WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2016

barbiecat
barbiecat Posts: 17,183 Member
in Motivation and Support
yoga-exercise-smiley-emoticon.gif 2191610q208gshr57.gif 81824br5uyrfrsr.gif

Whether you're on day 1 or day 5000 of your journey to health and fitness, one of the chief ingredients for success is a community to support and encourage you.

That's what this thread is about. The name says "Women Ages 50+" but all women are welcome. Some of us have been posting on this thread for a long time and some have just started. It doesn't take long to feel like you've known us forever.

If you made any goals or resolutions for November, how did you do?

If you have any goals or resolutions for December, we'd love to hear about them.

Please sign your post with your name (or alias) and your general geographic location. This makes it easier for us to get to know each other.

Don't forget to bookmark the thread by clicking on the star at the top so you can find us again.

Barbie from beautiful NW Washington
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT.

My word for 2016 is "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness

146200.png

Resolutions for December:
*show up for physical therapy appointments and do the exercises assigned in between
*balance rest and activity--don't over-do
*meditate daily increasing time gradually until it reaches 20 minutes
*

Resolutions for November (with end of the month comments)
*follow the directions of the medical professionals for recovery from surgery (yes, except for slightly over-doing a few times)
*make daily use of my word for 2016-- "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness (didn't grumble too much)
*knit another blanket for Project Linus (finished on November 30)
«134567…61

Replies

  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,502 Member
    Went to ceramics tonight. I did all that baking and I really, really hate that those cookies are even in the freezer. Well, terrible as this may sound, I'm going to go to the library (where we usually have the Newcomer board meetings) a few days after Christmas and give them a cookie tray. Things that Vince won't eat, I can get rid of.

    As I was driving to ceramics, it came down. I could go top speed 25. Usually I can do 40 or thereabouts. Vince stayed home, didn't go to ceramics, and decorated the trees.

    jane - welcome back!

    NYKaren - keeping fingers crossed for your hubby

    katla - I like that sweet potato casserole recipe because it doesn't contain all the sugar and marshmallows.

    Re in TX - our house is 5,000 sq ft.Today when I was at ceramics one of the gals who heads it said that she meant to give me an invite but that she understands this other lady gave me hers. So that made me feel good. Now I have to think of a gift to bring. It needs to be a wrapped $10 gift. I'm thinking a bottle of wine and maybe some chocolates to go with it. Last year I brought a cookie jar and filled it with cookies. Raw cookie dough/brownie batter/cake batter is definitely my downfall. I'm not so keen when it's baked but don't get me near it when it's raw. One good thing about my "scratchy" throat is that I didn't have as much of a desire to much on the dough. But I did have to sample it to be sure of things like there wasn't too much of a certain spice.

    Sherry - you poor dear! My heart breaks for you. Whatever happened to that neighbor who wanted to share space with you?

    OK SueBDew - how did you lose???

    Michele in NC
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Oh Sherry, you poor dear. I am so sorry you are in this situation. You had such high hopes of this and so many people have ruined it. Is that man still living next to you. Could the friend that brought the fit bit either house sit for you or do some grocery shopping for you. You can't go without eating, that will not only take you down physically but really bad emotionally and that is a bad thing. You have to keep your immune system up. I agree with the yoga or maybe meditation. I have Pandora on my phone and there are several stations that really help keep me up. And please keep up with us reading here even though you don't want to post. Maybe you could just put a period or comma or something and that will let us know you are reading. We really do care. If I knew how to post a Christmas tree or holly or a wreath I would.

    We sant through our complete cantata tonight. Choir director really wants us to stand through the whole thing but we are an older church therefore an older choir. She wants us to stand all together. Well not every ones arthritis works as fast as others. I do know that I was beat after choir practice. Maybe I need to take Advil before church that Sunday instead of Aleve. Or take an arthritis pill. Holding out notes for 6 to 8 measures is pretty hard. Your spine really feels that.

    Joyce, Indiana
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    <3
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,678 Member
    edited December 2016
    Good morning all!
    I'm up early - again. I think I have my difficult friend on my mind. :* I have a good excuse for keeping the lunch meeting short as I have to get my blood pressure meds from the pharmacy ( I take the last one in the packet today) and get folding cash for the niece and nephew and a bit more food for tomorrow's lunch party. The cash is for their Christmas presents. This year will be the last year my niece gets a cash gift. I stopped the others at 18 and she will be 18 in March. That will be her last time, unless we are actually invited to a party. My brother has six children and nine grandchildren. My last nephew is 15, so I have a few more years there. I have wrapped my brother's present and my DSIL's.

    Sherry - Sending my sympathy. <3

    I have done all my Christmas shopping on line. Hate going to the shops. Can't stand the music, so I'm limited to a few stores that don't have it. The last few years we have both done everything on line. We regularly get a food delivery, but also fill in with perishables.
    DH does more food shopping than I do as he is the "fruit monitor". We have fresh fruit salad on our muesli every morning in bed, which he prepares and brings up with our second cup of tea. I get the first cup. Actually they are large mugs. :laugh: He also makes some variety of stewed fruit which we have for dessert every day with my homemade yoghurt. Very little sugar. Last night was home grown apples and blackcurrants. He freezes blackcurrants and gooseberries that we grow and stores our apples carefully. He goes out into the hedgerows and collects mountains of blackberries to freeze. Some of them he turned into a cordial.
    One thing we will do, if we ever sell this house and get to Hove, is buy a blackcurrant and a gooseberry bush. Ours have been amazing!

    OK, time to take up the tea to this paragon. <3 Love you ladies!

    Oh, last night I texted DOS at 21.52 to say, "It's a boy!" I was raising a tiny glass of spiced rum. He texted back, "Love you." Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. :D

    Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • ljdw99
    ljdw99 Posts: 360 Member
    :|
  • lhannon062709
    lhannon062709 Posts: 1,140 Member
    Good morning, all, and welcome to December.... Thank you, Barbie, for making us this place once more. You are a rock. This is my island in the stormy seas of life, where I can come, read about all your lives, and be at peace in my own. I am incredibly grateful.

    Performance on my Goal for November: "Be lighter" physically, mentally, spiritually. Physically - failed. Gained weight. Mentally - succeeded with flying colors, as I ponied up and moved myself to part-time from the full-time job that is exhausting me. Spiritually? Hard to tell, but I know that I learned from the gaining, which is part of why I set my foot down and decided that I needed to take care of myself first.

    Goal for December: "Be lighter." Physically, mentally and spiritually.

    My new Fitbit Charge HR 2 should be in within a day or two, that's part of it. So is tracking again--I've made abortive attempts the last few days, but am newly resolved to do so. I'm setting myself up for success again--I've let the stresses of my life sidetrack me into failure, and it's time to stop doing that.
    On the personal side, the one place fell through--I offered $17K, they came back with $22K, and we were just too far apart to make sense, so we dropped it. However, as if to reward us for having sense enough NOT to buy land at this point, an opportunity came up to swap my DH's little Mazda 6 in for a truck that is big enough haul our camper/trailer (which I've taken to calling the House McNugget).

    My pickup is a GMC Sierra, with enough power technically to tow the trailer, but if you put more than a toothpick extra in it, my baby truck would have a nervous breakdown from the weight. With the 1999 F350 with a 7.3L diesel, he has an engine he understands, and can literally take apart and put together again, being an old-school mechanic. Plus we have a truck that, with care, will last as much as 750,000 more miles. Diesel engines are expected to get up to a million miles on them before they kick over the traces. The stuff they don't teach you in school! It has a massive grill guard and a flatbed on it with toolboxes. He is in absolute heaven. For perspective, our camper weighs 7,000 pounds-ish. This beastie is rated to tow up to 19,000 pounds. :smiley:

    And, for me, it's the last major expenditure. Now we're just fine-tuning everything, saving money, doing project work. If the warehouse sells in the spring, we leave. If not, we stay here another year or two and put money away until we're ready to go. I've got a new blog to get up and running on all the prep work we're doing, all the things we're learning, and a quilting project (paid) to go bid on today.

    And my health to get back.

    I do love y'all, though I don't comment on everything that happens with everyone. You're in my heart and on my mind.
    Lisa in West Texas. For now... :)
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Morning, happy December!

    Goals from November with reflections:

    :* Count my blessings and log CICO: yep

    :D Embrace my travels with little anxiety: yep, and I get extra credit for hosting and enjoying t-day gathering

    o:) Don't eat out or clothes shop: pretty good, just ate out on vacation, put away my savings goal

    :( Be lighter: ........ ...... cricket..... cricket


    And that ladies is where I need to go a little deeper. Been on this journey before where I lose the weight, feel great and happy and full of energy and then The creep creep creep of the nibbles, the overdoing it, and the skipping of the gym starts to take a hold. Thank goodness for a new month to clear the slate.

    I am gonna take a hard look at my diary, my daily anxiety, my mood and motivation and pick one habit to adjust so I can halt this trend of old behavior. Where I go off maintenance and gain gain gain.

    Not planning to lose weight this month, I am planning to look hard at some triggers that lead me to sabotage what has been a really healthy set of habits such as:

    Move every day
    Plan out balanced meals
    No night time eating past dinner

    It might be boring but those 3 habits worked for my body and I am ignoring them.... lots to think about today.

    NYKAREN
  • gininme
    gininme Posts: 16 Member
    Hello there. I'm Ginny from Maine. I like Grace's commitment, consistency and tracking. Keeping it simple with that in mind. I'm in for it, and the best to us all.Thanks Grace.
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    <3
    Karen in Virginia
  • jbatinker
    jbatinker Posts: 313 Member
    Good Morning all. I have not posted here in a while but wanted to check in. Had a rough few weeks - had hit Onderland, celebrated too much and need to find it again. :'(

    My goal this month is to try and maintain - stay on plan during the week, try to stay away from the sweets, be careful on the weekend but ENJOY the holidays.

    donnajz4241 - I am also a fellow Disney lover! Go to Disneyworld a few times a year - trip coming up in January - yeah!

    I am from CT.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,525 Member
    Will talk later..... gotta go!

    Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    1116375spw40y3sfo.gif
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,183 Member
    gininme wrote: »
    Hello there. I'm Ginny from Maine. I like Grace's commitment, consistency and tracking. Keeping it simple with that in mind. I'm in for it, and the best to us all.Thanks Grace.

    Welcome, Ginny, I am reading a book that is set in Maine so I'm thrilled to meet you....I hope you'll keep coming back and tell us more about yourself.

    :) Barbie from chilly and dark NW Washington
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    November Resolutions:
    1. Log every bite and swallow. Done
    2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back strength. Done
    3. Have fun every day. Done.
    4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more! Done. I log this so there is a crecord.
    5. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly. Did well at sleeping except when I returned from Illinois. It is weird that I did fine going, but coming home I had adjustment trouble. It was over quickly.

    December Resolutions will be the same. They work for me. :bigsmile:

    Donnajz from Pittsburg: Welcome to a great group! Stop by often for encouragement and support. :smiley:

    MrsGLT aka Grace & gininme: Welcome! :flowerforyou:

    Re: I love your goals. You've been doing very well IMHO. Nobody is perfect. :noway: :flowerforyou:

    Heather: I plan to do my shopping online, too. I told DD to set up a gift wish list on Amazon with several choices for everyone & I would order things and have them delivered. Win-win. I would have to ship everything and it cost plenty last year just for shipping. Since we have Amazon Prime shipping will be free. :bigsmile: Is your DOS's boy a dog? I remember he was pet hunting. :heart:

    Lisa in WTX: Diesel vehicles are wonderful. You've made a great choice there. Both of our vehicles are diesel. The engines are solid. The older car needs some work on doors and locks and I need a new key for it. :star:

    NYKaren: Your goals make sense. I make the same goals over and over because they work and your goals look great. :smiley:


    I heard from DS yesterday and he and DDIL are both sick after their Thanksgiving travels. That happened to us last year and I hope they have a shorter time of sickness than we did. Ours lasted for weeks. DH had an appointment with his eye doctor yesterday and is scheduled for an additional appointment with a specialist tomorrow. It appears that he may be having cataract surgery in one eye. I hope it all falls into place because he's noticed a sharp downturn in vision over the last week or two.

    The tiny Rosemary Christmas tree I bought at the grocery store died, so on our way back from the eye doctor we stopped at a nursery & I bought a tiny Alberta Spruce to be our tabletop tree. I have a larger one for the living room window. I bought the larger Alberta Spruce a few years ago and we still have it. It will be in our living room window. Over all it is about 45 inches tall including the pot. It will be on a coffee table in the living room window. The little one is 25 inches including the pot and is currently sitting in the middle of my dining table. I may move it to a place of honor at the top of the stairs or I may leave it where it is. Alberta Spruce trees are very slow growers and tolerate moving indoors for a few weeks in December, so I can have them for years. Naturally I have named them. The bigger one is Alberta, and the little one is tentatively Sprucie. Original naming? Well, it works for me. :laugh:

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

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

    December 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.

    30881843.png
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,678 Member
    Katla - I was just celebrating the minute that DOS popped out 40 years ago as I had told him I would be raising a glass at that time. <3 In those days we didn't know if it was a girl or boy. :noway: Him texting me he loved me was a very unexpected bonus. We are not a demonstrative family.

    One of our Monday viewers has cancelled as he has decided our village is not for him. Can't blame him, it's not for me either. :laugh:
    Let's hope the other one makes it here this time.

    My lunch was perfectly bearable and I only spent an hour with my difficult friend as I had a lot to get done before tomorrow. DH had to pick up the cleaner as she had blown a gasket!!!! and I had to get blood pressure pills and food for tomorrow's lunch. He will take her back in a minute.

    I know I ought to make the mashed potato for tomorrow but the sofa is calling me. >:)

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,284 Member
    Thank you Barbie for keeping this thread going! You da best! o:)

    My heart goes out to those that need it. My depression is bad but no where near as bad as some of you. My DH contributes by being negative and angry all the time. Not making excuses but his kids have not called, txt, return his attempts at contact, or any communications even though we only live about 5 miles apart.

    Dh's hives are still there and I think he needs to go to the gastrointestinal doc again but he refuses. Plus his arthritis is acting up. He gets a very down around the holidays.

    He brings me down along with my kids being distant ( though physically close) holidays, don't feel like I belong and jealousy. Financial worries and my arthritis is acting up.

    I don't want to lose this post. On phone talk later.

    Rita from CT
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Happy December Ladies

    Barbie Thanks for our new thread

    Lenora Love the sound of your myriad lights twinkling and flashing. When we stayed at home for Christmas the tree would have decorations from when kids were small a set of lights my Mum had bought for me. Then I would start adding more lights, baubles and tinsel. DH used to put up lots of lanterns and streamers in the lounge, definitely not a 'less is more' person when it came to Christmas.

    Re We go to Benidorm in Spain for 3 or 4 weeks every Christmas You are so inspiring when you talk about going to the gym as I'm scared to go in case I look a fool

    Sherry My heart is so heavy for you wish there was something we could do for you. But if good thoughts and prayers will help there are plenty of them here


    Love the doggie pics will try and put some on of my 2, now gone I remember there are some quite funny ones

    Didn't set any goals for November except to get 10,000 steps in - didn't always manage that As I've got various things going on until I go away I'll leave goal setting until January

    Kate UK
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    <3
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,183 Member
    1056287i3zmwzup2m.gif Sasha goes for her dental cleaning this morning so no food after bedtime last night....I felt like such a mean mom not giving either dog any breakfast. Jake took Brandy for a short walk and then gave her pills and treats and breakfast while I walked Sasha. Fortunately it's only one day.

    :) thank you all for your kind words....I love this thread and treasure my time with all of you.

    <3 Barbie from NW Washington
  • nccarolb
    nccarolb Posts: 858 Member
    Hi, everyone! I miss y'all but, for now at least, life is really in my way and I'm struggling to keep up with everything. I hope all are well!

    Carol from NC
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,284 Member
    November goals:
    Lose 5 pounds by Nov. 30 by logging all food every day, reading this forum and posting at least once a day, at least 30 minutes of exercise 5 out of 7 days a week.

    November results:
    Logged about 95% of food
    Did not lose anything
    Read and posted every day
    Exercise about 74%

    December goals same as November:
    Lose 5 pounds by Dec. 31 by logging all food every day, reading this forum and posting at least once a day, at least 30 minutes of exercise 5 out of 7 days a week.

    Adding try to improve my mindset.

    Rita from CT
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Rita: If you are doing everything right and your weight is holding steady you may be on a plateau. I had many many many plateaus on the weigh to my goal. Don't let them get you down. They seem to be part of the process for many of us. :ohwell:
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    DJ Have fun!

    Karen in Virginia
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,678 Member
    DJ - Have a WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL time! :drinker: I've got to wait until next August for my cruise. :'( Jealous? Moi?

    Rita - (((HUGS)))

    CAROL - Pleased to see you posting even if life is s***. :/ Stay with us. Gosh, these holidays get so many people down. It used to be a terrible time of year for me. Two years running I rang the Samaritans.

    Remember folks, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • MarionCliff
    MarionCliff Posts: 4 Member
    I turned 60 in August and had 150 lbs to lose. I fell off the wagon last week. And pigged like no tomorrow. My goal is to get on the wagon and keep riding through the hills and valleys. Well actually to walk through the hills and valleys to become more active. I am in Georgia.

Categories