WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2016

barbiecat

Welcome to a wonderful supportive community of women. The name of the thread is Women Ages 50+ but all women are welcome.

Some of us have been posting on this thread for awhile and others are new.

Please join us on the journey to health, weight loss, and fitness.

If you made any goals or resolutions for May, how did you do?

If you have made any goals or resolutions for June, please share them with us.

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Barbie from beautiful sunny NW Washington

Resolutions for May (with end of the month comments)
*weight training twice a week (great at the beginning of the month, not so good at the end)
*30+ minutes of garden puttering three days a week (great)
*daily meditation--gradually increasing time (great---up to nine minutes)
*continue sorting and discarding photos (almost daily with great progress up to 1964)

June Resolutions will be the same as May

My word for 2016 is "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness

exermom

Did an hour of a cardio core DVD. This is one DVD that I do not like at all. The guy who instructs it has some sort of perspiration problem. You can literally see the sweat pouring off his chin. And this happened multiple times. Gross!!! The plan for tomorrow is to do the water aerobics class

Making chocolate chip cookies for the family who is moving. I'll probably take them over tonight. Then I want to make an angelfood/pineapple cake for the guy who is going to drive Jess' car here. She told him that I'd give him something. Truthfully, if she hadn't said that, I probably wouldn't be making him anything. Gotta keep away from the cookie dough.

finally - welcome. The only advice I can give you is to stick with it. Yes, over 50 makes it harder but not impossible to lose weight

katla - from what I've found on the Internet, Encore Azaleas and Delaware Valley White Azaleas are evergreen and they don't grow more than 3 feet high. Possiblity? Maybe, I'll run it by the gal who is a friend of mine who is a master gardener.

today is Denise's birthday. I sent her a litter box cake and asked Pete to put it together if the post office messes it up. Instead she opened it before he got it. Truthfully, she probably saw our return address and didn't even notice that it was addressed to Pete.

janetr - I do hope your gs is ready to take control. Since he made the initial call, sounds promising. Prayers

Gloria - you got my secret!!! When I took some of the sweet potato donuts to the place where I take the extremepump class, Jess said "isn't that counterintuitive? You exercise to lose weight." The only problem is I don't have the best body in town. Lately, there's been this "roll" of flab that I can't seem to get rid of. I totally agree with Alison - go if you can. You'll never regret it.

arewethereyet - welcome back! You've been missed

Am finishing baking the cookies right now and made the cake batter which is in the oven. I don't know...it seemed more watery to me this time. That could also be because I haven't made it in a while.

lgilchrist - I'm sure your father and mother knew you were there

solioco - welcome to the cook gang!

Joyce - so glad things are going so well for Charlie

Karen - the most I could find out about the camelias are that they grow to 6 to 8 feet. But that can also work alongside the garage. they wouldn't work underneth the garage windows, tho. thanks, Carol, for telling me that they stay a bush in the winter. Carol - since they appear to do well under a tree, when the blooms (flowers) die off, do they drop a whole lot of leaves? The reason I ask is because Vince doesn't want something (and this I can understand) where when the flower drops its petals, the petals would get into the pool and then into the pump

Cut the grass in the backyard today. Vince takes his sweet old time doing things, there STILL isn't grass in the backyard. At time I was choking so much from the dry dust, that I couldn't see where I was going. I know there are spots that I missed, but they're going to stay missed. I tell you, I had to cut the backyard because Vince has problems with his neck, it's stiff. Sometimes I think he's such a baby about things. Something like that I'd just work thru. I really want to get these trees removed, and I intend to get it done. I also want to put those bushes in this fall.

I took the cookies over to the neighbor. Really, I wanted to get them out of the house. But that was a blessing in disguise because her mother is coming here tomorrow to drive one of their cars West

Just had dinner. We have almost no vegetables in the house! Actually, I wanted to finish up the tofu that I had and I was going to put it in my salad. I gave Vince lettuce and since we don't have any squash or cucumbers, I had lettuce. Got the two salads mixed up, he wouldn't eat the tofu. Not that tofu has a flavor. But he could see it.

Michele in NC

pipcd34

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csofled

Charleen2

Took time to look back at my food and excerse reports for the month of May.

• I have upped the number of times I excerse per week (Aleve has been my friend)
• Lowered my Sodium intake (got rid of those buffalo wings for lunch)
• Lowered my Sugar intake
• and find I am much more consistant about staying within or under my daily calorie goal
  
  For the month of June
  • my main goal is to stay under my calorie goal and not eat back my excerse calories
  • and finally weight myself to see where I am on this journey.
    
    Wish me luck!
    
    Charleen in Colorado (Summer is making itself felt - finally!)
    

KetoneKaren

Michele in NC Sorry, I should have been more specific. Camellia sasanqua varieties - usually 2-5' high. Evergreen with beautiful glossy leaves, real show stoppers. But there are so many nice choices that would fit your needs, I am sure you will figure it out! Just trying to help.

Karen in Virginia

MightyLolo

I can't believe it's practically June. I mean, it IS June in Europe and Asia. What?

My May goals were:

1. "keep logging everything"
   --done, all but one day. Went to a thing, ate some stuff...stuck to my rough guidelines, but didn't log.
2. "stick to the new calorie counts"
   --done, all but two days, and at least I logged the extra those days.
3. "warm up my wonky hip on an exercise bike every morning"
   --every morning didn't happen, but 5~6 times a week did, and it did help.
4. "I'm working on a schedule for my swim classes, PT, lifting, and core work...it will come out to a good six days a week with both a more-strenuous workout (lifting, swimming) and a less-strenuous activity (walking, core work, stretching) ...the goal will be not to stick to it rigidly so much as test it and see how I feel, and adjust it and my calorie counts, so I can balance losing fat, gaining strength and function, and maintaining endocrine health."
   --I experimented a lot. I swam five days in a row, twice, I lifted and swam on the same day, twice, I lay in bed all day, twice...I was all over the map. Not sure what I learned. Oh well.
5. "And I really wanna figure out how to raise an extra $500 for a kayaking class"
   --still workin on it. Job interviews have gone well, although I don't have a new full-time job yet, just another source for contract work (which is more than nothing!)

Not on the list, I increased my swimming endurance significantly, in May, and, after losing 25-ish pounds from mid-Feb to late April, I only lost two pounds in May, and I haven't let that derail me.

June goals:

1. Keep logging.
2. Intermittent fasting. Lower calories on non-lifting days (~700), higher calories on lifting days (~1500). If I end up lying in bed one day, I'll fast the whole day. If I'm really hungry one day, I'll have an extra protein shake. No extra anything else.
3. Aiming for 5 swims a week and three lifting days. Also joined a "walk at least 10 minutes a day" challenge, a plank challenge, and a wall squat challenge.
4. I will continue to thoroughly enjoy a small gelato at the shop around the corner from my gym, after my heaviest weight-lifting day, up to once a week. I will not bring pints of ice cream home. I'm not really saving money if I end up eating the whole thing!
5. Get a job. a good one. 'nuff said.

Good luck, Ladies! Go us!

antollie

This is my type of group 50+. My goal is to keep track and to stay under the daily calories goal. It is been awhile that I don't track my eating and exercises, because I been afraid to face what I really been doing to myself. I must loose weight for my health, for myself and for my family. I am just few pound away from the 200 and to become diabetic, which is the death sentence of the women of my family. I must do it this time.

GOAL: Right now my goal is small, loose 7 pounds.
PLAN: This time, I am going to write everything that I eat, good or bad to have so I can have a clear idea of the way that I am taking care of myself and to plan my meals ahead of time and Exercise. Yes, exercise at lease 30 minutes a day 5 days a week.
REWARD: The great feeling of looking at myself and feel good about myself.

Here I go 50+.

Please help me God.

jmkmomm

Hello June! Well in 2 and 1/2 hours. Hopefully I am in slumberland when June comes. Any June brides in here????

I watched Wheel of Fortune then went to the store. Schnucks is a little closer than Walmart so I went there. It is also a lot less crowded. But I didn't realize that they have even less check outs open and they don't have self serve. So I don't know if I did myself a favor or not. I just hope I am not cooking things that will make him sick.

One thing I am afraid of tonight is that as tired as I am I will go to bed with a lot of neuropathy pain in my feet. I don't have it now, it happens when I take my supportive shoes and socks off and put my feet in the bed.

My empty dirt garden from taking out our bushes last fall is quickly becoming quite a weed garden from all the rain. I had done so good last fall in removing every weed. But with the spring weed seeds flying all over the place, they all found my dirt. I am trying to visualize it with all the wonderful things you guys are putting Michele's yard but it still looks like weeds to me. I then always remember Barbie's 'don't let the perfect be the enemy of good. But this is far from perfect or good. Maybe to the god of weeds it is but not to me.

Joyce, Indiana See you next month.

pipcd34

Well let's see how many miles I ride in the month of June, this will include the the spin. My goal I gave was 400mi

klanders30

Joyce throw some mulch down on that dirt. Should slow down your weeds. And don't you have enough going on to even think about weeds!

Happy June ladies. I am closing in on a goal. Most happy to see my BP is stable. Pleased that I have more energy and strength to enjoy my daughters graduation at the end of the
Month which drove me to join MFP in the first place!
Just gonna celebrate the month with eating well, Gardening and walking. Oh yeah I will keep shoulders down, head tall and breathe. Karen from NY

Katla49

Barbie: Thank you so much for setting up the new thread for June.

linder4866

Annr

Well this evening I wrote a nice card to my step-father who's in an adult health facility in the suburbs of Portland. Sadly just too hectic to visit him and deal with the situation at hand. He is a great man though, loved my mother, taught me to appreciate Japan, opera and the humor of BBC. My Senior year in high school we would sit and watch "BlackAdder", Luciano Pavarotti, and cry at all the best parts. Sometimes crying from laughter, and sometimes crying because Pavarotti would hit a note that touched us.

I then wrote to my Middle Sister, (the one that tears at my soul) and said I accept her regardless. That I am her sister always, and no judging. There comes a time in our lives when we just accept our family. She doesn't contact me, that is who she is, but do I love her any less? Nope. Love doesn't work that way. I told her my door is always open for her. I told her of my husbands health situation. I vented. But I stated that we will deal, and my husbands humor will get us thru this. What else is there?

So feeling calmer about things. Hahahaha my husband is swatting my son with his cane....in jest, don't freak now.
Becca
Oregon

Annr

oooops (((((((((hugs ya all...group hug)))))))))
dashing out...............................

GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS

We're supposed to be getting the door to our glassed-in porch within the next couple of weeks. Can't wait to do that; then I can keep the door open to the rest of the house and go out there whenever I chose. Got to get security company to come put a chip on it to the panel box. That way, someone would have to break through 2 doors to get inside the house. Looking forward to fixing it up with some insulation and bead board on the walls and some shelves to add some plants, my collection of flamingos, and my art books out there. Have about decided to get some sheers to put up and keep pushed back in the corners, so if it gets too hot out there (facing west) I can cut some of the heat out with the sheers. Will get the short ones, just so they will brush the top of the shelves. Got to get DH to put 'real' wood shelves up in our MBR in the windows, so they won't sag like the ones that are made of some other type of material that swells when it gets wet. I've even bought an orchid and it is 'still' alive. Might get a couple more when I get the room finished. They aren't as hard to maintain as I thought they'd be. Lady at the store told me to put 2 ice cubes on the moss every week. I've done that and only once had to put a little more water on it. We're going to get a flat screen TV to go out there as well; and, hang it up high so it can swivel so it can been seen anywhere in the room. That way I don't have to watch the 'scary' movies that DH likes to rent. Got to watch the 'chick flick' he rented for me the other day. I just forgot to do so today. Means I will have to watch it as soon as we get home.

Lenora

Annr

Wow Lenora, you are profession DIY lady. I am impressed with all your planning! Take pictures so we can see your handy work!

We used to have a screened back porch. The previous owners had a portable Kiln out there, because she was a ceramics artist. When we moved in, we made it our sons Lego room, until the gecko lizards moved in.... Gotta love Northern California. The gecko lizards ate all the other bugs so we were happy to have them around though. Every so often the Pest Control guys would knock on our door. I would stare at them and say, " Spray THIS place? What, are you nuts! We have bugs eating other bugs like Mother Nature intended, and you want to piss everyone off!"

Becca
Oregon

janetr7476

Barbie, thank you for moving us forward into yet another month. We so appreciate your help in moving us forward in so many ways.

Janetr okc

SSC1958

margaretturk

GodMomKim

Hi gals,


Carey – I’m sure it is not as good of a work out as the real deal… but better than nothing!

Janetr – sending good thoughts for you and your grandson, doing the work to seek help is a huge step.

Gloworm – congrats to your son… and to you for raising his children. Later – sending good thoughts to you and your mom – I know travel is hard on a limited budget, but if you can go to see her it seems like the right choice.

Lisa – you sang the national anthem? Solo? You are more amazing everyday.

Arewethereyet – welcome back

Becca – you have every right to be mad, after all you’ve been through if the liver is failing, you can be mad at that darn liver, but also remember it has given you and DH some wonderful times. With your strength and the support of DH, DS x3 and all of us you’ll make it through this. I am sorry to hear it is at a weird hour, but glad they are fitting him in and you will be headed to an answer. Answers are better than scary stories.

Barbie – thank you for bringing us into June.

Joyce – with all that is going on you are worried about some weeds? Silly girl – get a neighbor to buy and dump some small tan bark on it, it will help with the weeds and give you time to decide what to do next…

Heather and someone eles – I get the not ideal Mom relationship- I’m in that club - but look at who we are, strong successful women with some amazing MFP friends.

Well it is late and it has been hot here, so I try to stay up late to keep all the windows open letting in the air, after I go to bed I close the doors and have locks on the windows so they are only open a few inches, but the airflow is not as great.

Night night….


Smiles.

Kim from N. California