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[quote=Anonymous]I am 53.  I have a Fitbit.  I walk an average of 15-18k steps a day. 10k at an aerobic pace (HR:&gt;120), 4 days it is 60 minutes on a treadmill at 3.2mph and 6% average incline and on the weekend it is for 4-6 mile hikes.  The rest include leisurly paced dogs walks and 10-20 flights of stairs a day.  I bike on a stationary bicycle 30 minutes 4 times a week(I go as fast as I can which iturns about to be just over 10k in 30 minutes at level 4).

I eat 1600-1800 calories day. If I eat less, I get migraines and the shakes. No added sweeteners, almost gluten free, broccoli/cauliflower/kale every day, mostly caffeine free, mostly alcohol free.  Steel cut oatmeal for breakfast every day.  Lean locally sourced meats.  I drink about 80-100oz of liquid.  Tea, decaf coffee, mostly water, ginger tea.  No sodas.

I am almost 200lbs and am 5'7'.  I recently lost some weight (40lbs) but it has plateaued over the past three months.  Weight gain was due to my negligence over a number of years when I put other things above me on my priority list.   However, I only lost weight when I started on metformin.  I have insulin resistance.

So at this point I do what I do to maintain.

My suggestions is to just start eating less and better and move more. Figure out what you like to do for exercise and make time for it.  Put it at the top of your priority list.  We are all different.  I know people who eat more than me and do half of what I do and are as skinny as they come.  We get the body we get and need to make the best of it.  [/quote]

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