Fit by Fifty

(my son jiggles the bottom of my arm and calls it a bat wing... not for much longer!!!) Pushed myself to row 15 minutes at the end of a hard workout.   Celebrating the little successes.  Because they WILL add up to big ones!

LK has me using a workout app called TrainerFu .  This app connects me to her, even though we are in different states.  She can put a workout into the app with descriptions and even videos so I know what she wants me to do at the gym each day.  Today I did all of the exercises she prescribed for me, INCLUDING BURPEES, WHICH I SUPER HATE!  The YWCA has a great weight room, machine room, spinning room, yoga room... but today I found the cross fit room to be totally empty, and so that's where I did my workout.  Instead of starting each round walking on the treadmill, I ran laps back and forth in the room.  (proud of me!) I'm also logging my food on an app called MyMacros+ , which she also has remote access to and can check on what I'm eating and give me tips on how to meet my protein, carb, and fat goals each day.   This is all great for me bc I need accountability, and even though LK is far away these apps allow her to be SUCH a help and encouragement!   I'

I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I am faced with two options: 1.  Keep doing what I am doing (nothing), and eating what I want to eat (everything), and accept that within 5-10 years my body is going to pretty quickly deteriorate into that of a middle aged woman in poor health. OR 2.  I can make some changes in diet and exercise and reap the benefits of being in a completely different body than I would be otherwise.   I feel like the window is open for me to make those changes now, but only now.  Only for this short window will I even have the OPTION of creating and living in a healthy body.  Within the next 5 years my body will continue aging, and in the 50's our bodies aren't known for getting better, only worse.   So, as Michael Jackson sang, "Make that change..."   Today I joined the YWCA!  My trainer LK modeled some exercises for me while we were in Vegas last weekend.  She would show me what she wanted me to do, and I would try

I’m Gayla.  I’m almost 49 and right now my life is so awesome.  I have 3 incredible kids, I have a great co-parenting relationship with my ex, I have wonderful friends, I have a job that is perfect for me and more amazing than I ever dreamed.  I am the happiest I have been since I was in my 20’s!  There’s just one major difference… in my 20’s I was fit.  And now… not so much.   I WANT TO BE STRONG AND HEALTHY.   I don’t need to be a size 6, I just want to have muscle tone in my legs, less belly fat, and thighs that fit into my existing clothes.   So far I’ve had no major health concerns, but the common wisdom would say, “it’s only a matter of time.”  Age happens.  And it’s not pretty.  Literally.  My aging body is not the pretty body of my youth.  But oddly enough, I love my body now more than I did then.  I took it for granted.  Now, I appreciate it.  I want to take care of it.   Here’s my major problem:  I struggle with discipline.  I have a personality that needs ev