Women Fit For Forties

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Morning Ladies!! Happy Monday to you all!! Started C25K Week 3 Day 1 today. Beautiful day, never thought I would look forward to running in the morning, but it's happening!?!??! Really hitting me that I only have a couple of days work, Wednesday is my last day. Who knows what will happen after that..................... waiting to hear back after several interviews, and a couple more things lined up for the week. Perhaps I will have a job offer this week, a girl can dream can't she?? Will be sure to keep you all updated!!

Blue note........... it looks to cool off a little here this week, thank goodness!?!?!

Good morning ladies! I don't know when I posted last - I think it's been over a week and unfortunately it shows, I've gained 3+ pounds. But I'm back, trying to get back on track. I've been feeling down and a bit sorry for myself the last week or so. I told you about my neck/shoulder/arm pain and numbness ... last week I had another doc appointment, then an MRI (which I didn't enjoy at all - since I'm a bit claustrophobic ... and they were over an hour late getting started since the older gentleman before me really had a hard time with his MRI and I could hear him asking to be let out often - which didn't exactly make me feel more calm about it). Then on to a physical therapist. I have several bulging discs in my neck (C3 through C7 for any of you that know about discs) - one of which is impinging on a nerve and causing my right shoulder/arm pain and numbness. The physical therapist thinks that a few weeks of physical therapy and daily traction might work (I brought home a neck stretching machine) - plus the muscle relaxers and prescription ibuprofen. I'm hoping so - the traction machine does seem to help for awhile - but the rest of the time my neck seems worse than ever, and my lower back is hurting now too I think just because I'm trying not to use my upper back - and I'm feeling more numbness in my right arm. I go back to the doc next week, and she wants me to see a neurosurgeon just to get their opinion too. I'm just sick of not feeling 100%, and I can't lift weights or do pushups ... I've been doing step aerobics but trying to really go easy on my neck - but I'm paranoid that anything might be making it worse so I don't enjoy my workouts. I HATE being out of a routine and with all those doc appointments my work schedule has really been off - plus the kids are on summer break so their schedules are all wacky, and I worry about my 16-yr old home alone and driving (today she is driving my 9-yr old to a zoo that is a little bit of a drive and most of it freeway so now I'm worrying about that). I'm just feeling cranky ... and PMSy. I'm due for TOM next week so this is the week I am most PMSy ... last month I never got TOM, we'll see if I do this month or not - but I still get all the fun symptoms like crabbiness, water weight gain and crampiness. I'm full-on peri-menopausal now ... I never know if I'll get TOM. I'm on BC pills just because I was so crabby and irregular without them (my husband had a vasectomy so he isn't real happy that I'm back on BC pills anyhow) - but without them I was sometimes getting TOM every other week and then not for 4 months. And I don't think any of that helps with weight loss.
Plus I'm really getting anxious about our 2nd home situation. I know I've already told some of you the story - but I feel the need to vent again - we own some waterfront/woods land that we decided we couldn't afford to build on - and got into a disagreement with the neighbors when we put a camper on the land last summer - even though we were perfectly within the zoning rules to have it there. We didn't use the camper or land enough last summer so we decided to sell the camper and put the land up for sale - but I wasn't worried about selling quickly because we planned to keep going there and pontooning and using the land until it sells. Those complaining neighbors have since built a HUGE mcmansion and cut down all trees and now have a perfectly groomed 2 acre lawn :mad: ... which totally ruined what we wanted to use the land for - a woods and water getaway. Now our view is this monstrosity of a house, it makes our 1 acre semi-wilderness look somewhat small, and kind of goofy next to their house (we lost a lot of trees in a storm a few years ago .. so unfortunately on that side of our lot there are only a couple of trees to block our view of their ugly house - now that they stripped down all their trees). So now I don't really want to go there at all to use our pontoon. Plus a dear Aunt of mine passed away last fall and we have decided to buy her house (which was the old family farmhouse) to keep it in the family - but we can only afford to do that if our waterfront property sells. So now I'm really anxious for that land to sell ... but I know it likely won't sell soon because of the real estate market right now and we need to get a certain price to get our money back and be able to buy the farmhouse. Aaargh :grumble: ... another thing that is out of my control that is stressing me.
ok ... whine, whine ... now I've gotten that out of my system - I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and try to control what I can ... which is my eating. It has been BAD, BAD, BAD. First step is back to tracking on MFP, and I'm back today.

ok i'm in to! I will tell you a little about myself,I am 47 years old ,happily married and overweight.I need some motivation and I think this might help me! I am going to start walking this morning and try to stay under my calories this week, wish me luck!

Good luck, and welcome.....you are off to a great start

Good evening ladies. I hope everyone had a great weekend.

I missed my workout this morning which lead to a very sluggish day, and then I got the wise idea to go workout at the 6pm session. I am not sure if any of the rest of you live anywhere near Texas, or not, but the heat is enough to kill. I work out in a Cross Fit gym (garage style gym) which means no AC and none of the frills that Golds offers, just plenty of heat and lots of sweating. Needless to say, I was miserable, and my workout time truly stunk but its over and I will get my lazy butt out of the bed on time tomorrow so that I can work out in the morning. :grumble:

I am feeling so energized by all of the kind and supportive conversations in this thread. I have tried WW and WW online (an excellent program) but only since I have been using MFP have I been able to keep up a steady success at weight loss, and I attribute it to all of the great conversation, and folks on MFP. :happy:


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Good morning ladies, off to work again today (then I am off the rest of the week)..so I will be looking forward to a great WED challange....don't really have any plans for tomorrow (no running around I mean)...so it should be a great exercise day.....anyhow....hope you all have a GREAT day, will check in a little later.....:happy:

I did it! I did it! I DID IT! I MADE IT TO THREEDERVILLE! I am crying over here! 398, ladies! I am so happy!!!!

HIP HIP HOORAY! Good for you, you are doing so well! I am very happy for you!!!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

CONGRATULATIONS NANCY!!!!! I am so very proud of you! GREAT JOB!!!

Grats Nancy!! BTW... the banana "ice cream"... if you all like bananas, you have to try this. It is really one of the most amazing treats ever. Take slightly over-ripe bananas & cut into slices. Put them in the freezer for a few hours. Blend them in a food processor... NO OTHER INGREDIENTS. The consistency is exactly like ice cream. It's quite amazing. I've tried it with a little honey & peanut butter too. Very yumtastic!

CONGRATULATIONS NANCY!!!!! I am so very proud of you! GREAT JOB!!!

Bluenote: ditto girl!!!

Colorado girl you find the best characters. Makes me SMILE!

lstpaul: HUGS I totally relate to the PMS, I can tell you more about a couple of options that stop you from any period if you are interested. Also I get crazy about the unknown and things that I have no idea how they will work out. Hang in there, somehow it will all work out for the best.

selbyhutch: mmm the banana ice cream sounds great. I will give it a try. Hope the shin splints heal up quick.

Welcome to all the new gals. Slow and steady, one day at a time you will see results.

So I am feeling like I am out of my funk. I still haven't found the exercise that I enjoy as much as skiing, but I am moving. I needed a mental rest as well. The good news is that during some down time I did NOT gain any weight back. That is a HUGE victory to know that I can maintain. Thank you gals for listening. I don't plan on posting every day as summer is crazy but I will be logging calories.

Morning ladies....leaving shortly to go to an amuzement park with my husband and kids....will do a lot of walking today but food choices will be a little hard....probably should pack a cooler but its a big hastle so I will just have to do my best....will be able to drink plenty of water though....and I had a 1# loss today so the movie popcorn must not have been tooo damaging.:bigsmile:

We will be back late because they are having fireworks at the park also tonight, so I will talk to you all in the morning!!

I did it! I did it! I DID IT! I MADE IT TO THREEDERVILLE! I am crying over here! 398, ladies! I am so happy!!!!

awwwwwwwww congrats,i am so happy for you!

OK, you're all gonna love this one. I decided as a reward for threederville I'd take my 7 yr-old niece Olivia (in my profile pic) to get a mani and a pedi with me. We'd have a girls' day out, complete with retail therapy. So on the way to the mall (Gosh I hate malls, but whatcha gonna do - 7 yr-old's freakin' dream day), Livvy informs me that she may not want a mani/pedi because she was having a sleep over that night and her bff's and she would probably do each other's nails. I finally convinced her to get the pedi with me. OK fine. So then she informs me that she is afraid of getting hurt at the pedi salon. :noway: I was like - wtf? No one gets hurt getting a freakin' pedi. So I talked her off that ledge (come to find out she got a tiny cut the one and only time she got a mani - OK so she was sort of afraid). So we go in. I couldn't understand a word the women were saying to me in what I think was Korean. This made Livvy nervous so she declares NO PEDI, ONLY MANI. Oh for goodness sakes make up your mind OK. So she sits over at the mani table and I go to the pedi tub. I climb in and fit in the chair (woohooo 398#) and I am too far up, so I slightly stand to push my big *kitten* back into the chair some more, and SLAM#^*#!$CRUNCH@#$&! my left foot goes sliding to the front of the tub.
I broke my toes. I broke two of my fu**ing toes in a fu**cking pedi tub! :sad:
Then I hear Livvy nervously say, "I don't want a mani either!!!" :laugh:


So I go to the doc in the box and they x-ray and tape my piggies and give me a boot and tell me to enjoy my last four weeks of summer break with effing broken toes. And I hear Olivia telling her mom on the phone, "Mommy, I don't ever want to go to get a mani or pedi ever again!" :ohwell:

Anyway,, morning ladies.....had a great day at the amusement park......but the eating was HORRIBLE>>>>will NEVER go without packing a cooler again....I ate so many horrible tasting things...not even worth the calories they consumed....but I did get a great workout day in.....went jogging to the car 3 times when we forgot things, or needed new clothes, etc....atleast a mile away....never before would I have gone,, my husband was always the one who went to the car....but NO MORE!! I feel so healthy, there is nothing I can't do.....:happy:

Anyway,, morning ladies.....had a great day at the amusement park......but the eating was HORRIBLE>>>>will NEVER go without packing a cooler again....I ate so many horrible tasting things...not even worth the calories they consumed....but I did get a great workout day in.....went jogging to the car 3 times when we forgot things, or needed new clothes, etc....atleast a mile away....never before would I have gone,, my husband was always the one who went to the car....but NO MORE!! I feel so healthy, there is nothing I can't do.....:happy:

I am so happy for you! It is a great feeling when you want to move around and you feel good doing it. It has been wonderful to feel myself getting stronger, its such a confidence booster. Have a great weekend and keep up the great work. :drinker: (crystal light in the cups...Cheers To You) :happy: