40+ Club- I'm Dreaming Of A Light Christmas

Swissmiss, congrats to you less than a week and the pounds are gone! That is awesome!

I made a BIG FUMBLE this morning! I haven't had a coke in several days but this moring I was craving one, and I have learned from the past just drink and get over it! But I also had ginger snap cookies, so I have already went over on my sugar intake for today. So I guess I will be getting over it with a little guilt this time, I should have just left one of them alone!

I hope everyone has a great day!
Rhonda

Hello everyone!!! I've done well, as far as eating is concerned, the past couple of days. I already planned my meals for tomorrow and they are pretty clean. I am doing my upper body weight trng workout tomorrow morning. Today I just did my rehab stretches and some ab work. I feel so hungry, I miss working out heavily and eating my 2000 calories!! :laugh:

Rhonda, I agree with Swiss, it is all in the past, just get back to healthy eating right away. That is what I have been focusing on lately.

Have a great evening!!! :flowerforyou:

:flowerforyou: Good morning everyone. I am doing well even though I went out to dinner with some friends last night. If it weren't for the Long Island I would have stayed within my calorie allottment.
Not sure if I will get to my Zumba class tonight because my girls have so much planned and I will be driving them to all their destinations.
Hope that everyone has a wonderful Thursday.:flowerforyou:

zebras, having nursed my husband through a couple of surgeries this year, I totally understand where you are at right now. Don't worry about your food. This is a temporary stressful situation and sometimes I feel it is best just to get through such situations however you can and then move on. I know that's what I did for the move here to Korea, and now I'm moving on. So don't beat yourself up about it. Good to see you, btw! :flowerforyou:

alf, I've always found when I'm injured I'm actually MORE hungry than during times when I'm working out. What's up with that? I think that's one of the reasons I've always gained so much weight when I'm injured. Sounds like you are doing great, though. And, hopefully, you'll be feeling better soon and able to start ramping up your workouts (gradually of course!)

I survived my first of many Christmas gatherings last night. I ate well (avoided the white bread rolls, the ranch salad dressing, the gravy, the pecan pie, etc) and had only about 1/3 of a glass of wine. And I had a great time. I just have to keep remembering that throughout the remaining 9 :noway: events I have scheduled (so far!) between now and Christmas.

It is Friday here in Korea, so I'm going to submit my check-in. I think it is important that I keep track of things this month. I weighed 101.4 this morning, which is up about 3 pounds from where I was at two months ago. My hip and waist measurements are up about 1/2 each from where they were at that same time. I'm trying not to get upset about the fact my numbers are up given the fact that I'm living in a somewhat bizarre situation right now and am not fully able to eat/exercise as I would if I had my entire household goods around me. I'm also trying not to get upset about the fact that my numbers are up because they are still way lower than I imagined possible for me a year ago! I keep reminding myself that my initial goal was 120 pounds, and that's a good weight for me.

So I'm trying to focus on the positive right now while simultaneously working at keeping those numbers from going up further. It's a bit of an odd balance that I'm struggling with, but I think that's because my mindset just isn't where I think it should be. A couple of months ago, I could honestly say when tempted with Baskin Robbins Ice Cream (as an example), I would have more often than not said 'I don't want it' because I knew it was horrible for my body. Right now, I'm saying more of 'I can't have....' which isn't good. So I'm back to educating myself on food in hope that my desire to put mostly healthy things into my body returns. I'm sure it will, but I'm not fully there yet.

Off to do my last Insanity workout of the week (plyo). I hope I enjoy this workout more this time than I did the first time I did it. I'm also going to try to fit in P90X yoga today. I've done it once a week the past couple of weeks, and after these very intense Insanity workouts, it really feels good on my body. Who knew I'd grow to love that workout?

I hope everybody is well and enjoys the remainder of the day.

I will take your advice, sing. I also realize that alcohol metabolizes differently. I lose more quickly when I don't touch it.

:flowerforyou: alf, how wonderful that you will be so busy looking at the displays that you will not over-eat. Great plan.

Well, I came in to work later than usual because I had to drive back to the school to pick up one of my girls who is sick.
I will try to get back on here later.

I'm new here but I have been lurking for a while.

I am currently on a huge push to lose some goo around my waste. I'm doing P90X lean phase (week 2) and I have eaten clean every day since Thanksgiving. I gave up the eating clean during Thanksgiving weekend and I came back home craving veggies, fruits, and whole grains. Go figure! Heh.

I haven't seen the scale move a whole lot the past month and I had to revamp my diet a little and increase my calories. I haven't weighed myself since as a workout buddy said to ignore the scale for a while. But, I feel like a million bucks and my energy is fantastic. I'm finally at the point in P90X where I don't feel sore any longer. Two more weeks and Tony will change it up on me and the soreness comes back, lol.

singfree, I echo alf's recommendation to try to get to Germany sometime during the winter. I love the Christmas Markets, especially those in Nurnberg and Rothenberg. Nothing like gluwein and some hot German sausage on a cold winter's afternoon/night. I love how the German's do Christmas. And the country looks beautiful when covered in snow!!

alf, you are doing so well!! Congratulations. I hope you have fun at your party tonight. Sounds like you have a great plan.

Swissmiss, I'm sorry to hear your daughter is not feeling well. Hopefully it isn't anything serious. I'm with you on the alcohol. Nothing impacts me quite like alcohol does. I'm okay with the odd glass of wine (a couple of glasses a week), but any more than that is just not good for me or my body.

zebras, I hope your husband is continuing to do well. Great job on getting back to good eating!

Welcome bampitt!!! Sounds like you are doing really well. I just finished my first P90X rotation (I did the standard rotation) in October and really got some great results from the program. You probably will continue to be sore throughout the program (especially during the last month when you are switching up the workouts more), but I kind of like that. Of course, I'm a little crazy too! :laugh: I defiinitely agree with your workout buddy about ignoring the scale for a little while, especially since you've just started this program. I know my body retains water like crazy whenever I switch up my strength training program, and that usually lasts a good three to four weeks. So go with how you feel right now and enjoy that!!! There are a few of us P90X grads on this thread now, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Oh, and I hear you about craving healthy food. If I don't get my daily veggies in, I get cranky. And a day without at least one piece of fruit.....not a good day.

TxMs, good to see you!! Good to hear your husband is getting on board with a healthier lifestyle. I know when my husband is more focused on eating better, I'm more focused as well. We're each others worst enemies at times when it comes to not-so-good food enabling. Take care with all that cold weather in Texas (you too, alf!) Is your husband Mr. Holiday for Christmas too? Sounds like it if you have multiple manger scenes. How fun!

Things here are going well. I woke up to a massive rain storm (with thunder!), and it is supposed to snow today. We're headed into Seoul for a Christmas reception this afternoon, so keep your fingers crossed that the weather doesn't get too bad. At least somebody else will be driving, and that always makes me feel better. I've got my food plan in place for the day because we have another event (non-food though) planned for tonight (a branch of Cirque de Soleil is coming to perform a holiday show on base), so I want/need to make sure to get all my water in today in between events. But I'm looking forward to them both, so it should be a fun day (as long as it doesn't snow TOO much, of course).

No workout for me today, and my body definitely needs the rest after that tough week of Insanity. I did Max Plyo again yesterday, and liked it much better this time than I did the first time I did it. Tomorrow I start week 2 of month 2. Let's hope these old legs hold up! It's funny because I'm not feeling the impact in my joints, but my quad muscles are definitely being tested by these power moves. I suppose that's a good thing, but.....yowza.

Hope everybody enjoys the rest of Friday and has a great weekend.

Hi everybody! I hope everybody enjoyed their weekend. :drinker:

Like in so many parts of the US, we had snow this weekend. It was good for getting me into the Christmas spirit, but, boy, was it cold! I'm kind of missing Los Angeles right now. :laugh: We ended up not going to the Christmas reception in Seoul on Saturday as result of the weather, and I was fine with that. We have so many events to attend right now that being able to spend an afternoon around home was really nice.

I'm still eating clean, but I have a feeling it is going to get harder and harder as the holiday approaches. I have what I hope is a good plan in place, but we'll see. I'm feeling stronger and much more energetic lately.....the best I've felt since a couple of weeks before we left LA. I'm sure alot of that has to do with lower stress levels (Christmas stress has NOTHING on moving stress!), but I'm sure getting my eating under control is helping as well.

I've had a couple of interesting experiences over the past couple of days here in Korea. I went downtown shopping yesterday (the first time I've actually been shopping in our local town) and there are many stores that make custom clothing. I heard before we got here that they will turn some Americans away for being 'too big' because Koreans are much smaller than many Americans. I had the opposite reaction. In virtually every store I went into, the store owner would pull me away from my friends and point out something, saying 'You'd look good in this' or 'I can make this for you'. I even had one come up to me today and say 'I should make suits for you' at a base event we were attending--and I was already wearing so suit so I was wondering if he was telling me I had bad taste in clothes! :bigsmile: But it finally dawned on me that they were really telling me that I'm the size they are comfortable catering to. I don't actually feel that small anymore so I didn't really catch on to why they were reacting to me the way they were. Anyhow, I took it all as a compliment. Of course, if I get clothes made for me at this weight, that may inspire me to actually keep the weight off more!

I'm two days into my second week of my second month of Insanity, and I'm enjoying these 'max' workouts more everytime I do them. I wasn't sure that was going to happen, but they really are great workouts. I decided to do the fit test again yesterday, and actually got my husband to join me. He hadn't worked out since we got to Korea, but something about doing that fit test finally inspired him to get back into the gym today. I'm glad it worked that way. If he were inclined to workout with DVDs, I think he'd love this series (he enjoyed the fit test), but he's more of a gym guy than a DVD guy. But it was fun for him to join me for a workout.

Hope everybody has a good day. :flowerforyou: