40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Hello all,

Sorry I was MIA again. Was away for work, home one day to do my long run and then off again. Once I was back I had a busy couple of days at work & home. I had not run in 5 days! Got back at it today. I had been doing good food wise, but these last couple of days not so much. Need to get back on track tomorrow!

Oprah's Life Class was amazing. I wrote a blog about it as so many of my friends wanted to "hear" all about it.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/sdereski

Beeps - the Life Class involves many of spiritual leaders that Oprah uses in her life and wants to share their wisdom and knowledge to help others. There were 4 guest speakers (Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins, Iyanla Venzak and Bishop T.D. Jakes) All were amazing! After each of them gave their own talk, they came out as a panel with Oprah. This part was televised and it was similar to her shows where she had audience members share their story and then the guests offered their perspective.

Welcome newbies! Always room for more in this group. :happy:

Have an 8 mile run tomorrow. That is now my long run as we get closer to marathon day. After that my runs are only 4-6 miles.

sdereski: The Oprah class sounds like it was great experience.

So I signed up for the Disney World Wine & Dine Half Marathon in November. The last time I ran a half was 19 years ago so there's going to be some training needed. It'll be interesting to see how I do as a 45-year old compared to being a 26-year old. Back then, I ran a lot but didn't "train". I even ran that last one with 2 hours of sleep due to being at a concert in Tijuana the night before, and still ran it in under 2 hours. Recklessness of youth I guess.

At the least, this one should be fun because of the location. It takes place at night (starting time 10 pm) and goes through two parks (Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios) before finishing up at Epcot for a special after hours admission to the Food & Wine Festival.

Aaaaahhhhh, sdereski - don't use me as a model of 'discipline'. For whatever reason, some "discipline" comes more naturally, to me, and other areas, I'm all over the map.

I've simply decided to get MUCH stricter with my nutrition plan. I'm not getting the results that I want and I KNOW it's 100% because of what I put in my mouth. So, I simply have to work with the "D" word = diet. That, for me, means certain foods are just off-limits. Period. I can't have 'one bite" of them. I can't have a "smaller portion". They just have to be OFF THE LIST.

I can re-guage in 10 weeks as to how it went....I'm pretty sure it will have gone well!

anyway, today is a heavy lifting day, so I'll make sure to get all my protein in!

Once again it took me a while to check in but I see I'm not the only one. Just have had a lot going on. Father-in-law in and out of hospital not doing well at all, putting a lot of stress on my husband who is already stressed because he is so busy at work right now. School/band events with my daughter (who is a senior....yikes!), helping my 21 year old out with things he needs help with, etc., etc., etc., I'm sure you all know how it goes!! My eating hasn't been as well. I have no problem breakfast & lunch and doing okay dinners but seem to have been needing wine at night to relax, and sometimes snacking to go with it, which then blows it for the day. At least I'm still trying to get my workouts in.

Have a busy but fun weekend coming up...daughter's drumline made the finals so have to leave 5:30 tomorrow morning to drive a couple hours north for that, but then after her performance taking her and a friend and my mom to Disneyland to celebrate my daughter's birthday. It will be fun to just do whatever we want! I know my daughter wants to spend part of the time with us because she loves watching her grandma scream on rides :noway: and part of the time the two girls will want to be on their own so Mom and I can check out what we want (like the Tiki Bar at the Dland Hotel) :drinker: At least I will be walking a lot.

Hope you're all well and have a good weekend. I enjoy reading how you all do with your activities.

Take care
:flowerforyou:

sder - I think being "injury-free" is key....good for you for monitoring the situation very closely. On the diet front, there's always tomorrow, right??

mary - disneyland on the weekend....just driving on up....sounds AWESOME!! [jealous] Have fun!!

I have had a VERY good week. My nutrition plan has gone 100% according to what I wanted. This zig-zagging thing is fun, easy, and, for whatever reason, my body is responding to it right now. Doesn't mean it won't "crash-and-burn" by week 10, but, for week 1, all is well with the world.

I felt "hunger pains" on only 2 occasions...thankfully I chewed gum and drank water until they went away. I haven't had any headaches. And, for whatever reason, I haven't felt like snacking, at night, at ALL....that is the BIGGEST bonus, of all!

I did step on the scale and was down nearly 5 lbs....so, yes, the water weight flushed away! Good enough. Now, to tackle the REAL STUFF - slowly, but surely. I'll be happy with 1/4 lb. per week. 1/2 lb. a week would be AMAZING (but unrealistic). Should work out just fine.

And, my work-outs have been right-on-track. No complaints. I lifted heavy today and I don't do that, again, until Monday. Which is probably good - I think my body can use that extra day of rest. Tomorrow will be cardio and I'll try and squish in a HIIT/abs/stretching session on Sunday.

have a great weekend all you 40+ people!

Congrats on losing inches, crewell....I think that's way more important, anyway (than weight!) - triathlon training sounds pretty brutal (a guy in my office is in a 6-month training program....he's just finished month 4 of training - and he looks great!).

I had WAY too busy of a weekend and it flew by. I don't feel "rested". I caved into late-night snacking last night. Booooo. Now, it was only the 4th time this month, but still. I slept horribly and now have terribly tummy bloat. Blech.

Today is a weight-lifting day and I'm hoping to make today and tomorrow lower calorie days since I'm heading into month-end photos and measurements.

Hi everyone! I'm Jen. I'm a mother of 2 children. My son has numerous anaphylactic allergies(peanut, egg, sesame and chickpea) which makes eating healthy somewhat difficult. And confession, I'm not quite 40 but I will be in July, I hope you don't mind me jumping aboard.? I've been a member of MFP for a couple of years now and done quite well. At one point I lost 40lbs! THis year I've gained back over 15 of those pounds and I'm trying to shed them before summer. I've recently joined a running group. I've been able to to run on the treadmill but had some difficulty transferring it to outside. This running group seems like it will helpmotivate me and get me moving again. I need a good group of people in my age bracket for more motivation so here I am! THis week, my goals are to run on my own on Tues and Thurs and do my running group on Saturday. I've also started a morning regimen of jumping jacks, sit ups, wall sits and some arm exercises. (Darn arm fat! Where did that come from?!?!?!) Anyways, that's me, glad to have found the group.

Ran and biked today for a total calorie burn of 1230c! Ran 8 minutes straight which for me is a big deal. My new running shoes are weird. They make my toes fall asleep when I'm about 7 or 8 miles into my bike but otherwise they seem OK. Maybe a bit too cushy I kinda can't feel the road....but my knees really seem to like them, so we'll see. I'm also running in them right off the bike and haven't just run in them when I'm fresh so I wonder if that would make a difference? Ate well today, tomorrow is wt lifting and 1000yard swim. My little girl has a soccor game tomorrow so will get swimming out of the way at 6am and then just have wts after she is in bed. Hope everyone is doing well, have a great week. :flowerforyou:

Gack, I re-injured (for the 3rd time) my left shoulder/neck/back thing-y....in my sleep last night. Mind you, I did push-ups, yesterday, and it was the push-ups that caused the injury the 2nd time round. This injury isn't as bad as the 2nd time round (and SERIOUSLY diminshed from the 1st time round)....but, shoulder-checking is tough (again!) and I'm taking Advil.

I'm in week 2 of a 10-week challenge. It's May 1, so I *really* want to be ON FIRE in May and again in June.

I'm going to try to add in some walks (outdoors!! Imagine that....) in the evenings to just get a few more calories burned.

Sure! It'll be good to have some company in here....it's tough to chat with myself, lol.