WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2016

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  • teriwymore
    teriwymore Posts: 1 Member
    Hi all! Thanks Barbie for mediating this community... I am very excited to find this thread / accountability group :)

    My name is Teri. I was born and raised in WA (Columbia River Gorge)! Hello all you PNW peeps!!!... but now am living in the outskirts of Memphis TN.

    I'm almost 52 and have a food baby growing around my middle that I want to give birth to over the next 9-12 months!!! ...I've put on 30+ pounds in the last three years mostly because I'm a sugar addicted stress eater and then secondly from this damn thing called menopause.

    The majority of my life I was on the thin side, energetic, happy, and healthy... then one day recently I looked in the mirror (the culmination of 30+ weight gain) and there's this old fat woman looking back at me... I barely recognize her; how can this person be ME(?), in my mind I still feel in my early 30's, youthful and energetic.

    The current me: I'm plump all over (look pregnant around my middle), tired looking, two chins, have little energy, and emotionally on the sad/disappointed side most days. Each day these past 3 years have melted into the next and my sugar/carb cravings seem to win out each day perpetuating more weight gain.

    What has put me over the edge to make a committed change was the embarrassment of how I looked (in person and IN PHOTOS) at my daughters wedding this past month...I am so embarrassed! How did I let myself get out of control like this?!?

    I am ready to get serious about making changes!

    GOALS FOR AUGUST

    * Stay encouraged (multiple ways)
    * Log in every bite & water intake on MFP
    * 12,500 steps per day (M-F) on FitBit
    * Work out at least 30 minutes per day 3X a week
    * Participate in the Elvis 5K at Graceland
    * lose 2 pounds per week

    Blessings to everyone this month as we all journey toward better wellness- physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

    ~Teri in Tennessee
  • megblair1
    megblair1 Posts: 1,226 Member
    Good morning all. It’s going to be hot and humid today…bleh. Benny is going to the vet at 1; DH is taking him. Now he won’t eat the jam sandwiches. So frustrating. I just don’t know what to do about his eating anymore.

    I’m meeting with a person here at work who is a fitness trainer…not the kind who meets you in the gym, but a corporate health and wellness kind of person and I’ll see what she has to say and if she has some new ideas because I am getting frustrated with this too.

    So sad 2 nights ago three boys were walking on a train trestle when a train came (of course). One boy jumped off the trestle into the creek below and was only hurt a bit. One boy got pushed off the trestle by the 3rd boy. He is in intensive care but expected to live. The third boy got killed. He lived down the street from us and DD#2 worked with him at Runza so she is in a bit of shock right now. They closed Runza yesterday and all went to his rosary service and a candlelight service and to the manager’s house for snacks and talking.

    Miriamwithcats; that was HILARIOUS. Love the photo, I did not realize you actually had a shelter. So what makes cats unadoptable? My guess is behavior/mistrust of people. So glad they have you. My dream job if money were no object is to open a shelter for special needs animals. I have sure had enough experience! So sorry about the one who passed away.

    Katla: did you have a good trip?

    Mary: here’s hoping the toe gets better soon. What happened with the arm?

    Karen: yes the sweet ones! Now he won’t eat them but I will LOL

    Susan and all the newbies: hi and welcome

    Re: I am with you. Fruit is good for you and like all things in moderation works best. I want to eat “normal” food too. I cannot go on some drastic diet. For starters, I am only cooking one meal! I won’t cook something for me, something for DH, something for this kid or the other. Hang in there

    DJ: good job avoiding the ice cream!

    Vicki: good news on the loss!

    Karen and Vicki: I have a funny joke about Wauneta and Junieta…perhaps you have heard it about how to pronounce them and “where are we”? It’s hard to say on line….you have to have the right inflection and tone….

    Lenora: glad you are home safe and sound and had a good time!

    Janet; great photo. Thanks for sharing!

    Well time to get some work done. Take care and stay cool. Meg from Omaha

  • miriamwithcats
    miriamwithcats Posts: 1,120 Member
    Meg, I have a rescue, and work with our local animal shelter. Often the unadoptable cats are elderly and in need of daily medication (usually twice daily for hyperthyroid). I have had several like that. These elderly cats also often have trouble using a litter box so I have to cage them when I am not actively observing them. So I have two huge dog kennels in my living room. One cat that we currently have was so traumatized from whatever happened to her as a stray (she was originally a pet) and the time spent in the shelter that she hissed and scratched anyone that came near her. So no one wanted to adopt her. She managed to stay alive for three years since this is a very low kill shelter (only terminally ill animals), mostly since one of the managers just adored her and would veto euthanizing her whenever it was brought up since she was unadoptable. She hid under the bed the first month she was here, but will now head butt people that come over, wanting to be pet. I still cannot pick her up, though. I have had blind cats, and currently have a deaf one too. I had one that died within the past year that had to have her back leg amputated- they thought she had been thrown from a vehicle since she was found alongside the highway as a tiny kitten. Her leg was dislocated at the hip from being thrown out. She did just fine. The way cats run, with front legs working in tandem and back legs working in tandem meant that you could not tell she was missing a leg when she ran. But when she walked, she went hippity (front legs) hop (back leg). In spite of what she went through she was so loving with everyone! I do a lot of laundry and cleaning on a daily basis, and have no carpet or rugs in the house.
  • mrspaws91
    mrspaws91 Posts: 27 Member
    Good morning!
    I'm finding these August resolutions very motivating. Thanks for posting them.
    We've got a big change coming soon. dh has accepted a transfer to Minnesota.
    We're all so excited! Minnesota is home. Almost all of the extended family is in MN or WI and we still own our home there. My MN girlfriends are getting it cleaned up and ready for our arrival. I am so blessed!
    Meanwhile, here in Colorado my days are filled with packing and cleaning and trying to sell what we won't need.
    I'm trying to stay on track with diet and exercise but finding it increasingly difficult.
    I am hopeful that posting my resolutions here will help keep me accountable.

    August Goals
    - eat on plan 90% of the time
    - stick to calorie goal of 1500/day
    - exercise 6x/week
    - 12,000 steps/day
    - 100 oz of water/day
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Joyce: School here starts after Labor Day and goes through the early part of June. This year we had a glorious and sunny spring, but it is typically overcast or rainy until at least mid June. In the Portland area, they want to keep the kids in school until the Rose Festival so they can participate in the events. :flowerforyou:

    Eava57 & Tracey: Welcome to a great group. We generally have monthly goals and report our outcome from the previous month on our first day in a new month. I've changed my goals into resolutions. It is a semantic shift but seems to fit well during maintenance. :flowerforyou: Tracey: I eat a relatively high protein/low carb diet and wind up with a higher fat content than some people like. I stick to healthy fats like olive oil as much as possible. It takes time to learn what gives you the best results and helps you to feel your best. Be patient and don't give up. :smiley:

    Heather: Hiding animal figures in the garden for the DGC is a great idea. I'm chuckling about your buying pot plants. In my state, pot is legal but you can't buy pot plants at the local garden center. British "English" and American "English" are quite similar but have their differences. We would likely buy potted plants at the garden center. :laugh: I'm probably warped and no one else will think this is an amusing play on words. :ohwell: :embarassed: Your animals are cute & the DGC will love them. :heart:

    Miriam: Hilarious picture of catnipped kitties. I agree with you about the spay/neuter issue. :flowerforyou:

    evinston: When I started with MFP I bought a food scale and a set of restaurant style dishers to help me with portion control. The dishers look like ice cream scoops. I still use both tools on a regular basis, although not as much as when I was learning what the portions should look like. I used one this morning to dish up my cottage cheese. I wanted a half cup, not a mountain of it. I bought the food scale on Amazon for a reasonable price. I picked one with good reviews. I bought the dishers at a restaurant supply store and they were a bit pricey, but not horrid and ultimately worth it to me. Ordinary measuring cups work just fine, but the dishers are a little bit easier for serving food. :flowerforyou:


    Yoga today and I'm looking forward to it. One of my favorite teachers will be back from a trip & I enjoy her classes very much. Then I need to pick cherry tomatoes. The cultivar is Sweet One-thousands, and it is well named. I'm trying to figure out what to do with them all. :laugh:

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

    Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."

    “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

    August Resolutions :
    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. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 476 Member
    What a start to my day!!! Got to work, did not even turn the computer on yet but took off my sweater and went to open a metal storage cabinet. When I tried to close the door my wedding ring got stuck on the door somehow and the diamond flew off--so I was left with a band with a gaping hole, no diamond, a filthy floor and several boxes of things to go through. After a hour of searching, a heroine (now) co-worker of mine found the stone under a divider!!! Cannot get the ring off because it has formed into a D from an O--heading to get it sawed off at lunchtime--hopefully just the ring, not the finger. Trying to figure out how to refresh the ring and the setting so it will never fall off again.

    Can tell I am still stressed out because I really want a whole passel of calories. Also, where is that margarita I wanted a couple of days ago?

    Hope your days are going better...

    Betty
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,710 Member
    edited August 2016
    Janetr - Are you buying the kettlebells online or can you get to a shop? If you can get to a shop then watch the video I mentioned on Utube, it's by Mark Riefkind, starring Tracy Riefkind, who has many helpful videos on swinging and is called something like How to choose the right weight kettlebell. If you are ordering online then that won't work. :) Personally I think a 10 lb jump is quite a lot. You can use your intermediate weight ones for other exercises, so all the weights can be used, even if you are not swinging them.
    My hips are feeling much better today, so it is clearly not the kettlebell that is aggravating them. With RA and OA it seems to be fairly random, but the weather seems to be a factor. I always know when the rain is coming!

    To the lady who doesn't enjoy exercise (sorry, forgotten your name) I was like you and hated almost any form of exercise except perhaps swimming. Gradually, ver gradually, I have got to like it because I like the way it makes me feel and I love the way it makes me look. I used to just exercise because I needed to earn my eating calories as I love my food, but I am beginning to find my life really does not work without it. I have made it a priority in my life. I never would have thought it 4 years ago when I started on here. It is important to choose something easy and convenient for you, that you can stick to and come to enjoy one day.
    I have 3 machines in my spare room which I can do while I listen to the radio or tv. I put my yoga mat in my bedroom where I can do some yoga and weights. Recently I have added a kettlebell routine every other day. I am retired so I have time, but I do make time, even if I have a lot to do. I even do it when we have visitors, who have to wait for us. I get up early if I have to go somewhere.
    I am as surprised at myself as anyone else! My DH is a very dedicated and disciplined exerciser, so I have learnt a lot from him. It helps that we can do it together.
    You have to find a way that works for you and fits in with your own commitments and life style. Any amount of moving is better than none - you are beating anyone still sitting on the couch.

    Heather UK
  • Lagopus
    Lagopus Posts: 1,016 Member
    edited August 2016
    Heather wrote: Trying to decide whether to go to the garden centre to buy a couple of pot plants and three animal figures for the DGC. I thought we could hide them in the garden so they can hunt for them and then take them home to their own garden. Not sure if it's just a silly idea, or not. ;):*
    Oh Heather, just DO it, they'll absolutely LOVE it! When the grandkids were visiting out at the island place last week, they insisted on having treasure hunts. Since they can't read yet, their father (or I) will draw a picture for each of the various hiding places. The game is so popular I regularly save clues for reuse. The kids don't mind and it saves time!

    Our grandson is frightfully active and one day when he was driving us all crazy, I constructed an all-new outdoor treasure hunt and distributed the clues so he had to run from the top of the hill to the mailbox, to the woodpile, to the far end of the garden, to the compost, to the plank bridge over the eastern streamlet, to the clothesline beyond the western streamlet... you get the picture. Result: kid out burning energy, everyone else breathing easier for several minutes. (Later: I see you've bought the animals. Good on ya!)
    Karen in VA wrote: Some people, like @Lagopus Penny swoop in and entertain us mightily with a post or three, and then may not be back again for a few weeks.
    Haha! Thanks for the blurb, Karen! Here I SWOOP!

    Last I typed I was about to go home to the High Arctic to entertain our old classmate from way back in the mid-1970s and his wife. I was also a bit coughy and sore-throaty. Danged if I didn't completely and utterly lose my voice the same day they arrived! I love dragging people around my adopted hometown and yacking about it at g-r-e-a-t l-e-n-g-t-h (as Heather can confirm) but I couldn't get out anything but a croak. However, I didn't feel ill at all, so I participated in all the activities. One day we went out with an excursion boat past the puffin cliffs, the glacier, Pyramiden (our local ghost town), various trapper huts and other fantastic sites and sights.

    We were out from 8 am to 8 pm and then we high-tailed it to the town's top-notch restaurant "Huset", where they have northern Europe's largest wine cellar, and where our guests had booked us a table from 8:30. Since I was totally lacking a sense of smell, I volunteered to drive. (The place is technically well within walking distance but we had to go home and change from excursion clothing to fancyish dress. We simply didn't have time.)

    Like some fancy places, they had a set menu of either 5 or 7 courses, based on local produce insofar as it's possible in a place where the growing season is 12 weeks long. We chose the 7-course menu, which I reproduce for you here. The seven courses are in italics. The rest are just "amuse bouche" or sides.

    Minke whale carpaccio with sour cream and crispy onion
    Sourdough bread baked using mash from the local brewery
    Homemade crispbread
    -o-
    King crab with red currant marinade, rice paper, lemon mayonnaise, and sorrel
    -o-
    Baby turnip and new cabbage medallions under juniperberry cream, roasted hazelnuts and cress, topped with freshly shredded dried reindeer meat
    -o-
    Tender pork forehead with borlotti beans and whipped amandine potatos
    -o-
    Arctic charr with herb-seasoned cream cheese, crispy little cubes of rye bread, and diced raw apple in dill oil
    -o-
    Black currant and applejuice smoothie
    -o-
    Roulade of baby goat seasoned with lovage, accompanied by Jerusalem artichoke puré and a halved, oven-baked Jerusalem artichoke
    -o-
    Deep-fried fresh Danish cheese served on pear compote, with deep-fried pumpkin seeds and crushed fennel seeds
    -o-
    Rhubarb compote, rhubarb crunch, heather-honey ice cream and toasted sunflower seeds, topped with a leaf of white chocolate

    My, oh my!

    We ate and ate, and those who weren't driving had the wine package, specially selected to go with each dish. From time to time somebody would sigh and repeat my father's famous line: "Life is rough in the Arctic!" We didn't finish until after midnight.

    Now my husband has come home and it's time for dinner, so on that note, I will leave you. With luck, I can post a couple pictures from the boat trip tomorrow.

    But for now, ta-ta, my chickens!

    /Penny at the North Pole
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,264 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,710 Member
    Oooooohhhh Penny - I remember you pointing out that Huset. Wonderful menu!
    DH is going to compose all the clues. He is fantastic at that sort of thing - always does the Christmas Quiz. DGS can read well, but not DGD. so we will have to be inventive. They will have to stand in for Bea. <3

    Yes, Katla, they are indeed potted plants. We have just potted them - one a white dahlia and two cerise geraniums. :D
    Our patio is looking gooooooood.!

    Love Heather, who is going to have a pastis tonight after 3 days of no alcohol B)
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    Heather, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. Yes, I can go to the local Sporting Goods store anf try them out.

    Does anyone have experience with the adjustable weight kettle bells. I want to ensure they are safe to use.

    Janetr okc
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Heather - These statutes look so real, they could probably almost be 'in plain sight'. My BF collected rabbits for a while; then she gave it up. I have collected flamingos for about 25 years and have about 70, no 2 are alike. A couple or a few are 'similar' but just not 'the same'. I plan to put them out on the glassed-in porch off our MBR when DH 'finally' gets the carpenter, 'who has a door he'll give us and put it up himself' gets around to it. I'll open the door in the AM; but it has been way too hot to even do that for a little time. Got to stay 'out' of Hobby Lobby since they've had a bunch of them. DDnL#1 took a picture of the display.

    Lenora
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
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  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,976 Member
    Re, you preach it, sister! I was paying big bucks to go to a weight loss center once and was scolded for eating carrots because they have too much natural sugar. Do you really think we got fat eating carrots and grapes? I don't think so. There are those who avoid dairy at all costs, so I can understand someone choosing not to eat yogurt, but I personally still think there's a lot to be said for the old-fashioned food pyramid. It sounds like you and I have similar eating philosophies. Sustainable for life. No more yo-yo-ing.

    Marcelyn , congrats on the ability to set boundaries with your friend/relative. I'm a big proponent of debt-free living myself. People will usually figure it out when there's no other choice. Helping someone in need is one thing, enabling is another. You did good.
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    edited August 2016
    Stronglifts Workout A
    Squats-1X5X 55/65/75/85, 5X5X95
    OHP-1X5X 45/50/55/60, 5X5X 55
    DL-1X5X 145

    Kettlebell Swing
    Russian kettle bell swing-19X 10 X 35

    Walk 1,000 Miles Challenge
    5 miles
  • frankiesgirl21
    frankiesgirl21 Posts: 235 Member
    @Katla Thanks for the support. About those tomatoes, have you thought about roasting them? Toss them in olive oil and roast on a cookie sheet @ 400 and then freeze for anytime you want a fresh cherry tomato sauce or add in?

    Penny, nice to meet you! What a place to live.... and what a menu! Holy Cow!! Oh wait- there was no cow on it! lol..I was envisioning it all as I read!

    Betty, glad you found your stone. Don't worry, a good jeweler can fix it good as new. I did something similar once... while I was still Engaged! My DH almost had a heart attack!
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Beautiful day here in NY. Was motivated to repaint our master bedroom today , low humidity every window in the house open and I awoke up rested so why not paint! The gentle blue is now replaced with a very restful sage green which feels fresh! Wonder if I burned many calories moving up and down the ladder?

    My goal to savor my August activities is okay so far (wait it's only August 3!!)
    Well anyway I am proud of myself for calling and rescheduling a get together with a retired colleague because I really want to focus on doing fun things with DD before she flies the coop :s

    When her summer job is over I want to get discount tickets to see Broadway show, visit our favorite museums and take a day trip to the ocean. I think it will be lots of fun to be all spontaneous.

    We shall see, but for now I am making good food choices and intend to stick with it. NYKAREN
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Teri in TN - I felt the same way last May a year ago, when I was at my DYS's wedding. Was about to top at 200lb; never quite got to that; but, so close I could feel it coming. I came home and cried for a solid week; MD put me on a MD ordered and regulated medical weight loss program. I have lost down to 155.5; with about 10lbs to go to reach my goal. We'll discuss it further when my BMI reaches a 'normal' number for my frame and age. A couple of weeks ago, I tried but could not lift a 40lb bag of potting soil and to think I had been toting around that on my body made me really think, 'I do NOT want to EVER let it get this bad again'. I take a lot of medication for a variety of health issues ... all with the 'side effect' of 'weight gain'. Tracking my CI and making sure that I have daily CO is key for me to lose it and keep it off. But, I don't eat back my exercise calories ... it just makes me happy on those days that I go over, to know I have a little cushion. I think my DGDs were trying to 'kill' me by walking on the beach ... I can barely move and when I do ... it hurts.

    Betty - My Mother had the diamond in her engagement ring which was formed into a 'figure 8' and wore it as a necklace. She had to have both the engagement ring and wedding band cut off when she accidentally stuck her hand in a can of hot bacon grease when she went to put the top back on it. The diamond is in the cross-over of the "8". I got it when we put her into an A.L.F. prior to her death. We broke up her household, so she got to see which one of us got what. That made her happy; then we donated the rest to the community center ... she did NOT want others coming through the house such as a garage or estate sale. Three daughters got what we wanted; and, then when we finished our picks; then, what out children had said they wanted became our picks. We did it on a rotating basis to make it fair to each of us.

    She lived on a small town block and owned all 3 houses that were on it. The church bought it and then rented it back to her at a 'great' price (until she either could not live alone or died; whichever came first). They tore down the house that my Daddy had his office in; sold Mimi's house and it got moved out into the country; and, finally decided to tear down the house that I grew up in after debating on what to use it for. One of my HS friends and her husband had the contract to take it down and retain the salvage after the asbestos abatement. However, someone announced to the congregation that 'if' they wanted anything out of the house, they needed to go get it because the decision had been made to tear it down. My friend and her husband had already sold a mantelpiece out of the LR and DR to the people who had bought and were remodeling a house built at the same time and adding a den to the back of it; and, they (church congregation) had taken chain saws to the mantles and surrounds just to see if there were coal bins in any of the FPs. There were 6 fireplaces and 3 chimneys in the house when my Dad purchased it on my oldest sister's 10th birthday (as a surprise for my Mother) who had always wanted to live in a 'big house' one day. When they started going in and pulling down walls, they found all sorts of 'treasures'. Daddy had the bannisters made for the ones missing. There was a 'hidden' closet under the front stairwell where there was bead board. That is where we put our Christmas Decorations. I asked my HS friend if she would see about getting some of the 12" baseboard for me. Both my oldest sister and I had earlier gotten the 2 stained glass windows out of it during times of being remodeled and a screened porch being built. After they found that people had gone into the house after they had put up the 'hazmat notice' and basically raped the house of any and all valuable salvage, they had to re-do the contract. They were pissed to say the least. She found some 'unpainted' baseboard under the stairwell; and I got about 15' of it. Made each sister a coat hanger out of a piece with several hooks and DH had stained it and put a hanger on the back. We've yet to make mine. I'd really like to go to the flea market to see if I could find some of the same type of solid brass door handles it had (or the glass ones).

    Lenora

    Lenora
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,710 Member
    Research has shown that people who eat dairy do better at losing weight and keeping it off.

    Heather
  • Lagopus
    Lagopus Posts: 1,016 Member
    @frankiesgirl21 and everyone else, I should clarify that the portions were TINY! Just enough to leave you wanting more. If I'm up a couple pounds it's because entertaining and the throat thing have kept me from jogging for nearly three weeks. I'll be back on my own in Northern Norway from tomorrow, though. If I can't jog, at least I'll be able to put in a good long walk. PROMISE!
    /Penny again :smiley:
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,264 Member
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  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 476 Member
    Well, ladies my ring saga continues...

    I went to the jewelry clinic at lunch and the nice man looked at my band and cut the thing off without doing me any damage. Then I showed him the stone we had found and he looked at it, then back at the ring and said "This is not your stone." So my jaw dropped and then he said "it is too small for the prongs plus it is a rhinestone!"

    Then my jaw dropped again and he said I should just go back and look some more. Feeling extremely dejected at this point especially after I had told my husband that it had been found, I walked back to the office and slowly started looking again. I was about to head over to the nice lady who had found the rhinestone to tell her and stopped to talk to someone else who had missed the previous excitement. Then SHE started looking with me and within 5 minutes she found something shiny under a book truck we hadn't gotten to searching yet! So I am blessed with two angel co-workers now!

    This stone is larger and sparkly-er and if it is not a diamond I might just use it anyway. But I really do not want a Part 3 to this story--have no desire to compete with Wagner or Tolkien as far as ring sagas go!!!!

    Betty, ever more frazzle-ized and wanting to go home now...
  • Annr
    Annr Posts: 2,765 Member
    Howdy ladies! Nothing really to report here in Oregon... Had my TOPS meeting this morning, and came out with a 1.4 lb loss so that was nice.

    Have you all ever been too hungry to fix anything? I will take a nap (for 15 min) maybe then fix lunch. My stomach hurts, and I just don't feel like cooking right now...

    Becca
    Oregon
  • melaniemetoyer
    melaniemetoyer Posts: 50 Member
    Heather in UK I see you mentioned that you suffer with RA. How does your Dr. treat that? and that research about dairy, does that include an occasional cup of ice cream ;)
    Karen in Virginia I did see something about methotrexate????? when I was trying to find out about the rheumate. I guess the bottom line, (question) is, is it (the rheumate) safe to take, but more importantly, will it help with the soreness in my hands & wrists?
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Becca- congratulations on your loss!
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Becca- Nice loss! Sweet dreams! When I am too hungry to cook that is when I turn to cereal or cottage cheese.
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    kj love the pics with you all together, those cuties look like a handful but oh so adorable! They are lucky to have you! NYKAREN
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    KJ ~ Lov the pics of you and all the kiddos! You look so young! :)
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,200 Member
    frankiesgirl21 wrote: »
    I think I would like to join you all here. I am pretty bad with commitment so this will be an exercise in itself. Been an on again off again MFPer for a couple of years. Started with about 50 to lose and currently have 20-25 more to go. Sedentary office job more or less and I hate exercise. Ergo I don't. But it is beginning to take its toll. All that sitting has lead to chronic bursitis in my hip. Looking to get serious about being in better shape and look better too. I was a size 2/4 up until about ten years ago when I just packed on the 50. I may never be that tiny again but I would like to be a hell of a lot better! So, anyway I am married to the world's best man and my true BF. We have a Harley so in the summer that's our place to be. I am from PA and looking forward to getting to know you all but there seems to be a lot of you so that could take awhile. LOL! I am also hypo thyroid so right now I am trying Keto. I have known for awhile I don't feel my best with a lot of carbs even thought they are my biggest weakness! Thanks for taking time to hear from me. Oh, btw I am Tracey. Frankie (as you have probably guessed by now) is my Hubs.

    :)Welcome, Tracey, we are glad you have joined us....why not start small by committing to read this thread every day....it might help you get the mind set and info that you need to get more active...there are lots of ways to burn calories and when you find the one for you, it will be easy. I walk my dogs and take dance classes.

    :) Barbie from NW Washington
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