40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Morning!

Had a great Easter weekend, cooked an awesome meal for my fam that did not include ham

UPDATE on my CrossFit situation...got a massage, iced my back and rested for 4 days straight (went for 3 mile walks every day though) happy to report I was back at the gym yesterday and after a KB 20 min workout, flipped tires for the very first time!!! Awesome workout, taking a rest day today.

Have a good day Cool Kids!

Hello. I am doing the april squat challenged, 30 yesterday and 40 today.....so far so good.....did some exercizes at night too. I am pretty sedentary, but I am trying. Good luck everyone.

Just finished 45 minutes of step aerobics, old school with Jane Fonda! Its getting a little easier, thank god...

Found out a friend of mine at work will be having gastric bypass (no harsh judgments, please, not sure how people here feel about them...), so we've decided to be work-day walking buddies after her surgery. She's a great person so I'm looking forward to getting to know her better and being able to encourage each other.

Wow! Lots to catch up on.
Glad to read many of you had a great Easter! Mine was very quiet, but it seems, it was just what I needed.
It also snowed all day Sunday and yesterday again.
I had a long run to do yesterday (32km / 20m) . Ran it in the wind, cold and snow. Not fun - but it's done!

Today I did my P90X workout. :happy:

Tomorrow is a catch up day for me. Hubby heads back to work, so the TV is all mine.

Beeps, glad to hear you are feeling somewhat better.

Well, I made it to the gym this morning. Yeah! Good work out on the eliptical and bike. I have to say, I commend those of you who run so much. Not my thing at all. I leave it to my daughter who is the marathon runner in my family! Hoping to make it to the gym the rest of the week as I will not make it there this weekend. My 3 month old grandson is spending his first weekend with "Grammy" and "PawPaw"!

I am getting sicker.
:sad:


So, stayed home from work this morning (but have meetings to attend this afternoon), am downing the tylenol, and am skipping my beloved weight-training, today.

Am sick of being sick!

Did not make it to the gym this morning! I didn't sleep well at all and woke up to a blood glucose level of 69 (yes, I am diabetic). Nixed the work out completely as it is unsafe to exercise when it is below 100 and by the time I was able to get it to go up, it was too late for me to head to the gym before having to get ready for work. I'm going to try to at least walk on my lunch break. Happy Thursday everyone!

I think this would be great mfp group here. everyone can bond with each other and make friendships. just a thought. I am 2 years away from being 40 years old. I thought I would put this out there for you guys.

sweet gurl - we can PROBABLY overlook your shortcoming...:happy:

welcome!

hello hello! Stumbled on the "40+" and let's face it....at >40 you have different challenges and goals than someone 27 with the same amount of weight to lose. I'm a mom of two...job...early menopause...hubby....two dog...60lb to lose kinda gal. I'd like to settle on one place to go, learn, support, and chat because in all honesty the number of threads in the community is overwhelming. I joined a while ago but never used until recently so I am new and trying to strike a balance before any backsliding is achieved

I live in OH and am a huge hockey and baseball fan...please never ask me about Ohio State because I'm just sayin' up front I'm not a fan....I'm an Ohio University girl and college professor...I started this journey in February and have lost 12 lbs so far...have stopped the last week and a half and I am hoping it was me learning the importance of both diet AND exercise. Advice, encouragement, and help is always appreciated but I want to "get to know" people too. To me it's not all just "hey I lost 5 lbs last week"....that can be discouraging at times and I can see how you might start to feel that your job is to go down the news feed and tell everyone "congrats" on logging food or burning calories; seem important to me to be able to post "oh crap I had 7 glasses of wine yesterday so I'm starting over " tooooo.

So there is me in a nutshell....hope I find a place to call home and fit in....maybe you guys feel like getting to know someone new too

Am still feeling under the weather, but not as bad once I keep the tylenol regularly ingested! I was awake most of last night with a churning fever.

Hope to get back to the gym tomorrow.

Week 2 Day 2 of the C25K tonight after I get home from work then a key lime pie smoothie for dinner!

wow...so many new cool kids! Welcome everyone!

newbeg - My oldest just turned 12 and she is already a teenager!! Is there a reason she stopped if it was so **** easy?!?!

kmr - are you enjoying c25k?

kelly - good job!

beeps - hopefully you can sleep tonight...you need it!

cbj - that's what its all about...mutual support. I DID have 7 glasses of wine last saturday. For me, though, its not about starting over, its about recognizing that you are going to have your "cheat" days and as long as you exercise and are good most of the time, it will fall into place.

stiggy - I have heard great things about SL 5x5. Looking forward to hearing how it goes for you.

Will do. Not sure i'm looking forward to being in a busy gym lifting an empty bar to start with but will just have to deal with it!

I'm not sure how all the posting and stuff works, MAJOR COMPUTER ILLITERATE here, but will try my best and if anyone sees I am doing stuff incorrectly please let me know.

lHello Everyone, My name is Melanie, I'm 56-years-old and (Hike That Mountain) is my goal, besides losing weight of course and becoming as healthy as I can be.

I had lost almost 40 pounds over the last year and have been on a plateau since the beginning of December 2012 when I got sick with the flu twice in a row (of course I also got out of the habit of exercising afterwards) and did the little couch potatoe thing up till March 2013 and I was so happy to stumble across MFP four days before I weighed myself yesterday and have already lost one pound, YaY!

Last year when I was fed up of gaining weight and aching and disgusted with myself whenever I looked in the mirror I had come across a book by Jeff Galloway (an Olympiad runner) who said that you could start running by only running a few seconds at a time, (never in my like did I think I could run, in gym class I would want to puke when they made you do a 50 yard dash). Well that book got me going, it allowed me to believe that YES I could run and in January 2012 I began walking, then throwing in a few seconds of running, then slowly upped the running time (actually probably more like jogging, but have time to work on that), by the summer I ran my first (and only so far) 5K with my son who I had asked to run with me because I knew having him expecting me to would keep me true to my training. When I ran that 5K, I was 2minutes over their time limit of 45 minutes, hee, hee, but I didn't come in last -of course there was only one other person behind me:). Anyway, thanks to reading posts here over the last four/five days since I joined I have gained some momentum again and just finished 4K a few minutes ago. Miss Sidereski (hope I got that right as I cannot see your posts at the moment), I am so in awe of you, you are my hero . One day I hope to grow up and be like you.... I wanna run a Marathon!

And Beeps, could you give me an idea of where I can find out the proper way to do some lifting (starting off small . Ha! Ha! I had to google "The Plank" and tried it last night. They recommended starting at 45 seconds in each pose, I could only manage 10 seconds! lol. oh well, that just shows me how out of shape I am and now I know what to add a couple of seconds to each day.

Since I am introducing myself, I will bore you with a bit of past history. My son and I moved in with my Mom when she was going through chemotherapy, to help her out, over the ten years I was with her she progressively got worse until the last 3 or 4 years she couldn't walk without a walker and in the last two years was sleeping in a chair that would electrically raise up so she could stand and head for the bathroom. It wasn't so much the breast cancer that she had been treated for that was her problem, but the progressive lack of movement on her part and the increasing body weight. I'm not making excuses for myself, nor am I sad that I got to spend some beautiful time with my Mom, just stating facts, but with taking care of my Mom and two jobs of my own (one during the week days and one week nights and weekends) I pretty much stopped taking care of myself and watching what I ate and..... gained weight. Now, I actually have always been overweight since grade 1 primary school, but had gotten really sick with something called Crohn's disease (presently on SCDiet, which is a miracle and allows me away from the bathroom so I can actually get exercise). Sorry, I tend to wander, I got sick with my first problems with Crohn's (which I have had for 37 yearst) and lost down to a size 4, but then came my mom getting sick and I went up again.

Hope I'm not putting anyone to sleep (but then you don't have to read . Anyway, I'm Canadian and decided to come to Saudi Arabia (another long story) to earn my retirement as I was broke and owing money and also, as I had promised my son, to get into shape and healthy so that he would not have to take care of me in my 70's. And what did I do as soon as I got here? I gained about 20 lbs. I was up to 230 again (My highest ever was 244). I am presently as of yesterday's weighin 192.

I am here to make that promise to myself and my son come true and I will and hopefully I will have a few friends to help me along the way here.

Nice to meet you all, I hope I can join in your fun.

When I went on leave last summer (Aug/Sept) I had gotten down to a size 16, my goal for this coming September/Oct (my leave back to Canada) is to be down to size 14 or if Im lucky, even smaller.

and wow, another goal, shush, don't tell anyone...... I would love to have a girly six-pack one day if that is possible? and maybe even work my way up to that Marathon!

Oh Ya, the "HikeThatMountain" thing, When my son (now 33) was around 16 years, he, his cousin and myself went hiking up one mountain, across the tops of two and down the third mountain. I was smoking then and overweight and I thought I wasn't going to make it, was ready to be burried when I reached the sumit of the first mountain. But I hung on and lived and carried on with encouragement from my son and my niece, but near the end of our trek, I again was really scared because it took us literally all day and by the end of the hike it was almost pitch black in the trees and Iwe had no light. Thanks to my beautiful, wonderful son, my light (literally it seems the three of us made it out of there just fine. But I knew the whole time that I was the one holding us back and I know that I scared my son because through the whole trek he kept asking me if I was alright. Anyway, another goal is to go back once I lost down to 140/145 lbs and do it again only this time, coming to the finish with lots of daylight and sunshine! Of course, never again will I hike without some kind of light to light the way if needed,,,, that was really really scary!