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[Joopoo]

Want to lose weight. V hard. Age 48. Post-menopause. Been slowly gaining 3 stone for last 5 yrs.

[Hidden]

Welcome. You're in the right place to start your new path to a healthier slimmer you. Did you read the post 'welcome newbies'. This gives you a lot of introductory information. The forum is very supportive. I would read that for starters, download the 12 week plan, calculate your calorie allowance and stick to it rigidly. Drink water and try to move more. It will work. Good luck

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[Stephb]

You've come to the right place for support and you sound like you are ready to lose some pounds. There is a welcome post here healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh... which has links to the NHS 12 week plan which may be helpful to follow - so maybe check that out! Also look out for a post Monday mornings - weigh in day! - (as Florence181230 just mentioned too!)

My mum says it is harder to manage weight when you are older- but it can be done. Good luck and keep us posted.

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[Theobald]

I am the same and I am

Finding it extremely hard to loose any weight at all. I am 47 and have put on over 3 stone over the last 4 years. I find it takes me a fortnight to loose a pound and if I go out or have a treat I put four more back on! It is not very encouraging but what is, is the support of everyone else 😊

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[Hidden]

Morning Joopoo! I'm 48 and a couple of stone had crept on in recent years so I eventually found this forum. I've shifted a stone with the lovely people here from late Sept to Dec, and if I can do it so can you! I'm looking forward to chipping away at the rest in 2016 - it went on slowly and this last stone will probably go slowly too. I'm happy with that as long as the trend is good and my head is in a positive place.

Good luck to you - may be check out My Fitness Pal on your smart phone or PC? It's free and great for logging calories, activity and weight loss progress (nothing like a downwards graph to motivate!).

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[Hairyman]

Welcome, some have written that loosing weight is harder for older people. Well, let me share my experience while I can still remember this past year.

I am 73 years old and after35 years of cycling to & from work where I would be on my feet manualy handling on average about a ton of timber a day. I retired @ 65.

Went from 11.5 st to 13.10.

My neice was getting married and I couldnt get into my suit so I stopped eating sweets, cut right back on potatoes etc and got into it @ 12st 6lbs, just.

last January I weighed 13st 6lb found this site but did not sign up for this forum till 4 weeks in.

Those 4 weeks were hard. mostly I stuck to the calorie allowance. but that weight was, as you have found, very slow.

Then on this forum I found links to articles about how damaging sugar is to our health.

I started searching the web. what I found was horrifying!

I started to look at Cakes and saying Poison! Yeah, out loud. People thought I was nuts, till the weight started falling off as I started an exercise routine.

It worked (alongside the 5:2 plan that I also read about here).

Down to 11st 6 lbs after 6 months. wow.

Trouble, I think it was winston Churchill who wrote " the price of peace is eternal vigilance." any way the price of health seems to be the same as I now weigh 12st 3.

I reccomend searching the net for articles on sugar While I was doing it I found no problems on turning away from bad food.

I restarted the 5:2 diet yesterday and will post results in 2 months time.

look forward to hearing of your succes Bye.

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[DrKae]

Hi everyone. Me too. 48 yrs still pre-menopausal (!) female single mom and recent immigrant to UK with new job at university. After I had a baby at age 37 (weighing in after the birth at 120lbs) and had gone through a divorce a year later, I steadily gained 10 lbs / year until I hit over 200lbs. My most recent weigh in was at 82.7kg and BMI of 32.3 which is down from over 90kg and over BMI 35 last June. Since June I've successfully completed C2-5K and now running for one full hour three days/week as well as having dramatically changed eating (for cholesterol control) and overall activity habits. I get stress induced asthmatic attacks from physical activity like ascending stairs so I think being able to run for 1 hour is a truly great achievement for me. It's depressing having only achieved a 7 kg loss over a period of 6 months and coming to realise that all that truly hard work is not enough to achieve the 0.5 kg / week that is the goal of the NHS program. It's also depressing to not know how to continue with weight loss and activity when I've been rather ill with bronchitis, severe sciatic nerve pain, a virus and a fever all over the past 4 weeks. There's much more to my story, but there it is in a nutshell in terms of weight, activity, and eating.

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[moreless Administrator SS Supercook 7 stone]

Hi and welcome Joopoo,

Have a look at this and see if it rings any bells for you

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

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[knitsandcodes]

This is my first post - i joined before christmas but didn't have the motivation to start eating right til now. im 49, with 2 stone to lose. We'll do it!

[Joopoo]

Thanks & good luck