40+ Club: Hop Into Spring With A Fit Bod

Tex, can I come over to your house to eat? :laugh: :laugh: Your Easter dinner sounds delicious!!!!! And so gourmet...:flowerforyou:

Wow, I agree. Sounds good AND healthy. So much more than my ham dinner.
By the way... I told the YMCA that I was dropping out of the workshop that I was in. I was told that if they feel that I had a good enough reason to drop out then I would get my money back. I couldn't bring myself to say that I simply was not getting anything out of it. I just said that I didn't like it. Hoping that they will refund at least some of the money.

Hi, I would like to join the 40+ club. I am new to myfitnesspal so how do I add you to do this? Thank you, also I have been tracking for 25 days with an initial goal of losing 2 pounds per week. Today I updated my fitness to increase my exercise quit a bit now since I can go outside and walk but my goal dropped to 1.4 pounds per week loss. I am unsure what I have done wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you and it's great to see others like me over 40 and wanting to shapeup!

I don't know, Sing, about that Peanut Butter. I work in the divison that orders the stuff that goes into shampoos, conditioners, and styling products, and we don't do PB. However, I think we do order peanut oil. Every year some brand or another comes up with a new ingredient craze, then everyone has to copy.

Scale is saying good things this week. I walked about a total of 2 1/2 hours through the day yesterday, and I have to say I basically missed dinner, but not on purpose. I find one really low calorie day seems to have a beneficial effect on me, but I never do it deliberately, so its not something where it will become a habit and cause me to go into starvation mode.

If anyone subscribes to the TV Guide, my husband's Reader's Jeer got published on the last page in the new one with House on the cover. He was completely surprised, and started reading it, and said this sounds awfully familiar, and then he noticed his own name!

:flowerforyou: stiring, I just couldn't bring myself to hurt the instructor's feelings. I really should have told the whole story so that they can correct what is wrong. This instructor admits that she doesn't have the time for all that she is involved in so this should not come as a surprise to her.

bobcat44....welcome to the thead. To find us again just click on community at the right top of your home page. Then click on My Topics. And look for us 40+ Club:Hop Into Spring With A Fit Bod. You will be taken to the last post and can scroll up to read all of the others.

:flowerforyou: zebras, I do not get the Tv Guide since we can not get any reception but I will have to buy this one to read your husband's Jeer.

sing....wow, 20 miles. I thought I was doing well riding for seven miles on Sunday. I love to bike and the weather isn't cooperating with me.

Happy Friday All!

singfree, thanks for explaining the JIF=hair conditioner thing. Now I'm going to be giggling everytime I look at my peanut butter jar. :laugh: Thanks for the laugh. Sounds like you have a great plan in place for getting ready for your trip. I have no doubt you will both look and feel great by the time you get on that plane.

Time for my Friday check-in. I didn't weigh or measure myself this morning, but I had a good week of working out and a pretty good week of eating. I've decided over the next little bit that the only measuring I'm going to do of myself is measuring how I feel. Like I said earlier in the week, I've been a bit sluggish lately, and I have no doubt that is because I'm tap dancing dangerously close to overtraining right now. So I'm going to try to be a little smarter with my fitness to see if I can't get back to the other side of the line where fitness energizes me and doesn't tire me. There is a fine line there, and, again, I think I'm dancing on it right now if I haven't crossed it altogether.

I hope everybody has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!! :flowerforyou:

Good Morning...
Friday morning weigh in brought good news. Easter did not do any damage to my weight loss...
Down 1.8 lbs.

Officially at the "overweight" mark instead of "OBESE" on the wii... It is the little things in life

So, next weeks loss should be under a .5 a pound, 'cause that seems to be the way I am losing weight..

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Julia

Hello dear friends!!! I lost another pound!! Yeah!!! I continue with my workouts, Zumba classes and eating clean and often. I am still not logging in calories. I have felt very satisfied lately and when I get hungry it has usually been at the right time when I need to eat, every 2.5 to 3 hrs. I have increased my lean protein intake. I feel energetic for my workouts so far.

I am at work so I'd better get off...

Have a great weekend!!! :flowerforyou:

:flowerforyou: alf, you are doing so good. I am surprised that you don't have to log in your meals. You must have a lot of self control.:laugh:

:flowerforyou: Julia, you will be soon at "healthy".

sing, this is a special occasion so enjoy it. You can go back to healthy the next day. You do so well most of the time that I don't see where this weekend should hurt you.

I don't have any plans for the weekend yet. With all the people living at my house I may not be able to do anything but work.

Gummi bears are from Germany?

I really do not like German food but I have to admit that real butter, marmelade, meats & cheese, and rich dark coffee are things that I love. There is a German district in Columbus, Ohio. Whenever we are there we will go to Schmidt's. My husband goes for the sausages and such. I go for the saurkraut and their wonderful cream puffs. These puffs are round, about five inches across and filled with yummy custard. I'll bet one contains an entire day's calories.

I made bean soup today and had two cups of it. Wow, navy beans are not low calorie.

I used to live in Columbus, Ohio, Swiss! I know that area! Loved going there on weekends. We lived in the Clintonville area. I still miss that house.

Beans are not low calorie, but they are excellent sources of nutrition! They will nourish your body well!!! Good for you for making soup!

:flowerforyou: alf, you are burning about the same amount of calmories that I burn doing the same activities. I love my HRM. I get so much information from it.

:flowerforyou: cardigirl, have you been to Schmidt's? Living in Columbus, I am sure that you are familiar with the Germany section.

My husband and I rode our bikes today for seven miles. This is the same distance we did last Sunday. I was hoping to go further but my knee starting to hurt.

:flowerforyou: alf, we have the most perfect area for bike riding. Our city has trails running all around it. All I need to do is ride 1 1/2 block to the west and there is one of them. They all go clear out of town and some of them into the next town. Where I lived before I would have to load up the bikes and drive five miles to hit a trail. Couldn't bike the five miles because of having little ones with me. At that time I always had one with training wheels and another on the back of my bike. Your advice to sing about having a rest day on a day that you will be eating clean is good. I never thought of doing that but I do have a terrible time eating right on the weekends.

sing, I have way too many days like you are experiencing. The best way to get past them is to drink lots of water. Flush your system out.

:flowerforyou: stiring, your Swiss breakfast sounds great. I am thinking that I can have that here in the States. Maybe next weekend. Can't do the bread but everything else sounds doable.

I may not be eating well on the weekends but with the weather warming up I will be getting a lot more exercise.

singfree, I hope you are feeling better. I hear you about wondering why I eat some stuff when it makes me feel so poorly. :sick:

About your workout plan, I think it sounds good. Is there a reason you opted to do three full body strength workouts a week though? I'll tell you what I've heard and, since you asked, present an alternate plan. I've read in a number of places that the ideal number of times to do strength training per week is two (working each body part twice a week). There is nothing wrong with three times a week, but, as far as I know, it isn't going to give you signficantly different results than two times a week. In addition, you should be doing cardio four days a week--two tough sessions (as you have planned) and two more steady state/slightly lighter sessions (as you have planned).

Personally, I like to separate my upper and lower body workouts. I find if I'm doing my entire upper body (all five body parts) that the work on my legs gets a bit short (given time constraints). My legs need alot of work, so I focus on them quite a bit. You might not need as much strength training focus on your legs given what you are doing for cardio (specifically all of the biking you are doing). As an alternate to three full body workouts a week, I would suggest either one of the following: Monday and Thursday do upper body strength training; Tuesday/Friday do lower body strength training AND cardio (I'll explain more in a minute); Wednesday and one day during the weekend do intense cardio.

Back to the leg days for a minute, I really like to combine my leg workouts with cardio into a circuit session because I can generally get my heart rate up working my legs and the cardio helps exhaust the muscles more as well (since I workout at home, getting enough resistance on my legs can be an issue for me). So I like to do plyo kind of workouts for legs, and I really like to alternate plyo moves with strength/resistance moves for my lower body (again, keeping my heart rate up the entire time). There are so many benefits to plyo training, and I'm sure you are aware of those. But another benefit of adding plyo and strength together into one session is that plyo has a tendency to make legs bigger. But adding the strength training to the same session prevents that. That's good for us gals, but I don't know if you have issues with your lower body bulking up too much.

An alternate if this is too much lower body would be to do upper body on Monday/Friday and lower body on Wednesday, adding cardio to two of those days as desired.

Just some alternatives. Again, doing full body workouts three times a week isn't a problem, but if you prefer to focus on you muscles a bit more, there is no harm in cutting it back to two days a week and taking more time to workout the muscle groups.

alf, I hear you on the stretching. I find I get much tighter faster these days than I used to. I try to stretch for about 15 minutes each day. Some days, I don't want to take the time to do it, but I can tell a HUGE difference on the days I don't in how I recover from my workouts.

All here is well today. I did a good shoulder/bicep/tricep workout this morning, followed by an hour of 'drill' style cardio. It was a good workout. I've lowered my carbs again this week, and it continues to amaze me how much of a positive impact that has on my body. It's a shame since I love my carbs so much. But I'm willing to stick with this through our trip to Hawaii if it gives me the 'beachbody' I want while I'm there. :bigsmile:

Hope you all have a great day! :flowerforyou: