Women over 40- Let's lose 20 pounds!

Since my prior "restart" at 1200 calories did not go so well in regards to losing weight, I decided to increase my calories to 1600. However, while the scale did not move, I had to have repeat blood work done for my triglycerides and I am proud to say that by cutting down on some carbs and replacing all sugary soda with water, iced tea, and the occasional Zero cherry coke, I cut those bad boys down by 100 points! The last go round, I also did not eat breakfast. It saved calories for the larger meals with my family and I am usually not hungry in the mornings. Has anyone found that breakfast seemed to help with their weight loss as opposed to a morning fast?

lakeshawas3129 wrote: »

Good morning everyone!! So happy to be part of a group who have similar struggles. I’m 44 yrs old, weigh 144 and have the goal of getting to 125. I workout all the time, now I’ve really been doing a lot of running since the gym is closed. My weight will go from 142-145...it sucks but I’ve got to keep pushing..WE ALL HAVE TO KEEP PUSHING! I do log in daily what I eat on the app...which really helps me out a lot. I would love for us to be able to do virtual workouts, share recipes..anything to help keep us on track. I look forward to becoming friends with you all. Let’s push each other...

Glad you are joining- you seem like you will be a motivating source for me- I am not in texas tho- omaha, nebraska here:)

PedmomJill wrote: »

I will get caught with everyone tomorrow. I’m exhausted. Slept like crap, drove 2.5 hours round trip to get my new weight set. Then put it together and walked my dogs. I also did my 80 Day Obsession stretch and release. But I’m SOOOO excited to use these!! I’m in love. 😍😍

Enjoy your rest!!

Good morning everyone and Happy Monday! Back to the grind for me, as nothing has really changed. I work for a logistics company and we are definitely essential during this weird time.

@sweetstevens Welcome to the group, it's nice to meet you. I'm sorry to hear about your medical struggles, but good for you for not giving up. I can relate to the emotional desire for carbs, oy. You have a lot of good exercises listed so I hope you can find a way to fit in your "me" time. Those results since increasing calories are great! I do intermittent fasting, but not on purpose lol. I am not a morning eater at all. I eat breakfast at 11am, lunch at about 2:30 and dinner at about 6:30. Then I have a snack at 7pm and I'm done for the day.

@copernicus0001 I'm the one that replied to you and this is the great group I joined! I'm glad you found us. Just be warned, this is mostly ladies and we will probably talk about "lady issues" lol. Hopefully you can skim over those. Are you using both Noom and MFP?

@tiff0277 Good for you for passing on the candy! It's not easy for sure.

@lakeshawas3129 We are about the same weight with the same-ish goal. I am from Wisconsin, but I have a friend that lives in Tyler, TX. I have visited a few times. The biggest thing I remember about DFW is how funny it was to me that everything is closed on Sunday! They had taken me to the airport and we were going to do some shopping first, but all the stores were closed lol. Then I got snowed in and spent the night at the DFW airport. And it was my birthday and the Packers were in the Superbowl and I missed it. But I still went back for another visit !

@tigerlily8045 My soulmate---I love to bake. It's just me and my son though, so I do have to cook also. And I have had to give up most of my baking because I don't want to eat it. I also have a desk job. I have my Fitbit set to give me hourly reminders to get up and that helps a little. But I have to make the effort to actually do a workout every day.

@gela130 I did enjoy the rest of my Sunday, thank you. It was nice to just relax a little after running around all day. And I carried all those weights from the garage to the basement so I even sort of worked out lol. And thanks, I LOVE my gym area. At my age (54) I've been collecting fitness stuff for decades haha. This set and rack is my first major purchase since I bought my elliptical machine in about 2010.

Speaking of working out, it's noon so time for my workout. Today is Booty day with Autumn and 80 Day Obsession.

Have a good afternoon all!

healthytink wrote: »

Wow! I hate falling behind in group; I missed so much just over the weekend. It's overwhelming trying to catch up, so I'll just start from here and comment on your posts going forward. Sorry

This weekend was rough for me. I ate over my calorie budget Fri, Sat and Sun. My husband says I look sexy, but personally I'm not where I want to be yet. So I go back and forth... My husband is happy with me (so eat what I want) or I'm not there yet (so stay in budget). This weekend my evil side won. I'm just so tired of eating 1200 calories a day!! Once I hit my goal, I better not have to eat 1200 calories to maintain or I'll cry. In the end it will be worth it, but my goodness I miss eating what I want and when I want it.

I reply more during the day while at my desk since I have two screens. I have the thread open on both screens and it makes it much easier.😊

Have you tried calorie cycling? It might help you not feel deprived. So you’d have 1,000 calories for two days and have 400 “banked” to use the third day. Just an idea that I’ve done with carbs in the past.

I used my new weights and love them, yay! I also got to use my 20 pound kettlebell today. It’s been collecting dust since I started Beachbody workouts last October.

Guys..............I'm not seeing many accountability posts here! This is turning into my blog instead of a group. Please post!

I did my 80 Day Obsession workout at noon-Cardio Core. If you're not familiar, you do 3 minutes of jumpy cardio and then some abs. Multiple times......today's was 43 minutes including warmup and cool down. I HATE cardio, but I know I need it........

I hope you all haven't given up on our group!

Hi, I am 47, 165 lbs. I just stated “21 day fix extreme” hope to loos 10lbs

nuriav1 wrote: »

Hi, I am 47, 165 lbs. I just stated “21 day fix extreme” hope to loos 10lbs

Welcome! Regular 21DF was my first BOD program. I was happy when it was over cuz man, doing the same thing three weeks in a row was so boring! I’ll try the real times at some point. 👍🏼

@healthytink I hope I didn’t sound mean! I need that shirt. I just dread the cardio days so much. I can’t wait for warm bicycling weather so I can sub some of it. Thanks, I love my new set, too. Such a smart design for space savings and ease of use. I love that I can put my hand right in the middle to grab the weights.

Thank you for welcoming me to your group!

@PedmomJill
@gela130 Yes - I am using both Noom and MFP at this time. I think MFP is a far superior application for any data driven activities - logging meals, activities, weights and measurements, etc. Noom's strength lies in having both a "Group Coach" and a "Goal Specialist" that interact with the participants. In the group setting the strengths are only as good as the group's participation and dynamics. A group with very little participation does not work too well. The group coach asks a question or poses a task (like posting a photo of a colorful meal). She tries to get the ball rolling in the group thread. The group coach posts once a day, M-F. The goal specialist's role seems to be to ask a goal related question of the individual once a week and pose another question on a weekly basis. It's value seems to be in the self-examination process that transpires when answering a question. Unfortunately, the responses and queries from the goal specialist and group coach are quite scripted and probably applicable independent of a group or individual's response. Hopefully this setting in MFP proves to be a much better method for mutual encouragement.

@PedmomJill Your new weights look great as does your exercise setup. Sounds like you had a great workout too - it is tough to do something you really don't feel like doing, but the feeling of accomplishment afterward as well as the benefits of the workout hopefully put a smile on your face.

@healthytink Everyone will have ups and downs in their quest to achieve a goal. Stick with it... It may take some time to recover from the "rough weekend", but in the long run you will be much happier when you achieve your goal. ...and your husband will be much happier too since he will see joy and happiness shine from you as you attain your goal.


So, an accountability post...

I guess first I need to determine to what metrics do I want hold myself accountable. I really am new to dieting and structured exercise... I would also say that dieting is not the correct word to reflect what I am trying to implement. My goals are to improve my health via the development of improved eating habits and incorporating a habitual exercise routine into my daily life. I feel, if I think of what I am doing as "dieting", there is a subconscious assumption that the process will end with implicit permission to revert to old detrimental habits. I need to change my relationship with food so that the changes I make that create a healthier me are permanent.

Oddly enough, this pandemic we find ourselves in has been a boon to improving my eating habits. Typically I found myself eating at either restaurants or social gatherings nearly every night of the week. Poker nights, sailing nights, Friday fish frys (probably the healthiest night of the week), etc... and the typical poker night fare was pizza, tacos, doughnuts, chocolate dipped crullers (oh so good!), and a bag full of burgers from McDonalds or Hardees or Burger King. Everyone would bring something and there was always a table filled with an absolute ton of junk food. My biggest challenge will be avoiding the wrong food choices as social distancing restrictions begin to ease.

My approach so far has been a combination of intermittent fasting with a keto approach to food selection. I have been eating only in the evenings once a day. Generally I find myself having something to eat around 7-8 pm and sometimes a snack later in the evening as well, but nothing after midnight. My magic elixir has been coffee! I was never a coffee drinker, but started drinking far too much soda in college (4-5 cans before 10 am). I have tried to quash that habit and have struggled to do so, however I find drinking a large mug of black coffee in the morning dispels any feeling of hunger I may have in the morning.

I am going to take a few days to determine what metrics I will use to maintain accountability. I have also been exceptionally busy with work - and wasn't expecting a global pandemic to crop up just as I was initiating a transformation of my daily eating and and exercise paradigm - so fitting MFP into my schedule is taking quite a bit of effort, but I am glad to be here.

Thank you again for your warm welcome. I look forward to sharing this path with all of you.

Douglas

@foodie4run Good for you for passing on the snacks. That's really hard for me, too. And yes, 100% I'm struggling with it more out of boredom. I also agree with you on their needing to be a balance. That old 80/20 we've all heard about so many times. Pizza is my favorite, but I only have it about once a month now. I just know if I eat too much of that stuff, as you said, it can get out of control. Boredom has caused me to do clean out a lot of closets and drawers since we've been stuck at home though so I guess that's good. It's been fun to take all of my too-big clothes out of my bedroom.

@copernicus0001 Funny thing-I used to live on Copernicus Way in Madison. I have heard other people complain that Noom offers all of this "personal coaching" but it seems like computerized responses. I think it's a waste of money because basically you can Google what they are going to tell you! And you are so right about the feeling when your workout is done. I work from home and take a break at noon to exercise. Today is the second day this week that I was too busy with work to do it. Now I have to make sure I do it right after work before starting anything else. I don't like procrastinating it but sometimes work does have to come first. For a few months I got up early and did it before work, but that got too hard-I am not one to get up at 5am lol.

You are so right about the shelter in place helping with eating healthier. Socializing is the hardest thing for me with trying to keep weight off. It's hard not to feel deprived when you see everyone else eating the "bad" food you want. I'm hoping that my good habits are going to be instilled enough by then to help me resist.

@healthytink Wow, your Noom experience sounds a lot like my Weight Watchers experience. I won't bad mouth them because the program really helped me lose weight. I started 09/23 and have lost 45 pounds as of today. But, on 04/12 I started putting some of my diary days into MFP and was shocked at how low my calories were. LIke 800 a day! I just don't feel like that is healthy or sustainable at all, especially not with exercising for an hour almost every day. I also have about another month that is paid for, and I am also pretty much not using it at all. I sort of transitioned-I entered my food in both places last week to keep comparing. The biggest plus for me with WW was the in-person meetings. I really enjoyed them a lot, and now they won't be having any until about June 1st, and that's assuming it doesn't get extended further. So I really see no benefit to pay for it. Their social media platform is terrible, too. It's very hard to search for things or people, and you can't have group threads like this easily. I think just checking in here daily is a great way to keep yourself accountable. Because let's face it, this is up to each of US to do - nobody else is going to do it for us. (Unless someone here is secretly a wealthy celebrity with a cook and personal trainer lol.)

I said to copernicus that I had to skip my noon workout. At the time, I was working on a work project and wanted to finish. The problem is if I don't do it at noon, I have to wait until afterwards. My boss is in another state and I've told him i'll be gone for that hour. So if he should call me later and I don't answer, well, I don't want him to think I'm slacking.

So today will be Total Body Core from 80 Day Obsession. Two days in a row with CORE in the name! Ack!

@sweetstevens regarding the Fitbit, you should be able to sync with your smart phone. You just have to download the Fitbit app. You only need the single to sync with your computer. I hope that helps!

@ktdoraohara Welcome! You already lost 5 lbs so that's a great start. Congrats! It is true when they say 75% of weight loss is diet and our food choices. I struggle with this so much especially since I'm pretty active and I feel that gives me permission to eat a lot more. Reality check for me, nope. It's awesome you have Peloton bike, I've been dropping hints to my hubby to get one for Xmas. Do you like yours?

@sweetstevens Your plan and goals are solid. Walking is such great exercise. It is easy on the joints, it is effective, it burns calories and it is good for the soul when done outside. I love to run but walking is my second favorite.

Today, I started the day with walking the dog then dropped her off at home and went for a 4 mile neighborhood run. It was easy pace since I'm sore from yesterday's strength workout. I love how grass is turning green, flowers are starting to bloom, birds are chirping and there is Spring in the air. Amidst this coronavirus pandemic I try to notice and appreciate the little things that we take for granted.

@ktdoraohara LOL I am your co-queen of yo yo weight! Saying no to wine is not easy, especially these days. I used to have a glass every night to "help me sleep". LOL that is really how I justified it. But I have weaned off now and with the shelter in place, I haven't had any alcohol at all in over a month. It is much easier when you can't socialize! For weights, you could check out Cathe Friedrich. She is having live workouts on Facebook several times every day, for free. She is amazing and I have a LOT of her dvd workouts. I'm more into Beachbody now, but if you don't want to commit to that, her live classes could be good. Her gym is called Four Seasons Health Club and is in Glassboro, NJ, so you can find it if you want to.

@foodie4run Sometimes pain is good lol. The instructor in my workout the other day said "No pain, no gain, now shut up and train!" Made me laugh. I agree about spring---it's so nice to see the grass greening up! I had to cut my grass once already and with all the rain we've had in SE WI this week, it looks like it will need it again. I don't mind, it only takes about an hour and is good exercise. What I don't enjoy outside is gardening-like weeding and trimming. Ugh. But it all has to be done.

@Helenmarshall5636 Of course, welcome!! The more the merrier I'm so sorry your wedding has been postponed. That is terrible. There are just so many bad things that have happened due to Covid 19. I'm trying to focus on the positives that counteract the negatives, like having more time to workout and cook healthy meals.

My workout today was 80 Day Obsession Legs. Yep, nothing but legs. I actually like leg day but today was harder than the first four weeks of the program. I'm afraid I'll be doing the DOMS limping dance tomorrow haha.

sweetstevens wrote: »

Hoping a quick update before dinner will help me from over eating. My husband made home made pizza and it is always so delicious. I usually devour two slices instantly and then crave more, hold off for 10 minutes, then eat another slice...then eat my kids leftover crusts. Then I input the calories into MFP and my jaw drops to the floor. Ok. I know how many calories are in a slice and I know that I need to space out my eating so I can start feeling full after the first slice. Ok, I am going to eat a sclice, then eat a small low cal salad and then eat my second piece. Ok. I'm going in...

I hope you did okay. When I know I’m going to have a big dinner, I put my whole day’s food in right away in the morning. It gives me an idea of where I will end up, and helps me stay on track. 😊