40+ Club: Summer Slimmers

:flowerforyou: scereski...isn't it great that we can substitute ingredience to have healthier portions of our favorites. I have notice lately that if I touch fried foods that I have greasy fingers. Uggg....imagine putting that in our bodies.

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Big welcome to Suze130 and StacyAC999. I am sure that you will love this thread with all the help and encouragement found here.

sing...welcome back. Hope your computer issue gets fixed quickly so we can hear more from you.

Here I am at work once again with two and a half hours to go until I can begin. Think I will get out my band and do some muscle work.

MellowGa...So funny. Yes, I guess you qualify. I have qualified for 20 years.:laugh:

Hello Everyone,


I could use some 40 and over friends for inspiration. Please add me to your friends list.

Topsking2010

Missed you SIng. Glad your back.

MellowGA- yes, its great to be in this club. Most 20 YO can do what we do:)

Suze130,Stacyac999,topsking2010 and Mello- Welcome aboard!

C25k is going well and I am walking and weight on my off days.

Have a wonderful week! Stay Hydrated!!

Hi all! Horrible summer cold (in my head and chest) since before Memorial Day. Has not stopped me from doing things with my son before he returns to graduate school in San Francisco. Took a family trip to the east coast to see sights and family last week. Did tons of walking and lost four pounds! My right ear has still not repressurized from the flight.

Yesterday was the start of river aerobics and I had to miss it. I figure as soon as I go for an hour without blwing my nose and my ear repressurizes I can start running the river. For you who are new since last summer, our town has a water park with a lazy river. It is three feet deep and has a strong current to moved the inner tubes along. In the evening three days a week, there is a river aerobics class where we run in the water against the current. Very hard work but great fun. If there is a water park in your area, check to see if they have river aerobics.

Must go find more cough drops... Take are all. TxMs

Stacy: I'm very lazy, too, and I find that listening to a book entices me to work out longer than I would, because I'm a big reader. Its really funny at the gym, as I was smack in front of a TV last night that was playing Jeopardy than Wheel of Fortune, and I'm trying to listen to my book, read the questions and answers and not fall of all at the same time!

Welcome all the newcomers! Please keep posting!

singfree, I'm glad you posted because I've been getting a tad worried about you. Sorry to hear about the computer. Hope things get resolved soon.

zebras, welcome back!! Sounds like you had a good time in Maine. I hear you about using clothes as inspiration. I do that alot. You crack me up with watching TV, listening to a book AND working out. As Swissmiss said, talk about multi-tasking!

Swissmiss, don't worry about the scale right now. It's not as important as just making the changes you're making to your eating and exercise routine. Focus on that.

TxMs, sorry to hear about the summer cold AND the fact you had to miss river aerobics. :grumble: Hopefully you'll feel better soon. I hope you post alot about the river aerobics this summer because just reading about it sounds so refreshing to me. And, unfortunately, I think I'm going to need every bit of 'refreshing' I can get this summer because it looks like it is going to be hot one. Up near 100 the next couple of days. Not fun for me.

StacyAC999, the key really is to find what you DO enjoy. You may not absolute love any form of exercise, but you may find some you do enjoy doing. It can be anything from hiking, walking, dancing, Zumba, strength training, treadmill, etc. I like working out in the privacy of my home, so I'm a DVD user. But alot of people need the motivation of the gym, and like the gym equipment. I suggest you try a variety of things and, again, find what works best for you, your schedule, etc. You'll read that you need to be doing X or Y at least this number of days a week and such, but don't pay attention to that right now. That just confuses the point. The real and most important thing is to just find something that's going to get you moving around for a little while. Please ask if you have any questions on anything. I'm one of those few who loves to exercise. Wish I enjoyed eating cleanly as much as I enjoy exercise......but I don't. :blushing:

Speaking of working out, I tried my second Asylum workout today, and I enjoyed this one MUCH more than I enjoyed the first one I did. So I'm looking forward to trying more right now. No doubt these workouts are tough....tougher than Insanity in terms of the types of moves though I don't find them cardiovascularly more challenging. I certainly wouldn't recommend them to anybody starting out. My eating continues to be better now, which is good. I always feel better when I'm eating better.

Enjoy the day!

class of 88 as well..... did you liek the movie Valley Girl? Like totally awesome! Like for sure!

Class of "87". Totally loved Valley Girl and all the Brat Pack movies.....16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, etc. The sad thing is I have all of them on DVD in my movie collection.:laugh:

Thanks for the exercise pointers! I'm going to start looking around, and see what I like. At least I am open to the possibilities now, that's a step in the right direction, right?

Class of '88 here, too! Love Valley Girl, the Brat Pack movies, etc etc etc! Lloyd Dobler is the perfect man. Sigh.

And I always wanted parachute pants, but my mom wouldn't let me. She said they were too trendy and I would never wear them. ha!

Class of "87". Totally loved Valley Girl and all the Brat Pack movies.....16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, etc. The sad thing is I have all of them on DVD in my movie collection.:laugh:

Class of 85. Also loved the Brat Pack movies and E.T.

:bigsmile: sing, it sure is good to see you again. I don't know about night work as I work during the day. But, I bring my own food into work and stick with that. Fortunately, I am not exposed to much junk food while here. The exception is the salt and vineger potato chips that my supervisor eats every day. They are addictive. But, I try to not watch her eating and will go grap a piece of fruit.

I went to my first deep water aerobic class last night. It ran 45 minutes and I got quite a workout. Never realized how hard it is to do exercising against water pressure. Hoping to kick in some weight lose through this.

Does anyone know if lifting weights counts as calories burned? I am sure that some are burned but can we add this to our diaries?

Of course you can add them! You go girl!!!

Class of 82 myself! Hard to imagine where the time has gone.

Got an hour and a half in at the gym last night. We didn't get our lunchtime walk in though. We were all sitting at the picnic table, wondering who was going to mention the walk first, and no one did. Today begins the last week of our walking challenge. The goal will be 60,000 steps, and I have had no problem reaching that number for the past few weeks, so I'm ahead of the game. The prizes are all drawn randomly from the people who met the goals anyhow. I just wish they had some incentive for everyone who meets the goals, as so many people have fallen by the wayside. I can be very ADD and give up on things when I lose my pedometer or forget to log in for one day or something, but I have managed to wear the thing every day even during vacation, and log things both on the official site, and my own spreadsheet without fail, so if I can do it, anyone can. Oh well. Off my soap box now!

We're heading into a heatwave, so we probably won't get the lunchtime walks in, but the new gym by my house is well air-conditioned, so I should be able to keep things moving along!