40+ Club: Hop Into Spring With A Fit Bod

Karen, I would hold out for platinum or emeralds.:laugh: Congratulations on your anniversary.




Karen: I think a lovely vase in platinum encrusted with emeralds and filled with lilies sounds nice. We have been married for 26 1/2 years now: Yikes! I have been married longer than I have not been married. About to be a Texan longer than I was a Mississippian. For our 20th, we went to New Orleans and took our then 15 year old daughter and my parents met us down there. We had a great time.

Swissmiss & Texissipi

Thank you for your kind words, sadly there was no Platinum or Emeralds, but there was a huge bouquet of lillies, Bottle of Moet & a bottle of my favourite red - Fluery :happy:
I have been promised a shopping trip (after pay day) :laugh:
AND all the family - 20 of us are back out to France for the Easter weekend. Which will involve lots of eating & drinking :drinker:

Do you every get the feeling life conspires against you sometimes !
have a good day
Karen
x

Good Morning All:

Swiss, feel free to buy that Weight Watcher's scale. LOL The reason why I am laughing is that the company I work for makes them for Weight Watchers. Ironically I'm using one that is not ours, that that department was giving away. They probably buy or get samples of competitors' scales to compare etc. I do like weighing myself every day when I'm trying hard. Its very motivating and my body tends to show the results the next morning of a good day or a bad day. A bad day doesn't discourage me, like it might some others. Despite the threats I have made to my scale right here on this website. My problems always start with life stress that cause me to start overeating. Speaking of my scale, it gave me excellent news this morning, but I won't report till Friday's results just in case I was delusional this morning when I looke at it.

Good Morning everyone. Found out this morning via a message from Singfree that I posted last night to the old thread and not this one. I am hoping that I can find the time to post and check in every day again.. things get a bit crazy around here this time of year. Did my 50 minute circuit training with aerobics this morning. Tonight after work it will be my challenge...45 minutes of 1 minute sprint/walk at 6/3mph at an incline of 3. Busy day at work again today so I need to get going... will check in tonight. Hope everyone has a great day

Hi All - Happy mid-week! I am proud to say I didn't get on the scale this morning. :happy: Yahoo! Thursday is my weigh in day so tomorrow is a go but after that I will put the scale back in the drawer and forget about it till next week.

I walk to and from work everyday (about 2 miles). Nothing strenuous but I am consistent. I am thinking about how I can incorporate strength training and cardio into my schedule. Since everything is working right now (losing weight/feeling great) I am ambivalent about changing my routine.

Sunny: Glad you got back in the water. I have a hard time with the ankle resistance thingies. I have to really watch my posture to not over-extend my lower back. It does provide a good ab workout trying to stay upright with those boot things which want to get to the surface which can be quite comical if you are not careful!

have to admit I had problems with the booties in the beginning but once I started using them and running in the water with them all I feel these days is the burn ...

catch up with you all again tomorrow, watching Survivor now .,... yes, I'm a reality TV addict.

Hello Everyone... had a great day.. under my caloric goal for the day and completed my 50 minute circuit training workout this morning... as well as my husbands' challenge for the day for me which was to carry up 3 very full wheel barrels full of firewood up 2 flights of stairs and stack it on the hearth. Burns lots of calories!! Tomorrow is my running day and I hope to do 5K, challenge for tomorrow is rowing on the weight bench. He made me promise that I would still like him after my challenges... :laugh promised him that I would! Sunday is suppose to be very nice and he tells me that we will be biking to the lake and back (7 miles one way) ...:noway: hope I can make it.
Well time for bed....hope everyone had a great day.
Angel

Hi everybody!

hisangel, welcome back!! I've been thinking about you and am happy to hear you are doing well.

Swissmiss, don't worry about the steak!! Seriously. Yes, red meat has more fat in it than other forms of meat, but it also has some good nutritional value. It isn't as if you ate a box of donuts with no nutritional value whatsoever. So...don't worry about it.

I'm having a good week. I'm eating clean and did a good shoulder/bicep/tricep workout this morning, followed by a step cardio session. It felt good. Like you, duffy, I seem to be struggling with consistent energy right now. Some days I feel great. Other days....not so much. I'm wondering if it is the time of year or something because my mood/energy level seems to match our ever-changing weather right now. But I'm now less than four weeks away from Hawaii and I keep telling myself that I need to kick it up a notch if I'm going to look good in my summer clothes during that week. But it's hard to think about that when it is still snowing outside. :grumble:

Welcome to all our newcomers!

My 3 half marathons have been over the last year. Started with the trainer in January in hopes of getting a little more motivated...some days are good. But others - like today - I just want to throw in the towel.

Have a great evening!

Heh, I know the feeling about throwing in the towel...usually after I've stepped on the scale!

Still impressed with the half marathons! AWESOME!!! Keep it up with the trainer...mine has a way of keeping me focused that I don't get elsewhere.

Welcome to the thread!

Morning All!

I, too, have been struggling with my energy levels.. I'm thinking it all has to do with the nice start to March with the spring-like weather only to end up with a bit of snow forecasted now. I'm so ready for nicer weather!

Sherdou, I believe we have a friend here who's in SA, she's out of town right now though and not posting as often... Isn't Alf from San Antonio, friends? I lived in Schertz a couple of years ago, loved it!

Happy Thursday to you! This week seems to have gone by pretty fast!

Boy, Sunny, you have really mean friends. LOL

Vacations are on the mind...I just emailed my husband the price for plane tickets to Peru - as a joke. I like to fantasize about going to the interesting places I want to travel to (and hopefully catch him off guard and have him say great idea!) HA

Glad today is sliding into Friday. I'm looking forward to the weekend. Time to start cleaning up the backyard to make it civilized for people to come over on Easter.

Hi singfree! Sorry to see you are working nights again, but the weekend is coming soon. :drinker:

Friday check-in.....I've decided not to weigh myself again after the conversation earlier this week. I'm not going to measure myself either. I had a good week working out. I had a good week eating. I feel pretty good (though I'm still having some low energy days, though today isn't one of them). I tried on some clothes that I'll be wearing in Hawaii yesterday, and they all fit. :drinker: We are going to be attending a conference while we're there (so it isn't ALL vacation), and we have (yet another) formal event to finish the week. I tried on the dress I want to take, and I can honestly say it was the first time I looked in the mirror since we moved and said to myself 'Boy, my arms look strong'. They're beginning to look more like they do in my profile photo now (even though I'm not as lean), and that makes me feel good.

I did a tough workout this morning--90 minutes of interval drills. I was wiped out. But the sun is shining, the sky is blue, so I'm headed out for a long walk. They were predicting snow for yesterday, but we didn't get it. But it is so nice to have the sun shining that I want to be outside in it.

I'm definitely going to take some of your advise, singfree, about cleaning up my diet over the next few weeks. The one area where I've gained is around my belly (which isn't like me). I think that is from eating too many carbs. So I'm going to try to cut some of those out over the next couple of weeks to see if I can't trim my mid-section down a bit. If it isn't the carbs, then I think it might be that I'm over-training those muscles. I'm hoping to figure out what is going on there soon because I don't like having a big belly. :grumble:

Hope everybody has a great Friday! :flowerforyou:

HI-I would like to stick to this thread as you guys are more active-which keeps me motivated! Thanks!
So far I have lost 12lbs, and I am able to fit back into a pair of jeans that I have not been able to fit into for over a year-I am REALLY happy about this! I have another pair that are brand new that I hope to be able to wear soon. I can get them on, but they are skin tight right now. I try to vary my workouts, so I don't do the same thing every day. I take gym classes as well as do my own work outs. I avoid breads, and stopped eating sweets. After a few weeks of no sugar-I no longer "crave" it at all-which is amazing! I had to force myself to eat a piece of birthday cake this week-just for the sake of having it-I had a very small piece, and did an extra workout to burn it off.

I do have steak once in awhile, but I make sure I have approx 3oz-keeping in mind the size of a deck of cards. I also purchase my meat for the year in Lancaster PA, so I know it is fresh-it is the BEST-YUMO!

Going to Disney this year, so I want to be in great shape.......

TGIF everyone

Checking in...a positive report. The cycle is still in effect. Last week a .2 of a pound ...this week 2.7 pounds

So, I expect next week's loss to be under a pound if my body keeps on this trend. Of course, this coming week is my spring break, so I am not sure what to expect

Have a great week.

Julia

Happy Friday Everyone.

Happy Check in Day, too. OMG I lost 4.8 lbs this week. I can't explain why using a game that only involves walking and running in place works better for me than the elliptical and treadmill I had been using, but I'll take it. I'll keep doing it until my body wants a change. My sugar cravings are so non-existant that I've even cut back on my substitute sugars.

Sing: We actually own a house in Rockland, ME, but we rent it out year round. We drive through Yarmouth to get there, but I'm not sure we've ever been in Lewiston. Our honeymoon was my fourth Windjammer cruise out of the Rockland/Camden area, and Its where we would like to end up living eventually. You are such an outdoorsy person, you would love taking one of those cruises. Its sort of like camping out on a boat. You help raise and lower the sales, they often do a lobster bake on the beach.

Pepper its good that you are going to get in shape for Disney. I was very out of a shape the year my husband insisted we do Disney, and it was very hard for me. What really scared me is seeing how many people rely on those scooters down there to get around, and I don't want to become one of them, not because of my weight at least.

Hello everyone