WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016
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Hi Everyone. I'm fairly new to fitness and to electronic communities. I'm so happy to join group of women over 50 who are supporting each other in our quest to improve our health & fitness!
Some background: I'm just outside of Boston. Married at 19, both of my children have passed away, one from illness & 1 from being hit by a truck, and my ex-husband with whom I maintained a decent relationship, passed away in October. I haven't dated anyone since my divorce 7 years ago, and finally had the epiphany that I need to expand my horizons, get back in shape and get on with my life! Took me long enough!!!
I appreciate your support, and look forward to getting to know everyone!
CJ, I wouldn't go by myself either. Agree with everyone who said send your regrets, & if you want to, send a gift.0 -
Michele in NC -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.
I had to laugh at this tale. My cat does that too. He wants his routine. He saved my behind yesterday. The alarm went off and instead of hitting snooze I must have turned it off. I awoke to my cat kneading my stomach. When I shooed him off I checked the clock and I had slept past the time I normally get up! Fortunately, it was only 1/2 hour so while I was late for work, I wasn't so late that I got in trouble. Good Kitty.
Mia in MI
"Good morning!!" my pups say. It's PEE o'clock!!0 -
These turkeys hang out a friend's home.
I want some!!!!
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Uh, oh. Maybe I don't want 'em after all! Some day, chickens, though.0 -
A special welcome to all the new ladies. You will feel right at home and as if you have known the bunch for many years, very soon. I just joined at the end of the year and already feel almost like an old-timer. I hope that I can meet some of these ladies in person sometime. I felt so embraced by this wonderful group of women. So many accomplishments. So much accumulated wisdom. I don't use personal social media and in general shy away from sharing much personal information about me. I lurked on this site for a while before jumping in. it was the best decision I made. The love and support here is incredible. I really miss everyone when I have not checked in.
Katla I am sorry to hear about Chris. Count me in for prayers. I hope that your riding gives you some space and time to focus on healing thoughts for your family.
Penny Let the sunshine in! It should be long days by now so I hope that you are finally able to completely recover and get back to yourself again.
Question-
A friend and I received an invitation to a ritzy wedding. It will be about 90 minutes to 2 hours from where I live by car. My friend isn't going- has to be out of town and cannot reschedule as this will mess up a variety of work schedules. I, on the other hand, have no excuse for not attending other than I really do not like huge, fancy affairs where I do not know anyone, or just 2 or 3 people at the most. I don't want to have to spend 4 hours driving back and forth by myself. Ordinarily, if we are going to the same event, we carpool. I could stay in a hotel and use the provided transportation to the ceremony and reception, but it is also a fancy, expensive hotel. I have to buy an appropriate dress as I don't have evening clothes that fit. I got rid of the dress that I wore to the last fancy wedding I attended since it was too big. My friend says that if I don't go, I will really offend the parents (the mother of the groom is a good friend). What do I do? RSVPs are due in just one week.
CJ
Send a beautiful, well chosen gift, your regrets, and your sincere wishes for a long life in love.
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Haven't written in a day or two, and it's all y'alls fault. Thanks to the gentle nudging, I cleaned out my closet and took clothes I hate to charity. That includes "fat" clothes, frumpy clothes, and my size 8s that sit in silent rubke of my size 18 self. Out! Out with you!! Then I picked up an old hobby I haven't done in years and years...dog showing. I have one show dog left, he is almost 4, and has never seen a dog show. Whelp (as we say in DogLand) training starts today at PetSmart. Let's see how he is with crowds and other dogs. I cleaned out my fridge. I hired a housekeeper for $20 an hour, and she is working now while I spend some time on myself and you. AND I FEEL GREAT. Still not perfectly hitting goal after 14 days, but I am a LOT better than I used to be. Thank you all for showing me the way and demonstrating at being 58 and fat is not an excuse for anything. I love y'all for the strong women you are.
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I am am changing my pic too. I am a proud grandmother, true. But I am also a pretty good Noreen (and getting better all the time.) Thanks again and much love.0
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Hi all.
DH is at the football. So far I'm doing OK on not raiding the fridge.
To Pollance who has lost both her children - So sorry you went through that awfulness. :flowerforyou: Well done for realising you have to get on with life. Sending my love.
Sylvia - are you still there? Hope you are ok.
This morning I was buying An Elephant Never Forgets on Amazon Music, because I thought it might be fun to play and sing it with the DGC, when I came across an album of songs from Children's Favourites, which was a long running radio programme when I was a child. I listened to it every week and my best friend actually requested a song to be played on it for me. I bought the album ( 100 tunes ) and I've been playing it while I've been cooking and reading the paper. Talk about bringing back memories! Of course I knew all the words.
One thing that struck me is how politically incorrect so many of them are and downright creepy others are. I don't think there are many I would play to the DGC!!! :noway:
A lot of the songs I completely took for granted as part of my life at the time (50s) are from the USA. I thought of you all as I was listening.
Of course, I tried to download the album onto my tablet, but with our Internet problems it got stuck after a while. Most of them are still on the Cloud. Probably up at Penny's home. :laugh:
What fun though! Certainly brightened my day! It's the sort of thing I only do when DH is out. We keep our choices of music completely separate and private apart from a very few shared favourites. We play most of our music on the train with headphones. I do have Bluetooth headphones for the kitchen. Like to dance and bounce while I cook.
Love to all, Heather UK0 -
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janetr7476 wrote: »Every day when I'm doing my weight training I think of Mary in MN and wonder how she is doing. I really miss her, there is a big hole without her here. She has been so motivational for me.
Janetr OKC - missing Mary in MN
guess i'm chopped liver :0(
Lol. Ah Pip, you know you are my hero. You are awesomely awesome, some place I can NEVER hope to be. 1 -
Penny At least I think this is directed toward Penny, with all the quotes and requotes I kind of lost track of who had the original post... lol Anyway, women in hijabs exercising.... I belong to a women's only gym. It's really nice because you don't have to worry about men standing over you or those guys I refer to as "muscle monkeys" grunting and farting when they squat right in front of you on purpose... my own grunts and farts are enough thank you. Anyway, back to the point.... the gym has a lot of Moslem women as members. I'm sure it's nice for them to be able to go and work out in an all women environment as most of them I've talked to say gyms with male members are not an option for them. They always work out with arms and legs covered, some wear their head coverings and some do not. I was surprised that in an all women environment some of them still covered their heads but there is the occasional repairman that steps in and that might be the reason. (an announcement is made ahead of a man entering the gym and signs are posted if a man is in the gym for maintenance reasons but recently they found a company that would service their pool and equipment that has women workers) I've never seen any of them in a hijab working out but I'm pretty sure that the gym would not allow them on the equipment for safety reasons with the garment possibly being caught in something. They are pretty strict about loose clothing.
So I did my walk this morning with my husband. Always a challenge. He walks, I jog. I just can't keep up with his long legs no matter how fast I walk. Then I did my 30 minutes of workout. Now on to gardening and yard work. Pretty sure I'll smell "nice and pretty" at the end of this day. lol
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Noreen, I love the picture of you....you are definitely looking greatKatla, thanks for the encouraging words about acupuncture....I have three more appointments scheduled already and plan to stick with it....Jake agrees that it's worth spending the money and not quitting five minutes before the miraclePollance, I'm sorry to hear about all the loss in your life....if you're ready for a whole new "family" of supportive friends, you have come to the right place.
My friend who was supposed to be here 50 minutes ago, is not here yet, hasn't phoned, and hasn't replied to my text. She works til after midnight at a hospital so it's possible that she overslept and hasn't figured out that she's supposed to be here. I can't start a big project (like yard work) so I'm doing some smaller things that can be left in the middle when (or if) she arrives. I am listening to "Eat, Pray, Love" as an audio book. I've read the book before and seen the movie so it's not new to me. So much of it has reminded me of some of you and when I got to the part where she flies into Mumbai on her way to an ashram, I thought of Anamika who lives in Mumbai, so I sent Anamika a personal message and she replied that she's continuing to walk regularly and watch her eating and wants to post again soon. Barbie
"I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.".....Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love"0 -
Katla, as far as I am concerned, "depression is anger turned inwards" is total BS.0
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Merriam I took my son on a visit to the college he'll be attending in the fall and we ate in the dining hall. He had a burger, fries, and a grilled chicken sandwich (kind of sampling the food). He said "yeah, I think I can get fat here
" and my response was "did you see that they had grilled vegetables over there. And the salad bar looks really good". But he'll be happy with the burgers and pizza. This is one case where I hope he gains the "Freshman 15".
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janetr7476 wrote: »Every day when I'm doing my weight training I think of Mary in MN and wonder how she is doing. I really miss her, there is a big hole without her here. She has been so motivational for me.
Janetr OKC - missing Mary in MN
guess i'm chopped liver :0(
I was wondering about that myself!
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Pollance so sorry to hear of your losses.
Miriam and Katla I too believe depression is an emotion like anger. In this book her focus is on the emotion of anger. She did talk about how sometimes when you make a change in your behavior feeling slightly depressed is a common.You are losing the way you did something and replacing it with a new behavior. My theory is so much energy is sometimes pent up with anger that there is a let down when it is redirected. Another way I look at it is it is like a pressure cooker where the steam is let out. Now what?
For me depression is the feeling of sadness and of grief. Anger is the feeling of being mad and of frustration. When anger is the root or the cause of a loss I think depression can follow. Perhaps that is why some think they are intertwined.
For me I know in the long run working through either the emotion of anger or of depression I feel better. I think that is why when someone tells me to calm down when I am anger it backfires. It is better to remind me to breathe because in the action of taking nice deep breaths my body will naturally start to calm itself down. I need to remember this the next time I am working with children. So often I hear a teacher say calm body and it would be better to say let's take a deep breath. Besides taking a deep breath would be good for me to do too. Margaret
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Okay, Pip, which one are you? My guess will be the young lady sitting in the front row, in a white dress with her legs crossed (looks like 5th from the right). I picked her because she looks sassy, like you. Anyone else going to guess before Pip tells us?0
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For me depression is a total loss of energy, motivation, ability to experience pleasure, and hope. Nothing sad or grieving about it. The psychic pain can be incredible, which is why suicide can look like such an option. I am totally flat, but get irritable if people do things that will make me expend energy that I don't have, like making a mess. I just want to lie down and not move and try to turn off all the negative thoughts racing through my brain. That is what bipolar 2 depression feels like.0
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Based on the smile, I'm guessing Pip is at the far right in the front row.
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total stats for the day:
jog- 1hr 33min 7sec, 135ahr, 161mhr, walk 3.5sp 1st 1/4mi, jog 5.2sp next 1.75mi, 6.2-6.4sp next 3mi, 6.4-6.7sp next 2mi, 6.2sp next mi, 5.2-5.5sp last mi, 1st 5mi w/1# ankle weights, 10.20ap/min mi, total 9mi = 833c
walk/scisscors, etc- 11min, w/ankle weights = 100c
other - shoulder exercised- 11min, 4sets of 100, 3sets of 20 = 75c
other- yarddwork - 35min = 100c
total cal 11080 -
Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Hello Ladies,
Kay, your workouts sound like you are doing a fantastic job and now you will look great in all the new duds. Way to go, my friend.
Heather, Bea is still just beautiful. I don't know how you stand it to not go see her every other day.
Patsy, I love your tree. We had one that looked a lot like that when I was a kid. My Mom was ahead of her time. lol
Penny, I love hearing you talk about your blender. I'll admit I rarely use mine but then I'm not a "smoothie" drinker.
Beth, congrats to your son on his school acceptance.
Chris, congrats and I hope you keep floating on that cloud. I love a good sappy movie!!!!
Janetr, I think we need to bra shop together. LOL But the problem is they just don’t make a training bra in a 38.
Brenda, welcome. I love your quote and how true it is. Now, promise yourself that you will take baby steps but keep stepping forward. You can do this and we’re here to help.
Yvonne, you are so right about customer service being a dying art. Don’t even get me started!!!! Sometimes it hard to get the store clerk off their cell phone long enough to buy something or answer a question. Where did the world go wrong?
Penny, good for you on resisting the cheese and crackers. Keep it up. I know what you mean when you see someone running these days. Depending on where it is or what they are wearing (other than jogging clothes) my first thought is running from something. So sad but true.
Miriam,. With your history I think it best that you just stay away from ladders. You have so many talents that perhaps you can just use them on the ground.
Katla, so sorry about your DD’s family problems and that you won’t get to see her when you had planned. I’ll keep the family in my prayers.
Kelly, I love your post on being a hill seeker. Thanks for sharing.
Lisa, what a score from “the Junkman”. How fun is that??? It sounds like a fun trip so just enjoy!!!
Heather, it sounds like you are making progress. We are all rooting for you!!!
Larisa, we will look forward to your date reports as well. Hope the meds help your flashes.
CJ, about the wedding, only you know what you need to do. If you don’t want to go alone just RSVP with a “no”.
Barbie, I hope your needle pricks produce some results. Keep us posted.
to any Newbies that I missed. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.
I have never eaten back my exercise calories but I’m thinking about it. Lately I have been so hungry and it just occurred to me today that it might be because of my increased exercise. As DH would say, “DUH?”. I’ve been staying busy lately with all sorts of things and having a hard time keeping up. Again I am within two pages. Please just know that I think of you wonderful ladies often and with you all such happiness.
I hope all of you have a healthy and happy day.
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Words I live by:
Savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.
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Opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC
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DJ wrote - "Janetr, I think we need to bra shop together. LOL But the problem is they just don’t make a training bra in a 38. "
Exactly
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lagopus got it. i am front row on far right. the great thing about that is that i was an ugly duckling when i was in school and a lot of people picked on me and made fun of me. when i went to the reunion with a girl friend of mine, the school president didn't recognize me. he thought we were in the wrong room, there was some kind of beauty pageant happening in one of the other conference rooms. when i told him my name, he couldn't believe it. i was the talk of the get together, no one could believe how i turned out. it felt good. i had guys asking me to dance and one guy, can't think of his name but he was apologizing for being mean to me and for making fun of me. i told him i couldn't remember and if i had, i wouldn't have been dancing with him if his comments had affected me that much.
in reality, all the comments did, between my mom and school, my self esteem was non existent.1 -
janetr7476 wrote: »
Thanks Janetr! I'm here just going through some things with hubs. Job search getting to us but I think we muddled through it and will continue onward!
Am I seeing things or do we now have the option to LIKE and AWESOME our posts?!?! Woot woot!!
Planted some pansies and spritz up the outside a bit today.
Cheri
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Pip - Good for you for showing them what a beautiful, successful women you are full of self-esteem. And rightly so. They can eat their hearts out!!
Cheri - Why yes, yes we do. We have apparently been given permission to be as "awesome" as we "like". Ha!
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Right after DH came back from football I played him some of the "Children's Favourites " he remembered. What fun! THE RUNAWAY TRAIN, HIGH HOPES, THE UGLY DUCKLING, ETC. ETC. Then we sat down and watched THE WIZARD OF OZ that I had recorded. We so enjoyed it. I followed that up by reading all about the shooting and production of it on Wikipedia. Fascinating.
Then we watched the final of our Danish series. Far too much sitting about for me today, but I'm under calories.
Good day.:bigsmile:
Heather UK1 -
Hi all just a quick post. Glad some of you liked the video! I thought it was very funny. Took the dog to a nearby park and walked 45 minutes.
Barbie: I plan to do acupuncture after I finish the PT. I'm surprised no one can diagnose your issue; have you had an MRI?
I hope all of you who are ailing or struggling right now find peace and health and high fives to those who are celebrating! Take care, Meg from Omaha1 -
janetr - thanks, my self esteem is still crap but oh well....1
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