In 1976 I went to a hairdresser who swore he would make my fine, thin hair look great. After paying $100, going home and having a good cry, I came to a decision. I would never again pay someone to ruin my hair when I could do it myself for free.

Since then, I've been cutting and coloring my own hair.

This week I made the decision to try one more time and I actually have an appointment this Thursday. Who knows. This time I may be happy with what happens. Then again, it may be another 40 years til my next professional hair do.

Hello ladies!! The last time I did low carb I didn't fit into this group LOL But now since I hit the big 50 (two years ago) my body and the way it packs on the pounds from certain foods made me decide that I am coming back to low carb and this time it's forever. I lost over 80 lbs the first time and now have gained every single pound back and a few more. I just finished week one of induction and am feeling ready to start back in the forum. Have a great day everyone!

I see that you're planning a new "do" as a reward. But why not try it out now? Short hair can be very becoming, in addition to being carefree.

Not to mention that a reward can be for progress, not just the end.

shewolf, welcome to this thread.
I'm going to be 73 this year.
You are right to tackle this at your young age.
I, like you, took it off.
Not once, but many times.
Each time it was harder, the older I got the harder it was.
Now it seems almost impossible.
Go for it young lady.
N2L

Hi Everybody,

Something about approaching 60 (year and 1/2) has kicked my butt (along with losing my mother and other family health stuff) and I've never been so determined to lose weight and get in good shape for the future. I even joined a gym (me! who would never do such a thing) and it's even enjoyable to work out.

I think what really helps is that I have a great group of friends in their 60's and 70's who are very supportive, very active, and very inspiring -- I want to be one of those older people who doesn't slow down and ages gracefully. I don't want to be a frail old lady.

And this forum is always supportive as well. Looking forward to my 60's now -- isn't that amazing?

Kat

same, here..
been cutting and coloring my own hair since.... 2008. don't trust anyone else with my hair.

and then, this morning, i was thinking about maybe getting a new look and letting someone else do my hair..
but when i think of the possibility of them ruining my hair and chopping it to pieces...

i wake up!
still not sure if i could trust anyone with my hair.
i have curly, curly hair and i like hair on my face..
at 61, the hair covers the wrinkles on the forehead... hiding my age, pretty well.

Yes, today is the day. I get what you said about covering the wrinkles on the forehead with hair, but I don't like hair in my face. May have to get over that.

My hair is straight, fine and thin but I've let it grow long so that I can make a quick knot. There was a time when I never left the house without makeup and false eyelashes applied. Now, I feel I would only look ridiculous doing that. Most days I just leave my eyes naked as they are on my picture. When choosing my new hairstyle, I like the idea of an asymmetrical, layered look, but I don't want to look.................well, stupid. Like one of those old ladies trying to look young. Which is what I am, of course. Sigh.

Ideas? Oh. Forgot to say that I'm going back to my silver hair.

I hear ya, Kat. What a year and a half I've had. Lost my brother so unexpectedly to bone marrow cancer. Then I had full healthcare oversight responsibility for my mom in San Antonio, in a memory care facility with end-stage Alzheimers. She died exactly 1 year later. We were buying a new house when she passed. That was last July. It is only 6 blocks from our old. Had the move in stresses, getting the old place ready to sell. I then promptly fell slipping on a sock sorting laundry in my bathroom and broke my left wrist (both bones). Took 2 surgeries to fix it up. Started gaining weight when my brother died and it just kept packing back on. Cortisol city.

My left wrist is just now back to normal and what happens? I take a flying leap over a dead rose bush stump in the side garden and badly sprain the other wrist on the 11th of June. Man, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!! But I'm no quitter. Anyone that stalls and holds at 170 for 6 years si no quitter. But then I started gaining when my brother took ill. He was diagnosed in June and was gone by the end of July 2014.

But I've started doing Carb Nite Solution (outlined by Keifer in that book) and have lost nearly 12# in 2 months. Not much by some folks standards, but for a slow turtle loser like me that was stalled for so long (5-6 years with no gains, no loss) and then gained 35# back when the family stresses began, that's pretty phenomenal loss. I don't want to be BOTH old and fat, so I'm shootin' for just older. I will turn 68 in December and have so many degenerative disc issues (5 are bulging now). Arthritic spurs on bones seem to run in my family and I have them as well. Saw a specialist last week and he says my bulges aren't bad enough for surgery yet and is referring me to pain management for therapies. But it's not really a curable problem. So some days I hobble like an 85 year old. Once it bulged so bad I impaired walking and landed me in the ER. But I'm just taking one day at a time, sticking to my diet plan religiously, losing slowly but steadily and hope to be at my goal by my 68th birthday.

Glenda, post a picture of your new do, once it's done.

My hair's the opposite: thick, wavy and lots of cowlicks. I found a person who makes it look amazing. She was the "new" stylist, last fall, after the one I had got married and moved to Michigan.

She cut my hair the day before I left for Italy, and, after sleeping on a plane, it STILL looked good.

LOL, she's long married, has a daughter in college, so I don't think she's going to move or have a baby anytime soon: I can keep her!

Peggy, you really are having a tough time for a youngster of (almost) 68. Congrats for making your health and well-being a priority. 12# in 2 months sounds spectacular to me--and certainly gives your new resolutions a boost.

Yes, Glenda. We want to see pix.

The discussion of hair is so relevant to the self-worth that motivates all our health and fitness efforts, including weight management. I mean, the symbolic significance of hair is positively biblical! In fact, I suppose many religions and traditions have rituals and traditions and taboos involving hair.

Reason says my natural hair will grow in charmingly white or silver. For now, however, just keeping it a becoming shade of red is my preference (which happens to be the name of one of my coloring products!) And whenever I see some "old lady" (that is, anyone who looks older than me) with her conspicuously dyed red hair, I say (to myself), "You go girl!"

I believe the picture on my Profile page still looks like me, sans eyeglasses. I'll post an update pretty soon.

Happy Friday.
P. S. I'm serving at a memorial service today for a church friend who died recently at age 72 after living with dementia for several years. Wish we knew more about the causes of these conditions.

Barb, I see you're in K.C. We used to live just north of you at Ft. Leavenworth. Dad was Air Force, but was teaching air strategy and tactics at the Command and Staff College there. We were there 3 years and I just LOVED Kansas. Many fond memories there. The 50th Leavenworth High class reunion is there this October, but I'm not attending because I'm not technically a part of that class, as Dad got transferred to Virginia right before my senior year. So I graduated in Hampton VA. That was truly the hardest move I ever had to make. That was the ONLY place we had ever lived longer than 2 years and I had made so many friends there, I just hated to leave Kansas.

Not sure if it is THE cause, but consumption of carbs certainly hastens dementia, while eating low carb slows its progression.

Regardless, I'm glad I found low carb. Who knows if it was soon enough for my brain? But better late than never, I suppose.

Hi, Peggy. Probably don't want to be living in Kansas now. Crazy politics. But then, where would any of us go?? Kansas City is more livable than ever. Come and visit. I grew up in an Air Force family. My mom graduated from Leavenworth High School, but we never lived there. I was born in KC, and by a set of cosmic circumstances, came back here as an adult to work. It's definitely my roots territory.

I'd like to believe this! In any case, LC is a fine way to eat. I'm sure that eliminating sugar and most starch improves the health picture for me in a lot of ways.

Small world, isn't it, Barb. Lance and I have driven through Kansas once since we got married, coming back toTexas from a camping trip in Colorado. We had taken the other route north and decided to take the Kansas route back home. I had forgotten how pretty the wheat fields look in that wind that never seems to stop blowing there. We didn't drive to Leavenworth however. I remember driving many a time down to KC to shop and for lunch at Peck's department store downtown for their mile-high fresh strawberry pie. Is Peck's still even there?