40+ Club: Fall Fitness Fanatics

singfree, I hope you enjoy that glass of wine tomorrow night! :drinker: Like you said, it is well deserved.

alf, I'm sorry about the foot pain. I've had plantar fasciitis, but that wasn't anything like the symptoms you've got. Hopefully you'll get some answers next week. I've never heard of getting MRI results in the mail. I've seen some of my MRIs and I wouldn't have a clue what I was looking at. So I'm glad you've got an appointment and, hopefully, you'll get some help. :flowerforyou:

Friday check-in....this week FLEW by. But the good news is my eating has been better this week. It isn't perfect by a long shot, but it is an improvement over what it has been over the past number of weeks. My workouts this week have been really good and intense. I've got one more week of this undulating periodization rotation I've been doing using Cathe's STS. I made up a new rotation for the six weeks after I finish, and I think I'm going to focus more on endurance strength training than lifting heavy weights. Hopefully that will get me through the holidays with some good intense fat-burning workouts, which I think I'm going to need.

No big plans for the weekend. We have a Christmas party tomorrow afternoon, and we might try to go see some Christmas exhibits along the water tomorrow night. Other than that.....we'll see what the days bring I suppose.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

looky looky looky at my ticker!!!

I am officially 50 pounds lighter than I was in January!

Yeah me !

Just popping back in to give a HUGE CONGATULATIONS to JuliaSoCal!!!! :drinker: You are amazing!! You really stuck with it, and you've done it!!!! I hope you are immensely proud of yourself! You should be. :flowerforyou:

pepper, so good to hear from you again. Sounds like you had an interesting but good Thanksgiving. I'm really happy to hear your husband is taking care of himself during this time he isn't working. That's so much better than sitting on the sofa and feeling sorry for himself. Yes, it is very hard to believe it is Christmas again.

kadetr, thank you for the compliment. I know I've written this before, but I have my daily motivation for working out (get into a pair of jeans, look good in a dress, be thin for a trip, etc). And I have my long-term inspiration for working....and that is, in all honesty, my mother. I love my mother, but she hasn't taken great care of herself. And I don't want to be barely able to walk when I'm 80. I don't want to hurt so badly from a sedentary life that I'm unhappy all of the time. I want to be able to go until the day I die. If my husband had a choice, he would die playing golf. If I had a choice, I'd die walking on a mountain trail. Both of these require some form of activity, and since neither one of us wants to die young, that means we want to stay active for as long as we can. What I don't want (if I can avoid it) is to die lying on a bed unable to move (again, if I can avoid it) So I don't look at it like 'Am I going to have to exercise for the next 40 years?' I look at it like 'I want to be able to exercise for the next 40 years'. That may not be working out the way I am now (in fact, I have no doubt it won't be), but I want to at least be able to walk 40 years from now with as much strength and confidence as I can (and not gasping for breath). So, for me, my short-term motivation for working out is about my weight and such. But my long term inspiration is all about staying as young and healthy as I can for as long as I can. Anyhow, just thought I'd share that as some food for thought......

Again I hope you all have a great weekend. And, again, congratulations on meeting your goal, JuliaSoCal!!! So happy you have been sharing your journey with us because you are quite an inspiration.

Stiring--thanks for your words...I'm with you all the way on short term and long term goals!

By the way, on the same subject, I heard the OnPoint radio on NPR on the way back from town today and thought you'd want to listen if you didn't catch it. Talking to a 91 year old woman, an athlete, and what makes her able to do what she does.........very inspiring. This will be us in a few decades!


http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/12/science-aging

SO COLD IN NEPA
19.69 miles completed this week. Gonna make 100 by Jan 1st

Hi all! Not much time to check-in because I'm headed down to the Pentagon for a meeting. But I didn't want the day to go by without saying 'hi'. So....'hi'! :flowerforyou: We had a good weekend here. We had our first (and only) Christmas Party on Saturday afternoon which I thought was a strange time for an office Christmas party....but it was fun. We were able to meet up with old friends we've gotten to know at various places we've been stationed, so that was nice. Yesterday I tried to do some more shopping. It was busy, but I think I'm done (I hope!). I got a great workout in yesterday but my eating this weekend wasn't the best. It's that time of year I suppose.

Sandypants, good job with the Slim in Six program. I've heard great things about that program.

mkwood, glad you hear you are continuing to feel a little better. I hope the trend continues.

singfree, glad you survived the audit. I hear you about negative thoughts seeping into your brain because I fight the same thing all too often. This time of year makes me unusually reflective, and sometimes I tend to focus on all of the good memories of my past and not on the good things that are going on right now. It is something I'm working very hard at fighting this year. Hopefully if you get a chance to get back into your fitness routine and some of the stress from work leaves you, you will start feeling better. :flowerforyou:

Off to do my workout before running for a bus to catch the metro downtown. It's going to be a cold wait for the bus today!

Hi all! Been so busy it is hard to get time to check in. I pickled almost two gallons of peppers yesterday and we got the tree up. It took my husband and I about thirty minutes of sawing the make a fresh cut on the tree. Next year, we'll have Lowe's cut the end! Take care all! TxMs

Good Morning!

tron, I'm sorry to hear about your son-in-law. Are they going to have housing on post there? If not, is your daughter considering coming back home? This has got to be a tough time for them (and you), and she has my full sympathy. Hope you're feeling better.

TxMs, happy to see you! Glad you got your tree up.

singfree, sorry to hear about the snow. We don't have any of that....just colder air and lots of wind. I can't complain because, to me, it isn't THAT cold (though if you listened to the news, you'd think we were in an artic freeze). It was pretty windy yesterday, though. I actually had a hard time standing upright when I was waiting for the bus! Guess I'm glad I put back on a few pounds to help keep me anchored. :laugh: Hope your trip to California goes well. To me, the German Evergreen Club event sounds perfect. I really miss Germany this time of year. Of course this wasn't helped this year because I got an email from the little hotel in Switzerland where we spent quite a few Christmases asking us to come back. Of course, that's not possible right now, but I can't get the image of being there out of my head. Oh, well. :ohwell:

Yesterday was a good but busy day down at the Pentagon. My eating was off-the-charts bad....for no reason whatsoever. But I guess some days are just like that. Today I did Cathe Friedrich's new workout called 'Intensity', and that felt really good after all that bad eating yesterday. Later I'm going to do a lower body workout. Hopefully my eating will be better today. Well....I'm not sure it could be worse than yesterday so.....:blushing:

Hope you all have a good day.