40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Hi! I’m 41. I walk 3-4 times a day (I get 10-13k steps a day) and then 5 days a week I lift. I also recently started doing 10min on the stair stepper after lifting. I can’t really do cardio with my health issues, the stepper is almost more than I can handle. I have 47lbs to get to my goal weight, and that’s still way over what I’m “supposed” to be but idgaf.

Hi all - I’ve been using MFP off and on for years but just starting to check out the community! I’m 50 and trying to concentrate on strength and longevity as opposed to focusing only on the scale. My overall goals are daily resistance training and cardio and a weight loss goal of about 10 lbs (to start). Just not sure what that 10 will look like with this approach. Not great with macros and meal planning yet but getting there. Excited to see so much enthusiasm and success here!

I'm new here, but I'll be 40 in a couple of weeks! I'm finding that in the last 3 months, things have really, REALLY changed with how my body responds to exercise and nutrition. Things feel like they're going in reverse. I gained 35 pounds really fast at the start of pandemic, and I have not been able to get them to budge. At all. I've been at this weight (give or take 5 pounds) for a year. I've tracked calories, I've reverted to mechanisms that worked previously; but so far, it's all for naught. Can I hear from others who are on the perimenopause struggle bus?

Becky_p1972 wrote: »

Ok so, I'm 49!! Which pains me to write in the first place. My longterm goal is to lose 20 lbs. I'm short so it's been taking me a while. I've been up and down for months. Recently I started doing I.F. Have any of y'all had any success with it?

I’m doing IF as well. Not extreme - 8 hr window. Not sure that I could go below that successfully. With my activity level up, my calorie allotment is higher than I’m used to and, with IF, I sometimes find it hard to actually meet the goal (ridiculous problem I never anticipated or experienced) if I’m eating the right foods. Off routine (not planning meals or staying aware of macros) I can blast right through those calories in no time.

nossmf wrote: »

My 2021 resolutions. I have one each for body, heart and mind.

Body: Workout 120 times in 2021 (only got 97 last year)
Heart: Have 12 date nights with my wife (in addition to Valentine's, Anniversary and her birthday)
Mind: Finish edits on second novel and submit to a publisher

To date, my progress:

Day: 194/365
Body: 77/120
Heart: 8/15
Mind: 10% complete

Cardio day on the elliptical complete.

nossmf wrote: »

My 2021 resolutions. I have one each for body, heart and mind.

Body: Workout 120 times in 2021 (only got 97 last year)
Heart: Have 12 date nights with my wife (in addition to Valentine's, Anniversary and her birthday)
Mind: Finish edits on second novel and submit to a publisher

To date, my progress:

Day: 195/365
Body: 78/120
Heart: 8/15
Mind: 10% complete

Pull Day A complete.

georgiapch70 wrote: »

Out of curiosity, for you walkers, what’s your time? Right now I’m only at 15-16 min mile with quite a lot of incline (outdoors). Heart rate is up so that’s a good thing. Would like to improve but running would surely make me pass out.

That’s a similar speed to my walking. If you’re feeling like you need to break into a run, you could try it though? That’s how I started running - I ran/walk (not to a programme, just as I felt like it) until one day I just ran! Made it a relatively painless progression.

nossmf wrote: »

My 2021 resolutions. I have one each for body, heart and mind.

Body: Workout 120 times in 2021 (only got 97 last year)
Heart: Have 12 date nights with my wife (in addition to Valentine's, Anniversary and her birthday)
Mind: Finish edits on second novel and submit to a publisher

To date, my progress:

Day: 202/365
Body: 80/120
Heart: 8/15
Mind: 10% complete

Push Day B complete.

Have not been lifting like I want to, mostly just my schedule - down to the minute, M-F I literally have 30-45 minutes of "free" time a day, and that does NOT include needing gas, or grocery shopping, or needing to make any other stop on my way home from work and includes NO chill/relax time.

Good thing is, the part-time job is 1.5-2 hours of reasonably hard physical labor, so not like I'm on my butt all day long - at least get some activity and a good sweat worked up first thing in the morning, even if it's not at the weight bench!

Still lots of changes in my life, but until such a time as the job situation reverts back to pre-pandemic job offers, kinda stuck doing what I'm doing until I learn enough in this particular field to advance.

nossmf wrote: »

My 2021 resolutions. I have one each for body, heart and mind.

Body: Workout 120 times in 2021 (only got 97 last year)
Heart: Have 12 date nights with my wife (in addition to Valentine's, Anniversary and her birthday)
Mind: Finish edits on second novel and submit to a publisher

To date, my progress:

Day: 209/365
Body: 83/120
Heart: 9/15
Mind: 10% complete

Since last update, I got done my back workout, took my wife on a date, and about half of my deadlift workout before injury forced me to stop.

Good advice.

I have been faithfully doing weightlifting twice a week now that our home gym is fully-constructed.

And 1 x per week cardio.

Beeps2011 wrote: »

Good advice.

I have been faithfully doing weightlifting twice a week now that our home gym is fully-constructed.

And 1 x per week cardio.

Mine is almost done. It's fully functional, just trim, mirrors, some picking up, and touching up paint.

It's nice to not have to leave home, one less excuse.

nossmf wrote: »

My 2021 resolutions. I have one each for body, heart and mind.

Body: Workout 120 times in 2021 (only got 97 last year)
Heart: Have 12 date nights with my wife (in addition to Valentine's, Anniversary and her birthday)
Mind: Finish edits on second novel and submit to a publisher

To date, my progress:

Day: 223/365
Body: 87/120
Heart: 9/15
Mind: 10% complete

Been a while since I updated, in part because following me tweaking my back doing deadlifts I took a week off from the gym, followed by a week of graveyard shifts where I count myself lucky to just stay awake, let alone work out, lol. But I'm healthy and back to sleeping nights, so that means I'm also back in the gym with a chest workout.

Well after 2 weeks of vscay eating too much, drinking too much and spending g too much (though I walked over 33,000 steps one day) back to working out.

Started with a bang with leg day, including 5 x 5 hipthrusts at 225lbs! Definitely a PR.

Hey kids,

I know it's been awhile.

Am I still allowed to hang out here since I turned 50? 😆

I miss the camaraderie at the gym and go only at times when it's empty.

Have a great evening kids.