40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Alf so sad to hear of your injury! Take it easy for awhile & keep your positive energy flowing. You will be back to normal soon! I have a ninja mega system & love it. It makes great protein smoothies & tons of other things. I ordered the salad shooter with it & glad I did.

momof3boys- what an incredible journey you have had. Good luck on your surgery!!! Welcome to our group.

my feel good is sitting by my pool in the hot summer sun with some good music & a cocktail with friends. I cannot wait until summer! Thanks for bringing up a nice place to dream about today beeps!

So many inspirational people on this thread!

I hope you are all having a great weekend. I had a wonderful Saturday; had lunch with my husband and traveled into the city for shopping. A HUGE mall & I loved it. I am a city person but my husband is a country guy so I live in the middle of no where and then turn left LOL. I bought a new handbag and:drinker: splurged.... there are some perks to being over 40 I guess and being more settled financially is one of them.

Handyandy - Sounds like you have been doing wonderful! Way to stay on track even when you are away from home. I know you will have a good weigh in!

Alf - the Ninja make really good smoothies but it takes awhile to get the consistency down for thick or thin, they can get too thick it you are not careful. I will use unsweetened almond milk, protein powder and some frozen fruit and that works pretty good. You can also throw in some ice if your fruit is not frozen. It is NOT good if you are looking for a juicer, the commercials claim you can juice and strain but I have not had luck with that. It will go through about any ingredients with no problem so I think to make your energy bars it would do that with ease. The attachment I have is called the "prep system" it come with 4 discs to shred cheese, grate, slice veggies ect. I use it a lot to shred fresh parmesan cheese. I also like that it can work as food processer - I make homemade wheat pizza dough with it, homemade hummus, homemade peanut butter ect. I have used the nutribullet before & that does make awesome shakes, I also like the compact size of the nutribullet. I would love your energy bar recipe!!!

Happy Monday

Spinning & then strength training on the agenda today fitness wise. Hope everyone has a great start to their week.

I had a great weekend! Got to see my mom + dad and they are doing well. Got to see my bff and we had a great visit (in between son's volleyball games). Also, got to see my CHILDHOOD bff who I am going to Europe with in May! for some kismet reason, she descended on OLDcity this same weekend that I did, so spent an hour at a coffee shop with her and her husband and her 2 youngest children.

My son's team lost every single game, until the final (they were playing for 7th spot out of 8 spots....) - and they won! So, they were 7th out of 8, lol.

My daughter's hockey team won thursday night, but then lost every other weekend game, so she came home without any provincial hardware....but, she and her dad had a totally wonderful time!

Sounds like a fun weekend Beeps! I'm going to Europe this summer with friends also. First time in Europe, I've been to Asia, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean - so excited to finally get to Europe

KellySue - maybe that run will move some of the at congestion for you. Good to hear you're up and moving again!!


I'm curious... What major city do you all live near. I live about 20 miles from Boston, MA

Sorry about the snow, Kelly Sue. Hope it clears up soon and that it warms up there. I believe we are experiencing some sort of global cooling. We have had major storms here in GA not too long ago that crippled the Atlanta area, which you all may have heard about.

Great job exercising. I need to start exercising again. I have realized my weight loss is going to be very slow without it.

Alf - I understand why you are feeling down. Exercise totally changes my mood too & I can get really down if I do not exercise. I think you need to focus on getting yourself better so you do not make your injury last longer. Do you think you could do some sort of swimming? I am thinking something low impact? The other thing you could try is to only do upper body exercises/weights so you are a least getting a work out in for your upper body but not messing with your leg. You will get through this - 1 day at a time right now.:flowerforyou:

Happy Monday to All!!!! I hope you all have a great productive day.

Thank you all for your encouraging words. I need to do something. I haven't left the house since Thursday!! I have to go to work tomorrow so that should do it. I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and move on. :grumble: I just get mad and frustrated because lately it seems that when everything is going well with my body something happens to screw things up!!!! Sometimes I just feel like giving up and not try so hard...:mad: Ok enough!!!!

Cardigirl, so great to see you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flowerforyou:

Ahhh Europe, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I lived in Germany for 6 years. We travelled all over Europe. I would love to go back to visit. I would really love to go to Greece and Portugal. My grandfather was from Portugal.

Bounce, my sister lives close to Charleston. It is a nice city. My nephew goes to Citadel there.

Have a wonderful day!!! :flowerforyou:

hi Alf, :flowerforyou:

I'm a Brit but I lived in Portugal, on The Algarve for 10 years, LOVED it!!
where was your Grandfather from?

Hey Cool Kids! I just saw this thread and said hey, I am 40+!!

Who knew that I could get even cooler simply by aging lol.

I am 43, have 10 pounds more to go, but more than that I just want to get my belly fat completely gone. Getting close. It's true these last few pounds are proving tougher than the first 90.

The cool thing is that I am 43 and I weigh less than I have at any time since I was 18, including my 7 years in the Army.

For a long time I thought I would never see 200 pounds again, and now I am closing in on 180.

I am wearing a medium sized shirt today....for the first time in my adult life.

Did my lifting this morning at 6 am and it was great! I am going to do cardio on the treadmill at lunch at BURN as many calories as on can. I am looking forward to it. It sounds weird but I am really starting to like the morning workouts. NEVER thought I would say that.

Kellysue - that is wonderful you are seeing all those changes in your body and are getting stronger. I hope your Dr. agrees to let you off the last diabetes med. You should be very proud of all the accomplishments you have made for your health. Very cool!!!

Peytonyoumans - good to meet you, yes the last 10 lbs hard. I was at that point at one time and then gave up for awhile and now I am about 20 lbs out from my goal. It seems to be moving very slow but I am making progress and keep reminding myself this is for the long haul so it may take awhile. I love that you are in a medium shirt for the 1st time in your adult life :drinker: How awesome!!! That is when it really all makes it worth while.

Hey everyone! I would love to hang with the cool kids!!

Turned 40 in February and enjoying every minute of it!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Tuesday!

Hey Cool kids!

Didn't realize I was away from the thread so long. Monday did get away from me though.

Alf and Ruby, thanks for the info on the blenders. I really want a vitamix as well. I have gone through so many blenders and magic bullets, that I think I should have just bitten the bullet a while ago and bought the darn vitamix! :laugh:

Welcome peytonyoumans! Yes, there are many of on here in the last 10lbs club. I was there, now it's the last 15lbs for me. :noway:

Had a busy, but good weekend. Got my long run in OUTSIDE this past weekend. First time running outside since December. We still have mountains of snow and cold, but it was ok weather that day to run outside.
Walked Sunday with one of my bffs that I had not seen in months and yet we live in the same town! Had the family over for dinner and of course my granddaughter was the delight.

Have a busy weekend coming up as well - Ladies Curling Bonspiel. It's always a hoot!

Getting my workouts in and following my meal plan, however the weight is very slow to come off. :grumble:
slow n steady...slow n steady....slow n steady!