40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Am back from my training trip. Gawd, those trips take their toll. First, 6 hours of driving, then a night in a hotel room, which means crappy sleep, followed by 8 hours sitting in a room, listening to lawyers speak about privacy (interesting, but long), followed by 3 1/2 hr drive back toward home. EXHAUSTED!
Did I get a workout in - No. Did I eat clean - yes.
Back to work today and it's snowing. Can't let that stop me.

A friend sent this to me - had it made to help motivate me to get back to running again. This was me a few years ago, running the Goodlife marathon.

Good Evening Cool Kids.

Beeps, it's only work if you have to do it.

Sderski, I hate sleeping in a hotel bed. You never good much sleep. And snow???? We hit 88F today.

I didn't have to work tonight, so I had the whole day to play in the dirt. This is me with my 6 foot rule showing how deep the hole was when I hit clay {4 or 4 1/2 feet}.



I did take a woods ramble, ending up in some dark hollow.



Here are the week's numbers:

20.3% Body Fat
23.6 BMI
186.7 Pounds

That is 1.0 pounds lost for the week.

You guys have a good one,

Larro

Bis & Tris =DONE!

New here. I am 48 and struggling with vitamin d deficiency, chronic fatigue and obesity!

Good luck, allen!

Nicely done furball.

Good workout, gam!

I am in San diego for three nights....will report in later!

Chest & Tris=DONE!

The workout room was tiny, but fairly well equipped. DB's up to 50 lb....and a bench. So, I can cobble together a decent upper and lower body workout with that. I worked out as soon as it opened and nobody came in the 75 mins I was there.

I will walk the beach a few times this afternoon.

And I will do another lifting workout tomorrow morning.

San Diego is so lovely. I always enjoy my time here.

allenpriest wrote: »

I had one of my worst eating days in a long time. That's ok. One day doesn't blow everything. Tomorrow will be better.

Today was better.

Larro, you need to be using a tractor. That digging is not fun. The leaves are changing and falling around here, looks very pretty, but getting cold. The corn is all chopped and you can see way down the field now. My weight had gone up 2-3 lbs the last couple weeks. Haven't made the best choices eating out, and not exercising as much. Getting back to better choices this week and doing better. I hope everyone is having a good week.

allenpriest wrote: »

allenpriest wrote: »

I had one of my worst eating days in a long time. That's ok. One day doesn't blow everything. Tomorrow will be better.

Today was better.

Glad to hear it.

Nataliegetfit wrote: »

Larro, you need to be using a tractor. That digging is not fun. The leaves are changing and falling around here, looks very pretty, but getting cold. The corn is all chopped and you can see way down the field now. My weight had gone up 2-3 lbs the last couple weeks. Haven't made the best choices eating out, and not exercising as much. Getting back to better choices this week and doing better. I hope everyone is having a good week.

I have been using the tractor and box-blade quite a bit. {not so much in time, but in dirt moved} I am to the point the ramp coming out of the hole is too steep for safety. I used the seat belt yesterday for the first time in my life. I have a dirt slip that I'm hoping will enable me to move a little more with the tractor. I still have to clean up around the edges where the box-blade wouldn't reach.

And to me, shoveling is fun. I love doing hard manual labor that is totally unnecessary.

This was what I did today. Along the west and north walls. 110 minutes of Can You Dig It?

Now I have to avoid stress eating and deal with him in a more positive way.

Circuit training done yesterday! Didn't feel like it, but of course, was glad I did when it was done.

Welcome back Alf!

@larro - wow!

3furballs
Thanks for the thoughts. I wish the relationship between my father and I were more positive, but it isn't. I make sure he is cared for because he is old and sick and needs the help.
It would be easier if I had a well of positive and pleasant memories to draw from, but I don't. He was emotionally distant, hyper critical, regularly verbally abusive and occasionally physically abusive. He had good traits to be sure but the damage in my life has taken years of work to overcome.

Scripture says to honor your father and mother. Sometimes you honor them by rising above what they were able to be and by treating them better than they deserve.

A large part of the man who called me names, told me I was a failure, hit me enough to draw blood at times, is dead -lost in the mists of gathering dementia.

When he is gone I will not mourn his passing or who he was. I will mourn what he could have been. I will mourn what I needed from him but never got and never can get. And I will mourn the scared kid inside him that lived in anxiety and fear and drove a man to do things that a well man would regret.

If you pray, pray for those of us whose scars you do not see. Pray for healing for the strength to relive the terror so that we can find release. And pray that we do that early enough in life that we break the family cycle and raise healthy kids.

My journey has lasted 20 years. 20 years so that I end the legacy that I know started at least as far back as four generations. A journey that started with the clarity to plant a stake in the ground and say that no matter what this ends here. My family tree will be different by the grace of God. Pray for those who need the clarity and the courage to say no more, no matter what they have to endure to make that a reality.