40+ Club: Fall Fitness Fanatics

Yesterday was my no workout day. Good thing 'cause when I got home from work yesterday, I pretty much crashed. Ended up going to bed at 7pm. No dinner, 'cause I was asleep, lol. Better make sure to get my cals in today early on. So far I've had 625 cals for breakfast :happy:

So nice to find a group who is where I am in life. It's harder to lose weight this time. :-( In my twenties, I skipped dinner and lost 10 lbs. In my thirties, I had to skip two meals that week and work out a little. Gosh, now I can't even figure out what to do. Skipping meals is not an option anymore, I have to keep my blood sugars level or I binge. I feel like maybe now I'm learning to eat healthy and hoping the weight loss and fitness come right along with new changes in eating and lifestyle. The kids are grown, so it's just the hubby and myself. Feel free to friend me!

I'm a relative new comer, but I used another site like this for a while and I had great results. I think the community of this site and the nutrition tracking here is superior to the other sites, and the mobile app is top notch.

Knowing your calories for the day is an enormous advantage when trying to lose or maintain weight. Especially when you count in knowing what (approximately) your workout is worth is calories. You can really fine tune things.

Enjoy.

If the local gym membership goes down to 10 bucks a month, as someone told me it might, I might go back. Just to use the elliptical machine.

That would mean getting up at 5 in the morning or so, but hey, I'm really happy with the progress I've made with the diet. That sort of consistency will hopefully give me consistency in the gym.

I'll have to re-calibrate my program, because when I do the elliptical--which wasn't often, alas--, I can burn 2000 calories in 2 hours and not feel utterly exhausted.

1520 diet - 2000 calories burned = -480 per day, basically nearly half a kg of stored fat right there (1 kg = 7700 calorie deficit).

Yeah, not sustainable. Perhaps time to carbo-load.

Can't believe it's Friday all ready... Seriously! Where does the time go?

Went to Nevada mon and tues. I think alls we have left to do is lay new carpet and baseboards. I'm sure there might be a few little things but it's basically done. Then off to do another building! Yay Me!

On our way home tues night I had the worst migraine ever! And of course that darn headache is still lingering around today. I feel like my neck might be the cause of this headache because it's really sore too....

Needless to say, due to the headache I didn't work out. Please pray it goes away soon.

Welcome to all the new members!

40+ soon to be 50+

Good morning. I am sad for a good friend of mine who lost her mother last night. She passed away unexpectedly while visiting her son in FL along with her husband.

I did my complete body workout this morning, I usually split upper and lower body during the week due to lack of time. My cardio will be cleaning the house and perhaps practicing some new Zumba routines. Hubby and I going out tonight. I also have a 2 hr Zumbathon tomorrow and rehearsal for 2 hrs before it starts. I might have to skip Yoga X tomorrow. :sad: I have really been enjoying it the past 2 Sundays.

Tron, hope you feel better. :flowerforyou:

Chris, what is your parrot's name? It is cute!

optimaltouch, welcome!! :drinker: We have members in their 50s and 60s.

Marlynn, your goals sound very doable. When I first joined MFP close to 3 yrs ago my goal was to lose 10-15lbs. But with all the great support, motivation and all the learning I gained from a lot of the members I ended up losing 20-25lbs and have been maintaining for about a year now. The loss was slow, becoming more challenging as I got closer to the final goal, but it can be done. You might need to make changes here and there to break through the inevitable plateau. Let us know what you might need help with. YOU CAN DO IT!!!! :drinker: :flowerforyou:

Have a great Saturday!!! :flowerforyou:

My parrots name is Lady Poroit

Cardio Day: Did 27 minutes on the Treadmill doing interval inclines. Before that I also did lying abductions and a variety of curls. I'm thinking I am going to add a couple strength exercises every cardio day. A little something different each time that works muscles I didn't focus on the day before. We'll see.

*Tron: This part made me LOL "So, now my mother in law has him.... " :laugh: Glad you are feeling better!

Happy Sunday!!

alf, can a person go to youtube, get the ab ripper and be able to use it without a P90X?

:flowerforyou: Really, tron...giving that bird to your MIL is just too funny.

Well, the weekend is winding down. And since I have to get up so early...I will now go to bed.

Dander, try ab ripper from P90X. It is a great core workout. You might be able to find it in youtube.

I will check it out. I've been using some of the machines at the gym and I've been getting a good burn out of those. I'm only in my second week here, so I'm fine tuning the workouts I want to do. I'm on a 12 week program for myself, and I'm going to use a calorie deficient / protein dense diet along with strength training and see where that gets me. My goal is 22 pounds in 12 weeks. I think that's fairly doable.

So I'm through my first week and despite a terrible meal I had yesterday for football at the bar I'm down 5 pounds. Not a bad start, but it's just that, only a start. Now the work begins. The proof will be in how I handle the obstacles these next 11 weeks. If life were so predictable that I'd KNOW I can easily get to the gym 5 times a week and eat all the meals the way I want when I want, weight loss would be easy, but that's just not going to happen.

For me, the hardest part of this journey, and this is my second time around, is always dealing with life's problems.

Just a quick note...I am up almost three pounds since Friday. I know it is because I am not very active on the weekends and tend to eat bad...really not too much...but stuff I shouldn't be eating.

Hello everyone,
Last week was stressful. It is not work. It is the home life. I should tell you that we are tiling the foyer and th kitchen. It is about 500 square feet. My husband is doing it.? No, he
will not pay for it. So, yes I need to remind myself constantly to be patient.
It is hard for me to have the 80 gallon salt water tank in the living room and now the refrigerator in the family room. It has already been a two month project.

Anyway, I have actually have been looking forward to my exercise. I have been working on a routine for two months now and I feel I have it together. I am doing cardio 35 minutes four times a week. I do strength training one hour three times a week and yoga 1 hour two times a week. I am finding myself eating the exercise calories a couple of times a week, which I am trying to stop. I am trying to keep it to 1200. I was wondering what your thoughts are in regards to eating the exercise calories?

Chris: Your parrot is beautiful! I have read in Time magazine and I also heard it on the Doctors that 30 minutes 4-5 times a week of cardio is good for weight loss.

Sing: I am like you. I prefer to be outside also. I am trying to get my weight down to get back into running. Hopefully, it happens soon, because I love it in the fall.

StiringWindel: I am glad to hear that is cooling down over there. I have my aunt and uncle in Reston. They have been complaining a lot. We are coming to visit them in three weeks. My aunt is a retired elementary teacher for Fair Fax. It is so nice because she is excited and she has already planned the whole trip. I will never forget when I took my daughter to the Smithsonian when she was almost four, she asked me why I took her to see dead animals.

Alf: I am sorry to hear about your friend. I do go zumba class when I get tired of the machines for the cardio. I do like it.

Swissmiss: I do see that you go to class for strengthening. I also prefer it. I am glad to hear that your daughters finger is doing better.

Robin: Mushroom hunting does sound interesting. I do like mushrooms a lot.

TxMs: I am glad you are out of the heat. Surprised you would like it that low. When I lived in Texas, people would say, "Colorado is way too cold.".

Nice visiting with all of you. My tolerance has calmed for the moment.

Welcome to the newcomer.
Sal

Good morning!!!! :drinker: Do I sound happy? LOL It must be that yummy bowl of steel cut oats with blueberries, walnuts, chocolate protein powder and ground flaxseed that I am eating. :laugh: I did my lower body/abs workout this morning. Zumba tonight. :happy:

Sal, I do want to suggest to you that you should eat your exercise calories. With the amount of exercise you are doing eating 1200 cals is not enought at all!!! Just make sure the foods you eat are as clean as possible, veggies, fruit, lean protein, mono/poly fats, whole grain...and you will still lose weight actually more than not eating your exercise calories. My husband is the opposite of yours, if he could pay someone to change a lightbulb he would. :noway: :grumble: :laugh:

Swiss, it could be water retention and not weight gain. Also choose a meal during the weekend that can be your cheat meal and try to eat healthy the rest of the time. You can use the weekends to do something differently such as yard work, walking outdoors, riding your bike etc so you can be a little more active. Due to lack of time during the week I use Sat and Sun as my days where I can do my long workouts, that helps me stay active during the weekend. I do too sometimes eat more of the not so good for me foods on weekends, dont we all? :noway: :laugh:

I'd better get ready for work...have a great Tuesday!!! :flowerforyou:

Hi Donna welcome.


I think you should always eat your exercise calories. Just dont eat sweets like I'm prone too.

Explain why I should eat my exercise calories? Don't I need those to burn a pound of fat? :grumble: Perhaps I am getting this all wrong but I thought you had to burn 3500 calories to lose 1 lb. of fat. I am soooooooooooo confused!:grumble: