40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Welcome jmclean.

Beeps, I heard about that storm sweeping across Alberta. Yikes. Hope it loses it's force as it makes its way east.

Great day yesterday, exercise wise. Eating wasn't too bad, well, except for the cookies.

Went to my first Zumba class - 45 minutes of shaking my boot-aye. It was so much fun. Afterward I stuck around for the Total Body Fit class, but I was the only one that showed. The instructor is also my personal friend, so she said we could do a short workout together, We ended up doing an hour and half of kick boxing, core work, weights and ab work. Had a great workout and lots of fun. Loved it!

Today is my day to lift, but have a late work meeting and then have to curl right after,. If my curling game is cancelled, I'm hitting the gym. :happy:

I have "watched" Zumba a couple of times and I can see myself tripping over my own feet! - don't know if that counts or not! Lol.

For the record- cookies are good! All depends on whether or not you eat them all! :bigsmile:

Hi cool kids! Came back from Thanksgiving weekend away with the in-laws and went straight into a work dinner last night.... Now it's time to get my eating back under control. We just bought tickets for winter vacation and I've got to not hate myself in a bathing suit, at the very least!

Stoshew - carb cycling is another method used for fat loss while maintaining or building lean muscle mass. It allows for 1 or 2 high carb days a week, usually on heavy training days, to ensure restoration of the glycogen levels. It is really quite beneficial in getting those last few pounds off without the need for restricting calories any further. As I said, at my stage, I don't really know if there is a big benefit right now as I still have high body fat. I just know that it has allowed me to stick to a lower carb intake alot easier.

Thanks WhataBroad! I did do a little research and I kind of already do some of this, except I don't have high calorie days.

What I actually do is cut out most of my breads and pastas that I used to eat. I read this article on bodybuilding.com website that introduces this carb cycling thing. Seems like the higher carb days is two fold (mental reward and to replace glycogen (sp) that was lost on the low carb or no carb days). I am kinda highly motivated right now, so i don't need the reward days. getting closer to my goal is reward enough.

But the way the guy introduced it on bb.com was that he started this thing like years ago before anyone knew the science behind it. Like, I knew I had to drop calories to loose body fat and I already had a low fat diet, and I wasn't about to cut protein, so what is left? Carbs! That is how I arrived to where I am now. I still eat a bowl of Cheerios in the morning or a bowl of oatmeal. I will have a bannana with that. Lunch or mid day I will have an orange then later on an apple. Some days I will have no more than 200 g of sweet potato cause of the Vit A and potassium. Other vegatables offcourse. Other than that, not much in the carb department. I wanted to focus my calories on protein. I do run every morning (exept Sunday). I lift 4x a week at night (2x upper & 2x lowerbody/abs). I have not done a recent tape measure (which I need to do) so not sure how much body fat I have left.

on 10/28/2013 I had 31% BF. That was when i was 228.1 lbs. Now I am just under 214. I am also 6'2". So I will be soon getting to the point where maybe the lowered carbs will mean much more.

Anyway, thanks again all!

Happy Wednesday! Rest day for me which I think is good today. My shoulder has been sore for the past couple of days, so I may go easy on the arms/shoulders tomorrow as well. Just keeping my calories in check for today- or at least trying to.

I do find all the approaches (here...) to carb-cycling a very interesting read - so thank you very much for that!

KellySue - enjoy your rest day! I worked out even though I still have plugged ears and a (bit of a) thick head. Wasn't anything to write home about, but I got it done!

sdereski, I think it took me about 3 months (maybe 5?) to make "no late-night snacking" a TRUE success/habit! Now, it's pretty deeply ingrained and on a regular basis I am NOT doing ANY late-night snacking for 24or 26 days of every month...

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Jumping in! Hi!!

hello!

It seems this is where the cool kids hang out and I see a few Canadians. I thought I would say hello since I guess I do fit into the 40+ category.

Good morning all. Hit the gym this morning for some leg and ab work. Shoulder is feeling a bit better, but I don't want to push it. I just found out that my car will be out of comission for several days next week. Will have to stick to home workouts on those days and bum rides to work- which I hate doing!

Have a great day!

Hey kids!

KellySue - glad your shoulder is feeling better. Good session you had today! What's up with your car?

sdreski - too bad the weather didn't cooperate with you yesterday. Enjoy your staff party and absolutely, drink that water in style!

It's Friday for me today, woohooo, I am looking forward to having tomorrow off of work. Preparing for year end crap just drains me and we are wrapping up a campaign that ran through the fall. Ugh.
So tomorrow, I will be hauling out the Christmas decorations and will have to rearrange the livingroom a bit in order to get the tree up. I love decorating though.

Got in my lifting this morning and will do a speed interval run after work.

Have a great rest of the day peeps! :drinker: