Motivation

You know you hear it all the time.  "The older you get the harder it is to lose wieght." or "It will caught up to when hit your 30's"  It is a well known fact that as your metabolism slows down.  I've only been on this website 4 days and I have looked around some but didn't come across anything yet for some of us older ones trying to lose wieght!  I was just on find your twin and noticed that mostly younger crowd signing in there. Couldn't go through 90 pages to find some my age.  Thought I'd start a thread to find a buddy of similiar age and stats geared to motivate those of us with the Age challenge. 

So here is mine

AGE: 45

Height 5'3 or 5'4 (been a while since I measured my self)

Wieight: 206lb

Build: Large (I think by the wrist test)

Weight Goal:135 -

Non Weight Goal - Working out 5 times a week doing at least 30-60 minutes of cardio or swimming and weights 2-3 times a week for 40 minutes,

Anyone out there that is similiar and would like to work at motivating each other!

weigh in: 180 lbs

goal weight: 160 lbs

Today was my daughter's B-Day so I ate junk and alot of ice cream. I did walk this morning 3 miles.

Someone asked where in Pgh I live.  I live South of Pgh about 30 minutes. Mars is where my daughter went for track invitationals. It's pretty far!!

Welcome Blooferry and morrighu,

Glad to have you all in the group.  But um. . since I first posted I measured myself.  I am actually 5.2.5.  I guess I shrunk or something!  I knew it wasn't acturate but there it is. 

so today i weighed myself and i am at 150.4! i feel much better today.

i ate perfectly yesterday and was not hungry once. i had breakfast at 8am banana at 10am lunch of salad and chicken sand at 1215 rice cakes at 230 nectarine at 345 dinner at 6pm no snack before bed.

i feel great today. i cleaned a house for 1.75 hours after work with my daughter yesterday and because it rained at lunchtime, i got on the elliptical at 730 while watching inside edition.

i am hoping for a great day again today. so far so good

how are you guys doing?

kat

I'm retaining tons of water!  4 lbs worth, if not more!  :(  Gonna take some water pills to try to get rid of it. I'm drinking lots of water though.

I washed windows today. Not one of my favorite things to do. But I figured since it wasn't scorching hot, I could get it done. I still sweat up a storm though.

Hope everyone is well and staying on the wagon! lol :D

Hey all,

I've put my weight loss efforts on hold for a while until I heal from having my wisdom teeth out last Friday. 

The swelling had made the scale show numbers that normally would have made me tremble but I kept it in perspective.  It's basically gone now but I still have pain and tenderness in my mouth, and I can't open it very far to eat much.  So, I think I'm losing some weight (my rings are getting looser) but my activity level is not what it should be, nor is my food intake.  I'm just trying to get through this initial phase, then once I feel better I'll go back to exercising & watching calories again.  I'm hoping that will be soon !

OK enough whining; everyone else, keep it going!

Checking in later this week.  Did OK with maintaining the 1400 cal intake but too hot to walk for several days.  Down 2 lb this time for total of 26 since March.  Still shooting for 8 lb loss for July 4th but I know that very well may not happen.  6lb is probably more realistic.  Great to read the progress you all are making.  Motivation is my key to staying on the wagon.  Have a great day.

Jen

i am planning on taking a vacation to Florida over the 4th and my goal is to lose 6 pounds by then to Jen!

i did well again yesterday. stayed withing my calories and went to fit camp and burned 422 calories for a deficit of 647 for the day. at this rate i should make that goal of 6 pounds.

a question for us 40 year olds. i have missed my monthly this month. is this normal? it happened about 4 or 5 months ago too. can i be starting the change at 44?

no hot flashes or anything else yet?

anyone know what's next?

Kattttttttt

Kat,

Very normal to skip at 44.  You are considered peri-menopausal at this age.  You may get another monthly next month which is heavier to make up for the skipped one or not.  Female relatives (older sister, aunt, mother) are a great resource as to what to expect especially the time tables because a lot of this runs in the family.  (Your considered through menopause if you  have not had a period for 1 full year.)

Good luck with the 6 lb goal.

Jen

I'm starting my TOM now. My "monthly's" are crazy! I'm 43 and that's when my mom started to have "strange" things happen. Sometimes I go a couple months of nothing, then a whopper of a monthly! lol  No fun!  I can't go anywhere the first few days. I don't even get dressed. Good thing I don't work. I don't know what I'd do! :(  What us females go through! 

Hope you make your goal of 6 lbs!

thanks for the feedback guys!

i had another great day yesterday. my boss took me out to lunch with the office guys. we went to the bar to watch the us open. i forgot my low cal dressing pack so i was a little nervous. bar food help!! but after looking at the menu i was like, i will have a diet coke, a garden berger, no cheese and a side salad with low cal ranch. it was very filling.

i had to go clean a womens house after work and forgot my snack in the fridge so by the time i got home i was famished. and you all know what that means right? kayla was making herself mac and cheese because jeff also worked late so he did not cook. i had a fresca and baked lays to hold off the hunger until i could figure out what i wanted. i settled on plain old pb&j on french bread(cut thick). i wanted ice cream so bad after dinner but thought of my goal of 6 lbs and was able to refrain.

today is aj's 18th birthday and with fathers day on sunday? this means FOOD. so we have to concentrate on our goal and fight off the urges. i know they can be loud sometimes so just make our goal voices louder!

good luck and i will try and write this weekend

kattttttt

Hi y'all!

I'm almost 42... Just lost my 40th pound today!!  9 more to go, woo hoo!!!

I'm 5ft. 6.5 inches -  Always wore a size 6 to 8 until a few years ago... I doubled to a 16 in 3 years!!!  When I hit 199 last September, 2007 -  that was my "That's IT!!" moment.  I was NOT about to cross over into the 200's!!

Now I'm weighing in at 159... my goal is 150, which will put me back into a size 8.  I am wearing 10s now and can put on some of my old 8's but they are still a little too tight to wear.

Boy, the last 10 lbs are the hardest to lose, but I'm keepin' on!

welcome rachelhurbert,

Hope you will get that last 10 lbs.  I know it can be hard but keep on working at it.  It will work.  Anyway welcome to the thread.

So here I am again on Monday weigh in day

I am still 202.6 - Unbelievable I am maintaining.  I am a modern day miracle that defies science.  I have been maintaining an average calorie deficit of between a 500-1000 daily.  But have not lost weight.  Think I'm going to change my setting to sedentary and see if that works.  Some how I feel this is not natural but I am eating just to get my calories in.  I love to work out and don't want to decrease my workouts but I am only hungry, I mean really hungry, right after my workouts.  I wake up and I'm not hungry but I eat anyways because it's supposed to start your metabolism.  At night I find myself eating just because my number of calories eaten is too low for my burn meter.  I don't know but it doesn't seem natural.  So maybe my burn meter is to high cause I'm not really burning as much as I think in daily activities. By running all my stats through a spread sheet I thought I had found my "magic number" but I've been maintaining my 500-600 cal deficit for 7 days now and pretty much been maintaining the same morning weight.  I dropped at one point last week to 201.3 but next day up to 202.4 then the next 203.4 So here I sit at 202.6!

OK Enough of that I am going to focus on my goals now!  

So here how I'm doing on my goals:  Work out 5-6 times a week doing - YES!

More specific workout goals

30 minutes of elliptic = 300 cal  = Distance goal  - 200 miles

5 TIMES THIS WEEK = 10.88 MILES BURNING 1561 CALORIES  = TOTAL DISTANCE SO FAR 50.85 MILES

30-60 minutes of swimming = 300-500 cal = Goal - make the 50 mile club

5 TIMES THIS WEEK = 4.75 MILES BURNING 2072 CALORIES- TOTAL DISTANCE SO FAR = 16.64 MILES

and 2 times a week strength/weight training for 1 hour

ADJUST THIS GOAL TO BE: DO ONE COMPLETE CIRCUIT ON MACHINES 2 x A WEEK  - WHICH I DID.  NOW THAT I KNOW THE MACHINES IT TAKES ME ONLY 40-45 MINUTES TO DO THE SAME AMOUNT I WAS DOING IN AN HOUR.  WHEN OR IF I GET IT DOWN TO 30 MINUTES I WILL DO 2 CIRCUITS

I will walk 4-8 miles a week = goal - 50 miles

WALKED 1X THIS WEEK AT MY FAVORITE BEACH - 5.24 MILES BURNED 427 CALORIES = TOTAL SO FAR = 27.66 MILES

I will keep my calories between 500 - 1000 calories under my BMR each day!

YES!

I will lose 30 lbs by Oct 18 (if I lost 2lbs a week I could lose 40 lbs by then but I'm only going for 30 lbs because I know I won't have all perfect weeks)

NO REAL WEIGHT LOSS YET!

I will work on bring down my BMI to under 30%

36.53%

I will work on getting my hip to waist ration down to .80%.

86%

I will lose inches from my measurements.  Don't really know how many cause I don't know how to judge realism on measurements? 

First measurements  chest 45, waist 43, hips 50, thigh 29, calves 17, biceps 15, forarm 10, wrist 6.75

This weeks measurements chest 45, waist 42 hips 48.75 thigh 28.5, calves 17, biceps 14.5, forearm 10.5, wrist 6.5 =  2.0  (I think my forearm was actually 11 last time but in my log I put 10 by mistake which would then make it 2.25 inches lost)

So there it is. 

Personal Victory this week: It's been kind of a lonely week with hubby and oldest son gone for the wedding and my beautiful daughter still in TX for college.  Youngest son slept over friends Fri and Sat and I sat around (aside from working out) and watched t.v. - not my best weekend but at least I didn't pig out or go over my deficit.  I did buy a giant Hershey chocolate bar (I couldn't resist it was only $.99)but can you believe I only at 4 squares at Fri night and 4 squares on Sunday afternoon and I counted them!  There is still nearly 3/4 of that chocolate bar in the freezer.  Bless my soul I THINK THAT IS PROGRESS!   Long ago and far away I would have eaten the whole bar Fri night and then gone back to buy two more!  Even if I'm not showing it on the scale I am definitely changing inside.  MUCH MORE IMPORTANT Don't you think!

This morning I weighed in also.

I gained 2 lbs!!!!  I'm not at all surprised. I ate horribly and no exercise at all. I could've done so much better. I'm bored with this whole thing though. I'm in need of a change. I'm joining the gym tomorrow and maybe that will get my motivation going. 

I have to stop eating the ice cream and chips. I start out the day doing great.....then the afternoon comes and it gets the best of me. While I'm eating I know I shouldn't be eating it, but I do anyways. Then I'm on here feeling like I've let myself down.

Tomorrow I will not mess up!!!  I have to get back to losing weight, not gaining!

Best of luck to all! :D 

i am in the same boat as you are. chips are so easy to grab. the crunch and salt is so satisfying. at least jeff buys the baked version for me. jeff loves ice cream. i swear he eats it every day. luckily i dont sucume to it too often. if i were maintaining, it would be fine but i am trying to lose 13 pounds here! so, for fathers day i bought him a homemade ice cream maker. it works great! we bought lo fat ingredients. you can make ice cream that tastes great for 80 calories a cup!! that is the same as a glass of non fat milk!

i got up yesterday up 3 ponds over the weekend. is that possible??? i was down 1 today. i had to weigh myself i couldn't help it. it was bothering me so bad!

getting dressed i was trying to find a shirt that hid that spare tire i'm sporting. at 150 pounds and putting on a size 6 pair of jeans, at my age, i can see how people think, "you are fine for your age" or "i wish i was in a size 6" but for some reason when i look at that roll, i am not happy with myself! we just can lose where we want to.

this weekend i am going to do all i can to stay withing my calories and write everything down. i have to. i do so well during the week. having a 500-700 deficit every day. then the weekend, i don't count, write, pay attention. then i get on the scale and WHAM!! but there is no way on God's green earth i ate an extra 10,000 calories in 3 days! so, i don't really know how this calories in and our really works. i think a lot of water and food retention plays a huge role.

well, here we go another week.

lets talk more and keep each other motivated.

i need it!!

katttttttttttttt

I went to the gym today!!!! I loved it! It felt so good to get back in the gym! I have to be careful with the weights (because of the back) but I can get a good workout in though. I stayed 1 1/2 hrs and worked up a good sweat! I think this is what I've needed.

It feels weird working out with guys around though. I've always gone to like a curves type of place, so this is different for me. One thing though, is this place is never real busy. I like that! Not too many people looking at me! lol

sportstergirl - sounds like you're hanging onto some water weight. Wait a few days, and weigh yourself again. I would! :D  The problem with me is that I can't eat just a cup of ice cream! I gotta have a whole bowl!!! lol

Hey Everyone,

It's good to check in and see what's going on out there.  This week will be challenging to me because I don't intend to go to the gym as often.  Some how it seems if I don't go I let my self go with my eating.  But my hubby is back from his niece's wedding and he has to leave again Friday for military training - he's going to be gone for like 4 months. So I feel like I just want to hang out with him.  I may go to the gym tomorrow or I may not.  But By Friday when I drop at the airport I will be right back at it.  Any way I look at it will be an emotional week. 

So for some of you all that are experiencing the lack of periods my sister is 2 years older 47 and she says she just stopped having them.  It was like one month she had them then it was like Dec since she had one.  My mom says the same thing.  Both of them said they never had anything like hot flashes, night sweats, or mood swings.  Just one month periods then the next gone - my mom said she had one skipped period then a regular one then the were gone for good.  I am hoping I will be so lucky but I just don't know.  I  feel like I've had experiences with hot flashes already and mood swings but that could just be my abnormal self who knows. 

Hello, may I join this group? I'm 48, 5'6" and as of this a.m. 144.4 lbs--woo-hoo!--finally broke my 145-147 plateau! I've been using this site for a year and a half, with a brief period when I went away, gained back some weight, then got with the program again. This last time I started at 173.5; my goal is 139 lbs again, which I'd like to see by the end of August, although I'm focusing on a lifestyle change this time and not in any particular rush.

I had a great, small circle of CC friends who read my Journal entries and I read theirs, but all but one have wandered off somewhere, and I'm a little lonely. I would love to make some new CC over-forty friends to continue this journey with.

 I've been married over 25 years; no kids, but 4 furkids (2 dogs, 2 cats) that I love to pieces. My exercise is walking the dogs and gardening, and I love to travel--just got back from Japan (!!!), and kept a travel diary complete with photos in my Journal, May 22 - June 8, if anyone would like to check it out.

Hi all,

Welcome mageeg.  Congrats on breaking the plateau!

Weighed in today but no change.  Still at 208.  Still working on short term goal.  I would like to be under 200 by my birthday (43) July 14.  Probably not going to happen but I'm trying to keep myself motivated.  I go away on July 3 to Saskatoon, SK (Canada) to visit friends for 2 1/2 weeks but plan to stay on track.  My friend wants to try to get back on the wagon while we are together so I hope we can motivate one another. 

I hope everyone had a good week.  Enjoy the weekend.

Jen

Ok! So I've been trying desperately to be positive about my progress.  But I feel like my progress came to a screeching halt when my car did!  So last week I was not feeling well on Tuesday so I didn't work out.  Wednesday was my regular day of rest plus my hubby came back from his nieces wedding and I knew he'd be leaving quickly for four months so I took it off!  Thursday I was planning on doing a work out but Then got in a car accident.  I had to spend the whole day on the phone working things out so that I'd have a rental to bring my hubby to the airport on Fri!  O.K. so now I'm in pain - the adrenaline wore off from Thursday and now my neck, back, hip and shoulder are killing me!  

Ok. so as far as progress with working out I'd give my self a 10% out of 100%,

Now on top of all this stupid stuff!  What with the wedding (plane tickets, spending money, etc.) the combination of graduations, birthdays and hubby having to get ready to leave for 4 months we are a little light in the wallet.  It will take a few weeks to get his military pay and sooooo. . .  my food choices this week have been severely limited! 

So here I am sit I've gained 2 lbs.  And oh yeah the one thing I could possibly still do without hurting my back and shoulder (though even this is debatable) is swimming and they drained the pool at my gym for maintainance this week. 

Saturday I tried walking but my right hip and low back hurt soooo bad I was limping like a cripple.  Here I was at this beautiful park by the ocean for a friend's birthday party and I couldn't even really enjoy it.  I was in pain!

I hope that I will get back to "normal" soon.  Oh and how stupid can a doctor be.  I went to the walk in clinic to see a doctor on Sat and the he suggested that possibly I have Fibromyalgia because I hurt all over.  UMMM!  I just used some guy's SUV to stop my car when I was going like 30 miles an hour!  Doesn't it make sense that I might hurt a little!

Oh, and one last thing.  Think I'm starting menopause because I'm like waiting for my period but it's like 1 week late and no sign of it.  Could that be why I feel like a wild cat ready to jump one anyone in sight!  My emotions are just out of control.  But I'm trying not to be too uptight, not sure I'm succeeding.

I guess my hubby is lucky he's gonna be gone til Oct.  He won't have to be around for the mood swings, hot flashes, etc that they say are sometimes a part of this time of life. 

Ok.  There I'm done complaining.  I promise next week or at the very least the week after I will be back to my old positive self.  But I just had to vent.  I'm not even going to measure myself of run my workout numbers and stuff.  Hope you all are doing better this week!

Oh, Welcome, mageeg - of course you can join us.  I will definitely add you to my friends list.  I would love to see some of your travel logs.  Japan How fun!