WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2017
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Hi Gals,
I’m wandering back through….sorry I’m so erratic just reading from page 50…
Love the talk about tablets, phones, etc… I love my smart phone, but also love setting it aside…
Heather – amazing cake!!!
Allie – so happy for you, but continue to be wary of Tom…
Meg (((((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Sue - our furry friends are such a part of our lives… I am sorry to hear about the passing of Jule
All the newbies – welcome
Penny – Lucky tourist!!!! So looking at the railing and the angle of the pictures…how do you get out of the house? Do you have to jump?
Wendy – you can do this!
Joyce – was it Miriam you are thinking of?
Patrice – welcome!!! So glad to have you here! Gloria was such a part of our group, she is missed
Katla – Hip Hip Hooray!
Smiles
Kim from N. California
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sisterdisco66 wrote: »The boys are doing well. Getting settled into thier new home and schools. They lost so much. Not only my Mom, but we had to rehome thier dogs and birds. We will give them a goid life, but everything right now is still so raw. Hopefully time will heal.
Welcome, Patrice. I am especially happy to hear that the boys are settling in -- so many changes for them to process. I will continue praying for them and for the rest of your family.
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon
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Good afternoon.
Getting ready to head home
Such great news, Katla! Congratulations.
Michele in NC -- Cellulitis is no joke. I am glad it is not a blood clot, but you do need to be careful and keep an eye on it. Pretty scary stuff.
Tere -- I'm sorry to hear about your husband's health issue. Hopefully the surgery will give him some relief.
It's not that my scale lies; it's that I keep thinking I weigh 20 pounds more than I do because that's what I'm used to. So every time I step on the scale, it's a little bit of a shock. "Oh, right. I weigh less than I'm used to." I guess that's a good thing, but it surprises me how long it takes for our mental perspective to catch up to the physical realities. I suppose the same thing happens as we're gaining weight. It just really does creep up and surprise us, on an emotional/mental level.
I hope everyone has a great evening!
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon4 -
1100m freestyle swim, 20minutes kick drills, 2 aqua-fit classes.
They changed the schedule for Sunday, so I’m not sure how it’s going to go. Ce la vie I guess or que sera, sera? Something like that.
My swims 3 or 4 x a week are good (great even), but I wish I could find something to do the other days. Something I like, obviously, and something that I’m not going to be likely to hurt myself. And something that doesn’t cost money. Quite discouraged in my searching so far nothing works. Swimming 6 days a week would be great if I could schedule transportation - but that isn’t on the horizon anytime soon. Maybe if the weather ever drops below 90° I can walk til I figure out something.
Ophthalmologist appointment tomorrow. Ophthalmologists tend to be ultra-conservative and ever so cautious when they see me (with my history, it is understandable) so I expect my 8:00 am appointment not to be done til lunchtime.
Best wishes to all.
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Welcome Patrice. Glad you've joined us and gaveus Information about the boys.
Katla- great new about your bone density. Keep doing what you're doing.
Cowboys playing so have to sign off.
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Good evening all,
Patrice, welcome. I'm new to the group but still felt your mom's loss. I got to know her just a little but could tell she was an amazing person. So glad you will be joining the group.
Kayla, great news!
Allie, of course he is getting grumpy, ithe is starting to really realize everything he is going to have to do himself now. Oh well too bad, so sad.
I'm one of those that also wait to enter my weight into MFP until I have hit that weight at least 3 times.
Well off to bed and read. First day back to work after vacation is exhausting. Took most of the morning to finally get through all the emails.
Terry tired in VT3 -
stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 new gym, new route- 7.11min, 139mhr, 12.3amph. 1.4mi = 92c
apple watch- 66c
Spin *new bike*- 51min, 76ar, 90aw, 139mhr, no gear gage, 12mi = 404c
apple watch- 425c
bike ride gym 2 dome new route- 7.13min, 12.1amph, 131mhr, 1.4mi = 61c
appple watch- 45c
ride bike puy 2 sumn sta- 15.21min, 147mhr, 11.9amph, 3mi= 166c
apple watch- 108c
jog sta 2 wk- 5.23min, 145mhr, 10.05min mi, .5mi = 67c
apple watch- 57c
jog wk 2 sta- 4.29min, 8.47min mi, 154mhr, .5mi = 74c
apple watch- 60c
ride dome 2 hm- 19.54min, 7.7amph, 150mhr, 2.5mi = 219c
apple watch- 151c
total cal 10834 -
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It happened again! Typing then poof!
PAtrice, so glad to see you here. We loved your Mom and looking forward to really meeting you.
KAtla, good to see your good results.
Got my biopsy report from my colonoscopy. It showed a pre-cancerous place that was removed. So I am on the 3 year plan. I hope they improve the prep by then.
Ok, the main thing I wanted to talk about. Don't know if I am over reacting or not. My daughter, Christina, works for a man who owns a mine in W Virginia. They live in Lexington, ky. He wants to be able to provide each of his miners a truck since they drive about 4 hours every time they go to work. Oh, he is renting a house where the mine is and they love there for 4 days then go home for the weekend. I dot know why he doesn't look for trucks in the lExington area. So by searching the Internet, they found a truck in the Miami Fl area. So she is flying there tonight, will have the truck checked out by a Ford dealership and have a thorough title search to make sure the truck wasn't involved in a flood. If they purchase it, she will drive it back. Ok, will that mechanic be honest, will the title search really tell the truth. Are the infrastructure of the interstates through Florida be OK for her to drive this unknown truck that has 300,000 miles on it and get safely back to her home. I don't even know if a deisel truck is driven the same way any other truck it. Or am I just being a Mom? My husband is feeding me a lot of these questions also. He doesn't think any woman should be driving an interstate at night anyway. I just tell him his fears are antiquated.
OK! Joyce, Indiana1 -
Joyce, my dear, I can answer a few of your fears. For a diesel truck, 300,000 miles is like 30,000 to a gasoline engine. Diesel engines regularly last more than a million miles. That said, they need maintenance, etc. too, and need to have been well maintained. And there are ways to tell through CarFax and other resources if a car or truck has been in a flood. I'm married to a mechanic, and as long as the Ford dealership doesn't have anything at stake, they have no reason to be dishonest. The rest, perhaps someone else can answer.
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Joyce: Don't worry about diesel as a fuel. Both of our cars are diesel and perform just like any other car, but they get MUCH better mileage between fill-ups. I wonder what size these vehicles are. That is what I'd worry about. :ohwell:
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
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Patrice, So nice to meet you! I have tears because your Mom was such a dear lady, and knowing you can check in with us now and then is like getting a part of Gloria. Click on us anytime!
Hugs from Oregon
Becca1 -
Patrice: Welcome! Your mom was a treasured member of this little sisterhood. We can't wait to get to know you better.
Katla: Fantastic news about your bone scans! Thank you for again reminding me about celery. I was foraging for something to gnaw on out of sheer stress and frustration. And, fortunately, I had intentionally left washed celery spears front and center in the fridge after reading your recent post. Gnawed to my heart's content.
The property title issue is turning into a total drama. A defunct former mortgage servicer apparently dropped the ball somewhere. Today I was told it could be another 5-6 weeks to resolve. Sure hope this doesn't blow the sale altogether. I keep telling myself "Well, you're not in Key West or Puerto Rico, so quit bitching." I just want it all done already.
I've got organic milk turning into yummy yougurt in the IP. Stay well friends. We can do this.
Rori
Colorado Foothills
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130 posts! I honestly thought I was just on.
Welcome, Patrice! We all loved Glo. So happy to have you here.
DJ, I am sure glad you didn't get run off. You are one of my favorites.
I can't remember who asked me about the resident troll I was joking about. I can't remember his name, but he sent private messages to several of us. I got two, both of which I promptly deleted. I hope nobody thought I was serious when I was saying that I bet y'all were jealous that he liked my smile. That would really make me pathetic!
Somehow I must have missed a post by Michele. I knew she was sick, but did I read that it was cellulitis? That's some scary stuff!
Machka, I google myself frequently just to see what shows up. When I google drkatiebug, my posts from this thread pop right up first thing. That's one reason I'm so adamant that I don't want my real name posted on here. There is one other person with my name who is a book author, but the vast majority of hits on the name are me. It's not a common name. At one time, I had a bit of a professional presence online and didn't want people who googled me for professional reasons to see that I was an active member of a weight loss board. Maybe I'm weird, but I want to keep personal and professional separate. I'm fairly careful, even on FB, to keep my personal opinions to myself. I now have a professional presence of a different sort based on my volunteer efforts with my church, so I have to be very careful not to be controversial. Given the current hot topics on FB, I am struggling with this conviction.
I, too, miss Sylvia and wonder about her, her son, and the grandchildren. I miss Miriam as well. Another person I miss greatly is Carol from NC. I look forward to getting to know the new folks.
K
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Thinking about the size of vehicle that Katla was worried about concerning Joyce's daughter... it reminded me of what my father would do when each of his children got their driver's license.... my experience was typical....
We all started to drive quite young. By age 9 we were roaring around the ranch in a stick-shift pickup. We had our share of backing into things, running into ditches and small mishaps but nothing major. Dad really did do a good job of teaching us to drive. As a result when we were 16 and getting our license we all knew how to drive quite well. It was more a matter of getting used to the speed on a highway instead of our dirt ranch roads. So I went in and got my license the week of my 16th birthday. The next day my dad loaded up 9 cows and their calves in a 1 ton cattle truck with dual axles and sent me over the mountain pass to our summer range. His only words were "don't forget, going down the pass you must be in 2-low, never in high gear and nothing higher than 2. So off I headed. Now for those of you that don't understand the 2-low, the truck had two axles and you had to change between high and low axles which involved double clutching, all while shifting. The cows didn't fill the truck fully and so they shifted around making the truck want to sway, which made me a bit nervous but I managed. Anyway, I got to the top of the pass and headed down in 2 low, crawling (low gear kept it from running away since I had a load of cattle on back) and then got to the summer ranch. The hardest part was backing that truck up to the cattle chute to unload. lol
I unloaded the cows, ate lunch with the ranch foreman and then headed back home. Felt pretty proud of myself. What I didn't learn until later was that my dad had called the ranch foreman and told him to call him when I arrived. They were all watching out for me in their own way. When I was grown and married, facing kids driving myself I asked dad WHY in the world he would send a 16 yr old off with a load of cattle across a Colorado mountain range. He replied that he wanted me to know that he trusted me and knew that I understood the importance of safe driving from that day forward. And he was right.
As to her driving interstates alone... pshaw.... in today's world of cell phones there's always help nearby.
Marcelyn
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Patrice Welcome Thanks for letting us know how the boys are doing. Sorry to hear that they had to give up their pets
Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 1 -
drkatiebug wrote: »Machka, I google myself frequently just to see what shows up. When I google drkatiebug, my posts from this thread pop right up first thing. That's one reason I'm so adamant that I don't want my real name posted on here. There is one other person with my name who is a book author, but the vast majority of hits on the name are me. It's not a common name. At one time, I had a bit of a professional presence online and didn't want people who googled me for professional reasons to see that I was an active member of a weight loss board. Maybe I'm weird, but I want to keep personal and professional separate. I'm fairly careful, even on FB, to keep my personal opinions to myself. I now have a professional presence of a different sort based on my volunteer efforts with my church, so I have to be very careful not to be controversial. Given the current hot topics on FB, I am struggling with this conviction.
Fortunately, when I google myself, my online cycling presence is the main thing that comes up ... and that's OK with me.
And yes, I prefer to keep certain aspects of my life off the internet as much as possible, and/or to compartmentalize my life to some degree.
But it is amazing what you can find out about some people who seem to just put it all out there.
M in Oz
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Marcelyn - What a delightful story. I love the wisdom of your father. What a great man. Are you parents still living and still in CO? I was born and raised in Denver, didn't leave until I was almost 49. I truly thot I could not live any where else. I've been in Oklahoma now for 16 years, after living in both So. California and Dallss and I still sometimes look around and say why, of all places, Oklahoma lol
Joyce - Your daughter will be fine. She an intelligent woman with a practical head on her shoulders and everything will be fine. Prayer for her and leave her in God's hands
DrKatiebug - I also miss our three friends you mentioned very much. I often think of them and truly hope all is going well for them. I also miss LoLo in Seattle she had great stories to tell. I've been wondering about Dorrie in Las Vegas, she reminds me of LoLo with her independent spirit. I hope she rejoins us when her life settles back down. It sometimes boggles my mind that we can care so much for someone we've never met in person and then miss them so dearly when they are gone. They all take a little piece of our hearts with them.
Julie - How did your day go? Did your pre-planning help out? Hope is was a great day.
Like e Pip I'm actually a bit surprised at the scale. Finally, I have started moving in the right direction. Our bariatric dietician has a 5-part series on her web site entitled "Getting Back on Track". I watched it and it just hit home. I'm close to the five year anniversary of my gastric by-pass surgery and weight loss of 125#. Watching the videos it made it clear to me that I had strayed much further than I realized from my eating habits post surgery. I've gone back to really monitoring all carbs, carefully measuring portions, including protein. I some how had decided as long as its protein it must be good for me. I also bought the Isolate Zero protein drink Dr Katiebug told us about, you mix it with water it has no carbs and 90 calories. It truly helps when I'm hungry and definitely ups my protein intake. Fifty percent of my daily intake is supposed to be protein. That's hard to do for me.
I read everyone's post daily even though I don't respond to each one. I love keeping up with you all and being allowed to part of your lives. I'm still working away on Christmas ornaments, keeps my hands busy. I may have to sell them at a Craft Fair, perhaps next year, I'm getting so many
Love you ladies.
Janetr OKC
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Thanks for your encouragement on my daughter driving. This truck is a 2004 Ford F 250, it has what. Thank is saying 6 cylinder V-8 turbo 5 speed with a Harley Davidson package. It's all Greek to me.
Michelle is all ready fr her surgery tomorrow Charlie wasn't going to go but I guess his conscience got the best of him. I think he is secretly glad that I am picking her up and then he can come closer to time she goes in. She found an article that matches her symptoms exactly and it's usually a pediatric condition but the main thing is an over active fall bladder that has a higher ejection of the bile with the HIDA scan. And it says surgery to remove the gall bladder corrects the problem. The surgeon does know to looks around in her belly while she is there.
Joyce, Indiana3 -
Michele – IF your leg starts to ‘swell’ get to the ER or call the MD to see you immediately. A knot plus swelling is what happened to my DDnL#1 after having a baby and being sent home the 2nd day (one night in hospital; then a full week). Louis was put in the hospital that same week because of a ‘kidney stone’ he could not pass and the ‘only’ way they allowed her to go see him (one floor up) was to wheel her there in a ‘wheelchair’. Because of that, she was told by her OB/GYN that she was NOT to get pregnant again. Trey had the surgery; twice … still had sperm swimming around. The first time you would have thought he was going to ‘die’; the second time, he was back at work in 2 days. LOL!
Sharon – The more you try to catch up the ‘more behind[er]’(slang) you will get’. When I got back from vacation (5 days, 4 nights) … I was taken to page 43. Started reading and responding. Lost it; and when I opened it right back up there were 46 pages. Started responding again … lost it again. Went in and the page was on 57. I just gave up and started at 57. I’ll ask someone to ‘bring me up to speed’ with what is going on.
Joyce – I always find it so funny that Albany puts on a ‘big deal’ around Mardi Gras; but, the timing is all wrong. Mardi Gras is the last big ‘throw-down’ Tuesday partying before Ash Wednesday … so it changes dates as does Easter. They always throw this big street party and the Catholics or any others that do the 40 days of Lent just don’t go. We have never been. But, I don’t much care to be around a bunch of very drunk people and having to walk blocks to get there ‘through the Hood’ … a lot of crime around it as well. You have to stay in a big group if you go. My DBnL has a ‘handicapped’ sticker and after this weekend and my ‘falling out spell’ he said that I should check into getting one.
Broke my big toe a week ago and it was difficult to walk on the beach with my Crocs on, so I took them off. Orthopedist said today that I shouldn’t be so hard on my toes. I told him that ‘nothing’ would make me ‘forget’ my broken little toe or the pain associated with it quicker than dropping a huge, heavy glass mug on my big toe. I have not seen that much blood except for a cut on the head. I pushed down on the nail and it continued bleeding … had blood everywhere. Put Peroxide on it, then cleaned it with Betadine, then an antibiotic cream and kept it bandaged, changing it all the time when it got wet. He told me that was the best thing I could do. Might save the nail; but, there again, I should not be surprised if I lose it. More than 2 years ago the Podiatrist cut out an ingrown toenail and it has just about grown out to look like a ‘normal’ toenail. Now … here we go again.
Fall Festival at the school is in October. Grandparents have to run the Cake Walk. I actually sold my Cream Cheese Pecan Pie … on the way to put it up for winning. I got about $25 for it and a promise to bake Louis a pound cake.
Machka – I’ve done it … sort of ‘freaky’ to find out what all is online under our names. But, public records are open. The only things you are not supposed to be able to get into are ‘criminal records’ and ‘adoption records’. Was really ‘entertaining’ when I started looking up what Louis’ daughter was doing with the money she ‘basically’ stole from her Nana by pulling a POA off the Internet and had her to sign off on it … every paragraph was ‘checked’ … which if anybody knew what they were doing they would have seen that it was illegal. By the time we could get down there to get the things we got (and didn’t get things that had been written down and attached to the Will … because she ‘got them’ beforehand. Very hurtful and we have not ‘seen or spoken’ to her since – 10 years! Louis has specifically written her ‘out of his Will’ and I don’t know if the Probate Court is still going to contact her; but, I have a brand new $1 to add to a letter and tell her to ‘not spend it all in one place’. She has NO claim to anything we have. I have attempted to contact her 4x in the 10 years because I would ‘like’ to have some pictures of Louis growing up and I would like to have a painting I gave to my DMnL as a present that did not get ‘signed’ … I would send it right back … if she sent it to me. The last time, I contacted her husband (who we had liked). No telling what she told her side of the family. But Hell would sooner ‘freeze over’ before contacting her. To Louis, she is legally ‘dead’.
Carol – We did have a good time; but, it is obvious that Suzanne’s husband is suffering some side effects from the stroke he had last October; but, he is determine to NOT give up a lot of things. It just did not seem the same when Gene was unable to attend. Surf was quite rough; so we did not go in; but, it was warmed at this time of year. The Gulf gets warmer much earlier in summer; and you don’t want to go there during August because of the seaweed. Tommy was like ‘small child’ pulling pranks on us that were not all that kind.
Allie – The hardest thing to do is learn what the meaning of ‘NO’ means and you do not owe the other party any explanation. If they ask ‘why’ the turn it back on them by asking ‘why do you want to know? Don’t let anybody ‘guilt-shame’ you into doing something for them, especially TomCat.
Katla and Meg - I enjoy being friends and chatting with both of you. Not getting far fast; so TGTFN, off to get some ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ; making well too many typos,
Lenors
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Welcome Patrice and sorry for your loss. Do please keep us updated about those boys.
Yay for stronger bones, Katla!
On the discussion about what to believe and not believe about the number on the scales - I NEVER get the same weight three times in a row, so I never allow myself to get upset (or overjoyed) about any individual result. To get a weight I feel I can trust, I weigh myself every morning and note the number in a spreadsheet, but apart from that, I ignore it. I've programmed the spreadsheet to plot each day's weight, but also calculate the average for the week. It's last week's average I treat as my "current" weight. Each graph covers a four-month period and I have graphs way back to September-December 2008. Interesting reading!
The top graph is daily weights; the bottom is weekly averages. That stretch of identical weights in July was when I was at my parents' place in New Hampshire, where I used an old analogue scale and could only distinguish half-pounds.
I've continued with my sprint interval training (walk 2 min, run as fast as possible 30 sec, repeat). Lately I've been taking "the scenic route" to the grocery store, running sprint intervals on the way. It's only an 8 minute walk, so I have to take a detour around half of town to get much running in. I also need to shop every day so I don't have too much to carry home, but that's okay! Sadly, the strategy probably won't be sustainable when it gets colder. I don't mind walking home sweaty when it's 45 F, but below freezing...?
I think not. 
I've got an online course running now (scientific writing for PhD candidates) and my students have just submitted a whole bunch of texts I need to comment on, honestly, but diplomatically - and helpfully, so they learn something. The students' own thesis advisors usually don't give them that kind of criticism; they just rewrite the students' papers themselves. I understand them, because helpful criticism takes a lot of time and effort!
I'd better get cracking.
/Penny, being helpfully critical at the North Pole
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Okay. I couldn't possibly respond to you all so my responses are few and random.
Still trying to get life back on track.
Penny- I'm so glad you are safe. Scary storm!
Sue - I'm so sorry about your horse. It is never an easy decision to make.
Machka - Awesome loss.
Josephine. Sounds like you ran into a very rude "gentleman". Why was he asking all those personal questions? Please be careful.
Pip - 5 lbs? That's fantastic.
Patrice - Welcome. Thanks for the update on the boys.
Shower was a success. Little girls loved staying in the fancy hotel with their Grandmas. We managed to get in a swim.3 -
rori grrrr on having the closing delayed, but putting it in perspective is the right approach. The devastation in PR is massive, sobering
We are a chatty group, kind of love it,
Beth news??
Work drama is heating up, I am on the sideline but could be turned to for advice. Trying to steer clear carefully, but you never know when someone's cornered what can happen. Cryptic enough?? All I can say for now.
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After rowing and running on Sunday ... I discovered I have hamstrings today! Never really noticed them before.
Ouch!
DOMS.
Fortunately, I walked 6 km yesterday and 4.5 km today to help stretch things out.
M in Oz3 -
MOrning all! Quick shout out to Patrice! Welcome! Your mother was such a kind and supportive voice to all of us! She is remembered with much love. Add me to her list of admirers. Prayers continue for your family and those beautiful boys! KJ (Kelly)
Katie- In my family, we have learned NOT to Google ourselves. With a last name like LaMore, most of the things that pop up have to do with adult movies or strippers. I gave my daughter a beautiful first name to go with our very lovely french last name and it is a VERY popular stripper/porn name. 3
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