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?

*keto

I lost 1.5 stone when my son announced his engagement. No way was I going to be a fat Mother of the Groom in 5 zillion FB pictures 😁

Did it by My Fitness Pal, 1200 calories a day.

I learned to just accept that being hungry doesn't actually kill you.

Also exercise 4 hours a week.

Very low carb, portion control, get a Jack Russell! I also have a little cleaning job so get a work out 5 days a week. Live in a hilly place!

I have had to accept that I'm either going to have to count calories and lose my addiction to feeling very full, or die young.

I learned to just accept that being hungry doesn't actually kill you.

Got ill. Didn't eat for 2.5 months. Lost 4 stone. Always said it was the only way I'd ever do it. 😂. I'm keeping it off now it's gone as well !!!!

I'm doing it now, lost 6 lbs in 2 weeks so far. I use an app called LoseIt! and count everything I put in my mouth. Paid the annual fee and it coordinates with my fitness tracker, so I can "earn" bonus calories by walking or burning more than usual. I could never get into any of the diets that asked you to give up a particular food or food group. When I did low carb, I would enter everything into LoseIt! and saw that even plain vegetables had more carbs than I wanted, and I couldn't live on meat alone. This is the age old formula. Eat fewer calories, exercise more. If you want biscotti or ice cream, work it into your daily calorie budget by reducing calories elsewhere. It's working brilliantly for me.

Following as I'm 46 and feeling the same

I learned to just accept that being hungry doesn't actually kill you

Actually, that kind of fucked up view of sustenance can lead to eating disorders. Which absolutely can and do kill you.

Well that escalated quickly

Code monkey seems to be into extremes; divorce, dire warnings about mental illness. Next idea, chop off a leg.
I found waiting until I’m hungry before eating worked well, and recognising simple hunger then exercising some self-control fora while. Grazing doesn’t work well for me.

Codemonkey maybe I should have spelled it out, but I thought it would be obvious that saying that feeling hungry sometimes doesn't kill you, at the same time as mentioning 1200 calories a day, was in the context of a slightly chubby 50 something trying to go from a size 12 to a 10 🙄

No impossible. I went and had a gastric band.

I'm 58 and very overweight. Since retiring last month I have lost a stone through eating more healthily and doing some proper exercise, which working and commuting for long hours had previously left me too exhausted for.

I still have a long way to go, but I'm feeling much better for it and my body is looking more toned.

I'm not counting calories and still allow myself chocolate treats. The only thing I have really given up is bread. And not being at work means I don't constantly graze on biscuits or cake that people bring in!

I began with what I call the ELF diet (Eat Less Food) Whicj basically meant smaller portions of everything so that I felt that I wasn’t missing out. I lost about 25kgs.
Then neurologist put me on medical keto diet (not Pinterest version - I eat heaps of veggies) with intermittent fasting. Lost further 35kgs. So down 60kgs and maintaining. Only 47, but post-menopausal, so I consider myself in the same demographic.

Get your thyroid function tested. I lost 3 stone without trying once I started on levothyroxine.