WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2016
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Becca, I may not be reading it right or not completely understanding the severity of the situation, but isn't a stone in the duct better than rejection? Or will the surgery to remove the stone be just as serious on a transplanted liver as it would be for a whole new transplant. Of course Charlie always says I look at everything through rose colored glasses. So I may just not be 'hearing' how bad this may be. Hope you all get a good night's sleep and have a peaceful weekend. As far as your diet, well sometimes it's just hard to do it in stress so don't beat yourself up. let us love on you and you love on your hubbie.
You are reading it perfectly. I will take a stone stuck in a duct any day, over a liver that has gone into rejection mode! I don't know exactly how they remove the stuck stone, if its major surgery, or they just go in and ultra-blast it with a ray gun sort of thing.... Ok I am making a joke out of everything, but what else is there to do... :-)
Husband did get a good nights sleep last night, and his eyes aren't as scratchy feeling from the jaundice.
I left a message with my eldest son that is in the Navy, to call me sometime today. I need a favor from him. With all this traveling to and from Portland, and more travels to come, we are down to $100 for the month, (and this month just started!) Kind of going into mini-panic mode, so he has always said, "If I can help just tell me what I need to do". Well, helping with gas, or meals I am eating at the hospital is a good start son, is what I am going to say. Maybe calling your brother when we leave him alone to fend for himself, is another thing he can do. My son is 17, so none of you freak out! lol This past Thursday, when my husband had his MRI, I called him at 3:40 PM when he got home from school, and let him chat to me about his day. Then I called him at 5 PM to remind him to eat dinner. He stated that he was having toast with a pot of coffee....*sighes*.... I called him at 8:45 PM to wish him good night. Am I smothering the boy? Well maybe a wee bit.
Today it is bright blue skies at the coast. Everyone and their brother is here from Portland, escaping the heat there. And of course the weathermen all say, "Go to the coast, the weather is perfect there". Wish they would quit that! lol....
I shall do my normal nudist thing, and put quilts over my balcony and lay out butt naked... hahahaha... Maybe when I am having my afternoon snack I shall make teenager son go out and get his dose of vitamin D. It's pretty easy if you lock the sliding door.... I did that once, and the look I got from the kid was PRICELESS.....
Everyone have a good weekend. Eat like you are at a spa, and put cut fruit or celery in your water...
I plan on having some great campanelle pasta....(its weird curly and holds sauce or soup flavors really well), some tilapia fish, spinach, all saute'ed beautifully with lots of spices, and in a chicken broth. A fish stew kind of. Then sprinkling some Parmesan cheese over it all.
Then 3 prunes (the Ones' that are in individual plastic packets) and some iced Moroccan mint green tea to top my day off!!
That is my PLAN and I shall stick to it.
Becca
Oregon
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Carey- Northern Alberta~ Glad you like my descriptions!! I am such a foodie!! I think food preparations should have PASSION, and to combine flavors, letting them all make merry in the pan is fun. My mother was a Betty Crocker cook, and food when I was growing up was functional, and had a purpose, I don't remember really being Passionate eating something. Now not to dis anyone that learned to cook from Betty Crocker cook books. I showed a picture of a lady in the older Betty Crocker cookbook that I have, with 8 arms all holding something crazy and said to my teenager... That was what my mom looked like. haha...
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Hi becca...I heard the wether man and am at the coast as well. It is gorgeous here. We are in our motorhome and my husband and dogs are still sleeping. So having some green tea and waiting for everyone to get up so we can all eat breakfast together. Already have my green smoothie made and ready to watch the waves and enjoy!
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!
Robin....also from oregon.2 -
Becca I'm sure you googled it...stones stuck in the grand duct are removed with an endoscope. Not that bad a procedure as procedures go. My DH had it done a number of years ago when the patient was awake now that's not the case. Hope that's the problem...not rejection.2
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I forget to sign GLo from the sunny North Shore of Ma1
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Free_style wrote: »Hi, I am new to the group but would like to post my intentions for the of June 2016. My name is Paula and I reside in Northern California. There's so much I can write but as we become better acquainted, I can share. In February 2015, I weighed 161 pounds, today I am at 185 pounds. Life happens...So I am on a journey to get healthier and have a better life with less aches and pains. Yikes!
My June 2016 intentions are as follows:
[*] Log my food in MFP or journal daily
[*] Walk 2-3 miles each morning
[*] Daily affirmation
[*] Take multivitamins daily
[*] Drink at least 80 ounces of water daily
[*] Limit total screen time TV and extraneous computer activity to 2 hours per day
[*] Lift weights 3 times a week
[*] Learn to meditate and stress less
[*] Focus on finding a job
[*] Declutter Mom's garage when time permits
[*] Ride bicycle as often as possible
[*] Core strengthening, twice a week for at minimum 20 minutes
[*] Yoga or stretching, twice a week for 20 minutes
[*] Daily prayer and meditation
Sounds like a great plan! Welcome to our group. If you have any mental baggage, just unload it off to the white sides of this forum. I got a huge @$$ broom to sweep it all up with... (who gave me this thing, I can't remember).
One thing that helps me is that I have a stack of index cards with great sayings on them. I go thru them weekly. I think re-programming how we think is important. It's a physical task to positive thinking. So I have spray painted some glass inserts from some pictures I don't use anymore, with chalk paint. Then I just put it back in the frame and write what I want my brain to get. I presently have the "TOPS pledge" on my kitchen wall. TOPS stands for Take Off Pounds Sensibly, and is a group that is world wide. Just a physical place I can be accountable. This is the pledge.
I am an intelligent person.
I will control my emotions, and not let my emotions control me.
Every time I am tempted to use food,
to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses
I will remember that I will take off pounds sensibly.
I think most of weight loss is a mind game.
Here is my favorite one.
Losing weight is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to losing weight.
Again, Welcome!
Becca
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tshirtartist wrote: »I am so glad I found this group! I am 53 and struggling with my weight yet again. I have 30lbs to lose which doesn't seem bad considering I lost 200lbs 15 years ago and only gained back top hose 30, but it is a constant yoyo thing. I am really into health and Besides from the out of control feeling I with food scaring me, the thought of health issues as I age scares me just as much. I was a caregiver to my dad for 8 years before he passed away a year and a half ago. The grief of that has led my back to food for comfort and as you all already know, food really isn't that comforting!
I am ready to get back my self confidence and feel comfortable in my skin again and would love the accountability and support! I will be here to support you all as well. Funny of all the diets I have tried over the years I have never tried weight watchers and was thinking of joining but thought what is the difference between that and MFP if I just took advantage of the group support?
Welcome! I have done WW once but that was in the 1990's. Back then, you went to a center, stood in line, and had a weight book. They did the points thing, and I remember it being a lot of numbers to keep in your head about how many pts was this or that. I am sure now, its very different, with all the APPS on phones etc. The MFP helps with the mental support, knowing you aren't in this alone etc, but the physical part of being accountable is important too. I to the TOPS club, (google it and it tells you everything). I know that many people do this journey by themselves, not telling family or their mates, just doing it without a support system is hard. When I get on a program, I tell everyone I know! It is rallying the troops, and the ones that don't support me are out. I don't want to waste my time convincing them of my journey they need to be loyal. Luckily my husband and son are just that. I have tried Jenny Craig, and she took my money but I didn't learn anything. I think if you have some great friends around you that you work out with, they could be your support system as well, and that is less money then WW. I know when I went to the centers I wasted a lot of time listening to "whiners". Now I am not a callus person or non feeling, but you are in the drivers seat of your own life. Whiners to me are people that use a lot of energy on the negative, and not celebrating the positive. Now that is my opinion and I have a right to it, don't put me in the "whiner bashing" catagory now!!! hahaha...
Welcome again from a gal that speaks from brain to hand...
Becca
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tshirtartist wrote: »Hi becca...I heard the wether man and am at the coast as well. It is gorgeous here. We are in our motorhome and my husband and dogs are still sleeping. So having some green tea and waiting for everyone to get up so we can all eat breakfast together. Already have my green smoothie made and ready to watch the waves and enjoy!
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!
Robin....also from oregon.
Looking out my window....where are you!!!! hahaha... I am up by Astoria in a wee little town called Hammond, you?
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I am in brookings Oregon since I live in southern Oregon so looking out your windows won't help. Haha
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Becca I'm sure you googled it...stones stuck in the grand duct are removed with an endoscope. Not that bad a procedure as procedures go. My DH had it done a number of years ago when the patient was awake now that's not the case. Hope that's the problem...not rejection.
He has had many endoscopy's. He had them pre-transplant. Once at OHSU (hospital in Portland OR) he was to have one done. So he goes in and promptly goes to sleep. A nurse looked in on him and just presumed that he was waking up from anesthesia, so she gave him some apple juice. The moment he was about to take a sip, she asked if he has had the procedure. My husband said, "I don't think so". The nurse had informed me that he was waking up so I was in there. She then took his apple juice and mumbled something. At that point my husband and I were laughing so hard. Some procedures they are so excited to let you know you can watch your procedure on the video screen. My husbands response...um no thank you.
Becca
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tshirtartist wrote: »Hi becca...I heard the wether man and am at the coast as well. It is gorgeous here. We are in our motorhome and my husband and dogs are still sleeping. So having some green tea and waiting for everyone to get up so we can all eat breakfast together. Already have my green smoothie made and ready to watch the waves and enjoy!
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!
Robin....also from oregon.
Looking out my window....where are you!!!! hahaha... I am up by Astoria in a wee little town called Hammond, you?
Becca
wait, I see you are from Grants Pass... Hello fellow Oregonian!0 -
i'm in washington!!! kinda close to oregon2
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How come many of the Washingtonians come down here and drive 30 mph on my 45 mph roads...... *sighes and breathes*. (big grin)
rant is o'er.
Becca
Lover of all Washingtonians that do the speed limit in
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Janetr~oooh its a slim thing! Looking for bugs or insects....So different from the huge ones I have seen on the TV (in turkey farms...kind of sad).
Becca
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inner - that's because they don't know how to drive. i on the other hand would scare the crap out of you, i'm a california native, i'm one of those scary fast drivers you read about (that's when i do drive)0
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Love the wild turkey!1
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Hello ladies, I'm fairly new so posting but thought this thread might be the one for me. 50+. I've set out a few goals for June as well.
Getting to the gym at least 5 times a week
No drive through food at all...ever
Track every day
Plan my meals for the week and only shop for what's on the list
Bridget in Ks
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inner - that's because they don't know how to drive. i on the other hand would scare the crap out of you, i'm a california native, i'm one of those scary fast drivers you read about (that's when i do drive)
Ahhhh true. I used to tell people when we lived in California that I was a displaced Oregonian. Then when we moved back to our home state I said I was a displaced Californian.....but I have learned to re-embrace the green of life. The last time we visited Northern California my "gold mountains of yellow (dead) grasses looked sad to me. I am changing my views, and don't freak when it rains, or is gloomy. I used to feel claustrophobic when I couldn't see the sky. Silly eh? California drivers are why I never learned to drive down there. I didn't want to Play the Game of it all....scary, with moments of dread. You would scare the crap outta me sister!!! I would be practicing my High C of opera when in an auto with ya!!!
Becca
Scared singer of high C's with my Pip in
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NSV- Since June 1, I have put 24 miles on my bike and walked 14 miles! Another bonus, my backside has gotten used to the bike seat! Another bonus, I made it up 184 stairs, from the beach to the top of the dune with out stopping! Whoot! I didn't even throw up at the top!
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Boooyah!!!! Congrats KJLaMore!!! You got this healthy living down friend!!!!1
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Had a 3 mile walk in the heat (extra calorie burn?) with my bff. Good to talk about problems I have at length with someone as insightful as she is. I will be called into HR as part of the investigation into a colleague's misconduct this week. I will need all strength and positive energy from all corners to get through this. Don't know which day next week but it will be sooner rather than later. Karen from NY2
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KJ ~ What a wonderful NSV!
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janetr7476 - Looks like a Hen or possibly a young Jake. My DOS is a 'big' deer hunter; he will tell you every single second and detail of how his hunt went. This year, not a single gobble around. Was that way for the 2-week season; since then has heard one (Gobbler) every day. They are 'stupid' bird; but, their eyesight is extremely good; you better be prepared to shoot when they come into your range; or else you will 'spook' them even if you raise a camo taped gun. My great-uncle used to raise the 'white' domesticated turkeys; when it rained he had to go out and pen them up in the coop; otherwise they would hold their mouths open and drown in the rain. I'd go out there with him; but, it was a 'messy' job.
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Hi all
Just had a row with DH because I complained about the crème caramel. wasn't caramelled enough. He walked out. I didn't even eat it.
It was his.
I like complaining, he doesn't.
Don't know where he is now. I am typing on the library computer.
grrrrrrrrr.
will probably go to the evening entertainment.
Otherwise all good. Haven't seen anyone we want to talk to yet. All old people.
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Only a sprinkling today so it looks like we might be in for a bit of dry for a few days. No sun but hey, no massive rain is an improvement.
Everyone has all these lovely pictures of their dogs. I had two dogs. One was such a sweet and bright dog. Half American Eskimo half Border Collie. Smart as a whip. She lived to be 19. The other was a mutt that nobody ever figured out his breed/mix. Most vets said a mix that definitely had some Chow in it but I don't know. He lived to be 16, died about 6 months after the other one of a broken heart I'm sure. No dogs since then. To be honest I'm a cat person. I like cats. Got one indoor cat and two outdoor "earn your keep" cats. I probably won't get a dog again unless my husband were to die and I wanted some protection, although my indoor cat is quite the watch cat. Anyone even drives into the driveway and she is up and growling at the door. I always know when someone is around with her.
My shoulder is killing me. I think it's a bone spur (had one on the other shoulder) but I'm not headed to the Dr. until after my trip. Headed out for a dive trip in a week. Going swimmin' with the sharkies.
Marcelyn in Houston3 -
Hi. I'm new to MFP & am looking for motivation & lots of encouragement. Not sure how all this works. Not very tech savvy.....I have lots of weight to lose & health issues that I would love to be helped with weight loss. Lots of stress at work & no support at home. Dealing with depression as well. Any thoughts?0
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