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Old Fri, Mar-21-03, 10:25
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With all my heart I say lose what you want to lose now and keep excersizing. When I was 45 I was going to the gym and in really good shape, then an injury stopped me going for a while and gradually my fitness level decreased. At 45 I saw how many women in their 40's would begin to take on a sort of shapeless appearance and I thought (I was soooooo wrong) that they had just not taken enough care and if they would have watched what they ate and exercised a little they would still be in shape. I am finding out how untrue that is, nature really goes against staying trim as you age, it's definitely not impossible but it's hard work!!!

I know even at 34 it's not easy - but believe me it'll be harder at 44. I heard on the news last night that metabolism slows 3% with each decade of age. Women of course have a hormonal disadvantage that seems to double once the 40's are reached .

Sorry this sounds so discouraging, but I really wish I had been more aware of this before I quit smoking on top of it all. (Not that I really regret quitting, just the weight gain)

Anyway girl you got some years left before the BIG slowdown happens, so cheer up.
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Plan: New Glucose Revolution (ex Montignacer!)
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I'm 29. I was consistantly at most 110lbs until I hit about 24, when I quit ballet dancing (not professional! but very serious amateur) - moved from the UK to the US, and fell in love with what seemed to me to be HUGE portions of food! It was a bit of a slap in the face when the pounds started to pile on.

I hate going to the gym - bores the hell out of me so I don't do it. I find with yoga, you are using your body weight to do a lot of the resistance type stuff, so it has helped trim me down a lot. I tend to do hatha flow or ashtanga types, which are all about rapid transitions from position to position, which gets the old heart going.

At 5'4" when I hit my heaviest at about 155lbs - I suddenly realized that the huge portions had to stop, and I had to start on a healthy plan that I could maintain for the rest of my life. Break those bad habits as soon as I could.

So that is where I am now. I'm finding the walking, and running up and down stairs, is giving a bit of a kick start to the butt remodelling
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Old Mon, Mar-24-03, 04:30
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I hear ya Spang - I recently quit the gym, which is an odd move considering I'm trying to lose weight. I just found that I was getting into a 'forcing myself to go and then wallowing in guilt if I didn't' kind of cycle.

After struggling a lot for the past year and trying numerous low carb plans and going up and down and up and down in weight and feeling deprived and miserable I had this kind of epiphany that I would not play this game with myself anymore. It was funny, I had a big family event at Christmas I swore to myself I was going to weigh 120, so the preceding months were like torture trying to reach that number. I made it to 123 and thought I looked awful, and then spent the next 2 months eating and drinking everything in sight and went up to 140. A week ago I received some pictures from Christmas and my first thought was, oh my god, I actually wasn't fat. I looked good.

So now I'm eating foods from all the food groups, I'm enjoying my meals, I walk 1 - 2 hours a day and do ashtanga yoga 3x a week. I'm enjoying hikes on the weekends and cycling with my boyfriend. I'm trying to eat healthy and think healthy, if you know what I mean.

Even though as Koko says our metabolisms work against us as we age, and I certainly don't want to be shapeless at 40, I want to learn to love my body the way it is when it's at a good weight instead of struggling to be something I'm not.
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