WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017
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Good morning everyone. I can't get over how awesome we all are at posting. There is so much to read everyday and that in itself is very inspiring. I am ok, thanks for your kind words. Here is the link to the spanakopita recipe. If you need any tips on making it, let me know.
http://greekfood.about.com/od/pansizedpies/r/Spinach-Pie-With-Feta-Spanakopita.htm
Have a great day, I would like to respond to each one of you but got to run to work
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Heather I am so sorry you have been so sick. It's ghastly, what you've gone through. A good portion of the rest of this post is about food, so you may want to skip past it.
Anne from Wisconsin We had mini-pizzas using cauliflower crust last night. I used 20oz cauliflower, grated, squeezed and salad spun as much moisture out of it as I could, added 2 egg whites, 2 teasp onion powder, 2 teasp garlic powder, 2/3 cup parmesan cheese, and 6 T almond flour. Baked 15 min at 400. Could have baked longer to make them crispier, perhaps 20-25 minutes. Then put toppings on and cooked another 10-15 minutes. I followed the Fit Men Cook recipe for Cauliflower Pizza Bites. This is the third recipe I have tried & like it best. Moisture in the cauliflower is the main obstacle to overcome. The texture is crispiest and least likely to stick when made into small flat patties and baked on parchment paper. We like pizza made this way better than regular pizza, which is saying something, because I love pizza! We put crumbled bacon, onion, a teasp of pizza or spaghetti sauce, one slice of pepperoni, a slice of black olive, and a teasp of mozzarella on each. You have to be sparing on the ingredients to avoid soggy crust. The other one we like is called Best Cauliflower Pizza bites by Delish.com which is not quite as low carb but very tasty.
Lisa I hope the Ducktor quacks for the warehouse soon. LOL!!
Allie You are a kind soul.
Katie Yes it is my leg. I have at least a dozen pairs of crazy leggings which keep my fellow Jazzercisers amused. Plus lots of pairs of Crocs in many colors. I'm not terrible fashionable, but I'm fun. Your mom looks fun.
Michele Lovely woman in a lovely dress.
Kim from N. Cal I am so glad you had a life-altering, amazing weekend and found a way to share it with people who care about you.
Margaret Sorry for your unhappy teaching experience. Even if some people want to learn, the others prevent it. Not to mention waste your time.
Sarah Thanks for the link.
Karen in VIrginia
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Kim, I wish I had arms like Michelle Obama! Regardless of your political views, you have to admit she has the best arms ever! Although I am not there yet for sure, my OVERWEIGHT self and I are working on it. Yes, you heard that right. As of this morning's weigh-in, I am no longer obese. I never thought I'd see the day.
Heather, my goodness! What a *#%&&$ (a really bad pun) way to spend your vacation. I'm so glad you seem to be on the mend.
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KAY ~ Congrats on not being obese. Also, on the smaller size. I don't believe I will ever get there.
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drkatiebug wrote: »Although I am not there yet for sure, my OVERWEIGHT self and I are working on it. Yes, you heard that right. As of this morning's weigh-in, I am no longer obese. I never thought I'd see the day.
Cheri
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Allie, you are my hero! And remember the end is near........
STATS:
Squarts: 37 (using an app on my phone that has you do 6 or 7 then rest for 60-90 secs before the next set. Surprisingly doable! So far. LOL)
Yoga 10 min
Elliptical 30 min
Water 10 cups
Steps 6281
Weight 187.8 (down .5 pound)5 -
IN PEI. Trying to keep only healthy foods in the house helps and having a lot of soups for supper. I need help for those last 10 pounds. So easy to gain on holidays.5
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grandmallie wrote: »Morning Ladies~
I told Tom when I got home, and this is what a putts he is.. he asked why I was on the street I was,because I have to go up a hill.. well I avoid about 6-7 traffic lights that way.. but he was worried about how much gas I was using to go up the hill rather than stop and help someone..
Ha,ha my Mitch would have said the same thing...his Asperger's logical mind would have evaluated the situation in 3 sec or less and would have said something quite similar. At which I would have looked at him with my jaw dropped and re-stated the "human" part of the scenario to which he would have called me a good samaritan! And then he would have fussed over the missing blanket which we always keep in the car!
Cheri
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Katiebug: Congrats on the weigh in!
Thought for the day: “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Have a wonderful day ladies.
Carey - Northern Alberta
Goals for Jan:
- Increase walking to 7500 per day by end of month
- Get to Tai Chi at least once a week
- Increase daily water intake
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Dr. Katie: Congratulations on your milestone! Overweight is a huge step forward from obese. WTG!!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
Allie: You are a heroine. Tom is clueless. :ohwell:
Yoga today! Yay!!! Tomorrow is a dear friend's birthday. I'm putting a card in the mail to her ASAP but I suspect it will be late. I hope I have a good one in my collection. If not I'll shop. I'll wish her happy birthday on facebook, too. I haven't seen her since a group of us got together for breakfast in August.
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
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Mary back at you with the exercise.
Knee continues to improve. I just know I have to be careful and not overdo while I am still healing. The reason I originally working yesterday is I knew I was going to have two classes. (It was a split assignment) that would not aggravate my knee. Fortunately the second class went much better than the first yesterday. As stressful as the first class was it didn't throw off my recovery.
One of the hardest things about a class like yesterday is the majority of the students really want to do well. It was mostly these two students one in particular that threw the class off. When a teacher came to ask why the one student needed to work somewhere else i explained all that he did plus she could see the class was still off after he was gone for about ten minutes. I said it was even worse when he was in the classroom. They finally settled when he was gone for the last 25 minutes of the class.
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Good morning everyone! I've been postponing posting on here thinking I wanted to get caught up first, but now that I am 45 pages behind, I'm thinking that may never happen!
Hope you are all doing well. I go today for my 5-year oncology follow up. I'm hoping I can go off the estrogen blocking pill now, but I guess we will see. I'm kind of nervous but excited at the same time since there was a time I was afraid I may not make it to the 5 year mark! Yea!!!
Work is stressful as always but I'm doing the best I can to keep up. Weight is still going in the right direction. Kind of maintaining right now, but with my foot in an ortho boot, I haven't been able to get much activity in. Hoping to kick start that again soon.
Have a great day everyone! I'll try to catch up and post more often when work slows down...well, maybe I won't wait for that because that may never happen! LOL.
Tracie in cold and snowy Wisconsin
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. TIME FOR A CHANGE!6 -
I did want to say that I saw the quilt and it is absolutely GORGEOUS! I wish I had 1/10 of your talent. My quilts fall apart very quickly... Good luck and congratulations!2
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Hello Ladies,
I have been away for a while. I am trying to get back into the swing of things. I thought I would join back in if its OK for the support and motivation that helped me so much before I backslid.
Now I am almost back at square one with my weight and I am so disgusted with myself for letting it happen. I am trying to get back on the horse.
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Mary from Minnesota
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Thank you for starting this!
My resolutions:
Be joyful, be peaceful.
Eat 8 to 10 servings of fruits/veggies a day.
Do enough of what I value each day that I go to bed feeling that that was a day well invested.4 -
Hello, MFP friends -
I was so bummed this morning... I was sure I'd have a great weigh-in because I've been very good this week but I hadn't lost a pound. I actually took off my pajamas (8 ounces!) just to show a tiny loss. Oh, well, that's how it goes sometimes.
lacruiser - I did use the full fat coconut milk in the cauliflower, and drizzled a little more on top to finish.
Karen - Those are some cute dogs, not to mention snazzy leggings!
Michele - We have a small mass-produced version of a dolphin in our bathroom, from my husband's days living on the coast. It looks very much like your creation only yours is much nicer!
Sherry - Wow, off meds! That is a great accomplishment - congratulations on seeing your hard work pay off.
Katla - Yes, I carry an organ donor card! I wish everyone would. Once I'm gone, I won't have any use for what's left behind. Although I did have a grandmother who objected to cremation because our bodies are supposed to be resurrected on Judgment Day. Given the state bodies must be in millenia after death, I told her I figured the Lord can handle reassembling some ashes (or replacing a donated kidney).
Heather - What a colossal bummer to be sick on your vacation! Hope you're up and about soon. The sickest I've ever been in my life was after a trip to Monterrey, Mexico. There are about three days of my life I can't even remember (and give what I do remember, that's probably for the best).
Lisa - Go go go Dr. Chicken!
Leigh - Oh, thank you - the pear and carrot soup sounds very intriguing! I'll have to give it a try. Too bad "soup season" is so short here. I love making a big batch of soup and then eating from it all week.
Scrambling to get ahead with work today because the Austin Chronicle wants my foster greyhound for a photo shoot tomorrow and it'll take most of my day to get him there and back. This could be his big break - he's a senior and he's been in foster a long time. I'd love it if he finds his forever family through this article.
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Allie, WE know you did a great thing. Sorry you are getting flak about gas of all things.
Michele, I will say a prayer for Jess--we could both write books on the things kids say and the things they don't say!
Heather, glad you are on the mend!
Joyce, I think everyone gets denied 2 or 3 times for SSD from what I hear--sounds like a policy they have. It is a mystery to me.
Lenora, so sad to hear about the storm damage. Glad you are okay!
Bad sleep night, feeling draggy, hard to focus, oh well...
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Karen thank you for the recipe for the cauliflower pizza crust going to try it this weekend. Sound like it will be tasty.
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Hi all!
I slept some of the night, but kept getting woken up by griping/stabbing pains in my lower abdomen, around the bladder area. It was painful. The worst thing was the dizziness that barely enabled me to get to the loo. Then the toilet nearly blocked up!
In the morning I gave in and had a good cry. Of course, DH was very upset by that. I gave DH the insurance company details and he rang them. They said to just call a doctor and keep the receipts.
The doctor was out of central casting, but very pleasant. He spoke no English! !!!!!! Boy was I grateful for my Spanish! He said I was full of gas and he could give me something to cure the dizziness.
I have four prescriptions, two which he said were for the symptoms and two for the actual problem.
I'm going to look them up, but after DH got back from the pharmacy I took them and went into a deep sleep. One is a pain killer, one an anti gas, one a thing to cleanse and restore and the other is for the dizziness. I've had to make a timetable for taking them.
I felt a lot better when I woke up.
DH went out on the city tour and came back enthusing about the Mayan civilization. He went to the museum and saw wondrous things, including jade heads. Now he's having lunch. The nice ladies in their embroidered dresses are cleaning the room around me. I feel almost human.
The doctor said I could eat anything I like, so I had a few chips. DH is bringing me boiled rice. I've eaten a banana. One of those tablets lines your gut with a yellow waxy substance, a bit like after my gallbladder op.
If I can get in the shower I might take a few steps outside later today when the heat has died down. I am still in my old clothes and my hair is a freak show. :noway: I haven't been able to stand up long enough to shower.
Love to all of you and thank you for caring.
Heather in beautiful Campeche.10 -
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HEATHER ~ Sending you good wishes for a quick healing. So glad you went to see the doctor.
We spent over an hour trying to figure out my earnings for selling vintage jewelry. I made less than $200 for the year and am ready to give up. Evidently, there is a glut of vintage jewelry on the market and even the coveted designers are not going for great prices. Will just pack it all up and wait until the market gets better.
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Hello everyone
Kevrit Congrats on the loss
Deb in PEI "last 10 lbs" - wow, way to go although I have heard that is very hard, never been that close yet
Margaret Bless your heart, teaching is hard and even harder when you are in pain
Tracie hope yr app't went well
Jolene glad you are back and don't be so hard on yourself
Mary your keto challenge sounds very challenging lol!
Wally love your resolutions especially the last one
Yvonne I hear you, that was me this week, it is very disappointing
Betty hope you sleep well tonight
Heather oh my what you are going through I hope you are on the mend
Improvement on the treadmill this morning but can't seem to shake off the weight even though I am staying on target. I don't know if it is hormones, stress but it is hard when I don't see some weight loss results. And I believe that it is not all about the number but some of it is I think my new focus is getting unstuck!
Have a great evening everyone.
Sarah, Ontario, Canada
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nothing worth having comes easily or within a week
Happy Wednesday everyone, the sun starting shining today thank goodness!
NYKAREN5
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