To ask how you lose weight once you are over 50?

[Makemedoit]

Have put on 3 stone and struggling to lose it especially my stomach area. Has anyone managed to lose weight in their 50s and how did you do it?

Eat less calories, do more, same as at any age.

With great difficulty!

Boringly, there's no magic solution; just watching what you eat and exercising.

For me, it got much harder when I reached around 47.

I managed to lose around a stone and half which brought me back under 25 bmi.

It's a constant struggle.

Sensible eating, not depriving yourself of any particular food but include plenty of portions of fruit and veggies. My weight not changed but I go to the gym for classes a couple of times a week, have a PT and go with DH for a run at the weekend.

Same as before but you need to be even stricter. Add weight training.

No harder than before I was 50, actually. And after I retired I had much more time to walk, and I took up a sport as well.

White bread is a bad move . I very rarely eat it , maybe once a month I'll eat some toast but it has to be savoured and enjoyed . Only nice white bread to make it worth while .

It is harder to lose weight after menopause

I lost 1 and a half stone when I was 53 on the 5:2 diet . I lost it quite slowly. At 56 I amlighter than I’ve been for years but mainly because I run at the gymn. I don’t lose weight doing this but it does maintain my current weight.
And I never eat breakfast.

I've had to quit eating carbs, and calorie count. I also do cardio exercise and some weights every day.

Slowly.

I follow high fat low carb and intermittent fasting, its the only thing that properly works for me. I have started swimming and weight training. I have always found losing weight hard, but this way seems to be working for me and it seems to be getting rid of the that stubborn belly fat that only arrived in my late 40's.

Yes, over 50, post-menopause and I’m in the same boat. I was under 8 stone for 40 years, I’m still surprised by my current body.
Much harder to lose weight, I’m eating very few carbs, sticking to 600 calories every other day and walking when I can. Not talking about it though, as everyone says ‘Eat less, move more.’ or suggests activities I have no time to do.

I've lost 5 stones since age 50, by the boring old 'eat less, move more' method.

As everyone above, but also you can't target weight loss - if the last place the lard goes from is your belly, that's tough luck. I'm the same - I shrink from the fingers and toes inwards, which practically means I've had the belly for decades now. Sigh. But I'm a bit crap at keeping my intake down, I prefer to up my exercise instead which works out rather slower since it takes a lot of exercise to compensate for larger portions.

Slowly and steadily. One pound a week is good. It will take a long time but it's bette than crash dieting. You don't won't to be feeling hungry and I'll through lack of food.

MyFitnessPal - write down everything and maximise your calories.

I'd start very slowly and get used to eating less for a few weeks then I'd crack on and start calorie counting. I'd suggest starting with 1350 and seeing if you lose weight. If you don't then reduce the calories until you do.

If you like icecream then I'd recommend halo top icecream. I haven't tried some of the other diet ice creams but I'm sure there are other good ones about. A salted caramel halo top icecream lolly is only 80 calories.

I second weight training. Old flab seems much flabbier than young flab, so toning is important. Apparently it's lack of tone that creates the lowering of metabolism as you age, meaning weight is harder to lose.

Or maybe we get lazy, weak willed and complacent.

Whatever the reason, it's bloody hard.

Watching with interest as in same boat, but 600 calories a day😯

Get divorced. That's 13 stone gone.

I lost 2 stone by having to go gluten free - I don’t substitute as they are mainly not v nice so no pasta, bread, cakes biscuits etc
Then joined SW and have lost another 5.5 stone so far
I’m 55 and went GF at 50
1 stone to go

600 every other day!
I’m a teacher; no breakfast, snack for lunch and then either a large salad, stir fry or soup for dinner. Works well during term when I have no time, and I’m often tired in the evenings and sleep rather than feel hungry.

At 50+ you will find it a little harder to lose weight than say, at 25 years old but the same math is required; eat less calories than you burn. It's as simple as that.
I'm 51, 5'4" and 107lbs. I started to lose weight in March and have lost 28lbs, simply by eating less and burning more.
It's not magic, just science.

Your metabolism slows as you age but you can change this by doing weight training. Improving your strength like this has other benefits as you age including avoiding falls from frailty, etc. If you havent done weight training before, why don't you try half a dozen sessions with a PT?

Meth

Oh, and for fat loss it doesn't really matter what you eat, "good" or "bad" foods, so long as you're in a cloric deficit.

Ketosis works for me...and lifting weights!

Weights can also help prevent osteoporosis.