WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016
Options
Replies
-
Happy New Year everyone!
My goals for January:
1. Get to bed earlier.
2. Drink more water.
3. Get my steps in.
4. Continue to log and work toward my weekly goal.
5. Read my scripture before bed.
Have a great Monday everyone!0 -
I love this!!! Thanks for sharing!!0
-
Sorry, ladies; but, the de-clutterer is locked in my closet and can't go anywhere until she is finished here.
I did, however; unsubscribed to "FlyLady" ... I got 15 emails today; and at least that number for the past 2 days. I don't need all that junk to look through only to find that it is a 'sales pitch'. I think I can see areas in my house that need to be de-cluttered all on my own and I know it means, keep it, throw it out, or donate it. I've cleaned this houses top-to-bottom before in 2 days; I think a week will suit me fine to get through all this mess (other than the filing cabinet drawers).
I just need to start at one corner and work towards the opposite one. I've done this before; I can do it again! I just need to get out of the "I'll think that tomorrow" - Scarlett O'Hara thinking mode.
Becca, my former SnL and her present husband were stationed in Japan for about 4 years. They loved it! I think when she and my BnL were married she enjoyed being stationed in Guam. It was Minot that she left him twice because of a newborn and a really active almost 2-year-old and came home because the snow was drifted up to the eaves of the houses; and, they had to wait for someone to come 'dig' them out. Both times they were there. All the other times my BnL was stationed elsewhere was 4 tours to Vietnam. He's not the same. Sleeps with a loaded gun within reach of his bed. Sorry; but, that is the main reason I told him he'd have to MOVE out of our house. He put the damn loaded gun in my child's drawers under his clothes (to hide it). When I found it I told him that he needed to unload it and put it up in the closet ... at that time we had never had a loaded gun in our house. We have one now; but, not in the drawer or by the bed. I was HOPPIN' MAD; DH tried to calm me down, but that wasn't going to happen ... since DBnL wasn't going to unload it. I think he stayed in a motel for several days before finding a suitable apartment. While my sons knew NOT to touch it; their friends might not have know.0 -
I just turned 50 today and decided on the 1st that I had had enough. I have been through many levels of fitness and weight and even ran a 15k 2 years ago. But my weight is starting to really affect my health and my life. I am beginning this year with the following goals:
Walk 4-6 miles everyday.
Log every meal.
Drink more water.
I am looking forward to this year and the support for this group.0 -
DJ - a "hob" is the top part of a cooker, where the saucepans cook. And I thought I was being so clever writing "trash" instead of "rubbish". :laugh: My DH is lovely, as I'm sure you all know, :laugh: , and I am blessed, but I still say that the two hours a week that I have a cleaner/housekeeper is a "marriage saver". I think I would rsther not eat or heat the house than not have her. The resentment she saves me!!!
The thing I am most proud of over the last three dsys has been sticking to my commitment about the alcohol.
The llast three nights I have had the one drink (2 units) I committed to. No "seconds", no pouring an extra large one. 
Tonight is our "alcohol free" night. Our consumption had really crept up with our holidsy in France and the season. Really glad to have got a grip back and feel so much better, mentally and physically.
I am typing this in the middle of the night. Awake again.
Rheumatic aches and a lively mind. :laugh:
Not a problem in the grest scheme of things.
Sylvia - the FLW house sounds great. I loved the room of his that was in the Met. Well, all the American section was beyond fabulous. Today on our "Antiques Roadshow" on TV they had a divine Tiffany enamel lidded pot. Drool!
I haven't been out of the house, apart from harvesting broccoli, for three days! It has been pouring! Our patio was underwater. The lane was a river. Couldn't even get to the post box.
Got to ring the doc tomorrow to organise a pneumonia jab. Feb 6th they are having a clinic. DH had a bad reaction to it, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Love Heather UK0 -
For some reason I fell asleep for three hours this afternoon! Argh. I had so much to do too. I wanted to get down the lights from outside before we get another cold snap. Oh well. Everything in its time. I will feel so much better once my doctor gets my meds balances. These mood swings are horrible. I get weepy for no reason and I am not normally that way. I'm just hoping for a bright, shiny, better new year. The last one was pretty meh.
0 -
Hi gals,
Heather – I would love to make you tea towels!!! We could do this online~
Downton Abbey season 6 starts in 35 minutes I am sitting on the couch with tea, and can’t wait for it to start.
To all the new ladies; welcome!!! Stick with the support, the logging and with time the weight will come off. It may not be quick – but of course we did not become overweight will just one meal.
Smiles Kim
Kim from N. California
0 -
Terri- wow! What a tough game!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
KatherynTaylor: Your first name is almost the same as mine but I don't have an "e". I am not currently riding English but have in the past. Western riders sometimes post, too, but I avoid it when I can because I gave myself bursitis in my left knee posting and lifting my hefty self out of the saddle repeatedly for an hour. That was what gave me the determination it takes to change my eating habits to lose weight. I had no idea what to do so I googled it and found MFP & eventually his wonderful group of women. I do have my stirrups adjusted on the long side. :flowerforyou:
Becca: Your remark about Tom McCall brought back many memories. He is one of the best Governors ever, IMHO.
Terealsip: I don't think it is harder to lose weight because of age. It is hard for anyone with a busy, stressful life. When I found the determination to change I looked for support & had the good luck to find MFP. I started logging my food and visiting the forums. I stumbled into this group and it was the best thing that could have happened. I started here at 62 & I'm 66 now.
We have snow! That is the good news. I took the dog for a walk, slipped on ice hidden under the snow & broke my right wrist. That is the bad news. DH took me to urgent care where I got x-rays & a temporary cast. I need to go to an orthopedist tomorrow for a real cast. I'm aware of my aching wrist but it isn't horrible at this point. I hope it doesn't interfere with riding. I should be able to ride with a cast, shouldn't I? I will definitely ask the doctor and consider what he has to say. :devil:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
January Goals :
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back strength.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
0 -
Katla- I'm so sorry to hear that you broke your wrist. I hope it heals quickly. Ice under the snow can be very dangerous. (((Hugs)))
Heather - it's too bad that you can't sleep. At least a lot of us in the US are still up for a chat! I am in total agreement about having someone come into clean once DH retires I will too.
Mary from Minnesota0 -
OK, I think I am now up to speed on all the posts for the month! 10 pages already!!!! And my other Joyce is back!!! Yeah!!!! now i will have to remember to post where I am from.
We have dear friends that she is totally hearing but born to deaf parents. She is a foreign missionary along with her husband and in many countries that they have gone to the deaf are part of the trow away, ignored culture. So this couple brings such a light to them. She is a totally natural signer and her husband has learned it well from her.
So Pip, that is not Kirby's natural hair color? I would never have known. He totally rocks it. Glad he could pay it forward to some one and hook up a bike for a friend.
One thing that happened this weekend that was so cute. My grandchildren have been brought up totally different than the little ones here today. Well Saturday the oldest of the little ones, she is 4, wanted to play with Ellie exclusively. Well Ellie didn't want to, she was having fun with all the kids. So the 4 year old told her she was bad and she would never play with her again. Ellie at her wise 9 year old self tried to reason with the little girl but it didn't work. So she came and told Christina, my daughter. So Christina went over to the little girl Mara and talked to her about it. It didn't stop, Ellie was crying and finally Christina finally asked Mara if she wanted to listen to her or should she, Christina, go tell her Grandma. Well that stopped that immediately. She didn't want Grandma's wrath which is so bad that a child has to fear a grandma's wrath. So the two girls had to hug and cry some more, then hug and cry some more and Ellie wanted to eat with Mara instead of her own parents. But they were so sweet, the drama on those girls faces and how they settled it mostly themselves after a parent became involved and gave a little push.
You were talking about having to kennel a dog. When we first had our sheltie, she was a normal puppy that does what normal puppies do best. They like to chew and tear things up. We had always thought a kennel would be cruel. We would never do that to 'our' dog. But one day when not only were the heels off of ALL of my high heels but the skirt of our couch was chewed off, we decided it was time. A very wise pet store owner, not the big box pet stores like PetSmart but a locally owned, that all animals have a den which is natural to them. So we didn't use his cage as a punishment, we had to learn other ways for that. But his kennel was his bedtime place. Or if we had an arguement, he would go in his cage. At bedtime if we hadn't gone to bed yet, we would find him in his cage. So we let him be the judge of when to go in it. And he loved it.
This month is the month for quite a few doctor appointments. Hopefully we can get Charlie into the GI doc. His every 2 month infusion is this month. Both of us have our yearly physical, he sees his doctor that takes care of his irregular heart rhythm. I get my hair cut, lots of appointment. And I hope to get in with the eye specialist!
I bought Charlie a new tracfone for Christmas with the idea of giving his old one that has a lot of time on it to Christina so she could have a phone that rings and not just one that receives texts. Well i thought I got it activated on line. What I did was get it activated and all the minutes and service days from the old phone were put onto the new one. But the new one we can't even get to work yet. When I set it up, I went through all the process of syncing it to our router. But it has never recognized it, we can't use the phone part of it. It is useless except taking pictures. Plus the phone we were giving Christina is now useless. So tomorrow I call tracfone and hopefully get some one I can understand and speaks clear enough English who can straiten out both phones.
Nite nite girls from around the world. Joyce, Indiana0 -
Sue from Alaska, I live in Svalbard at 78 degrees North, but right now I'm at our holiday home outside Tromsø in northern Norway. The Northern Lights are actually better here because we're right under the maximum intensity. Svalbard is too far north
Where in Alaska are you?
/Penny not quite at the
(I've only read a couple posts. Grandkids coming in and I promised them a pancake breakfast... gotta rush!)0 -
Joyce - Grrrrrr to the phones. I have every sympathy. I still have to sort out that #÷×%%+ new phone from early December. I'm still being billed for it after I cancelled and returned it. :sad: I have written to the CEO. No reply as yet.
Kim - I will message you.
Katla - sooooooo sorry to hear about your wrist. :sad: I do hope you can carry on riding. Sending hugs.
Tea coming upstairs. Heather UK
0 -
Morning friends~
Both Tom and I were out like a light by 6 last night, me from all the cooking,him from working all day around the house.. he did a load of laundry,put part of the back splash up in the kitchen, that was a ball having both of us working in the kitchen, he who doesnt like messes, and boy I was making one ,anyway he swept the floor,cleaned the stovetop and cleaned the sinks ,ran both the snowblower and generator just to make sure they are running properly..
He is a huge fan of Trisha Yearwood. he said we are going to see her, I asked ,where will she be, at the casinos? he said no in Worchester with her husband Garth Brooks, that will be awesome. it is on a saterday night and the seats are behind the stage.. but im sure that we will be able to see..
Tom also said Saterday to me with tears that he is sorry that he is such a disappointment to me..
well I told him get some help,or make a decision... It is not fair to me to be in a marriage where it is only one way..0 -
Yay Allie! Woo-hoo!0
-
OutSTANDing, Allie - it's hard not to crumble in the face of tears, especially from a big, ol' man. Proud of you. Keep standing your ground, woman. You deserve to be loved.0
-
Katla, so sorry to hear about your wrist.
Frank Lloyd Wright - my dorm room for the first two years of college looked down on Robie House, one of his houses on the south side of Chicago. My grandmother was raised in Oak Park just a few blocks from his home, which I have toured along with taking the walking tour of his houses/ buildings in the area. There is a lovely house he designed near Independence Iowa that is great fun to tour. Everything in it down to the silverware he designed. I have read a great deal about his designs. So many of his houses are still being lived in so they cannot be toured. There are actually quite a few around Iowa. What amazes me most is that he was designing when Victorian houses, which are SO different, were the fashion. I love both styles, mostly for the craftsmanship in them, as well as the simpler "craftsman" style. You can now get Lego sets to make some of his houses, including Robie House. I have not bought them.0 -
"Love you all. Joyce, Indiana. I think I remember some one from southern Illinois! Where are you from?"
I am from Murphysboro, IL. Way down South.
I love all the sharing on this feed. Makes my heart feel good. I will be 51 in June. I was doing great on this life style change and then life kind of fell apart. My husband was scheduled to have kidney stones busted up in March of 2013 and during the phone call with the surgery nurse he was told he would have to have clearance from his heart doctor to have the surgery. My husband told them he didn't have a heart doctor and he was told that he had failed a stress test in February of 2012. We were told nothing about it. He scheduled an appointment, they did a heart cath and found 7 blockages. He had quadruple bypass in June of 2013. During the pre-op testing they did a CT scan and found something on his lungs. An MRI and additional testing showed that he has pulmonary fibrosis. Not a good thing. We were seeing a local pulmonologist and just really felt like he was not doing enough for Tom so we made an appointment with a pulmonologist in St. Louis. On our first appointment there we were told of 2 new medicines that were just made available in the US and they did a lot of different test on him to see which one would best suit him and put him no it. He is on oxygen, does pulmonary rehab and takes Esbriet plus about 21 other medications. We go up to St. Louis about ever 6 months so that they can evaluate him and see where he is at.
My mother was diagnosed with throat cancer in February of 2015, had her voice box and vocal chords removed August 10th and she passed away August 28, 2015. So very, very hard. I am one of nine children. Second to the youngest. My dad died when I was 15. My oldest sibling was 23 and my youngest brother was 11. Mom was our rock. I called her Little Willow. She was 4'11 inches tall and weighed 100 pounds. I don't know why all her children turned out so heavy.
It has been a rough road but I am determined to get back on track. I need to get this weight off. No more excuses for Mary. It's time to get up and get busy. Thank you all for all the stories. It's nice to know you do not walk this road alone. I post daily on MFP and I always end by saying, "Be blessed and be a blessing. Inspire and motivate someone today. Make good choices. Make someone smile and always, always remember...WE ARE WORTH IT!!!!" Have an amazing day.0 -
MaryGrace~ welcome and it seems you have had your fair share...with stressers in your life like that, for me I am an emotional eater, and I actually told Tom that saterday.. the reason I have gained weight is because of the stress I am under in this relationship, that and not much exercise...
I am going to try and work with a low carb diet and work myself back into exercising more..0
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 391.6K Introduce Yourself
- 43.5K Getting Started
- 259.7K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.6K Food and Nutrition
- 47.3K Recipes
- 232.3K Fitness and Exercise
- 393 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.4K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 152.7K Motivation and Support
- 7.8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.3K MyFitnessPal Information
- 23 News and Announcements
- 936 Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.3K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions