What are your biggest challenges from being 50+ ? Topic

Kiramori 10/22/12 replied to Tinkerasgbell03
Welcome and you can do it!!!! It's not an easy journey but it is one that has been well worth it!

Kiramori 10/22/12 replied to Bubbles2012
I understand. It's getting colder here and I don't want to go outside, not even to the gym. But we will do it!!!!

Zann 11/30/12
I have three major challenges:

(1) I work from home, so I'm sitting in front of the computer all day, within walking distance of the kitchen.

(2) I have some fierce hot flashes which can make exercise unbearable at times.

(3) I've moved back to Mississippi to be near my parents, and I'm surrounded by Southern cooking (fried food, sweets, junk food) when eating out.


I know what I need to do to overcome all these challenges, just hope I'm strong enough to do it this time. I've used MyNetDiary for several years, off and on. When I use it regularly, I see results until I fall off the wagon.


Here I am again, starting over. :)

Jyan 12/02/12 replied to Zann
At 58 I am so tired of yoyoing. I have committed to logging all my food for a year. When I stay on track, I have no problem losing weight, but I seem to fall off the wagon regularly. I am DETERMINED to change that. I want to be mobile and healthy for as long as I live and be able to play with my Grand Kids. 10 weeks into MND and going strong!

A-n-n-e 12/08/12 replied to Zann
Hi Zann,

I can relate to the starting over. I've been using mnd for a whole year and have yoyo'd, so now I am exactly where I was last year. I'm trying not to beat myself up, but it's hard. Anyway, wondering if you would like to join the group Getting Fit for Life. I thought if we could get a core group, we could try to motivate each other when it's needed. I putting this invitation out to all who see this post. It would be great to set a goal and maybe all get together for a celebration (personally or skype)

Zann 12/10/12 replied to A-n-n-e
Thanks, I've signed up! :)

Bloggins 01/02/13 replied to Tinkerasgbell03
Another old sweat here, but in Canada -- not much good as a walking partner. I know exactly where my self-discipline went: into the rabbit-hole with my military responsibilities and the dear old sergeant who ragged on me. Now I have to be my own dear old sergeant, and I'm tired of the sound of my own voice.

I've been out a very long time, and will soon be out of the Civil Service, too -- I have worked for years as a civvy in an operational command headquarters, surrounded by folks in uniform. I'm eagerly looking forward to getting away from the wretched computer and my colleagues' communicable diseases. If only I could enjoy their company without catching their damned colds!

Here's to getting my life back ... Hope you see it that way, too!

LMK 07/20/14
I wonder how many of the folks who posted to this group are still actively using MND. I seriously need someone to be accountable to. I do well for a few weeks and then I get too busy and stop tracking what I eat, and the rest is history. I wouldn't say I am way overweight, but I could stand to lose. But most of all, I need to figure out how to MAINTAIN. Anyone else like that out there?

Malpeg 07/22/14
I check these boards daily. I still have 25 or so pounds to go before I reach my goal. My goal is 15% body fat. I'm 59. I've lost weight multiple times in my life. I am committed this time to keeping it off. I'm going to have to log foods from now on.

Bloggins 07/24/14 replied to LMK
I am still actively using My Net Diary (18 months and counting), and for the first time in my life I am maintaining a major weight loss. It's early days yet as I hit my goal sometime in the late winter, and I won't consider this a done deal until I've been in the middle of the BMI normal range for at least five years. (Yes, five whole years.) So far, the price of "normality" seems to be frequent and regular attendance at the gym for rigorous workouts, backed up by constant attention to the quality of what I eat. That attention boils down to three questions: first, "Am I actually hungry?" followed immediately by "Is it delicious?" and "How nutritious is it?"


Oddly, by combining the "delicious" and "nutritious" criteria, I have adjusted my idea of "delicious" away from many foods that I used to find irresistible. The entire range of fried potato options, from crisps and chips to hash browns and home fries, has dropped right out of my personal repertoire. I just don't eat them any more. The "cake" food group has shrunk dramatically, as my taste for butter cream icing has atrophied. Likewise, white bread has lost its charm.


Throughout, I find myself listening to a constant debate between my child self, which screams for the simple fatty, carby sweets I craved at age eight, and my rapidly aging adult self, which wants its somewhat tattered digestive tract to operate quietly and efficiently. The child self is louder, the but the adult self has all the best arguments. My job is to refrain from eating until the adult self has clobbered the child self into silence, and then carry on with a dinner of broccoli and a lamb chop as if I were sane.

What are your biggest challenges from being 50+ ?