05-14-11, 08:18 PM | |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: TX
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I am 37, lost over 100lbs last year and I have been working out off and on since mid last year after a 3 year hiatus and I workout about an hour per day and Saturdays sometimes longer than a hour. My main choice is kettlebells but I just got finished with Asylum. I plan on going back to kettlebells next week. The main thing that got me in shape and keeps me that way is diet and exercising consistently.
I wasn't active as a teen (only walking) so I wasn't fit but I was skinny. When I hit my mid 20s I was around 170 and at 25 I lost 50lbs bringing me down to 120....I worked out to Taebo and Margaret Richards till about 28 and then stopped and gained it all back. At 32 I started working out again because I was going to get married, so I did Taebo, then Cathe, Squeeze and got plantar fasciitis in 2006 (after only getting back into exercising for maybe a year). I stopped until last year due to the foot issues and also getting pregnant and feeling like there was no point since I was so big. I saw a picture of myself http://couchtokettlebells.blogspot.c...ed-it-all.html and decided I HAD to do something. So I lost the weight and got back into working out with a vengeance and here I am I feel great and I KNOW anyone can do it....you just gotta want it bad enough and stay focused on your goals. |
05-14-11, 09:17 PM | |
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I don't really have much to add to this thread since I started my weight loss and workout journey in my 20's, which I know is not really the same as starting after 35.
Rozy, I just came from looking at the before picture n your blog and I just wanted to say Congratulations to you...and your hubby! Wow. What a great story and you look fantastic! Enjoy your success.
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05-14-11, 10:48 PM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2002
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There are plenty of people who never exercise yet maintain their figure through diet alone. Not starvation or deprivation, just portion control. People lived that way for years before Jane Fonda "discovered" exercise in the Seventies. If you want to eat more, you have to burn off the calories. God only knows how fat I'd be now if I didn't exercise. Like Gwyneth, I love food so I exercise, but as a carboholic, it's a constant battle.
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05-14-11, 10:49 PM | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Canada
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I have always been active and exercised. I did a lot of running in my 20's. Then when I was 30 I had my first baby and ended up having 4 babies in 5 years. Last year when I was 37 I realized that my baby was now 18 months, done nursing and I had no reason to hold onto the last 15 lbs I'd been carrying around. I did a P90X rotation (as written) and lost all my weight and lots of inches (3 inches off my waist alone!). Since then I did a CLX rotation and then fell in love with barre workouts last September. Since September I've primarily been doing 4-5 days per week of barre (or TA) and usually 2 days per week of cardio (often kickboxing). Now that I've found barre workouts I have no desire to revisit P90X however it was very effective at changing my body.
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