Hi all I'm 69yr old female weigh in 14st 2lb According to your charts I have 4st 11lb to lose to be in centre of Healthy Weight. Scary. Tried all sorts diets . Most ever lost 1st. Not strict enough with myself..
Would be grateful for any tips and Support THANKYOU.
You've come to just the right place Missie, have a look at this 
Here's another thing that will eventually go onto the welcome pack Missie. It's a thread for our current challenge, to help people get motivated to exercise more
Don't worry about the amount you have to lose. Just stick to the plan and every lb lost is a positive step towards a healthier slimmer you. Take it one day at a time. Good luck you can do it
Firstly, you are further then most....you have recognised you need to lose weight, are ready to do change your lifestyle and found this forum for support. You should be proud of yourself for that! You can do this.
I use any chart or measure with a pinch of salt. Technically, I'm obese using the BMI calculator too (just over 30), but have run 11 half marathons and 3 marathons so haven't got too bad fitness! Use this as an indicator not a strict measure. You know your body best, as Florence181230 said concentrate on smaller goals first to keep you motivated and have something to celebrate.
Check out the links moreless has posted too which will help with food plan and exercise. Believe in yourself, those pounds will soon be dropping off.
Keep us updated!
It is nearly a year since I started my weight loss journey through NHS 12 week program. I think it must have taken me four or five months, maybe a tad more. Believe me it works. You will be a new woman. Confidence and happiness will be restored. I am your age so my advice is : don't rush or despair. One step at a time. One small goal at the time and you will get there.
Something very very important : from my experience, because of age and our skin losing its elasticity, weight loss must be done slowly and with some sort of fitness. I took up running. The C25K program. Your body just reshape itself. Stop losing weight if you start getting wrinkles. I purposely kept the last few kilos having reached size 14. Then decided to increase my calory intake to stay the same weight. Now and again I make a pig of myself and just go back to 1400 calories for a couple of weeks. It works.
This 12 weeks program is not a diet as such, it teaches you how to eat sensibly and healthy stuff.
Hi Missie1
I'm a 69 year old female too, 14st 5lbs when I started a week ago. I've just been diagnosed with pre-diabetes so now I have no choice but to lose same amount of weight as you. I don't think I've been that weight since I was a teenager! I cannot imagine being around nine and a half stone!
In a bizarre way this diagnosis has made it easier to diet. I simply don't have a choice - I can't dither around wondering whether stuff can be allowed as a treat - I know if I don't alter the way I eat drastically then I'll get diabetes 2, which is serious. So I don't think any more - I know what breakfast and lunch are every day. Dinner can alter day by day, but never includes pudding. Have thrown out all sugary stuff. Given up baking. So far I've lost 3 lbs - though I know I always lose quickly to begin with. Trying to hide the scales so I don't get depressed if they don't show weight loss! Trying to walk/swim every day for 30 mins - harder to do than I though as I'm very busy. Struggling to give up sweeteners in tea and coffee but I've decided I ought to. Lousy weather doesn't help either, does it.
It's a hard slog but this time I WILL make it! So can you, I reckon. Signing up here is the first step and we've managed that. And I have never posted on any board like this, ever! I'm not a great digital world person, but I had to reply to you as you feel like my mirror image. So the very best of luck with it all and I hope it goes well for you. When we're both 9 and a half stone, we ought to go shopping together for entirely new wardrobes - with our old clothes falling around our heels!
Best of luck, onwards and upwards - I suppose that should be downwards!
can I come too? that's my when I was young weight
Certainly can!! Armani, I assume!!!!
THANKYOU so much for the inspiration sorry to hear about Diabetes you will succeed I'm sure . You sound very positive, which is a great for me. Love the idea of us on a slim shopping trip.haha. Please stay In touch perhaps we can stop each other getting bored at night and eating naughty stuff. X
I am 66 and went to dr for well check and when she weighed me I was 14.2 st in the evening with clothes on, but even so that was my wake up call 9 weeks ago .I am now12.1 st and almost at my first real target 12 st which was weight I got to for childrens weddings and felt ok, but I used to be 9.st 7lb so am now aiming for goal of 10.7 for easter I am 5ft 9in. So hope you get on well just aim for half stone at a time with a realistic date in mind. You will feel so much better.
I'm 5'5" and I felt so much better a few years ago when I only got to 12st 11lbs. Looked so much better too. But I slipped back into my bad habits! Like I said in my post, all choice has gone now! Makes it a bit easier as I am obviously a weak willed soul who needs someone to take control of me!! I had to laugh though, there is an Armani outlet shop in York and I was telling my husband when I've lost all this weight, I'm off there. They always look soooo snooty and super thin that I barely dare look in the windows now! But everything appears to be beige - yuk! Obviously I'll have to find a designer more to my non-beige taste! Now off to enjoy a sugar free coffee. Oh joy!
Everything will fit so we will have loads of choice definitely not beige or grey. I don't wear anything that colour as I was blonde its now still blonde and I spend money on a good haircut as you can sort out your hair quite easily. I am making sure I look after bits which are easy like nails shoes accessories etc as it makes you feel more confident that the rest is possible. We will be thin and fit again! x
I understand the beige thing totally. I'm old but not that old I prefer orange or Purple.x
No we're not old, you are as young as you feel, think young, I love purple its my favourite colour I wear it a lot with black its my winter colour. In summer I like blue with denim. Colour is very important to mood. I have just changed my pink car which I loved for a yellow beetle which I also love. Every time I drive it I feel good. Best wishes
Thanks skinny Lizzie, well done you look forward to achieving myself.
What lovely supportive replies you have received. I'm 67 and need to lose a few stone as well so come on ladies. We can all do it.
I still colour my hair and have blonde streaks in it - but very subtle!! I totally agree - enjoy shoes, decent haircut etc. We are, after all, overweight, not some sort of devil's spawn to be consigned to the outer reaches of hell! (Though there are times when I think that's how the world perceives anyone over a size 10!!) Well, the sugarless coffee is growing on me - I can taste the coffee now, not the artificial sweeteners!
There seems to be a number of us ladies of a certain age and weight - sooo good not to feel alone any more! Hope you all have a great day - I am off to humiliate myself for 2 hours playing flute sonatas with a friend - haven't touched the cello all Christmas, and it shows! I wonder how many calories it'll burn! Obsessed - moi? Surely not!
I hope you have uplifting time playing your flute, I have one but cant play. I bought it 20 years ago when I was teaching kids tin whistle in a school in a very poor area. They were cheap so they could afford them but were something different from a recorder, this was secondary school. I wasn't a music teacher but do play saxophone so when they got keen to move on further 5 of them bought flutes so I thought I had better learn so had lessons for one term but then moved schools so I still have 10 tin whistles and books and a flute. Perhaps this will be the year I try again especially as one granddaughter is learning. You just reminded me. New challenges!
Hi
This journey we are all on is to change our attitude to eat more healthy think before we put in our mouth we all want the same goals loose some weight and feel fitter
We are. All here for you
Hi Missie1,
Just wanted to say I'm just about an identical situation to you weight/age wise. Don't have any words of wisdom to share but just wanted to let you know you are not alone.
I spent ages last weekend on the NHS Change4Life website, printing off meals I thought would be half-decent. With one exception (a birthday party) this is day 5 and I'm still hanging in there on about 1300 cals a day. Trying to do the NHS 12 week programme.
Anyway, best of luck!
sixty and 14st 13lb so, I know how you feel. I stuck to the calories suggested and I'm heavier than I was last week, whats going on.
I started loosing the first week weighing everyday although I know I shouldnt. I lost a pound a day for the first three days and then put two back on!! This stayed the same for three days and then suddenly the scales showed the original 3lb loss plus another one. So 4 lbs first week - I have learnt my lesson now and am going to resist the scales and try to only weigh once a month!! try not to get too disheartened. The loss will come. We just have to be patient! Ask yourself if you feel better and healthier? The scales will catch up x
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