WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2016

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  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,330 Member
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    Wow did I fall off the wagon this weekend. No regulR meals and late dinners. Ugh. Ok time to put on my big girl panties (literally) and just do it.
    MEG - so good to know you are still a MFP lurker. Take care of you.
    Janet - I get rashes like that when I get poison ivy. I can just touch DH's clothes that he wore in the yard and get it. Take care of yourself.
    I haven't read everything about the book conversation but I highly recommend, The Light Between Oceans. The movie just came out this week.
    SueBDew in TX
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 16,533 Member
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    stats for the day:
    ride hm 2 gym- 11.18min, 15.6amph, 146mhr, 2.9mi = 121c
    SPIN- 42.54min, 86r, 88w, 9-16g, 134ahr, 148mhr, 18.1mi = 359c
    ride gym 2 dome- 6.34min, 12.9amph, 132mhr, 1.4mi = 69c
    ride dome 2 hm- 16.21min, 9.4amph, 155mhr, 2.5mi = 176c
    total cal 725
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,047 Member
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  • IremiaRe
    IremiaRe Posts: 801 Member
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    Hello Rapturous Readers!

    I, too, read a lot - but, I only read trash... lol. I run thru phases of trashy romance, murder mystery, sci-fi and fantasy. I almost never read anything enlightening... But, I couldn't manage my current exercise regime without my trusty tablet... If I can't take my mind off to somewhere else, it focuses on the fact that I am SWEATING (ick) and warmer than I like to be... and breathing hard....and I have a really, really hard time getting any reasonable amount of movement in. WITH my book - 45 minutes on the elliptical is a breeze... so, yeah. Gotta have my book.

    I am still getting caught up after the joys of last week - but, I wanted to check in and say "Hi."

    Had a good weekend, food and exercise-wise. In my normal life, I am naturally and Intermittent Faster. I have never been a fan of breakfast, in fact food repulses me for the first couple of hours after I get up - but the window for eating (because of having to go home and feed DH) is longer than I would like - about ten hours. On the weekend, I can do a couple of days at 20/4 - which seems to help keep my body from getting too "settled" into any particular rhythm... and so far, the scale is liking it - and I am liking it - because on the weekends I can eat a truly glorious meal (nachos, pasta, whatever) and not be over calories - cause I just eat the one meal. I might eat a small snack later in the evening - but it doesn't bother me one little bit to fast all day at home and then eat one meal.

    It does bother me at work - don't ask me why - but, when I go into the office - I start eating around noon - and finish up when I get home - so I am done with food by about ten.

    Still haven't given the belly dancing vids a proper run - but, I will. I really got those more for fun than for exercise - and this weekend I just wasn't feeling the whole "get up off the couch" thing.

    Taking Baby steps with the kettle bell. I find it easy to get up and go to the gym - but, doing things at home is a little sporadic. Home is the place where I RELAX... So, I will just keep chipping away. I figure every set I do is one more tiny bit of strength for me. Hopefully, if nothing else, I will get into the KB habit when I visit my folks in the first week of October. I won't have a whole lot else to do, there... except swim, if it isn't already too cold, so, I will probably try to impress my Mom with my fantastic kettle bell prowess... lol. I figure a few more sets a day can't hurt me... at least not using the ten pound weight.

    And that is all I know. Still busy this week - so I may not get to make full replies to everyone - but, I will do what I can. Even if I am not speaking directly to you.. please know that I am thinking of all my friends with health issues and sending healing thoughts and love. I am enjoying all the wonderful pictures and suitably impressed by all your achievements.

    Hugs for everybody!

    Re in TX



  • blumenstockbj
    blumenstockbj Posts: 94 Member
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    Thank you everyone for the encouraging words.

    I'm not quite making the goals that I set for myself but I am trying and I am increasing some. So hopefully by the end of the month I will be at my goals.

    I enjoyed everyone's remarks and I love the pictures I think they're great.
  • blumenstockbj
    blumenstockbj Posts: 94 Member
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    Thank you everyone for the encouraging words.

    I'm not quite making the goals that I set for myself but I am trying and I am increasing some. So hopefully by the end of the month I will be at my goals.

    I enjoyed everyone's remarks and I love the pictures I think they're great.

    Barb Bee. Indiana

  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
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    Frankiesgirl21 – One thing that probably keeps me from jumping on a large trampoline like my granddaughters used to have was that my MS broke 2 bones in her back; cracked them. Was out of commission for about a month.

    Linda/IA – One of my former HS classmates and her husband celebrated her birthday 2 days earlier by going to the Towers. Sorry for the loss of your friend.

    Janetr okc – I’m glad you are going to the MD in the morning, too. That looks painful!

    Penny - My oldest sister used to make homemade bread; lots of work, very good, but I would not do it no matter what. Just give me those good old yeast rolls like we had when we were ‘in school’. Sometimes we can find them at the local Piggly Wiggly … usually in a bin or one of the endcaps.

    MA_B – Glad that your friend’s son made such a great recovery. I had a bad wreck and had pins and plates in my ankle as well as my left arm. It is badly scared because it almost got taken off. It bothered me enough that for a while I wore long sleeves or 3/4th sleeves to hide it. Now, I don’t worry about it. It’s there as a reminder of how ‘blessed’ I am that I was not killed in it.

    Tracey in PA – We have coyotes are here (out in the country in SW GA). Coyotes run in packs (usually) and follow the Alpha dog. When you ever hear them bay; they will scare you to death - they make awful sounds. I’m sure that like a lot of ‘stray’ wild animals, they go to where they find food. Being in town might be a little strange; but, my DDnL#2 took a picture of deer outside the salon she works in, and it was right in the middle of downtown, in the old part of Natchez, MS. Any place they have a section of woods, means that you can have ‘wild animals’. When we lived in town, we had a family of raccoons living in a dying live oak tree at the back of our property. Woods all behind our house due to a ‘green space’ where nothing would ever be built because it was a ‘wetland’. The husband of the lady who cleaned our house, would come over and trap them and then take them out into the woods where they used to run their ‘coon dogs’.

    Lillian – If I could find another one of the mini-trampolines, I would be quite tempted to buy it. Great exercise and not bad on your knees … I have an ankle that was broken and crushed; not sure if I really need to actually get on one, because of pins and plates.

    Becca – I watch the movie about the plane that went down in PA to avoid being flown into the White House or Capitol. It was really moving how the passengers called their family members knowing they’d never see them again.

    Heather – I have 2 sons; one lives next door, not right up our fannies, but, close enough. He is the one with 3 children; one by a previous marriage; that DDnL#1 makes it difficult for us. DYS and his new wife and her daughter live in LA. DDnL#1 is very jealous of DDnL#2 … and she is always posting things on FB that my DYS gets really angry about. Usually some smart@$$ remark about me. At this point, ‘quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ as in Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind” would say; … but, knowing she does this just makes it harder for me to do anything other than ‘just enough to be polite’. DYS and DDnL#2 and DGD#4 are still in that “getting to know all your quirks” out of the way. They’ve only been married a year and a few months. We spent 10 days with them at the end of the month and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. She is trying to get pregnant; but, it looks like they will have to go through IVF to succeed. Right now, they are looking at several thousands of $$$ to do tha; and $3-400 a visit - with having to drive to Jackson, MS every few days the first 3 weeks (or so). They’ve also thought about looking for land to build a house on. She’s finding it hard to deal with not being able to get pregnant. Her co-workers tell her that she needs to NOT try so hard or to think about it so much; but, that isn’t something easy for anyone to do when they really want to have someone’s baby. The problem is that her ‘tubes’ are almost totally blocked. She told me that they were going back to the specialist in Jackson … and then they will decide if they are ‘good candidates’ for the procedure. I guess they also consider the age of the people who are trying to conceive. She feels like she has failed DYS; but, he tells her ‘no, I have a daughter in this marriage’. I know he’d like to have a baby; but, it isn’t the end of the world if they can’t. He will not consider adoption, at all, unless the opportunity was to arise to adopt his step-daughter. DDnL#1 isn’t making the situation very easy; she usually has some smart@$$ remark to make or questions to ask (on FB - directed at DDnL#2).

    Janetr7476 – I had a place inside my ear that I would pick at; MD cleaned it off with Betadine and then gave me a small jar of it and then gave me an Rx for a Betadine ointment. What a mess! He froze off a place on my left breast that he has been watching; and a couple of spots off my back. The breast did not hurt; but the place on my back about killed me for the rest of the day. Felt like I had had a needle jabbed in my back.

    Joyce – I don’t know about where you live; but, after Noon on Fridays, you cannot ‘buy’ a MD or dentist … you have to go to the ER if you have any problems. This past week, because of some ‘tests’ that my GYN performed on me … balance and shaky hands … he called the Neurologist for an appointment and was told that since I was already an established patient; I needed to call and make the appointment. December 15th is when I already had my yearly appointment then. I’m glad that it isn’t being deemed ‘important’ enough to get a sooner one. They’ve put me on the ‘call list’ in the event they have a cancellation. I told her that since I am on a driving restriction from my last seizure; I’d need a day ahead notification. She said that would be how it would be done. They’d call me the day before.

    Have you ever said or done something you wish you could swallow back those words? I asked my DDnL#2 something about I.V.F., saying that one of my friends son and DnL had gone through it, got pregnant; but, they did not have to pay what she told me it would cost where the live. I think it is awful that MDs charge what they do, simply because there aren't that many of them. I know 'Life's NOT fair'; but, I know I probably only hurt her feelings by asking questions. Her Granny is dying and she had to go start making the funeral arrangements. We did that before my Mother died ... so much better than trying to do it right after someone passes away, when you know ahead of time.

    Hocky-snocky ... my touchpad just started working again, even though my mouse is plugged in; my cursor is all over the place and I am deleting things left and right ... damn this pisses me off! I have Windows 10; surely there is a way to disable the damn thing (again). But, at the moment not finding it very quickly. It just started doing it, too.

    Lenora - "Open Mouth; Insert Foot"
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
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    Annr wrote: »
    Janet, glad you went to see a doctor and they have prescribed ointment for you! My mom used to get a rash every time she trimmed the bushes in the front yard. Were you pruning something recently?
    Becca

    No, the only time I'd even been out of the house much inthe last week or so was loading up the motor home. Which is just across grass in the back yard.

    Janetr okc
  • janetr7476
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    MA_B wrote: »
    Janet, I was going to say what Becca has just said - my mum used to get that sort of rash near lillies! She loved flower arranging and had loved working with lillies - in the end she had to make do with growing pots of lillies in the garden and not touch them. She moved on to poppies and I remember the amazing poppy displays she used to do for the church. As she died on a Remembrance Sunday (poppy day in UK) I wear poppy jewellery in tribute now as her memory is synonymous with poppies.

    Maryann in UK

    Thanks for sharing that storie. What a beautiful tribute to your Mom.

    Janetr okc
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
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    Pip, was so moved with what you wrote about Kirby. You have such endearing love for him. You put everything he does before yours. It is such a beautiful marriage.

    Barb Bee, nice to see some one else from Indiana here.

    Joyce, watching American Ninja Warrior finale
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,109 Member
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    Stronglift Workout B
    Squats- 1x5x55/65/75/85/95, 5x5x100
    OHP- 1x5x45/50/55/60, 5x5x55
    DL- 1x5x135

    Kettlebell Swing
    Russian Kettlebell swing- 20x10x35
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,632 Member
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    B)
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    edited September 2016
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    Thanks ladies for your kind words and positive thots. I truly think the itching has eased some already. Here's hoping the worst is over. I have better things to do, such as enjoy my journey. :)

    KJ - that picture was spectacular. I have to see if I can download it. I was mesmerized. Thank you for sharing it with us.

    Janetr Okc (watching Monday Night Football)
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    edited September 2016
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    IremiaRe wrote: »
    Hello Rapturous Readers!

    I, too, read a lot - but, I only read trash... lol. I run thru phases of trashy romance, murder mystery, sci-fi and fantasy. I almost never read anything enlightening... But, I couldn't manage my current exercise regime without my trusty tablet... If I can't take my mind off to somewhere else, it focuses on the fact that I am SWEATING (ick) and warmer than I like to be... and breathing hard....and I have a really, really hard time getting any reasonable amount of movement in. WITH my book - 45 minutes on the elliptical is a breeze... so, yeah. Gotta have my book.

    Hugs for everybody!

    Re in TX

    We have at least 2 things in common--

    Taking baby steps with kettlebells at the gym and the appreciation of fun trashy novels. ❤️❤️❤️
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 16,533 Member
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    jmkmomm wrote: »
    Pip, was so moved with what you wrote about Kirby. You have such endearing love for him. You put everything he does before yours. It is such a beautiful marriage.

    Barb Bee, nice to see some one else from Indiana here.

    Joyce, watching American Ninja Warrior finale

    Thank u so much for yourr kind words, it made me cry... He was off today and when I got home, he asked me if there was ever going to be a time when I would stop worrying about him and I just said, no. He then said, oh.
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,109 Member
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    <3
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,337 Member
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    Did one segment of Tone Your Trouble Zones DVD, held my plank for 2 min50 sec then took the extremepump class. The plan for tomorrow is to do 30 seconds run and then 30 seconds of squats on the treadmill. I might make the intervals longer.

    Kylie - good to have you.

    janetr - OHHH, that does NOT look good at all, not one bit. I especially don't like the way there are those circles. Good for Jack insisting you go to the doc's. What did he have to say?

    Alison - happy early anniversary!

    Peny - good for you continuing to run!

    janetr - let's hope that ointment works! Glad you got that looked at

    Connie - welcome. You've come to a good place for encouragement.

    Oh, remember I was telling you that Denise was going to spend $1200 on a birthday party for Pete? Well, she called today. Seems she was talking to his mother and with the health issues in their family, she's decided (on the advice of the mother) to just go out to dinner and not have this big party. She wanted us to come up but I know Vince isn't keen on it. It's not that we don't love her or anything. But we'd be driving 16 hours (8 up there, 8back) to go to a dinner for maybe 4 hours. She talked about how she wants Vince to come up too when we go shopping for a wedding dress. What he's going to do up there, I don't know. He isn't going to go shopping. I'm thinking that I'll hopefully be able to stay in the house of a friend of ours (he owns one in PA and another in Colorado)

    Becky - welcome! Oh, the *wonderful* menopause weight gain. Ever since I went thru menopause, there are these rolls of flab that were never there before.

    Melissa - I didn't now that Kitchen Aid had a spiralizer attachment! Gotta check that out. I've been thinking of getting one. Wonder how the attachment would work out?

    SueBDew - I went to go see the movie "Light Between the Oceans". Word of advice -- have a tissue handy. A box of tissues might not be a bad idea, either.

    Michele in NC
  • pipcd34
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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 16,907 Member
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    :) I love to read, but most of my reading is what I call "Nancy Drew for grown-ups"---books in a series with a heroine in a small town who gets involved in murders regularly---among the heroines are a cat-sitter, veterinarian, caterer, cookie baker, food critic, etc. I am also reading "The Cat Who...." mysteries from the beginning.

    :) I got an e mail from the hospital today with two great presentations to help me get ready for surgery---one about anesthesia and the other about what to expect from your hospital stay.

    :)Pip, thanks for the sharing about your MS ride

    <3janetr, best wishes for a speedy recovery from the nasty skin stuff

    <3Joyce, sorry to hear that you are still having trouble with all your meds.

    <3 Barbie from NW Washington

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