When needed, how do you lose weight?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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When I broke my ankle twelve months ago my weight increased by 15kg - 33lb through inactivity.
Very easy to put on weight, not so easy to remove it. Especially as we age and joints become problematic.
I have started to attempt shedding buy replacing my usual Macca's breakfast with a fruit smoothie.
There has been the necessity to add another hole to my belt. Having shed 5kg - 11lb - over the previous month.
Not really going to exercise, just use dietary practices for now.
 

Bretrick said:
When I broke my ankle twelve months ago my weight increased by 15kg - 33lb through inactivity.
Very easy to put on weight, not so easy to remove it. Especially as we age and joints become problematic.
I have started to attempt shedding buy replacing my usual Macca's breakfast with a fruit smoothie.
There has been the necessity to add another hole to my belt. Having shed 5kg - 11lb - over the previous month.
Not really going to exercise, just use dietary practices for now.
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Weight loss has a lot more to do with reducing calorie intake than actual exercise, although exercise is important for improved health. Reduce carbs- less bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc. For myself, tracking and journaling my meals with an app called myfitnesspal has be a real valuable tool. Exercise is important, but if joint pain is an issue then focus on diet is even more important.

BTW, don't give up on movement, gentle movement and stretching helps joint and general muscle pain. I've participated in Silver Sneakers classes at the local gym, currently we have an Active Aging class that provides needed strength, balance and coordination activities which really benefits our seniors. I personally practice Taichi, and lead practice sessions on an informal basis at the gym.
 
DebraMae said:
I love working in the yard. I find that if I eat breakfast, spend the day working outside and skipping lunch, then have dinner I will lose weight. Just cutting calories doesn't seem to do it for me. I need the exercise too. Sounds like it is working for you though. That is great!
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The thing is, there is no hurry to lose weight. If I greatly reduce the high calorie items from my menu then eventually the weight will reduce. No matter if that takes twelve months or more. As long as I do not gain anymore weight.
 
When I need to lose weight/pounds, the only thing that helps me to
do so are adjustments to my eating. For me it is always portion control.

Also exercise, specifically for me again, that would be and is walking.

these two together work for me, when I put my mind to it, but I don't
always make the efforts.
 
Nathan said:
Weight loss has a lot more to do with reducing calorie intake than actual exercise, although exercise is important for improved health. Reduce carbs- less bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc. For myself, tracking and journaling my meals with an app called myfitnesspal has be a real valuable tool. Exercise is important, but if joint pain is an issue then focus on diet is even more important.

BTW, don't give up on movement, gentle movement and stretching helps joint and general muscle pain. I've participated in Silver Sneakers classes at the local gym, currently we have an Active Aging class that provides needed strength, balance and coordination activities which really benefits our seniors. I personally practice Taichi, and lead practice sessions on an informal basis at the gym.
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My weight remains consistent because I watch what I eat. If it started climbing, the first thing I'd restrict would be carbs. No question. It would be good if you could get in some exercise. Even a bit of walking, as LadyEmeraude said, but if you can't, you can't. You know what you have to do. ;)
 
Nathan said:
Weight loss has a lot more to do with reducing calorie intake than actual exercise, although exercise is important for improved health. Reduce carbs- less bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc. For myself, tracking and journaling my meals with an app called myfitnesspal has be a real valuable tool. Exercise is important, but if joint pain is an issue then focus on diet is even more important.

BTW, don't give up on movement, gentle movement and stretching helps joint and general muscle pain. I've participated in Silver Sneakers classes at the local gym, currently we have an Active Aging class that provides needed strength, balance and coordination activities which really benefits our seniors. I personally practice Taichi, and lead practice sessions on an informal basis at the gym.
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I was looking at the myfitnesspal site and where I am suppose to put goal weight it will not accept anything I put in.
It has - between NaN kilograms or greater. I do not understand what that means. My goal weight is 50kg.
Can you advise me here please?
 
Eat fewer calories than you burn, it's the only way.

Lots of tricks to help you do that, low carb, intermittent fasting, etc, all work if you eat less than you burn. I usually just track my calories, I use myfitnesspal, makes it easier. Exercise is good for you and can help, however as @Nathan says weight loss is more about what you eat. Its impossible to burn a whole lot of calories exercising, a few yes, but it won't make up for overeating. I know, there have been times I exercised to the extreme and still gained weight, just eating too much.

Not sure about the goal weight thing on myfitnesspal, but you should be able to start a food log, has that worked? Try to eat something like 1,500 calories a day and you should lose weight, don't go under 1,200 without medical supervision. And you can use the exercise log on myfitnesspal, but do not believe the calorie burned estimates. If myfitnesspal was right on my calorie burns I'd weigh well below zero. I just don't deduct anything for calories burned by exercise, whatever it is will just be a bonus.

All that said I do highly recommend exercise, good for you and makes you feel better, and maybe lose a little more weight.

Best of luck to you!
 
Jackie23 said:
....cut the carbs.
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That works for a lot of people, its worth a try.

One thing about going onto a low carb diet is that at first you can lose a lot of water weight. Carbs cause us to retain more water. For that reason you will hear of people loosing 5 or 10 pounds in the first week of a low carb diet. It's mostly water, not a bad thing I think it helps motivate people to stay on the diet. Like all the other diets so long as you eat fewer calories than you burn you will lose fat and weight, you can gain weight on a low carb diet if you eat too much.

People have lost weight on awful junk food diets, not a good idea but it illustrates the burning more calories than you eat rule.
 
LadyEmeraude said:
When I need to lose weight/pounds, the only thing that helps me to
do so are adjustments to my eating. For me it is always portion control.
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Years ago at work a nurse told me "portion control", after a few years of not following that advise, I started following it, and lost 120 lbs. Of course, going to the gym was a big benefit on many levels.
 
I have the opposite problem. Keeping weight on. I have 3 different sizes of waist pants. I have them sorted out in my closet. Doctor says my metabolism is too high. Question I have is how does he know? Is there a test for that? I have never known a test that has been performed on me that would indicate my rate of metabolism.
 
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