The middle agers group. (Upper 30s,40s & 50ish folks)

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  • mscanadianbakin
    mscanadianbakin Posts: 138 Member
    Mornin fellow middle agers. Doing a side job today to make some extra $$. It's pretty chill though and it's super cold out so may as well be inside.
  • donaldmackay12
    donaldmackay12 Posts: 125 Member
    Hi all happy to chat
  • justanotherguy2020
    justanotherguy2020 Posts: 223 Member
    Mornin fellow middle agers. Doing a side job today to make some extra $$. It's pretty chill though and it's super cold out so may as well be inside.

    What’s the job?? :)
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    What a crazy day. It's January and pouring rain!!!
    I don't care I'm heading out with friends for dinner whether it's pouring or not
    Hope you're all having a fun day
  • HollieAkala
    HollieAkala Posts: 50 Member
    50 something looking for friends for support and motivation. Add me!
  • pinkiewill
    pinkiewill Posts: 3 Member
    Hello my name Carole I'm 51 starting this year/decade on a positive note with healthier lifestyle. Eat better, move more & get rid of the extra stresses in my life. Woo Hooo.
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
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    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Wow awesome cake.
    What did you make the characters out of?
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
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    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Wow, you certainly are a talented baker Nadine.. that is so creative
  • monochromefx
    monochromefx Posts: 2 Member
    Hi all. 51yo guy near Chicago. Trying to get down to a healthy weight by eating properly. I hope I can stay motivated to keep the weight off this time.
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  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
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    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Wow awesome cake.
    What did you make the characters out of?

    Thank you! I made the bodies out of fondant and the wings out of rice paper
    jxhnui0yq2e2.jpg
    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Wow, you certainly are a talented baker Nadine.. that is so creative

    Thanks Jo :blush:
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    jxhnui0yq2e2.jpg
    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Wow awesome cake.
    What did you make the characters out of?

    Thank you! I made the bodies out of fondant and the wings out of rice paper
    jxhnui0yq2e2.jpg
    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Wow, you certainly are a talented baker Nadine.. that is so creative

    Thanks Jo :blush:

    Oooh rice paper interesting. I like sculpting with fondant.
  • Jockimom
    Jockimom Posts: 26 Member
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    The candy floss clouds kept on dissolving. Then Toothless's wing caught on fire while I was lighting the candles and I had to blow it out along with all the candles and start again. They almost burst into flames again while we sang happy birthday! Interesting times.

    Okay, so the party is done. Now I can concentrate on eating right again

    Absolutely beautiful! Hope the party was as amazing as the cake!
  • eIIekay
    eIIekay Posts: 166 Member
    I am 50 and would love to call that middle age. Never know! I have been doing MFP on and off for years. It only works when I'm "on", so I intend to stay. Feel free to add me.
  • kcpond
    kcpond Posts: 661 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    What a crazy day. It's January and pouring rain!!!
    I don't care I'm heading out with friends for dinner whether it's pouring or not
    Hope you're all having a fun day


    No kidding, I was supposed to be doing a winter camp (I am a scout leader), but had to cancel because of too much rain, in January!!!
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Always a good Sunday when you wake up to an alert that something might be happening at the nuclear power plant nearby. But don't worry it's under control. Then again when they send the follow up that it was sent in error you kind of wonder what kind of idiots are actually working there.

    Happy Sunday morning at least we're not in the midst of a nuclear meltdown
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  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Always a good Sunday when you wake up to an alert that something might be happening at the nuclear power plant nearby. But don't worry it's under control. Then again when they send the follow up that it was sent in error you kind of wonder what kind of idiots are actually working there.

    Happy Sunday morning at least we're not in the midst of a nuclear meltdown

    😱

    I'm guessing someone will be losing their job tomorrow.

    Of course I was talking to my mom who never really listens to the full story and says oh dear the situation is still going on. No it's not there was no situation and the second message was in error. I'm pretty sure my mom is engaged to a Nigerian prince and all her bank accounts have been given to someone at a call centre in India so no doubt she is ready for nuclear meltdown
  • Gregzy182
    Gregzy182 Posts: 20 Member
    Hi, newly started this app, loving it already and starting to get the buzz from weighing my food and making sure I get my macros right.. love that you can log your workout and track your progress so easily..
    Always looking for motivation so feel free to add me.. would love to see what everyone else is eating and doing to help inspire me to achieve my goals..
    Greg from Glasgow
    Scotland
  • AprilMLowe
    AprilMLowe Posts: 447 Member
    Hi Everyone! Happy 40 year old here from MASS USA. Always looking for more motivating friends ! I have had great success on here! I have plenty of pictures on my profile along my success journey! Send me a friend request and let's help motivate one another.

    April🤗
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    edited January 2020
    response to the wrong email.....
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    edited January 2020
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    I'm guessing someone will be losing their job tomorrow.

    Of course I was talking to my mom who never really listens to the full story and says oh dear the situation is still going on. No it's not there was no situation and the second message was in error. I'm pretty sure my mom is engaged to a Nigerian prince and all her bank accounts have been given to someone at a call centre in India so no doubt she is ready for nuclear meltdown

    😱

    this is the one I meant:

    Oh man, can I relate to that! My dad just could not grasp the idea of internet safety at all. He would open any email sent to him, such as "but it says I'm getting a free Amazon card!" It took some work, but I finally convinced him to let me have his email box set to exclusive so he could browse through all the junk mail in the junk mail folder, which has some protections on it.

    And then there was google - he would do a google search and would open every single link about 10 pages deep, and you can imagine what some of those links were when he was searching for "wooden toys" (he makes wooden toys and was innocently looking for ideas for new toys; some of the sites he opened, however, were far, far from innocent)

    He got so many viruses on one computer, I had to just wipe the hard-drive. And I had to activate the parental controls and put net nanny on his pc to try to protect it from malicious websites. That locked it down so much that he started getting frustrated with it, and then when some battery on the motherboard started dying and causing errors, he declared his computer dead and has been without one for over a year now, to everyone's relief.

    I gave him a Kindle Fire for his birthday as he's taken up reading a lot, but immediately activated the parental control and locked down safari to keep him off the internet. So far, he hasn't realized that its supposed to be able to browse the internet lol
  • FrankK827
    FrankK827 Posts: 33 Member
    53 in Iowa (wish temperature was that) and in maybe the best shape since college days.Always looking to share successes and cheer each other on.
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    I'm guessing someone will be losing their job tomorrow.

    Of course I was talking to my mom who never really listens to the full story and says oh dear the situation is still going on. No it's not there was no situation and the second message was in error. I'm pretty sure my mom is engaged to a Nigerian prince and all her bank accounts have been given to someone at a call centre in India so no doubt she is ready for nuclear meltdown

    😱

    this is the one I meant:

    Oh man, can I relate to that! My dad just could not grasp the idea of internet safety at all. He would open any email sent to him, such as "but it says I'm getting a free Amazon card!" It took some work, but I finally convinced him to let me have his email box set to exclusive so he could browse through all the junk mail in the junk mail folder, which has some protections on it.

    And then there was google - he would do a google search and would open every single link about 10 pages deep, and you can imagine what some of those links were when he was searching for "wooden toys" (he makes wooden toys and was innocently looking for ideas for new toys; some of the sites he opened, however, were far, far from innocent)

    He got so many viruses on one computer, I had to just wipe the hard-drive. And I had to activate the parental controls and put net nanny on his pc to try to protect it from malicious websites. That locked it down so much that he started getting frustrated with it, and then when some battery on the motherboard started dying and causing errors, he declared his computer dead and has been without one for over a year now, to everyone's relief.

    I gave him a Kindle Fire for his birthday as he's taken up reading a lot, but immediately activated the parental control and locked down safari to keep him off the internet. So far, he hasn't realized that its supposed to be able to browse the internet lol

    Omg. Our parents are the same. My mom is always telling us how visa is calling saying there's fraud on her card. Um did they mentioned your name? Say what Bank they're with you know the one they issues your visa.

    It's horrible how these scams target the vulnerable.
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Ok...I need to get on track. Hubs has decided we should take a cruise in February. We're not good at planning ahead. This means beaches....it means lounging by the pool on sea days.....which means I need to be bikini ready. It's time to get serious
  • mcemino2
    mcemino2 Posts: 427 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    mcemino2 wrote: »
    Good morning and happy Friday!

    Hey how are you doing lately?

    Hey Ali, doing pretty good. Gained a few pounds after my surgery. Still a little sore and get tired much quicker, but back to work and trying to work back up to my normal activity level.
  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,036 Member
    I am scared of my dinner tonight, which is in the slow cooker. My supermarket has started to sell California Reapers, so I plopped a couple into my chili con carne. This may have been a blunder...
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Ok...I need to get on track. Hubs has decided we should take a cruise in February. We're not good at planning ahead. This means beaches....it means lounging by the pool on sea days.....which means I need to be bikini ready. It's time to get serious

    I guess it makes sense to disagree with the fact I'm planning a vacation and every single post I make hahah. Seems I've a fan
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    edited January 2020
    drmwc wrote: »
    I am scared of my dinner tonight, which is in the slow cooker. My supermarket has started to sell California Reapers, so I plopped a couple into my chili con carne. This may have been a blunder...

    Yikes! is there anything that can be used to neutralize the pepper, or at least, tone it down? I know you can use baking soda to neutral tomato acid in spaghetti sauce, but don't know about peppers. I'm a wimp; many foods marked mild are too hot for me!

    AliNouveau wrote: »
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Ok...I need to get on track. Hubs has decided we should take a cruise in February. We're not good at planning ahead. This means beaches....it means lounging by the pool on sea days.....which means I need to be bikini ready. It's time to get serious

    I guess it makes sense to disagree with the fact I'm planning a vacation and every single post I make hahah. Seems I've a fan

    maybe their jealous of your vacation plans? lol

    I had a couple disagrees on a post made in another thread which had me scratching my head as well. Some folks just like being contrary, I suppose. Reminds me of a professor I had for a couple of history classes in college. He loved to argue and would take either side just to get the chance to debate something (coincidentally, he also taught philosophy)