WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017

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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,683 Member
    KJ - WOW! That is some serious work there! :flowerforyou: You are sooooooo creative! The younger generation do have baby showers over here, but it is not a big thing. We never had them in my day and I've never been to one. Certainly wouldn't want to host one! I hope she appreciates all your hard work. <3

    I've done my hair, and I'm in the process of doing my nails. Got a key and instructions sorted for our nice neighbour. Just in case. Last time we had a really bad storm the contact breaker tripped, which would be a disaster for our huge freezer in the kitchen. We have oak flooring. :o

    Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • pj4437
    pj4437 Posts: 5 Member
    Hello! Found your post inspiring! Thank you!
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Daughter up and out the door to meet friends for breakfast, so I will pop back on and chat.
    Mia- beautiful work! I love the color and pattern combinations!
    Allie- So much good advice from these ladies! I can't really contribute any, but I do know, from knowing couples who have tried and failed at "house sharing" while divorcing (or just after); letting Tom live with you during this time would be a mistake. Love and hugs to you, friend. <3
    Beth- My cousin saw the children's book based shower foods and has decided to use it at her elementary school (where she works) to kick off Children's Author month (I think that is next month). I think it would be fun to have an adult book party, like for a book club, and have foods based on adult literature. THat would take some thought and planning, though.
    Chris in MA- How wonderful that you are able to mentor a boss/coworker IRL! Of course you can! You are an inspiration to many of us!

    So many more I want to chat with, but I am SO tired. I need to get up and go for a walk to wake myself up; because coffee doesn't seem to be working.
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,185 Member
    :)Kelly, what an awesome display of goodies and creativity for the baby shower. Thank you for showing us what it looked like.

    :)Allie, based on my experience with a marriage that ended in divorce, I recommend that you get him out of the house as soon as possible and get the house sold so you can live somewhere (even with your father for awhile) that isn't full of reminders of him. It's time for the "new you" to have a life.

    :) Our anniversary day was so pleasant that we'll do it again today. Spending time together is always fun.

    <3 Barbie
  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,826 Member
    Chris in MA .... I would say you're a healthy role model here too!!
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Kate UK: Congratulations on losing the holiday pounds +1! WTG! :flowerforyou:

    Alison: One day at a time. You are getting great advice from wise women on this thread. (((HUGS)))

    Cheri: Enjoy your trip to Disney! :bigsmile::

    Kelly: This looks like the makings of a great baby shower! :smiley:

    Chris in MA: It sounds as though you are enjoying your new job and coworkers. You've given your new boss excellent advice. :star:

    FourLynne62: Welcome to a great group. You seem to have made a good start. Stop by often for support. :flowerforyou:

    We still have cold temps and snow on the ground. Our projected high for the day is 31F. Local TV weather reporters have been saying that there will be a rapid warm up this week with a possibility of flooding in a widespread area. Smaller creeks that flood frequently have been mentioned as the most likely flooding spots. (They have been saying this for several days.) We live beside the Columbia River and it may get deeper, but is less likely to flood than the smaller creeks & tributaries. We have FEMA flood insurance if worse comes to worse.


    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

    January 2017 Resolutions:

    1: Log every bite and swallow;
    2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on strength and stamina.
    3. Have fun every day.
    4. Drink at least 3 glasses of water a day.
    5. Monitor sleep. Average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,288 Member
    Just stopping by to say hi.

    Rita
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    edited January 2017
    Lenora- the Kettlebell burns 20-25 calories/minute compared to 8calories/minute for most other exercises. That is because of the muscle after burn which continues to burn calories 3-4 hours after exercising. I entered it under cardio because on my MFP I can't enter anything under strength training. Go into settings-exercise-cardio and enter minutes-20, calories burned 20or25/minute then save it. Or 400-500 calories. I enter the lower of 20. When you then click on exercise it will show up and you can enter however many minutes you worked out and it will calculate that for you.

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota
  • azsundancer
    azsundancer Posts: 1,140 Member
    fanncy0626 wrote: »
    Lenora- the Kettlebell burns 20-25 calories/minute compared to 8calories/minute for most other exercises. That is because of the muscle after burn which continues to burn calories 3-4 hours after exercising. I entered it under cardio because on my MFP I can't enter anything under strength training. Go into settings-exercise-cardio and enter minutes-20, calories burned 20or25/minute then save it. Or 400-500 calories. I enter the lower of 20. When you then click on exercise it will show up and you can enter however many minutes you worked out and it will calculate that for you.

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota

    Thanks for this ... it's confusing. Do you have a particular step up plan on ~increasing Sets/ Reps with the KB? That was something I was going to looki into today as I am all over the place with the Challenge .. crunches, sit ups and squats.
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    BeLLe_60 wrote: »
    fanncy0626 wrote: »
    Lenora- the Kettlebell burns 20-25 calories/minute compared to 8calories/minute for most other exercises. That is because of the muscle after burn which continues to burn calories 3-4 hours after exercising. I entered it under cardio because on my MFP I can't enter anything under strength training. Go into settings-exercise-cardio and enter minutes-20, calories burned 20or25/minute then save it. Or 400-500 calories. I enter the lower of 20. When you then click on exercise it will show up and you can enter however many minutes you worked out and it will calculate that for you.

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota

    Thanks for this ... it's confusing. Do you have a particular step up plan on ~increasing Sets/ Reps with the KB? That was something I was going to looki into today as I am all over the place with the Challenge .. crunches, sit ups and squats.

    Here is a link to my success story. Look through it for a beginner workout, form videos and answers to most questions.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10449355/update-stronglifts-and-kettlebell-transformation-pictures#latest

    Let me know if you need anything else!

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota
  • suebdew
    suebdew Posts: 1,298 Member
    Kelly-loved the creative ideas for the baby shower. Your hard work is very evident.
    Still foggy and cool here. Walked inside this morning and did my exercises for the challenge. I was talking to you, Mary. Did you hear me? Lol
    Have a great day and GO Cowboys.
    SueBDew in TX
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    suebdew wrote: »
    Kelly-loved the creative ideas for the baby shower. Your hard work is very evident.
    Still foggy and cool here. Walked inside this morning and did my exercises for the challenge. I was talking to you, Mary. Did you hear me? Lol
    Have a great day and GO Cowboys.
    SueBDew in TX

    Awesome! I am excited to hear about your success! You are doing a great job!

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota
  • lacruiser2016
    lacruiser2016 Posts: 59 Member
    OK, I looked back at the settings and decided that the "lightly active" category probably is more accurate. I do exercise 6 days a week, with an average time of 45-60 minutes per day, but I'm retired, so when I'm home I'm not that active. Too bad knitting and reading don't burn a whole lot of calories!! :D Changing to that setting has upped my allowable calories from 1200 to 1320, with a 1.5 lb loss per week. I think I will be closer to reality with that. But I also discovered that there is a specific entry for the bodypump class, which I'll use from now on. I hadn't seen it when I first started using mfp, so maybe it's new. I'd been using a general "circuit training" category, which gave me a greater caloric burn. I wish there was a way to simply browse thru the exercise database -- if this exists, please clue me in. There may be other entries that better fit what I'm doing. (Like "old lady doubles"!!)

    And I just realized that today is the half-way point in January. I will weigh in tomorrow, and see where I am. My numbers *should* be a net loss of 6 lbs per month. I know that will become progressively harder as time passes. Where are you all? Are you happy with where you are so far in January? I hope so! :D
  • gotu52
    gotu52 Posts: 315 Member
    Love reading everyone's updates. Just completed my weekly endurance training. I gage the improvement by the number of calories burned. When I started it was barely over 300k in three hours. Today it was 734. Probably isn't much to you hard core types but it is an improvement for me. Going to have a quiet day and prepare for the week. Happy Sunday everyone.
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    :flowerforyou:
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,223 Member
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  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    edited January 2017
    We dodged the bullet and ended up with very little ice in the City, other than the streets and highways which were horrible. Starting about 30 miles to the west of us and clear over to the Texas border they got up to an inch of ice. It's a horrible mess, trees down and 1,000's without electricity. Very thankful today.

    I've been upping the incline a little on the treadmill every few days when I've been walking on it. I think I'm seeing a difference. I alternate between the stationary bike, the treadmill and weight resistance with dumbells. This includes arm/core work with 8# - 10# of weight in each hand, leg work using ankle weights, squats with the 15# kettle bell and crunches using Wonder Core. It seems to work for me. I'm seeing a gradual decrease on the scale. Not as much as I'd like to see but better than nothing. I stay around 1200 calories a day (unless I go crazy with late night snacking) and don't normally add back my exercise calories.

    SubBDew in TX - I'm adding my "Go Cowboys" :) I was really pulling for the Texans last night but... :(

    Janetr in dreary, drizzly OKC

  • Charleen2
    Charleen2 Posts: 223 Member
    Kelly - I just love the theme! The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Growing Soup look positively delicious.

    Charleen in Colorado (Dodging the ice storm but praying for friends to the East of us)
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Pip – I can imagine they’d be a lot more comfortable than tennis shoes because with each step; you would be hitting directly on those points used in Reflexology. So your feet should not be aS tired as they’d be in tennis or running shoes. I just don’t think I could get my toes into them as my pinkie toe is crooked up under the next toe. I have a hard enough time with toed socks.

    Michele – What has really been bothering me lately, is to be on the computer and then pick up my library book and within 3 pages, I’m nodding off. Seems that my voracious reading has slowed down along with my weight loss. Maybe it is the droning of the TV being on.

    Allie – Go with the one that knows where the jugular vein is and knows just ‘how to hit it’ right from the very first moment. One who has the reputation of a 'go-getter'. Let him know from the very beginning that you are 'serious' as a 'heart attack' ...; and, for NO reason allow him back in the house. Get all the locks changed (including one that might be on a garage). Ask your attorney-friend who she'd [maybe a wrong assumption] would want to be represented by? Go for the most, you can always come ‘down’ on your ‘wants’; but, if you start off 'low', you ‘can never’ go ‘high’. Make him feel the pain, you’ve been subjected to most all your time with him. Let him be the one who has to struggle to get back on his feet. It’s ALWAYS easier for a man to get back up and financially stable, than for a woman to do so. A lot of this is due to ‘making money’. As you say, you’re making only a little more 1/3rd of what he does. I’m not a ‘man-hater’ and I think that people ought to be ‘fair’; but, occasionally they need to ‘feel' what is right and what is wrong’. If that makes any sense. Tom's been 'wrong' in so many areas when it came to being a man with principles. He's already proven he has little, or no, scruples. Where to hit him, ... right after the 'nuts' ... is in the 'wallet/bank account, etc.'

    Once you have filed the divorce action (with a Rule Nisi Hearing that will award some sort of temporary support and other things), tell him that y'all need to communicate through your respective attorneys (with them being the ones ‘duking it out’). Tell him that he has 2 days to get his 'personal' stuff 'out of the house' ... and that would be his clothes and toiletries only). Everything else, including furniture is yours until a court order says differently. I would let him take the bed that he sleeps in. I would allow him to take 'a' TV; just not the newest, best, one. He could write out a list of ''furniture" he would like; let him 'have it' if you agree; if not - 'don't'. Don’t talk to Tom about ‘anything’ … tell him that ‘he needs to talk to HIS attorney’. You are ‘finished talking to him’ - about anything. Get his sorry @$$ out of the house, by filing the divorce action which should 'order' him out of the marital home; and let the Rule Nisi Hearing Order be what makes him pay ‘temporary support’ until y’all can reach a permanent “settlement agreement” to flush out division of property. You can ‘get the Decree taken’ 45 days after the filing of the action, and wait until later to have the ‘Settlement Agreement’ filed to go with it (and his answer). He would still be under the 'temporary order' as to 'support payments' until a 'Settlement Agreement' is filed. What you get 'temporarily' would be less that what you'll end up with - because he will have to divide the property and that would mean selling it to make it liquid. The lady who said that a 'house' (supposedly) worth $200K is a LOT different than having $200K in a retirement account that could be liquidated much more easily and it doesn't have "Money Pit" tied to cash as a house would.

    We love you, Allie – hang in there and be ‘tough’!!!

    KJ – Love the party items … so I take it that she is having a ‘boy’??? About 'baby shower' decorations and doing 'games'. When my great-niece had a baby shower given to her; they melted different candy bars (mostly chocolate ones, or a mixture - Like Reese cups) and put it in diapers'; they were numbered on the front and passed around for everyone to 'smell' it and decide what kind of candy bar the 'fake' poop was. I know it sounds 'gross'; but, I don't think I have heard so much cackling going on about a shower party game. It was 'different'. Then they had 'little' feet and palm stickers and you were supposed to try to figure out 'when' the baby would actually come, and stick them on a 'page from a calendar'. Nothing had been mentioned about the 'due' date at the party, so there were some who had no idea when she was due. You could not put more than one sticker on the same day. So it was really something to add to what they could hang up in the baby's room - framed. She would go back and mark the day when the baby was born. Also, when gifts were opened ... if it had anything 'blue' (associated with a boy) or anything pink (associated with a girl) ... if they had the opposite color or did not have the color, you had to pass a stick to the next person sitting next to you. Anything green or yellow also meant the stick got passed on. I won that prize (which looked like a make-up bag); but, I gave it to the mother-to-be so that she could store diapers in it, for a quick trip to the MD's office without having to carry a big baby bag. Big enough to hold a few diapers, a bottle, pacifier, outfit. It was a nice bag ... but, I have make-up bag running out the whazoo.

    Lenora
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    pipcd34 Posts: 17,223 Member
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  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,090 Member
    :p
  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,974 Member
    Marcelynh, I am beyond proud of you!
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Marcelyn- fantastic accomplishment! Great picture of you!
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Woohoo Marcelyn way to go!!

    Kelly you can see all the love and creativity that went into the shower-enjoy every minute

    Chris I remember when you posted about starting at this job and how determined you were about staying healthy in an office environment--now look at what an inspiration you are to others!!!

    what a strong, creative, wonderful group of women we are! Kindness, courage and compassion for ourselves and others is inspiring!
    NYKAREN

  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    Marcelyn - Great job, what a trooper to do that with your arm in a sling. <3

    Janetr OKC
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Those were the cutest baby shower foods! Although the next baby shower in my family will be when oldest grand daughter Trinity who is now 15 has a baby, I will more than likely forget these.

    Taking a shower and going to grocery store is in the picture for the next hour. Both I dread.

    Joyce, Indiana

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