Reply to 58 years old -- what's realistic about weight at this stage of life? (posted in Midlife)

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "58 years old -- what's realistic about weight at this stage of life? (posted in Midlife)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]55 here. At 50 my weight started to creep up, hair loss, insomnia, night sweats. Worse for me was some concerning cognitive issues. The cognitive issues were the thing for me that made me alter my eating - otherwise, I'm with the other posters that talk about acceptance. However, changing my diet radically improved things for me on all fronts. As for the weight gain, I too knew it was not about my diet. I am a super-healthy eater, and had logged things for a while. Losing weight with the methods I used to use was absolutely not working. I felt hangry when I tried. So back to diet. I read that dementia is like insulin resistance for the brain, and I was experiencing what appeared to me to be insulin resistance (look at Jason Fung on the obesity code, Dale Bresden on Dementia). Dementia is also worse with inflammation. I basically went Whole 30/Ketoish, and then experimented with the timing of eating. YMMV, but for me, eliminating grains, dairy, legumes, sugar and reintroducing regular meat (I had been vegan/vegetarian for a long time). My carbs basically come from loads of vegetables, often roasted with olive oil, fish, chicken, eggs, meat and nuts. I am not shy with the fats. I eat very infrequently. I don't monitor how much of those things I eat. I am almost never hungry, feel great, and am at a normal (albeit higher than my 20s) weight and have maintained it for several years. I do not miss the things that I don't eat, which I would have considered impossible earlier. Honestly, bread tastes like mushy, awful paste now. Not interested. Most, most important to me is that my cognitive function returned to what it had been 15 years earlier.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics