Weight loss in your 40s &50s....80% food?

[Meretricious]

What do you think. I’m active, gardening, walking , Pilates, circuits...because I want to stay flexible and mobile and keep my strength.

But weight loss is food isn’t it....

Any success stories that aren’t low carb or very restrictive.

Being mindful not to eat as much is how I manage. As you get older you should be eating less.

If I do ‘overeat’ one day I cut right back the next.

You have to as it’s harder to lose weight as you get older.

I'm doing keto and my weight loss is extremely slow, maybe a pound a week, and I do some strength training every day. I don't think I'd lose anything if I didn't restrict carbs massively. I'm 46

After years of diets and putting weight back on I have finally realised it has to be sustainable. I am over 45 so weight is defintely harder to shift as well.

I am slowly changing habits. I started with having a sensible breakfast, porridge when at work and at the weekend reducing portion size so 1 slice of toast and 1-2 bacon rather than 2 toast and 4 bacon. Once that became a habit I looked at lunches and then dinners. Now I am working on making better choices for snacks and drinks.

I am still having takeaways and fast food but making better choices or recognising that if I eat a lot one day I need to just compensate for it the rest of the week. Much better than when on a diet and doing that common thing of thinking stuff it when you have had one 'bad' meal so it turns into a bad week/month.

I can't cut out food groups or follow 'diets' anymore as it just goes back on when I stop but this way I have slowly lost 6.5kg. It can be a bit disheartening to not have the big immediate losses if you are used to 'dieting' and for some weeks I have not lost anything but I track my weight on an app which shows the overall trend is down even if I fluctuate a bit.

Intermittent fasting (no breakfast) and 1000 cals a day. Was losing 3lbs a week but now slowed to 1. Am 57 and was fed up of looking matronly. Decided to lose 1 stone and am 8lbs down.

Been doing this lately which has worked well for me and is pretty easy to do.

Calories
1200-1300 a day
Macros
70-75g protein 70g-75g carbs and 70g fat per day
Pattern
Intermittant fast of 14 hours fast with 10 hours eating window, with food evenly split into three meals evenly spread across the eating window.

In practice this means a meal is usually something like 100g chicken or 150g fish/seafood, half a cup of cooked rice or three/four new potatoes, whatever veggies I fancy and olive oil.

The eating pattern sounds complicated but it works out at something pretty normal. So eat breakfast a couple of hours after getting up (which suits me well anyway) at 8-10 am depending which day it is, lunch at 1-2pm and dinner at 5.30-7.30pm.

If I go for a run I can eat back roughly those calories after the run. I know calorie tracking can be a bit out (I use an Apple Watch) so I am conservative about how much I eat back, say 75-85% of what’s recorded as active calorie expenditure.

The best thing about getting to your 40s and older is that you stop caring about what others think.

So, with that in mind, I recommend a weekly regime of going out and dancing and replacing your main dinner with vodka and a slimline tonic. You'll not only lose/maintain weight but you'll feel great.

I'm only half joking.

I'm 58,grasped the nettle and have joined we online.I tried all the above but lacked discipline.
I am using it to limit portions size and alcohol(my main weaknesses).
I am doing it slowly and mostly eating the same food as before but tweaking so over time retraining by brain.
One stone down so it is working.Im not really restricting much,don't feel too hungry and it's working for me

I'm 59, I've lost 5 stones over the last 2 1/2 years, so pretty slow. I just basically eat less food without calorie counting and be as active as possible. I walk at least 8 miles a day.
I eat wholeneal bread, brown rice, ordinary pasta all in recommended portion sizes, 5 a day (3 veg, 2 fruit) , vegetarian apart from fish a couple of times a week. I eat quite plain ordinary food, things like beans on toast and porridge.
I do eat cakes, biscuits, sweets, crisps, etc but just like one normal size thing at a time, and not every day.
I never eat takeaways or fast food, I just don't like them. Also mostly teetotal.
Yes it all sounds a bit boring but I've got back to the stage of eating because I need to and not for fun, well at least most of the time. I've just had a couple of weeks off, lol.

TheCunkOfPhilomena I think you are on to something. Seriously.