Weight loss for my mother

[LordAzarius]

Well.. she's 53 years old, and still wants to lose about 30 more pounds.
Thanks to me, she lost 30 already - she was nearly 200, and is now at 165. I convinced her to go nearly vegetarian, eat less pasta, and only whole grains/non processed food, etc.

But now she's on a plateau. And her problem is that she has fibromyalgia - a lifelong disease that is not dangerous, but causes her pretty much constant pain in her muscles. She walks with a cane, cannot run, jog, bike, basically she can't do any moderate to heavy physical activty. She can barely lift my old 5 lb weight. So of course, any running, rope skipping, pretty much there is no exercise she can do due to her health problem.

She's 5'1, also. And her diet is already pretty good - she eats the same things I do.

Is there any way for her to lose more weight, without having to exercise a lot? She would look and feel so much better and her illness would be greatly reduced if she was thinner. I want her to feel better. She's not in danger, but she really needs it.

 

[theleip]

The best thing she can do, especially given muscle ache problems, is to start foam rolling and stretching as a form of extra caloric burn.

SMR with foam rollers is great because its self deep tissue massage, just what those with Fibro can use to help with their pain. It isn't that invasive but its hard enough and long enough to give her a little more activity in a day. Mix that with a better diet and it should help.

For the diet nothing wrong with being mostly veg but make sure she is getting plenty of complete protein or the fatigue is going to be worse for her rather than better and again something she is prone to.

Good luck.