I'm a woman in my 50's with grown kids. I have a busy life with work, church, and other volunteer activities. I don't like to cook and working out is tough for me. I'm not exactly the "athletic" type.
I've always struggled with my weight. I lost the "college 30" after my wedding, then years later successfully lost the baby weight after having twins. While raising the family, though, weight slowly crept back on until five years ago I found myself weighing what I weighed when I was carrying the twins. And the doctor said my blood pressure was high enough that the next year I would probably have to go on meds.
So I got going and slowly lost 40 pounds. No magic pill or magic program. Just slow, steady changes to my diet and level of exercise. Through it, my blood pressure dropped way down and my fibromyalgia, which had been flaring up a lot, decreased dramatically. Depression issues, which I've also dealt with through the years, also decreased. I'll be sharing in later posts more about how I lost the weight and how I hope to use the same tools to do it again.
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