I have fat balley. I need to reduce my weight to 65 kgs. Please help me you anyone has any suggestions. I am finding it very difficult to manage. Got to loose some weight in the tummy. I was going to give up, but I was told that I look 65 I really am 86 yrs old so I decided to fight my fat. I was thinking of going on the Mediteranian Diet. Greetings — I will be 65 next week. I have spent the 3 years losing lbs. I have been trying to lose the last 30 lbs for 8 months now.
I am so depressed about it. I do not have a thyroid so my metabolism is at next to nothing. I have been looking for a senior weight-loss group online for about 2 years and have not found one other than Weight Watchers, and a couple others that want money to join. It should not cost money to have friends to lose weight with. Anyone here tried it? Can I use this site more than once? I would really like to have some weight-loss friends to do this with? I research before putting anything into my body. Ginger — It seems that a Japanese diet would be healthy eating.
Maybe I should do more research into that. Basically, they eat a lot of fish and avoid red meat. I can handle food issues and though I walk slowly using a walker, I can cook healthfully for myself. My problem is that with feet and leg vein issues, I cannot do enough walking to strengthen my legs, arms.
If anyone has ideas, I would certainly appreciate it. Due to financial issues, there are many things I cannot afford to do like gym memberships, specific foods and supplements, etc. Lucky if I can afford living expenses, high insurance premieums, and medications. I know many seniors are in the same boat, so there must be good ideas out there. Now days everything is geared towards young people.
All my life my mother had me on this diet or that diet.
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You want to read a silly thing? I only weighed 2 pounds when I was born. Friends out there I hope you can help me. I am 68 years old and started my lifestyle change when I was 67 years old 9 months ago. I call it a lifestyle change and not dieting. In 9 months I have lost 65 pounds, I still have many more to lose. My starting weight was lbs and I am now lbs. This is the only one that worked. I eat calories two days a week and to calories the remaining 5 days.
Besides losing weight it has helped me change my eating habits and also helped me live in a world where there are a host of foods that make one fat. I have learned moderation and control. For me it has worked. I hope I will be able to continue and lose the rest of my unwanted weight.
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I want to add I did not exercise to begin with but slowly I started using the treadmill and now I have graduated to two sessions a day of 35 minutes starting at 3 mph and going up to 4mph. I must add 13 years ago I was pounds. With different diets I cam down to , but the most effective diet was the since it changed my eating habits totally.
I found it educated me as well as changing me physically. Nina I was so happy to hear about your success. I could use some email pals or pen pals to write to when I am discouraged. I became very scared about my health when I got sleep apnea and it was discovered during surgery. I am anxious to learn about other seniors who have been successful.
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The comments were all helpful for a person who was just told by my Doctor that my lab work indicated that my weight is a big problem. At 68, l must make immediate lifestyle and diet changes to lose 40 lbs. So glad to have found this site. I am 66yrs old and desperately want and need to lose about 20 lbs. Every night, I promise myself tomorrow I will do this but tomorrow never comes. Maybe knowing there are other people in my age group struggling, it will give me some motivation.
I have always enjoyed my exercise. Three months ago I have restricted my diet to under calories per day and increased my exercise regime by 15 minutes now 45 minutes minimum. I do not take medications other than 5mg of zolpeden for sleep and have no physical limitations. What else can I do to increase my weight loss? I turned 67 in January. I have never had a weight problem.
My usual weight would be in winter and in summer…and regain in winter…. Lunesta was very effective with no side effect the next day but it is very expensive. I am 77 and weigh I want to lose weight,about 15lbb. I cannot function on less than Moderately active, treadmill, exercise tape, and will e adding weights. Any advice for me? This is not true. I counted caoriles from my former way of eating and then when I went on a low-carb for 6 weeks.
I lost 22 and hit my goal. During that time period, I ate roughly the same amount of caoriles. In my case, I was eating roughly the same amount. I am concerned about my weight and had hoped to get helpful information on your site. No comments relate to a 90 year old person. I can find no help at any website I have found on line to make me aware of what my average weight should be.
As a much younger woman, my weight remained steady year after year at pounds. I will turn 91 in May and I weigh When I was 89 years old I was at pounds. I am gradually losing weight and wonder when it will stop. Doctors do not say that I am sick. I eat regularly, but small portions at all sittings.
I have never been a big eater. So, what should my weight be as a 90 year old Caucasian female with a height of 60 inches and small bones? I am 65 yrs old. In a two yr period I have gone from to by making some right choices. No diet , just common sense.
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No alcohol , no tobacco , no processed food at all ; and a lot of exercise. When I started it was an experiment, not knowing where it was going to lead. I have not weighed this little since my teens. Could I have some feed back. I have never had a weight issue until the last ten years sneaked up slowly so I really have no idea how to lose 30 pounds. I still work and have a couple issues with my knee and IT Band, which limits how I can exercise. I had to stop yoga because it made the knee and IT Band worse.
I do have a treadmill. I have a slight heart condition and the cardio doc said I need to lose some weight. My issue is time. I grab yogurt, hard boiled eggs or something along those lines to eat on my way to work in the car. Work consists of me sitting for most of the day. Dinner is a green salad and a piece of fish or meat. I have around cups of coffee a day and the rest is water around 3 bottles. Snacks are fruit or popcorn. I am an active person, except I am getting tired lately after work and find my self sitting on the couch most week nights. Any ideas on how I can lose 30 pounds would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Grandma, I get the time thing. Time is my enemy. I have no idea why you could way pounds eating what you do. It sounds like a plan I would love to follow. I have a husband to take care of and grandkids and great grands around to eat sugary treats so Its hard. You may want to talk to your dr. Might have a sluggish thyroid. You sound like you are living a very healthy lifestyle. Good luck to you. I will be 66 this year and I have lost 75 pounds since last April through Weight Watchers and beginning walking. I could only walk a few blocks when I started and I now walk 5 miles each day.
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I now use Myfitnesspal which helps me track the calories I eat and adjusts the amount alloed based on my Fitbit synching, this works very well for me for maintenance. Since October, I have gained 15 lbs. It was then that I stopped working not my choice. I have had a difficult year with health issues but nothing that needs to be chronic. As a former WW leader, I know how to eat but knowing is not doing.
Because of a few health problems, I have not been exercising. Hopefully, I will get some help when I see the doctor. I am not dealing well with the aging if it has to include all of these physical infirmities. I will never be slim but want to be healthy and comfortable in my skin. But I take responsibility for what is in my power to change. Thank you for allowing me to get this out there.
Having to see it in print will help. Judith, Did you have any problems with the WW as far as time? I have researched them but the best way for me to join would be online and There are problems with their online services. I have read some reviews on it. Would love some insight on this. I am now 62 and for the past year I have eaten nothing but chicken, fish, and all kinds of veggies.
No pop, only water, maybe enough bread in a year to make a loaf, no dairy products, no pasta and yet, believe it or not have not lost one pound.
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I even use a kitchen scale that tells you the carbs, fat, etc, and use it faithfully. Any suggestion would be welcoming. I recently had to under go a pretty intense bariatric surgery. The whole process leading up to the surgery was traumatic for obvious reasons. I credit my super quick recovery to the blanket. I was able to get back to exercising in no time. I have been able to lose the weight faster because I was able to start my exercise routine quickly after surgery. Here are some facts about the system http: Mina age 90,My father followed the same pattern as you.
He was very healthy and came from a large family,his siblings followed the same pattern of losing weight when they aged. The doctor seems tohave told you your health is fine. I am quite busy all day taking card of home and disabled hubby. My question is will swimming mns. I love to swim and if I get some feed back maybe will encourage me to do more. Hey there, I have been continually tormented by fact that losing weight seems impossible.
Personally, alcohol had to go! Using it as a crutch to stop the pain as we age is ludicrous at best. Just research how it affects the liver during metabolism. No weight loss can possibly happen. Okay, gravity affects us all, but swimming reduces its effect as we exercise. And what a wonderful effect it can have on all of the major muscle groups. Just try treading water for 20 minutes.
But the good news is with the loss of muscle mass and the unfortunate increase of the other mass, we float easier! Being a type 2 diabetic, it is always a challenge to eat right. Just educate yourself, it becomes less difficult. My best advice is, downsize your everyday life. That means in all aspects of your life. You are number one now and without you, no one that you care about can be helped when you are dealing with this huge personal problem. So, suck it up and change your life today! Wishing you the best. The Japanese diet seems to be pretty healthy, Ginger, except for the sodium content in it.
They basically eat a lot of fish and vegetables. The vegetables are simmered in a broth. This information is very useful…… thanks for sharing…. I do thank you for reading my scenario and hopefully will see some commentaries on the next coming days.
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Linda, we are the same age and although different gender, I find it more difficult to lose weight now than I did 2 years ago. Like you, I have not done anything differently. I count calories, do steps a day and stay active. As mentioned below, I also take medication for my acid reflux. The aging process certainly plays a big role on our weight loss and I find it so difficult to even lose two pounds nowadays. Good Luck with your health. Nonetheless, I try to do my 10, steps a day and eat fairly sensible. I, too was a food junkie and loved the sweets.
It is very difficult for me to lose weight. The med increases appetite and breaks down food differently. Try walking as you walk you can go slow i have bulging disk and one herniated ive had shots put in my spine so no jogging or gast walking allowed but i now can walk 3 miles. I also have gerd so i do yake a pill each morning for that. Despite remaining active in my 90th year and suffering loss of appetite I haved gained weight over the past 18 months.
I am the sole Carer for my disabled son who lives with me. I have arthritis and had a hip replacement in due to arthritis. U can eat everything just eat small amount if u stop eating what u like altogether your body frets portion size and walking at least 15mins per day. Visceral fat makes more of the proteins called cytokines, which can trigger low-level inflammation, a risk factor for heart disease and other chronic conditions.
It also produces a precursor to angiotensin, a protein that causes blood vessels to constrict and blood pressure to rise. Researchers at Harvard have discovered that, compared with subcutaneous fat, visceral fat secretes more of retinol-binding protein 4 RBP4 , a molecule that increases insulin resistance.
As the volume of visceral fat increases, so do levels of RBP4. The connection is so strong that researchers are developing a blood test for RBP4 as a way for physicians to measure an individual's store of visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat produces more of certain beneficial molecules, including the hormone leptin, which acts on the brain to suppress appetite and burn stored fat. Adiponectin, another hormone produced mainly by subcutaneous fat, helps protect against diabetes by regulating the processing of fats and sugars; it also has an anti-inflammatory effect on the linings of blood vessels.
Adiponectin is made by visceral fat, too, but production falls as fat volume increases. A tape measure is your best home option for keeping tabs on visceral fat. Measure your waistline at the level of the navel — not at the narrowest part of the torso — and always measure in the same place. According to official guidelines, the bottom of the tape measure should be level with the top of the right hip bone, or ilium — see the illustration — at the point where the ilium intersects a line dropped vertically from the center of the armpit.
Don't suck in your gut or pull the tape tight enough to compress the area. In women, a waist circumference of 35 inches or larger is generally considered a sign of excess visceral fat, but that may not apply if your overall body size is large. Rather than focus on a single reading or absolute cut-off, keep an eye on whether your waist is growing are your pants getting snug at the waist?
That should give you a good idea of whether you're gaining unhealthy visceral fat. Visceral fat can be measured in a variety of ways. CT scans and full-body MRIs are the most precise, but they are expensive and rarely available, so investigators often use estimates based on waist circumference or waist size in proportion to height see "Gut check". To ensure that they're not just measuring overall obesity, researchers also check whether a person's waist circumference is higher than average for her or his body mass index BMI.
Several studies have documented this effect.
For example, a large study of European women ages 45 to 79 concluded that those with the biggest waists and those with the largest waists in relation to their hip size had more than double the risk of developing heart disease. The risk was still nearly double even after adjustment for several other risk factors, including blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, and BMI.
Higher visceral-fat volume also has a deleterious impact on several other heart disease risk factors. It tends to increase blood pressure and blood sugar levels, raise triglyceride levels, and lower levels of HDL good cholesterol. Taken together, these changes, known as metabolic syndrome, create a serious risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
In , a consensus group of medical professional organizations agreed that abdominal obesity should be recognized as a major feature of metabolic syndrome. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente found that people in their early 40s with the highest levels of abdominal fat, compared with those who had the least abdominal fat at that age, were nearly three times more likely to develop dementia including Alzheimer's disease by their mids to early 80s. Dementia was not associated with increased thigh size.
The risks were highest for women who were both large-waisted and overweight or obese. The investigators believe that belly fat raises the risk of asthma more than other poundage because it has inflammatory effects throughout the body, including in the airways. What are the lines on my neck and how do I get rid of them? Stretching your neck on a day-to-day basis can train the skin to be taut rather than loose. Try to sit up straight when on a computer or laptop, holding your head up high. Sleeping can help tighten it too if you try to sleep with your neck long — ditch two pillows and stick with one to reduce the angle between the face and the neck.
Pout your lips as though you are kissing the ceiling and hold the pose for a few seconds. Like a mini paint roller, they are designed to aid lymph drainage and blood flow, eliminating puffiness, kick-starting facial muscles and plumping out wrinkles. We've been giving it a whirl and it's pretty amazing the instant results - friends have told us our skin looks 'refreshed' and more toned. RF skin tightening is used for firming and removing the appearance of sagging skin around face, neck and body. The heat helps tighten existing collagen and stimulate the formation of new collagen over time, which reduces sagging, renews contours, and improves the smoothness and texture of the skin's surface.
Your neck contains fewer oil glands than the face, so the skin can get dry and wrinkle easily. Just as you apply serum and moisturiser to your face, you should give your neck the same love. Take your cleanse-and-tone routine to your neck and finish with a sweep of a cream using upwards motions to boost circulation. Why am I always hungry?