{"id":135930,"date":"2025-11-12T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135930\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:23:10","slug":"79-year-old-canadian-grandmother-who-started-gym-at-70-shares-diet-and-fitness-secrets-eat-protein-with-every-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135930\/","title":{"rendered":"79-year-old Canadian grandmother who started gym at 70 shares diet and fitness secrets: ‘Eat protein with every meal’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet Joan MacDonald, a 79-year-old women from Ontario, Canada, who’s proving age is just a number. The fitness content creator has been sharing her journey on Instagram, and her latest post reveals her secrets to maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle. Also read | 92-year-old Chinese woman wows with impressive workout routine: 200 push-ups, 100 sit-ups and hula-hoop spins<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Joan Joan MacDonald inspires others with her fitness journey, showing that a balanced diet, regular exercise, and positive mindset can lead to a healthier lifestyle at any age. (Instagram\/ Train with Joan) <\/p>\n

Joan’s tips? Count macros, eat protein with every meal<\/a>, focus on veggies and fibre, train with purpose, and prioritise cardiovascular health.<\/p>\n

Joan MacDonald’s diet secrets<\/p>\n

She took to Instagram on November 11 to share: \u201cI maintained my weight now for almost 8 years. Losing weight was never the hard part. It was keeping it off<\/a>. When I learned to count macros, eat protein with every meal, focus on vegetables and fibre, train with purpose to build muscle, and get my cardiovascular health up to speed, I finally learned how my body was meant to be. Mindset work, community and recovery because the added layers that continue to keep me going strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a December 2024 interview<\/a> with Womenshealthmag.com, Joan shared details of her diet: \u201cI started eating five balanced meals a day. As part of my plan, I had to track my macros \u2013 how much protein, carbs and fats I needed in each of the five meals. I could eat whatever I wanted, but it had to match the macros I was given by my daughter. I also had to stop snacking, and I had to drink water with every meal, and just slow down when I ate in general.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘I started doing weight training five days a week’<\/p>\n

She also spoke about her workout regime, saying she \u2018was unfit and overweight until 70\u2019, post which she started strength training. Joan said, \u201cAt the beginning, I was strength training four days a week along with one day of yoga. The sessions lasted around 60 to 75 minutes with the warm-up and cooldown. I could see myself getting stronger and more skilled month to month. Once I got stronger, I started doing weight training five days a week<\/a>. My plan had me doing two leg sessions, two upper body and one glute-focused session per week. This allowed each muscle group (upper and lower) to recover, while I trained the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note to readers: This report is based on user-generated content from social media. HT.com has not independently verified the claims and does not endorse them.<\/p>\n

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