HI. I am 58 and have worked out most of my life to stay in shape. I let myself go when I hit 50 and gained about 40 pounds in two years. I signed up with a fitness trainer to get me back on the road to good health. I am still working out with a trainer 2 days a week primarily because he pushes me when I won't push myself. When I was in my 30s I had workout buddies who I met at the gym and worked out with. It really helps to have someone to be accountable to. You absolutely have to be patient. It took me 6 months to simply get to the point that my body was used to working out and to get my diet under control so that I was losing weight steadily. It took nearly 3 years to lose all of the weight I had gained and over 4 years to get some muscle definition back in my legs, arms and abs. As for eating to workout -- I have always found that I must practice good nutrition all the time in order to have the energy to get through a stringent one hour workout and eating just before I workout just makes me sluggish and sometimes even nauseous. On the days I workout I make sure that I have good nutrition for breakfast, morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack. The body needs carbs, fat and protein for proper fuel. Carbs are especially important and need to be complex carbs like pasta (yes bowtie pasta is good), baked white and sweet potatoes and rice. It is important that you don't load any of these up with butter or sugar, etc. If I workout in the morning I make sure I eat a solid evening meal, get a bedtime snack that has both carbs and protein (a fruit shake is good made with almond milk and rice protein powder and strawberries or blueberries). If I am working out first thing I usually don't eat anything but I do drink my tea with fiber powder in it and I add a little sugar for energy. If I am working out mid morning I have breakfast of IBS safe pancakes (made with heart healthy bisquik and almond milk) and scrambled egg beaters. Since you have IBS you must be very careful in trying to follow a lot of the "fitness" diets. They don't work for us at all. However, I know from experience you can eat IBS safe and healthy and have plenty of energy to workout.
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