Just turned 60 and tried every diet and excessive exercise to shift the last 6 lbs of weight. Any ideas??

Answer 1

find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)

Answer 2

Yes Helen, some ideas for you. Hope they work.

1) Do not diet any more. 6 lbs is not to much to lose, you do not need a hard diet.
Practice good eating habits: Avoid or reduce fatty foods and sugar, even in your drinks, for many drinks have a lot of hiden sugar in them. Avoid or reduce white bread, pastry, white flour products, and white rice. Reduce alcohol intake.

2) Just have everything else: Veggies, lean meats, fish, fruit, etc. etc. Enjoy it.
I am sure you know how to cook it and how much to have to eat well and not overdo it. Do not get to worried with food.
A snack or treat every once in a while is alright too.

3) Do some cardio you like two or three times a week. Something you enjoy. Speed walking is great!
30 minutes of it twice or three times a week will be enough.
Or just find any other aerobic exercise you like and do it at a good comfortable pace (dancing, swimming, cycling, etc.).

4) Do some light toning exercise twice a week. Nothing really hard or for a long time. 20 minutes twice a week could be enough. Just tone your abs, back, arms, neck. There are many ways to do it, from yoga to Pilates, to light weights, to resistance bands, etc. Do what you enjoy.

5) Rest as much as you exercise, and the more active you are, the more you can eat and rest.

If you sustain your calories intake and increase a little the cardio and toning exercises, you will lose those 6 lbs in time and without much trouble. A step at a time!

Good luck.

Answer 3

Pat yourself on the back for only needed to loss another 6 lbs stop worring about eat and live healthyly watch the weight doesent start creeping on and hopefully it will start to go, At 60 its much harder to loss weight but I am sure you can manage just take you longer good luck

Answer 4

Losing weight is a simple equation: if you burn more calories than you eat, the weight will come off. Start off by estimating how many calories you burn each day using the calorie calculator http://straighthealth.com/pages/tools/caloriecalclb.html This will give you an idea of how many calories to eat. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. To lose 1 pound per week you need to create a calorie deficit (burn more than you eat) of 500 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, you have to double the deficit to 1000 calories per day. You can achieve this by eating less, exercising more or a combination of both.

Beginners Guide to Dieting - http://straighthealth.com/pages/guides/begdieting.html

Answer 5

i wish i knew . ive got about 6lbs to lose too. im my case i think a smaller wine glass might solve my problem lol

Answer 6

i know its not the answer your hoping for but i think that's how much you carry in feces in you intestine,

cleanse cleanse and purge the 60yo poo from them pink insides!!!!