I'm still in my 40's , but have the disadvantages of being on steroids (pretty much have been for the last 10 years constantly, that won't change I can't live without them literally, and intermittently before that) but the big one is my mobility. 4½ years ago, I went from cycling 1,500km (1,000 miles) a month to bedbound overnight. Needless to say since then, double pneumonia and 2 major surgeries plus very lengthy stays in hospital and rehab, the last one being 4 months, I've struggled with my weight. Until then I'd always been fit, healthy, very active and slim, but heavy. Heavy to the point where nurses would weigh me, check the scales, check my BMI, look at me, and tell me they were ignoring it. It would have me down as very overweight despite me standing in front of them in head to toe in lycra and very clearly not overweight...
Now is another matter. It's still coming off. I'm still in the overweight category but I only need to lose another 3½kg to reach my initial goal. However, that isn't actually where my weight needs to be or where I actually want it to be...
It needs to be 6-8½ kg lighter. But in the last 2 weeks I've only lost ½kg in weight... darn annoying but it's very cold here, literally mid winter. Not the best time to be trying to lose weight however I must try. But I'm not being very active at the moment. For some reason, after being ill, we haven't restarted swimming. Our pool is closed for 2 months and going elsewhere is a drag with the wheelchair and getting me in and out of the water. I hate having to use a hoist to get in and out of the water and the alternative pool only had a hoist, not a wheelchair ramp into the water. Grrr. That means a lifeguard had to be involved target than us managing it ourselves. And I hate the attention it draws to me, especially as I'm actually a strong swimmer with a medium to fast pace. And we go away in 3 weeks time which is going to be hard work.
I guess I've just lost motivation. I've lost so much so far, yet the people who'll see me won't see that. They'll see that I've put weight on from when they last saw me (5½kg heavier than then! ) I've actually lost over 12½kg. I stopped being weighed (refused to be) when I reached a certain weight well into the obese category and passed the middle of that range as well. So I don't really know how much I've actually lost only that it's more than 12½kg. Darn, I'll be counting grams soon!