WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2016
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Heather- (((hugs))) don't take it personally. Think of it as they need a day to relax before work. It really has nothing to do with you. You are a fantastic Grandma.
Mary from Minnesota1 -
Heather, one of my happiness commandments is "Don't take things personally"....I think it applies to your change of plan with your grandchildren. I admire how you are with them. You are awesome. Barbie from NW Washington 1 -
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NY Karen and Others ~ I taught mostly 5th grade for over 30 years! It was my whole life with the exception of my son and DH. I cried and cried when I left but now could not imagine working all day.
DH is getting ready to do his monthly antique show. The last 3 months have not been very profitable and I am encouraging him to get a booth in a mall to get rid of some of the small things that have accumulated but never been taken to the show. It is time to declutter. I have started going through my drawers and hope to do a bit at a time.
Carol1 -
Hello! This is Janice from Va. Beach. I am 65 years old, married with 9 grandchildren. I am really hoping to quit starting and stopping with this crazy weight thingy. So over it. I am 182 and 5'3" and have never been this heavy. I fool myself all the time that I'm not that fat, then walk by a mirror or see a picture of myself and can not believe it. No doubt I'm not the only one who has done the same, so please allow me to join in here and get motivated. I joined the local recreation center, but haven't gone so far...I feel too fat. Such a vicious cycle, right? Anyway, here I go starting again. I will journal my food each day and make myself exercise if I can just stay motivated. But don't be too easy on me, I need good pushes or I will use every excuse under the sun There, that's my vent for the day... 5
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Mary and Barbie - Thank you. That's how I am trying to feel.
I know they have a huge amount on their plates at the moment. I think it hit me a bit hard because I am trying so hard not to be like my own mother. 
I never want to be a hindrance, just a help.
I'm glad in a way that they felt able to say it. That's good.
We've repotted the mint. It looks as if it's breathing a sigh of relief.
Heather UK
PS - Welcome Janice! I have certainly been where you are. I finally had had enough and lost 57 pounds. I developed good eating and exercising habits which are now (mostly) second nature. You can't rely on willpower, so habits are important. It takes a while to develop them so you have to pay attention in the beginning and then it gets easier. I am going to make my new grip squeezer a habit. (Hand Dynanometer) To do this I have to assign a day (Mon, We'd, Fri) and a time - (7 pm) - and I have to make sure it is easily available (beside where I sit on the sofa). I am a lazy person who avoids putting myself out do I try to make my good habits as easy for me as possible. Easy availability is very important. That goes for food as well. If the healthy stuff is in front of your nose you are more likely to eat it.2 -
Back again - lovely to catch up with you again.
Happy September everyone.
Maryann UK1 -
Thanks for the encouragement Heather. 0
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Janice- welcome to our very supportive group of friends! Ditto to what Heather said!
Mary from Minnesota1 -
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Stronglift Rest Day
Kettlebell Swing
Goblet squat-3X5X 40
Russian kettle bell swing-10 X7X 40
Walk 1,000 Miles Challenge
2 miles
Week one, day one of my transition from the 35 pound kettle bell to the 40 pound. Boy is it heavy! I am so glad that I follow the first four weeks of the five-week basic program. That way I feel confident that I will not injure myself. I will do this on strong lift rest days for the first four weeks.
Mary from Minnesota1 -
Went to weigh-in, had gained 3lbs, but have been on vacation for 10 days in Louisiana. Food too good to worry about it; but, I still tracked food and very little exercise. Now, back on plan. Will try to stay on it this next 2-week period. Because we're taking our final beach trip at the end of the month. Nurse said, for where I went, did pretty good. I'll have to wait till I get home to post stats.
I'm trying to make sure that I can do it. Lose the weight and get back to where I was before going out there.
Lenora
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I'm new to this program. Serious health issues have caused me to take a hard look at my weight and overall health. Can use some support to help me stay on path.
Only setting small goals
1 lb a week
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Allison: I misunderstood about the freezer. I'm not sure things ever actually calm down, but they change and once in a while the change is an improvement.
Heather: Plumbing issues are worrisome. I hope you can get your situation resolved quickly. :flowerforyou: As to the grandchildren, I agree with Barbie's comments on not taking things personally.
Janice: You've found a good spot for support. Welcome!
dsh0979: Welcome to a great group.
I enjoyed yoga today, took the lemon coffee pot back and exchanged it for another of the same brand and model. The reviews were great. If this one turns out to be a lemon we'll get our money back and try something different.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
"So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun."
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Katie thank you for the welcomes0
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Ok ladies, I'm mad mad MAD. Gained at my TOPS meeting, so I am getting serious now! Enough of this trying, I just have to eat the right food dammit! So I ate my last frozen dinner, Michelina's Macaroni cheese bake, (only 320 calories, but 11 g of fat, and 670mg of sodium!), and got to work in the kitchen. I made my famous wild rice mixture with chicken broth, and spices, and laid on 4 pcs' of tilapia fillets. Then I put the rice and fish in 4 containers. 4 meals done! Comes out to 312 calories, 23 carbs, 28 g protein, 359mg sodium, and 12 g of fat) for each serving. I then cooked up some frozen blackberries, with some syrup, and added that to vanilla yogurt, walnuts, and granola. I layered it in 3 mason jars so it came out to 6 servings (I can only each half a jar at a time... ). But still, It was only 295 calories, 41 g of carbs, and 12 g of protein and 10 g fat! Yah me!!! I rock and I am going to do this!
Becca getting serious now in
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Welcome to all our new ladies.
Barbie, you must be in a lot of pain to have that much discomfort just standing in one place for an x-ray. hope this doctor finds the source of your pain and can set up a treatment that works for who Barbie is.
I called my doctor's office and told them I was giving in and would go ahead with nurse practitioner's suggestion of a steroid injection. So I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon. The Icy Hot isn't working as well and I am wondering if it is because I am putting it on skin and then not washing it off before I put on another application.
Charlie has been talking about wanting to move to a ranch style home. I know it would help both of us, especially him in the distant future. But it is the purging this house, decluttering, etc that I just can't even fathom the thoguht of me doing. he said we will have the movers do everything. I reminded him of what our drawers and shelves look like. He just said they can put everything in a big plastic bag and take it to new house!!!!!! Men, he doesn't see that we would just be moving a bag of junk from this house to a new house. I am having a real hard time with the thought of ever moving from this house. Right now I am just hoping that a stair lift would help. Neither of us are at that point in our life or illnesses. As a preacher's kid, I moved around so much. We had this house built in 1998, Michelle was born here, I watched both girls go off to kindergarten from here, graduate high school, proms, I could go on and on. It has a large family room for our family and an OK living room. If we would just redo the tiny master bathroom so it doesn't have any leaks and we can use it. This house is in our will for Michelle to have. Oh the fun her and her dogs can have in our large back yard. I have had such good thoughts over knowing that we would be able to do that for her. He thinks that you can just put up a house for sale 'as is' and it is easily sold. We have one outlet that is up to code and that is the one in the one bathroom that works and we gutted it several years ago. This is the home that the whole extended Peterson family has their Christmas. We have had to give in and have our big meal at another place.
Time to hit the shower. I dread that task these days.
Joyce, Indiana0 -
Joyce - I'm not necessarily suggesting you should move as I'm sure a stair lift would be great. You could even put in a "normal" lift that would take a wheelchair. But if you wanted to declutter a bit you could do what my friend did before she moved out of the house she had lived in for forty years - she hired a professional declutterer to help her make decisions about what to keep and what to junk. She found the woman invaluable and couldn't have done it without her. She is now in a one bedroom flat and has some stuff in a garage downstairs.
Love Heather UK
PS - I sold my rental "as is" as I couldn't be bothered to do it up. I reckoned it wasn't worth the hassle or expense . I expected to sell it for peanuts, but got a decent price that proved me right.0 -
Joyce ~ Have you thought of renting the house you love so Michelle can still inherit it? I would love to live in a house where I did not have to climb the basement stairs with groceries, etc. I would gladly move back to our old rental house just to downsize but that will never happen. We have too many antiques (junk???) to get rid of.
NSV ~ I have had a very bad day emotionally. But, I did not take it out by overeating. I dread having the 1-1/2 hr drive to check on my mom and never know how it will go. Also, DH going to do his show always makes me upset for some reason.
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I am hearing a lot of determined ladies here
Yes I am talking to you becca planning and preparation is everything, way to go!! Also heather's information about habits vs will power rings so true to me. I am really paying attention to my own habits. Sitting down to plan meals is not a habit for me, so now I schedule it, go through circulars and plan food shopping and prep on the weekend. One week in and all is going according to plan!! NYKAREN 2 -
Joyce, before the girls came to live with me, I just stopped using the second story. I used a small room downstairs for my bedroom, and just left the two bedrooms upstairs made up for guests, but nothing I would need to access up there. It worked out well. Occasionally I would go upstairs and clean/ change the linens. But I was very comfortable using just part of the house and not doing stairs on a daily basis. The full bath is on the first floor, though. I don't know the layout of your house, but is that a possibility for you?1
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Been playing bridge all day. Actually won 4th place3
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Well it happened again!,,, every time I use an emoji it cuts off the rest of my post. Any solutions?0
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sue This happened to me all the time when using my phone. I can't use the emoji from my smartphone. There are very clever ladies here that use all sorts of emojis but I will bet they are using their computers not their smart phones Good luck. NYKAREN0
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I am finding it difficult to be an active participant here. I don't know how you all keep up! It's not the reading that is a problem for me, but the posting. I seem to either be able to read and post replies or read and post my own "stuff." I feel like just posting my stuff would be rather selfish! I am quite introverted by nature, so I tend to feel like an outsider no matter what. This isn't a complaint by the way; I have felt very welcomed here. I am sure that I will eventually figure out a rhythm for posting regularly.
Anyway, I will be leaving tomorrow afternoon for a homeschool family camp with my DH and youngest DD and won't be back until Sunday. There is no cell or internet service there, so when I don't post during that time that is the reason. Until then I will definitely be reading, and possibly trying to post again.
Blessings,
Juanita
Central TX4 -
Good evening!
I started a post this morning then lost it
so here I go again...
Re, Congrats on starting with kettlebells! It will get easier. I recently found a good book on amazon that helped me diagnose a couple of problems I was having. One was with the clean and snatches. First, the book told me what they were--a clean is moving the weight from the floor to shoulders in one motion, the snatch is then pushing it overhead. Then it gave instructions on how to hold the kettlebell so I didn't bang my wrist. and I was able to do two sets of clean and snatches with a 15 lbs weight!! So exciting.. I think the book's name is Kettlebell Rx by Jeff Martone. I'll confirm once I post.
Becca, Your son sounds so wonderful and lively! And you're a fabulous mom.
Miriam and Kate, it's so nice that your grandchildren have supportive grandmother's who accept them as they are. That will go a long way in their lives. My heart breaks for your DGD, Kate, adolescence is such a hard time! I hope she becomes more comfortable in time.
NYKaren, I think I would have the most trouble with the no clothes shopping goal...
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Mama tiger, don't worry about keeping up. Post when you can, comment when you can, talk totally about you when that's what you feel like doing. It's all good!
Heather, I think you nailed it when you said you are glad your son feels like speaking up. I would much rather my children be honest with me than to suffer in silence and resent me when I am intruding. It frees you for knowing you are truly welcome when they say, come on over.
Katla, was that you with the coffee pot that made horrible coffee? Explain more. I've always just thought it was me and my proportions of coffee to water when the coffee came out bad. Maybe it is my pot! My mother-in-law made the best coffee. She used an electric percolator. We had one once, but ours broke. We went back to a regular drip coffee maker. Must of the time it tastes okay to me, but I am not a coffee expert.1 -
DrKatiebug, I find that what REALLY matters in coffee, is grinding my own beans. I get a fairly inexpensive brand (Wide Awake) so it doesn't have to be top dollar. It is also important to keep your pot clean especially if you use a drip coffee maker. Mold easily grows in the coffee oils and can make coffee taste nasty. That is why it is recommended to clean with vinegar- it kills the mold and the spores. Then you figure out what proportion of beans to water tastes best to YOU. One thing I have learned is that it is really easy to water down coffee if it is too strong for someone, but if someone likes stronger coffee, you cannot make weak coffee stronger. Personally, I like it very strong and cannot abide colored water that others serve. But if friends come over that like it less strong, I add hot water that I heat in the measuring cup in the microwave to theirs. I have neighbors across the street that like their coffee like pale tea. Ugh.1
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Miriam - my coffee sister! My real sister calls what I drink Rocket Fuel... but she drinks coffee weaker than they serve in any restaurant. I say - why bother? Either drink coffee - or just go with hot water.
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