40+ Club: Hop Into Spring With A Fit Bod

MK: Fingers crossed and prayers coming your and your hubby's way!!!!!!! TxMs

To all who have 100 or more pounds they want to loose..DON'T GIVE UP!! 12 years ago I weighed 235 lbs and dropped down to 132 lbs. It will happen!! I know it gets discouraging but keep with it. Always here if anyone needs words of encouragement!

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Good morning!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Our Grandson came for a visit with his Daddy yesterday and they are staying until tomorrow. I just cannot get enough of that little guy. I think my wife gets a bit depressed when he leaves. This is our first (and probably last) grandchild, so we are making the most of the time we have with him.

I rode 40 miles on my bike over the weekend and took a long hike up the mountain last evening. It's rainy and cool here, but the leaves are in full bloom, the birds are making their families (we have a cardinal family in a big bush just outside our kitchen). It's wonderful to see the beauty of nature's rebirth each spring.

Well, as I officially start the one-month countdown to vacation, I need to get my head on straight about my diet. It hasn't been too bad, but it certainly could be better. I just need to think about everything I eat. As I said on Friday, I am very pleased with my progress as far as fitness is concerned. I look and feel strong and lean, even though there is a small amount of fat that I need to get rid of. Alf, maybe i will try it your way with the Flat Belly Plan. We had the book, but I could not hack that vile "Sassy" water. I would consider doing a modified plan for a week or two just to see how it goes. Are you getting enough carbs to fuel your workouts? That's my biggest concern. I totally "bonk" if I don't get enough carbs to fuel my intense workouts and bike rides.

Tex, it's good to hear from you! It look like I'm not the only world traveler in this group!


Have a great day!

Sing, my granddaugher spent the weekend with us as well. She is so cute and I love to have her around me. She is also a handful. Hahahaha

As far as the belly diet is concerned, I really enjoyed the sassy water. :laugh: I dont thing the 4 day jumpstart is for you unless you are willing to not exercise during those 4 days. 1200 calories might be a bit too low for you considering you are a male and you are exercising so much. If I were you I would just try to lower the calories a bit and eat more protein and include mufas in every meal. I have not seen recent pics of you but it sounds you dont need to lose much weight, nor fat around your belly....:flowerforyou:

Today its raining so no outside activities for me... Sad because I am having so much fun out in the sun. Yesterday I had to take my daughter to Sacramento to visit her husband and give him the phone charger he forgot. It was nice to be able to visit him again before he left for Georgia. He left this morning and just might be there now.

Alf... Maybe I'll let them figure that out on there own, the going with him part that is. She already has it in her head that she's not going but with him being gone for boot camp I can see that changing. Nah, I'll probably just tell her so she wont be disappointed.

Sing... 40 miles! Thats incredible! I'm so glad you were able to visit with you grandson. I miss having little ones around.

sunraec1... Thank you for your words of encouragement and congratulations on your accomplishments!!!

mkwoods.... I am so happy that your husband is returning soon. Hopefully he will never have to leave like that again.

Happy Hump Day!

ALF: The Sassy water and concept of MUFAs are the two aspects of the Flat Belly Diet that I still follow regularly.

I had an awesome run yesterday. My first tempo run of the year that I was actually able to maintain at tempo for the whole run:drinker:

Not sure if any of you have read "The Spark" but I joined spark people and the strangest thing happened as soon as I joined the Plateau busters group - the scale started dropping (talk about the power of writing your goals down). My guess is it has a lot more to do with the fact that I'm off the 3 a day Ibuprofen that had me eating something around 8:30 with my last pill of the day. Either that or this Hip Hop Abs program is more intense than it seems.

Wow, Sing!!! I hope everything is ok. What kind of tests did they run? I am guessing you might not be eating enough? I know you do tough workouts. 120/80 BP is not bad. Of course, you dont want it higher than that. And it is not bad especially after what happened to you and being admitted in the hospital. Mine is always very high when I go to the doctor, I have white coat syndrome. It is perfect at home. :flowerforyou:

Sing.............wow!! Hope you recover quickly and with no lasting effects. Just goes to show that we may think that we're in control of our bodies, but the body will do what it needs to do to give you a 'wake up call" if needed!!! Take care of yourself - we all look to you to keep us going here!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Swiss...........hang in there! We all get frustrated and discouraged when we have a bad day or bad week (or bad couple of weeks), but we are all the survivors who will just keep on trudging our way to better health!!:laugh: :laugh:

Alf..........enjoy your trip!! I can't wait for our trips this summer!

Tron.....you sound like I've been for the past week. The cleaning bug hit me last weekend, and while the house isn't spotless, it looks better than it has since before Christmas! Amazing what knowing that time alone is coming to an end will do to your motivation!:laugh: :laugh:


I'm here today in limbo land............the hubby's somewhere between Kabul, Afghanistan and Washington DC, but I have no clue where! :grumble: In this age of instant communication, it's frustrating to know he's out of touch traveling and that I probably won't hear from him for at least another 24 hours.:grumble: I know............the old saying "no news is good news" still applies, but I still get nervous when he's traveling, especially flying overseas! I had a really bad nightmare years ago when he was flying back from a school in bad winter weather and just can't ever get that feeling out of the back of my mind when I know he's probably on a plane. Didn't sleep well last night, won't sleep decently until he gets home, and just can't maintain focus. Jeez.................do I sound like a whiny, neurotic person or what??? Need to work out tonight; that should burn off some of this darn nervous energy.....

Good Morning Folks:

I accidentally tested the starvation theory yesterday. I worked out in the evening like always but started about a 1/2 an hour later than usual, and by the time I was done, I was wiped out and all I ended up eating was a piece of homemade bread with nothing on it. I'd say for the whole day I may have only eaten the equivalent of my work out calories. I really don't think that for one day in a row my body would go into starvation mode anyhow, so let's hope that the missing calories cause a little downturn on the scale. In the meantime, the mirror is making me happy!

Hello, I am new to MFP, very new just started two days ago and I was searching the posts and your comment here really spoke to me. I am 44 years old and pretty fit yet struggling to lose 10 to 15 lbs that have settled around my middle. I do P90X and most of those workouts are 600 calories average and I am struggling to eat enough clean food to support the calorie requirements.

I'm 6 feet tall and was surprised to find that I probably gained the fat because I wasn't eating enough....duh. I'm just making sure I understand how this program works the calories they set for you is for you to lose your weight right? When I post a workout they add those calories to that number example if they calculate I should eat 1,600 calories per day and like yesterday calculated 800 calorie workout that made me total calorie requirement 2,400 calories. I was under by 400 calories. :ohwell:

Does this mean I will not lose as quickly or is it good when I'm under....confused? Can you please help me?
ICURLY

well it doesn't seem to be exercise related or lack of food when exercising. I would think w/all the water one drinks when eating healthy and exercising that one would not be dehydrated.

The scale went down 2lbs this week even w/the happy hour binge::blushing: I seem to stay steady w/ loosing 1-2lbs a wk now and sometimes having a week w/no results. Oh well-I feel so much better, and my old clothes are fitting again.

TGIF..enjoy the weekend weather everyone!:glasses:

No weight loss to report this week. I am technically up an 10th of a pound...but who cares!

I was expecting to see a lower week come along since I have had 3 strong weeks of weight loss.

I am gonna keep on keepin' on

Julia

Swiss: Hang in there! Does exercise lower your stress level? One time, when my daughter was 15 months old, I was going to school at night, working full time, my husband and I were in Mississippi moving my mother-in-law out of the house she had lived in for 45 years to come live with us in Texas. She had a heart attack as we were moving furniture. I remember walking with my husband into the hospital to see her the next day. I told my husband: The kids are being taken care of by my parents, your mom is being taken care of in the hospital, we have three days left of vacation time: let’s just disappear! We did not do it but it was a nice dream for 30 seconds.
Sing: I hope they find out what is wrong. Electrolyte imbalance can cause dizziness with me.
MK: So glad your hubby is on the way home but the not knowing where he is can be terrible. I scrub baseboards when my family is traveling and out of touch!
Tron: have fun with the cleaning. I need to catch that bug.
Zebras: Yea mirror making you happy! Keep at it!
Pepper: enjoy the sun in New England Congrats on the weight loss.
Icurly: Welcome! This group is a great group for support and inspiration.
Duffy: Congrats on the weight loss and clean eating. I will look at sparkpeople. Thanks for the tip.
Julie: Congrats to you too!
Alf: I hope the hip flexor gets better
Stiring: I hope you are having a great time in Hawaii.
I was able to make it to water aerobics yesterday. River aerobics is about a month away. A fellow river rat emailed me the other day about a change in the water park’s hours of operation. They had been closing at 9 pm with river aerobics from 8:30 to 9:30. To make the budget work, this year they are closing at 8 pm which means river will be from 7:30 to 8:30 which is much easier on me since I am usually on the road by 6 in the morning. The only problem is that we work out with our trainer from 6:30 to 7:30 on Mondays. She will only do 45 minutes instead of an hour which will make it all work.
I got a new two piece swimming suit for this summer: running shorts with a built-in panty and a workout tank top with a built-in sports bra. Got them at Target for a lot less than a two piece suit. Tried them out last night with water aerobics and they did great! Now I’ve got to find new water running shoes…
Happy Friday everyone!

Aloha!! :flowerforyou:

I have made it safely home from a wonderful trip to Hawaii. I was only on the internet a couple of times in the two weeks, which leaves me far behind in my reading/posting/etc. But I missed you all!!

I really enjoyed our time away. My eating wasn't great. I made some good choices. I made some not-so-good choices. But I did manage to workout all but a couple of days we were gone, including three long runs which felt so good down there. I've decided to stop weighing myself for the time being, so I have no idea how much weight I gained. But whatever it was, I'm okay with it right now. I have more energy (even given the fact I was on a plane for 11 hours yesterday) than I've had in a long time and feel absolutely terrific. I start my new STS rotation next week, so that should get me back on track quickly.

Our plane was late getting in last night, so I wasn't home until close to 10:00pm. And I was starving when I got home! :grumble: Airplane food just doesn't do much for me. So I ate dinner at 11:00pm (which I hate doing) and promptly fell asleep. I thought I would wake up feeling really poorly, but I wasn't doing too badly at all. So I managed a 70 minute circuit workout this morning, which felt really good. Now I just need to keep moving the rest of the day so I can sleep tonight again. Jetlag just isn't any fun. :yawn:

singfree, I am so sorry to hear about the dizziness/lightheadedness. Please keep us posted on how you are doing. I'm very concerned, though I suppose it is a good thing the doctors aren't finding anything. Could it be stress related at all? You've had a tough year which is what has me wondering. Please take care of yourself. :flowerforyou:

tron, the hiking sounds great to me! Are you planning more hikes in Yosemite this summer?

TxMs, I'm so happy to hear you are going to be doing the water aerobics again. That sounds like so much fun. I can't imagine a more refreshing and invigorating way to end the day.

mk, I hope your husband has made his way home to you by now.

zebras, sorry to hear about your car accident.

duffy, I really like the sparkpeople website, though I found MFP to be much easier to use when logging in my foods. But I get their daily emails, and really enjoy alot of the info they put out. I contemplated buying the book as well but figured I've probably read most of what is in the book on their website already.

alf, sorry to hear that your leg is still bothering you. :frown:

To all those who had good success these past two weeks on your journeys, congratulations! To those (like me) who have wandered off the path a little bit, don't beat yourself up over it. It's just a cycle we all go through from time to time.

It's good to be back!

Happy Monday All!

An exhausting schedule for me over this weekend so I am feeling it today. I'm not ashamed to say that I am one of those people who absolutely requires 8 hours of sleep a night. This weekend I averaged closer to 5 so I am really feeling crappy this morning.

Stiring: Glad to hear you had such a great trip. I agree you probably wouldn't get anything out of the book. It really is for people who haven't yet given up on the idea of yo-yo dieting and made the switch to focusing on a healthy lifestyle. I think most of us in this thread made that switch quite awhile ago.

I had another good run this weekend. So I will once again up my mileage by 10% this week. I've also been make a more consistent effort to get good stretches in and faithfully do my weekly yoga. I really think that is helping quite a bit. It seems like after a week of CX - my muscles are really tight by the weekend and the yoga seems to work that all out.

Sing: Hoping for good news from you soon.