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How I Lost 48 lbs in my 50's and have KEPT IT OFF in my 60s! Chasing Time 3 abonnés
Jul 28, 2024
Welcome to my journey! In this video, I'm sharing my first step towards losing 48 pounds: learning to eat clean. Join me as I transition from processed foods to a healthier, cleaner diet and discover how these changes are setting the foundation for my weight loss journey. 🌿
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Hey, I'm Wendy and I
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Started this channel to help people in their 50s and beyond live a
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simpler greener healthier life incorporating wellness and clean eating into it and just
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So you can have your best life and perhaps even extend your longevity
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Doing so I lost 48 pounds When I turned 50 I went through a divorce and
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My parents ended up dying within five years of each other and having to deal with that and some other family drama. I
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slowly turned to food and just kind of ate the way I did in my
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20s and 30s and didn't really worry about it and before long I was 48 pounds overweight with
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high blood pressure and My doctor told me that I could have a heart attack at any time and I needed to be on blood pressure meds
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and I started taking the blood pressure meds and it made me very very sick and that on top of
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moving to a different state and Teenagers and Just life It was just it was very hard for me and so I made a decision that I was going to I
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Talked to my doctor and I said the meds are making me sick. What can I do? And he said honestly
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You need to lose 50 pounds and You can do that with diet and exercise
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but you're gonna have to make a commitment and from that day on I made a commitment and I
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Bought a exercise program and I started it the next day and I made myself do it every single day
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It was a 90-day exercise program and I made myself do it every single day for 90 days and I started losing weight
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but I Didn't follow the meal plan and I was still eating
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pretty badly fast food and processed food and All that and so I hired a
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Nutritionist to kind of help me out and I didn't realize you know, just all the processed food
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I was eating was really Harming me because there was so many bad things in it just because it's approved by the Food and Drug Administration
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Doesn't mean that it's good for you or that you should be eating it. So
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There's a lot of foods in the US that they don't they ban in Europe and
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We're still they're still selling it here. So I'm gonna tell you how I did it and
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Hopefully this will help you in making some of these decisions, but
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the first thing I did was I got rid of all my processed food and that's all the boxed foods and
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You know, I didn't eat a single vegetable and now I love vegetables
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But I just I didn't like vegetables at first and I had to like make myself eat them
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And now I really enjoy vegetables not all vegetables, but I still enjoy vegetables
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in fact I'm a vegetarian and I have managed to eat enough fruits and vegetables that it's kept me
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Really healthy over the years so and it's also Kept the weight off as I went through my 50s and 60s or going into my
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60s so processed foods or anything that's in a box sugary drinks sugar
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Desserts and I'm not asking you to eliminate all this but try and eliminate a little bit of it
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Fast food. I have not eaten fast food and 13 years not once so
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Was it hard to give up? I mean people say oh My gosh, how can you give up all these things are so good
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Well, you know when your health is at risk Yield you'll give up some things so you can have better health. I mean, I wanted to be here to see my grandkids, right
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so You will do that. So the first thing I did was I was a big soda drinker
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Drank like diet. Dr. Pepper all the time and I had to give that up
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so I never drank water and I ended up getting rid of all the sugary drinks all the sweet teas and
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having to completely Change there and it did take some getting used to
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You know, sometimes you have to sacrifice to be better So that's what I did I got rid of the soda not only was it unhealthy for me
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But it was loaded with caffeine and I had a caffeine addiction
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That just really needed to go away. So I made this commitment and
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The fast food. I mean honestly, it saves you so much money preparing food at home
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yeah, preparing food at home is a drag and it's Not fun, I
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fortunately have a husband that prepares all our meals, so That's really nice. But I
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Can do it too. It's just that That's what he does. So I'm very appreciative of that but I
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digress But the clean foods is whole fruits and vegetables Whole grains and there's so many recipes
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I Actually have a Pinterest site that you want to check out because I have saved
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So many recipes and I have them I have meal prep. I have clean eating. I have clean desserts
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Clean cookies clean appetizers. I've got all kinds of Things on my Pinterest site so I will link that in the description below so you can go and check it out
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but there's lots of Recipes there and honestly, these recipes are so good that you are not gonna miss some of the things in fact
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one of the things I did over the years was I pretty much eliminated sugar from my diet and I didn't think I'd ever be able to do that, but
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Sugar so bad for you It Just it leads to so many different diseases that I just wanted it out of my system
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once you give some of this stuff up you just get increased energy and
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mental clarity and just Overall well-being my doctor actually said that it looks like I was aging in reverse. So
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That's kind of nice and what you could do to start out is you could keep a food diary of everything that you eat and
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When you look back through it, you're gonna see some things that you can eliminate from your diet
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But you you want to do everything gradually. You don't want to go cold turkey on all of this
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That's for sure and it took me a while. It took me a while to really
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make a commitment and While I was first trying to lose my 48 pounds
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I was able to do it because I stuck to this exercise program and it was so important to me to be healthy
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That I just said I'm gonna do it and I'm not gonna look back
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Now I know that's hard for a lot of you to do. And so if you just do
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bite-sized pieces of it it will help you so much and You know, I can give you healthy swaps from
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Eating a bag of Doritos, for instance. They have clean brain-free chips
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of Siete and you can buy them at Whole Foods or Fresh Thyme any type of store like that grocery store
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They even have them at Kroger But you can get chips that are very similar to Doritos, but they have
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Whole Foods in them instead of all the chemical junk that they put in
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to these cheap snack items Took me a while like I read labels like crazy and anything that had added sugars or unhealthy fats
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trans fats and Artificial ingredients I just got rid of the artificial ingredients are made in a
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chemistry lab so I Eliminated those completely if you'd like me to talk more about that
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Please let me know in the description and I will be glad to share my experience of that with you
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But there's just so many things that you can do like when you go in the grocery store
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You just stay out of the middle of the grocery store and shop the perimeter, right? I mean the perimeter is
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fruits and vegetables followed by meats followed by dairy and You just stay out of the middle where all the processed foods are a lot of times
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We will do a lot of meal prepping for the week So like a I made up a batch of overnight oats and portioned amount into
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Containers in the refrigerator so they were ready to go now I've got a lot of those on my Pinterest page and you will need to go there to check them out
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But it's very simple to do if you just take some time on a Saturday or Sunday
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You can meal prep a lot of things that you can just pull out of your fridge and heat them up
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And they're ready to go there's also meal prep services to if you're too busy to do any of that they're more costly than if you
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Do it yourself? obviously, but you've got to have whatever works and there are some meal prep services that are very clean and healthy and
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Overcoming challenges eating out eating out is a challenge for sure so we have to kind of plan the restaurant ahead of time and
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A lot of times we'll look for a really healthy type restaurant or a vegetarian restaurant something like that
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but if by chance we're meeting friends or having to go to a
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restaurant that is a national chain or something like that you can get a salad and
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Hear it out there But we just don't spend a lot of time eating out and it does save quite a bit of money over the years
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so Let me know if this video was helpful to you. I will be making more videos every week
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Please like and subscribe and I will talk to you next week
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