WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2012

Hi everyone, happy May! Love this month. Gardens gardens gardens! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

In April I lost 2 lbs, hitting my 60 lbs lost mark! Shortly after that got a little too big for my britches with consuming too much at a few parties, and after my trip south to visit family (daily desserts!) I was up 4 lbs. Last week I got serious, though, and now am right back down to 60 lbs lost and ready to say farewell to a few more in May. I know what it takes. For me it's eating less, staying around 1200-1300 calories. I exercise every day, whether it's walking dogs, aerobics, racewalking on the track, trotting, hiking in the woods, gardening or stretching or a combo of everything. Started SWSY strength training in April too, maybe that's why the pounds didn't budge. Well, maybe that's part of the reason. :blushing: 4 lbs in the last week though, I'm stunned and amazed that I actually pulled it off and here I am walking into May weighing exactly 165. I plan to be 160 by the first day of summer.

Since I missed 3 SWSY sessions over the last couple of weeks, yesterday was a little difficult but I gotter done. 9 reps of all exercises, plus crunches, pelvic tiltls, back extension, lunges, side arm raises, 20 push ups, and 20 pile squats. This month I want to do few push ups and squats every day. And jumping jacks. And Yoga, need to start up again with stretching.

Salad Sistas Challenge continues...if anyone would like to hop on board, please do. Eat a large salad every day, that's all there is to it. Something like a chef's salad, adding cheese, meat, beans, egg, nuts or what have you. Mine are always around 250 calories, and I'll have 1/2 sandwich or cup of soup on the side.

Love being here with all of you! Be sure to drink your water, and keep those potassium levels up! :drinker:

:bigsmile: jb

:flowerforyou: It's the beginning of the lovely month of May, happy Tuesday.

May goals.....:huh:

Well I didn't make April a complete success so May will have to continue on ...

Exercise 5 days a week, minimum of 30 min each
50 wall push ups 5 days a week
logging everyday

That looks good...now to keep it in the front of every day

Everyone have a great day and let's make this month a success:drinker:
Drink your water:drinker:
Log your food
Let's keep moving

Laura80111

If you would like to be included in the birthday list that I will be reposting soon, just send me a message with your birthday! Mary

Hello all,:drinker:

Goals for May? I find it discouraging to make specific weight loss goals because I can’t really control it. I can control how much I do and what I eat, so that’s what I focus on.

I am going back to keeping a spreadsheet and logging my daily fitness activities, I want to get 24 hours in the month. I’ll alternate chair aerobics and floor exercises. Both routines include a bit of weight lifting, but only up to 25 lb because that’s the limit of the old-fashioned bar bells DH brought upstairs for me. Well, I suppose it’s not big deal to ask him or J’boy to bring more weight plates up, so no excuses! :explode:

I go back to the surgeon on the 9th of May and get the staples taken out and fitted with my "robo-boot" which is, :happy: I think, the modern version of a walking cast. I'm still not allowed to put any weight on the foot for another three weeks after that, but I should be able to get out and around more. The gym will see me then!

No classroom stories :sad: do you miss them? I miss the activity and excitement of working with my students, that’s for sure. My replacement is a young, energetic and innovative teacher so I am sure the children are having fun. My job is to stay out of the way so she can make it “her class” and get things done. Sigh.

Lessons from the wheelchair? Always put the brakes on when I stand up! I was hopping around the kitchen on Saturday, lost my balance and grabbed for the chair. It rolled away and I ended up in a heap on the floor with my foot in the air. :noway: Gasp!

Barbie, I think you got to the essence of “The Happiness Project” with your added goal of “Act the way I want to feel”. :flowerforyou: The other thing I took away from the book is the benefit of doing the small things promptly. When I do I’ve got fewer things nagging at my conscience every time I turn around. Instead of “I forgot to pay the hydro bill” or “I should have made the bed” there’s space for other, more positive thoughts. Of course we all know that procrastination and avoidance are not a recipe for happiness, but in my case it’s a lifetime of learning, re-learning, learning…

Sandi, Eight weeks is a good length of time to finish a weight training circuit or exercise program – fly at it!

Hey Jen, you got May 1 a whole 24 hours before I did! It sounds like you had one of those productive, errand-clearing days that make a person feel so positive and in control of life. Well done!

Hi Judy, I’m on the other side of Canada, in SE British Columbia. Keep logging while you travel, it’s the best way to stay on track.

Sarah, congratulations on making the 160’s, because you will. How are things going in the cafeteria now that the sun is shining and students are thinking of anything but their commitment to course work?

Robin: No shame, no blame. :blushing: What happens at the Faire stays at the Faire! What kind of characters did you meet?

JB The salad sistas live on! DH is delighted because his radishes have germinated. He planted "french". :happy:

I'm off to update the spreadsheet for May and make the bed!

Hasta pronto,

Nancy

Hi my name is Lynn I was in the group a while back but after some family and health situations I have packed back on the pounds. I need to come back and start over. I am doing a 24 day challange with some suppliments to jump start my progress.

My goals for May are to stick to this plan.
Exercise at least 3 days a week
Drink plenty of water

Welcome, Lynn! I think that I remember you. Did you change your user name? Are you the one that used to give us song lyrics? Mary

bumpity bump bump until later! :drinker:

In April I lost a net 5 pounds. However, I seemed to be up and down every day - kind of frustrating, but all-in-all, I'm happy with the five. I have been on the road a lot lately, and that always makes it difficult to stick to the calorie count. I'm really trying - getting out and walking when I can, too. I'm refocusing for May and hope to shed another 5.

Hello everyone,

I am looking forward to May! I will really be 59 this year and wondering if I will stay at that age for a while or be glad to see the big 60 next year.

April - I got done what I wanted to do which was to get back to logging everything and to start back with exercise.

May - Joined a 30 minutes of walking a day for 31 days challenge and got two friends to join with me. It is a Face Book thing, not a MFP thing.

There is a pretty good chance my DD and I will be doing Tai Chi again. We found a class we can afford and we go to check it out on the 11th. I hope this instructor is as good as the one we had two years ago when we did Tai Chi after DD's hip surgery.

Welcome to all the new comers and welcome back to all the lovely ladies here.

Jeannie

April didn't quite work out as I had planned. It was a frustrating month where even when I met all my goals for exercise and diet, I just wasn't losing anymore, and worse, I was feeling depressed and struggling with cravings for foods I shouldn't eat, especially chocolate pastries and wine. I started doing searches on weight loss plateaus and on depression produced by long term dieting. I searched the message boards here and also searched the web in general. I learned two things. First, long term dieting does cause our metabolisms to slow down, and long term low-carb diets do cause depression. The recommended corrective actions are: (1) to speed your metabolism up, eat more, up to the point of your maintenance level for net calories (which is 10 to 11 times your current body weight) and (2) eat more carbs to fix diet-induced depression.

The problem for me with the second recommendation is that I'm prediabetic, and I wasn't able to get my blood sugar levels down until I started following the Insulin Resistance Diet, which limits me to 30 grams of carbs per meal. What's a prediabetic, depressed gal to do? So I searched a lot more on carb limits for prediabetics, and finally decided to up my net carbs per meal to 45 grams.

I've now been eating more calories and more carbs, and I feel about 1000% better. I'll jst have to try this for a while, and I'll find out in late June, when I'm due for follow up blood tests, if the higher carb limit will mess up my blood sugar or not.

So, my goals for May are up in the air. I guess I could say I just have one : do what's working best for me.

I'm all over this in May. I'm finally SEEING a difference which is hard when you are tall and have a lot to lose.

It is slow going but I know this is the way to make it last. Record everything you eat and for the rest of your life. It worked for me in the past and the weight stayed off for years. It only came back when I stopped recording.

I'm motivated and sticking with it.