40+ Club: Spring Fitness Challenge

Good Morning!

Friday check-in.......I had a good week of workouts after not being able to workout for nearly two weeks (beyond just walking). I feel stronger and more energetic every day. My eating, on the other hand, has been horrible. That, combined with the fact that I always retain water when I go back to exercise after a break, has me feeling huge and terribly out of shape right now. Hopefully that will work as an incentive to get my eating back under control.

kbefit, join the challenge!!! We'd love to have you. I totally agree with tron in that your goal should be on how you feel, not on a number on the scale or a size. So there is no reason you can't feel more fit by the time you go to Florida!

TxMs, how fun that your photo was taken in Napa! I'm really looking forward to the trip. I've been to Napa a couple of times, and really enjoy how pretty it is up there. I've been missing California alot since we've been back in the US (even though we only lived in LA for 15 months), so this should be a nice trip back 'home' (even though it is at the other end of the state!).

tron, GREAT job on the workouts!! I've been hearing about the bad weather in California right now. Shoveling snow like that is NO fun. Hope your spring hits soon.

singfree, the challenge is ON! :drinker: And believe me, if you could see me right now, you wouldn't describe me as being in 'great shape'. :embarassed: But I'll get back there. I definitely don't like feeling this puffy, that's for sure. Hopefully I can stick with this challenge for a long time.....like you said 'months'! I'm going to try. Enjoy the German club. I had my first taste of wine this week since the New Year. It was a nice change, but I also think it has helped me feel bigger. :ohwell:

Off to do my workout for the day. I'm going to try a more intense cardio workout (maybe a little HiiT) and an upper body workout. We'll see how it goes!

Enjoy your weekend!

Happy Friday everyone!

Busy week at work and at home made it difficult to post this week. I am sooooo glad its Friday!:happy:
So I have worked out three times at the gym this week and had two dog walking days, so I made my five days of exercise. YAY!
Will try for one more tomorrow. :noway:
Eating has been good but Ive noticed my sodium intake has been on the high side this week. Hope it doesn't effect the scale this week....:grumble:
Plan next week to stay at or below 2500 on my sodium. I will do this by eating less processed food, packing homemade lunches instead of lean cuisines, and less canned products.
I have an appt with the trainer at the club on Tuesday after work to go over a strength training program. Very excited!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

beautiful day but the wind is blowing severely right now. Night everyone!

I have 2-3 motivations for helping myself. #1 Diabetes 2 is coming down the blood line-I wanna prolong it as much as possible
#2 I want to be able to have fun with my kids/grandson and even on my nts out whatever I'm doing.#3 I don't like being in a depressive state of mind.I'm 44 and have degenerative arthritis in my knees so if I don't change something things aren't getting better.

Figures I knew this would happen... I workout 3 days and shovel snow for an hour 2 days so that makes 5 days of some sort of exercise right.... And of course I GAIN 1.1 lbs.


Does anyone know how Duffy is doing? I need to check out her blog and see if she has written on it lately.

Hi all! STILL not finished with the big project at work. Hopefully, last round of edits will be today and it can get to the printer.

Have not been doing so great with exercise. I found a spin plus yoga class that starts next week at one of the local rec centers. I am going to sign up for that. Also, took an old bike in to get it serviced so I can start riding.

Will be going to Miss. for the weekend to see family. My little sister is taking me to a step aerobics class. It was quite a workout when I did it last time I was there.

Officially turned 52 last Friday. I have been looking at triathlons in the area but they are all at times that I already have other plans. So, I will just do my own: 500 meters in the pool (easy for me), 13 miles on the bike (not so easy) and 3 mile run (hardest for me). I am shooting for early May. Will update you on my progess. Take care all! TxMs

Good Morning Everybody! I hope you all enjoyed a great weekend.

All here is going well. My sinus infection is officially gone, and I'm back to 100% in my workouts. :drinker: Now I just need to get my eating back under control, but I'm ready to do that which is a good sign. I know my eating won't be great this week due to going to California on Thursday, but I'm going to do my best to keep it under control.

I gave myself some great incentive for getting back into shape/getting my eating under control when I signed up to spend a weekend at Cathe Friedrich's (my DVD instructor of choice) gym in New Jersey in July. She holds annual 'Road Trips' at her gym, and I decided since I'm only living about 90 minutes away and I've been using her DVDs for something like 14 years, that I'd give it a go this year. There are something like 8 workouts over the span of three days, so I definitely need to make sure I'm in tip-top shape. I've never done anything like this before, but it should be fun! And, as silly as it sounds, I'm excited to finally meet the person I workout with almost daily. :ohwell:

tron, don't worry about the 1 pound weight gain. As I've said in the past, I ALWAYS retain water when I change my exercise routine. I was fighting that all of last week starting up working out again after having this sinus infection. So don't read too much into that and don't let it discourage you from working out. You are doing great things for your body and health!

alf, I'm so sorry to hear about your husband! Please let us know how things are going. I hope he's doing better. :flowerforyou: I've been suffering some motivation problems lately, and I've not had the injuries you have. So I understand where you are at right now. I really wish I could find the enthusiasm I had two years ago for healthy eating (in particular), but I'm doing everything I can to try to keep myself motivated. The good thing is we've been at this for two years and neither of us have gone back to our previous ways. And I take comfort in that. Glad you like the challenge!!!

TxMs, Happy Belated Birthday!!!! I'm sorry this project at work is taking so long. I hope once it is over, you are able to get back to your workouts.

Victorious_One, I'm glad you found a protein powder you can tolerate. Hopefully that will help get you some more energy. As I've said before, drinking more water will help with energy as well. Good job with your weight!!

singfree, no doubt this permanent night shift is going to take some adjustment. I'm impressed you are doing so well with your workouts. Now that we've got the challenge on, hopefully that will help with the eating.

Lexie, welcome!!! Regarding the challenge, this thread is pretty open to whatever you want your own personal challenge to be. But sometimes a few of us will do a workout program together or whatever. Right now, a few of us have decided to start a healthy eating/workout challenge. Our goal is to eat no more than 10% of our daily calories in 'treat' foods AND to workout at least 5 days a week for 45 minutes. Please feel free to join in if you're interested! The more the merrier, that's for sure.

I've already done a Turbo Fire workouts this morning, and must get on to doing my lower body workout. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to workout at this conference this weekend. They days go from 7:00am to 9:00pm. :noway: And that's from Thursday thru Monday. But I'm going to try to get at least a couple of workouts in.....somehow.

Enjoy the day!

Good morning!!!! My husband is right now waiting to get the stress test done. I will be going to the hospital soon to meet up with him. I am guessing they will not find anything. My husband needs to try to relax some more and not let things to get to him so easily. He can have a bad temper and holds grudges, etc. That is not good for anyone. I will keep you updated on the results. As of for me I have not done any kind of exercise since last Thu!!! I didnt teach last night cause the center was closed due to the Holiday. I am hoping I teach tonight so I can some exercise done. My eating was great yesterday until I grabbed the box of crunchy raisin bran and munched away...I was sooooo mad at myself...I'm trying I'm trying!!!!

Stiring, OMG, that sounds so exciting!!!!! I hope you get to take a picture with her. I would love to do that. I would love to meet Gilad, Tosca Reno, Cathe, and many others in the fitness industry. Have a great time in CA!! What kind of conference are you going to?

Sing, my God, hang in there, permanently on night shift? Yikes!!!! Good thing you are doing so well!!!

Tex, happy belated birthday!!! Have a great time with your family!!! You are quite the traveler!!!

Lexie, welcome!!! As Stiring said we have our very own personal challenges and just post here for motivation. But right now we have one that consists of exercising a minimum of 5 days a week for 45mins each and eating clean, healthy, avoiding any sweets, "junk" foods. Some of us monitor ourselves by how we feel and how are clothes fit, others weigh themselves about once a week. We report our weekly struggles, successes, challenges once a week on Fridays in addition to posting daily if we can.

Victorious, I am addicted to water. LOL I drink about a gallon a day, no kidding. But I know a lot of people struggle with drinking water, my husband is one of them. Water is the most important nutrient your body needs. Just try to increase it little by little daily.

Have a great day!!!!:flowerforyou:

alf-sorry to hear about your husband-what's the status-exercise????

Tron-That is funny to collect phones for the military & they can't use-good one-wonder what they are doing w/them?
I replaced it for $15-as I am not due for an upgrade right now. I got a small basic phone which has everything except camera, radio. For now this basic model is working just fine-at least I have a chip now.

Well, my stitches are out-can barely tell where the cut is just a little sore up there. She said to let it scab over and then use vit E, but I don't see ANY signs of a scab forming yet and it has been a week.:ohwell:

I am trying to see about purchasing ticket/tickets for AL, but the prices have gone up just like the gas prices-OUCH! I hope I can find something or it may entail driving 2x this year back and forth-I was hoping for driving 1x. :sad:

I forgot to weigh in Friday-overslept and had to get to work. My inlaws came Thurs and left yesterday, so I enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine during their stay, made meals of good foods so that was a plus-we had very nice visit.

Well until later have a good one....at least we have sun today!