WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY2015
barbiecat
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The first day of a new month is a clean slate....turning the page on the calendar tells me that I can make a fresh start with new plans and new goals. Thus we start this thread anew each month.
Reflect on how you did with your goals and resolutions for June and then set them aside and move on.
What goals and resolutions do you have for July? It's a bright shiny new month and a chance to make a fresh start.
June Resolutions (with end of the month comments)
*walk at least 15,000 steps a day (every day and some days many more)
*strength training twice a week (once a week)
*don't take things personally (a necessary and useful outlook many times during the month)
* figure out a good meatless low sodium stew recipe (created an easy one that I'll use again)
July Resolutions
*walk at least 15,000 steps a day
* drink at least nine glasses of water a day
*answer two long overdue e mails
*strength training twice a week
Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 
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i am here :0)!!!!0
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Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Thanks Barbie, for always getting us going on the new month. I hope it's a great one for everyone, in every way.
DJ
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terri - great choice at McDonalds
pip - how I wish we had a stairlimber! Is yours one of those moving steps? We used to have one, it broke and they won't replace it ("we can't afford it")
Pat - so happy for your hubby
pip - no, I wouldn't think biking would get boring. There is always so much amazing scenery. But the daily other stuff? Sometimes I get bored with doing it over and over. But I do it just the same
Posting to get on the new thread.
Michele in NC
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In for July! Extremely busy couple days. Will be more sociable tomorrow, need major sleep.
Yanniejannie
Mid Atlantic0 -
I'm in for July and off to bed...
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I'm here and July will be really just keeping on with June goals, I have been at it now 3 1/2 weeks and lost 8 lbs. Unfortunately I feel like I need to kick it up a notch and not sure where to go with that. More moving would be the answer and I'm not sure how to get that in. Absolutely thrilled that I found this group. Such inspiration and encouragement. Exactly where I need to be
Does anyone have any personal experience with the "waterproof" Fit Bit?
July Goals:
lose 2 lbs per week
go to water aerobics at least 3 x a week
keep carbs low and protein high0 -
I am in for July
July resolutions:
Train 6 days a week, choose DVDs wisely
Walk dog every afternoon
Drive and dog walk Sundays
Eat healthy food
MORE juicing
Log every day for food
Keep up logging to Tom every day and do weight/tape/BF% every week and post to Tom
I slept REALLY poorly last night. Kept thinking about 1st husband LET IT GO girl his 3rd wife can keep him and he is SICK and fat Hey I am healthy and FIT
Cleaned house, ironed dry clothes, washed woolens, prepped JO beef pie to cook tonight
OK will sleep MUCH better tonight
Lesley in Tasmania0 -
I'm in it for July! Just love having all you wonderful ladies to share this journey.
July Goals
*6000+ steps per day
*meet protein macro goal each day
*strength train/yoga/stretching 3x per week
Here's to a successful July!
Cheri0 -
Carol - I am so glad to hear from you! Yeah that pain ball can be great for keeping the pain at bay. Sending prayers for a quick recovery!
Sylvia- I hope that everything goes well with the insurance claim. Take care of yourself with the stomach issues.
Allison- I'm glad you enjoyed your birthday and spice cake! That is my favorite. It is nice to get treated special and you deserve it!
Carey- welcome home!
Becca - then you're going to really hate my calorie burn for 45 minutes of swimming is 350. It goes by weight and speed. I googled it and found a site that calculated it for me.
Michele- where we live we have to bring our recycling into the recycling center. Very nice. We also buy a red garbage bag for $5 at the grocery store, it holds about 2-3 normal size kitchen garage bags and you put that out at the end of the drive way on Fridays. We only have it picked up every other week. So $10 a month. Question, who is Bryan?
Thanks Barbie for setting up the thread.
Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
I feel that I was successful with my
June goals :
Make healthier food choices
Stronglift 5x5, 3 times / week
Move more sit less
Drink 8 glasses of water
Decrease cardio to 0 - 45 minutes on stronglift days
Decrease cardio to 0 - 60 minutes on non-stronglift days
Coconut oil pulling 4-7 days /week
Do not obsess over food
Word - prioritize
Quote - I - Know - I - Can
I am keeping them for July except I can eliminate the decreasing of cardio because I was successful with that and it is now a habit.
July goals
Make healthier food choices
Stronglift 5x5, 3 times / week
Move more sit less
Drink 8 glasses of water
Coconut oil pulling 4-7 days /week
Do not obsess over food
Word - prioritize
Quote - I - Know - I - Can
Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota
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In For July: Will do some type of exercise at least 6 days a week, every week. Increase water intake by 2 glasses or 16 oz.......and we are off.....yaaaaaaaaaaaa.-1
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It was a wonderful June. My goal was not to gain during my vacation, and even to lose. And I did lose 3. Capped June off with my 64th birthday. Thank you so much for all the well wishes. That was heart warming.
Tomorrow is Canada Day here, so it's a statutory holiday. Kids and grandkids are coming over for brunch. Then it is back to work on Thursday.
Have a great start to July, my friends.
Renny
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Hello I am Gayle from Idaho and new just this week to this thread. I am will be making my first monthly goals. I enjoy reading all about your lives or struggles. It is so hot here and we need it to cooler so I can workout and start to walk.
so my goals for July
1. workout 30 mins day.
2. drink 8 glasses of water per day.
3. improve my food recording.
4. Keep under my fat food budget.
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Happy birthday to Allison and Renny.
Sharon, so sorry about the severe gastritis. My husband has severe ulcerative colitis, it's no picninc in the park. It's downright miserable
Allsion, remember that God is still in the miracle business. The nurse friend that you talked to, is she current on her facts. When some one asks me a question about anything I tell them that I quit in 1999. Medicine is like electronic with all it's changes and rules. I think your husband is a bit like mine. I think Tom really loves you but has some inadequicies that he may not even know about so therefore lashed out at you when it is actually him that he mad at. Vicki has a point. Does your husband really know what he is saying to you. Use that brand new iPad and record him one time. I have recorded my husbands Parkinson's tremors many times without hi knowing it. Then paly it back to him when he has calmed down. I assume just knowing you recorded him will make him mad again so I would immediately delete it in his presence.
Mary Minnesota, if you rented from the people who are selling the house you are buying, would that mean that you are paying two mortgages and a rent?
Lisa, very smart of you to start 'paying monthly mortgage payments' right now to prepare yourself for when you do have one. Plus it will pick up some interest. Good job in your first 90 days.
Pip, that is how my oldest daughter describes her old boyfriends. She thanks God for all of them, whether they were good or bad because every relationship molded her to be the person she was when she met her husband. She also says that she thanks God that she got the good from both her parents while seeing what the bad was. Of course then the youngest daughter says she got the worst in us. I think both of them are right to a degree. Both girls are very sensitive, would give the shirt off their back to help some one and are just very sweet women. I wish the youngest one would have children, she would make a fantastic Mom. But she says no, She is 35 now, no prospects, not looking and quite satisfied with her life. Her dogs and her children and she is one fierce Mom when it comes to them. I don't know what my life would be like without either one of them. They both play a very different but equally important role in my life. My husband is insecure enough if younger one doesn't come one day of the weekend he is upset. But she has a casual boyfriend that also works full time evenings and has family to see, she has her dogs that she takes to the dog park both days on the weekend. She has 3 big dogs in a postage stamp sized yard.
Yvonne, I have to wait until the new movie comes out. I will watch the old one right before I go see the new one. When the new Jurassic Park movie came out I watched the previous 3 every day for 3 days then saw the new one. My forgeter does a good job in forgetting things!
Terri, Milwaukee, any career that requires you to see red or green is out when you are color blind. Dad got around how to see the stop lights just by knowing red was at the top. What really confused him were the rare ones that were horizontal instead of vertical. You had a romantic date at a bowling tournament?????
Danna, my oldest daughter was a Nanny also. She eventually took care of kids n three different families. I think a Nanny is a completely different job than a babysitter, there is more of an emotional commitment. You do housework, run errands, etc. She really enjoyed each one of the kids she took care of.
Carol, I don't know if any of your Mom's costume jewelry is treasured by you or not but 2 years ago at Christmas my sister took Mom's costume jewelry, took all the little pieces apart and glued them onto an ornament.With the talent she had putting a ribbon on it and how to arrange the different pieces, it was a work of art. I found another box of Mom's things, put some of my own things in it and did the same thing this last Christmas for my girls. My youngest daughter doesn't put up a tree and the oldest daughter has a small tree that wouldn't hold the weight of the ornament so I made them to be put on a napkin ring as a base. So it can be put on a dresser, shelf, etc and be used year round.
Carol, NC, thanks for checking in. Doctors sure do have a lot of new hi tech gear now than when I was working. A pain bal and a built in cooler!!!
Sylvia, NO, not your colon again. Take care
I tried something new tonight. I ma trying tho watch my carbs a little closer. My bedtime snack of which I go to bed about 4 hours later, is yogurt, pineapple tidbits and some kind of crunchy granola. Well the kind of granola I use is not being stocked anymore and I can't find a substitute that I like. So I took my yogurt and pineapple and put it in my tiny Ninja. It was good. The crushed pineapple gave the yogurt the texture I need to make it taste good. It wasn't as much texture but enough that maybe I can drop off the granola. I think I will buy some strawberries or blueberries and try them. The yogurt is thin though. I may have to break down and try the Greek yogurt again. Have any of you watched the show on A&E called storage wars? They take storage units that have been abandoned and auction them off. They find some pretty weird things in those storage units.
I took my sister shopping today for something for trinities birthday. First we went to Walmart to get a cake ordered. I can just hear some of you say 'order a cake from Walmart?'. Yes, I order a cake. I was going to have them decorate it with some kind of musical theme but they don't have one. My sister used to make cakes so she is going to try her hand at making a musical staff with the treble cleff sign. She has grandiose ideas of when writing happy birthday on it to put each letter of Happy birthday on the correct place on the staff. For those of you who read music, you will know what I mean. It's free and it will make her fell real good in contributing something. She would like to spend more than the $10 that is actually the top limit of her husbands budget. I bought all the stuff to do it today so all she has to do is decorate. Then we went to plato's closet. I think that is an consignment shop that is all around the states for teens and young adults to take their gently used clothes and get money from them. Anyway she found 2 necklaces for $4 a piece. Christina says that Trinity has the same kind of style in jewelry that I do so I just picked a more youthful style of what I would wear. I don't know what my other daughter Michelle has for her. So our afternoon of shopping got done in about 90 minutes. She doesn't tolerate a lot of shopping unless she gets her motorized scooter out so we left it at that. Still, had a lot of sister talk.
Charlie just came racing up the stairs up the stairs again, didn't make it to the bathroom in time. His experiment of stopping his ulcerative colitis medicine is failing. He thinks it is causing him to have diarrhea, it is listed as a side effect. Will be glad when we have his appointment on Thursday and might get some treatment going. Tomorrow I get my hair cut, same style I have had for umpteen million years. My girls call it the Baptist choir lady hair style!!!
Love you, nite, nite, Joyce, Indiana0 -
Marking my spot for July...0
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New Month New weigh in and goals day.
Started monitoring my food June 1st, Started cutting back on food 8th June. Had 12 days in June over my 1300 limit (2lb per week weight loss planned) including the first week I wasnt losing weight. Lost 8lb in June. I am well chuffed with that
July Goals
- Lose 2lb per week and be at least 10lb lighter at the end of July
- Plan a weekly food plans including shopping lists
- Exercise 3 x 1hr a week
- Drink more water
Motto for July : Keep going, you got this.
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Hello July
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Barbie, thank you for the new thread and clean slate!
Michele: “extremeplump”, lol!!! (See, I do read your posts!)
Carol: so glad to hear from you.
Vicki: with you on the heat.
Margaret: sorry about your brother. My brother and I did not speak for years because I refused to take his attitude and verbal abuse. I even had an email filter for him. He then got divorced; his ex-wife screwed him over, and he’s had a lot of growing up to do. We’re OK now, but still a bit...careful.
Annr: lol on the bugs!
Sharon: thank you for the coffee and meadow lark remark. Made me feel peaceful.
Hot day today, about 90 F (31 C); don't like it. And I have to have a dress fitting this evening, which will probably go something like IT LOOKS FINE, NOW GET IT OFF BEFORE I FAINT!!!
Cynthia :flowerforyou:
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I am here. Will put my goals in later.0
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Morning sweet friends~
well this is how it went down before I went to sleep last night,
said to DH how did your dad treat your mom? he thought for a minute and then he said am I getting yelled at? I said do you hear me yelling? then I nailed him by saying just asking because of all the hurtful nasty things you have said to me lately, then I rolled over and went to sleep without another word
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. he has alot to think about now...
my son called and wished me a Happy Birthday and I think Tracy called but I was asleep already...
going to mow the lawn this morning if it isnt raining, if so then Tom gets to do it while I am away..maybe the time away from him will give him time to think before he opens mouth inserts foot...
goals for July..
Get back on track, find some form of exercise that I can get back into , and look into a low phosphorus diet..0 -
Hello July!
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My goals for June were:
- Weigh my food and register my calories as consistently as possible
- Jog a total of 80 miles (three marathons)
- Play with the grandchildren when they visit
Complete success with goal 3! Fair success with goal 1. Goal 2 was a total washout, partly because of goal 3
July presents some tough challenges where weight loss is concerned. We'll be going to New Hampshire to visit family so all my routines will go overboard. It will be hectic, 6-12 people (albeit very nice people!) ranging in age from 3 to 90, all in one house. Sometimes I'll be in charge of cooking, and sometimes not. When my brother-in-law cooks it's a sore trial not overeating, because he's a wizard in the kitchen. My father likes to offer everyone a G&T on the porch before dinner and wine with dinner. And dessert. (I have no trouble refraining from the ice cream they sell in Norway, but put some Breyers mint chocolate chip in front of me and all is lost.) On the positive side, I'm usually pretty good about running at daybreak when we're there.
Against that backdrop, my goals for July will be slightly less ambitious. I doubt I can lose any weight. If I manage to stay at the same weight, I'll be happy. To do that, I will:- Maintain my pound-a-day veggie habit
- Weigh and log food when I am cooking
- Exercise restraint when T is cooking
- Choose G&T or wine, not both, on any given day
- Exercise in some form every day
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Happy July!!!! :flowerforyou:
Thanks Barbie
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Good morning. Forgot to thank Barbie for the new thread last night........so.......Thank You, you are the best!
Bad night, awake a lot, lots of anxiety and sadness, an elderly friend is having her horse put down today. I saw him Monday, took some pictures of her with him and said good bye to him. Most people on here know that I'm not really a horse person, just through my DD, but this guy was truly something.......even I would get close to him out of his stall. Won many events in his day and just plain sweet.
Learned that Gin's widower had a fall and the family has him in a rehab place about an hour away. Wonder if he'll be back, such a nice man (who loves my ham and bean soup!). He was looking at retirement places near here, sure he doesn't want to be way out there.
Still doing errands and driving Goldy around; her son is not here, it was her DH I spoke with on the phone that I thought was her son come to help.........and her DH is pretty useless.
I got weighed toward the end of May; as of this am, I'm down 5 1/2 lbs. Decent, but I know it's the same 5 I lost and regained since Jan. Would still like to get another 15 off; difficult with vacation looming.
Carol........Great to see you!!! Wishes for quick complete healing and less pain.
So many stories, so many strong women who survived horrific lives and experiences. Kudos to you all!!!!! I did not have abuse in my home growing up but lived in what was called a "double" and my uncle verbally abused and beat my aunt and the walls were thin. I think it prepared me for what I would and wouldn't put up with. I married at 30 but had an engagement and several serious relationships who lasted varying amounts of time (up to four and a half yrs.) in my twenties and walked away from them. I guess the red flags were subconscious, but they must have been there. On the other hand, I knew my DH all of five months when we married in 1981. He's far from perfect but never ever verbally or physically abusive. The worst I can accuse him of is being antisocial and I think I do enough of that for two anyway.
One thing I've noticed with my own friends and on here..........not ONE woman who has left an abusive situation has ever said they were sorry they left..........only that they were sorry that they stayed so long. My friend who is getting divorced after 45yrs. is soooo worried about finances as he struts around saying she's getting nothing (and they are worth a lot). I tell her she's been listening to him for way too long........what she gets is not up to him, it's up to the courts.
Congrats to everyone who had a loss last month and belated Happy Birthdays to Renny and Alison. Off to water; rain all around us last night on radar and nary a drop here.
yanniejannie
mid-Atlantic
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Cynthia: I love your picture. Every time I look at it I have to rethink that it is part of a face. LOL
Penny: Sounds like your will be having fun with family in July. Just try not to overdo the food and not gain but don't worry about losing.
Joyce: Sounds like you are making it very special for your granddaughter's birthday. I know it will be a happy one.
Barbie: We are living in my in laws house and it's been 20 years. We were able to send a lot of the aunt's furniture and some antique pieces to auction. My DH had to divide the proceeds with his brother. Actually sold a piece to Sotheby's auction house. Most of the clutter is in a bonus room upstairs and in the basement. But, the clutter keeps growing as DH hunts for more merchandise each month.
Joyce: My mom's jewelry is more on the modern side. There are very few rhinestone pieces that would look lovely on a decoration. Someone I know took her MnL's jewels and decorated the top of a jewelry box with them.
Carol in GA0 -
Happy July to all!
Thank you once again Barbie!
I was awake from 1am until 5 am last night and then woke up at 6. 40.
I am so tired I feel nauseous. I did do my exercises AND 900 words this morning, but the thought of going to pick up my blood pressure prescription in this heat is too much for me. One day without won't kill me I hope. :ohwell: I will try for a nap in a minute. My hip is uncomfortable in the night, but I know it's the rental sale that is getting to me! FORMS! FORMS! FORMS! I hate forms. Got to send them this and that! I'm not keen on sending my driver's license through the post. :sad: Maybe everything will look better when I've had more than 3 and a half hours sleep! Will get DH to hold my hand as I steer through the pile.
Still haven't heard if the holiday bank transfer has got through. :sad: Another worry in the night.
My June goals were:
Sort out my pile of papers. DONE, but now I've got way more!
Find 2 new areas of publicity for WINDOWS. Not done, but sold a few to friends.
DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD. Getting better.
Get on with my writing most days. DONE.
Find floppy disk with old novel on and get it converted. FOUND and bought a drive which I haven't tested yet.
July is going to be:
DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
Get to grips with admin for the rental sale.
Lose my safety pound again.
Sooooooo tired, can't be more creative. :ohwell:
Love to all. Heather UK
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I am here but have still got a lot of reading to do from last month. I am sure I will catch up soon.
Happy July everyone.
Gillian, Suffolk UK
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Joyce in IN wrote - "Carol, I don't know if any of your Mom's costume jewelry is treasured by you or not but 2 years ago at Christmas my sister took Mom's costume jewelry, took all the little pieces apart and glued them onto an ornament.With the talent she had putting a ribbon on it and how to arrange the different pieces, it was a work of art. I found another box of Mom's things, put some of my own things in it and did the same thing this last Christmas for my girls. My youngest daughter doesn't put up a tree and the oldest daughter has a small tree that wouldn't hold the weight of the ornament so I made them to be put on a napkin ring as a base. So it can be put on a dresser, shelf, etc and be used year round."
Great idea. A year ago at Christmas I used costume jewelry and using hot glue gun made a Christmas tree shape on 8x12 fabric, framed them and gave to sisters, nieces, great- nieces and a couple dear friends. I made about 24 of them. The ornaments are a great idea.
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Pip, wow, thinking of you riding your bike from where you live and getting to Deception Pass in time for lunch has me in awe...I am awed by your bike riding anyway. Toward the end of my mother's life she expressed sadness for me that I had no siblings to share her care,etc. I thought it was great. I had Jake to help me and no siblings to disagree with what I did or to give me directions or after she died to haggle over her possessions. From where I am sitting I can see two wonderful items that were my grandparents' and one that was my parents' and I love them. They are among the few things that remain after many occasions of sorting and discarding. As the days are beginning to get shorter here, I am cheered by knowing that the days are getting longer for Lesley in Tasmania. Barbie from beautiful and warm NW Washington 0
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Hello Everyone!
I just found this site and am so excited to be a part of it. I have been in a yo-yo cycle for quite a few months and am ready to get down to the business of getting healthier.
July Goals:
7000 steps daily
Move this body daily for at least 30 minutes of exercise
Go through clothes for Goodwill
Log food daily
Happy July!! Jean in Georgia 0
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