WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2017

barbiecat
barbiecat Posts: 17,268 Member
edited November 22 in Motivation and Support
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Welcome to the thread that has encouraged and supported me for a long time. The journey to health and fitness seems to be smoother with others walking by my side.

How did you do with your goals and resolutions for September?
What goals and resolutions have you set for October?

I found that logging food and exercise and checking in with the women on this thread has provided a strong base for my weight loss journey. I hope the same will be true for you.

Don't forget to bookmark this page so you can find it again.

September Resolutions with end of the month comments:
*walk an average of at least 17,000 steps a day (just over 15,000)
*continue to photograph and discard sentimental items (slow but steady)
*continue to read and discard sentimental papers (slow but steady)

October Resolutions:
*walk an average of 15,000 steps a day
*continue to photograph and read and discard sentimental items and papers
*weight training three days a week

<3 Barbie from beautiful NW Washington

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT.
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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,371 Member
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  • fanncy0626
    fanncy0626 Posts: 7,152 Member
    Thanks Barbie!

    <3

    Mary from Arizona
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    Thank you, Barbie.

    Janetr okc
  • dreamwriter
    dreamwriter Posts: 610 Member
    Looks like my whole post is gone and I am too tired to type more.
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    dreamwriter wrote: »
    Looks like my whole post is gone and I am too tired to type more.

    No, it didn't get lost, your post is there. Big (((hugs))) Sharon, been through it a couple of times myself. It's is not easy. Glad you will go for counseling.

    Janetr OKC

  • ljdw99
    ljdw99 Posts: 360 Member
    :)
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    thanks Barbie for new thread

    LENORA my DD had the same problem with the crystals and PT is probably best anyway

    Been watching. series of 3 progs I recorded while on holiday about ageing. They had volunteers go in and they tested brain and body function and came up with their actual body age as opposed to birth age. Then gave advice and help for 12 weeks to reduce this. The results were amazing and interesting also shocking.

    Kate UK <3
  • mikesmom1983
    mikesmom1983 Posts: 582 Member
    Good morning Ladies! Happy October, my where has the time gone?

    Thanks Barbie.

    I just deleted my post because it seems so trivial in light of what some of you are going thru.

    Love and hugs to everyone.

    Chris in MA
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,701 Member
    Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking)
    March 15: 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
    April: 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
    May: 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
    June: 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    July 2015: 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
    Aug: 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
    Sep 2015: 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
    Oct: 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
    Nov: 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
    Dec: 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
    Jan: 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
    Feb: 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
    March 16: 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
    April: 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
    May: 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
    June: 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
    July 2016: 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
    Aug: 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
    Sep 2016: 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
    Oct: 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
    Nov: 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
    Dec: 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
    Jan: 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
    Feb: 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
    Mar: 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
    Apr: 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
    May: 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
    June: 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    July: 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
    August: 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
    September: 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min

    September went better than anticipated ... hoping for a good October too! Roughly the same distance/hours as in previous years ... or more. :)

    Oct 1 - 51.40 km cycling (162.32 min)


    2017 Monthly October
    Walking Distance (km): 0.0
    Walking Time (min): 0.0
    Cycling Distance (km): 51.4
    Cycling Time (min): 162.3
    Stairs Climbed Number: 0.0
    Stairs Climbed Time (min): 0.0
    Other Distance: 0.0
    Other Time: 0.0

    Totals
    Total Distance (km): 51.4
    Total Distance (miles): 31.9
    Total Time (min): 162.3
    Total Time (hr): 2:42:19
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Katla - I think Allie said that once she is past the 1-year 'lease to purchase the condo' and has done so successfully they condo will be in her name (or maybe it has been - that I don't know) - so basically what she is in essence doing, is 'renting it from him with whatever she is paying to be to applied to the principle at the end of a year (maybe); if she is just taking over his payments. If she had to refinance, that would be different I would think. She'd be making payments to a mortgage company. Then she can have a pet. I don't understand if the condo is in her name at this point, why she cannot have one pet.

    Michelle - You are a lot more forgiving person ; and, in a way - I wish I had that much trust in people. But, because of some things that have happened to me (by an unethical MD), I then to think, "OK, Lenora, do they have some sort of ulterior motive?" But, so far, I am 'comfortable here. Y'all are like 'friends' that mean something to me. For some, I would not be the least bit surprised if you walked into my house and took a chair at the table, get something to drink and sit for as long as we could be walking about anything. While I haven't met any of you other than knowing Carol. It's strange how we found out we were both here. I think she recognize me first. So, I don't feel like I have been plopped down into the middle of a group of strangers. We only see Jenn's mother when she comes out here to stay for a couple of days and I like her. She lives 2 counties over from us, so it is quite a trek for her and a daily visit is rare. She is a country as it gets; and, occasionally have to laugh at how she talks and pronounces things. Such as the word, "Pretty" ... she pronounces it "Purdy, Purdy, Purdy" almost like 'Tweedy Bird' and Sylvester would. Just without the 'spitting'. But, she would give you the shirt off her back if you needed it and would never expect anything from you in return.

    I don't know Tami's parents very well; and, it has taken us, both, to warm up to one another. Both seem nice; but, pretty standoffish. But, I think that is because of where they live. It is in a small tight-knit community where it is not uncommon for 3 generations to live in close proximity to one another. Her parents live a couple of miles from them. If one could be considered friendlier - I'm not real sure I could pick one. Her mother talks; but, you never really feel like she is talking to you ... just talking to Tami; but, not minding if you hear what she is talking about. Tami's Daddy will talk to Will as if he is the son he never had. He talks to Louis more than me. I think he is somewhat taken aback when we see them and I 'hug' him. But, I am also a bit of a 'hugger', so long as another person does not come up behind me. That unnerves me to no end because of an incident that occurred to me several years ago. Tami, is a talker to beat the band. I guess it is because of what she does for a living. I could not think of any other type of young lady to be Will's wife. She has been the 'only' one that from the time they met, I knew she would become his wife. Trey is more talkative than Will ever was. Trey is like a puppy who comes 'bounding up' to anyone and thinks nothing of it. Will on the other hand is like a old settled in cat ..."If you want to pet me, get up and come over to do so." But, both know how to 'act' when they are around others and that makes me proud, knowing I have brought them up, proper. Will introduce Tami to us and wanted our approval about making her his wife. He has dated a few women that I know I never wanted them to be a DnL. How he talked (or didn't) about them lead us both to agree that she wasn't the one. He asked me once, 'how he would know when he had met the one'. I told him, not to worry - It would hit him like a ton of bricks; and, it would be like nothing he has ever known. It would be like he missed her so much if he had to be away from her and he would want to get back to her as soon as possible'. And it did. I don't think Trey has yet ever had that feeling. I hope one day he will.

    Lenora
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Happy October. Will have to Think some more about goals before posting. Thanks for keeping us going Barbie

    NYKAREN
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,268 Member
    :) I am happy to see that I won't be alone on this journey again this month. I have noticed that my daily step count is down in September from over 17,000 steps a day to 15,877 but I am spending more time with Jake which has been very good for our relationship and for our plans to reduce the clutter in our lives.

    <3 Barbie is beautiful NW Washington
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    :)<3:)
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,371 Member
    will type later, yo peeps
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Barbie – I haven’ met or made goals; maybe I should. Sometimes I will pre-track my food; but, never my exercise; but, I know if I don’t do it, the possibility of me ‘losing’ gets less and less. I did walk a lot at the beach; but, even with a broken toe, I was determined not to let it get in the way. Ended up taking my Crocs back to where we were sitting, because the pressure of my big toe was too great. I’ve only got 2 days before my next weigh-in. Maybe today I can do some walking … or better yet … do some dancing to some fast moving music like Paula Abdulla. I’ve got to get Louis to help me put up my mini-trampoline because one part of the directions tell you that it takes 2 to put it together, It came to me folded up in quarters.

    I will start doing some purging and cleaning. I have not quite yet gotten to the point of giving things away. I have some crystal that I plan on packing up and taking to a woman in town and just giving it to her. If she offers me money – I’ll take it, if not – I will still know that someone has received it that will appreciate it. I’ll count the pieces and maybe charge her about $4 or $5 a piece. I will keep my good crystal and my Mother's really good crystal which has a lot of etching to it and it ‘sings’ when you wet your finger and rub it around the rim. I never have found the Champaign flutes that my middle sister has tried to find; Suzanne say she doesn’t have them. I I do find them, will pack them up and send them to her. I just don’t remember ever putting them up; but, I also need to get into my studio to clean. That will take a couple of days and when the weather begins to change and I know we’ll have a couple of days, I will empty it out and take back and rearrange things that I want in it. I have a ‘huge’ box of patterns that my Mother used when she was china painting. I have a small kiln and one that I have decided that I will donate to the art department at the school where the girls go, if the art teacher wants it. I’ve got the instructions and maybe she won’t burn down the school. I have an entire box of china, some I might keep – for the sake of keeping and using as every day pieces. There are a few things in my china cabinet that I need to find another spot for it. I am surprised at how much (weigh-wise) it has held; but, I felt the same way with my last one. It was an old wardrobe that Louis got for free and refurbished it and took out the panels in the door (one was cracked) and put in some metal screening and three thick glass shelves; but, they were in there to stay. What is holding up the shelves in mine are just clips.

    I don’t know how many steps I make; I need a good pedometer; but, so far have not found a good one that actually works. I have 2, both cheap ones that I got when I joined WW and some other program (maybe at the “Y”). I need one that is easy to set/reset, big enough to see, and one that will clip and stay ON. Not much good if you drop it off her outfit.

    I’m not sure I could walk 2+ miles in a day. I don’t even know how to figure out how many steps I take when walking on my treadmill … when it is set at 26 (level).

    Michele – I think Publix only doubles certain coupons on certain days (I think it is Wednesday or Thursday whenever they get ‘new’ shipments in (for the ones that will be going out of the “Sell by Dates” if helps to empty the shelves. Same thing with the BOGO. I usually do that ‘if’ I know I will use it or can share with the kids.

    Rye – We always use alcohol, straight up, in our ears to try to prevent ‘swimmer’s ear’. When I was a lifeguard at the pool, I did it for all the children in the class and I would tell the parents to do the same when they left, if they had gotten back in the water after class.
    I don’t think I would ‘hold my breath about Maria and her husband driving all the way to NC to spend the Christmas holidays – they might tell you that have their own traditions. We never were at our parents’ home during the holidays (unless Christmas was on a Friday, then we’d head to Louis’ parents’ house because we would have already made the trip to my parents’ the weekend before Christmas. When my middle sister married on the 22nd; oldest sister and her husband came for it; then went home for Christmas Eve then back up to my parents late on Christmas Day. That was the only time we were together on Christmas Day. BnL’s parents always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve – so the kids would wake up at their houses on Christmas morning.

    I agree – it won’t do you any good to carry ‘hurt feelings’; but, you might get them hurt again, if that is something Maria delights in doing – then she’d be on ‘your turf’ and bring that Karma of hers into your home. If they live as far away as they do, then I guess I don’t understand why you can forgive yourself for having these feelings, unless you are planning of telling her that she hurt you. If she is as big of a “B” as she has sounded like … that might even be harder. When someone ‘disses’ you on ‘their turf’ you can always leave; but, you would not ‘invite her and show her to the door’ after telling her how she had ‘hurt’ you. I’d just invite he kids and hope they’d agree to spend time with you and another time with Pete’s family. When and ‘if’ children start coming along, then I am sure they will want to be ‘home’ or at Pete’ family’s house and not lug all the toys and things to your house. That, also, would mean that I would want to inform Denise and Pete that they need to come to your house to celebrate Christmas with you and Pete. When we lived in Jacksonville after we married … we still woke up in our own home on Christmas Day and would go over to Louis’ parents for the mid-day meal. It was pretty much that my family got together the weekend before Christmas and that seemed to work for all of us, whether we had kids or not.

    I just hope that I live long enough to see all my grandchildren grow up, get married and have children; but, more importantly – that I be ‘sane’ and able to get around on my own. I had art with a woman who was in her early ‘90’s but you would have never guessed she was over her early ‘70’s … both she and her husband were in their ‘90’s. She had lung cancer that was ‘in remission’ when her husband died suddenly from an Widow-Maker Heart Attack; she had just found out that the cancer had returned and her daughter from Atlanta tried to ‘make’ her move up there with them. She told her ‘NO, this is home to me, this is where I go to church, this is where my friends are, and this is where my MDs are; and, she was not about to leave. I want to say that she died this past year; but, every year she wrote notes to the other ladies on their birthdays and at Christmas. When she and her husband traveled to Mexico and that area she brought a paper mâché doll to each one of us. I still have mine. I will lightly wash it and then spray it with a sealer like I use on my drawings.

    Sharon – I usually have an ‘aura’ before a seizure (but, not always); your co-worker was probably feeling his, I’m glad that he was able to tell you about worrying about blacking out or having a seizure. I’ve had several that were not witnessed and that is scary when you come through it and have no way of knowing how long you were out or if you have injured yourself. The only seizure I have had ‘out in public’ was a week after having a wreck (not caused by the wreck – I already had a seizure disorder). I was at the bank, sitting and talking to one of the loan officers about ‘how my balance to the bank was not what they showed’. I knew, all of a sudden I was not making a lick of sense, and got up to leave. That is the last I remember until I came to on the gurney and the EMT told me I had had a seizure. I wondered how he knew … and he pulled the necklace I had on and also from what the loan officer had told him. He had already called Louis who met us at the ER. The EMT suggested that I get a bracelet instead; because that is where they look first to see if a person has a medical list. I keep my history and list of medications I take in my purse, in my console of the car, and in my medicine bag (for when I go to the doctors and have to go over my medications).

    I remember when I was put into the hospital several years ago, the counselor had a ‘family meeting’ before I could be released. He was extremely blunt and I told Louis to be prepared. He asked why and all I could say was, ‘be prepared’. When he got there and we had our meeting, he turned to Louis and told him, ‘and you have to take some responsibility for her being here’. That is what I was trying to tell Louis to be prepared for. He has ALWAYS thought when I am showing signs of a bipolar episode, that all it will take is for me to go to bed, and ‘sleep it off’. It’s not like I am an addict … it isn’t going away without the intervention of a MD. Sure it is a waste of a day … but, I still wanted him to take me to Macon; but, knew he had a lot of work and my BF took me the day after we had talked to the MD who had told me to bring me up there. Of course, it was 9:30 at night and he was not about to leave then and get there after 11:00pm. I probably drove him nuts with the symptoms and I am pretty sure that I had hit my all-time low. That was the first and only time I have hit that ice pond of ‘normal’ and broken through it to be ‘depressed’. BF came out and could not get me to answer the door or her knocks on the windows, answer the phone, or anything. I heard her, I just did not want to get up. Feeling like a rock in the bed and sinking down into it. She called Louis and the EMTs and he told her where the key was. I was unresponsive when they got there. They wanted to take me to the ER; and, she asked if they’d let her try one more thing. She put ‘ice’ on my back and I woke up and just about jumped on her. Then she told the EMTs that she had come so that she could take me to Macon to be admitted there. She took one outfit of clothes … so for the first few days I don’t remember even coming out of them or having a shower; then, I got to the point that I did not want to be in the ‘main lock-up’ section and he put me out on the floor. It was considered ‘locked’ and you could not get within a certain number of feet of the sliding doors; but, you could walk out and be ‘discharged against medical advice’ and one guy did that while I was there. All I wanted to do was get my medications tweaked so that I could return to my normal life. I missed seeing my DOGD in the Homecoming Court; and, I might have been able to get a pass for the weekend … but, I figured that DDnL#1 would take a video and some pictures. I’m sorry that I missed it; but, I don’t think I would have been able to walk without being held up and I did not want others to see me and think that I had been drinking heavily and think I was just drunk.

    Our middle granddaughter was bullied at school for 2 years. The headmaster did not want to admit there was a problem with bullying until the girl did this when my oldest GD was changing classes and she too a video of it. Then sent the video to DDnL#1 and she was at the school before ‘recess’ ended and she march down to the area they were in, which had drawn a crowd by that time. They saw her stomping down and they scattered! Taylor brought the video to the headmaster’s office while DDnL#1 was telling him, that ‘if’ this girl EVER laid a hand on MGD, they had given her permission to hit her back and they would take things into their own hands, if he did not do so. The girl was ‘invited’ NOT to return to school. Now she goes to school in the next county and she and MGD are ‘friends’ on FB. That really got under the skin of my DDnL#1; but, I think that kids, in most cases, can fix their issues without parental intervention. Sometimes it is better ‘if’ they don’t get involved. However, this was one that would have never been resolved. This girl had systematically mad ‘every girl’ in the grade cry and then she started on the younger kids. That is when DMGD said something to her and this was the beginning of the confrontation. In fact, when she looked like she was going to take a swing at her one of the boys in the class stood between them. But, even our boys were told ‘not to start a fight’; but, if anybody touched them, to tell them once, ’don’t do that again … and then they had our permission to ‘deck them’. Usually most fights start when one pushes the other, and then a 2nd shove to make their point … this is when we told them ‘they should finish it’.

    Trey was quiet and never had any problems. I don’t think Will had any problems either; but, Trey said that he would walk right down the middle of the hallway between classes and nobody ever ran into him, they would just go around him. I know when he and Tami started dating they and another couple had gone to a bar with several pool tables and there was a man there smacking his woman around and Will went over and said something to the guy about not smacking her. When he turned around and asked ‘what he was going to do about it’ … Will broke the cue stick over his shoulder’ and then they left. The guy was down on the ground screaming. At least he did not kill him. We used to worry about Will and the guys that hunted the land that was next to them. They’d get drunk and try to make trouble. One night after they had confronted Will about the boundaries … Will told them he had cameras out and he knew when they had come across the dividing line (a road) and were on his property and he wanted it to stop. The old man got out of the truck and Will told him, ‘what, old man, you expect me to hit you’? The old man said a few things to him and got back in his truck and they left. However, several hours later after dark, they drove up to his place and honked the horn. He looked out the window and saw them sitting in the truck and took his pistol out to the deck with him to tell them to ‘get off his property’. They were so drunk they could not even talk. He told them a 2nd time to get off his property and he could shoot, at least 2 of them before they even had a chance to pull a gun on him.

    He also did this when he was working at another plantation where deer hunting was prohibited during duck season. He was on his 4-wheeler making rounds and an old man who lived on the property came out and told him he had heard a gunshot and thought that someone was poaching; he knew about the rule. Will rides down there and 3 men (one of them an employee) bring out a BIG deer and they stopped when they saw him. The employee ‘begged him NOT to tell the bosses because he would be ‘fired’. He told him that he ‘knew’ the rules and HE was not about to be ‘fired’ for NOT telling. Then he went over to the 4-wheeler they had the deer laying on and picked it up and off the truck and pulled it to his 4-wheeler and threw it up into it and took it back to the lodge. Needless to say the guy did lose his job and his 2 friends were charged with poaching. The first thing I told him was ‘damn, Will, they could have shot you’. He said, ‘no Mom, I had my big pistol and had it drawn … they never would have been able to get to their rifles. This is the kid that in 4th grade wrote in a penmanship class when the teacher obviously asked for answers to fill in the blanks … one of the questions was “I am afraid of ____________.” And the first day as well as the last day his answer was “NOTHING!” He is totally ‘fearless’. Louis worries about him more than I do; but I worry more about Trey and he lives next door and Louis is with him all day.

    Good for Keira, sorry she got a bruise on her leg for taking up for her friends. She must still be in elementary school. Nobody will mess with he after this time, I get.

    Kate - My ENT MD said that when it worked it would be like a ‘switch’ had been flipped. At this point I will try anything. The spell that I had on the last night of our vacation was scary!

    Machka in Oz - All of you who rides bikes (still) are inspiring to me; but, not to the point that I want to get back up in the saddle – so to speak.

    Allie – Keep on stepping forward, never go back! You’ve made this decision and TomCat needs to see what he has lost by his actions. All actions have consequences and you need to know this is a ‘good’ one! (Your move and filing for a divorce from him). Let him go find another woman who will let him push her down and under his thumb; just don’t let it be you ever again.

    Lenora

    This isn’t a 2nd installment to my one above … it is a totally ‘new’ one … I had just moved my post that I did yesterday to today.
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