Hi, i am new on the website. Is there somebody here who is 40 and + ?

I am 40 years old, 5"5 and 148 . My goal is 137 and i  should be 137 by July. Would like to find  somebody to do this together, to support and to help to reach goals.

have a great day , everybody

Good morning Lori,

I really don't like this store, i think that i am a little to young for it  My mother in -law loves this store, she is 63 and Alfred Dunner is her favourite brand. So, i was looking actually at bedding and dishes. But i didn't find anything that i liked. But my husband has got good deals, he has got $125 jacket for $14. I just couldn't believe my eyes !!! Then he has got couple shirts for work, which was on sale for $8, that were prices $40 each. I was just enjoying his excitement about the stuff he has got.

I am glad that your mom didn't really  get any damage. I saw Florida weather on morning news this morning, the weather is really crazy. It's cool here too, last night was great, i opened all windows and enjoyed cool air. Well, i have done just a part of it, i mean fall clothes. I will need more time next week-end.

I don't know what is wrong with me too. I just don't feel like going to the gym, all excitement is gone. Maybe i will make a break during the week and will go only on week-end for now.

enjoy cool weather

Leila

Glad your husband got good deals and you enjoyed his excitement.

I'm going to concentrate on eating and forget about the gym for a bit. I know the exercise is important, but not into it right now. Maybe September will bring back so needed energy for me.

I am enjoying the cool air, getting so much done around the house. At least I'm being productive in other areas, if I'm not going to the gym.

Well I hope something gets us both motivated soon, before we put any weight back on. I'm not giving up, just taking a break lol

Lori

I am not going to give up, i just don't want to force myself to go if i really don't want to. Well, maybe on week-end i will be motivated and go, i don't know. I need to loose 5 pounds more, still want to do this.

Leila

Hi Leila,

Had the boys all day, and I managed not to eat everything I gave the two year old. I came in way under my calorie limit today, so I'm going to have some ice cream now. I'm thinking about going to the gym in the morning, I hope I still feel like it when I get up. I haven't seen my brothers girlfriend in about a month and when I saw her today she said " wow I don't believe how skinny you look". That gave me the motivation to want to go back to the gym, and keep doing good. Would have been nice if I saw her last week, maybe I would have gone to the gym more often. Hope you are doing good, we have a weigh in tomorrow. I know you will lose those last five pounds and I will keep mine off, we can do it.

Lori

Good morning! It is just after 6 a.m. on Friday, I weighed in already. Well my goal weight was 105, last week Friday I was 104.6, and now today I am 105.6.

I am only .6 above my goal, but a whole pound heavier than last Friday which is not good. I'm not going to let it get me down, I'll just try to keep moving forward.

Leila I hope your scale was nicer to you this week, you have been working hard at this and deserve to see good results. I bet with your new calorie intake you noticed a difference, I hope you did anyway.

Looking forward to your next post.

I wonder if we will ever hear from Alison. By the time we do, she might be down to her goal weight.

Lori

Good morning Lori,

Well, i lost 1,5 pounds this week. You will be laughing but instead of eating more i decided to get back to my calories i ate in the beginning, 1200-1300. But i eat different calories every day, i mean one day it is 1200 another it is 1260. I have no idea how it works anymore. I didn't go to the gym this week at all, but i was walking every day for 50 minutes around the lake. Go figure...  Yes, i am really glad about my numbers today.

Don't give up anyway, just do what you are doing. YOu are so close to your goal, wow. That's probably difficult when you are so close and still you are fighting with this last pound. I wish you good luck with that,you will do it!!! I know that compliments are great motivation. Unfortunately i see everybody from my family every day and my husband can't say that i lost weight. But i can say this  by the clothes. So that's enough motivation for me.

I am wondering about Alison too. I hope she will come back one day and will surprise us with her weight loss.

Leila

HOORAY! Leila you did great, that is so awesome. I am very happy for you, keep up the good work. Tell the hubby he should buy you a gift for doing so well lol  After all your hard work, you deserve to see the loss. CONGRATULATIONS!

Lori

Thank you , Lori!!! I will tell him about the present , but he was surprised too when i told him this morning how much i lost. I feel really so happy about it. I am going to go to the gym tomorrow morning,  now i am motivated.

thank you for your support

have a wonderful week-end

Leila

Hi Lori,

I went this morning to the gym and spent an hour on nordic trail. That was really good, there not many people in the gym in the morning. I feel good about today's workout. Now i am going to have breakfast and then to run some errands. Enjoy your week-end!

Leila

Hi Leila how are you doing? Yesterday I was doing so good, then blew it at dinner. I ate only 250 calories before going out to dinner with a bunch of our friends, thinking I could eat what I want and forget about counting. I decided I would not have anything to drink, I wanted to use my calories to enjoy a good meal. I had water at the restaurant,  my meal was rib eye steak, salad and chili. I thought that , I was doing great. After we  all went back to a friends house, we were in the hot tub, enjoying the night air. Everyone was having a few drinks, but I only had water. When I came home and put my calories in, I was so upset. I gave up on some of the fun, yet was still way over my limit.  Don't every get a steak at Texas roadhouse and eat the whole thing. The salad and chili were both only a very small amount, then I looked up the rib eye, I was very upset to learn that it was 1000 calories.  I could have eaten half of it, but I really believed that it would  be much less than that, and I was enjoying it.

I was surprised when I got on the scale this morning and weighed less than yesterday. I'll just have to learn the hard way. I even went on line to look up what steak I should get, but couldn't find any info on line for this restaurant. It took me half an hour late last night to find the calorie amount in a blog, and that just ruined my night.

Today I am going to a fund raiser, and will be very careful, with my calorie intake. If I don't know about what it will be, I won't eat it.

Hope you have a great Sunday, I'll talk to you tonight.

Lori

Hi Lori,

We went for dinner with friends to the Longhorn steakhouse couple weeks ago. I didn't order rib eye steak, i just don't remember what was that, but it was the smallest steak they had and i ate just a half of it.  My husband ate the other half. I am not able to eat the whole steak, it's too big for me. I had also salad and vegetables of the day. I was just in my calories, although i also ate a little before we went out for dinner. Now i know that i  shouldn't worry that i will eat over my calorie limit. I just know when i should stop eating. I am getting full quickly and can't eat over my "limit" or my stomach's limit. I probably made it smaller since i started to watch my calories. So yesterday i ate just a little over 1200 calories. I was not hungry all day after lunch, and when we had dinner i ate just 980 calories. I don't like when i  need to eat more to reach my calorie range. So i just had tea with  couple crackers and cheese and was able to get to 1206 .

As for the steak calories, maybe you should go to any steakhouse under the restaurants and look for the steaks. I found a lot of different steaks there.

I am going to the gym today again.

have a wonderful day

Leila

Hi Lori,

I went to the gym last night as i was going to and spend an hour on the Nordic trail. I feel so sour today but it feels good to go  back to the gym. How are you doing? It's getting really cool here, today it will be in 70s, so nice. I guess i need to get into the long pants, which is good thing.

Well, i hope you are having a nice day

Leila

Hello,

I have been doing great the past couple of days, trying to eat what I was at the beginning of this journey. The weekend was a total bust, both days, I told you about Saturday, then Sunday at a fund raiser I ate like a pig. I turned it all around and I'm doing the right thing now.  I'm going to the gym today and Friday, tonight my daughter and her family will be back from cape cod so I'll have the boys tomorrow.

Glad you have been keeping up at the gym Leila, when I go today they will probable say "who are you". I really should be ashamed of myself, I haven't been going at all.  I do believe that on Friday, I will like my numbers, as I plan on being real good with the eating all week.

It has been much cooler here as well, I have had long pants on all week. The rest of the week will be in the 70's, good gym weather hooray.

Do you have any plans for the long weekend? I'm going to be going non-stop. Moving my son into his dorm on Saturday morning, then on the bike for the rest of the day. Sunday we are having a family softball game and a BBQ. Monday I'm not really sure yet, we got invited to several BBQ's, so most likely will be going to one or two of them. On Monday night we will drive my son back up to campus, that will be his first night living there. I'm so sad, I feel that empty nest syndrome already.

I know I haven't been on here as much as I should be, I promise to be here more often. Hope you are having a good day.

Lori

Hi Lori,

It seems just two of us left from all the crowd that we had in the beginning. I still hope that Alison will be back.  I am glad that you are still with me here, Lori. That's great that you are going to the gym. I don't know why, but you feel so much better after gym, even if you are sour after that for couple days. I am still sour but i am going to go tonight after work. I hope you will like the number on the scale of Friday. It's coming again, Friday, weeks are passing by so fast.

We have plans for the long week-end. We are going to Renaissance festival , here is the link so you would know what is it. http://www.rennfest.com/  We are going with our friends, two more couples. We probably will go there in the morning and spent couple hours walking around. I am gald that it's getting cooler, we went last year when it was very hot and really was not fun. It is on Sunday. On Saturday  we didn't plan anything yet. We were invited on family BBQ but it is usually boring and we are not going. We will see how Saturday will go. Monday is just day to catch up with house work and relax. I hope to go to the gym on week-end too. Besides we probably will go shopping with my mother in law on Monday, it 's a tradition.

Have a wonderful day, Lori

Leila

That looks like fun, I love watching magic. It will be better this year with the cool weather.

I do feel much better after the gym, I just have to make sure I keep going. I have so much more energy all day, after a good workout.

I know only the two of us. I like hearing from you, so I'm o.k. with that. I do hope we hear from Alison again some day too.

It's 2:30 and I have only eaten 100 calories, so I'm going to grab something healthy now, I'll talk to you soon.

Lori

Hi Lori,

I was so busy today at work that i didn't have time to write on CC. Well, it is raining hear and it's cool outsite. I am tired and just don't have any energy to go to the gym. I will go on week-end for sure couple times. I can't wait when this week is over and long week-end starts.

I am doing good with my calories. Today at work i ate just 400 calories so i will need to eat at least until 1200 today.  How are you doing?

Leila

I've been doing great with the calories all week, I made up for the bad weekend. I ate way less than my limit a couple of days.

Cooled off nice here as well, will only reach 70 degrees today. I am very tired too. I thought I was going to be able to relax a bit today, but I was wrong. I will be out changing the dorm fridge and Microwave that I got my son. The one I got was called a dorm size, but it is to big. Also remembered a few thing I didn't even think about like a flashlight, snacks and many more.

All my muscle must be melting away, I haven't been to the gym enough. It seems like there is always to much to do. After this weekend, my son will be living at the dorm so I will have more time. Well, I have to do everything for the baby shower for my other son on Sept 14, but then things will slow down around here.

Gonna check my E-mail and then I will weigh in and come back and post.

Lori

I'm back and the scale loved me this week.

I weighed in at 105.6 last friday

This week I am 103.4

So thats my best week in a long time. A loss of 2.2 pounds. I'm not going to jump up and down yet, my trend is still up around 105. I'm very happy with  what I saw, after the terrible weekend I had with calories.

Hi Lori,

I didn't believe my eyes this morning when i weigh  myself and i did it twice. I thought that i am still dreaming, it was 140. I went to the gym once this week but i was eating my calorie limit ,sometimes a little under this limit. So i am very happy with my numbers today.

You are doing great too. And looks like you are very busy with your family. I need to get ready for work so i will write you more later today.

Leila

Great job Leila, what a nice week we had. Lets do it again this week, we are doing something right. Wow only 3 more pounds until you reach your goal, that is wonderful news. I hope you don't see your weight going up and down, like I did for the past two months. This is hard work, but we are doing such a good job. I know I would not have been able to do it without CC and you, thanks for all the support.

Got all the dorm shopping finished. Now I am packing clothes while my son is enjoying the day at six flags. Why is it that the mom always has all the work? I am so stressed out, feels like I will forget something. Well, he is close enough to come home on weekends, so it should be alright. Sorry to vent on you.

I'm going to the Red Sox game on Monday night, goal weight gift from my other half. Only been to one other game this year and it was a very, very, very bad calorie day. I will make sure not to let that happen again.

Well as you know this weekend is going to be crazy, I will try to check in. Enjoy the long weekend, hope you get to relax more than I do lol

Lori

Oh,i am so happy, still can't believe it that i am so close to my goal. CC says that if will go well, i will reach my goal on 19 th of September. WOW!!! Thank you very much for your support, Lori. We really wouldn't do such progress without each others support. We will see how it will go,hopefully everything will be all right.

I am so glad week-end is here. We have plans as i told you to go the festival but  it is raining so hard during last two days, that i have doubts that it will be sunny on Sunday. But weather forecast says different thing. I hope it will be good weather. Football game is a great way to spend time, i like that, it's a lot of fun. Enjoy!!!

I understand your worries about you son,i am sure you will do everything just fine. Well, man are the same at any age  We do all work while our halves watching tv or playing gold. Well, your son is doing the same thing, enjoying six flags while you work hard. Oh well.....

I hope you will have great and relaxing week-end, Lori!

Leila