WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016
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BArbie- regarding the squats: I do all of mine at the same time, usually mid day as the kids are napping. I am finding it is a nice "pick me up" at that time of day when I start to slow down.
Wow, that is an impressive accomplishment....I've done squat challenges but have done the required number about 20 at a time spaced throughout the day. 0 -
Success yesterday! I finished with 42 calories to spare. I ate small meals every couple of hours, which staved off FoBH...Fear of Being Hungry. Gotta quote Scarlett one more time: "I will nevah go hungrah a-gain."
That's a super accomplishment. I eat small meals every few hours and eat food that is nutrition dense so I get the most out of every calorie (a whole package of frozen cauliflower has fewer calories than a serving of salad dressing).....and I seek every opportunity to be active to burn more calories 0 -
Thanks, Pip! Profile pic changed BA-BAM! Penny and Katla- I made the migraine comment that Penny quoted. So perhaps the oxytocin worked when I was a child, but it must be mind power/memory power that makes it work as an adult, long after my mom has gone? Whatever works, right? Anyway, I passed it down to my kids. I did the same for them as they were growing up and soothed them this way whenever they didn't feel well or couldn't sleep. My daughter lives in Texas with her hubby and he has told me she sings the same song to herself when she doesn't feel well. Makes me happy
Carol- I do my daycare out of my home. 23 years now. Started this career to spend more time with my own kids and it stuck. In 23 years I have cared for over 70 children in this area. I have diaries and millions of stories. I would say 75% of my posts on facebook over the years have been about my job/the kiddos. I am compiling stuff for a book, but would hesitate to put one out until after I am retired. Don't want to burn any bridges. 2 -
Becca I am SO happy for you and the scale news!
First day back from vacation and so far I am under quota for day. Can I last two more hours till bedtime?Have to get back on track!!!
Betty0 -
Doing pretty good, staying under the calorie count I just hope this plateau is over soon, would love to see the weight going down again. I read on here how busy everyone is and feel bad because I haven't had any energy the last few days. Tomorrow is another day.0
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Hi friends. Nice day here today; I got 50 minutes of exercise and will have over 7,000 steps, which is my goal for the first half of the week. I see my new physical therapist tomorrow, so we will see how that goes. I am not convinced that he will have anything new to offer, but I’ll see.
Kim: Keno is a gambling game, kind of a cross between bingo and powerball where they call the numbers. We left $3 ahead! We had to fence and gate our garden because all sorts of animals thought it was their special bathroom. ugh
Lenora: we have been having tons of really chilly wind too. Today there was less of it, which was a nice change.
Bwcetc: sorry your son was acting out and for your binge. You’re right ; those never help do they?
Larissa; why end it all at mid-90? LOL
Katla: thanks for the encouragement about the acupuncture. I can’t even begin to do the sit and rise!
Worthit: welcome aboard!
Alison: hope you have recovered from all your book moving! I’m sorry things are so bad at home. I think you should run like hell LOL.
Other newbies: Welcome to you too!
CJ: sounds like quite the trip!
Patsy: your weaving is lovely
Cheri: glad you feel better!
Ann: omg I laughed til I choked at that poster!
Nb: sounds delish!
Dj: allergies are next on my list to ask about. He doesn’t sneeze much or lick/chew much, so I thought that was way low on the possible list. Now he is on Carafate which I have to make into a slurry and give him with a syringe. Bleh!
OK all this has to do for tonight. Glad to see this group is so busy. Take care all, Meg from Omaha
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Betty~ Thank you for your support! (hands you a ticket....yep get back on the train) You are doing fantastic for being under quota so far. Just mentally close that kitchen. I literally don't go in mine except to get lemonwater, and its closed at 7 pm. If I am feeling tempted, I don't go in to handle leftovers, I will take bites of things. Part of this learning process is not being in situations where you don't feel in control. So I try to recognize those times and be nice to myself. You got this!
Becca
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Another good day today. Calories left on the table! (So to speak.)1
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@lawmiller1 Don't beat yourself up. Listen to your body, and if you are out of energy, then just do what you can. But on the good days, reward yourself with some activity. Husband and I had a cold for weeks it seemed, but even walking the grocery store isles on shopping days, made us feel like we were doing something.
Welcome to our group by the way!
Becca
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I'm new to this thread and new to commuity so please bear with me. I have been posting my food and losing albeit slowly for 8 months now. That's the longest I have stuck with any sort of diet. It is not always easy when family members like to eat, and I mean like to eat and snack a lot. Since my husband is diabetic I try to make healthy things but in a way that he can't tell that it is healthy. Logging what I eat has become habit, and I have changed my eating habits quite a bit but boy some days are harder then others. I'm a housewife who was a stay at Mom until my son started driving. Lol! Now it is time for me I'm just not sure what that means. I guess I am a work in progress.0
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stats for the day;
ride hm 2 gym- 13.35min, 13.2amph, 152mhr, 2.9mi = 120c
ROPE PULL- 40min, 138mhr, midset, lvl7, 93ftpmin, 3987ft/.76mi = 244c
ride gym 2 dome- 7.42min, 11.2amph, 144mhr 1.4mi = 69c
ride wk 2 hm- 19.01min, 8.4amph, 154mhr, 11mph winds, 2.6mi = 206c
total cal 6391 -
I am new to this site only one week in. I am 56 and I am trying really hard to keep going . So finding someplace I can chat when having a bad day is important. My most important goal for April is keep going g. I have started so ma y diets and quit.
Welcome. You will get lots of support here. I have been amazed about how much support there is. We share good bad and silly stuff here. Keep coming back.
Anne from WI1 -
Miriam - Please do send me your niece's information! I've had several recommendations from friends but most were a little too far south for me. I've got a few more to follow up on. When I look at their web sites, I'm looking for words like "cognitive behavioral therapy" and "evidence based practice."
KJLaMore - I had not realized it, but the Austin Lounge Lizards were covering a song by The Foremen. You can hear The Foremen performing the song here: youtu.be/EKnVtLUXZRc. Although there are no overtly dirty words, it is decidedly bawdy and hence probably NSW (not safe for work!).
Carol - Oh, dear, I sympathize, since I'm still recovering from something similar. Yuck!
Anne - The cauliflower sounds lovely! That is a vegetable I need to explore further... my mom rarely cooked with it and I haven't taken the time to experiment with it much.
Becca - I get tempted now and then by Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem ads, but you are right. It's better to drive your own bus along a path that you can follow for life. I just know I'd gain back anything I lost through those programs in short order.
I'm late posting today - work was nuts. But I'm apparently on the mend despite the occasional coughing fits. I managed to keep my date with the exercise bike last night, and this time I didn't feel any worse for wear afterward.
My biggest temptation at the moment is not food related. Hancock Fabrics is advertising their going out of business sale, and I need to remember that I already have sewing projects waiting. I worked for Hancock's one summer as a teen and it took me decades to work through all the fabric I bought to use "some day." Now my rule for myself is that I only get to buy fabric if I have a project in mind for it right now.
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Good grief, I didn't realize when I added the link it was going to embed a giant image of the video. I think I got rid of it by removing the http from the link. Sorry, ladies!0
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No workout today got my hair done. Don't usually do much for myself. So it's a break through. Maybe some day I won't feel guilty about spending money on myself.
So great to see all the good news and more new members. To all of you going through rough patches I am sorry and you are in my thoughts. So many of you have supported me the last several months. I appreciate every single word. You are all amazing ladies.
Anne from WI
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So I really "helped" myself today by writing down a lot of my recipes from throughout the years as well as recipes my mom and grandmother gave me. I did most of them from memory or else had them on old scraps of paper. It was help because now I have record of them that I can actually find but it didn't help because it made me terribly hungry.
I started laughing though when I was copying the recipe my grandmother had written out for me for her orange nut bread. Throughout the instructions are little things like "call your husband and tell him he's your main squeeze" and at the very end it says "put bread in oven and bake 30 minutes, while you wait call your grandmother." I usually make it from memory but wanted to give it to my daughters so I copied her original recipe. Finding these little instructions in it just made my day and flooded me with good memories of her.3 -
Did 1 segment of 10 Minute Solution Hot Body Bootcamp DVD, held my plank for 2 min 50 seconds, then an hour of Ninna Lessig's Tank Top Arms, Bikini Belly, Boy Shorts Bottom and Total Body workout DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a step DVD
Sioux - I'm so sorry about your brother. It reminded me of refinishing something someone might have gotten at a garage sale. You never know where it's been or what is hidden beneath something that you can't see.
Alison - have a great trip. I'm so excited for you
I just told Vince that I made a mistake and didn't get the kind of plants that I really wanted. My mistake was that I trusted that he would give that to me. Now we need to dig up those plants and put in blooming plants. I know that he's VERY unhappy, and so am I. Unfortunately, I trusted him to know what plants bloom and I didn't get what I wanted.
The gal who was going to host Rummikub tomorrow (Tues) cancelled since there were ony going to be the three of us. For her, it isn't any fun paying with just three players. Personally, even two is fine with me. But that doesn't matter, at least now Vince doesn't have to drive me to her house, so there's a positive.
I see I must have forgotten to post yesterday (Mon.) Went to count the collection money at the church, then senior bowling, then ceramics, then mahjongg, then we had to stop at SalMart since I totally forgot to get Vince milk. I guess by the time we got home it was almost 10.
Did an hour of a step DVD today (Tues). We have a Newcomer general meeting tomorrow so the plan is to do a Baywatch Beach Body DVD that I just got. We shall see what that one's like.
Welcome everyone new! You've come to the right place for lots of support, ideas, and "attagirls",
Our cats know the routine. The alarm clock goes off, I get up, the one cat comes over to my side of the bed (where it's been warmed). Well, yesterday I didn't get up quite as quickly as before, and she was on my stomach, kneading it, as if to say "hey, this isn't the routine, get up". As soon as I got up, sure enough she came over to my side of the bed.
After bowling yesterday stopped at WalMart and got things to make these mini pot pies that I was going to make and take to Rummikub. But now that we're not going to have it, I'll return the cheese to the store, I'll eat the peas and carrots, but I had to cut up the chicken. So I did that last night. I admit, I did have a bite or two of it. The chicken from WalMart isn't as good as the roasted chicken you get at Bi-Lo.
Congrats on the weight loss, Becca and everyone else who saw a loss
Put the no fire snow on the waves of my dolphin. I think it looks cool. Only now I have to wait for it to dry. Will post a pic when it's done. I should have taken one yesterday. Oh well.....
Cj - awesome pics, thanks for sharing. I especially liked that altar.
miriam - you have such great insite into mental health. I love reading what you have to say.
Carol in NC - hope you're feeling better fast and that those meds work. Is it a Z pack? That usually helps me pretty quickly.
Joyce - I'm so sorry that the scan was negative for your sister. I'm sure she'll make the right decision. Prayers. You are such a strong person, God only gives as much as you can handle (although sometimes we wish He weren't so generous)
KJ - that was so sweet how the boy ran up to the lady. How good it must have made her feel! I love the way you work your exercise into your day
Kind of dreary, rainy here so this morning I made a spinach feta quiche (truthfuly, I'm getting a little tired of it for now), hard boiled some eggs, made more cauliflower soup, some sweet potato doughnuts for a friend's birthday. This is the lady whose house we play mahjongg at on Mondays, her birthday is Sunday. Worked some more on the third beaded banner, had to add string so I'm waiting for the glue on the knot to dry.
Lenora - I couldn't figure out how to delete a post from my ellipsis tablet.
katla - I do hope things work out for you at the doc's. You certainly don't want to go thru your hubby going into diabetic shock (was that it?) again
CJ - how interesting!
barbie - I know what you mean about missing your reusable bags. Does your store give you credit for the bags you use? Two stores around here give you 5 cents off for every bag that you use. I lost a few of mine and was quite upset about it for a while
Becca - I'm so happy for you with your losses. That's just wonderful. Must be the great meals you make.
Penny and Heather - can't wait to see some pics
pip - thanks for pointing out the buttons. To be honest, if you hadn't pointed them out, I probably wuldn't have even noticed them.
Betty - welcome back! So glad you had such a good time
Welcome everyone new!
lawmiller - slow and steady wins the race!
Yvonne - I love cauliflower. Skinnytaste has this amazing cauliflower soup recipe that's low in calories, too. The other day I saw a sign for Hancock Fabrics "going out of business sale" so I called the lady who does the sewing for me and told her. Seems they're in bankuptcy (I didn't even know that) and they're closing all their stores.
Marcelynh - what a lovely recipe you got from your grandmother!
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Yvonne, at 20 I worked for Hancock Fabrics in Dallas, and I think I still have one or two pieces of fabric from there. That employee discount, along with seeing all the pretty fabrics all day long was terrible! I quit when I realized that I was spending more than I was making. For that reason I have also never worked in a bookstore!0
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Today we took Bernie for a mani-pedi (his claws get too long now that he's an inside cat, so every few months we have to take him to the vet to get his claws trimmed). He doesn't like getting in the carrier, but he's so much happier afterward because his claws don't get caught on our clothing and we don't fuss at being "stabbed" by him. This was my big ride the exercise bike day....I rode while watching our recording of DWTS and then again later while watching the last of the World Figure Skating Championships that I recorded. I love fabric stores and have to remind myself that I haven't done a sewing project in decades, but there is something so inviting about the patterns and textures.
we still don't have our car back but it appears that we'll be able to pick it up Thursday. I told a friend about the car problem and her response was that she always bought new cars never used, so she didn't have to worry about such stuff.....I guess she didn't know that not everyone can afford to buy new cars. I made a swiss cheese and onion pie from a friend's recipe....it was so bad and so high calorie that we each choked down a serving and threw the rest away---sometimes "the garbage can is your friend".Michele, only one store around here gives a 5 cent credit for reusable bags...I bring them more for the principle of reusing. We have so many of them because we had a bunch of them in each car and now that we have only one car, we're carrying twice as many, so buying new ones didn't make any sense.
Never, never, never give up Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 0 -
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So I really "helped" myself today by writing down a lot of my recipes from throughout the years as well as recipes my mom and grandmother gave me. I did most of them from memory or else had them on old scraps of paper. It was help because now I have record of them that I can actually find but it didn't help because it made me terribly hungry.
I started laughing though when I was copying the recipe my grandmother had written out for me for her orange nut bread. Throughout the instructions are little things like "call your husband and tell him he's your main squeeze" and at the very end it says "put bread in oven and bake 30 minutes, while you wait call your grandmother." I usually make it from memory but wanted to give it to my daughters so I copied her original recipe. Finding these little instructions in it just made my day and flooded me with good memories of her.
That's really cool having recipes written by your grandmother. I have some from my mother, for Thanksgiving items. One recipe of candied yams, my mom wrote"to drain the liquid from the yams can, and slowly boil the tar out of it with some butter and brown sugar".... Another hint she wrote was "when you are getting ready to put the turkey in the oven, oil it, tuck the wings on the side, and if you don't stuff it, put some apples in the cavity, I always feel bad putting an empty turkey in the oven". Too cute. The fact that it's in my mothers beautiful cursive handwriting is still such a treasure to me. Every Thanksgiving I take them all out and shed a tear or two though.
Becca
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Michele in NC~ YEP it is....oh man I made a wonderful lunch today. I took 1/3 cup of dry wild rice, 1 tsp of bacon grease, 2 huge white mushrooms, with spices and saute'ed it all. Then I poured 2 cups of water over it with 1 tsp of better than boullion paste, and added 1/3 cup stewed tomatoes. I let the rice cook, adding 1 cup more water. Then I laid 4 oz of tilapia fillet over the top, and put the lid back on. All the flavors merrily in the pan.... Then I laid the white fish in the bottom of my big ramen bowl, poured over the mixture, and sprinkled 1 tsp of Parmesan cheese on it. Even though it took longer to make than to eat....I was in heaven.
Becca
Queen of Soup
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Hi gals,
Becca – I love the chef idea making you extra special food!
CJ – amazing!!!
Sylvia – love that you are back to typing 2 handed… later post – and that son and hubby are stepping up, it is good for you to see that Dson can when he has too… and will depend on you when you let him…
KJ- great idea on the walk!
So I started reading just fine, then got so exhausted I just read… hugs to all.
Kim from N. California
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I did it again, didn't read until tonight. Have had a busy and tiring day. We had our Sunday School monthly lunch. Found out that we are the only class that does a monthly lunch or any kind of get together. I'm glad I am in this class. I NEED that regular female fellowship. I love the wisdom that the ladies have. One of the busiest and wisest woman is 90. Her son is dating another member in the class that is 65. I thought I was the youngest there but nope.
When I got home I didn't want to do anything but go back to bed. But sleep did not come, just headache so finally got up and watched Jeapordy and local news then turned TV off. I am just so tired today and didn't want to fix supper, go out or even eat at all. I eventually put in a freezer meal. Charlie had a terrible night with his bowels and it continued all day long. He just paces up and down the hall outside the bathroom because all he has is a tummy ache and gas galore and just waiting for the blow out.
I really, really needed to take down our Christmas tree. OK, I can here you laughing. My brother is coming on Thursday and I didn't want him to see that we hadn't done it. So we started to go down there with that intention but bathroom called for Charlie so I went on down and removed all the ornaments I could reach. Went around and gathered decorations from the house, got the boxes out of storage to put everything back in. Finally he came down and got the few remaining ornaments off. I developed this system of taking the garland and I think it is genius!!!! One year I saved a wrapping paper roll. I start at the top and of the tree with hte garland wrapping it around the wrapping paper roll. I just continue to roll it around the roll and hand it to Charlie like handing the Olympic torch and he continues rolling. If you get down to the bottom of the roll, then gradually work your way back down to the bottom and then back up as many times as needed. When you are finally done, I have a little slit in the bottom of the wrapping paper roll and I put a teeny pit of the garland in that and you just put in the storage room with all other Christmas stuff. So bathroom was calling Charlie again and I removed all the stuff from the mantle and got them all boxed up. So by this time all I have is the naked tree to put up. I carried 6 full boxes to storage room waiting and then collapsed. He hasn't come back downstairs and I just start carrying the tree. Ended up dragging it but got it in the storage room and stood up on it base. Charlie asked me if I was going for total martyrdom but I jsut said that I needed it done and his bowels weren't letting him help. I knew it wasn't a choice of his but his bowels. He calls them General Bowels because they are in charge. So Mom is pooped.
Have to go to the grocery store tomorrow to get meals for when my brother is here. I will fix supper for him on Thursday night and my sister on Friday night. We need to get out to the cemetary together while he is here. I feel guilty that Norma and I don't go there as faithfully like Mom had us take her.
Congrats to Becca for finally getting that scale to move. My brother in law, Norma's husband used to be in the 300's and getting close to 400. He over the last several years had gradually lost it. He follows MFP. He is now weighing 230, less than I did when I started here.
Barbie, I still have figure skating and I believe this coming Sunday or maybe it was this past Sunday that I have gymnastics and figure skating on my DVR.
Love you guys even though I don't respond to everyone, Joyce, tired in Indiana0
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