WOMEN OVER 40 WEEKLY CHALLENGE

Ok, ladies from the women over 40's posting group, here's where we'll start. Everybody put your starting weight, how much water you drink on average per day, and how many minutes and or days per week you exercise and what that exercise is.

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Then starting Tuesday June 26, post your weight (if you weigh daily, if not just state what day you weigh yourself), how much water you drank for Monday....and your minutes of exercise. BUT>>>>> keep track of it too...b/c on Monday I want you to also post a total for the week. The daily posts will tell the rest of us how much harder we have to work to beat each other, which will help motivate us!!!

(See Anybody wanna have a Women Over 40 group post to see what this is about) Link: http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/communi ty/forums.php?topic=41313&rewind=last& ;count=18#last

WE DESERVE TO BE SKINNY!!!

Bonna

Having Blythe Danner as a mother probably didn't hurt her either! lol. Seriously though, thanks for posting that information. I never looked up the actual definition. Not sure I go for it but I shouldn't be ignorantly dismissive either.I have some good news! I broke 130 (129.6) over the weekend! I was thinking of it as a kind of glass floor so I'm really encouraged. I imagine it's back up after the weekend but at least I know it's possible!Its very apparent to me that my real challenge is that I'm going to HAVE to work on toning. I'll be skin and bones on top before my bottom doesn’t closely resemble a feedbag of marbles --I'm such a pear! I haven't been getting to the gym regularly so I need to 1) get there at least 3 times a week, and 2) find some exercises that I'll do at home. With my class for three hours, two nights a week, I just can't make it to the gym every day, I'm too exhausted! I have started doing sit-ups and leg drops morning and evening. Maybe something with hand weights? I dunno. I do know it won’t happen without effort. Shucks.Chris

32 oz  water, need more, walked 2 miles, sit-ups , crunches, feels good

Yay!

Yesterday, 1.5 liters of H2O, 3 hrs walking the dog (mistake!). 

Tomorrow the plan is for us to have a drinks with sushi party, as a way to clear the table of social obligations at least until the next year.  Plus, if I make inari sushi, I'd eat it ALL MYSELF if I didn't have to share it.  I don't need all those carbs :(

Hello To All fellow 40 and up.  On a visit to a cardiologist (just for a checkup), I was told by her to do anything I could to lose weight. Walk, Diet - at least 20 pounds.  I was hovering around 155. I am 5'4".  All my numbers are good.  All is fine.  Just LOSE WEIGHT!  Ok. Beginning in Aug I began supplementing with a seaweed cap.  Silly. I know.  But I thought, why not?  And I joined a place that prepares meals that you pick up - for 1200 calorie diets, fresh food.  What an education.  I had no idea what portion sizes were for 1200 calorie a day diets...I do now.  Well, since that "awakening" I have lost around 15 pounds, I am stuck at 140.  But I have lost 3 inches in my waist.  I am the laziest 51 year old I have ever known.   I do dust off my workout stuff;  I don't actually use it.  Shame on me.  I still take the seaweed stuff daily but have weaned myself off the prepared meals and I do watch calories.  I guess all that is left is motion.  But I just cant get motivated.  And I used to be quite the little health club enthusiast.  Is it a mental block? I have a bag full of excuses.  But getting into a routine could help in more ways than for just toning...what to do?

No excercise for me this past week ---- I think the facet joint injections make you lose weight. I ate what I wanted and lost 2 pounds.........I don't get it, but I'll take it!!

48 oz h2o, need more exercise, so much to do with holidays. Going for a short walk, then working in the garden,  off the scales this week very discouraged, what a constant struggle. I seem to take off some lbs. and then it seems to come right back faster than ever, more situps and crunches for me, I don't know if the menapause is part of this, but I won't give in. I want this  extra weight gone, can't happen soon enough 

Welcome, Brena!  I'm in the same figurative boat as you.  I think partly it's that we're not as neurotic about our weight as we might have been at one time.  Which isn't all bad.  But still, yeah.  Motivation.  Where to find that.  Shame one can't pick that up with 1200 calorie prepared meals.  What a fabulous idea that is, did they try to make the meals fuller and satisfying with low cal choices? 

This last weekend I substituted water for wine, prosecco and a vodka martoonie.  My morning walk was cut short by rain today.  However, I'm convinced that things will soon be looking up!  Need water, gasp!  Nancy

I beat my first goal of 155!!!!!! Finally!! I'm down to 154. I don't know why it is coming off so fast, but I'll take it.

By the way 154 means 20 pounds lost this year, which I am proud of, even though I need to lose more. I weighed 174 at my GYN  check up in April, I had lost a couple pounds when I joined CC in June.

Hurray Bonna!  What I wouldn't give to be 154 now.  The holidays are not looking too threatening, someone else is making the deserts, all of which have nuts in them so I can't eat them!  So that just means moderation with everything else, so much more do-able when there is no sugar involved.  I had a sour stomach last week, probably due to the end of the semester,  but I'm pretty sure I lost weight since my face looks thinner and my pants are bagging.  Plus hubby let me buy a fabulous new dress and when I tried it on for him he told me I looked HOT!  (He is great that way.)  Turn in my last paper today, 23 pages, whew!

Wow, you gals are so inspiring. I'm kinda feeling in a hole...or maybe like an ostrich, hiding my head. I haven't kept my food journal for two weeks OR stepped on the scale. Until I read this forum I hadn't even had any water today.

I went and filled my bottle. I'm going to enter my meals so far today right after this post. I've hurt my ankle so I won't be exercising but I will try very hard to keep track of things tonight. Thanks for the help!

I kept my food journal complete yesterday, right up to the oatmeal stout and popcorn snack. That put me higher than I would have liked, ~1600 cals, but I feel better about having been honest about it.

I have a full bottle of water on my desk and my purple foot propped up on a box.  Bring on the day!

Lost 2 more pounds in 2 days and I don't know why. Not that I don't want to lose, but I'm a little bit scared. Anybody every lose a bunch suddenly.......I've lost quite a bit in the last week, at least a lot for me.

Chris I did the same with cal and posting, I want the truth on my average helps to see, easier for me to control when I log. Bonna I think you should try to call now for appt with Dr. if you know who the insurance allows, it seems to take at least a few weeks to get appts with new Drs. around here. I trust you will be well soon You are a strong person and you have the love and support of a nice family.