WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2016
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Eighteen pounds have snuck on and I've hit my personal weight high (I'm 5'6" at 154.0 lbs). To stay on track, I KNOW I need a daily accountability partner (via email). I like to set weekly goals, 3 of them, and then would like to/need to report on a daily bases to someone so I can keep it going (especially through the holiday season). Any takers?
I like to include a fitness goal into my three. For instance: 1) 10K steps per day, 2) <1600 cals per day, 3) no eating after 8 pm1 -
15 min HasFit workout with dunmbells
KB Swings 5x17x13
6 mins on elliptical
healthy lunch, now watching darts on TV
Have a good and make healthy choices and get up and move (that means me in particular)
Kate UK
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Raining here this morning, so Jake considered that the dog walking may be brief. I'll go for my walk as soon as I finish my breakfast...I am almost finished listening to my current book and am eager to hear the ending...the book is "The Boys in the Boat" about a team of rowers from Western Washington who won gold at the 1936 Olympics....the story is set with the background of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. If you're looking for a book about the success of the underdogs with some scary history in the mix, this is the book for you. Barbie from rainy NW Washington 1 -
JanetR: Happy Birthday!
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Becca: I'm so happy for you that your son will be home for Thanksgiving. You are a lucky Mom. (((HUGS)))
Michele: I'm happy for you that Denise will be coming for Christmas Eve. We don't expect to see either of our kids during the Christmas Holidays or for Thanksgiving. There is more than a little heartache there. :sad: We plan to spend Thanksgiving with DH's sister. That is a plus.
Heather: I hope things go smoothly with the purchase of your new place. It looks and sounds delightful. Thanks for showing us the floor plan. Good luck with the sale of your current home.
Rita: Amazing Halloween costumes. Wow!
Barbie: It is rainy here, too. We seem to be out of drought danger for the foreseeable future.
I'm having a tough time with my mood today. It is raining, and we will not see our kids during the holidays. I'm not happy with being pitiful and need to do something to improve my mood. I hope today's riding lesson helps with that.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Heather posted a quote similar to this that I wanted to use, but I couldn't recall it quite right. I went online and found this one.
"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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Well, that was a no go! Supposed to say Hello!2
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Rita FUN!!!!!!0
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When my ex SIL was in the National Guard and getting ready for his 2nd deployment, they were sent to Savanahh for their deployment training. My daughter went down there to spend the time with him before he left. She loved it and highly recommended it to me for a vacation spot. But since my DH isn't a destination kind of guy, it was a no go for him. When our kids were little we went to National Parks and loved it but they are to boring now for him. I would love to see it. She especially loved Tybee Island.
I don't know what I would do if our families didn't do the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Last night I made a list of all the dishes. My sister is coming Monday, jsut because we haven't seen each other for while, and we will decide who is bringing what. Thanksgiving is small, just DH and I and Michelle, our other daughter her DH and my 2DGC. Then my sister and her DH, her son and his wife. Their son is in college, Katla might want to invite him!!!! LOL. He is a big guy with a big appetite. Especially for deviled eggs. So it's just two families. Small enough we can have it at my house although the handle on our oven is hanging by a thread and it's a bit difficult to open it. We also really need to clean our microwave.
Our church is one of the early voting places and one of the deacons said this morning was a 2 1/2 hour wait! I am glad we went last Saturday. Maybe this shows that Americans are getting off of their sad butt and voting this year.
Heather, your floor plan has 3 floors yet the top one is the 2nd floor. So is the ground floor garden level? It looks spacious but yet no to big.
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My name is Monique and I'm 66 (67 next month!) I have lost about 200 pounds in the past six years, 90+ of them in the past year. I am now about 13 pounds from my goal. I haven't been this weight for 35 years so it's hard to get used to it. I will walk past a mirror and not recognize myself. I am thrilled with being slimmer and being able to wear nicer clothes, but I'm especially happy about how much my health has improved. I am off high bp meds (I'd been on them all my adult life), my A1C is now one that is non-diabetic (I was diagnosed six years as diabetic with an A1C of 13.6), and the doctor describes my cholesterol numbers as "wicked good".
I had thought my problems were weight, high bp, and diabetes, but I was wrong. These are merely symptoms. My problem was insulin resistance and it was when I started taking care of that problem that everything changed. I eat a ketogenic diet (fewer than 20 net carbs with the amount of protein and fat based on my height and weight--currently 65 grams protein and 130 grams fat). I do HIIT on my bike and yoga every day and resistance training every other day. I don't find doing exercise or this WOE difficult at all. It took me about a month to get used to eating sugar only from vegetables, dairy, and a few berries and eating so few carbs, but I found once I got over my addiction I didn't miss them. I also eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, olives, nuts, butter, flax seed meal, soy nuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, and all kinds of meat (including chicken with the skin). I sleep well. I am never hungry. I am happy.
My goals for November are to chose my foods carefully on Thanksgiving, walk 10,000 steps daily to keep my blood glucose numbers low after meals, and drink more water. I am losing about a pound a week and that's fine with me. I hope to reach my weight goal by the end of January.
Please add me as a MFP friend if you'd like. I'm so very happy to meet you all!6 -
Monique, You have come to the right place to connect with other women who will support and encourage you. You seem to have found a plan that works for you and the focus to stick with your plan. I have been posting on this thread for a long time and these women helped me stay the course, lose the weight, and keep it off. I am recovering from spine surgery and have spent the last five weeks regaining strength and mobility. I am so blessed to have a community of women available to me all the time to cheer me on. I hope you'll keep coming back. Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 2 -
Thank you for the congratulations on DH's job; we are quite excited. He is set to start on the 14th, so i get a week of "honey-dos" before then. His last unemployment check and his first paycheck should be enough to cover all those bills which will be due at the beginning of December ~ whew!
Janet ~ I hope you are having a wonderful birthday!
Becca ~ I am rejoicing with you that your son will get to come for Christmas!
Heather ~ I am so sorry to hear about your friend; you and she are in my prayers.
Margaret ~ Your tribute to your mother was beautiful
Monique ~ Welcome & WOW, great work!
I am down one bra band size And... this morning at stuff-mart i tried on a cardigan in a size large; it fit, comfortably! I have been wearing XL for several years now; recently those were getting too tight, and i had moved into 2X territory.
Juanita~
Feeling good in Central TX!2 -
spikeyhair wrote: »KetoneKaren wrote: »Kate UK Are you talking about bookmarking this thread? If so, go to the top of the page where you will see a pale star at the top right corner of the first post on the page. This is not the grey star at the very top of the page, but a little further down across from WOMEN AGES 50+.... Just click on it, which will turn it yellow, and the thread is bookmarked. At the end of the month you can click on it again to unbookmark when the next month's thread is started. Repeat each month...
Karen in VIrginia
I have bookmarked the thread in the app but when I go to the website I can't find my bookmarked threads is it possible on the website?
It works the same way on the computer, but if memory serves me correctly, the star to click to find the thread is a little harder to find and in a slightly different place on the screen.
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evening ladies~
well I am up with Faith.. fed her early and gave her her pills and she is corked off, went and got Tom and dopped him off at the house.. he is home in one piece..
I would love to have a weekend away like Sean and Jean are having, nice concert tonight, Jean went to a spa today for a day of pampering..and my DB set this all up, its nice when you have indisposable income...
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Joyce - In Britain we call the street level floor the ground floor and the next one up is the first floor. I know you do it differently in the US. In the plan the 2nd (top) floor is a loft coversion, so there is only storage space in the eaves. What they call the 4th bedroom will most likely have our exercise machines in. The main work will be at the back of the house.
I just hope it all works out.
Tonight I watched a detective series set in Brighton.
Love Heather UK2 -
Hi there...Glad I found this thread! I'm 51 years old and have around 67lbs to shed. I'm reaching out on Fitness Pal...I've been on for a bit less than a year, but never posted before and would love some supportive peeps!
I have 2 goals for November that I set with my nutritionist...she made ME set them so I own them.
1. Eat breakfast every day; I typically skip, which gets me into problems with late-night eating.
2. 30 minutes of movement a day; can be whatever, but preferably what I enjoy. Right now I'm focused on zumba 'cause it makes me happy despite the fact that I can't really follow along too well. hahaha. Seriously...it's kinda funny. Anyway...glad to be here!
mambimum~
Feeling stronger today than I did yesterday
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Janetr okc~
Haaaaaapppppy Biiiirthday to youuuuu! Ok I sang that... I am froggy throated still from my cold or I would really sing to yas! I hope your day is filled with sweet things, sweet people and (ok I have a theme going...), well with people that love ya!!! Love Becca1 -
NYKAREN ~ I think if I really want the taste of Thanksgiving I like to warm up some yams and then slowly boil the tar out of the liquid with some brown sugar and margarine. A couple of marsh mellows on the top and I am in a sweet coma heaven..... We went to a Steakhouse one year for Thanksgiving. I had a hard time not judging everything.... (When I cook this I don't do that....and so on) We have gone to a Chinese restaurant some years, which is interesting. The purpose is to be thankful where ever you go :-)
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Katla~ Eldest son will be here for Christmas not Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving will be us just having TV dinners, grinning at each other. lolol....
Joyce
~ I envy you actually doing the traditional Thanksgiving!!! For many years I had always been the "black sheep that left the fold" in my family, so lots of family all sitting around a table isn't something that my sons ever grew up with, or during my marriage ever happened. Now, with my middle sister and her family being about 2 and a 1/2 hrs. away, you would think that we would connect during holidays, but I have yet to see her interest in that. I shall not bust my butt to make it happen either. (Such a Grinch I am right?) Ah well, I choose to be with people that choose to be with me is all.
Becca
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Happy Saturday to you all!
I called my middle son today to tell him that his older brother got his leave Dec 22nd thru 29th. He stated that her leave was from Dec 28th to Jan 11th. I stressed that while I would love for them to come up to Oregon, the fact of the matter is if she only gets one week, spending it mostly traveling to and from isn't what I wish for them to do. Also with him just starting a part-time job, I know it will be difficult to get off multiple days. This is the time they need to squirrel away all their paychecks so when she gets out of the Navy the "civilian shell shock" of things won't be too traumatic to their pocketbooks! Of course, with both of them getting weekends off, I asked what their plans were for today. He stated that she needed to organize dates and times with her tattoo guy, because he is doing the rest of her "tattoo sleeve". Ok, I held my tongue with that. They are saving money, so Patrick can do school after the holidays, and she is doing tattoo work? What are with the kids nowadays?? That expense is called Non-essential spending, and really has no place in their lives at the moment....but I will never tell him that. She is kind of a high maintenance gal, and he can never tell her no, so that is that. I told him to keep me in the loop travel-wise, so I can send boxes to them if need be. I want him to have a bit of the family things for their Christmas. The last couple of Christmas's they have traveled to her parents, which I know is closer, but.... (where is my turn.. ) Ok my venting is over.. :-/ I have to keep thinking heck 2 out of 3 sons ain't bad! I am a blessed woman!
Becca
Goddess Blessed Woman
in Oregon
where it is RAINING...yet again...well hasn't stopped all night....
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Sale's done, and made more than double what I was expecting...have someone I can donate the books to, which is great... can't bring myself to throw them away! So exhausted. Glad not to do that again, probably ever.
Lisa in West Texas4 -
Annr~Tracys BF has the same type of thing going on his thing is expensive sneaker and ball caps,he collects them has the whole closet full and he bought a 60 inch tv to play video games on.. now Tracy wants there own house, and they dont have a combined bank account, so you know if they get a house, Kyle will not lift a finger, will still keep buying what he wants and Tracy will foot the bill for everything else.. again I dont say a word..
will speak to the ex and if he decides to give them a downpayment for a house, I am sure he and I will agree that the house will be in Tracys name ONLY...0 -
Monique great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Janetr
Karen in Virginia
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NYKaren - I would so like to go dumpling sampling with you!
Loving all the Halloween pictures. I forgot to take pictures of the boys before they disrobed and started the important task of sorting through their GALLON of candy!
Katla - may I suggest HAPPY music? Always takes the "blues" away from me.
Monique - whan an awesome and inspirational story. I'm glad you are here.
Feeling so much better today. I have not yelled at the boys once and have been trying out things recommended by the counselor when they start in on each other. Leaving them to fight their own battles unless it interferes with my enjoyment of the day or there is any physical confrontation.
Dinner is going to be about an hour later than planned because evidently I forgot to hit the start button after setting my crockpot and didn't notice it wasn't on for an hour. And here I thought I was saving time. Oh well - guess the boys will get an additional snack in before dinner.
I sent my DD#2 a text today and suggested she look into getting a housecleaner in every other week just to do the heavy cleaning so she can enjoy more time with friends and family. She can well afford to do it. I told her she did not have to prove that she can do it all! I worry about her health because 15yrs ago she had weight loss surgery, lost over 150lbs and was starting to look too thin in her face when she finally decided she had lost enough. She was an inspiring group leader for others who were preparing for or had already had the same surgery. Then she got married at 35, had a child, and started to gain weight. I'm guessing she now weighs more than she did pre-surgery. I am concerned about her health - knees, BP, etc. She still has to have blood work done because her body does not absorb nutrients the way that it used to due to having part of the intestine removed. She thinks that another surgery is the answer. Just another thing that worrying about is wasting my energy as it is not something I have control over.
Gloria contemplating the meaning of life in WA
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Becca - it seems to be the way life goes that the wife's family gets more attention than the husbands unless the wife and her family are on the outs. I know it has to be frustrating for you as you seem to be very close to all of your sons.
(((((hugs)))))
Gloria in WA
Wow I just spent 30 minutes with DGS#2 trying to push my buttons and me refusing to give him my power. It was HARD but he finally gave up and went away. OHmmmmmmmmmm
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Hi Gals,
Barbara – CPA visits like that suck.
Lisa – so I am sure by now the sale is done, the charity and dump runs are done and you are off to the next adventure (it’s 5:48pm your time) LOL hope all went well!
Janetr – Happy Birthday! And congrats on getting and keeping off all that weight…
Wendy – you could post here and be accountable to a group!
Barbie – I have heard of that but not read it yet… wonder if I can get it on my kindle from the library…. I’ll check!
Becca – I have to say that while I love the gathering and the thankfulness, turkey is one of my least favorite foods…. I’d make you buy me something else as a TV dinner… LOL
Heather – thanks for sharing the floor plan, so is the conservatory, what we might call a sun room glass walls and ceiling?
Glo – CONGRATS after a few more trys on button pushing he might wise up… LOL
Well, a good day in the garden, so this is a secret…. BUT the camp garden is nice but very plain, functional raised beds all made out of matching tan bricks… and it is for KIDS! So there is one bed that has not yet been converted to a raised bed and it has strawberries in it, the most untended sad looking strawberry plants, so I decided the strawberries should be in a tub not in the ground, well all is fine with that but I have a looser definition of tub – I think folks are thinking I’ll move them to the ½ wine barrels, NOT I have an associate who does some re-modeling on the side, and I asked if he knew of anyone remodeling a bath room who did not want their bath TUB any more, sure enough! I am getting a tub delivered (free) the week of thanksgiving, he’ll drill holes in the bottom for drainage, I’ll sink it 4 inches in the ground, fill it with dirt and plant the strawberries! So today I started digging out the strawberries and putting them in pots as I will need to dig the bed area out to accommodate the tub… to say the least if I get push back as it is not all matchy matchy, I’ll beg for forgiveness not ask permission – and the key points are 1. Fun for kids, 2. Better protection from critters, 3. Free, 4. Did I mention that this is for kids?
November Goals:
Write Christmas letter, and have all cards ready to send by Dec1…
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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Smiles.
Kim from N. California
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Lisa - awesome job on the money making! I hope you got a good price for the table you so lovingly re-stained. Have you thought about putting the leftovers on Craigslist. A lot of people put up a picture of everything left from a garage sale and say these are available until a certain time. That way you wouldn't have so much to deal with getting rid of. Some Craigslisters take it to put in their own sale.2
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Good evening, ladies!
Feeling thankful for my part time job. I helped some of the sweetest people at the Y today.
Katla - thinking of you and your "blues".
Lisa - way to go!
Mary - how is your shoulder today?
Newbies - WELCOME!
Pip - Go,go,go!
Heather - lovely home! Glad you had a good trip.
Trouble sleeping last night. Hubby and I have not been on the same page with finances. Hopefully we'll be there now!!!! We've been married for 35 years. I think he got the message when I said I was apartment hunting at 4 am last night.
Celebrating your many successes, gals. Praying for those with extra challenges!
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Hi, Friends!
I've totally lost my focus and am struggling to get back on track. But, I'm here tonight and so glad to find this thread. I celebrated my 60th birthday in April and vowed that this would be my best year. By now, I was hoping to be taking hiking trips in the mountains and riding bikes with my two teens. Heck, I can't even walk a block without wanting to sit down. It's as if my mind wasn't in sync with my body. The mind has to be along for the ride for health to come about.
This evening, I forced myself to go to Best Buy and buy one of the fitness trackers. I don't like wasting money, so, I think it should be a useful tool for motivation. I've also bought some Sam-e to help me with my mood, maybe lift me up a bit so that I can get myself out of the house for the purpose of fitness. I make all kinds of excuses and keep telling myself that I'll begin next week. Here we are, almost at the end of the year and I'm going to run out of "next weeks" for 2016.
I appreciate this forum for venting, support and to hold myself accountable. I hope we can help each other out.
Brenda
Virginia Beach, VA4
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