WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2016
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Margaret: Thank you! I have also found a group of friends here on MFP and have stayed in touch for many years. Much better than FB for sure.
PiP: Thanks!
Carol: We teachers need to stick together!! Thanks for the welcome.
Heidi1 -
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Karen and Cheri - What a fabulous photo.
Wish I could have joined you! I bet you had a great "natter". 
Lots of love, Heather UK3 -
Good morning all. It's been a long night, but I made it! I don't sleep so well these days (I suffer from horrible insomnia and nightmares from PTSD), so any sleep I get is a blessing.
I want to say Thank You to all who have welcomed me here. I really do appreciate your kind words.
I have most of the day to do what I want today (I am disabled and currently can't work) and am not sure what I should do with myself. I have an appointment today with my primary care doc in the afternoon to adjust and possibly change my psych meds (they have not been working so well lately). But that isn't until late this afternoon.
My nutritionist wants me to start eating breakfast, but I am just not hungry and have no desire to eat this morning. Should I force myself to eat? I don't know, maybe in a little while. I want to try to walk my usual 6 blocks around my house twice today, but will have to see how it goes (I suffer from degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, sciatica, sacroiliitis, among a few other things, have had one spinal fusion surgery so far and am due for another soon so walking is very difficult for me and I have to go slow). But I figure if I can manage one round today I will be doing OK. Sometimes what I want to do and what I can physically manage are two very different things and it gets very frustrating. I go start another round of steroid injections in my lower back on Thursday and am hoping somehow miraculously they will help this time (the last round of 3 shots I couldn't complete because the second shot in that round made me violently I'll for 4 days and they didn't help anyway). Unfortunately my insurance won't cover another spinal fusion surgery until I have exhausted all nonsurgical therapies, they are kind of funny that way. I had to go through this before my last fusion and it was torturous. Oh well, just more hoops to jump through. The journey to surgery starts again this Thursday with the start of this round of shots. Wish me luck and cross your fingers, maybe say a little prayer or two.
Well I guess I have rambled on long enough. Thanks everybody for being here for each other and for letting me vent. I think I will go take me a long hot shower and then go for a walk, maybe when I get back I will want to eat something. See you all later and I hope you all have an awesome day!
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sherryminch wrote: »Good morning all. It's been a long night, but I made it! I don't sleep so well these days (I suffer from horrible insomnia and nightmares from PTSD), so any sleep I get is a blessing.
I want to say Thank You to all who have welcomed me here. I really do appreciate your kind words.
Sherry in PDX
Wow Sherry! I wish you all the rest and peace you can find. Walks, I find are the best way to forget everything... no need for earbuds... just walk, enjoy each step with purpose. Find something positive in your walk... a leaf, a bird.. clouds... a soft breeze.. focus on the positive.
All the best,
Heidi
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Hi Gals,
Sherry – welcome! We are here to cheer not to judge, so hang out with us and we’ll keep you smiling!
Heather – I hear you on eliminating the political input!
Question about selling property in England, here in the us you can sell your property and then “rent back” your place from the new owners, while the place you are moving to is in process so you don’t have to be between places to live – can you do that in England ?
Re – listen to heather!
Lisa – Oh YUCK! But getting rid of the carpet will be a good thing, just bad bad timing! I worked for years at a daily paper and everyday was press day, there were no good times for major work…
Heidi – great intro…. Hang in there… taking charge of your meds and weight is a great place to start.
Karen and Cheri – great pic
Sherry – the timing of eating is something that folks here have played around with to find what works for their bodies, and lifestyle, the key seems to be calories in calories out and quality of food…. Could you do more seated exercises? There are some great videos on youtube…
I did a great ratatouille with a twist, I used tons of veggies that needed to be used and then added some tikki masala sauce, it was great, something different, and with all the gardening I’m doing I seem to end up with lots of little bits… like pulling out the beans and not being willing to compost the last 4 beans… It was a jarred tikki masala sauce and worked out to just 150 calories a bowl… I kinda served it like a veggie stew or thick soup.
October Goals:
2 fun things a week, Lunch with friends 2 times….
Read and report on a book
Log everyday to the best I can, over if need be.
11,000 + steps everyday
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Great picture of Karen and Cheri.
(((Sherry)))
Just read a Book titled Total Recovery. In this book the doctor believes helping those in chronic pain is a process. The road to recovery is in viewing the patient as a whole. Unfortunately insurance companies do not look at it this way. The need a diagnosis so it can be charged. The burden of piecing together treatments from various doctors falls on the patient.
He also believes chronic pain is born from the cumulative effect of both physical and emotional trauma. Thus it takes usually more than one approach to work on pain management.
Although I do not have chronic pain I do have a chronic condition and some of his ideas resonated with me as I manage my condition.
I also agreed with him that as much as I can stack the deck through diet, exercise, sleep, and working through my emotions in positive ways the better my health will be.
The book Dance with Anger helped work though some of my emotions. In April of this year as I read the book I commented on the main points of the book I can feel the effects of this as I deal with the stresses I am under now.
Thoughts and prayers. Margaret 3 -
Kim - I have never heard of that in this country. Here it is usual to get involved in a "chain", when everyone has to "complete" (legal and move) on the same day. :sad: Last time we avoided that by selling up and moving into rented accommodation for 5 months. Would only do that this time if the house needed a remodel. Hope to avoid it.
Haven't had any interest so far, but I'm contenting myself with shifting all the junk. DDIL seems to be interested in our progress, so that's good.
The houses of the right kind in the right place are too expensive , but some are borderline in area. They are cheaper. Location is everything in Hove. Two roads further east can make a difference of £100, 000. :sad:
The house we liked (too expensive) has gone up by nearly 4 times in price since 2009. Ours has gone up by one third of its value in 2010.
But we don't have to move. No one is forcing us. If we can't find anything we love, we won't go.
I have just cancelled our booking for a Cambridge hotel for our anniversary in November. Can't cope with it all. Too much on our plates. I have booked The Black Rat in Winchester instead, for which DH's daughter bought us a voucher for our joint birthdays. Closer to home, free, and we will go for the Sunday Lunch.
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Glo - Ohmmmmmmmmmmm – Sitting on a mat; legs folded, pointer fingertip to thumb and eyes closed. Uninterrupted … that’ll do it.
Sherry – You’ve come to the right site … everybody is encouraging and supportive and they will give you some good ideas. I don’t think I can help here that much because of the type of weight loss program I was ordered by my GYN to go into. It is MD maintained and it has worked for me, which was all I wanted. I, too, had gained weight over the past few years because of all the medications I take; and most, if not all, had the side effect of ‘weight gain’. I’d gain a lb or 1.5lbs every month; but, not until one put it to me this way … ‘then that means you are gaining anywhere from 12lbs a year to 18lbs; depending … you need to get a handle on it; because this has been going on since I started treating you nearly 5 years ago’. I have 2 points to go to get my BMI down into a ‘normal’ range – that is my goal; I haven’t really set a ### in lbs., but, I do have a ‘range’ in mind that I want to weight … just want to be ‘normal’ weight; with maybe 5lbs more or less as a buffer. Today, for lunch I had 2 cups of sautéed veggies on an everyday bagel. It only came out to 330 calories; and, most of that was the bagel. When DH and I go out on our ‘date nights’ … whatever I order, I will cut ‘in half’ and bring it home for the next day. Ordered a 9 oz. rib-eye; and, heated it up last night and it was just as good. DH no longer is able to eat the skins of his baked potatoes; I do. So I got him to bring the half he did not eat and the one he scooped out what he could eat and ate that as well. Put a little pimento cheese inside it so it would not be quite so dry. I am a ‘rat’ when it comes to cheese; but, I also an sensitive to ‘aged’ cheese; so I only eat a little at a time.
Pip – Because of her weight? You’re aren’t; but, there is obviously a familial resemblance and that you just can’t deny. I’m sure she was a beautiful young woman because you are.
Rita – Selective hearing! LOL! Now, I have been accused of that. Since I was put in 2 hearing aids; maybe I could use one, and, he could use the other! That way we’d hear maybe a little more than ½ of what the other one is saying.
Carey – We use venison in our spaghetti sauce … really little ‘fat’ in it. DnL#1 brought over the butternut spaghetti with the sauce in the middle, on top of the butternut spaghetti. It was so good!
Heidi – What most people don’t know is that the ‘thyroid gland’ is the thermostat of the body; and whether it is ‘hypo’ (low) or ‘hyper’ (high) it can wreak havoc on one’s body. Mine was ‘hyper’ and I had been pregnant; and, they really could not tell if maybe I was carrying twins, because they could not really differentiate my upped heartbeat and the heartbeat of the baby; and, I was telling them that when the baby moved it was hitting me in 4 places. Like if one gets startled, both arms and legs move at the same time. After I stopped nursing they checked me again and decided that I had “Grave’s Disease” … which made my eyes bulge; thankfully, they have that under control with thyroid replacement after my thyroid gland was abladed.
That is one thing that people should ‘ask’ to be checked on their physical days. So much can be diagnosed by what the thyroid is doing.
During my last month of pregnancy, I sat in front of my refrigerator and ‘grazed’. Literally, I could not get that ‘hungry’ feeling to go away. I am surprised that I was able to nurse DYS; but, I think I had enough milk in my breast to have nursed twins if I had had them. He was so ‘stubborn’ that I finally had to call my sister to come get him and let him stay with her a week, so I could dry up. I basically had to stay away from places that other babies would be, because I would ‘let down’ if I hear ‘any’ baby crying.
Re – It has been a long time since I have eaten fried foods; I will eat a ‘few’ French fries when we go to the football games at the school where the DGDs go; but, other than that, my tummy just cannot tolerate it very well.
Sherry – the ONLY MD that can change, adjust, or take me ‘off’ my psyche meds is my PsycheMD. He wants to be called first before they plan on doing anything with them for any reason. He is in Macon; and we live in Dawson (about a 2 hour trip one way); but, I flatly refuse to go any in the SWGA area or who are associated with Phoebe (the city hospital, that also owns a lot of the outlying counties hospitals). I really like him, because he actually listens to me and when I tell him that the meds have not been working like I think they should, he will adjust them and after a week I will call him and let him know if the changed helped or not.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Since my Mother was a school teacher, she wanted us to have a big one. Eggs, bacon, toast, or oatmeal, cream of wheat, or something other than a bowl of cold cereal. That about it as “Break Fast” … breakfast is breaking that fast you are going through by sleeping all night. Hopefully, you are not ‘mindlessly eating’ when you are up from the insomnia.
Lenora1 -
Grits nope nothing to do with her weight, just don't want to look like her1
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Sherry, you have come to the right place....I started using MFP when I was older than you are now and not as heavy, but I decided to treat this journey as a life or death mission and by making small changes in my eating and exercising every day and saying no to foods that were not part of my plan, I was able to take off the weight I wanted and keep it off for several years. I still log my food and exercise and check in with this thread daily. My husband had spinal fusion surgery in June and I had surgery for stenosis less than a month ago. If you have a lot of free time, use it to learn about nutrition and learn about what sort of exercise you can do without walking. The internet is filled with resources.
Re, its' time to say to no to fried food and get back to food that will nurture and sustain your wonderful self.
Lisa, I hope you found a way to cope with the overwhelming mess at work
Heidi, welcome and thanks for telling us about your difficult journey....it sounds like today is the day to focus on what you can do and do those things....one day at a time....and keep coming back to this thread for support and encouragement
Heather, bravo on the decluttering---for me it has been a long and painful process but worth it.
Karen and Cheri, great picture---how fortunate you are to have been able to get together
Went for a 45 minute walk this morning and will walk again this afternoon, but now I'm headed for the recliner to finish watching my recording of DWTS. Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 
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a quick hidee ho before bed.. with all the running around and changing weather~ I have got the creeping crud... so nyquil and early to bed for me...
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Feel better Allie!
I didn't do so good today with my walking. Only about 7,000 steps, but better than none! Went to the dermatologist with DH and she told him to follow orders! Go figure, selective hearing on his part again! From there, went to bank, then local Redbox, then Walmart to pick up meds from dermatologist ($100. for all she ordered!) sheesh! I hope he takes her advices and takes the meds as ordered this time! I am sick of his being miserable with the hive thing! From Walmart, we went to Lowe's just to walk around and wait about 45 minutes until after 1:00 for lunch. We went to 99 Restaurant and I ate too much. Went way over my calorie limit and feel nauseous because of it. Indulgence of any kind is not good. My body tells me so!
Finished schoolwork for today and now going to give dog a bath, then TV time. Tired and upset stomach from eating too much.
Have a good night everyone!
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Pip - To each their own ... I guess.1
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Rita from central CT Why is your husband having hives?
Thanks everyone for the compliments about the pic of Cheri and me...we packed a lot into a short visit! And Heather Oh how I, too, wish you could have joined us for lunch!
Karen in Virginia1 -
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DD daughter woke up this morning to get ready for work and discovered we have no hot water. Looked up the manual for the water heater and it could be a couple of things. We will try this evening to see if we can get it going again. If not I guess we will be calling the plumber. Luckily we have two water heaters in this house so at least we can still take a shower or get hot water for dishes, etc. My horse has a puncture wound and it is draining. No idea how she acquired it but it does seem to be healing slowly. Doing well with food today, homemade chicken soup for lunch. I am going to try my hand at potato leek soup tomorrow for dinner. Have not done this before. It uses chicken broth and cornstarch to thicken it rather than milk or cream.
Liz - Hope things went well with surgery.
Toni - Happy birthday late. Sorry!
Pip - Sending out good thoughts to you and your mom.
Lisa - You will need a quiet reward after you make it through press day, but it will be nice to get that carpet out of there.
Karen and Cheri - Lovely picture. Glad you were able to meet up.
Sherry - If you are not hungry in the mornings, don't eat. Just make sure when you do that you eat quality food. I have a friend who gets nauseous in the mornings if she tries to eat too early. You need to do what works for you.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA1 -
rita. I know that feeling all to well, eating and then feeling sick, even while eating junk, feeling sick and not stopping. But food is fuel, good healthy food is better fuel that will take you further and improve your health. Tomorrow is another day , take it easy on yourself, you can do this
NYKAREN0 -
Fun day at golf today and the weather was beautiful. Welcome to the newbies. Love that you shared your story with us and hope we can be MFP friends for a long time.
Karen and Cheri - great picture.0 -
Oops didn't mean to post that. Not much else to say tho.
SueBDew in TX1 -
Hello Flourishing Friends!
I have had another hectic day - so once again, I cannot give you all the attention you deserve... my sincere apologies.
*hangs head in shame*
You will all be happy to know that the fried food is all gone (yes, I ate it!), and dinner tonight is - while not vegetable rich - at least a homemade, non-fried, pot of fiber-rich pinto beans with onions and smoked sausage. I promise to eat some celery or something with them. Thank you all for scolding me - I need to be reminded of these things once in a while. As I said, I will steer clear of the deli the next time I hit the Walmart.
I was somewhat surprised to be recognized as one of the top-three "losers" in the Christmas challenge... especially since I haven't lost anything for two weeks - but, it would seem that everyone else is having more struggles than success - and my 16 pounds was enough to rank me #2 for the first 16 weeks of the 24 week challenge. I will just be THRILLED to get the last 8 lbs off and move on to the next challenge.
I do like being in one - it keeps me focused and gives me a group of people that I am accountable to - for a specific goal. In this case, the 1 lb per week that I promised myself. But somehow, having that weekly weigh-in seems to be more of an incentive than just the promise to myself. How wrong is that? But, hey, whatever works, I always say.... so, if there is another challenge that will accept my snail-like 1 lb per week, I am all over it.
In the mean time, I am just going to have to keep chugging away on the elliptical to burn off that pound a week!
Welcome to the new folks, Healing thoughts for you Sickies out there, and for our recovery gals.
Hugs for everybody!!
Re in TX
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Rita from central CT Why is your husband having hives?
Thanks everyone for the compliments about the pic of Cheri and me...we packed a lot into a short visit! And Heather Oh how I, too, wish you could have joined us for lunch!
Karen in Virginia
Wonderful visit with Karen today! We had lunch at The Pub, a restaurant inside of Wegmans in Midlothian. Shopping at this grocery store is quite an experience to say the least. We enjoyed our lunch sized salads and caught up on our lives. Thanks for the pic complements. We saw the pumpkin display out front of the store and thought how appropriate for this time of year!
Having a good visit with my daughter. She had a list of things she needed help/guidance with and we are working through that list. Just enjoying being in the same place at the same time. I'm loving on her two kittycats! Enjoying the fall weather too before heading back to the "fall" Texas weather. Meeting the boyfriend on Thursday eve. Also spending precious time with my adult nieces and my 5 greats (4 nephews and 1 niece). Getting our steps in and sharing MFP tips as always.
Cheri
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Rita from central CT Why is your husband having hives?
Thanks everyone for the compliments about the pic of Cheri and me...we packed a lot into a short visit! And Heather Oh how I, too, wish you could have joined us for lunch!
Karen in Virginia
Thanks for sharing the lovely picture of you nd Cheri. I do miss your posts and all the wisdom and insight you contribute. (((Hugs)))
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Barbie, I got my monthly magazine from AARP today and there was a big spread on dancing. They had this one quote and I immediately thought of you. 'If every time you take one step forward and you take two steps backward, don't be discouraged. You just learned how to country line dance.'
I feel like I have won a war!!!! In our home we have 3 bathrooms. A small hallway bathroom with shower, bath, sink with vanity and commode. The bath tub drain won't close, the vanity drain is v e r y slow to drain, the commode sometimes drips and I have a mixing bowl on the floor. The master bath is tiny, key word tiny. It is a commode, vanity and shower. Years ago we put in a new commode, can't remember why. As you know my husband has a tight wallet unless it is his girls. The commode was 'commode in a box' seemingly having everything having everything you need although we made several trips back to Lowes to get everything needed. The tank was always a little loose. It now leaks around the O ring and the carpet, yes carpet that Charlie put down as a flooring because the tile was breaking. With all the diarrhea he had when he had his ulcerative colitis the Oring was leaking out onto the carpet. Now down to the bathroom in the family room. Charlie was never confident it worked right and one day the commode and shower did throw out a lot of sewage into the lower level. We since then have had the sewer dug up, new check valve put in. He still doesn't trust in and he has it stopped up by a soft baseball size ball and then a 20 pound dumbell on top of that. So we only have one working bathroom. It isn't his fault but it takes him a long time to empty is ileostomy bag and get it all rinsed out. Holiday is coming up and we will have about 30 people here. I would like more than 1 bathroom. So he has decided that he will lift up his commode, move it into the bedroom, change the O ring and then put the commode back on. This man with Parkinson, advanced heart disease. He will get Michelle to help him. She is the one with severe degenerative disease at age 37. This is a tiny bathroom where one person will be walking backwards in this tiny place.
He has a temper and he takes it out on walls which with dry wall causes all sorts of holes.Through the years he 'patches' these holes. HMMMM, really parched well honey. So when he sits on the commode, well when he sat one the commode since he doesn't sit anymore, he took it all out on the wall in front of him which was just inches away from where he was sitting. So now there is this huge hole about the size of a normal window there. So today he decides to make this hole even so he can put a piece of drywall there. This evening he told me that after he gets this done I can call a contractor to do the commode!!!!! Yeah!!!!! I think he was so ashamed of the hole he didn't want anyone to see this. Now I would also love to replace the vanity and tiny shower but maybe that is another battle. I would love it all gutted.
Sherry, a lot of women here put pictures of an animal, etc as their picture.
Joyce, Indiana1 -
Margaret I am so sorry you lost your mother.
Not much to report here. I need to get back to the Y because it is just too cold and dark for the bicycle for me.
Have been looking at old photos and noticing my weight fluctuations throughout the decades. There is so much I have blocked out about that so it is rather revelatory! Twenties were okay but after that second pregnancy in my thirties I never got back on track...wish I had been able to though. Well there is no time like the present!! I have made progress but not so much lately. I will never give up on this project however.
Welcome to new people! This is a wonderful group!
Betty2 -
stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 13.55min, 12.6amph, 150mhr, 2.9mi= 118c
LATERAL MACHINE 40min, lvl9, lat10, 139mhr, 4634str, 77fl, 4.73mi = 309c
ride gym 2 dome- 7.37min, 11amph, 140amhr, 1.4mi = 70c
ride dome 2 hm- 21.17min, 7.2amph, 155amph, 2.5mi = 212c
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JJoyce, thank you for sharing that great quote with me......congrats to Charlie to allow a contractor to fix the bathroom problem...that is a huge victory for him.Betty, I didn't find MFP and this wonderful community of women until I was 62--I didn't believe it would work for me, but it did---I don't ever want to go back to being the chubby woman in my old photos 1
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