WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2017

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  • josephinebowman
    josephinebowman Posts: 359 Member
    Good evening all. I am home from work and I just can not do it much anymore. I ate a leftover sandwich for supper-the program said I had lots of calories available. It did not taste good though. That young one of mine is eating mac and cheese.
    SAND grit-I have kept and wear my husband's CROCS as well as have a lot of my own. But going barefoot is just what I do in the house. The toe is recovering well. I have not wanted chocolate of late but when it gets cold, I think I will want hot cocoa. End of November maybe.
    Well, I am going to creep upstairs and not take a pain pill. Up early tomorrow-it is the week A-C clean the church. Please let my boss not have scheduled the lady who calls out of work--I feel so bad when I have to say I just can not help you and Sunday will be my fourth day of working this week.
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,245 Member
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  • DanaReel180
    DanaReel180 Posts: 463 Member
    edited August 2017
    Good evening!

    Welcome newbies!

    Wendy in Arkansas I live in Hot Springs, not too far from you. MFP really helps me. Everyone on this thread is so supportive from dieting, personal problems or car trouble! I've been here since March and lost about 20 lbs. 40 lbs total since last year after my back surgery. I want to lose 60-70 lbs more.

    Re What a transformation! You should be so proud of yourself! Way to go!!

    Becca You are such a wise young woman! I too spent money on Jenny Craig, Quick Weight Loss, Golds Gym, even injections from equine hormones!!
    They just separated me from my cash. Every experience was great in the beginning, but eventually I went back to my original weight and then some!
    I have learned to eat more wisely and slowly going down. Yeah us!!

    Good evening y'all!
    Dana in Arkansas

    Lanette Here are some snowshoes for you. Maybe it will make you feel cooler? Just imagine walking across some delicious powder!
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  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,645 Member
    DanaReel180 wrote: »
    Good evening!

    Good evening y'all!
    Dana in Arkansas

    Lanette Here are some snowshoes for you. Maybe it will make you feel cooler? Just imagine walking across some delicious powder!
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    Thanks Dana, I feel cooler already! It's cooling down a lot quicker than it did last night - perhaps the on shore flow is finally flowing. <3

    Lanette
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    edited August 2017
    Allie and Michele - Brings to mind about TomCat ... the song ♫♫ 'How low can you go? ♫♫♪♪♪♫♫♪♪ How low can you go? ♫♫♪♪♪♫♫♪♪ Sounds like TomCat is struggling with getting down on one knee to act like he is truly sorry for where things have gone; but, he can't get low enough even laying prostate on the floor (like a flatten out TomCat as 'road kill'). Laugh in his face ... the court is going to give you some sort of 'temporary income' ... and to Hell-O Kitty about giving them ANY break from court or depositions. Show him you no longer need his sorry @$$. To be honest - I can't believe his 'nerve' of thinking buying an iPad or whatever is worth giving up getting temporary alimony. Use that money to buy your own damn computer. Problem is ... TomCat just hasn't gotten it through his head that he has done 'anything wrong'. That just isn't in his nature. He thinks he is "God's gift to the women he's had in his life'. That's what is commonly called a "Trip to take a 'work-of-art' home to Jesus" as the saying goes. I want to kick his @$$ (but closer to his nuthouse). That man has NO shame, does he?
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    @damnitjanet75 I posted this on Aug. 3rd, you must have missed it. Thanks for checking on me <3<3<3
    janetr7476 wrote: »
    Rori, Karen in VA , Lisa - thank you ladies for thinking of me. I'm here and doing all right. I'm reading posts, at this point not feeling I have much to contribute.

    Love you ladies,
    Janetr In OKC

  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Lenora: There are several farriers in the area. My teacher uses a different one than Arrow's owner uses. I'm trying to learn about the dos and don'ts of horse shoeing and hoof care. I lack both experience & training in this area so when I see a chip or crack in a hoof I don't know whether to worry or not. I lean toward worrying when I don't understand things. I want to know enough to understand when to worry and when things are okay. :embarassed:

    Pip: You are so far beyond me in fitness and I admire your dedication. Your HRM seems to either be on a sabbatical or taking too many coffee breaks. Is it an essential item for training? Do you really need to carry around something that is mostly not recording? Can you return it for a refund or exchange it for one that works? :flowerforyou:

    Janetr: I have been wondering about you. I am so happy that you posted!


    Has anyone heard from Mary lately? I've been missing her and worry about her because of the Lymes disease.


    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon


    "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    Re, wonderful transformation. But it looked like your husband was quite in love with the old you also. The new you will just live longer with him. Thank you for sharing.

    Allie, I can't be,ieve after all of this that he is still trying to manipulate you with a new lap top. My laptop sits on my couch arm rest and I use my iPad pretty much for everything. I like it because it is an apple product and I feel safer with it. I even Ed it for a phone call tonight.

    Uhmmmm, that phone call. Some of the ones who have been here with me for a long time remember me telling you about Charlies sister, I don't like to call people parasites but she is one. She is a parasite off of society and has tried to be a parasite off of us. But it is totally against the family values I grew up wi to just totally write her out of me,life. But yet I feel so guilty to say that I have. Chalrie calls brothers on their birthdays and he thinks he has fulfilled his obligations as a 'loving' older brother. He has the same kind of feelings about his sister only he doesn't feel guilty about it. So when he called his brother and wished him a happy birthday earlier this week he told him he was going to call Karen and try to mend some fences. I reminded him of that today, I had already wished her a happy birthday on Facebook. He says he didn't remember saying that but yet he tried calling her earlier. Well he left a message and .eft. So I get the phone call. We talked about a little of nothing. She asked how we were. I am friends with her on face book because she is my kids aunt and she deserves to see them. She does click like on a lot of my posts and has been following about my new kitten. I guess she doesn't have much to talk about because she rarely posts. I am glad that some one came to her door and she had to hang up. I was about to use my cell phone to call my land line so I could make an excuse to end the conversation. We didn't end it with an ' I love you' or 'let's meet for lunch' . We just said good by. So I guess his/our obligation is over until next year. Do I still feel guilty, yes a little. Would my Mother approve, not one bit. And I base a lot of what I do on what my Mom would do. I do know he to make a phone call from an iPad now though!

    Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the 60s. So I'm not sure how much we will leave the windows open. Maybe I won't leave the patio door open wide and just have it open a little and then on the other end and other side my office window u a little. Th cats were so good today. It was good not to hear them with Mr Mozarts attack ing !elody and her getting irritated. I swear, he is like. A little brother.

    We had a local story, or at least I think it was local. Sometimes our local stations carry things that aren't local at all and leave our own news out. Anyway, this middle school aged boy has had a lot of bullying and was afraid to go to school today and had been contemplating suicide. Some one caught wind of what was going on and contacted a local big motorcycle group. 100 motorcyclists accompanied him to school. He said he has the best 1st day of school ever. There are good people in this world.

    Becca, I have seen so many pictures of beautiful flowers on face book and thought you had posted them but you didn't. I have thought about sending them to your page.

    Joyce, Indiana
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Joyce, No worries friend, I follow a bunch of sites that the beautiful flower pictures come to me! Thanks though, you're a dear to me!
    Becca
    The flower whisperer!
  • trulydivyn725
    trulydivyn725 Posts: 92 Member
    edited August 2017
    ~ Lanette - his given name is Jason...I'm the ONLY person who calls him Squishy and gets away with it! If anyone tries, he corrects them immediately and tells them that name is his special name from his OhMama ONLY!....he calls me OhMama instead of Grandma or similar - his other grandmother in town he calls "Honey" because she refuses to be called by a common grandmotherly name after my grandson started calling me OhMama at 2yrs old...long story, but if you read that my DSIL is bipolar - it's hereditary! We fully expect Squishy to be as tall if not taller than my son. My DSIL is an inch taller than my son, and my DSIL's father was 6' 6" from what I'm told. My brother is between them, and I'm the shortest person in my family as I think I've stated. So, I'm pretty sure, barring any disease or injury, he'll be at least 6' 3" and have shoulders as broad as the shoulder pads he'll probably be wearing at some point. He wants to play football at the University of Oregon. He'll be the 5th generation male in my family to do so if he does!

    ~ Becca - thank you for your kind words...I've saved only a very few of the "reminder" photos...that one in particular was a tremendous wake up call...I thought I was pretty cute/adorable in that dress that my Auntie made for me...it was literally a sleeve of stretchy t-shirt type fabric she sewed a seam down the side to connect it, then added a band of elastic at the top and I tied a string around my waist to "blouse" the fabric over...turned out cute I thought, until I saw that photo...

    Sunday morning is the rescheduled date "day" and I'm still overly excited about it...today I struggled with some self control because I waited too long to eat breakfast after feeling disappointed that we had to reschedule. I got lost in my feelings and went to Denny's for an everyday value slam breakfast...only good thing is I told them to bring me ONE pancake instead of two...so, that sort of helped keep the protein up and the carbs down since I didn't use any syrup (not a fan) and only had about half the pancake...so, I guess it was better than it USED to be when I'd saturate the pancake stack with butter and use the jams/jellies for toast on my pancakes...I guess there's small victories in my choices when eating with emotion instead of self control. Should have gone to my favorite local diner and get an egg white protein plate instead...but nope...I justified it because Denny's meal is half the cost...but twice what the other option would have been for my food intake...I'm not beating myself up over it tho and that's still progress as far as I'm concerned!! Then, my daughter enabled me and talked me into a CoffeeBean & TeaLeaf run and the Black Forest sucked me in...it's decadent, and exactly what I'd convinced myself I needed...440 calories in a 16oz frozen beverage that I COULD have opted for "no sugar added" but didn't...sigh...dinner was much more sensible (I'd had enough time to get my demon of self doubt back in the cage) and ended up being less that 400 calories, including my dessert of fresh blackberries and raspberries (half cup each)...

    Squishy decided he wanted to have a sleepover in OhMama's room tonight and is crashed out on my loveseat. His little self is adorable, and when I bought that loveseat he fit on one of the cushions but NOW, he's 7 and has to bend his knees slightly to lay down...he's 90 pounds and 4' 10" tall...I have to give him kudos also, because LAST year when he started 1st grade he had to see his doc of course. He was 103 pounds and 4' 6" tall...I'm VERY proud of him for learning more over these past few months of both his parents being aware of their caloric and protein counts. He's taken quite an interest in discovering what vegetables he can tolerate, and which he won't eat. Last year at this time, if it was green, it needed to be dipped or covered in ranch dressing before he'd eat it. Now, he asked if we could have "mashed caulitoes" (he hasn't figured out it's cauliflower yet) with meatloaf tonight for dinner!! The meatloaf was made with fine ground steel cut oats as a binder with egg and seasoning only with ground turkey and finely chopped red onion. It turned out great and he really liked it! Pretty sure we'll be having this again! The "caulitoes" is a word his Dad came up with to convince Squishy to eat it because it's like mashed potatoes, and this "flavor" of mashed caulitoes is made different than potatoes but tastes really the same and is so much healthier! The other thing about Squishy is, even with his brilliant mind, he's still only 7yrs old...

    My August Goals:
    ~ Stay under 1500 calories daily - not to include the exercise calories off either! ---
    8/1 = 1,289
    8/2 = 1,151
    8/3 = 1,295
    8/4 = 1,780 ***sigh*** I feel STUFFED because I overate and had too much sugar today...YUCK!
    ~ Walk 5k steps daily ---
    8/1 = unsure, no app yet
    8/2 = remembered the app mid-day
    8/3 = 3,980 **** gotta get movin!!
    8/4 = 4,675 **** YAYYYY!!
    ~ Plexus regimen ---
    8/1 = yes
    8/2 = yes
    8/3 = yes
    8/4 = yes
    ~ WATER equal or exceeding 64 ounces ---
    8/1 = 80 oz
    8/2 = 72 oz so far today (2hrs til bedtime)
    8/3 = 64 oz just before bed now...so, I'll be up at least once to pee...LOL!
    8/4 = 70 oz

    Much love and respect from Vegas,
    Dorrie aka TrulyDivyn'
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
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    My dinner the other night! Maybe a bit too much rice-a-roni but it was so good! Husband pigged out and ate pretty much the rest of the pans worth, (minus this portion), and even complimented me on it! He's the best and I think I'll keep him! We are realizing that retired living is just small little plans, throughout a day, doing things that keep us happy, and laughing a lot!
    Becca
  • chantele63
    chantele63 Posts: 1 Member
    Hello, all. I have not participated in a group before but would like to give it a try for extra support. How does one join a group? I am 53 in Texas and hope to lose about 70 pounds.
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Dorrie, You are doing great with your goals, and being accountable! I need to start logging again. Middle son comes tomorrow night!!! I'm so excited!! The last time we saw each other was last December! Its been a year since I have seen my daughter in-law! I'm going to just let life happen, and not overly try too hard! She is shy, and I don't wanna scare her!

    Its late and I need sleep!
    Night night my ladies!
    Becca
  • trulydivyn725
    trulydivyn725 Posts: 92 Member
    ~ Becca - sweet dreams! I'm sure you won't scare her!! Have a BLAST with your family!

    ~ Chantele63 - welcome! I'm a newbie to this group (less than a week), so I can't give you many pointers other than jump right in and share what's going on with you, or if you find something you want to respond to, then the suggestion would be that you address it somehow to that person in your response. Some use bold font, others the @ symbol, and some like me just start listing people. It's hard to keep up with because there's so many of us! But, you'll get the hang of it soon I'm sure!! Suggestion is to also use a salutation at the end of your posts to include the name you prefer for yourself, and where you're from is always a good thing...

    Much love and respect from Vegas,
    Dorrie aka TrulyDivyn
  • dreamwriter
    dreamwriter Posts: 610 Member
    Dorrie - Waiting with bated breath to hear about the date. Your grandson is adorable!!

    Dana - I hate when you lose a post like that. I bet you were very witty in it.

    Wendy - Send anyone a friend request. Some will respond, some will just keep it on this thread.

    Allie - Tom is feeling desperate and he desperately wants to control you. STAY STRONG!!!

    Katla - It's so nice that you could reconnect with a good friends.

    BVJ was evacuated this evening due to warnings of serious thunder storms. DD gets paid either way. So glad that we went over that contract so well.

    Greysyn went to a movie with Jacob. So glad to see him socialization. Really glad that he is interacting.
    Keira and I busily made some crafts,did puzzles and sang.

    Went to the 420 clinic. A lot of paperwork . I'm a little surprised that she suggested so much for me. Now to wait until their Dr. has approved the operation. Still getting the shot in my back.

    We did an Escape tonight. The Baker Street Five. It was a hoot however we didn't solve it. Mojitos at Hudson's and that was the perfect thing. So much living, laughing and loving. I miss them.

    Sharon in Lethbridge ( need a jacket tonight. Yeah)
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Reading all your posts. Welcome to all new girls, I read everyday but don't always say much just mark my place. Great bunch of ladies, full of wit, wisdom and good advice on all sorts of subjects.

    I have been good on food front this week and hope to see a loss tomorrow, which is my weigh in day. Going to gym later, been doing plenty of exercise at home too.

    Catch up later

    Kate UK <3
  • GloworminWA
    GloworminWA Posts: 704 Member
    @Machka9 - thanks for the tips on how to respond individually. I used to notice that Mary seemed to be able to do this and never asked her how.

    Gloria in WA
  • mikesmom1983
    mikesmom1983 Posts: 582 Member
    Michele in NC...I smile every time you post that you used Gay Gaspers DVD, she was a childhood friend of mine. Her real last name is Gasperski. She was a cute little red head.

    Chris in MA
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,691 Member
    Hi all,
    Barbie - the pool was closed for maintenance this morning so I went to the Line Dancing class and really enjoyed it! My first time!

    DH is feeling a little seasick today. I am going for lunch in a minute and hope to do the Swing Dance class at 1.30. I hope he will join me, but I might go on my own. I also walked 12 laps of the sundeck, which is well over a mile.

    There is one very obese man on the boat. Knowing what I know now about overeating I feel sorry for him and much less judgmental than I would have been once. :'( He loaded his plate up twice with piles of cakes at the tea. :'(

    Katla - It is Saga.

    Must rush, Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • mikesmom1983
    mikesmom1983 Posts: 582 Member
    Good morning Ladies!

    I haven't posted anything this month yet but rest assured I've been keeping up with all of you. Welcome to all the newcomers.

    Well now that July is over, my birthday month and all the celebrations, it is time to get back on track. I've been pretty much in maintenance since the beginning of summer and hit an all time low of 54 pounds lost on my birthday which was July 15. And then the fun and games began, birthday celebrations and a weeklong vacation. Although I didn't go as hog wild as I would have in the past but I did manage to gain 6 pounds! I was on plan for the days nothing was going on and I am now diligently back on track. As of this morning I am 1 pound above my maintenance range and less than 2 1/2 pounds from that all time low. I knew that I would gain and I also knew that I would get it back off. Maintenance for me is as much of a challenge as losing weight, I guess vigilance is the answer.

    I have been working every day since I got back from vacation, today is my 12th straight day and I won't get a day off until August 12. It's not an ideal situation but for now it's something I just have to deal with. The first thing I do when I get home from work after I feed the dog is to exercise. It helps relieve a lot of the stress of the day.

    Time to hit the showers and get ready for work.

    Love and hugs to everyone!

    Chris in MA
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,592 Member
    GloworminWA wrote: »
    @Machka9 - thanks for the tips on how to respond individually. I used to notice that Mary seemed to be able to do this and never asked her how.

    Gloria in WA

    When you click quote, you can do what I just did here.

    If there's another person you want to respond to on the same page, you can click quote again, and you'll have both quotes. As long as it is all on the same page, you can keep clicking quote!

    And then just delete out the stuff you don't want.

    If you want to quote stuff on two different pages, do what I said above, then copy it all. Go to the next page, and paste it in the response area ... then click quote on the ones you want to respond to. :)

    It's a bit cumbersome, but you'll get there in the end. :)
  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,975 Member
    Just a quick check-in. No time to respond, but I did read everything.

    Yesterday my gym group met at one of the member's pool and did water aerobics. My first time ever. I'm not really a fan of the water, but it was actually fun. I couldn't believe I could touch the bottom of the pool with my knee during a lunge. I sure can't do that in the gym without my knee screaming in pain. The only thing I didn't like was a side bend with the noodle over my head because water would drop in my face. I don't like getting my face, eyes, ears, etc wet.

    Have a great weekend, my friends!
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Happy Saturday all. Laying low today--storms and flood stress in the area. Perhaps a good day to clean out my vegetable crisper :p and get back to better eating this week. Strategy is stronger than willpower.

    NYKAREN

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