40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Happy Monday, Y'all.

I hit the gym this morning as soon as the kids were on the bus--got my heavy weight and some uphill jogging on the treadmill out of the way before work. My workout schedule was SO messy last week due to a sick child, and I'm normally very militant about my schedule so this jumping back into it this week, after a day of rest, was just what I needed. When my schedule gets thrown off, so does my diet. Not only do I not grocery shop properly, but I end up using convenience foods. Bleh.
Such bad timing too, since I'm trying to switch from MFP's deficits to TDEE ala Scooby.

Anyway... back at it! This morning was a great work out, EXCEPT that I think the deadlifts may have pushed my lower back too far

I just survived a weekend with a house full of out of town guests and everything from 5 layer bars, bagels and cheeseball staring at me. Not to mention my Hubs 40th birthday bash complete with cake and high calorie booze and then... mothers day yesterday. Somehow I braved the scale this morning and did not gain. Woot! Go Me...Go Me...Didn't lose any, but no serious backslide. Eventhough I didn't sqeeze in my workout (the "get down meltdown" as I call it) I still maintained some self control. I treated myself with little bites, tastes and pieces of the "bad stuff" and stayed away from the mentality that if you blow it, you might as well go hog wild, "HOG" being the key word there... I am proud of my progress as slow as it is and I feel good about myself for taking control. I am not in my "skinny jeans" yet, but I can button my fat jeans now. :O I refuse to let the scales control me anymore. It was too discouraging! I am weighing weekly instead and bought a pair of cute red shorts in the size I "should" be wearing that I try on occasionally and take pics of my own round *kitten* in them. That is all the motivation I need. I hope to wear them with a sexy pair of heels by the end of summer!

i would like to join in on the over 40 club! I too am loving my 40s for the most part. Had bariatric surgery at 41 and 2 1/2 years later in the best shape of my life. Do MSVB thrive class 5 or six mornings a week and try to stay at 1500 calories. I'm 5'9" float around 172-174 lbs and have for some time have a goodly amount of hanging skin but no cash for surgery right now. Would like to weigh less but seem to be more building muscle right now than losing plus eat to much at night. Current goals get stricter on food and add more cardio hubby gave me a bike for my last birthday and have only rode 2x would really like to figure how to add to lifestyle but struggle with having little kids still that cant ride yet maybe when smallest goes to preschool in july...hope all the ladies had a great mothers day!!

Well, I did a GREAT job of keeping my calories ULTRA-LOW yesterday, UNTIL I got home from my son's baseball game.

I let myself get TOO HUNGRY. So, then I had my supper (which was bacon and eggs), but remained hungry.

FULL-ON PANTRY RAID.

ugh.

So, today marks "day 1", again....

Hi All,

Hope all the moms a had nice mother's day weekend, I spent mine with my mother and my sister, did a little shopping, ate and ate...back to square one since yesterday. Thoroughly enjoyed my parents visit but glad to be back to my normal routine. Made it to the gym last night and felt great!

On other news, our teenage daughter is away all week enjoying her 7th grade class camping trip and behold, my husband has decided to join me at the CrossFit gym tonight in our attempt at new kind of date night - BTW my husband is very athletic, weighs the same he did in high school and is very active, surfing, skiing, hiking, you name it - In 18 yrs of marriage it's the first time we are having date night at the gym and I'm very excited, can't wait to show him how much I've improved and what I am now capable of doing :blushing:

Wishing you all a great afternoon, I'll report back tomorrow.

helpers - congrats on your last 2 weigh-ins....sounds like you're making EXCELLENT progress? What are your overall goals??

newbeg1nning - TRX on thursday nights are our "date nights" just now....it's AWESOME! We only paid for 8 group sessions, and this week will be week 3....so, it's just a fun thing to do for the month of May/June. We'll be back to "restaurant-time" in no time. I bet you'll LOVE crossfit with hubby!

Awesome!

Hey all, I fell off the topic board for a week or two, life has kept me RUNNING crazy!!! I have kept on track with my eating (mostly) and working out. I am in week 4 (recovery) of my insanity/p90x hybrid. My weight has increased a couple of pounds, I hope it muscle mass. Everything still fits the same and I'm okay with the weight.

Anyway, sorry for not being around much lately, hopefully I'll be around more. Glad you are all doing well and date night at cross fit sounds fun!

Happy to report i had an awesome fit test today and beat my scores from 6 weeks ago by a lot. Not bad since i was worried that i would tank since i'm nursing a few minor injuries. Happy to see concrete proof that the gym hours are worth it even if i have not lost any weight...

I had a cut/color yesterday and asked the stylist not to take too much time drying it as I had hot power yoga 2 hours after my appointment, plus I was the last person in the salon and they were ready to go home.

I had recovery this morning and was happy to have it.

Great job improving your numbers on the fit test.

Good Morning all,

I love the date night ideas of going to the gym. We never do date night. We have a hard time even getting out for lunch together! :noway:

Our staff retreat day was Wednesday, which I planned, so was busy Tuesday setting the room up and then was there early on Wednesday. It was a fun, full day. The feedback forms are slowly coming in, and so far, seems it was a hit.

Yesterday, hosted bridge at my house, so Wednesday night, after the retreat, was busy baking and cleaning. I found a great recipe which is fat free and low sugar. It is a chocolate roll filled with cream and strawberries. The entire recipe has 1/2c flour, 1/3 c sugar.
I've made it twice now and it has been a ht both times.

I did manage to get some exercise in - except for yesterday. I had scheduled an hour of Zumba fun for our staff retreat day. Yup, I was sweating by the end of it.

Today is a long run day. My half marathon is fast approaching and I have not been getting many miles in. I also have totally fallen off the P90X wagon. I got sick with a terrible cold and just never picked it back up once I started feeling better. Geesh! I had 4 weeks left. I really love those workouts, so am going to try and incorporate them into my workout schedule.

It's our May long weekend this weekend, and the weather looks like it might be okay! :happy:

Hi 40+!

I hope everyone (in Canada) has a great long weekend! My brother/his wife/their 2 kids (ages 3- and 1-) are coming to stay with us, so that should be fun!

Today, I get to lift at the gym....I did my TRX class last night, but I really didn't give it any "oomph" - so, it ended up being more of a HARD stretch than a HARD-CORE work-out....although I did UBER-planks and I did 'em all with PERFECT FORM!

Go get it this weekend, 40+!

new - I think you have a new avatar photo, too - NICE!

Glad hubby supports you and REALLY glad to read you're dropping sizes and, lifting VERY HEAVY (nice 165 on the back squats - that's HEAVY, SISTER!)

new, awesome date night and NSV!

helpers, I only lost 30 pounds (in the last 1.5 yrs, but more very slowly, I was a size 14 about 7-8 years ago, down to an 8-10 before I really started going hard core, now down to a 2-4). I think I look good in photos but when I look at myself in the mirror, I have trouble seeing the "new me." I am thrilled with my body, its just slow not looking for the flaws.

I had insanity sports training this morning, tomorrow is core and balance then off to hot vinyasa yoga. Will finish the morning donating time to a local animal shelter doing some painting. Date "night" tomorrow is Star Trek, woot.

Hey cool kids,

Hope you are all having a great weekend. The weather has been nice here, so I headed out for a hike yesterday. Was on my own, so I was moving (was nervous about seeing a bear). Took me about an hour to do what normally takes me about 15-30 min longer.
Today a group of us went out hiking. We did my favourite hike (takes me just under 3 hours). Well, today it took us almost 5 and half hours! :noway: We did lose the trail a couple of times, but we had some doddlers. I was starting to get annoyed. Did you really have to stop and look at the same type of flower 15 times? It was the first time I hiked with this group - I am used to going out and getting it done, whereas they pack a lunch. Literally.:laugh:
Came home and grilled some steaks and made a couple of nice salads for dinner.
My youngest son is home for the weekend, but he has been out fishing. He's out in the big lake tonight out our front door. Hoping we get some visiting time tonight.

Helpers, I still see the same size gal in the mirror as I did 25lbs ago. For me, it has never gone away.

new - congrats on your NSV! That is awesome!!:drinker:

40 yrs young here! Now if I could just convince my knees of that .... Grrrr!