WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2016
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Morning, all... have a long drive into Odessa this morning to get my first intake appointment over for the VA clinic. Debated delaying it into January, as this morning is the first freeze this year... but will leave an hour early and take my time. Just got the electric bill, and as we went straight from air conditioning to heat, it didn't drop at all. Depressing.
Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas1 -
morning peeps, no snow, just 32 degrees :0(1
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199 this morning...YAHOO! Unfortunately not a great way getting there...bad cold/sore throat & worry about DH's health. Today he sees ENT for scope to see if changes in CTScan were due to intubation for back surgery or something more serious...he had epiglottis cancer 2.5 years ago. Then cardiologist in the afternoon since same scan showed some blockage of his carotid artery. He's a very well controlled type 2 diabetic but complication still arise because of the disease. If all this turns out ok we must deal with his continued back pain...second opinion & hope more surgery isn't in the future. He's such a great caring guy, and my best friend, I just pray that he has some positives in all this...he's been through a lot without ever complaining.
I'm reading all that's going on just not posting, trying to do DH's jobs along with mine to get ready for the holidays & big family gathering.
Best wishes to all keep us in your thoughts
Lois on a gray & dismal day on the North Shore of Ma.4 -
Lois - Sending you ((((HUGS)))) for your DH's health. So hard to see your best friend suffering.
Let's hope it all works out fine. 
Well done on entering ONEDERLAND! :drinker:
Lisa - Hope your clinic visit is fruitful . :flowerforyou:
Just had my yummy cold turkey burger.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx0 -
Good morning all! Happy Thursday! Welcome new girls! You have found a wonderfully supportive group of gals. It is amazing to think of all of the different cities, states, countries, cultures are found on this one thread! All on the same journey. We all know that weight and health is just as much a mental battle as it is a physical one. I have found so much inspiration and support from my friends here, when my weight loss stagnates or my healthy choices begin to take a dive due to the "busy-ness" of life; these ladies are here and I always manage to find those little nuggets of inspiration. Advice to the new girls: Log your food, check in here daily or as often as you can, read and glean the info you need/want, comment when you are so inclined. Love getting to know new people!
Thank you for all of the gift suggestions. I will have to think on this for a while. I only see my sibs at Christmas; and most of them live only an hour away. I am seriously considering a gift certificate to a local restaurant or bar in my town, so that they HAVE to come out my way to visit. They are all on fb and it just grinds my gears to see them post "beach" pictures when they come out to the beach in the summer and they don't call to tell me they will be here! Ah well, family...you can't live with 'em, you can't....(well, we can just fill in the blank with whatever action fits)
I better go. I have four littles already here and eating breakfast. Making candy cane mice today for craft and adding jingle bells to our coat zippers for our "countdown" activity.1 -
Becca Charming telephone story. Those old phones are sturdy and wonderful. I am jealous.
Sherry Dufur is a quaint and charming little town. What a gem! I think you are home.
Barbie ((Hug))
Charleen Wow, if you add a slash proof strap, you could make a small fortune marketing those travel pouches. So stinkin' cute. Mine has the same basic design but it's a boring black material and not at all adorable. And I didn't make it. p.s. yay for nice people helping their neighbors.
RE I empathize with your potato chip bender. A few months ago I ate an entire container of something I can't quite remember now and I logged the whole thing, LOL! It looked horrible on my log but it brought me up short so I didn't do an encore. Plus it made me laugh when I went back to look at it on my food log, it was so ludicrous. Better than getting upset about it, just log it and move on. And wear your smaller sweater! Yay!
Joyce I second Carol's suggestion of OTC Delsym. Orange flavor tastes better than grape, I think. Works very well for me when I have a cough. Plus Ricola cough drops.
Hi Verna, Maggie, Sandra, Jbeans, Autumn, Gayla, and Joni! This is a great group, keep coming and sharing!
NYKaren I have actually gone to Walmart with music/earbuds going...
KJ The crafts are darling. Especially love the clothespin reindeer!
Mary LOL! Interesting napkins on that table...chuckle chuckle chuckle...
Beth Great weight loss! Congrats!
Penny
Heather WI...?Women's Institute? By the way, turkey burgers sound yummy!
Lois Onederland! Congrats!
Jazzercise this a.m. and work this evening with an hour of garage cleaning somewhere in the middle for me today. Not so very exciting.
Karen in Virginia
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Verna, I have been a member of MFP since about May of 2010. I have been on this forum for about 4 years now. My efforts have carried with my depression and life events. My weight has reflected that.
Currently I am in the midst of a down time but still logging food, just not much posting much. I lost 30 pounds this year since March and need to lose another 35 to 40 to be at my goal weight. Big push this year due to medical reasons. The weight loss controlled the problems, now need to cure them by continuing my journey. Hope to lose the rest in the coming year.
Verna, thanks to you reaching out to me directly, I posted this info for you and it has reminded me why I am on MFP and love this forum so much. You never know what will help someone else.
Rita from CT2 -
Good morning everyone, can't stay long.
WELCOME to all the new girls, wow I go away for a couple days and viola !! new people. how will I ever catch up.
It is -26 C this morning, and with the windchill -31 C. Oh lovely !! We are off to the city for Dr appointments and grocery shopping for the party this weekend. It is the Family annual Christmas tree hunt. 40 people, 9 little kids under the age of 5. I don't think there will be a wiener roast
It is way to cold and there are only 6 families that are getting a real tree, all those other people have gone to other kinds of trees, or picked their tree up at the Tree stores.
And what is really really disappointing - we don't even have much snow. I think we will all be inside anyway!!
Must run - I will do some housecleaning this morning before we leave for Dr. appointments.
Oh - I picked up my new walking shoes yesterday when we were in Saskatoon!! YEAH!! My old ones had 680 miles on them, they were still good enough to donate. This was so cool, I said to the salesman that I didn't need another pair of garden shoes and he said they could recycle them for me, there are people that need shoes and my were in good enough shape to be still used!! I said I have more that I could donate!!
Later everyone, I have to go sneeze!!
Lillian in FREEZING west Central Saskatchewan1 -
Welcome to everyone new - post often and let us get to know you.
Charleen: Would ya' be my neighbor!
Re: Congrats on the sweater! I'll bet jumping up and down to get a pic count can be logged
Lisa: Safe travels!
We've hit a cold spell here so it is severly limiting my walking to get coffee at work since it is a 2 block walk. The wind and temperature is making my eyes worse so I need to avoid it if at all possible. Ordered ski goggles to try and protect my eyes going back and forth to work. I wonder if you can see well enough to drive in ski goggles? Well I guess I'll find out they should arrive today.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy day
Carey - Northern Alberta
Goals for Dec:
- Increase walking to 7500 per day by end of month
- Get to Tai Chi at least once a week
- Increase daily water intake2 -
Margaret - I found them! Thank you for letting me know they were in the data base somewhere. I believe I had looked for things like 'snow removal' and didn't find anything so assumed they didn't list it.
Yes, you all can be my neighbors and what a wonderful place it would be!
Re - The sweater looks awesome! Way to go!!!
Thank you for the kind words regarding the hedgehog pouch. I love a challenge and trying to figure out how to make as many openings as I could in such a small size was definitely a challenge.
DD is in the middle of final exams this week. She flies out for her many country adventure this coming Sunday. She leaves Denver and lands in Iceland, then on to London where she will be sightseeing for a couple of days. Then back on a plane and flying to Edinburgh Scotland to visit a friend and sightsee a couple of days. Then on to Stockholm and a train trip to Karlstad to visit friends and sightsee a few more days. Finally a train trip back to Stockholm, plane to London, an overnight stay then back on a plane to Iceland and finally home to Denver airport. She put together her agenda and I am pretty sure she didn't plan on sleeping or factor in jet lag so I speak with confidence that she will ooze off that plane when it arrives home. She claims she can't sleep on a plane.
Charleen in Colorado (It's -8 degrees this morning!)2 -
Prep day has arrived. hot tea and jello for breakfast....
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Repeat after me. "If you don't know how to drive in snow and ice, and it's snowing and icy, then stay at home!" Not just one, but THREE pickups flipped in a two-mile span. Hope everyone had their seatbelts on.
Another pickup driver decided to try to pass me a mile later (I was traveling safely and sanely at to 40 mph) and I got to watch him fishtail for about a half mile in my rearview mirror before he finally got it straightened out and pulled back in behind me. Silly bugger.
I am sitting at the clinic after surviving the trip here. Time to bury my face in a book. Wish they wouldn't have ever started putting TVs in waiting rooms!
Love y'all...
Lisa in West Texas - feeling a little cranky... Hate medical appointments3 -
Morning ladies. I think I did sleep some. But I tool some kind of pill that was for cold night time and I will take the day time version in a little bit, that along with cough medicine, sleeping pill and Lortab put me to sleep. When I got up this morning, the morning cough is real loose. But now the chest is real tight and the cough is almost constant and it is killing my back. If this doesn't improve by tomorrow morning, I will call the doctor's office.
Karen, have you ever thought of doing your shopping online at Walmart and just go to pick up? I have several friends who do that and they love it.
Joyce, Indinaa1 -
Just got back from walking the dogs. My oldest, Chewy has a tear in his eye, and $125 later been treating with pain meds and anti- bio eye drops. He is feeling better so enjoyed a 2 mile walk with them in the damp cold of CT.
Rita in chilly CT0 -
Rita~ Homer hasnt been through enough I just got home and same thing happening, off to thevets we go.. we should get this darn visit on the house...0
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Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Good Morning Ladies,
I got home from my cruise yesterday but was too tired to even log in here. This morning I found 450 posts so haven’t read them. I did skim a few pages and see we have lots of new ladies. Welcome to all of you. I’ll try to read a few pages later but wanted to let you all know that I made it back.
We had a wonderful time. The weather was great! Each cruise is a little different because of the crew and the different passengers. This one had especially nice and friendly people. We made lots of new friends. The food was good as always. I think the best thing was a filet mignon we had on the sea day brunch with our steak and eggs. Everyone at the table ordered two filets except me.
I found a new friend to go to the beach with in Nassau since my friend isn’t mobile enough to go. We stopped on the way at Senior Frogs to have a beer that cost $9.00. When we got to the beach they had bars there (which we didn’t realize they would) and they were selling 4 beers and 4 shots for $9.99. We did share those and didn’t drink that many ourselves. Met the cutest young couple that we had a good time with and he bought us each another beer and a few shots. We had shared our shots with them. Since we wanted our shots to go and weren’t going to stay at the Tiki Bar while we had our drinks, they poured them in a plastic cup. We actually got about 15 of their tiny shot cups out of it. LOL But just to give you an idea of the size of their shot cups, they were probably not even ¼ of a normal shot glass.
We only made a couple of the shows on the cruise because so many of them started late. We would make great plans to go to something but by 10:00 pm would be too tired and go to the room. I didn’t lose any money in the Casino and actually won a little bit. I didn’t gamble any the last day for fear of losing what I had won. lol I’ll save my winnings to take to Vegas if our trip there materializes. Sorry to ramble so much my friends. Just know I missed you all and did think of you once or twice when I was eating something I shouldn’t.
to all the Newbies. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.
Sending love, good thoughts and sunshine to all of you and I hope you all have a Happy and Healthy Day!
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC
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Lisa - I hope you will complain about the TV. I consider it assault. So unnecessary these days when everyone has a personal entertainment system. I am always asking people to turn music etc off or down.
I searched on line for healthy starters and found some cauliflower fritters that I can make tomorrow and freeze for Boxing Day for my son and DDIL and also keep another batch for New Years Eve for the vegetarian dinner. Will do a yoghurt raita to go with it and those that like it (me! ) can have chilli sauce. Actually my son will join me and DSIL's partner, who is Indian by origin, has chilli sauce with everything. .
Boxing Day the main is Mediterranean Fish Soup. Haven't got my veggie main yet.
Love Heather UK, who is rereading THINNER THIS YEAR. I am trying to lose two pounds by Christmas. So far it's going well. :bigsmile:1 -
im home from the vet yet again, 2 scripts for the eye later and 105.00 out of the checking account and hopefully it will be an uneventful trip... this is my first time sitting down since 3;30 this morning. went up to see Dad, and DD and DGD Taliah wasn't thrilled with the jeans I got her but there is a stuffed cat coming in the mail for her..
she grabbed me by the hand and I went with her up to her bus stop, and got her on the bus, then came down and spent a few mins with Tracy, then up to Doris's ,then to get my haircut.. then to the P.O., LIBRARY and to check on neighbors house.. then came home and found Homers eye all swollen so off to the vet.. now I am sitting and having a cup of tea before I have to start with vaccuming the car and start packing it, and make the bed and make dinner.. I need a nap now, but cant or I wont sleep tonight..0 -
WELCOME BACK, DJ !!! So glad you had a lovely time. Your day on the beach sounds a hoot!
We hardly spoke to anyone on our cruise. Everyone was so OLD.! :laugh: We got on well with the staff. :laugh: I must say our food was superb too and I didn't put on any weight. It was such an active holiday. Now I've got to wait until next August for our next one. Don't you feel sorry for me.
Love Heather UK1 -
Greetings from a very cold Omaha where the wind chill is -9 degrees. Thank God for my Land’s End squall coat because I am never cold wearing that.
Gayla: welcome! Sprechen sie Deutsch?
Charlene: sounds like you got a good workout.
Joni55: welcome to you too
Rori: nice to see you too! I remember our lunch together with Jane fondly
Re: hooray for the sweater that fits!
Joyce: get rid of that cough
Lenora: glad that is over with! I keep telling myself I will have my colonoscopy but I want light anesthesia not the sedation meds. I am not worried about the procedure itself, just that. I have given those drugs to many, many people in the ED and didn’t like them then! There is someone here who uses a pediatric prep for her adults and it is very gentle but effective, and I know this person from when she was a resident so I may have to see if she is accepted by my insurance.
Katla: I always thought that vitamin D stuff was a fad, but when I complained about my chronic exhaustion I had mine checked and low and behold it was low! Two weeks of supplements and I feel a ton better!
Beth: hunker down up there and stay warm!
Sherry: sounds delightful! I have never been to that part of the country
Heather: (((hugs))) to you and DH to get through the drama
Lisa: I have a cousin in Odessa
Lois: keeping you and DH in my prayers!
Pip: great picture of the gang!
DJ: glad you had fun; you deserved a great vacation!
OK well now I need to go on my midday walk which I have been avoiding for weeks. Gotta get back in the swing of things. Take care and stay warm. Meg from Omaha
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Hi everyone. Thanks for all the welcomes and motivation on this page. I am amazed at how much I like it. I Never wanted to do this before with people I don't know but have been pleasantly surprised and have come back three days in a row. So thanks. Living in south Florida we are waiting for some of that cold air to make its way down here. Time to turn the a|c off. We had a record high of 87 this week. It is forecast to cool off tomorrow. Yeah! Have a fabulous day.
Pam in sunny south florida3 -
DJ- welcome back! I am so glad to hear that you had a great time. It is nice to be able to meet other people whose company you can enjoy. Love Senior Frogs! They always try to make everyone have a good time at their establishment. Their prices are very reasonable as well. I am definitely waiting to see pictures of your vacation!
Mary from Minnesota1 -
Becca: Thanks for the good travel wishes. I'd hoped we'd be albe to go today because there are no conflicts on the calendar. It is blustery this morning, and not a good travel day. :ohwell:
Penny: I'm happy that you stopped by. I've been missing your posts. (((hugs)))
Heather: One of the good things about Amazon is that they've made it possible for a lot of small, home-based businesses to compete in the marketplace. I buy several things on a regular basis that would cost me lots more in the stores, or that aren't available in the stores here. I started buying Endangered Species individually wrapped 72% dark chocolate squares in a local store but they stopped carrying them. (50 calories per square) Amazon came to the rescue. This particular product is sold by an organization that is trying to protect the rain forests in the Amazon basin in South America. Buying from them is an example of things I appreciate about Amazon. :bigsmile:
Lois: Welcome to onederland! Great work.
I understand your feelings about your DH. Mine is in a comparable situation. He's been type 1 diabetic since age 18, has MS and has had a stroke that left him partially blind. Luckily he passes vision tests for driving. He's had three back surgeries to clear out arthritic deposits in tiny nerve channels on his neck and lower back. The most recent was just a couple of years ago. The first was over twenty years ago. I hope things go well for both of our DH's.
Lillian: We don't Christmas Tree hunt anymore, either. I have living trees that I bring into the house and tiny artificial trees on counters and tabletops. My live trees are Alberta Spruce trees and they aren't very big. The largest lives in a red plastic bucket/planter. I can easily carry it into the house without help so far. The new one is in a much smaller ornamental pot. The trees are very slow growing and manage to live through a month indoors in the winter. Perfect for us!
Lisa: I've always been a non-fan of TV's in waiting rooms until I happened to see the morning news that revealed a connection between medicine I'd taken for years and Alzheimers. I've changed my life for the better because of that morning news show in the waiting room. :bigsmile:
DJ: Congratulations of a fun filled voyage.
We have a windstorm this morning. DH and I just came back from putting an additional heater on the boat and making sure that all is tied securely. He got seasick down there and is having a lie down. I'm glad that we don't have to be anywhere today. I'd hoped to take wreaths to my parent's graves today, but we'll wait for calmer weather. Snug at home is good.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."
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Welcome home, DJ. I'm glad you had a great trip.
Lois - Congrats on that milestone loss!
Lisa - Hope you have a safe journey home. Sounds like the roads are pretty bad/
I've been reading a great deal of British historical fiction lately. Now I am almost finished with a non fiction work called "Women of the Cousins' War". We sometimes refer to this period as the War of the Roses (York and Lancaster). When I was little my mother used to say that she and my dad had ancestors on opposite sides of the War of the Roses and that's why they bickered all the time! My daughter-in-law is working on our geneology so I'll see if she can let me know which side was which.
Tonight starts my work week - Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Need to think about getting ready.
Toni in Tennessee1 -
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Verna – I will tell you what my DOGD tells her step-mom; “You did not put the weight on overnight; it won’t come off overnight.” Losing it slowly is the best way to help you in doing so without getting to your goal and then gaining it all back and then some. My DDnL#1 has at least 100lbs to lose and she is considered tall at 5’9”; but, she never lost any of her ‘baby weight’ from her first child. Of course, DOGD has put on that “Freshman 15” plus every year she’s been in college (3 years) and she is very short at 5’0”. But, she gets her feelings hurt so easily; but, I have told her that 1500+ calories in is way too much for her. She is relatively active walking from one class to another; but, she says that her boyfriend tends to eat the wrong things and it is difficult to cook for just one person, so she has been eating way too much ‘fast food’. But, her build is also not helping her. The only time she was fairly slim was in HS when she was a ‘cheerleader’ and on the ‘dance line’. I wish that I could tell each of them that they’d be so much better if they lost the weight.
Re – When it rains, I head home. I don’t know where all the people come from; but, they are ‘awful’ drivers, usually with 4 adults and about 6 unrestrained kiddos bouncing around. They never use a turn signal and until you absolute SEE them turning, they might have had their blinker on since the last turn they made. I don’t drive to town any more than I absolutely have to. Thankfully, got all my Christmas shopping done and all that are going to Louisiana are packed into a leaf bag so they’ll be ready to go on Saturday.
Joyce – DOGD (DOS’s from a previous marriage who has lived with them since she was 14 (now 20) is very, very short at 5’0”; the MGD is tall like her Mama; the youngest two are 11 and 10 and both are heavy by about 15 to 20lbs. The 11-year-old wears a uniform to school; and, regular clothes during the week. A couple of months ago, we called on an early Sunday morning and DYS said that DDnL#2 and DMYGD was giving her Mama ‘fits’ because she did not like how things fit her. He was in the den … said he was not going to get involved with the ‘girls’. I laughed and told him … you have not seen it yet, a few more years and he will know what I am talking about. “GEE, thanks Mom!”
I had a cough that lingered on forever (I usually do at least 2x a year). GP and PAs were giving me everything they could ‘throw at me’ and it too my ‘lung MD’ to finally Rx Prednisone and that knocked it out in about 3 days. While I don’t like ‘steroids’ because how they make me feel (bloated) … I wanted something to make it go away before it turned into pleurisy. I had already had bronchitis.
Pip – The dog on the left is thinking, ‘get used to it, kiddo’; the dog on the right is thinking ‘I don’t think so’!
Lenora
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