Welcome to your 30's and lets talk

So I have seen teen, 20's, 40's, 50's and beyond, but no 30's group.  So would anybody like to get something started?  Not sure where to begin hmmmm

I guess being in our thirties our metabolism has not hit a wall just yet, but it certainly isn't what it was in the 20's.  Don't you miss those days?  Anything you want and as long as you did maybe one sport in high school, then no worries.  Ohwell on to real life where nothing seems to be on schedule.

Let hear your thoughts.

Hello to all the Newbies.

Wendy, thanks about the tip. The car just had a paint job done on it a few years back. Thanks for the heads up... But hey.. I love the little thing.. Looks like a toy car. LOL... Compared to what I use to drive. It's going to take some time to get use to... I did 2 trips into town today, and it didn't look like the hand moved at all.. LOVE IT.. But I'm sure this is going to get old before long.. I do love saving a dollar.

TT,  When I tried it for the first time. I was like.. WOW! What in the world is this. I can never forget it. My head was spinning, not from taking the O.J. and Molasses, but after having what my mother call a sugar blood level crash I needed one hell of a pick me up. She gave me a teaspoon and a shot of O.J. and I found myself doing it a few days a week. I try to do it every morning with my breakfast, but it don't work like that. As long as I get it in me I'm fine, and things are moving well, if you know what I mean. Everyone is different, it want hurt to give it a try. It really works for me. Works for my mom too. I use to get these cramps in my legs during my morning walk, and with adding that into my program, it really helps cut down on the cramps in my legs. Really, I have no more cramps in my legs. A good workout breakfast and I'm am out the door.

Well, I have to give you all the weekend run down. I did 2  1/2 hours in the gym on Saturday, and it wasn't an easy thing to do. I was there with some friends of mines and my boyfriend, and he wasn't ready to leave just yet. I did weights for an hour and the treadmill for 30 mins because I went to the 30 min section, and did a spinning class for an hour and my a** hurts :( It was just going to be a one hour workout he said.. Just one hour... HA! Then here comes Sunday. We went to the hiking trails, and I was so damn beat. I just wanted to rest go to the mall and spend a little money on junk I didn't need. No! We walked for 2 hours in the hot sun, and I just wanted to give up... Then the rain hit. We was maybe 15 mins away from the car, and let me tell you all this.. He loved every bit of it. He loved it. He got a great workout in, and said to me.. We have to do this again come next sunday with the kids.. I don't think so...

Girls, it's good when your man jumps on board to lose the weight, but my mom was right. Now what am I going to bitch about with him next. I can't bitch about the weight Gain/ loss. I can't bitch about him not trying, and he is just loving it.. He danced around me last night and told me to get his body. LOL! Now he's down 13 pounds, and I am just down 2 more pounds. 154 for me girls. I have to keep on pushing. My goal weight just might change.. I have to stay strong and maintain what I get. :)

You all are doing great!  3 pounds TT.. :) Great...

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii all.

I've been slacking in posting because well...mama always says if you've got nuthin nice to say...

Been a **** week or two lifewise and while I DEFINITELY didn't fall off the gym wagon, I definitely DID eat more.  Not tons more, but like a couple hundred calories a day more, which I had hoped would be some miracle to my body---the clouds would part, the fat would fall off.  Not so much.  Still miserably stuck.  I feel like I've made exactly no progress in a month, and frankly, I can't even believe I'm still trying.  The insomnia and (let's face it) major sadness/disappointment inspired stress cannot be helping, this I know.  Additionally, I've been doing much more weights/weight machines and having to drop out some of the cardio to fit it all in, so that cannot be helping the burn.  I did exactly nothing for exercise this weekend, and I have to be honest---45 minutes of strength training and 20 of High Impact Cardio feels like not a work out to me.

Blood tests were done a week ago today and I cannot effing wait to get them back.  How bloody sad that I'm HOPING for something to be wrong, because otherwise I have no answers here.  I'm dropping back to 1200-1300 this week because I have no idea what else to do. 

Sigh.  Yeah.  I've been doing a lot of that sighing crap lately.

Dear Manta:

Please tell Australia to give me my best friend back.  She's there another 2 weeks and frankly, I kind of need her here.  Wait, selfish.  How about just telling Australia to show her one hell of a time so I can at least live vicariously through her?

Thanks!

Mollie.

Hi All!!!  I'm in!

I am 36 years old, a single mom of a 10 year old boy.  I'm 5'8.5" and weigh 199lbs.  I just cleared the 200's and boy did I do my happy dance!! 

My thirties have flown by, and I must admit, I'm kind of looking forward to my 40's.  The last six months have been hell, due to my now exboyfriend, but thats another story!!!

My highest weight was 215lbs but for the last 5 years I stayed around the 210 mark.  I had a prolasped uterus, so everytime I jumped, coughed, laughed, pretty much moved, I would pee myself!!!  lol...  In the beginning of April I had a hysterectomy and a bladder reconstruction.  As soon as I got the okay from the doctor, early June, I started going to the gym.  Now, I can't weight for my gym days!!!

I spend a lot of time walking, but I really want to start running.  Unfortunately, I am a smoker, and I know I'm not quite in the frame of mind to quit, rather get fit and lose weight first, then I will try to quit.  Hopefully my metabolism and fitness will prevent any major weight gain.  Are there any other smokers here?  How have you managed with building your stamina.  I have no issues walking or weight lifting, running...I struggle!!!

Hi Everyone. I'm Jenn, 32, sahm of two kids. My girl just turned six, and my boy will be four in september.

I just started watching what I eat and using this site almost a week ago. My best friend has been using this site since April and has lost around 25 lbs., and she is definitely my motivation!!! So, I decided to try it...and I LOVE it!!!

I'm 5'3", 142lbs., on a tiny little frame, so every pound I put on, has no where to hide.  And I'm sick of trying to hide it...time to LOSE it!!!

I never really had to worry about my weight, I was always pretty much a size 4. Don't know how much I weighed, b/c I can't own a scale. (i get obsessive) But, over the last year, my family went through some major changes. Some rather difficult ones at that. My children got through it, by having some behavior problems. And I got through it, by eating. I was depressed and upset, and eating to try to feel in control of something. And then getting more depressed, b/c I was gaining weight.

Needless to say, I am now a size 10/12, and ready to get off my a$$ and take control of my life!! I need to get myself healthy again. Oh, forgot to mention, I have heart problems to begin with, which have certainly not been good, since the weight gain. I have also been having a horrible problem with fluid pockets around my ankles. Plus my energy level, to play with my kids, has been HORRIBLE!!!

I am NOT going to do that to my kids!! They used to have an active, playful mom and they deserve to have her back!! And that is exactly what I'm going to give them!!!

So, I guess I'm here to meet some new people, that are going through similar situations. I have never been one, to join groups or seek the support or advice of others, so I figured it's time to change that too!!! So, I'd love to meet some new people. Feel free to add me. Thanks for letting me blab!!

reneeb36- I am a smoker also. As far as the running, are you really struggling, or afraid that you can't do it? I ask, only b/c I swore that I couldn't run b/c of my smoking, and sometimes getting out of breath, just running up my stairs, or trying to run around outside with the kids. And last week when I started all of these, I started walking. The first night, I did 2 miles in about 35min., and I was struggling with the hills terribly.(huffing and puffing) The second night, I did 2 miles, still briskly walking, but running every three blocks, only for one block, and surprisingly I didn't keel over...lol...   So...I am just running a little tiny bit at a time and I'm tolerating it well. Hope that helps. I think part of me, just had myself talked into the fact, that after smoking for almost 19years, and being really out of shape, that I just couldn't do it. And, I proved myself wrong!!

Thanks for listening everyone!!

Hey Jenn...too be honest I think its a bit of both.  I've tried running on a treadmill and have lasted for about 3 minutes before feeling like my lungs were on fire.  They definately give out before my body.  When do you run?  I figure if I run first thing in the morning, before I've had a cigarette I may be able to handle better...!

HI! it's great to see a 30's forum. I just turned 31 on July 2nd. I am 5'4" and 155lbs, that makes me a tight size 8- I want to be 140. I was so thin in my teens and as soon as I hit 19 I started gaining. I was once at 185lbs and went down to about this weight (155). I had a little girl almost three years ago and got up to 205lbs! (I lost 20lbs in three days so it was a lot of water) but then I made it down to 143 in about a year and a half. It has slowly crept back up to 155. That is the weight I find almost impossible to get any lower. I work out 3-5 days a week, I eat around 1800 calories or less a day and it never gets any lower. I do eat well and know a great deal about nutrition as well; shoot I don't even have soda, chips, or any snack food in the house..never have! I do retain water very easily and maybe I gain muscle fast? I don't know. I am the same size as my sister in law who is 130lbs...how can that be? I am depressed by the number and trying to get over it but I really want to get to 140lbs.

Lynn - it really sounds like things are going well for you, I am glad to hear it and don't worry, I am sure you will find SOMETHING to bitch about! 

nice to hear from you musicmydestiny, TRY to be patient with the weight loss, sometimes the scale just isn't ready to move, but if you stick to it, it will!  As for your friend being here in Oz, I bet she is having a fantastic time!  And you will have her back soon enough (if she is single, probably with some great stories about the aussies blokes! The accent can be SO SEXY!)  Have you tried looking at your measurements?  Maybe those are actually changing even if the scale isn't.  Also, maybe stop weighing yourself for a few weeks just to get your self mentally back into it.  If you are that frustrated, maybe just have a week or two of maitenance, where you actually eat close to your maitenance calories and don't try to lose.  At this point, its not like you are actually losing.  It may be just what you need to sort of "reset" yourself mentally and physcially and then go back to trying to lose. 

Welcome to the new ladies!

renee and Jenn - Because you both are smokers, you will have limited lung capacity (could be quite severe depending on how long you have been a smoker).  This means that doing any cardio is definitely going to be a bit harder for you than a non smoker.  Honestly, the best thing you can do is quit, or if you aren't ready to quit, maybe start cutting back on what you smoke to prepare yourself to quit?  Regardless, you CAN still get into shape and even run, but just like with a non smoker who is out of shape, it won't happen overnight.  It took me 9 weeks to go from not being able to run for more than a minute or so to running a 5K, and while it might take you a little longer to get to that point, you CAN do it, you just have to get out there and start.  Slow and steady, thats the way to go

monica -  you sound a bit like me, I have always weighed more than I look and am also 5'4" (32 years old).   Its VERY hard getting over the number on the scale.  This time around, while trying to lose the baby weight, I just decided I wouldn't have one.  I know APPROXIMATELY what i weigh, but not exactly, and I am much happier for it.  I also retain water quite easily, and find that drinking all day long helps that somewhat.  For me, I focus more on being in shape now than a number on the scale, but in saying that, there is no reason why you can't lose the 15 lbs and get yourself to where you want to be.  I run 5 days a week and found that for me 1500 calories was where I lost weight best at (would eat a bit more on the days I did longer runs and burned more than 400-500 cals).  Anyway, try logging EVERYTHING you eat for awhile and see where you are at calorie wise for a week.  After that, try to keep abuot a 500 calorie deficit.  Since you and I have the same stats, our maitenance if we are sedentary is ~1700/1800 calories (sucks being short).  If you add in your exercise and average it over the week, you probably shoudl be averaging about 1900/2000 a day for maitenance... so cut that by 500 (puts you at 1500/day).  Now, if you want to you can eat a little more than that on days you exercise and a little less on days you don't as long as it averages out to ~1500/day.  You should start seeing the scale move.

ok, off to work, I am late because I am typing on this site!

Hi, I want to join in too.  I'm 32yrs old 5'5 and mom to two great boys, 13 and 5.  Been on this site for about 2 months now, but started trying to lose the first part of April.  I only started out with an extra 20 to 25 pounds but I tend to carry all of it in my stomach.  I swore if one more random person asked me when the baby was due I was going to go postal.  Started off around 151 and I' m down to 136.  Did a little happy dance this morning after pulling out an old pair of capris and realizing that I can actually were them and they look good. 

Anyways been reading along and everyone in the forum sounds so great.

I hope everyone is doing well.  Heard a story from a friend how she was 103 at 5'1" from her teens until she reached 40.  Then she went up to 129.  Then after a bad breakup, emotional eating, and stress she went up another 45 pounds.  In her words, it felt like the gain was "overnight" but it's usually not. 

I think the case may be that she didn't just didn't pay attention to it until the gain was way to hard to ignore and losing just got tougher as her body went through changes.  I'm glad everyone here is making an effort now to take care of themselves.  Keep up the great work and it's great to see more and more people joining.

renee and Jenn: Manta is right.   You can run.  I didn't think I could run.  I never have been able to.  In highschool P.E. I was always so self consious.  If there was a guy within a mile of us when we were suppose to be running, they would make a comment about me giving myself a black eye.   It also made my side hurt and my legs and lungs burn to run the way they wanted me to.   I wanted to scream, I am not a runner, you people are nuts.

Then I got on here and someone mentioned the Couch to 5k plan.   I haven't followed it exactly.  It starts out with a minute of running and 90 seconds of walking alternated.   I couldn't do that.  So I cut it down to 30 seconds of running and 90 seconds of walking.  I did 45 seconds of running with 90 seconds of walking once  but then I lost my stop watch.  So now I am running for a full minute but, Im walking for 2 minutes.  It makes it easier for me.  Next week Ill go  to the running for 1 minute and walking for 90 seconds like the program says to make sure Im ready for the next phase of the program.

You can find out more info about the program here http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.s html

Hello everyone and welcome all new comers

renee and Jenn-I agree with Manta and ladykelien- you are able to run, that feeling that you have "lungs on fire" happened to me until I got in shape.  Remember your lungs and heart use muscle function, once those muscles are strengthen with exercise you will be able to run more.    It takes practice and hard work.  I would suggest creating gaols.  While you are working towards them you will become even more fit. Also since you all are smokers you could be feeling something I am not aware of so consult with your doctor before you set running goals.

 Lindsay- Girl, you worked it out this weekend with 2 1/2 hours...WOW, I could never do that having an 8month...I remember when I could... thoes were the days. And having the boyfriend workout with you is awsome.

Mollie- keep your head up! hang in there.

Ahh the days before having a baby, when I could work out pretty much whenever I felt like it and could do the constant struggle in my head for hours on end about whether or not to go, and finally decide, alright I guess I will go now.... and then go for 2 hrs or so and not feel rushed.

Now, my exercise is VERY regimented... have to get out of the house by a certain time ridiculously early in the morning (between 5 and 5:30 most mornings) so that i can hopefully complete my run before the two year old wakes up and starts screaming for mommy.  For some reason in the morning she just has a meltdown if I am not the one to come in her room when she wakes.  The worst day is Sunday which is when I do my long run (which is now up to 11 miles and takes me just under 2 hrs).  If hubby doesn't have to work and we aren't going anywhere, then I can go a little later in the morning (like 6:30 am), otherwise its 4:30 am or no long run!  I have debated getting a jogging stroller just so that I could sleep in on Sundays, but I like having the time to myself.  The other frustrating thing is that I would LOVE to train for a marathon, but I honestly don't have the time to be putting in 3-4hr training runs.

It can be done with kids.  It is just a little trickier.  I have 3 kids.   My youngest is almost 3, but I usually workout during her naptime or after they all go to bed.  Even the youngest is learning that when mom is on the treadmill, she should go color or watch Dora.  With an 8 mth old, you could always get a jogging stroller and try jogging everyday.  You already said you run, right?

Dang Manta - 11 miles!  I am so not there yet.  I can jog 3 miles and that is my current wall.  I doubt I will get further than that any time soon.

Hi, my name is Lisa, I'm brand new to the forum and to my 30's.  I'm trying to get back in shape.  Right now I'm 5'4" and 166 pounds.  My ideal weight is 122, but I haven't been that weight since high school.  Right now I'm looking at getting down to 146 by November.  My boyfriend and I have a bet going with each of us trying to lose 20 pounds by his birthday.  I'll get a trip out of it, he'll get a Wii.

I'm trying to start exercising again also.  Right now it's the summer so my schedule is a little easier to work around (I'm a teacher), but once the school year hits, it's going to be harder to work out (did I also mention I'm a drama teacher, so play rehearsals come into the picture).  Right now I'm doing some exercise DVD's that my mom had and tuning into the Fit channel and working out for about 15 minutes.  I used to be able to do 45 without being out of breath.  How times have changed.  I'm also walking my dog again, so that's helping both me and her.

manta515- its great that you can get a nice long run in...11miles that is great. You will love having the jogging stroller.  I got mine when I was pregant. I did a race this past Saturday with my little one...it was so much fun. I found it harder to run with the stoller of course...my race time was really bad as she is home with her daddy during my morning runs (training). So I want to change  my schedule so that I can run with her and train for that situation.

Do any of you other mothers feel guilty when you leave your little one to workout? I do...I work so leaving her for an hour longer really bothers me  Training for a marathon, for get about it,  and I have been wanting to train for at least a half marathon.

I would love to join! I'm 30 1/2 and really trying to keep on track with my healthy eating (I love food way too much) and lose the pesky 10 pounds I gained with summer and vacation. I am married with an 8 year boy so it is a little hard to eat completely healthy with the boys. This website has been a really big help for support and motivation.

I do need to get on an exercise plan. Other than taking the stairs at work and playing on the Wii with my son (he just got the Wii fit and it's awesome!!!!) I don't do a lot else. I do have a membership at a gym but it's finding time to go.

Anyway I'm very excited about this!

NJmattes I know this is like a month after you posted about cycling, but since I just joined today, I'm responding.  My boyfriend bought me a bike about 6 months into our relationship.  It's now been 3 years and I think 2 weeks ago was the most I'd ever ridden it the entire time.  I live in AZ and in the summer it is just torture to ride.  We visited his brother in San Francisco and brought our bikes.  It was so much nicer riding there.  His brother also got us some regular bike tires (instead of the mountain ones).  I think that will help me here in AZ when I'm just street riding.

Thanks for the tip on the underwear.  Riding in the extreme heat gave me an awful heat rash in a very uncomfortable area   I need something with more breathablity.

Hey girls, Wow! Look we have more newbies.. WELCOME!

 I really didn't mind the hard workout with him. What pissed me off is this. I don't do the gym on Saturdays unless I got a dead line goal to meet. Most times I can find myself in the gym jump starting with Sunday's program a lot early, but after my crash and I had to learn what recovery was.....I cut back on working out so hard. When my kids are gone. This is what I do. I walk for an hour, and then I come home and I clean for an hour, and then I relax for another hour, and then start to do something like workout on my total gym or sit on the ball and fold clothes. I'm finding moving time. I don't sit too long. When I re-join CC/ I had to learn 2 key things later down the road.. This site is a nice site, but it can suck you in. I love the groups and the friends.... I love them all, but Girl! I started to look at the wasted time reading and I had to learn to cut it back.. Last week I hardly got on, and the same for this week will happen too... I'm on a mission, but I have a few friends that I promised I wasn't going to leave after I reach my goal. Even a few of us said, coming on too much does take a lot of time we could be using doing something else. So now, I back full at the workouts, and I'm loving it. My man is more of the.. Let's go together type, and I'm not with it, but I can handle it 1 day a week with him, and the weekend is the only time he can go, but he has a friend that's going to join as well who will workout the same time as him. I don't know anyone at the gym but you... Chicken Shhhhhhhh ;)

I have somethings from the 70's and early 80's of my moms that I would really like to get into, and I'm going to have to move my Goal weight up to 135 sooner of later, I'm still not done yet, but I feel I have to move it. She gave me some great clothes she had taken care of and they never been out of the package that she ordered years and years ago. A dream that one day one of us would wear them, and we still haven't gotten into them yet. My mother has lost lots of weight, but now I got these things, and they have became part of my focus. Not only that. There is more of these outfits, and I love fashion, and they have such great detail and I have to wear them. Someone in the family must.  Why not me.. My cousin.. I have a few names I would like to call her and she isn't going to get them at all. NOPE! I mean it's like this. To me, a style has never went out, it's all about who is wearing the style and giving it life and justice.

I love fashions, and she don't have the DIVA in her to pull off the luck. She does have the right amount of B in her, but she don't got that DIVA. She can't pull off these looks with the big sunglasses, and big hats.. That's all me, and that's what I love.. FASHION! 

Well, I got so much to go, and I am doing so great. I just want to get something going with us girls to lose this weight. Keep it here in this tread, but really open up about weight loss. Maybe write those post treads in bold or something.. Just open up and talk like we been doing. You know..

Running is one great workout by the way. I really love weights. But running really does bring out those abs. Poor lungs can also cut down on how you burn calories too..  Running is a good start. Great way to get your body into shape all over, and a great fat dropper when you first start off...

Well ladies, I am late posting a thread. I know.. Get on early to Blah-Blah-Blah. Another date with my Boyfriend and the kids. We went to park to feed to ducks, and out to dinner at barnhills, and I had a salad, and chicken. He had everything. I didn't say a word. This is a man here. I said nothing. I just zipped it. Other than that. We are doing great.

Time for some ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ  "L:~)

Later everyone.. Take care :)

My 10 yo son, is the sweetest little boy around.  He's been questioning me, wondering how my weight loss is going and helping me find healthy foods to eat.  Last night, I got home from work late, very long day and I had planned to plop my arse down on the couch.  The sweetie or pain in the butt that he is, fine line I think, says, "Mommy, lets go for a walk, it'll give you more energy".  How can I say no.  We started walking at around 7:00pm and didn't get home until 10:00pm.   He gets in the door, goes to mapmyrun and yells out...we did 8.37 km (5.2miles)!!!  I was shocked!!  This little guy, has a muscle disease, where his muscles are too short for his bones.  So sports and most physical activities have really been out of the question for him.  We've always walked together, but I have never pushed it, cause it can get painful for him.  But lately, with the nice weather, we've been walking and swimming more.  I was so proud of him, and what does he do...he comes and gives me a big hug, and says, "Mommy, I'm so proud of you, you'll be Daisy Duke before you know it!"...lol...(I would love to have the body of Jessica Simpson in Dukes of Hazzard).  How sweet is that!!!  Just had to share my story, it has put a smile on my face for the rest of the day...however, he is currently mapping out our next walk...wants to do 10km tonight...lol!

I'd like to join. I just turned 30 in March. I have gotten kinda side-tracked from losing and I really need to get back on track. I started losing weight two years ago when I was 233 lbs. I am 5'6 and currently at 186 lbs but I have gained about 5 lbs since I got married in February and really need to take control of that right NOW! I really like this program because I can use it just about anywhere and I love all the tools. I have never joined a forum before either so this is all new for me. It is encouraging to read other people's stories. It really motivates me to kick it into gear.