Let's Geturdone- over 50 +

I'm new here and would like a older group to chat with. Maybe we can go down the trail to Skinnyville together.

I have had a few health problems but I am in great shape and healthy now and want to get this weight.

Could use any and all help. Would anyone care to join me in my new adventure?

A nice quiet Christmas here.  I ate too much, but after all it is Christmas.  I'll join everyone in a new start!!

Alice

Monday will be a new start again for me. I hate to see what I have done and I don't need the scales to know I've been bad. My new motto "Do you want to eat what you want-- or do you want to look good in what you wear"? Well I got bulges where I don't need them.  OK Monday it is day one,chapter one-- now let's Geturdone. Guess this video tells it all-- if we fall we can just stay there or we can get up for a strong finish. This is great- makes me think how many times have I fallen and yes I get back up so Monday is get back on my feet and get to moving.

http://www.guzer.com/videos/are-you-going-to- finish-strong.php

 

Donna

Hi Donna!  I can't watch the video until I get to work tomorrow - only dial-up at home :(   But I will join you on Monday in a new start!!  I'm trying to be pretty good today also.  Last night I wanted a piece of toast before I went to bed, but I resisted.  I told myself that I would save 200 calories if I didn't have it, and that would be a portion of a pound that I could lose.  I hope to be able to keep telling myself things like that.

I have decided not to weigh myself at all until I think I've had a significant change in my body.  After all, I can tell just by jiggling my jiggles how I am doing.  When they jiggle a lot less and my smaller clothes fit, I will get on the scale to congratulate myself.  But until then I don't want the ups and downs of the scale number.  I just need to stay focused on the goal.

Alice

Count me in for a new start! Tomorrow, Monday, I'll be 52!! I need to get back on track and lose 30 lbs. I've been terribly depressed lately. I don't know if it's the holiday blues or weight blahs. But whatever it is, I know getting back on track and eating healthy and exercising will help it.

Not that I'm happy we're all struggling, but I'm happy that we're all in this together!

So, Jenika, Alice, Carol, Donna and any one else out there, jump right in!! I'm logging in everyday to record my food.

Marie

PS, Donna, I am very concerned about your friend. You haven't mentioned her.

And, Alice, I am so sorry about your friend. You are right,we take chances everyday because we're rushing here and there. Sometimes being 5 minutes late is OK.

I will not be a slave to the scales but I will weigh on monday and then in 2 or 3 weeks I'll do it again. When my pants fall to my ankles I'll know with out the scales I've done good. haha  I hope everyone is ready for a new start. I think maybe I'll do some more motivation speaches-- do you all want that? Also I think I't would be great if we did let the other ones know what and how we are eating and exercising, what do you all think? I need 30 pounds off and maybe by now it's 40-- I sure hope not. I have been soooo bad from Thanksgiving and Christmas. Not just the two days but the whole month in-between.

My friend was moved back to the nursing home yesterday. Some days we think she is taking her last breath and then she starts getting better, they say she will never be any better but her good days is fair and her bad days last about three days before she has another fair day. I wish she would just close her eyes and wake up looking into the eyes of our Master.

Question??? How is a piece of toast that many calories? My bread is 20 per slice (Wonder light wheat)and I use 1 T of peanut butter that is Simply Jif at 80 no butter so that is only 100. Simply Jiff 1/2 the colories-- one half the flavor but I'm use to it now.

You all have a Happy New Year and if you're out -be careful -watch for the party people. haha

Hi Donna and Marie! 

Donna, I'm not sure what you mean by the piece of toast having so many calories.  If your bread says the calories on it, and the Jif says the calories, then you know how many calories you are eating.

I wouldn't mind motivational speeches - I can use all the motivation I can get.  Today I wasn't too bad but not stellar.  I ate a Starbuck's spinach feta wrap for 240 calories.  It is pretty healthy.  Also a petite scone.  Then at my brother-in-law's I had some nuts - didn't weigh or measure them - and some crusty bread and some cheese, with maybe three sweet potato chips.  Then a few pieces of popcorn with chocolate drizzle.  Then I had a chicken burrito with no sauce and some rice on the way home.  I am guessing I stayed under 1600 calories. 

No exercise today to report.  It was a day driving 3 hours each way, visiting family including my 92 y.o. father-in-law, and playing cards.  But tomorrow I'll be hiking, as well as probably Saturday and Sunday if the weather cooperates.

Focus on the goal.  Plan for those impulses!

Alice

Happy New year to all of you. May this be the best ever.

Donna

Hi to all my CC friends,

I'm back with my tail between my legs.  I've gained back all the weight that I had lost and now I am sore all over  - Knees, feet and elbows all ache.  My body is yelling at me to lose some weight. 

So I'd like to start over with you all again.  We're in this together right?  Positive thoughts for a great new year.

Penny

Penny Welcome back. Maybe we can all get our act together and this time get this weight off and keep it off. The month between Thanksgiving and New Year was tough on all of us. Guess the weeks wasn't so bad it was our eating that got us this way. tomorrow is my start over day. Are we all in this together? I had thought maybe a little motivation along the way might help-- well it sure can't hurt. Here is one I like.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Nelson Mandella, 1994 Inaugural Speech

Hi Penny!  Welcome back.  The more of us, the better, because we can boost each other along.  Thanks for the motivational thoughts, Donna. 

I have been doing okay with the eating for the past few days.  Most all the bad food is gone from the house and I feel much calmer. 

I finally weighed myself today - I am 152 with 30% body fat.  My goal is 140 and under 25% body fat, and then find a way to STAY THERE!

Today I ordered the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred DVD.  It is supposed to be pretty hard.  I am going to try to do some of it at least twice a week in addition to my other exercise.

Alice

 

Alcie i weighted in today at a whopping 179 pounds that is the heavest I've been in 3 years. Now it's time to get serious.

Go for it, Donna!  We all know we can do this - if we just stay focused and stop feeling sorry for ourselves.

Alice

Hi everyone,  I am new here.  Donna - kansasgal - told me about this forum so I thought I would give it a try.  I need alot of pushing to get this done.  It seems every year I do the same resolution only to go off it and start again.  This year I really need to do this.  I do weight watchers and it is like counting calories so I could use the tips and things from here too help me along my way. 

So, no more excuses - I will succeed this time!!  Let's do it this time, Donna - lets Geturdone!!

Welcome Margie,

I joined CC last February and lost 20 pounds.  I stuck with it till June and then let everything go and gained back 25 lbs.  Yikes!  I know what to do, so why don't I do it?    I found that I behaved best when I kept track of my calories and exercise.  So I'm back at it.  Thanks Donna for the inspiration and encouragement.  Let's all think smart and healthy in this new year.!!

Penny

Margie- glad you are joining us. I know we all can do this. If it takes weight watchers, Atkins or any other programs together with CC well so be it. I am still doing part of provida and part CC, the best of two worlds.

Penny now no more excuses let's stick together and get this weight off once and for all.

Come on out the rest of you gals-- now is the time to motivated and get serious.

Donna

Keep your eye on your prize. My prize will be a size 14 Levi, no other brand is as important as a 14 Levi. What is your prize you are after? How did you do today? Our wrong doings is not because of anything other than our weakness, so lets all be strong for ourselves and each other.

 Are you happy with yourself? I am -- I think I did great healthy eating choices today. No junk, no sweets lots of good exercise. Yea I'm on my way.

Today I had a protein shake for breakfast. my snack a smoothie, lunch grilled chicken and veggies, snack a banana and for dinner chicken with rice and veggies. hope that is good choices sounds like it to me.

I certainly hope I don't have to make this journey by myself. Come on back-- I'm lonesome.

 

Hummmm another day and no one here. Hey I took a shower I'm sure I don't smell why aren't you here?

Hey Donna,

Good for you, you are on your way!!  I hit the road running after Christmas break.  Lots of work etc...  I am back at it dietwise with fits and starts.  I need to commit and just do it.  Why does it seem so hard?  Whine, whine, whine.  I am feeling sorry for myself today.  Can you tell?  This time of year is not the best for me.  I've slid back into old habits.  Maybe if I focus on one day at a time.  Starting tomorrow of course since today is already a bust.    I keep coming back and trying.  That at least is something.  I promise not to be grumpy tomorrow!

Penny

Hi girls!  I was too tired last night to post.  Most weekday evenings are like that.

I am trying hard with my eating, but I am still not down to 1600 calories.  Yesterday's breakfast was an egg salad sandwich and a bran muffin.  My Monday spin class was at noon, then I ate my tiny sandwich, which had 350 calories, then I was still very hungry.  I had a 230 calorie bag of M&Ms (it was the best choice in the snack machine).  On the drive home, all I could think about was how hungry I was.  I felt miserably hungry!  At home, after two small bbq ribs, a slice of chicken, a big plate of green beans and a piece of toast for dinner, I felt slightly better.  But I think my total calories for the day came to at least 2000, probably more. 

I think I'm going to make some low cal soups that I can eat a lot of, and bring a big container to work with me.  That may fill me up better than a sandwich and snacks.  This is very hard for me  but I'm not giving up!

Alice

 

Penny- I have decided one day at a time is too hard. I put it on one meal at a time so that is how I will try to take it off. One meal at a time. I have started carrying my before picture with me again and when someone says have a piece I’ll take it out and say “ no thank you, I don’t look good in fat”, after all this is a mind game, as most everything is life is. So let’s work on the mind and I’m sure the body will cooperated once it knows what is in charge. Grumpy—hey that’s ok we all get that way. I tried a few weeks ago to get into my jeans- well I made it but couldn’t zip them. Hummm not a pretty sight.

Remember when your down—what is sunset in one place is sunrise in another. Maybe you’re just looking in the wrong place. UP-UP we go off the ground and up into the sunrise.

 

Margie- Doesn’t the one meal at a time ring a bell?

 

Margie and I were in another program—we lost like crazy then we took that first bit of cheating and wham on comes the weight. I still admire the program because I was on 19 meds, a day down to 0—then came the cheating and now I’m back on the diabetic meds. Nothing to blame but self. What I love about this is we can eat whatever we want as long as it’s healthy and occasionally a not so healthy bite of stuff.

 

Alice I am doing the 1500 at first to see how I do on that. But my big problem is I eat out a lot. Hard to judge when you do that. Like today I had my protein drink and half a banana –snack 4 oz of ham, but lunch we are eating out. How do you judge that? I just make healthy choices and hope for the best.

 

Louie are you here yet checking us out? Jump on in there we don’t bite—we sometime get hungry but we promise no biting each other. So you get to start golfing next month? That is great, that old back surgery not fun. Marvin had one 24 yrs ago and did great.

 

Guess I’d better get something done. I need to work out on the Wii fit—love it and I really challenge myself. I just hope it doesn’t hit the dead zone like so many of my “quick fix” items have become. Somewhere under a pile of clothes I have an exercise bike. Humm wonder if it has been doing me any good?

 

Donna