40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are
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Welcome, momof3boys. Best wishes for your upcoming surgery.0
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Alf so sad to hear of your injury! Take it easy for awhile & keep your positive energy flowing. You will be back to normal soon! I have a ninja mega system & love it. It makes great protein smoothies & tons of other things. I ordered the salad shooter with it & glad I did.
momof3boys- what an incredible journey you have had. Good luck on your surgery!!! Welcome to our group.
my feel good is sitting by my pool in the hot summer sun with some good music & a cocktail with friends. I cannot wait until summer! Thanks for bringing up a nice place to dream about today beeps!0 -
Thanks Ruby! I have been reading reviews online about both products. There are great reviews for the Vitamix but the price!!!!! :sad: :noway: :grumble: Glad to hear you like your Ninja because I have read some bad reviews. :ohwell: When you make your smoothies, does it "thin" them out pretty good or they are chunky and thick? I guess it depends what you put in it. I also like the food processor feature that it has since I don't have one. What is the other attachment you ordered? Lately I have been making energy bars and my nutribullet and regular blender cannot handle those ingredients.
My plan today, keep icing, stretching, maybe some floor exercises. I need to find a sub for my classes next week. I also need to work on my taxes. :mad: :explode: that is major stress for me. It is stressful because I am not organized when it comes to my Zumba business so it takes me a while. My fault...it is already the end of March and haven't gotten organized for next year either. :ohwell:
HAPPY SATURDAY!!! :flowerforyou:0 -
So many inspirational people on this thread!0
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Welcome to the new 'Cool Kids'
Alf - sorry about your injury .. hope you get back to business soon..
One more week for me before home and the big weigh in.. i now know that a closed fist full off almonds is exactly 25 g thanks to the scale I brought with me this trip.. been weighing food that I haven't had in the main canteen so hopefully I will have made some good progress again.
Keep on with the good work everyone.0 -
I hope you are all having a great weekend. I had a wonderful Saturday; had lunch with my husband and traveled into the city for shopping. A HUGE mall & I loved it. I am a city person but my husband is a country guy so I live in the middle of no where and then turn left LOL. I bought a new handbag and:drinker: splurged.... there are some perks to being over 40 I guess and being more settled financially is one of them.
Handyandy - Sounds like you have been doing wonderful! Way to stay on track even when you are away from home. I know you will have a good weigh in!
Alf - the Ninja make really good smoothies but it takes awhile to get the consistency down for thick or thin, they can get too thick it you are not careful. I will use unsweetened almond milk, protein powder and some frozen fruit and that works pretty good. You can also throw in some ice if your fruit is not frozen. It is NOT good if you are looking for a juicer, the commercials claim you can juice and strain but I have not had luck with that. It will go through about any ingredients with no problem so I think to make your energy bars it would do that with ease. The attachment I have is called the "prep system" it come with 4 discs to shred cheese, grate, slice veggies ect. I use it a lot to shred fresh parmesan cheese. I also like that it can work as food processer - I make homemade wheat pizza dough with it, homemade hummus, homemade peanut butter ect. I have used the nutribullet before & that does make awesome shakes, I also like the compact size of the nutribullet. I would love your energy bar recipe!!!0 -
Ruby, thanks for the info. I've made these two, please see below. I made both with raw cashews. I also added unsweetened coconut flakes. There are endless substitutions with different nuts or unsweetened dried fruit.
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2009/11/08/homemade-cashew-cookie-larabars/
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/08/12/hot-fudge-brownie-larabars/
Handyandy, keep up the good work!!! :drinker:
I found a substitute instructor for this week. I have been snacking a lot, healthy food but still. To be honest with you I am down and depressed about this injury. Exercise keeps me sane and when I cannot do it I get very stressed out. :sad: :sad:
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Happy Monday
Spinning & then strength training on the agenda today fitness wise. Hope everyone has a great start to their week.0 -
Hey Happy Monday Cool Kids!
Alf - maybe this down time will give you a chance to catch up on those taxes and organization! Can you go for some short walks to distract you and keep you sanity?
HandyAndy - Good luck on your weigh-in. Sounds like you've got things under control.
Ruby - I love sitting at the pool too, definitely can't wait for better weather! Looks like we are in line for a NorEaster Tues/Weds, hopefully it'll stay offshore more and not mess us up to bad.
Worked with the weights this morning and am already feeling it, the DOMS tomorrow will not be fun...I felt like it was a struggle today to push the same weight I did on Friday.0 -
I had a great weekend! Got to see my mom + dad and they are doing well. Got to see my bff and we had a great visit (in between son's volleyball games). Also, got to see my CHILDHOOD bff who I am going to Europe with in May! for some kismet reason, she descended on OLDcity this same weekend that I did, so spent an hour at a coffee shop with her and her husband and her 2 youngest children.
My son's team lost every single game, until the final (they were playing for 7th spot out of 8 spots....) - and they won! So, they were 7th out of 8, lol.
My daughter's hockey team won thursday night, but then lost every other weekend game, so she came home without any provincial hardware....but, she and her dad had a totally wonderful time!0 -
Happy Monday! running, squats, sit ups, push ups, lunges and dips were just a few parts of my workout today! The running was a bit difficult as I still have some congestion from my sinus infection that has wanted to hang around, but I made it through. My arms are feeling a bit sore right now. Hopefully won't last too long.
It's snowing here right now- so ready for this to be O-V-E-R!!! I am hoping it clears up over the next day or so as I am off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. So looking forward to the break. I have some appointments and am spending a day with Jake which will be fun, as always.
Have a good day all!0 -
Sounds like a fun weekend Beeps! I'm going to Europe this summer with friends also. First time in Europe, I've been to Asia, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean - so excited to finally get to Europe
KellySue - maybe that run will move some of the at congestion for you. Good to hear you're up and moving again!!
I'm curious... What major city do you all live near. I live about 20 miles from Boston, MA0 -
Nice2BFit- I live about 25 miles southwest of Syracuse, NY.0
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Sorry about the snow, Kelly Sue. Hope it clears up soon and that it warms up there. I believe we are experiencing some sort of global cooling. We have had major storms here in GA not too long ago that crippled the Atlanta area, which you all may have heard about.
Great job exercising. I need to start exercising again. I have realized my weight loss is going to be very slow without it.0 -
Glad to see the group is still going strong! I was a regular on here a few years ago, and I am back! In need of inspiration as I have gained back some of the weight I lost (waaah) due to some life and job changes.
This place helped a lot the last time so I'm hoping I can see some results again this time around.
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Alf - I understand why you are feeling down. Exercise totally changes my mood too & I can get really down if I do not exercise. I think you need to focus on getting yourself better so you do not make your injury last longer. Do you think you could do some sort of swimming? I am thinking something low impact? The other thing you could try is to only do upper body exercises/weights so you are a least getting a work out in for your upper body but not messing with your leg. You will get through this - 1 day at a time right now.:flowerforyou:
Happy Monday to All!!!! I hope you all have a great productive day. 0 -
Good morning everyone! Monday is bittersweet. I appreciate the routine but dread the work week, lol.
Ugh - no snow here but it is cold. I'm beyond ready for summer time and hot weather.
Alf - so hard to both be in a tough spot and not have our go to coping mechanism! Hope you heal fast and can find something to lift your spirits.
The European vacation sounds amazing! I don't vacation every year but this year I am! We are going to Charleston, SC for two weeks. I can't wait - will try to squeeze a beach trip and site seeing in. I have some family there. We are flying - first time my kids have been on a plane.
I'm in South Dakota so major cities are hard to come by
I live about 200 miles from Omaha and 315 miles from Minneapolis. SD's 'city' is Sioux Falls and I'm about 80 miles from that.
I haven't lost an ounce in 17 days. I keep track of everything so that is weird. I moved my calories back down a tiny bit. I'll keep plugging away.0 -
Thank you all for your encouraging words. I need to do something. I haven't left the house since Thursday!! I have to go to work tomorrow so that should do it. I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and move on. :grumble: I just get mad and frustrated because lately it seems that when everything is going well with my body something happens to screw things up!!!! Sometimes I just feel like giving up and not try so hard...:mad: Ok enough!!!!
Cardigirl, so great to see you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flowerforyou:
Ahhh Europe, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I lived in Germany for 6 years. We travelled all over Europe. I would love to go back to visit. I would really love to go to Greece and Portugal. My grandfather was from Portugal.
Bounce, my sister lives close to Charleston. It is a nice city. My nephew goes to Citadel there.
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I would love to go to Greece and Portugal too, Alf....won't happen this trip, but someday. Actually ANYWHERE on the mediterranean I really want to see! Turkey, I hear is BEAUTIFUL!
I got my lifting in-and-done for today. BOOM!0 -
Thank you all for your encouraging words. I need to do something. I haven't left the house since Thursday!! I have to go to work tomorrow so that should do it. I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and move on. :grumble: I just get mad and frustrated because lately it seems that when everything is going well with my body something happens to screw things up!!!! Sometimes I just feel like giving up and not try so hard...:mad: Ok enough!!!!
Cardigirl, so great to see you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flowerforyou:
Ahhh Europe, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I lived in Germany for 6 years. We travelled all over Europe. I would love to go back to visit. I would really love to go to Greece and Portugal. My grandfather was from Portugal.
Bounce, my sister lives close to Charleston. It is a nice city. My nephew goes to Citadel there.
Have a wonderful day!!! :flowerforyou:
hi Alf, :flowerforyou:
I'm a Brit but I lived in Portugal, on The Algarve for 10 years, LOVED it!!
where was your Grandfather from?0 -
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Hey Cool Kids! I just saw this thread and said hey, I am 40+!!0
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Good Morning Cool Kids! It's sunny here today- Yahooo! I think I am going to try to walk at lunch time today. I am off for the rest of the week though and will be getting in an extra gym day tomorrow! I have a Dr. appointment tomorrow morning to go over some recent blood work I had. I think I am going to talk with him about getting rid of the last diabetes med that I am on and see what he says. I also have to weigh in for our "Biggest Loser" challenge at work tomorrow- just need to pop in an get on the scale- a quick in and out!. I know I have not lost nearly as much as I did last year ( I lost almost 22lbs during last year's challenge), but I have lost some and my body is changing for certain. I am stronger and can do things that I couldn't do this time last year. I also continued to lose throughout the year so I am ahead of the game overall and am happy about that!
Hope everyone has a great day!0 -
Who knew that I could get even cooler simply by aging lol.
I am 43, have 10 pounds more to go, but more than that I just want to get my belly fat completely gone. Getting close. It's true these last few pounds are proving tougher than the first 90.
The cool thing is that I am 43 and I weigh less than I have at any time since I was 18, including my 7 years in the Army.
For a long time I thought I would never see 200 pounds again, and now I am closing in on 180.
I am wearing a medium sized shirt today....for the first time in my adult life.0 -
KellySue - I think I caught your cold.
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peytonyoumans - congrats on being in the "last 10 lbs" club - there's A LOT of us in that!
No work-out for me, today....mind you, I have zero appetite, so this cold is good for somethin'.0 -
Did my lifting this morning at 6 am and it was great! I am going to do cardio on the treadmill at lunch at BURN as many calories as on can. I am looking forward to it. It sounds weird but I am really starting to like the morning workouts. NEVER thought I would say that.
Kellysue - that is wonderful you are seeing all those changes in your body and are getting stronger. I hope your Dr. agrees to let you off the last diabetes med. You should be very proud of all the accomplishments you have made for your health. Very cool!!!
Peytonyoumans - good to meet you, yes the last 10 lbs hard. I was at that point at one time and then gave up for awhile and now I am about 20 lbs out from my goal. It seems to be moving very slow but I am making progress and keep reminding myself this is for the long haul so it may take awhile. I love that you are in a medium shirt for the 1st time in your adult life :drinker: How awesome!!! That is when it really all makes it worth while.0 -
KellySue - I think I caught your cold.
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Beeps~ It traveled swiftly for many miles 'cause I just wanted to share!!! Seriously though, sorry to hear you are not feeling well. It stinks for sure. Hope it doesn't last too long.
Peytonyoumans- Welcome and congratulations on your success so far!!0 -
Hey everyone! I would love to hang with the cool kids!!
Turned 40 in February and enjoying every minute of it!
I hope everyone is having a fantastic Tuesday!0 -
Apparently the 40+ club is not only where the cool kids are, but also the nice kids too. And that's pretty cool.
Thank you all for the kind words.
I am hoping to go for a 4 mile walk after work, but it is kind of raining right now. Might have to do the treadmill instead, which I am not a big fan of0 -
Hey Cool kids!
Didn't realize I was away from the thread so long. Monday did get away from me though.
Alf and Ruby, thanks for the info on the blenders. I really want a vitamix as well. I have gone through so many blenders and magic bullets, that I think I should have just bitten the bullet a while ago and bought the darn vitamix! :laugh:
Welcome peytonyoumans! Yes, there are many of on here in the last 10lbs club. I was there, now it's the last 15lbs for me. :noway:
Had a busy, but good weekend. Got my long run in OUTSIDE this past weekend. First time running outside since December. We still have mountains of snow and cold, but it was ok weather that day to run outside.
Walked Sunday with one of my bffs that I had not seen in months and yet we live in the same town! Had the family over for dinner and of course my granddaughter was the delight.
Have a busy weekend coming up as well - Ladies Curling Bonspiel. It's always a hoot!
Getting my workouts in and following my meal plan, however the weight is very slow to come off. :grumble:
slow n steady...slow n steady....slow n steady!0
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