A Woman Over 40 Will Get Her Beach-Worthy Body

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Allison Kodama

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Hi Weight Loss Fitness Community!

I am so glad to be here. I look forward to hearing about everyone's weight loss progress as it happens. Weight loss is such an individual sport, so it's nice to make it a TEAM SPORT here in this forum.

As you can probably tell from my headline, I'm a woman over 40 working towards my beach-worthy bod -- doing what it takes and actually having fun with it. Never thought I'd feel that way, but well...

I've gotten myself on a self-inflicted 30-day challenge. Today is Day 8.

My current choice of fat-burning activity is running the bleachers at a local stadium and a weight-bearing full-body workout at the gym using the circuit machines.

I’ve been sitting on this goal for years and eight days ago, I finally decided that it’s time.

Tugging at my shorts that are too tight, dealing with my belly flab, and seeing the flab on my upper arm wag have disturbed me long enough. Can you relate?

I’ve been meaning to take care of this for years. I knew I could do it if I would just set my mind to get it done but, that just never seemed to happen.

About 20 years ago, I managed to lose weight. I went from a size 9 down to a size 4 through regular, kinda rigorous exercise. But who has time for that these days. Back then, I was single with no kids, and no real responsibilities, just a full-time cool job at a hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii. Life was a lot different.

I’ve got three beautiful, awesome, amazing kids at 40-something whom I love to death! And I have my home business. Yes, I’m a crazy entrepreneur juggling work and family just to be different and to live a good life that inspires me, motivates me and that I’m proud of.

This leaves little time for that workout schedule of leisure I had in my twenties, 20 years ago. Yikes! Yes, 25 years ago! And, I’ve found that weight loss at this age is a lot different. Over the past year, I’ve managed to squeeze in a 30-45 minute working, 3-5 times a week between the kids and my business but was so disappointed with the results. I never spent the time to figure out how to improve my results because I didn’t have any spare time. I barely fit that workout in my days. But, thankfully, I’ve slowed things down to figure out some things that have resulted in cool results that I’m so happy with. So I continue to move forward with my new plan that’s working! Yea, I want to be more healthy, but REALLY...I want to SEE RESULTS! How about you?

One of the biggest things for me has been being consistent and sticking with the program. Can you relate?

I’ve started and stopped so many times. It’s ridiculous. This time, I’ve gotten some things in place that are keeping me on track. All of a sudden, BING! I’m getting it done. It’s shocking!

Please join me on this weight loss journey - a journey of a middle-aged women who feels like she’s in her twenties, and sure acts like it. I really need to learn how to act my age, I swear. LOL!

Well be seeing you,
Al
 
Welcome Allison! Great that you are ready to start working on your goals! I can relate with the challenge of sticking to your plan. I agree that it is hard, but I tend to think that that is not a bad thing. I see it as a great way to develop my character, to learn to develop physical and mental discipline. I have seen that what I learn while improving my health helps other areas of my life as well, because I learn to delay gratification and choose to do the hard work of working towards my goals, which is less rewarding at first, but leaves me feeling more fulfilled at the end of every day and it leads to great rewards on the long term.

So, I trust the process and I have confidence that I have what it takes to stick with it. Even if I deviate from my plan, I try not to attack myself for falling down, but I see this as an exercise to pick myself up again and to get on track again and I reflect on what happened, so that I can avoid making the same mistake another time. In this way, even my mistakes help me become more successful. I am not fragile (giving up when there is difficulty), and I am also not trying to be sturdy (giving up only when there is a lot of difficulty), I want to be anti-fragile: becoming stronger when there is difficulty.

I hope that was interesting :p. Good luck on your journey, keep me posted!
 
IAmGoingToTri said:
Welcome Allison! Great that you are ready to start working on your goals! I can relate with the challenge of sticking to your plan. I agree that it is hard, but I tend to think that that is not a bad thing. I see it as a great way to develop my character, to learn to develop physical and mental discipline. I have seen that what I learn while improving my health helps other areas of my life as well, because I learn to delay gratification and choose to do the hard work of working towards my goals, which is less rewarding at first, but leaves me feeling more fulfilled at the end of every day and it leads to great rewards on the long term.

So, I trust the process and I have confidence that I have what it takes to stick with it. Even if I deviate from my plan, I try not to attack myself for falling down, but I see this as an exercise to pick myself up again and to get on track again and I reflect on what happened, so that I can avoid making the same mistake another time. In this way, even my mistakes help me become more successful. I am not fragile (giving up when there is difficulty), and I am also not trying to be sturdy (giving up only when there is a lot of difficulty), I want to be anti-fragile: becoming stronger when there is difficulty.

I hope that was interesting :p. Good luck on your journey, keep me posted!
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Hey Try, I'm having fun with this weight loss thing. Got my 30-day challenge going that I post on my Facebook profile every morning to document my workout. It's F-U-N :) Keep on keeping on with your workouts! Wanna hear more about your progress.
 
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