Well, it seems I've put on 9 pounds over the past 11 months.

How do you keep from gaining weight when:

1) you're not able to do exercise of any kind (except shuffling around the house with my walker)

2) age (I'm 54) is not on your side anymore

3) the food choices I make have more to do with convenience and ease of preparing rather than nutritional composition

I do the best I can but I rarely have the fresh produce I crave since I can't make daily or every other day trips to the market.

I do get frozen fruit (blueberries and strawberries) and keep beans, rice, pasta, eggs and peanut butter on hand always since I can prepare larger batches then eat from it during the week.

I realize those are high carb and sometimes high calorie foods but anything else spoils after one or two days.

I bought canned green beans but they just don't taste like green beans to me.

I guess I'll just have to start making large batches of soup (veggie and/or chicken & rice) and eat from that.

I love red grapefruit and had been keeping a large container of it (cut up in small pieces) in the fridge to snack on but I read somewhere that you're not supposed to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice with some medications so I just stopped keeping it on hand.

What does everyone else do to keep the weight at least stable??

This is what helped me lose and then maintain my loss.

I took one per day (it says take two per day, but one per did just fine
& I saved money) and ate Lean Quisine TV dinners, usually 2 dinners
each day = One big meal per day, with snack at night.....(fat free
ice cream with small dark/light chocolate sauce or low fat choc chip
cookies or pretzel crisps w/low fat dip. etc....

While losing weight, I tried to keep Calories at 800/1000 and did lots
of PT type stretches and laying down/sitting exercises. To maintain,
I eat about 1200/1400 cal and still take my 1 a day GC capsule.

19.00 per bottle @ Amazon.

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Worked for me, anyway.

What is this? I tried looking up GC capsule on Amazon.com but couldn't find it. I tried clicking on the picture hoping it would enlarge but it didn't.

Help!!

Sally, I was trying to figure out what you were taking and could not really see it either.

I have been on a diet for the past three weeks. I have gained 60 pounds since being dx with ms 8 years ago. I have gained and lost about 40 of those at various times but a few weeks ago I was at my all time high.

I have lost 9 pounds in the past three weeks. 2.4 pounds this week. I weighed in this morning. At first I tried the Whole 30 program, but I only lasted 8 days at that. Then I joined TOPS and I am basically following a Weight Watchers diet. I am eating as much vegetables and fruits as I want and more lean protein and less bread, dairy, and other grains. I am also keeping a food diary. There's a free application called My Fitness Pal that a number of the women in my group use and I just downloaded it and started using it today.

Not being able to get fresh produce is hard. That is all I will eat. Thankfully, I can still get to the store and I have found that produce and fruit is less expensive here in Texas.

I am still working on the exercise part since any movement causes me pain of varying degrees in my back and leg. I am going to yoga now. This is going to be a long journey for me, but I am determined to eat healthier and not just lose weight but hopefully improve my overall health.

Barb, it sounds like you're doing very well on your plan. Thanks for the suggestion of My Fitness Pal. I downloaded it on my iPad and now it will be so much easier to keep a food diary.

One thing I have found is that if I need something sweet I keep frozen blueberries on hand and get a cup full of those to snack on. I keep some in the fridge, too, so they'll defrost and they're soooo good. I do the same with strawberries except they aren't as easy to eat while frozen so I keep a bowl of them in the fridge defrosted.

Why does eating have to be such an issue with me??!

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Trust me eating isn't only an issue for you ... And I do hope you'll like the my fitness pal app. My DH and I both used it when he was wanting to get in shape and start eating healthier. I was less enthusiastic about using since I knew it would show what I already knew (far too few calories less than 400 was my daily intake average) the opposite was true for the DH who was eating ten times my intake at an average of 4000 or so.

But it did help us both, I started forcing myself to eat more and slimmed down a bit and my hubby started eating less and slimmed down even more , he's lost almost 60lbs since August and though we don't really use it much now that we've fallen into our habits, it was a huge initial help. I definitely like it since it doesn't exlude any types of food, just gives you calories, the primary vitamins and minerals, fats, proteins and sugar.

Works if you're going omnivore, vegetarian or vegan with your diet.

You can also add your PT exercises to keep track of those too.

Kelly, A frozen banana is good too. I pretend it's ice cream.

I lost 64 pounds over a little short of two years. I reached my goal of 128+ fourteen months ago, and lost 4 more pounds besides.

1) The most strenuous exercise I get is usually going up and down stairs.
2) I'll soon be 65
3) I rarely truly "cook" anymore.

My point: it CAN be done. It's not easy, but it's possible. I used various sources to compute how many calories I should consume daily to maintain my goal weight--I figured if I kept eating at that calorie level, I'd eventually get there. For me, that's around 1350 calories. (I'm only 4'11")

I do a lot of label-reading, and choose the bread/yogurt/salad dressing or whatever with the least calories. I try to keep things sort of balanced, but nutrition isn't as critical to me now as it would have been when I was younger. I hardly ever go out to eat, so it's probably easier for me than someone who is frequently tempted. I don't have any problems with blood pressure or cholesterol, so I have some leeway there.

DelMonte green beans taste better (to me) than the other brands. I wait until they're on sale and buy a boatload of them.

Apples keep pretty well, and apple slices with just a whisper of sugar and cinnamon tastes like a treat. Grapes are my favorite fruit. I like carrot sticks dipped in light ranch dressing. Sometimes we only get to the store every couple of weeks, so we buy canned or things we can freeze.

I have a kitchen scale and weigh meat, potatoes, etc. For me, guessing leads to cheating.

It took me a few weeks to figure out what works and what doesn't. The ONLY way I'll ever avoid gaining it all back is to add up my calories every day. It doesn't work for everybody, but it works for me. After a while you memorize the things you commonly eat anyway.

Dove dark chocolate promises are 42 calories each. I eat two almost every day, unless I'm having some other splurge. It's a high point of my day, right after putting my jammies on

b2y And Sally I know you remember Jack LaLane. This video is hysterical!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPVfHnd3nk