No kidding...it stinks trying to lose weight being olderby Adie (Login schoolraider)What I've noticed the most is that the daily calorie guidelines do not work for me at all. I had a kinda "aha" moment reading an article in Prevention Magazine once. The article discussed losing weight at every age like 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. In the 50s section they said the main challenge of the 50s was getting all the necessary nutrients with fewer calories. Well, to that point, I hadn't thought about that I'm in my 50s and I don't need as many calories--which is why the calorie or point guidelines were not working for me at all. I also read a section from the "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" book, and his position was...use the feedback from the scale as a measure of result of your diet. So if I am not losing weight it's time to review all the factors and make changes. I got so locked into aspects of different plans I was on it never occurred to me to think: hmmm maybe I need to cut calories or change up the Fat:Protein:Carb ratios, or change the time of day I'm eating Carbs, increase exercise time or intensity or vary the exercise program daily...whatever. He was saying start with the guidelines then evaluate the results and make modifications as needed. That was my "Doh!!!" moment LOL!!! Usually I just gave up..like nothing works for me. He had a big section on plateaus and I realized well there were actually a lot of things I could change that I didn't think of at all. Some plateau busters that have worked for me so far are: 1. Varying the Fat:Carb:Protein % of calories so some days heavy on the protein and others heavy on the carbs and and others even carbs/protein. Things like that. 2. Varying the exercise patterns every day. So some days like 2.5 mph/3.0 mph (yeah I'm a wimp here but that is all I can do now) vary by minutes, vary the incline up and down during work outs things like that. 3. Change what time of day I eat types of foods like I load the mornings with fruits and the late afternoon with vegetables. 4. Drink more water. 5. Eat smaller amounts more often. 6. Vary calories (points in your case) per day but end up with the right weekly average. So one day eat 25 pts, next 18, next 20, etc. 7. Change how many calories/pts you have during different times of day...for me I load calories in the morning and taper off all day but eat frequently. But I have to be careful to eat enough at a time all day otherwise my weightloss will come to a screeching halt. 8. Adding a calcium supplement has helped me but then I need to since I cant do dairy or most leafy green vegetables. 9. Personally I have to evaluate if I've become allergic to anything because that makes me retain water if I eat things I'm allergic too. 10. Drastically reducing my daily sodium intake has helped a lot. I hope you can leave the current plateau soon!!! from IP address 24.15.136.121 Respond to this message Return to Index
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