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Weight loss. Problems, solutions, what worked for you.
Healthy Living | Last Active: Nov 11 12:33pm | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
It seems carbohydrates are on the prowl when you get to a certain age. I am sure they are the culprit in my weight gain can't lose problem. When you are young you can eat most anything and burn it off but not with advancing age.
I do think a low carbohydrate diet is excellent for losing weight. It is too bad though as I like a lot of foods that have carbohydrates in them like bread, pizza, pastas. Just have to decide if want to stay fat or eat right. I make decision to eat right and the weight starts coming off. Then something like illness, deaths in family, comes and puts me under a lot of stress. Then my mind says give me carbohydrates I want to feel better and I don't give a dam about your diet. And of course the mental battle goes on with the mind winning eventually.
I am 76 now and this last weight gain is loose fat with a swollen stomach. I don't eat that much it is just the wrong foods and of course the high carb snacks. I want to be in high 170s and weigh 225. I seem to carry all the extra fat in my stomach area and around chest.
When I gained weight in my youth it would be all body weight gain. I sure like floralou comment posted today, "Weight is such a pain in the belly" I would add and the pain is very visible.
Has anyone tried the new medications that are being promoted that reduce hunger and cravings for carbos?
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I am 75 and struggle with the same decision making. I lost 22 pounds quite easily on 20 grams of total carbs per day and maintained keto for about a year. What helped me stick with it was listening to the speakers on Low Carb Down under on YouTube. We also quit sugar cold turkey and off keto now use mostly monkfruit sugar. We eat almost no ultra processed "food". We eat "real" food but the weight came back. The belly fat came back which indicates inflammation and metabolic issues. Heaven knows what my gut health is like but I eat fermented foods every day. Because of my age and being raised on the crappy SAD diet Americans have been led to believe is healthy I feel ill equipped to maintain a the keto lifestyle that I know to be better for my body. I made a conscious choice to return to foods that give me pleasure and comfort knowing that it will negatively affect me and recognizing that I am near the end of my life. At my age I recognize all of the strong associations of food with emotionally full events of life. I wish that I had learned about what my body really needed when I was a child but that was not my story and I am not going to be angry and sad about that. As my doc said to me when we were discussing my age and various body challenges, "Just Live!"