WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017

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  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 468 Member
    Thanks for the February thread Barbie!!!
    Allie, you have to do what you think is best. I wish you success! I do agree with Joyce that he should learn how to pitch in around the house--you need a break!
    Will check out the Y next week once we make it through a dental operation. Yep, DH is my friend and he won't even stand in ankle deep water with me since this one incident. But he really needs to include some water exercise with his arthritis problems.

    Betty
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,513 Member
    Did 30 min yoga (got there late) then an hour of deep water. The plan for tomorrow is to do Joyce Vidral's Upper and Lower body DVD. Afterwards I volunteer at the Green Room. Then I'm thinking that I'll stop at this bridal store this lady told me about. To be honest, I'm not expecting to find anything just yet. Knowing me, I need to go to 3 or 4 stores before I find what I'm looking for.

    Actually, first I'll take a pic of it and send it to Denise and see what she thinks. She told me privately that she really doesn't like the gown Pete's mother picked out.

    Sharon - happy early birthday. So glad you loved the trailer

    NYKaren - you and Rori look so great. Isn't she just an awesome person?

    Welcome everyone new

    I love hearing about all the great losses

    Heather - safe travels

    Vince is working on the taxes today. So that means that I'm staying away from him....lol Well...today isn't so bad, he's finding the deductions we can take. But the day he finds out what we owe, I'm staying far, far away....lol

    Allie - wishing you all the best. I do hope Tom goes to counseling with you. I'd go to Lowe's also

    Welcome everyone new!

    Kate - she did a great job on that coat. It looks much, much better. So flattering on you.

    Meredith - come in when you can

    Toni - so glad you are better now

    Lisa - so sorry for your hubby (and you)

    Went to ceramics tonight. Nothing really special. I volunteer at the Green Room tomorrow nthen I'll probably stop at WalMart and the buy gas. Exciting, huh?

    Michele in NC
  • pyanko7
    pyanko7 Posts: 153 Member
    Allie - Good luck to you. Hope all goes well and you find happiness. Sending hugs and support.

    Leigh - tremendous accomplishment in loss of 17.4 lbs. Congratulations!

    Sarah in Ontario - once a Riders fan, always a Riders fan. I try to get to a couple of games a year.

    Steamer6 - This is a great group - they offer lots of support, motivation and good chatter. Welcome.

    Joyce - I feel for Michelle. My daughter owned two male Catahoula/American Bulldogs. They started fighting over a bone one day and she ended up pulling them apart - lucky she didn't get hurt herself, but the dogs were pretty cut up and bleeding. Second major fight came just before Christmas and her hubby pulled them apart that day. They have had to give one away - fortunately, my daughter works with the woman who took him and gets regular updates on how he is doing. Their whole family had a couple of really sad days, knowing that one dog would no longer be living with them, but as my daughter told the kids, better this way so they don't end up killing each other. Always a hard decision when you try to do the best for an animal and things don't work out as you had hoped. Sending hugs.

    Tomorrow is my first weigh in day. I promised myself I would only step on the scale once a week. Will let you all know how it goes.

    Hugs to all.

    Paula Y

  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,188 Member
    :'(Lisa, sorry to hear about your husband's fall....my husband had to be urged to take pain meds after his back surgery.

    :)Re, Thank you for the encouragement about the PT exercises. I'm so good about walking, dancing, and riding the exercise bike but seem to conveniently "forget" to do the PT.

    :'(Joyce, how sad about your daughter's dogs.

    :)Michele, I gather the numbers and documents for income tax and send it all to the accountant so I don't know til it all comes back whether we owe anything.

    :) Thank you for all your kind words. One of my great talents is remembering the date so it's easy for me to remember to start the new thread on the last day of the month. However, the thread would be nothing without all of you who share such warm and encouraging thoughts along with the necessary kicks to the back side.

    winter-cold-smiley-emoticon.gif Barbie from chilly NW Washington

    :'( Bess's coat is on back order so our poor little Texas dog has been going for her walks with only her fur to keep her warm.
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    drkatiebug wrote: »
    Grits, the 12- step thing was a joke relating to having an addiction to buying leggings. The whole LuLaRoe thing sucks you in with the Facebook parties and the limited prints and stuff.

    Katiebug - I'm in love with one of the Valentine prints. <3

    Janetr okc
  • sherryminchagain
    sherryminchagain Posts: 86 Member
    Hey now.....

    Just thought I would pop in and say "Hey!". This place is awesome! They have nice Neptune machines for doing laundry! It was a snap! I actually got to take a decent nap today instead of short catnaps between screaming kids (don't get me wrong, I love kids, just not when they are running amuk like little monsters constantly screaming nonsense at the top of their lungs....little girls can have the most piercing screams!). I also went for my first walk of the day and got most of my steps, gotta go for another short walk to finish them up though. They have WiFi here so I don't have to hotspot my iPhone and bought a new Roku stick for my TV instead of watching that digital over-the-air doo doo, which I will be paying them back for. They use one on the TV in the living room (they dropped their satellite TV when the bill got to be too much and I don't blame them). I didn't know those things could get soooo many channels! I get to hook mine up after I get done posting this.

    The house I'm in is located in a subdivision-like neighborhood. There is one street leading in that connects the rest of the interior streets. Nice houses with decent sized yards, some fenced, some not. Lots of trees. Flower beds waiting on the blooms of spring, now covered with snow. Kinda reminds me of the "All American" neighborhood of days long past.

    Anyway, here's some memes to cheer everybody up....

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    OK, that's enough, lol....time to get off this thing and set up my new Roku stick. I'm wavin' at all the newbies!!! Welcome and post as often as you like! Thanks for all the well wishes and good thoughts for my new home, you all would like it, trust me!

    Oh yeah, RE - yeah you should have but I forgive ya!

    OK, I'm outtie! Love you all! Peace!

    Sherry in "Columbia River Gorge with my new Roku!"





  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Sherry, your friends house sounds ideal, from the actual home to the neighborhood. My oldest daughter has a Roku and they love it. My youngest has the Chrome stick. Have fun and keep on bringing us the Minions and naps.

    Re, Dear Charlie has been chief cook and bottle washer since December for me. well actually he started doing some things after my stent was put in August and I had so many problems with dizziness. That's the way he cooks, pizzas and hamburger helper along with green beans. He takes care of the litter box, taking my laundry down the stairs and bringing it back up after I hang them up. He used to do my laundry until I was able to do the stairs fine. I really need to pick it up and do more of the chores so I can test my back. I won't do to much. We also have to clean out the posts and pans we store in the storage drawer in our stove. Also we keep mugs we have bought throughout the years on vacation on the back of the stove. So those have to be taken off. Will be a good time to clean them. I'm sure they have picked up some extra grease through the years. There is also the hanging thing that holds our nig utensils like spatula, ladle, etc hanging above the stove. We also have very old decorative paper like you would have put in drawers many years ago hanging on the wall like a backsplash along the entire back wall including above stove. Some of it is peeling off the wall. I know in my heart that all of it needs to come down but who knows how sticky the wall will be behind it. The design/color of it does help the original avacodo blend in with the paint color of a nice pale cool green. But it is peeling away from around the stove. But the new stove comes Friday!!!! Hopefully my new othopedic shoes will also be in Friday. If not, I will be wearing my walking shoes (New Balance) to church on Sunday. Having those new shoes will help me get up and go to church. I need a lot of help in that, like some one coming in my room, making me get out of bed, get in the shower and get dressed. I am real good in talking myself out of it. Charlie could care less whether I go or not even if he knows how bad it makes me feel if I don't. It's like I feel like a failure.

    Choir practice was wonderful, in fact one of the anthems we are singing in the middle of February is so beautiful that I just will not be satisfied sitting in the congregation listening to it. I want that to be my goal to be able to stand in that choir loft and sing it with the choir.

    Joyce, Indiana
  • MeredithDeVoe1
    MeredithDeVoe1 Posts: 67 Member
    My goals for 2017 :
    Yoga 5+ times a week
    HIIT workouts 2x week
    Weights, abs, or other cardio 2x week
    Lose 24 more pounds
    Handle migraines better (as in, recover faster)
    7 hours of sleep per night
    Finish my Masters online!
    ❤️❤️❤️
  • tngram2seven
    tngram2seven Posts: 465 Member
    Lisa - so sorry about your hubby's wrist. Thank goodness he didn't break his hip!

    Rori and NYKaren - I meant to say earlier that I loved the picture and the thought of you two getting together.

    Sheri - glad you are so content.

    It's been a "stay at home" day but I got several things done that needed doing. Tomorrow starts my work week.

    TNToni

    February Goals:

    Drop 5 pounds.
    Keep moving some each hour
    Take my blood pressure and check my blood sugar each day.

    Word for 2017 - FOCUS
  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    Finally caught up - really tired tonight did not sleep well. I forgot to take my Ibuprofen this morning so could hardly walk when I got to work.

    Thanks Barbie - you rock!

    I'll post my goals tomorrow night.

    Love to you all - Gloria in wa
  • sherryminchagain
    sherryminchagain Posts: 86 Member
    Hey now....

    Joyce - I can see why they love this Roku! Kind of a pain setting up and adding the channels, slow process, but once your done this thing is great! I may not get channels like Animal Planet and Nat Geo, but there are plenty of documentary channels and other science and outdoor channels plus you can get Tubi TV on it which has wild animal shows of all kinds on it, so there is plenty of wildlife and educational content to keep my ever curious lil damaged pea brain learning and happy! I haven't even gone through the whole list of channels yet! After about an hour and almost 200 channels added later I was getting kind of bored with that and called it good. I can always explore more channels in time. For now I am more than content.

    Toni - oh I am so contented! I have a nice clean rather big bedroom all to myself with a bed that is soft enough to kinda sink into but firm enough to support my back and a bathroom down the hall that's pretty much mine. It's a two story house, there are two big bedrooms upstairs which one of them is their bedroom, the other is the den/office and a bathroom, and my room is the main master bedroom on the ground floor. I don't have to clean the upstairs since I can't climb stairs anyway and all my housework for them is all done on the ground floor. I will have to ask them what the square footage of this house is, but I'm guessing it's big! All the rooms are oversized. Very comfy. Plus these are neat freak kind of people, which I like cuz that's the way I am, so cleaning the downstairs is a breeze.

    Well, I'm gonna get off this thing again. Time to get some sleep. I hope everybody has a good night and gets plenty of sleep! Love you all!! Peace!

    Sherry in "Yawnsville, Columbia River Gorge"
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Kate UK
    <3
  • sherryminchagain
    sherryminchagain Posts: 86 Member
    Oh yeah.....

    Goals, hmmmm....

    Think I will just stick to these....

    February:
    Maintain my 1100 calorie goal
    Walk my 4500 steps daily
    Find new docs and build up more medical evidence for my new lawyer
    Watch something educational and learn something new every day

    2017:
    Lose 100 lbs by year's end (about 8 lbs gone already from January)
    Love myself more no matter how stupid I get....lol

    Word for 2017:
    DETERMINATION

    "If your looking for a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm." - Unknown Author

    Sherry in "you know where"
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,082 Member
    morning ladies~
    yup been awake since 1:30 but slept like a rock from about 7:30 until then.. a whopping 6 hrs.. which is not great...
    On Tom... yes I do the cooking.. but he always lends a hand in laundry ,and he does the bathrooms, does most of the outside stuff..and I must say takes after his dad and works and works and works..thats one of the things that worries me
    Told him he needs to chill and maybe find a hobby and learn to relax..
    Today I was going to go down to the beach with my friend and out for lunch but will be to cold down there.
    Tom and I had a discussion last night about finances.. he really tried to push my buttons and wanted total control of my paycheck... and his thought was he was supposed to pay all the bills and I was going to just friviously use mine.. my compromise is that I will deposit say 2/3rds of my paycheck into the joint account for him to pay bills,and I want to sit down with him this weekend and have him show me how he pays the bills..
    I am trying and slowly I am hoping day by day we will make it work..
    Lisa~ so sorry bout Hubby.. hopefully he heals quickly..
  • Anamika703
    Anamika703 Posts: 202 Member
    Hi everybody!
    After putting on nearly 15 pounds and ups and downs through my thyroid meds, I feel I really need to be coming to this group.Thanks Barbie and all you lovely ladies.
    Anamika from Mumbai
  • pitegny
    pitegny Posts: 1,006 Member
    Lisa - Sorry to hear about DH's wrist, but it is great that the fall wasn't worse
    Meredith - being a missionary in Nigeria must be both exciting and challenging, hope you will share some of your experiences
    Sarah - thanks for the book recommendation; I love Halloumi cheese, but it is really hard to find where I live
    Charleen - liked the lettuce pun
    Toni - totally agree with the sugars in "healthy" foods. I eat very little processed food, but often find it hard to reach my 1200 calories and not go over the goals for sugar, fat or both.
    Lenora - loved how you met your husband and was touched by your hellhole experience. It is really scary how many dangerously bad things happen in the medical world.
    Re - I laughed when I read about DH's cooking. When my husband retired a few years ago, he started cooking some and is actually quite good, but he makes some crazy substitutions and wonders why the dish did not turn out properly. Until his retirement, he considered it cooking when he heated up leftovers from meals I had prepared. I love to cook, so our current balance of having him pitch in once in a while is perfect.
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    A quick hello from NYKAREN <3
  • lhannon062709
    lhannon062709 Posts: 1,140 Member
    Allie, not busting on you about trying to make it work with Tom. You don't have to justify trying as hard as you can.

    Let's see, on the January goals, my "be lighter" usual one--I haven't had a cigarette in three weeks. I am one pound heavier weight-wise, but I consider that an absolute triumph. I had other, more specific goals for January, some of which I kept, some of which I didn't. So for February, it's back to "be lighter." I was 192 at the beginning of January, 193 at the end. I'd like to be somewhere in the 180s in February.

    DH is uncomfortable and in pain this morning, got him to take a pain pill and have escaped over to my office. I'm hoping he can go back to sleep. It's how I always heal best.

    Love y'all,
    Lisa in West Texas



  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,249 Member
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  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Morning all, thanks for all nice comments on my coat.

    Just returned from eye test, I have cataracts but they have got much worse. Lovely optometrist she is referring me to a private clinic which will be much quicker than general hospital. it it will be done on NHS so won't cost me anything. I was shocked when she showed me the photos of the back of my eyes, 3 years ago nice and bright and clear now all grey and murky

    Kate UK <3
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    edited February 2017
    40lbs loss by May 27th Challenge
    For those of you that are still following along with this challenge that I am in the following is what we are doing for the month of February. Remember to weigh yourself weekly and take your measurements!

    For February, we're going to keep the current exercise challenge going - and add in a new component: sticking to your calorie goal. Each day will be worth a maximum of 2 points - 1 pt for your daily workout, and 1 point for staying at/under your calorie goal.

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,688 Member
    I'm HOME! :drinker:

    Slept for one hour on the plane, read some books and watched Mamma Mia. :D Long haul is an ordeal. :#
    But we are back and lunched and the post has been opened. How DH drove the two hours home from the airport on no sleep at all, I do not know. I kept nodding off. :o

    Will nap for a bit soon.

    Lisa - so sorry to hear about DH. Life is so good at throwing curve balls, isn't it. I agree with you, sleep really helps with healing.

    Welcome new ladies! Just take us slowly. It can seem overwhelming at first. :)

    Amrika - Good to see you back! Are you still running? Lisa has been having thyroid problems too. My DDIL has to take a low dose supplement since her second pregnancy.

    Glad to be home. The journey is no fun. I'm sure I will soon forget my horrible illness and just remember the good times we had. There were some very bright moments and DH has apologised for getting so upset. I objected the the fact that he was telling me to hide the way I felt about noise etc so as not to upset him. I think I am entitled to my feelings and we should have good communication. He doesn't have to have a collapse when I have already resolved the situation to my satisfaction and I'm over it. I'm upset for five minutes and he's upset for half a day. Grrrrrrrrrr! Normally we get on superbly on holiday and are very compatible. I think he should MAN UP ! >:)

    Love to all, Heather, back in the UK xxxxxxxxxx

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