40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Hooray for Friday! It was a gym day for me. Legs and abs and some walking. Good workout! No big plans for me this weekend. A workout tomorrow, groceries, laundry and an oil change for the jeep!! Boring, but all important stuff.

A small loss for me this week- .2lbs. It's all good though. A loss is a loss no matter how small!

Have a great day!

Happy Friday gang!

WhataBroad - Hope your trip went well!

Beeps - Thanks so much for the link on lifting!

My hearing has improved since my surgery (hooray) and I'm clear to head back into the pool again! Had a nice run yesterday.

Looking forward to some much needed rest this weekend!

Hello Cool Kids!

Love the waist Beeps!

Have fun WB!

I am still fighting this tummy bug! Just grrrr. lol

Life is crazy right now!

My 11 yr old and 5 others in his class are testing for their Black Belts in Tae Kwon Do tomorrow morning!
They video the test, send it to S. Korea where 20 Grand Masters review the video and decide if they pass or not!
Tough! My son knows what he needs to know but he tends to get nervous, so fingers crossed!

Have a great weekend everyone!

xoxo
Chelle

Monday again! Didn't make it to the gym this Saturday. When I got up it was snowing like crazy and since I have to go into town to go, I opted out at the roads had not been plowed very well and I had some shoveling of my own to do. I did work out at home- besides shoveling- and was able to get out and get my errands done later in the day when the snow stopped.

I did make it to the gym today and had a good workout. Cardio and arms, shoulders and back. Increased weights on tricep pulldowns and lateral pulldowns!

Have a good day all!

KellySue - I'm glad to read you went up in some of your weights! That always feels SO good!

alf - I'm not stepping on the scale, for sure...it wouldn't be GOOD news! I'll wait until my Friday weigh-in and hope for the best!

Today, at lunch, I LIFT! Gotta keep those curtsey lunges IN my rotation....they were there on Friday (after maybe a 4- or 5- week absence!) and I was SUPER-sore this weekend, lol!

Thought I better join a group of like minded souls... turning the big 5 - 0 this year in November, want to drop to a weight I haven't been for 25 years ...
Living in Perth, Western Australia working overseas on a 28/28 rotation so food is always a struggle as living in a camp while on month of work.
Got to 118kg (260 lbs) in September 2009 and decided enough was enough and started taking a bit more care of myself, dropped to 97kg (214lbs) in November 2012 for a holiday in the UK to see my family. Used MFP and mostly cardio to drop this, but eased on the exercise as my work changed location and gradually crept up to 106kg, Then after starting a new job and being in Abu Dhabi for 6 weeks came home to find I had gained 6kg (13lbs) and was over 112 kgs for the first time in almost 4 years.
So after the purchase of a Fitbit and renewed attention to exercise and food tracking I hopefully can get back to where I was before and hopefully down to 90kgs(198lbs). I'm 6'1" tall.
I weighed myself before I left home on the 4th January and was 107.9kg, and have not been able to weigh myself since, but have exceeded my 10,000 steps almost everyday, and added a minimum of 20 mins cardio everyday on the stationery bike. Controlling what I eat as best as I can, but difficult when I can't cook for myself and not always sure as to what is put before me but with a distinct lack of fresh vegies available, it's not a perfect diet.
So my next weigh in will be on the 6th February after I get home and hopefully the scales will see a drop, as an indicator I tried on the shirt I traveled in and it felt roomier than when I last wore it.
Well there it is if a little long!.

There, put my picture up now so no longer a ghost!!

handyandy - welcome! activity is always great for cardiovascular health, but you can't out exercise a bad diet!

KellySue - good for you to get up and get it done!

I managed to make it to 2pm yesterday (18 hrs) before breaking my fast, lol. I quieted my tummy with a big glass of cold water each time it rumbled at me but really, I didn't feel all that hungry. I have flushed out 2lbs of water retension thus far, only 3 togo!! =P

Was up this morning and got my cardio in, 20 minute jump rope session and after work will be glutes & abs.

Have a fanatstic day everyone!!

Beeps - omg, that sounds like an amazing dinner and I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly!! What movie did you see?

alf - I know it's water because of my carbed up weekend! and logic... no one can gain 5lbs of fat in 3 days! =P 18 hr was actually not that much of a stretch from my usual 16. Pets can provide so much love and companionship, must of touched your heart to see it. Of course you had to eat out... your boss was paying!! Those days will happen but the key is to not let them happen too often, which I know you don't.

I just couldn't drag myself out of bed this morning. I think it's still the effects of my weekend, we just need more days to recover than we used too!! Today just may end up as a rest day for me as well but it is bright and sunny so maybe just a walk. I am also going to see if I can stretch out my fast today until dinner time... how do you do it Beeps?

Whatabroad- Love, Love, Love the dress. You look great!!

bump to keep up with this group.

Alf, for me, when I do any fast that is LONGER than my daily 16 hour fasts, NO, I do NOT eat "all my calories". Likely, I am BANKING those calories for a function later in the week.

Or, to look at it another way, I work with a weekly "bank" of calories. 9,450. On a "daily" basis, that is 1,350 calories. BUT, if I know I have a restaurant function out, for example, on a Friday, and I know, for Friday, I'm going to ingest 1,800 calories, then I might fast, for longer than 16 hours, earlier in the week (say Tuesday), and, come end-of-day Tuesday, I'll only have eaten 900 calories, given me a "banked" 450 calories, that can be used on my Friday event-night.

I hope this makes sense!