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  • Booksarenice
    Booksarenice Posts: 70 Member
    I have to watch the fruit intake 'cause of my diabetes 2. So I eat it just in very small amouts. i am a sugar addict also and really want to get that monkey off my back.:devil:
  • doglvr_75
    doglvr_75 Posts: 144
    Happy Sunday ladies!!!!!

    I set my goals for this month to lose 5 pounds and at least 5 inches ... in order to do that, it looks like I'm going to have to increase the amount of time I spend on the "dreadmill" every day....:grumble: ...
    and since it's an older model, maybe I can burn the motor up and get a newer, more technoligically (sp?) advanced one...:wink:

    Good luck to us all :flowerforyou:
    vee
  • healthier4me
    healthier4me Posts: 357 Member
    Just checking in on everyone. Hope you are having a great Sunday. Got my walk in outside in the bitter cold today. It felt great and before I left I made a big pot of healthy chicken vegetable soup and left it simmer so when I returned home I warmed up with a nice bowl of it:smile:

    Worse part of walking outside in the cold was the need to go to the bathroom halfway thru the walk and no where to go. Made me walk faster to get home quicker.

    Hope you all have done something nice for yourself today. Keep :laugh:
  • plantlady99
    plantlady99 Posts: 1,338 Member
    I would love to join in on this group. Hope I'm not to late. I just found it. I really need to get off the holiday wagon. I have only lost 20lbs and would like to lose another 20lbs. this year. Not to many people over 50 on this site. Hope to see you all soon.

    Kathy

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  • nwfamilygal
    nwfamilygal Posts: 635
    Well I did my 4.2 mile walk this morning. Drinking my water and now I'm having an apple. (Fruit) Well that is a start on eating healthy. I am trying to get into that little black or what ever color dress by my anniversary which is June 1. But I know we have to take it off very slow and healthy to keep it off. So will do my best to get their. So everyone good luck with your goals. And drink that water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
  • healthier4me
    healthier4me Posts: 357 Member
    Welcome to the group, the more the merrier I say. We are here to support and encourage one another. Hope you are having a great day. Keep thinking positive thoughts:flowerforyou:
  • healthier4me
    healthier4me Posts: 357 Member
    Well I did my 4.2 mile walk this morning. Drinking my water and now I'm having an apple. (Fruit) Well that is a start on eating healthy. I am trying to get into that little black or what ever color dress by my anniversary which is June 1. But I know we have to take it off very slow and healthy to keep it off. So will do my best to get their. So everyone good luck with your goals. And drink that water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

    Great job and good to hear from you. I am working on my second big mug of wonderful water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: as we speak. I cannot drink too much water before I go for my walk so I try to get it all in when I return. Keep up the great work and you will be in that little whatever colored dress before you know it:happy:

    Thanks for the reminder of the water!!!
  • Booksarenice
    Booksarenice Posts: 70 Member
    water- tis' an issue for some of us. Force myself to drink it and yet it betray everytime. Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go. I soon learned when to drink and when to hold off somewhat. Need to make it through those walks before-gotta go time. Way to go on the exercise ladies. Keep at it and soon we'll be 50+ but finnnnnneeeee.
  • plantlady99
    plantlady99 Posts: 1,338 Member
    trying to down water also. I am getting better. I always get the gotta goes. :laugh: :laugh:

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  • FloridaGranny
    FloridaGranny Posts: 154 Member
    Today was Kenpo X for 1 hour. Burned 300 calories. Then did Day 1 of Week 1 of the Hundred Pushup Challenge. Just barely got thru day 1.......... I can't imagine doing 100 EVER! We'll keep working on it; one day at a time. Tried to do Core Syn. afterwards and just didn't have the energy to finish the whole hour. Did 1/2 hour, burned another 187 calories.

    My goal is to try to burn 500 calories a day. Some days, I don't make it.......

    Going on vacation in the middle of February and need to get rid of another 5 pounds before I leave.

    Keep pushing "Play" :bigsmile: :grumble: :angry:
  • Booksarenice
    Booksarenice Posts: 70 Member
    :frown: I am having a hard time getting in my exercise now that Iwinter break is over. I was determined to exercise everyday. I set my alarm to get up at 4am so that I can at least walk on the treadmill for a couple of miles. I did it once and then wake up exhausted and don't walk. Sit and drink coffee before getting ready for work. By the time I get home (hour drive each way) I am again to tired to work out. Any suggestions/ Being middled aged stinks!:yawn:
  • zaza54
    zaza54 Posts: 1,475 Member
    This week-end has been a little bit of a setback. No willpower and just downright lazy.:explode: Reading all your posts I feel like a bum. I thought about walking, but decided it was too cold. Feel like such a wimp! I thought about going to the Y, but didn't feel like rushing, pushing myself. So, here I am reading how energetic and disciplined the other 50+ women are, and all I do is think about it. So I'm going to get off the computer and just get on the elliptical.
    Bye for now.
  • chatione
    chatione Posts: 5 Member
    I would love to join your group...I just turned 50! and have 50 lbs to lose. I would love to hear yours and others suceeses to help keep me motivated
  • healthier4me
    healthier4me Posts: 357 Member
    Welcome chatione

    It is nice to have another member to our group. I have found this whole site very helpful but in particularly this thread. It is wonderful to know that there are other women that can relate to many of the issues that affect some or all of us. I feel that we can use this board to search for answers, solutions and celebrate our victories. Isn't life wonderful?

    Looking forward to your sharing and wishing you lots of luck:flowerforyou:
  • Imogene
    Imogene Posts: 12
    Hello all,

    I think this is for the age of 50+ right? If so, I definely want to join. I'm 53 years old and feeling it! Thank God for this website with so much support and helpful tools.:flowerforyou:
  • healthier4me
    healthier4me Posts: 357 Member
    Welcome Imogene

    Glad to have you join our Fabulous Fifties:flowerforyou:

    Our group is expanding. Yeah for us:happy:

    Cheers:drinker: and best wishes.
  • Grammymax
    Grammymax Posts: 572 Member
    Here we are booksarenice. Hope you found us.
  • Grammymax
    Grammymax Posts: 572 Member
    oh - bookarenice already found us. Oops.

    Do you have steps at work you could walk instead of using the elevator? Can you park your car farther away from the door? Anything that gets mores steps in will help. It takes awhile for our bodies to get into another routine that what it is used to. Keep on keeping on. It will get better.

    Have a good evening everyone.

    Esther
  • Booksarenice
    Booksarenice Posts: 70 Member
    :grumble: Hey- spent the better part of the day sitting at the computer trying to finish an online class and trolling myfitness. I decided I better get off my behind so I walked a mile as a warm up and started on a stregnth training routine. I have had a tendancy to baby my shoulders (to my own detriment) due to 4 ops on one side and two on the other.Now that I have very little muscle I am starting very light and work my way up.
    What kinds of exercise does everyone else get? Grannymax- no stairs at school-flat,flat,flat. However since we often have indoor recess due to the wind and snow I remembered what I did last year at this time. I make all the children join me in jumpin' jacks, running in place, deep knee bends and stretching. My little third graders think its great to do recess in the classroom!
    There is a biggest loser comp. going on at work but I refuse to join 'cause I'd be up again 20 somethings and men. Geezzzzz- postmenopasual and fat up against tose groups- no way:tongue:

    Welcome Imogene. Great support system and resources. Pop in anytime.
    Have a great evening all-don't forget to finish that water quota for the day!
  • Donna2
    Donna2 Posts: 14
    Hi everyone, sounds like this is the group I need to belong too! :smile: To be encouraged and to hopefully encouraged others. :flowerforyou:

    I'm 51 soon to be 52 in March... don't know what to think of that. :ohwell:

    My body is getting old, but my mind still says I'm young! :laugh:

    I weighed 216 lbs back in 2005. My hubby and I both decided to loose weight together, and we both have been at it ever since..lol. I haven't got to my goal weight of 150 yet. I had a few surgeries, and then injured my foot this last summer, which caused set backs in reaching my goal. I hope this year I'll be able to do it.....

    Walking is my favorite form of exercise :smile: which I should go do right now. :wink:

    TTYL and thank you for having this group :flowerforyou:
  • Booksarenice
    Booksarenice Posts: 70 Member
    Welcome to the group Donna2. We all have to start somewher and those blasted injuries show up all too often these days. Just stay with it. Be sure to log your food intake- it helps to stay on track, drinks lots of water tto. (I'm 52 in April and also young in my mind just the body feeling it.)
  • Grammymax
    Grammymax Posts: 572 Member
    Welcome Donna2. Look how far you've come and how little you have to go in comparison. Great job.
    Esther
  • tuxedo702
    tuxedo702 Posts: 58
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  • Grammymax
    Grammymax Posts: 572 Member
    Good morning all.

    How is everyone doing on this Monday morning? Hopefully the weekend went well and if not rememer, Today is A New Day!

    Have a good one.
    Esther
  • Grammymax
    Grammymax Posts: 572 Member
    I just noticed that we have two threads going at once. Should we put a message on one to go to the other one and just keep one going?
    Esther
  • Grammymax
    Grammymax Posts: 572 Member
    Hi All. Please go to the other thread with the same name. We had two going and it was getting me confused:laugh:
    Have a great week.
  • Donna2
    Donna2 Posts: 14
    Off to find the other thread, and thanks for the welcome :smile:
  • lessofmesoon
    lessofmesoon Posts: 8
    Just add a little exercise a day. A year ago I could't walk more than a few feet without stopping to catch my breath. Here I am a year later and I walk 3.5 miles per day and ride the stationary bike 6 miles. If I can do it I know you can. I'll be rooting for you.

    Less of me soon
  • Cindy41
    Cindy41 Posts: 5
    I'm back. I was off the website for too long. I watched my diet somewhat and exercised somewhat, but I am back. And very excited that I've losst 10 lbs. The exercise has made all the difference for me. I walked with an IPod this weekend, and it was great. :smile:
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