames with me. I just completely lost my appetite. Now i am in a better place i have gone back up to 18st 7lbs!! I went to an Allen Carr hypnotherapy seminar in January and after being a chocaholic all my life, don't touch the stuff now but still can't seem to lose weight by trying to eating healthily and cutting down. In my teens to 50s I lost weight so much easier. It defo is harder when you're in your mid 60s.

I was told this by my blood pressure nurse. I have lost weight recently as I'm not well ( gall stones, liver and pancreatic problems) so I can't eat anything containing fat ans the nausea stops me from picking and eating large meals

I keep meaning to try and lose weight, but then I think "why bother now I'm over 60". The wrong attitude, I know, but I am also put off by the fact that it definitely is harder once you're past the menopause.

Recently I had a tummy bug and didn't eat for nearly 4 weeks, lost 5 kg, but my trousers were still tight. (Where did it go?)

DS2 has announced he will be getting married in 2 weeks. I wonder if I can lose some weight and shape up by then?

I've lost 1st 7lbs in the last couple of months on SW. I'm 66

I'm 82 nearly 83 and disabled with a very bad back which causes me a lot of pain so I have to take a lot of meds and I think that they slow down my ability to lose weight along with the fact that when the pain is VERY bad I cannot stand long enough to make myself a decent meal so I have to grab what I can from the kitchen and that often means I not only eat all the wrong things but I indulge in much more than I would ordinarily eat.. I am very sedentary and can't exercise so with that I find it very hard to lose the weight but then to keep it off!
I started to diet in 2010 at 226lbs and by 2014 I got down to around 190lbs but I'm now back at 209lbs which is most disappointing but I am determined not to give up!

It is really simple....eat less and move more. As we age our metabolism does slow, so we need less and we are less mobile. Maintaining a healthy weight in this day and age with so much food available and in temptations way can be tricky. It takes discipline, but certainly is possible. Personally I think fancy strict diets don't work. Simply eat healthy food and not too many carbs and sugar and watch portion size and the weight will come off with a bit of exercise thrown in!

I think that the most of us are aware that eating less and moving more is the ideal way to lose weight but unfortunately there are a lot of us who don't have simplistic lives and very often the term walking in other peoples shoes comes to mind!

At the age of 52 my weight was creeping up and I thought it's now or never (wanted to loose a stone). Joined slimming world after a friend done well with them. Well it's been a revelation, lost 7lb in six weeks and cooking good food from scratch, and cutting out the rubbish. As I really put my mind to it I have found it quite easy. So I really think it's all about determination.

Complete rubbish.
I didn't need to loose any weight but went on a restricted diet because I was pre diabetic and lost one and a half stone and I'm 72.