Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You’re 50. 132 is where your body is happy. It doesn’t care about those last 7 vanity pounds.

I get it and on some level I don't either, but I really do not want to have to buy all new suits, and cannot fit in my current ones. They're nice and I have also paid a bunch to have them tailored to fit my former body.

You’re 50 and it’s 2024. How often do you need to be wearing suits?

Anonymous wrote:I am 50 years old, 5'4" and 132 lbs. I would really like to get back down to around 126. I exercise daily, avoid processed carbs and sugar (except for a small square of dark chocolate per day), and am not intaking more than 1300-1400 calories a day. After four months of doing this, my weight has stayed exactly the same. I really despise HITT workouts, and cannot see myself sticking to them on a regular basis, but I do weight training in addition to cardio. Is it possible that my weight is never going to get to where I want it? What is wrong with me?

Anonymous wrote:

You’re 50. 132 is where your body is happy. It doesn’t care about those last 7 vanity pounds.

I get it and on some level I don't either, but I really do not want to have to buy all new suits, and cannot fit in my current ones. They're nice and I have also paid a bunch to have them tailored to fit my former body.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Try an anti inflammatory diet

This 100%! Cut out sugar, diet soda, caffeine, dairy, gluten, alcohol, pasta, beans and all processed foods. Eat vegetables and lean protein but include healthy fats in your diet like avocados, eggs, nuts ( not peanuts), nut butters and seeds. After ten days you will lose weight.

Anonymous wrote:Try an anti inflammatory diet

Anonymous wrote:I turned 40 a few years ago, and it was like a switch was flipped. I could lose weight previously, and can't anymore.

I'm a former athlete, who in his teens couldn't eat enough, and in my 20s didn't worry about anything, and in my 30s had gotten out of hand.

At that point, on doctor's advice, and through moderate exercise and an overhaul of my diet, I very successfully lost about 35 pounds, and could've stood to lose another 20, but I got complacent. Hovered in the range of about 25-30 down for several years. During the pandemic, it crept up, I turned 40 and it allllll came back. That said, before the big weight loss I was a largely sedentary person, a former athlete who was happy to have retired from doing anything at all. Since the big weight loss, I have remained a regular gym goer, I bicycle or peloton several times a week—in no way fanatical, but 30-45 minutes, 5-8 miles—and do a moderate amount of planks, pushups, situps, etc. I am 100 percent a more active and healthy person—but my weight won't go away. And that's keeping me from being a much healthier person that I want to be.

For the last two years, I've been battling it, and I can spend weeks and weeks very carefully monitoring my diet and getting excercise—lots or a little, doesn't matter—and I will very, very slowly see tiny signs of improvement, dropping a pound or two, or if I'm really diligent, 3-3.5lbs in a month of hard work. I know that a pound a week is a good number, and that it's a long-term project. So I'll feel okay. Then I'll have a long weekend with the in-laws, where I have no control over where I'm going to eat, and even doing my best to turn down beers and opt for the fish instead of the steak, etc., I'll come back... 4lbs up.

It's just water weight, bloating, etc etc I'll tell myself, but nope... if I get right back to the hard work, it'll hold steady at the 3-4 pounds up range, and then begin slowly ticking back down. If I don't immediately go back to the careful diet and moderate excercise it will start climbing.

I feel like it's one enormous grueling step forward, followed by two steps back and it's so exhausting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I turned 40 a few years ago, and it was like a switch was flipped. I could lose weight previously, and can't anymore.

I'm a former athlete, who in his teens couldn't eat enough, and in my 20s didn't worry about anything, and in my 30s had gotten out of hand.

At that point, on doctor's advice, and through moderate exercise and an overhaul of my diet, I very successfully lost about 35 pounds, and could've stood to lose another 20, but I got complacent. Hovered in the range of about 25-30 down for several years. During the pandemic, it crept up, I turned 40 and it allllll came back. That said, before the big weight loss I was a largely sedentary person, a former athlete who was happy to have retired from doing anything at all. Since the big weight loss, I have remained a regular gym goer, I bicycle or peloton several times a week—in no way fanatical, but 30-45 minutes, 5-8 miles—and do a moderate amount of planks, pushups, situps, etc. I am 100 percent a more active and healthy person—but my weight won't go away. And that's keeping me from being a much healthier person that I want to be.

For the last two years, I've been battling it, and I can spend weeks and weeks very carefully monitoring my diet and getting excercise—lots or a little, doesn't matter—and I will very, very slowly see tiny signs of improvement, dropping a pound or two, or if I'm really diligent, 3-3.5lbs in a month of hard work. I know that a pound a week is a good number, and that it's a long-term project. So I'll feel okay. Then I'll have a long weekend with the in-laws, where I have no control over where I'm going to eat, and even doing my best to turn down beers and opt for the fish instead of the steak, etc., I'll come back... 4lbs up.

It's just water weight, bloating, etc etc I'll tell myself, but nope... if I get right back to the hard work, it'll hold steady at the 3-4 pounds up range, and then begin slowly ticking back down. If I don't immediately go back to the careful diet and moderate excercise it will start climbing.

I feel like it's one enormous grueling step forward, followed by two steps back and it's so exhausting.

I feel similar. I’ve gained at least 5+ lbs in the last year and now another 3lbs since January. I’m very short so it’s a lot. And it was on top of a lot. I’m up 25lbs since my wedding. I watch what I eat, workout and am still gaining. I feel like something is wrong with how my body treats fat. I’m 50 and in perimenopause, just started HRT and I’m still gaining weight. Do IF, focus on protein, eat less than 1200 calories. It’s brutal.

Anonymous wrote:I turned 40 a few years ago, and it was like a switch was flipped. I could lose weight previously, and can't anymore.

I'm a former athlete, who in his teens couldn't eat enough, and in my 20s didn't worry about anything, and in my 30s had gotten out of hand.

At that point, on doctor's advice, and through moderate exercise and an overhaul of my diet, I very successfully lost about 35 pounds, and could've stood to lose another 20, but I got complacent. Hovered in the range of about 25-30 down for several years. During the pandemic, it crept up, I turned 40 and it allllll came back. That said, before the big weight loss I was a largely sedentary person, a former athlete who was happy to have retired from doing anything at all. Since the big weight loss, I have remained a regular gym goer, I bicycle or peloton several times a week—in no way fanatical, but 30-45 minutes, 5-8 miles—and do a moderate amount of planks, pushups, situps, etc. I am 100 percent a more active and healthy person—but my weight won't go away. And that's keeping me from being a much healthier person that I want to be.

For the last two years, I've been battling it, and I can spend weeks and weeks very carefully monitoring my diet and getting excercise—lots or a little, doesn't matter—and I will very, very slowly see tiny signs of improvement, dropping a pound or two, or if I'm really diligent, 3-3.5lbs in a month of hard work. I know that a pound a week is a good number, and that it's a long-term project. So I'll feel okay. Then I'll have a long weekend with the in-laws, where I have no control over where I'm going to eat, and even doing my best to turn down beers and opt for the fish instead of the steak, etc., I'll come back... 4lbs up.

It's just water weight, bloating, etc etc I'll tell myself, but nope... if I get right back to the hard work, it'll hold steady at the 3-4 pounds up range, and then begin slowly ticking back down. If I don't immediately go back to the careful diet and moderate excercise it will start climbing.

I feel like it's one enormous grueling step forward, followed by two steps back and it's so exhausting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You’re 50. 132 is where your body is happy. It doesn’t care about those last 7 vanity pounds.

I get it and on some level I don't either, but I really do not want to have to buy all new suits, and cannot fit in my current ones. They're nice and I have also paid a bunch to have them tailored to fit my former body.

Clothes fit people not the other way around.

You shouldn't be wearing 4 year old suits anyway.

^That is a ridiculous statement. You buy new suits every year? You're dumb.

That makes sense. During the week, my work day is pretty busy, so eating is not particularly on my mind. Some weekend days I feel hungry, depending on how busy I am with my kids. I don't buy unhealthy snacks for myself and don't particularly like the ones DH and the kids have around, so am not really tempted.


So you have kids and you are eating lean cuisines and frozen food for dinner?

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is wrong with you. You’re 50. Your metabolism has slowed, body composition is changing, and even if you still have your period you are likely in menopause.