Hi folks!
I'm in my fifties and I've had weight issues my whole life -- fattest kid by far in elementary school, lost weight on my own prior to HS, been in a yoyo pattern since then.
It has gotten harder as I've gotten older, and I guess it will continue to get harder. I tried to resolve to keep the weight off each time, but that never worked. I ended up sort of accepting that life would be a series of diets followed by periods of weight gain (during which time I was eating the kind of healthy food that most people (including me) eat to lose weight, just not counting cals or carbs).
The problem was that as things got more difficult during the diet phase, I had a harder time working up the mojo to go back into diet mode, even after passing my supposed "red line." It was just so darn miserable tracking all my food and planning each (pathetically small) meal.
For those of you who are facing weight issues for the first time, small changes in your lifestyle may make all the difference.
For those of us who have lifetimes of weight issues, we need to seek out new strategies. If nothing else, trying something new helps with the mind game. I'm trying a new approach that does not involve calorie counting, and I'm losing weight slowly but I'm optimistic that I will be able to keep up this lifestyle in maintenance (assuming I get that far with it).
If that turns out not to be the case, at least I've lost some weight, and I got the benefit of feeling optimistic, lol.