WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017
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msfanglet: You asked how we keep up with this thread. I stop in more than once a day most of the time. I respond only when I have something that I think/hope is supportive so I don't always comment to everyone. Sometimes I read and put in a smiley, star or heart to mark my place. This is a busy thread, and January is usually the busiest of all because so many people make a New Years Resolution to lose weight and somehow stumble into our wonderful group. Some people stay and others drift away. :flowerforyou:
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
I do much the same. Check in a few times a day if possible. I read the posts backwards, that is the most recent post first. If I want to comment I then post the response on that page. I then open the previous page and read from bottom up and post as I want etc.. till I get back to my last post or page marker
I've made. Works for me.
Cheri
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Glad to see posts from some very nice people. I'm on here to keep on track!3
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Stronglift Workout A
Squat-1X5X 55/65/75, 5X5X 80
BP-1X5X 45/55, 5X5X 65
BR-5X5X 85
Everything felt really good today. The barbell row for next time I will keep it at the same weight to make sure my form is good before I move on.
Kettlebell Swing
Goblet squats-3X5X 30
Russian kettle bell swing-19 X7X 30
40lbs loss by May 27 Challenge
Fitness Test
Push-ups-4x10
Sit ups-4X 10
Jumping jacks-4x10
Mary from Minnesota1 -
I've walked Sasha for about 90 minutes and am now showered and dressed and ready to go teach my beginning line dance class. I always hate getting in the car to drive over there and then love every minute of it once it gets going. Barbie from NW Washington 5 -
Mary, thank you for the suggestion. Is keto suitable for vegetarians?0
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Mary, thank you for the suggestion. Is keto suitable for vegetarians?
Probably a little more difficult since it is a high fat low carb diet. There are vegetables that are high in protein and protein powder made from veggies. But, you have to limit carbs to around 5-10%, fats 70-75%, and protein 15-20%. The purpose is to change your body from using carbs as energy to burning fat for energy.
You might want to ask that question on this site.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group
Mary from Minnesota2 -
I just had an internet ordeal when I had my computer clear cookies. Not for the faint of heart. I had to give myself a new password to Google and I'm not happy with the whole mess. I'm particularly not happy with the interconnection between google and facebook. I like my privacy.
Katla in beautiful and cold NW Oregon
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Joyce – I watch Code Black, too, there are so many story lines that it is sometimes difficult to keep all them all straight. Last night was one of them; and, it can be difficult to follow because each week there is ‘something’ going on that the last week’s story line has carried into it. I’m trying to remember how the policewoman got injured/hurt to end up being taken off life support since she was an ‘organ’ donor. She was ‘on duty’ when it happened (whatever it was). I think the Head Nurse might have been kin to her or felt like she was responsible for her being there. The woman killed/donor was a police officer. Her husband was ‘in security’ (maybe at the hospital). They made the choice to give the woman who fell ‘off the wagon’ the heart that would have taken a 4-hour trip and might not have been viable after that trip because there was another match in another state. The black MD (who was on Blue Bloods as a preacher) finally came around and changed his mind on his vote (against it) to let them give this woman the heart because the psychiatrist convinced him that ‘getting the heart’ would be something that would be a ‘life/game changer’ for her. The fact that she had been injured in a wreck on the way with her young teenage daughter [who also had health issues] driving was done because she had had 2 shots to drink. The teenager has had an illness that the mother had been taken care of; and, she would take care of her mother. I think maybe it showed a heart-wrenching decision that one goes through when their loved one is a donor and needing to let go so they can carry through and help save someone else’s life/lives or the quality of it. It’s a fine line between a MD telling the family that she/he has wishes to be a donor and if the machines are the only thing keeping them alive. Being a donor myself; I want to be taken off life supports ‘only if there is no chance for recovery’. I think it shows what goes on with the ER family who are no different than ‘any’ family. Well, that was ‘my take’ on Wednesday night’s episode.
Sorry about your church member/choir friend(s).
When my mother’s Hospice Care was called in … they asked her if she ‘knew what Hospice did’? She looked at that person and said, all I know is that if Hospice is called in, you have 6 months or less to live. Then he proceeded to tell her … what we do is come help you bathe, make sure you are taking your meds, getting dressed and being able to eat with the others in the ALF. She did pass way during her 5th month of Hospice … but, I always will think that she was ready to ‘go Home’. She had told one of the ladies that owned the ALF that for the previous 3 nights she had ‘seen the gates opening and shutting, but she as not ready to fly away’. She got put on morphine for the pain, my oldest sister called me and told me that if I wanted to see her in any form of a ‘lucid’ moment I needed to come up that day. My middle sister was called and she got there the next day. She was able to see and recognize all 3 of us. Her brother, who had NOT been down to see her but a couple or a few more times in 3+ years of living in the ALF, came on Friday and stood over her with his arms crossed, he never said word one to any of us. She died on Saturday with the 3 of us in the room. I had my head next to hers on the pillow, talking to her, then she just stopped breathing. Simple as that – no gasping for air, no choking or coughing – just stopped breathing. Both sisters came running over asking what was going on. I’m glad that I was the one who was holding her when she died.
Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for a good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Mother’s death was hard on me; but, my Daddy’s death had been worse. I was the ‘baby’ of the family and was for the ‘longest period of time’ during his lifetime. While he was in ICU, my mother would go back into the unit with me; but, not in the room with us. When I walked into the room, the bells and whistles would go off; Mother could walk to the door and they would settle down. I remember crawling up in the hospital bed with him with all the tubes, etc; running out of him and told him that when I died, I wanted him to ‘call me Dale, Daddy’ … so that I would know I had died. I’ve almost died twice since; and while I saw members of my family who had died before that … I did not see nor hear my Daddy calling the ‘Dale’. Both times, I woke up, I have been here, on earth. I don’t fear death insofar as I am concerned; I just don’t want to live without my DH and all the things he does for me. I fear dying of a ‘broken heart’ more than anything. I know we are not ‘promised tomorrow’ so I do try to ‘live in the moment’, and forget what has happened in the past. Sometimes that is the hardest thing to do.
msfanglet – Jumping in … first you need to ‘bookmark’ the thread by clicking on the outline of the star, it will turn yellow. To find us again, click on the gray star between the bell and gear; it will have a drop down line to any and all threads you have bookmarked. When you see the WOMEN 50+ … for the current month; hit it. It will then take you back to where you posted last. One of the things I do (especially if I have a problem getting what I have typed to post what I is … wait a few moments and try it again.
I pull up my word processing program and put the blank page side-by-side to the ‘minimized screen of MFP’ and type my responses into the WPP and then ‘cut and paste’ to the yellow box and the end of all the posting on the last page. You cannot go back a page unless you actually post what you have put in that box, or it will disappear. I do not delete my WPP page until AFTER I know it has been ‘posted’. That way I can go paste it back to the WPP and won’t lose it (or if I have other things to do … I will ‘save it’ and then I can find it, open it up again, and try to post it later.
On the last day of the month … Barbiecat will post a link to the next month’s page; you will need to go to that page and ‘bookmark’ it the same way as described above. Some of us read all that has been posted. I will read up to 100 posts; but, not more. It can be somewhat like a ‘series’ on TV or in a book … (if you miss too much) … just jump ahead and go to the last page or 2 or 3 back. The pages are numbered at the top.
We all like for people to put a little about themselves: Name they prefer to be called by, a location (specific or generally), married or not, children, grandchildren, hobbies, goals, exercises.
If I am too far behind, I will go to the next to the last page and read from that point. I will post my responses; and, then I will go back several pages, if I have time, and read them, just to make sure I am current on things that are going on with some of the ladies. That way, jumping right in at the end will make what gets posted since my last one a bit clearer. You will notice that it looks like some of us have an empty box … not so, usually a period or sometimes a smiley face. That is just one more way to make sure you are back to your last post.
I will ‘bold’ the names of the people I post to, that gives others, who don’t care to read my postings (and there are some that don’t) …; will let someone who is just ‘cruising’ through know if I have posted something they are interested in, or read a post that is directed at another and sometimes that lets you know what is going on.
NYKaren – I want to go to Jamaica. I’ve been to Biminis to dive … water like this … sand like this; your family are gorgeous, it was good that your daughter got to be on a relaxing vacation with her Dad.
gotu52 – even ‘if’ you go over your caloric intake; keep on tracking … you will soon have it become a habit and you will see what you are eating in areas you might cut back in. Portion control and exercise are key to losing weight. Get a good set of measuring cups and spoons and a kitchen weight.
Lisa – Both of you are beautiful and handsome – in both pictures! Never doubt that! You both look ‘young at heart’ in both pictures.
Heather – My husband is 75; and, nobody guesses his age – ever, not even close! He works like he ‘thinks’ he is ½ his age; but, I have noticed that he does come in and showers after he has cleaned his brushes and he is tired. I know he wants to start taking it easier.
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Hi all!
Just skimming to try to keep up with all of you. Love the pictures of you, hubbies, kids, grands, and fur babies! You are a lovely bunch.
Allie - Thinking of you.
Marni - enjoyed the positive mantra
Sheri - HA, HA,HA! The one about the overnighter .....so true!
TNToni (Re - never realized that those letters made TNT - Duh!)1 -
Loving all of the DH photos. I will share a couple, then it's time to finish up some shower stuff while the kiddos nap. First pic is of my DH and I about a year before we married (in the limo for his twin brother's wedding, the dress was not my idea; bridesmaids dress), the second photo is our daughter's wedding two years ago. LOL, we look so tired!
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Joyce - When you talked about Jerimiah 29:11 - It sounded so familiar ... looked on my FB page; and it is the verse that was under my Wall about "Which Bible Verse would guide you through 2017."
Lenora0 -
Absolutely loving all the photos! Thank you for sharing!
Beth near Buffalo1 -
Lenora, I think you watched another episode than what was aired here. It was an apartment fire and a baby in a hyperbaric chamber and much more. The doctor with Parkinson's agreed to go from ER doc to ER chaplain.
My friend from church died this morning. Although it is difficult time that you lose a husband, you start losing him when he first starts showing signs of dementia. I don't know if my back will allow me to get to the funeral home. I know I can't stand in a receiving line. My best friend from nursing was a niece and I haven't seen her for while. Us nurses had tried to meet monthly for lunch. But I don't think we have met since October what with the busy holidays and then me in the hospital and then my back.
Speaking of my back, my TENS unit hasn't done diddly squat for me today. Will not give up hope.
Lisa and KJ, you are both so beautiful
Joyce, in cold Indiana. Freezing rain is on the way.0 -
Mary from Minnesota: Holding your DIL in my heart. May all be well.
Mia in MI2 -
Allie: I have a friend who just recently finalized her divorce. Her Ex is a master manipulator who blamed everything wrong in his life on her such as he had to have the divorce because she didn't keep the house clean enough. Didn't have a thing to do with the fact that she caught him with lipstick on his collar and then discovered he'd been lying about a whole lot of things including an addiction that he refused to acknowledge and work on overcoming it.
Anyway, enough about her situation. It's just that his behavior reminds me in so many ways of things you have mentioned Tom does. I hope you have an easier time of getting through the divorce than my friend had. One of the things her Ex did was to agree to mediation without intending to ever actually agree on things. This tactic dragged things on for months while she paid her lawyer for help moving through the mediation process. He kept threatening to go to court to get her to back down on issues. Fortunately somewhere along the line she saw what he was doing, sat down and figured her bottom line on all issues, also figured out what our state would give her if it went to court and then when he crossed the line below where she was willing to go would respond to his threat with a simple "Perhaps court would be a better answer." They did finally end up in court when the mediator came to the conclusion that he was never going to come to an agreement.
Figure out what you need. Is it fair and most likely what you would get if it went to court? Stick to your guns and don't be afraid to go to court if he isn't willing to honestly negotiate.
Holding you in my heart.
Mia in MI2 -
Hello to all: DD came home from work early yesterday. She is now sick with the crud my DH brought home, laying on the couch miserable. I went and got my hair cut this morning, nice to have that done. I am enjoying all of the pictures of everything. Maybe I will be able to figure out how to post pictures after I get my new phone. We will see. I think it will be a steep learning curve figuring out how to use it but it will be good for my brain, right?
Re - Yeah for good numbers!
Joyce - Sorry about your friend.
I am off to make some chicken soup for DD. Everyone take care. Sue in WA1 -
Sue if I can learn to post a pic anybody can!! Off to the airport yippee!!!
NYKAREN1 -
Klamore cute! I will c if I can find a pic of me and Kirby on our wedding. Only time I was a fat bride1
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Kelly ~ Great pics.1
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Joyce ~ Sorry about your friend's passing. Dementia is an awful thing.1
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Allie - google "definition of narcissist" and see if Tom fits the description, they are master manipulators, my counselor in Portland called my abuser that and I had to look it up, sure enough it fits him to a T! It kinda sounds like Tom might fit the description too. It's kinda nice to be able to put a label on their behaviors. I believe there are a couple of books (maybe ebooks?) on how to deal with and effectively communicate with a narcissist. I downloaded one, don't remember the title - will go look it up on my tablet, but it is a very interesting read with helpful ideas and ways of dealing with one that I will be using on my abuser if I am faced with him again. It might help you communicate what you want better in mediation.
Here are a couple of minion funnies for you all for today...
OK, let me go look up the title to that eBook...
Sherry
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Allie, I worry that when you talk to Tom about this that he might get angry enough to hit you. I hope I am not right. Is there anyone who could be nearby and you could text a panic word to?
Decided that even though I really can't do a whole lot but sit in this recliner, it is time to start thinking about taxes I save all receipts so that I have sales tax. Last year I didn't and IRS would only give me $200 in sales tax deduction. By keeping receipts, I got $390. I'm not sure if it will make any difference or not but I got it done.
Joyce, Indiana2
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