Re: New member:

Posted March 25, 2012 · March 25, 2012

Welcome, !

I'm , age 45 and married in Michigan with a nearly 14 year old boy and a just about to turn 10 1/2 year old girl. Sounds like you're working hard to make some big changes, I look forward to hearing more about them and your workouts!

New member:

Hi, I was invited by Carolyn from Canada. Thanks Carolyn, I replied to your message but it was returned because my e-mail got hacked and someone is spamming with it. I do not send anything other than responses. I signed up last week but I spent some time figuring out what to do with my e-mail account. Now we are on a ski trip, and we had a wonderful weather for spring skiing but the slopes closed today because the snow melted. I got enough out of it that I am sore from neck to ankles. I live in the greater Toronto area, east of the city. I am 47 years old, mother of 7 year old twin boys. They are very active and keep me busy all the time. I work out to stay fit and healthy so I can be with them as long as possible. My problem area is my belly. My muscles got separated during pregnancy and it took years to get them to close. My muscle is strong, I think, I can do most of the abdominal exercises without blinking, but the fat pad on it won't go away. I work out every day in some form, aerobics on video, running with kids, swimming or jumping rope, I have tried Insanity, P90X. I have Rodney Yee's yoga for abs but I find it too easy, not challenging at all so I don't use it much. Insanity made me sick so I picked a lower intensity fat burning work out by Minna Lessig. It makes me sweat just fine. It is strength and cardio circuits for a half hour, with 15 minutes extra work with weights at the end. When I don't feel like doing organized exercises I jump rope while I watch tv. I plan to stop my medication that has a weight gaining side effect and hope that will help to get rid of that little fat. I would like to have a flat abdomen. Maybe it is unrealistic at my age but I will try. My other goal is to run the marathon wich will be something if I can do because I don't like running, never did even when I was in my teens and ran every day to be fit. Now my hips hurt or I get asthma attacks if I run. There must be a way for someone like me to train for a marathon. I am getting married in September to the father of my kids (we have been together for 17 years), and I want to fit into my dress without a belly that looks 4-5 months pregnant depending on the day of the month. I am cutting out dairy to reduce bloating, otherwise we are eating healthy 90% of the time. We like the occasional treat, or we have to eat what MIL cooks. On those days we either work out more or eat more salad during the day.I am going to try to stretch my sore muscles now before I go to bed. I hope to get to know you.

Posted March 27, 2012 · March 27, 2012

Welcome ! I'm Carolyn's buddy for Gilad. We are doing a Gilad workout rotation and before that we did a Kathy workout rotation. I've never had kids but I did have a huge fibroid that required a hysterectomy. By the time I had the surgery in 2007 my uterus was the size of a 5 or 6 month pregnancy! I still have a big belly but I know to lose it I need to consistently eat healthier and less. But while doing a three month rotation of Chalean Extreme I did notice that my stomach shrunk...maybe you could try that. I'm 46, will be 47 on April 16th and I want to have a flat or at least flatter stomach too!I'm in Michigan, by the way,

JenSubject: New member: To: exercisevideos Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 10:21 PM

Hi, I was invited by Carolyn from Canada. Thanks Carolyn, I replied to your message but it was returned because my e-mail got hacked and someone is spamming with it. I do not send anything other than responses. I signed up last week but I spent some time figuring out what to do with my e-mail account. Now we are on a ski trip, and we had a wonderful weather for spring skiing but the slopes closed today because the snow melted. I got enough out of it that I am sore from neck to ankles.

I live in the greater Toronto area, east of the city.

I am 47 years old, mother of 7 year old twin boys. They are very active and keep me busy all the time. I work out to stay fit and healthy so I can be with them as long as possible. My problem area is my belly. My muscles got separated during pregnancy and it took years to get them to close. My muscle is strong, I think, I can do most of the abdominal exercises without blinking, but the fat pad on it won't go away.

I work out every day in some form, aerobics on video, running with kids, swimming or jumping rope, I have tried Insanity, P90X. I have Rodney Yee's yoga for abs but I find it too easy, not challenging at all so I don't use it much. Insanity made me sick so I picked a lower intensity fat burning work out by Minna Lessig. It makes me sweat just fine. It is strength and cardio circuits for a half hour, with 15 minutes extra work with weights at the end. When I don't feel like doing organized exercises I jump rope while I watch tv.

I plan to stop my medication that has a weight gaining side effect and hope that will help to get rid of that little fat. I would like to have a flat abdomen. Maybe it is unrealistic at my age but I will try. My other goal is to run the marathon wich will be something if I can do because I don't like running, never did even when I was in my teens and ran every day to be fit. Now my hips hurt or I get asthma attacks if I run. There must be a way for someone like me to train for a marathon.

I am getting married in September to the father of my kids (we have been together for 17 years), and I want to fit into my dress without a belly that looks 4-5 months pregnant depending on the day of the month. I am cutting out dairy to reduce bloating, otherwise we are eating healthy 90% of the time. We like the occasional treat, or we have to eat what MIL cooks. On those days we either work out more or eat more salad during the day.

I am going to try to stretch my sore muscles now before I go to bed. I hope to get to know you.

Posted March 30, 2012 · March 30, 2012

Hello, ,

I'm , 42, from Wisconsin. I'm divorced with a 13-year-old son. I'm

sometimes known as the " token male " in this mostly-female Yahoo group. I have a

martial arts background, so I like to do a lot of kickboxing videos.

It's good to have you here. You'll find lots of support and encouragement.

>

> Hi, I was invited by Carolyn from Canada. Thanks Carolyn, I replied to your

message but it was returned because my e-mail got hacked and someone is spamming

with it. I do not send anything other than responses. I signed up last week but

I spent some time figuring out what to do with my e-mail account. Now we are on

a ski trip, and we had a wonderful weather for spring skiing but the slopes

closed today because the snow melted. I got enough out of it that I am sore from

neck to ankles.

> I live in the greater Toronto area, east of the city.

>

> I am 47 years old, mother of 7 year old twin boys. They are very active and

keep me busy all the time. I work out to stay fit and healthy so I can be with

them as long as possible. My problem area is my belly. My muscles got separated

during pregnancy and it took years to get them to close. My muscle is strong, I

think, I can do most of the abdominal exercises without blinking, but the fat

pad on it won't go away.

>

> I work out every day in some form, aerobics on video, running with kids,

swimming or jumping rope, I have tried Insanity, P90X. I have Rodney Yee's yoga

for abs but I find it too easy, not challenging at all so I don't use it much.

Insanity made me sick so I picked a lower intensity fat burning work out by

Minna Lessig. It makes me sweat just fine. It is strength and cardio circuits

for a half hour, with 15 minutes extra work with weights at the end. When I

don't feel like doing organized exercises I jump rope while I watch tv.

> I plan to stop my medication that has a weight gaining side effect and hope

that will help to get rid of that little fat. I would like to have a flat

abdomen. Maybe it is unrealistic at my age but I will try. My other goal is to

run the marathon wich will be something if I can do because I don't like

running, never did even when I was in my teens and ran every day to be fit. Now

my hips hurt or I get asthma attacks if I run. There must be a way for someone

like me to train for a marathon.

>

> I am getting married in September to the father of my kids (we have been

together for 17 years), and I want to fit into my dress without a belly that

looks 4-5 months pregnant depending on the day of the month. I am cutting out

dairy to reduce bloating, otherwise we are eating healthy 90% of the time. We

like the occasional treat, or we have to eat what MIL cooks. On those days we

either work out more or eat more salad during the day.

>

> I am going to try to stretch my sore muscles now before I go to bed. I hope to

get to know you.

>

Posted March 30, 2012 · March 30, 2012

hi andrea! thanks for the note and for answering my questions.

all of my daffodils came out but then got frost bitten so they

are dying already

i hope that the tulips will still bloom.

concerning your food monitoring on fitbit.com, if you dont

physically wear the tracker gadget to monitor your activity all

day long, then the website will not know your correct calorie

burn and therefore the recommendations for calorie intake will

not be right. because it doesnt know what youve been doing all

day (which sounds like ALOT), it is just recommending that you

eat enough to maintain your BMR.

you can manually log workouts/activities into the website and it

will then take those into account, but, from the sounds of it,

your busy daily activities would generate most of your calorie

burn.

if you just want to use a website to log your food and tally the

counts for cals/fat/sugar/fibre/etc, then we recommend

www.myfitnesspal.com - their food diary is excellent. but

again you would probably ignore the calorie intake

recommendations there as well, and just try to figure those out

for yourself.

this can be difficult so that is why i wear the gadget and have

the website figure it all out for me. since i started using the

fitbit ive lost 9 pounds (136lb to 127lb since around jan 22)

anyway, i am sorry to hear that your sons are having some

difficulties. i trust that the doctors will properly address

these now and the boys will be ok. often we have to be pushy

with dr's to get results, so keep on their asses!

i used to use ventolin to control my asthma but dont use it much

anymore as it is only a rescue inhaler and not a preventative.

i would get asthma from exercise, but not only that (allergies

also play a big part in mine)... hence the advair twice a day.

it changed my life and ive been taking it for many years.

however it does take time to build up to be fully effective so

one cant just take it whenever, or increase the dose, and expect

it to work immediately like the ventolin. but once it is built

up, wow!!! also unfortunately, advair is expensive :/

your asthma is like my son's. but he wanted to be more active

and had to take too much ventolin to do so, so he started taking

a preventative (the orange one, cant recall the name at the

moment) and had improvement. after a few years, we decided to

wean him off of it and see what happened, and he has been doing

great. maybe he outgrew it as he entered puberty? i do think

that hormones can play a part. however he still carries the

ventolin around just in case exercise causes symptoms. the

trampoline is sometimes a trigger for him.

your vitamin regimen souns fabulous. id like to talk to you more

about that next time (im horribly late right now and have to run!)

:*carolyn.

Posted March 30, 2012 · March 30, 2012

I log the activity too on fitbit. I am not a patient person and I wanted

to see result right away, like I used to see with one run; the weight

was off by the next day. Today is the last day of my first week of

tracking and I lost 3 lbs instead of the 1 lb I planed, and 2 " off my

waist. So I guess all that exercise is working and I can slow down. It

was hard. But I cannot maintain this for a lifestyle change. It needs to

me more manageable so I don't stress myself out when I can't exercise

for some reason like an all day driving trip or someone is sick in the

house and need me here.

I really just wanted a way to log what I eat because I had no idea how

many calories a day I used to eat. But seeing that eggs Benedict on the

list with a whopping 590 calories and 318 calories of pancake each and I

had 2 of those that same breakfast, my eyes popped out. I love bread and

I ate a high carb diet because that's what I learned in school. There is

much more to know about nutrition and exercise than what they teach in

school and drs learn even less.

I checked out fitbit last year. I wanted to get it for DH because he

needed to lose weight. His sleep apnea got worse the heavier he got. But

he was having severe pains in his feet (he has gout, heel spur, and

unstable bones and they all hurt at different reasons), several times he

was on crutches and literally cried in bed, he couldn't do any exercise

so I didn't want to be insensitive about his weight. I didn't get him

fitbit for Christmas.

Carolyn in the garden I use pots to cover the plants if I know there

will be frost. This winter was so nice and cold at all, we hardly had

any frost that I didn't have to cover most plants but the tropical ones

and those that are sensitive. Last week there was the largest solar

flair ever recorder and now it's clear why it was so warm last week. But

this week the pots are back on the plants. I put a rock on the top so

the wind can't blow it away. It helped against the rabbits too. Those

pesky animals are not even afraid anymore, just stand there and watch

when I am out.

The orange inhaler is beclovent. I have that too. That's the long acting

one. Ventolin is the fast acting. I don't carry it anymore. My allergies

were treated by a Chinese dr years ago and it never came back. Eating

better healthy foods that don't cause inflammation in the body made the

biggest impact for us. Weight falls off, pains go away, there is more

energy and better sleep. I just need a pill for more patience ;0)

> hi andrea! thanks for the note and for answering my questions.

> all of my daffodils came out but then got frost bitten so they

> are dying already

> i hope that the tulips will still bloom.

>

> concerning your food monitoring on fitbit.com, if you dont

> physically wear the tracker gadget to monitor your activity all

> day long, then the website will not know your correct calorie

> burn and therefore the recommendations for calorie intake will

> not be right. because it doesnt know what youve been doing all

> day (which sounds like ALOT), it is just recommending that you

> eat enough to maintain your BMR.

> you can manually log workouts/activities into the website and it

> will then take those into account, but, from the sounds of it,

> your busy daily activities would generate most of your calorie

> burn.

>

> if you just want to use a website to log your food and tally the

> counts for cals/fat/sugar/fibre/etc, then we recommend

> www.myfitnesspal.com - their food diary is excellent. but

> again you would probably ignore the calorie intake

> recommendations there as well, and just try to figure those out

> for yourself.

>

> this can be difficult so that is why i wear the gadget and have

> the website figure it all out for me. since i started using the

> fitbit ive lost 9 pounds (136lb to 127lb since around jan 22)

>

> anyway, i am sorry to hear that your sons are having some

> difficulties. i trust that the doctors will properly address

> these now and the boys will be ok. often we have to be pushy

> with dr's to get results, so keep on their asses!

>

> i used to use ventolin to control my asthma but dont use it much

> anymore as it is only a rescue inhaler and not a preventative.

> i would get asthma from exercise, but not only that (allergies

> also play a big part in mine)... hence the advair twice a day.

> it changed my life and ive been taking it for many years.

> however it does take time to build up to be fully effective so

> one cant just take it whenever, or increase the dose, and expect

> it to work immediately like the ventolin. but once it is built

> up, wow!!! also unfortunately, advair is expensive :/

>

> your asthma is like my son's. but he wanted to be more active

> and had to take too much ventolin to do so, so he started taking

> a preventative (the orange one, cant recall the name at the

> moment) and had improvement. after a few years, we decided to

> wean him off of it and see what happened, and he has been doing

> great. maybe he outgrew it as he entered puberty? i do think

> that hormones can play a part. however he still carries the

> ventolin around just in case exercise causes symptoms. the

> trampoline is sometimes a trigger for him.

>

> your vitamin regimen souns fabulous. id like to talk to you more

> about that next time (im horribly late right now and have to run!)

>

> :*carolyn.

>

> ------------------------------------

>

Posted March 31, 2012 · March 31, 2012

Hi ,

I am also new to the group, and am enjoying reading all the posts. It's been

so very motivating! I am a 45-yr old mom of four, and grandma of two. I have a

wonderful husband of 3 years, and we live in Michigan. My kids are ages 18, 20,

21, and 26 (the youngest two are still living at home with us). My

grandchildren are 4 years old, and 6 months old. I think your goals are very

inspiring (especially a marathon, wow! Good for you.. My favorite videos right

now are The Firm, but I love all kinds of videos, and have owned hundreds over

the last 20 years.

This morning I did Kathy 's Ultimate Sculpt. It was fun, and I followed

along better this time around (it was my second time trying it). Yesterday, I

ran on the treadmill 2.5 miles and walked 1 mile. And on Thursday, I did

Jillian's No More Trouble Zones. That workout was great, I could really feel it

afterwards! I will definitely keep that one on my regular rotation. I usually

alternate my video days with running days, for 6 days a week. I have lost about

30 pounds since last summer (which I had gained back after a 67-pound weight

loss five years ago. I think a big part of that was a side effect of a

medication I was taking, too.)

I'll look forward to your posts and hearing about your workouts. Have a

great weekend!

Ronda