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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]55 year old woman here who’s watched her weight creep up into the overweight category.

At 5’5 and 141, you are at a normal BMI. It will likely take a huge effort to lose. Instead, I would focus on strength training. Step away from the number on the scale and look at lifting weights. You will feel better, and your clothes will fit better. And we need to maintain our strength.

My understanding is that Noom is based on a 1200 calorie diet. That’s hard to do.

Just my 2 cents. [/quote]
+1  it's the muscle mass loss which slows the metabolism.   I need to also do more strength training. I do a lot of stretching due to sciatic issues, which flares up with too much leg exercises.  I am going to concentrate on core exercises via planks.

FWIW. I'm 52, 4'11" and now 118.  I was about 108 to 113 in my early 40s, and then late 40s when I didn't exercise much, I was a whopping 125.  At my size and build, that is too much.  I cut back on what I ate, generally try to eat healthy and varied diet (I don't follow any fad diets, but I don't each much cheese or bread, but I do eat rice).  I love pasta and found that Barilla protein plus pasta is awesome -- tastes great and low carb, higher protein. When I had gestational diabetes, I found this pasta, and my glucose number was pretty low after eating this.  My nutritionist was amazed at how I could eat pasta and keep my glucose low.

It's definitely harder to lose any weight at this stage. Your metabolism has slowed down so much, and inconjunction with muscle loss, you have to work harder and eat less to lose any weight.

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