40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

I'm sure eventually I'll get out of holiday mode. Good all week, bad all weekend is not going to result in weight loss!

chest & tris=DONE!

Curious- please do not hang your head in shame, you should be proud even if the scale stayed the same. That has been the results for me too. I have been trying harder to make better choices & get in more exercise (even if it is a walk for 20 minutes). The important thing thing is we keep trying, we search out new ideas & conversations, connections! At the end of the day we know we were productive people and that is what counts. I have an uncle who is on hospice right now with cancer of bladder & kidneys, cannot eat, cannot exercise. He is just happy he got out of the nursing home to go home to die in peace. Sometimes it is the simple things.....lets notice the simple things things week. I am still one of your biggest fans !

48 and would love to join. Started a Heart Healthy study(basically weight watchers except they pay me ) at the University of Pittsburgh in May. Been doing wonderful, have lost 50lbs, my sleep apnea has disappeared, I'm exercising like crazy and have energy that I definitely didn't have before. Clothes, especially suits, feel enjoyable again. I would love (and reciprocate) anyone that wanted to join up here (iloveclones67) or on Instagram which I just set up for health/food/fitness related stuff.

Hi. I'm 52 yrs young. 5'4. 197lbs. My weight has bounced up and down the last 20 years. It's time to get serious. My wakeup call was visiting with my Grandchildren and not being able to keep up. I want to be the fun Grammy,not the Grammy who dies far too young of heart failure.

Happy Monday Cool Kids,
These next couple of weeks are going to be brutal at work, but that should actually help with maintaining a strict eating schedule.
Saturday we went kayaking and gathered bull kelp to make kelp pickles (which are really good!). The coolest thing was that as I was trimming some fronds I found a baby octopus! So freaking adorable. So small it fit in the palm of my hand.
We tried to do a motorcycle ride on Sunday, and had some success, but didn't go where we had intended because the smoke from all of the fires here was as thick as fog! Sad times for the forests.
I'm trying a new gym schedule... one little satellite of my gym is close to work, so I'm going to try going there before going home. It should be a lot less busy than the main one.
Beeps, enjoy your lift day today!
Sdereski, adjusting to siblings is hard on kids to be sure. It's great that you and her mom are letting her know how loved she is. I'm enjoying hearing about your running schedule. It brings back such happy memories from my running days.
Ruby, that is so sweet I really needed to hear that. Thanks!
G3G, hysterical pic. Congrats on making your legs whimper.
Furballs, weekends are such a challenge, but you're so right. It just doesn't work if you go on holiday every weekend!
Larro, that really is low for you! Luckily you're an awesome cook, so you'd better get cracking in that kitchen!

Enjoy your day everyone!

Back & Bis=Done!

Hey all,
Just touching base. No exercise in a few days...lots of work at home - cooking and cleaning. Still doing well with food choices and water intake.
Beeps - had to chuckle at your comment about your friend's DL weight.
Suzieue - no worries, a few of us are 50+. That's how long we've been here.
gam3rguy - way to keep knockin it out of the park!
Curious - your life just sounds so, so cool. Not the work part, but all the other stuff.
Had a last minute B&B guest last night. I mean, very last minute. Got a message around 11:30 p.m., from a parent in California. Their son is driving across the country and didn't book a room in this area and there were none to be had. They found me on airbnb and in walked the young man just after midnight.
I'm a mom. I couldn't say "no".

yeah, sdereski....I have lost a LOT OF STRENGTH this summer. Good thing I have all winter to pile it back on!

Today was a walk with a gf....ZOOM!

Felt better at kettlebell tonight, no muscle spasm/stitch when breathing so the rib is back where it belongs, still going light on my right side specially with any chest stuff, but I felt good! Here's going I feel that way in the morning too!

Curiousgeorgianna wrote: »

G3G, never stop.

thanks. never going to.

Hi all,
Beeps - good thing muscles have memory. You will be back to where you were sooner than you think.
allenpriest - happy birthday - next week.
Curious - am sure you will find that gym that works for you. Oh, and KEEP OUT OF THE LUNCH ROOM!
I know how you feel. Had to cook dinner for a B&B guest on Sunday, and made homemade coconut cream pie (my fav) for dessert. I was good....I only had one tiny, slim slice yesterday. My husband ate the REST. It's done now, so the temptation is gone. Other than that slim piece of pie, had a real good day otherwise.

I worked with my PT trainer yesterday. It was a new routine, and a good one. She is incorporating strength, which is what I want. Told her to keep away from Cardio - I do enough of it. My upper body is a little sore today.

Have a lunch date with my g/f today - can't wait. Seems like we haven't seen each other is months! That's summer tho.

Own your day peeps!

jl_clancy wrote: »

I like it (the title I am a mother of four; had three of those in almost as many years. I would like to now lose, once and for all, 35 pounds by the end of the year.

That's a very ambitious goal. You might need to extend your time frame.

Well I did good at kettlebell last night and I'm feeling it in my back today! See saw rows with the 12 kilo bells. So tonight I'm taking time off. Back to Kickboxing tomorrow.

gam3rguy wrote: »

I was not inspired, motivated or in any hurry WHATSOEVER to get to work today.



everyone (except me) is out on vacation...out sick...or retired. all projects cancelled until "sometime after labor day".