WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR NOVEMBER 2017

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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,696 Member
    Great photos of your dad Allie! You look great and so YOUNG! <3 Must be good genes. Love Taliah having fun.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • leanerstrongerhealthier
    leanerstrongerhealthier Posts: 92 Member
    spikeyhair wrote: »
    Happy Sunday

    30 min Leslie Sansone vid
    KB SQUATS 3x10x13
    KB SWINGS 13x12x13

    Feel as though I need next size KB

    I did my degree at Liverpool Polytechnic which became John Moores University we also have 2 more Unis Liverpool Uni and Hope Uni. We have lots of students in the city which is great as they spend money and also increase the cultural aspects I think. We also have 2 Cathedrals so are we a double city Haha

    Going to see DD for a couple of days in Birmingham, who also have a cathedral but it is quite small compared to Liverpools Anglican cathedral. Don't know if you know that our catholic cathedral is nicknamed Paddy's Wigwam (google it and you'll see why.

    Kate UK <3

    Good Morning Everyone :)

    @spikeyhair How long have you been working out with kettlebells. What has been your transition of sizes? I am at 10lbs now wondering if I need to look into a 13lb for later or if the 15lb I have will be ok? WTG .. with your upped kettlebell weight!! :)
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Allie: I agree with Heather. The photos look wonderful and you look fabulous and happy! :smiley:
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    Alison ~ Your dad looks so young...how old is he? You look great and happy.

    Healther ~ I see how proud you must be of your DnL.

  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Katla, Correction on your can info, they are worth 10 cents each now! Great for our laundromat fund.

    Speaking of laundry, do you know when you boot a kid out, laundry amounts go WAY down!! The first couple of times we went to the laundromat, I habitually poured soap into three washers! Such a creature of habit! I then had to tell people coming in after me, that those washers already have soap in them. The weird looks I got from that!

    How long do you have to do something before it becomes habit for you? Will I eternally be logging? I am picturing volumes of pretty wrapping paper covered notebooks. My kids will thumb through them realizing what a loon their mom really was.... Haha! I can log forever, if it gets me to where I need to be!
    Becca
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    I’m with you Becca I keep little journals of my day in a word doc on my laptop, including what I spend and what I’ve eaten. I even print them out monthly! Call me crazy too, but it’s working for me.

    Heather thanks for the info on the ted talk, I will look it up.

    This morning I heard a talk with that Facebook cfo, Sharon something, about her gried since losing her husband. She has a book out about grief call “option B”. I will have to get from library-sounded so interesting.

    NYKAREN
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Oops Sheryl Sandburg. She is also the author of Lean In
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,647 Member
    Becca - nice to have reduced laundry! Also, it's kind of fun looking back at those notebooks/food logs. I have a program loaded on my computer called "FitDay" where I have recorded weight stats and some meals since 2006! Interesting to read the history and see where I've been and what I was eating throughout the years. I think it's still available.

    Allie - what great photos! You remind me of a gal I just adore at my doc's office!! Fabulous! Loved the pic of your dad with Sen. John Warner. I wonder if he aged more rapidly when he was married to Liz Taylor?? >:)<3

    Heather - I will look for your DIL'S TedX - hope it is broadcast over here. There's no reason for her to be nervous. I presume she's been practicing and reviewing her material a lot!

    Kate - how long have you been doing the Kettlebells?

    Barbie     - how nice your friend will take you to line dancing so Jake won't have to rent a car. I know, it's so hard to realize that people WANT to help!

    Rita - glad you are feeling better - those photos are so neat. Are those little waterways I see irrigation channels? A river? What a nice early Christmas present, by the way. Good thing DH and I aren't with you at the Rockhound Park, the RV would be loaded down with rocks like Lucy & Ricky in "The Long Long Trailer", B)

    Joyce - those health fairs are a good idea. Isn't it amazing the information they glean from a drop of blood? Hope your weather isn't too nasty!

    Machka - I think when I finish farm sitting for Wendy, I'll head over your way and hike along that beach. <3 If only!

    Kelly - I am so glad to hear your DH is feeling better! Doing the happy dance for both of you. <3<3

    So I told DH this morning that my throat hurts when I talk too much or call the dogs.... so I'm not going to use my voice much today. What a bright smile!! B)B)>:) He's all for it, lol.

    Lanette
    SW WA State watching the temperature drop rapidly.... maybe a few snow flurries mixed with rain today!

  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Lanette, I am kind of a pen lover, and have stylist pens in various colors by my notebook. I think I was a calligrapher in another life!

    Good job everyone on their logging accountability!!

    Becca
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
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    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
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    Watched my husband eat a couple of these this morning. I had my Ralston brand corn checks cereal, called corn hexagons! They had no taste whatsoever, but they were crunchy! Having a tomato, spinach and avocado sandwich for lunch. Dinner will be my version of ramen, using my leftover lasagna noodles! Today's totals: calories 899, fats 38, proteins 48. A bit low, but tomorrow I'm having pasta!

    Becca
    Oregon
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    To those who asked Lanette and leanerstronger (sorry I don't know your name) I've had kettlebells for about a year now (checked on Amazon) but haven't been consistent. Trying now to do regularly but I still love my cardio. Don't need BP medication now and I put that down to cardio.
    I do stretches and balancing to help prevent falls

    Kate UK <3
  • evie1958
    evie1958 Posts: 863 Member
    Lanette, yes we did have snow last night. Funny tho, an inch or so at my house, by the time I got to work, which is only about a 10 min drive away, there was nothing! Work is closer to the ocean, so we don't get as much here as "inland" areas!
    Terry, glad you are starting to feel better!
    Allie, glad you had a good time at your dad's reunion! And thanks for the photos, they are great!
    Rita and M (from Oz), awesome pics of incredible scenery! Thanks so much!
    Rye, I too am looking forward to seeing the new Murder on The Orient Express, probably won't go to the theatre tho, DH just can't sit for that long, and I don't want to go by myself, so will wait til it's on Netflix or DVD.
    Becca, I'm so glad I'm not a donut fan! Those look pretty darn good! Good on you for sticking with the corn chex, your body will appreciate it!

    Well, the rain from yesterday did turn into snow last night. I wouldn't mind the snow so much but we are just so unprepared for it here, it just doesn't happen enough for the city to spend a ton of money on removal equipment, so if we get a big dump, we are in major trouble! Even an inch or so will shut down some parts of the city, especially hard on streets with hills.... The wind today feels like it's right off the polar ice cap! Brrr!!! Fortunately my job doesn't entail too much outside stuff, but I'm sure not happy when I do have to go out there!
    Yesterday was a better day, eating wise, although dinner was salty and I am very prone to water retention. It usually releases the next morning tho, so guess where I've spent a lot of time already! Sorry if that's TMI..... didn't help that I was feeling cold so decided to have a cup of green tea to warm me up....
    Anyway, like I said yesterday was better, today is starting out good, it's just those after dinner snacking urges! Working on it...
    We changed our clocks back last night, which was great, theoretically was able to get an extra hour's sleep, but I was still awake at the "usual" time. I did get up, tho, and got a few things done this morning, like cleaning a couple of bathrooms - YAY! Now just need to clean our ensuite when I get home tonite. Been threatening to clean it for three days now, really need to get on it.... It usually gets done once a week, so I'm only a few days behind, but really don't want to leave it much longer.
    Hope everyone has a great day!!
    Evelyn, Vancouver Island
  • GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS
    GRITSandSLUTSandWINOS Posts: 2,573 Member
    Machka9 – I went to a small HS (as did Carol – Peach). Homecoming is held during the HS football season. Each class picks a representative, the Senior Class picks 3; and then, the entire school picks the queen. A big parade and floats that the students decorated. Then they were driven around the field in a convertible so that they could be seen. It is an honor to be on the Homecoming Court. My DOGD was the representative of her junior year – I was in the hospital getting my medications tweaked after having a bipolar episode, so I missed it. There is a dance afterwards that the girls work ‘suits’ like they’d wear to church – not even semi-formal. Prom is a dance – in our school for the seniors and juniors and their dates. Dress-up (long gowns and tuxes); flowers and boutonnieres for the boys (usually the same color as the girl’s gown). Actually the sophomore class puts it on and sets a theme with a small play for entertainment (and a band). They aren’t the same and the only thing they have to do with graduation is the timing. Homecoming 1st; then in May, the prom, with graduation being in late May or early June. Most parents let their daughters and sons stay out late than curfew and a lot went to Macon to eat out late. We were never allowed out past 2:00am. I don’t think even Taylor got to stay out late. Some of the kids would rent motels and party – even motel rooms and hopefully they’d keep it down so the cops would not get called on them. Some of Taylor’s cheerleaders thought that DOS was ‘hot’ when they saw him walking around in his suit. Taylor’s reaction was ‘He’s my DAD’! Not very understanding of why they were so impressed with someone old enough to be her Dad. But, he is a head-turner, just like his brother. The girls got to choose their escort. They had a mum (gold) with black ribbons because that was our school’s colors. Taylor got a rose that was given to them on the sidelines by their mothers. Of course, Taylor had both her real mother and Jenn there. He real mother only ‘if’ she was ‘sober’. She was at least ‘sober’ enough that it did not embarrass Taylor and she left as soon as it was over at halftime.

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    Dear youngest son and wife (Will and Tami)

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    Dear oldest son and wife (Trey and Jenn)

    Heather – I’m sorry your daughter was born stillborn. That had to be awful. I lost my first pregnancy due to a ‘Hydatidiformole pregnancy’ which is a rare complication. I went a month being 5 months – 6 months pregnant before they realized there wasn’t a fetus in my abdomen. But, once they found out, they ended the pregnancy and I had to take chemo due to the placenta breaking off and in my blood stream attaching to other organs. Thankfully my OB had researched it so much to make sure he had the proper diagnosis and that he did everything so I had a good prognosis. I now have 2 wonderful sons – 39 and 41. It occurs in 1:2000 pregnancies while naturally conceived twins occur 1:89.

    I think it would be difficult to have a stillborn because even when you know it, they don’t do anything to end the pregnancy or deliver it by C-section or induce labor. I’m never understood that, for the life of me. How hard it would be for all the questions you get and know that the baby isn’t alive. My grandmother-in-law was pregnant when they moved from Shreveport, LA to Savannah (Port Wentworth) because they were building the Dixie Crystal Sugar Refinery there. The only building large enough for a fame of 5 children + adults was the recreation hall which they turned into their home. They had to wash it down with lye because of lice infestation. A month later she gave birth to a stillborn son. They decided that it was the cooking of the lye soap and her breathing in the fumes was the cause of his death. Of course, back them most people went to mid-wives and whatever was wrong or went wrong was simply a guess.

    I’m sorry for your loss.

    Katie – Your school had the same rules as I did – just seniors and juniors and their dates, no matter if they were younger or older, or whether they were graduates of the school. A lot of the kids were engaged by that time of the year, and, they fiancés might not have gone to school there.

    Welcome to all the Newbies, congrats to all that deserve it, and {{{{{HUGS}}}}} to those who need it.

    Love all the pictures posted ... always do.

    Lenora
  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
    Ooh my sandwich was devine!!! There is a bit of architecture to sandwich making! The mayo helped glue the spinach leaves, then tomatoes with a drizzle of EVOO dressing. I cut the avocado and used it to anchor the tomato! I tried to scarf it down slowly, really I did!
    Becca
    Sandwich inhaler in
    Oregon
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member
    Sutherland Springs, TX --- oh my! anyone near there? I know there are a few from texas in our group...

    Kim N. California
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,313 Member
    I’m a couple of hours from there. I was in San Antonio for brunch with my Aunt who was visiting from Oregon. Prayers for their community.

    Okie
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    edited November 2017
    What a tragedy in Sutherland Springs. Tiny little town and so many senselessly dead. :'(:'(:'(

    Karen in Virginia
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,087 Member
    Good evening Ladies~
    Such a tragedy in Texas what is this world coming to?tucked into bed after a long weekend. and it feels wonderful..

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