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@mos13foxtrot Ha ha! When my kids were your kids ages, I was a SAHM for a few years and their dad traveled constantly. So I signed up for a gym that had babysitting. It was the only 2 hours a day M-F I had to myself-- including a HOT SHOWER! Needless to say I got pretty fit. Life just threw...

@mos13foxtrot Goddamn you look like an athlete!! Thank you, and I read every word. I'm shorter and older (empty nester of 2, they grow up fast!) but have very similar aspirations and just signed with a personal trainer to give me a kick start. Your story is very inspirational for me and I could...

@evachristine OMG no!!! I'd totally have a home gym if I had the space. I don't, I'm in a condo. I was happy when my building put in a small gym, it's just dumbbells, bench and a cable thingie I have yet to use. What I love most about it is that I can just walk down to it, work out, come back...

@jacksoncris We're built the same! I am a newbie here (been lifting since May). I do remember early on, I would get shaky after a workout. But it wasn't carbs I needed, it was protein. So I began drinking protein shakes post-workout. Flash forward to months later and I do have days where I am...

@catd I'm 57 and the recovery is no joke. In my 30s I could lift weights 5X a week while marathon training, with just one day off. Now? I am finding that I can still build muscle going just 3x's every two weeks (so one week I go 2x and the next I go just once). Took me awhile experimenting with...

@panozaa_allbet I'm doing Lift with Cee on Youtube and at the beginning of the workout she says you should increase your weights when you can, but otherwise doesn't harp about it during the workout itself. I am really liking the workout as she just gets into it without much commentary besides...

@dsaly1969 If you like this content, go on r/loseit. This is a fitness sub.

@theknightlight I was just like you at your age. Then in my 20s I started regularly walking this 3 mile loop, at a leisurely pace. It was a totally flat loop with no hills. Initially, I couldn't make it the whole 3 miles, but over time I could. I walked that loop for a good year, about 5x's a...

@cthelight7 Everyone gave you great advice especially about your diet. I'm a newbie of sorts too -- getting back into it again after a very long time (more like a couple of decades). I just want to say that I am not even anywhere near your level yet! I'm still making progress but with dumbbells...

@butterfly2222 But you're losing fat, and that's what everyone wants, no? Nobody wants to lose muscle and bone. Most of us want to gain muscle and bone, right? This is a fitness sub, not a weight loss sub. And this is why Ozempic and other GLPs work, perhaps. Ghrelin and Leptin is important...

@monaco Your calves are one of the strongest muscles in the body. Personally, I'd love to have big ass strong calves.

@g3ntl3w4rri0r It wasn't always that way. I'm 58. In my younger days, having a small butt was all the rage. So my butt and your butt were perfectly in fashion. My only complaint about my rear end is that it can hurt to sleep on my side, or to sit too long on a chair without padding. Because...

@butterfly2222 Lettuce, fruit, tabasco.... do you not know that the body burns as much calories consuming such things as to make such items basically less than calorie free? I appreciate your posts but you have a long way to go, report back after you've maintained your weight loss for years...

@arist007 If you're losing weight, you're in a calorie deficit. Regardless of what you think your TDEE is and what you think your workout burned or what you ate. This is 8 years old but highly highly helpful; it'll calculate your true TDEE:

@whitab I buy the yogipace leggings on Amazon. They come in various styles and lengths (I have them in 23" and 25"). I think some of the styles come with a tie waist, to help prevent them from rolling down. Mine don't have that feature but I can say that sizing down fixed the hitching/rolling...

@montana1056 Somewhere on r/loseit there's a link to a google sheet someone created that allows you to figure out your own personal TDEE. It works by calculating your daily weight gain/loss against your calories consumed. Over time it'll give you an accurate calculation of your TDEE. I've got a...

@butterfly2222 Should there also be a disclaimer about one just having less muscle mass? r/loseit folks with a lot to lose, in the obese category, naturally have muscle mass to schlep the excess weight around, so the CICO advice is appropriate. But on this sub we have many "skinny fat" types...

@jamsie My post was about cutting 150 calories out of your diet. A can of Coke is 150 calories. So you could replace that with a diet Coke, or just drink one less can of Coke (if you're like my husband who drinks a case of diet Coke each day).

@joyinyah Okay try the chips for your first sheet pan meal! You can slice them thin or in wedges, doesn't matter. Follow the steps, preheat oven, line baking sheet for easy clean up, toss in a TBSP or so of olive oil, pepper salt, spread on that sheet pan. Potatoes may take longer so keep the...

@krae991 I'm 57 and over the decades I pretty much lost my sweet tooth. I may indulge in a 1/4 cup of ice cream once every few months. I didn't even eat the wedding cake at my kids' weddings. I just don't have a taste for it anymore. But, it was a process! I grew up eating sweets All The...