WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017

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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,716 Member
    edited May 2017
    Hi all!

    Yesterday's "feast" and wine only took me over my "losing "calories by 70 calories and this morning the scales recorded a slight loss. Very pleased.
    I've been really concentrating on getting the exercise in with my arm so uncomfortable, and have been managing more than my normal 600. Today I did 700 on the recumbent bike and the elliptical. :Do:) Tomorrow I can only do a very short session as I have to catch a train to London so I can sit with my friend through her chemo. I'm looking forward to it, but I hate losing my exercise schedule. Takes me a while to "titivate" before I go out. :laugh:

    My alcohol calendar is working well for me. Yesterday after our delicious wine I really felt the urge for a bourbon, but desisted as I wanted a smiley face sticker, not a frown. This week I have recored 8.5 units of alcohol. My aim is to keep under 14 a week. Tonight I am going to get a gold star for AF. :D For those who don't drink, a small 125 ml glass of wine is 1.5 units. The big glasses you get in most wine bars and restaurants these days are 250 mls and 3 units!!! I often have a 125 ml wine with a lot of soda water. Lasts longer that way. 100 calories.

    I have put extra support on my arm. I normally wear my lymphodema sleeve anyway, but I got out an old, very thick lymphodema sleeve from my drawer and I'm wearing it doubled up on top, with it folded back round the wrist. It is helping a lot. :D

    Going to make Hairy Bikers' Lamb Tagine for tonight. DH is at one day cricket today. At least it is a bit warmer and sunnier than last time. I've had a lovely bath and done my nails. B) Going to finish reading paper and maybe watch a film. Or read. :D

    Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    edited May 2017
    Kate UK: White Jeans! How will you manage to stay away from dirt? I'm in awe. :bigsmile:

    Lisa: I'm happy to hear your son is at home. I hope it will be a happy place for him and will allow him to have a big helping of peace and comfort. :star:

    Chris in MA: I don't offer advice about weight loss unless someone asks. Then I tell people I count calories and found this great website, MFP. Most of my old friends are used to the new me, and new people assume I've always been like this, so it doesn't come up often anymore. It was talked about a lot and I had lots of questions a couple of years ago when I was just getting close to goal. The worst was, "Will you talk to my wife?" The answer was, "Only if she asks me." :flowerforyou:

    Jagbug: Welcome to a great group of supportive women. :smiley:

    Lillian: So good to see you! :bigsmile:

    We have a sunshiney morning! Yay! I was thinking about going for a drive but DH said he'd like to go down to the sailboat and get the winter heaters off of it. He hasn't been on the docks at all in months, let alone a boat, and I'm crossing my fingers and toes that he won't get seasick when we go down the ramp and are actually floating. Wish us luck. Sailing has been a joy to us for years until DH started getting motion sick a couple of years ago. I've been hoping and wishing that the cataract surgery would solve the problem. Now we will find out whether there is any improvement. I'm praying for an end to seasickness for DH and have been for two or three years. Wish us luck.

    Katla the hopeful in beautiful NW Oregon

    Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn

  • janeholland2008
    janeholland2008 Posts: 22 Member
    DamitJanit wrote: »
    Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .

    Good Evening My Dear Friends,

    Jane, I hope the pain is better and you were able to resist the food crutch.


    Jane, her hair did come out great. She is a beautiful girl with beautiful hair. The main thing is that she liked it.


    DJ
    Myrtle Beach, SC

    Thank you, DJ. I did resist the munchies and that is a major NSV for me. I kept thinking about the 30 odd lbs that I have lost and how the pain would be so much worse with that added weight! Then had the pleasure of jumping on Wii fit last night to be a further 6lbs down - I am so chuffed! I was hoping that after the heparin injections, my knee would start to feel better, but it's not yet and the tramadol makes me so sleepy. I have been getting a little more exercise with the help of a crutch and fingers crossed it won't be too long before I am walking normally!!

    Thank you again for your kind words about little miss's hair. She is currently putting it through a coconut oil heat therapy. I remember a time when I would spend hours treating my curly hair, now it gets washed and combed maybe Coloured occasionally. Although it does make me smile when I see her finally enjoying her luscious locks!

    Have a good Sunday

    Jane
    Kent, UK

  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    Happy Sunday! :)
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Machka: What a beautiful beach! You're lucky to live nearby. I have no advice about bicycle set up, but Pip is also a long distance rider and she may have insights. (((hugs)))

    Lanette: We have sailed up the coast form Astoria to the Straights of Juan de Fuca and back more than once. Once you get to the San Juan and Gulf Islands, it is glorious. It is not a pleasant ride up or back when the Pacific is rough. Pacific means peaceful, and it happens occasionally but not predictably. I don't foresee the two of us doing it again, which is a shame because once you're up there, there are a million places to go, things to see, and things to do. We have friends who live up there and have more than one boat. Perhaps we'll visit them and go cruising one of these days. First, DH has to be able to get on the boat in its slip without getting seasick. :ohwell: :broken_heart: I love the photo and message--"Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee, and a good dog."


    We have a pretty day today. So far I've spent my time cleaning house and vacuuming up piles of dog hair. I'm not done. Later on, DH wants to go down on the docks and see how things feel to him. Please keep us in your prayers and good thoughts that he is not troubled by motion sickness.:heart:

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,531 Member
    Did 1-1/4 hr Leslie Sasone walking DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a segment of the carb burner DVD, hold my plank, then take the extremepump class.

    Made these chocolate covered strawberries for a friend's birthday, only I forgot to line the pan with parchment paper so I had to go back and put a bit more chocolate on the part that stuck to the pan. Now I'm making these chicken cheese balls for Rummikub. I'll freeze them and have them.

    I'm stress eating right now. See, I'm still very upset at the way Pete's mother took over and decided to pay for Denise's wedding gown. She just blurted out right in the bridal place "we want to pay for your gown". What was I supposed to do? Then, you know the stress that a bride is under, she adds to the stress that Denise has by having Denise call me to ask me if I'm upset. Now what was I going to say "oh, well I realize that she's mother of the groom and I'm mother of the bride, but I really appreciate her taking away one of my privileges". Really? Did she think that I was going to say something like that? She could have asked me directly (I know that she's a fan of using Facebook) I really have to let this go, but I just can't get over the way she went about it. Why didn't she ask me BEFORE we went dress shopping? Oh no, then she may not have gotten her way. At least I'm stress eating by having some of the cheese cubes.

    A question for anyone who does ceramics: someone mentioned to me, and I thought this was cool, that when her daughter got married, they got a platter in bisq, had everyone who came to the reception sign it, then they took it home and someone painted in black over the signatures, then they glazed the platter and gave it to the bride and groom. Gotta think on this. I know I don't have a steady enough hand to go over those signatures. Maybe I should pay someone to do it for me (Michele at ceramics?) What do you think of this idea?

    Sandoremi - just now you're getting the batwings???? You've been really lucky. It's somewhat depressing for me when my daughter flaps them and goes "look, ma, flab".

    Nice day, a bit cool. Yesterday Vince said that he wanted to cut the grass, at least in the front yard since we'll be getting a bit more riverrock delivered Tuesday. But then we had Internet and phone problems yesterday so Charter is supposed to be here Mon but if they have a cancellation they'll be here today. He's afraid that if he's on the tractor he won't hear his cell phone. So we're not going to cut the grass today

    No, we're not going to be putting down anywhere near the amount of riverrock that we put down a few years ago. But some of the rock has settled over the years, we just want to "fil in" those spots and the minimum we can get with delivery is 2 tons. We really only wanted 1 ton, but they don't deliver that small amount.

    Lenora - I got my mini-trampoline at Play it Again Sports (when they were around here). Many, many, many years ago I was on dilantin for a short period of time. How I remember those gums swelling up. Of course, that was before Lamictal was even invented!

    Lisa - I'm so glad you feel comfortable speaking about your son here. This is really the only place where I am open about my feelings, too.

    Chris - sounds like an awesome time in Nantucket. So happy for you. Oh, wow, a smaller sweatshirt. WTG girl!!!! You rock!!!

    jagbug - You'll do well. I honestly think of all the "diets" out there WW is the best. However, I could never completely understand how they can say that something has "0" points. Points seem to be tied to calories -- the more calories, the more points. But yet something that is high in fiber won't have many if any points. Yet it still has calories. I never could quite get my head around this

    Lillian - long time no see

    Michele in NC
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    pipcd34 Posts: 17,277 Member
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    barbiecat Posts: 17,204 Member
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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,277 Member
    stats for the day:

    Day 15- Plyometrics exercises- 23.33min, 3sets of 10each, squats, burpees, running stationary lunges, single leg toe touches, push ups, crunches, hamstring leg lifts, sit-ups, 111ahr, 139mhr = 141c
    Apple Watch- 131c
    stairclimber- 10min, 44floors, 75stepps power min, lvl 7-8, 136ahr 145mhr = 110c
    Apple Watch- 118c

    total cal 251
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,531 Member
    Found Denise's "something old". I knew that I had this handkerchief that she wore as a bib or a bonnet (couldn't remember which) when she was baptized. Now this is something she can carry down the aisle with her. I, honestly, had always thought my rings would be her "something old" but that won't happen.

    Vince FINALLY took whatever he needed off the old powerwasher. He thinks we should take it to the landfill but I think that if I can put it in the garbage can, the garbagemen will take it. It's in the garbage right now so next Mon we will find out who was right.

    Then put away this Christmas towel that I'd forgotten to put away.

    Michele in NC
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Michele – I think that is a good idea for a platter; and, one can always use a platter. Are you talking about them signing the damn bisque; then having someone write over the names? Then firing it? Are you actually going to paint it? It’s been so long since I have worked with bisque that was damp enough to etch the name; or is that what you were planning on doing? Or just writing their names with a marker? I know with one of my manger scenes was painted off white then rubbed down with brown (but I was only trying to fill in the creases. Or are you planning on having a tool there for them to etch their names into the bisque? Could you then fire it; and then rub in down with a color to go into the signatures and re-fire it to keep the color down in the names? I don’t know if that would work; you might have to try it out on a sample piece of bisque. But, it’s been 45 years since I have done any ceramics. Maybe you teacher would know a lot more. I know when my Mother gave me a ‘china’ manger; it did not look finished. I think she gave it to me unfinished. After rubbing it down with brown oil paints and rubbing it off immediately, it had my desired look. I would think if you used bisque; you’d have to pack around it too keep someone with a heavy hand from breaking it. I’m sure you will work something out on how to get the desired look you want. I know I could ‘never’ paint over something as delicate as someone’s signature. I know my Mother used decals on some of the things she did. Any possibility of copying the bridal book and having the signatures made into decals and lay them out on the bisque and fire them? The heat would melt the paper; but, leave the name. Sort of like a temporary tattoo does, after a day and a bath the ‘shiny’ thin paper like stuff washes away from the actual figure. I’m just blowing off things I might think about doing. If you used a tool in damp bisque you would still have to carefully rub away the ruts after they signed it. Maybe Michele at ceramics would have an idea of how to do this.

    I know that they would cost a lot more now; but, what did you have to pay for your trampoline?
    Louis doesn’t want me to attempt to go off the Dilantin, even with the swelling. I have found a new toothpaste that seems to help. I had to buy it ‘online’; then, I found it at Rite Aid.

    Sunny SW WA State – I was 35 when I was ‘surgically’ force into menopause; but, handled my weight well; until about age 55; and, then it started creeping up on m, a lb. a month and as I got older a little more; until I found myself at 200lbs when my DYS was getting married. I did NOT like that I had to buy a size 20 dress to wear to his wedding and only wore it that one time. Seeing the pictures made me realize that I had to do something or else I ‘would’ look like my Mother who weighed in at about 350lbs. I don’t mind that I look like her ‘in the face’ and I have her ‘skin’. I’ve lost 40lbs; but still have about 15 or 20 to go to get to my goal weight. It’s been hard and trying to set ‘realistic’ goals means that I am going to really have to watch what I eat and exercise daily.

    Lenora
  • coastalgosgal
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  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Mary from Minnesota I am so amazed at your commitment, and dedication to yourself, you are such an inspiration to us all! Thank you for posting the updated story!
    Becca
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Well today I tackled my bathroom. Wiped down all surfaces, even dusted high light bulbs! Scoured the shower, tackled toilet! Our seat has issues, but its kind of an extra expense, just a tab on one side broken. When husband was I'll he couldn't balance well, so a lot of hip twistings and it just broke at the weak part. I now have quite a clean bath! I shall take pics! Haha!
    Becca
  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Becca- thanks! I think I posted it here before but, Lanette was asking for postmenopausal weight loss success and how we got there.

    Janetr - Mia is so adorable! You must be so proud of your daughter and her accomplishments! You look fantastic! With it being so nice out you will have no trouble getting that off!

    Barbie - all I can say is, you are amazing!

    <3

    Mary from Minnesota

  • Poerava14
    Poerava14 Posts: 1,092 Member
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    PS - Rori,I was just wondering where in the CO foothills you are located. I am going to Parker for me DGS's high school graduation in a week. It would be fun to meet you.

    Sue: I live in the most western section of Littleton, near the Red Rocks Ampitheatre. Parker is only 30 minutes away, and I'd love to meet you. Message me with your itinerary, and let's make this happen. :smiley:
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