WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2018
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - I would have shoved that chocolate right back at them. It's not even chocolate. :noway: It doesn't qualify as chocolate in Europe.
That's partly why I did the run! I ended up with about $10-15 worth of chocolate and a few other things.
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - nice poster, but achieved is spelled wrongly. :laugh: Perhaps that's on purpose!
DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
Concerning Cadbury chocolate. Isn't that a UK company? I like Lindt 85% but I am no connoisseur. What is your favorite?
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - I would have shoved that chocolate right back at them. It's not even chocolate. :noway: It doesn't qualify as chocolate in Europe.
That's partly why I did the run! I ended up with about $10-15 worth of chocolate and a few other things.
The roast almonds look delicious, but the "chocolate" is mainly vegetable fat and sugar. Arrrghhh!
When my son came last week I made delicious "gobbets" for our dessert after the pub, made of 85% plain chocolate, almonds that I roasted and chopped myself and raisins. Yum!
When I was young I used to love a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk when I was waiting for a bus on a wintry night.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx2 -
Morning, afternoon and evening, all....
Allie, I know you're up in the worst of it right now. Thinking about you.
Heather, our weather's clearing up now to the point where I CAN run, just as yours is breaking again. Hit 1.6 miles (2.6k) on Monday, pleased with that. Hope to extend it about a tenth of a mile a week, get up to running two miles, three times a week. Not fond of Cadbury's, but used to be. The looks on British folks' faces when I gave them a Hershey's kiss, American chocolate, were priceless. To those accustomed to dark chocolate, American milk chocolate truly tastes awful, highly perfumed and far too sweet.
SueBDew - Small world! I was also at RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk, 1979-1982. That's where I met and married my first husband. Went back again to the UK, to RAF Greenham Common, 1989-1992, was there when it was closed under the INF Treaty.
Didn't sleep well... work pressures are up a bit. Our major event of the year is coming up in March, and we just had to move it out one day to avoid another major charity's annual fashion show (something I'll keep in mind for next year). The e-mails were flying last night, with board members asking if we were going to re-send all 200 sponsor requests (no, but I will call those who do sponsor with the date change), if everything was all sorted out (yes), privately, if I had noticed one committee member still got the date wrong (yes), and on and on and on. Add this to ten grants and two reports hanging over my head, and it's a little stressful. The end is in sight, though.
Going for a run once it's light out will sort me out quite nicely. I go about 8 a.m., as no one in Texas or New Mexico is working yet, even though I've usually already put in an hour or two. Plus the school buses are gone, and worker bees have all driven off to their jobs by then. Then a shower and on with my day, which hopefully ends at 6 p.m., though not always, as witness last night. The blessing is that it's always a 4-day work week, and Fridays, I often do nothing at all but read and relax. Now I just have to figure out how to convince myself to do some other form of exercise on non-running days. Gyms just aren't safe enough here to patronize early in the morning, which is the only time I'll go.
Anyway, off to the races, my chickens...
Love y'all,
Lisa in NC5 -
Becca,”Well husband had his 7th ERCP last Tuesday at OHSU, and it went OK. The docs go in via throat ( an endoscopy), to the bile duct, change out the stents, putting new ones in. He tolerates it all well, but he is sore from being manipulated!”
My DH recently had out patient gall bladder surgery.The surgeons said he came thru in good shape with BP & heart rate just fine.However,they found so many stones,he needed endoscopy surgery to clean out the bile duct & insert a stent.Since he did so well & was still out,they reccomended it be done now. So it was & 4 days later he was dismissed.
6 wks later,he went back to have the stent removed.Being tossed around was his main complaint,felt bruised & beat up.He got a great report at final check.We’d never heard of this surgery........guess you never know once Drs are involved.It’s amazing what medicine can do. Wishing the best for your husband. The 7th time? WOW !
Pat in Ohio
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KetoneKaren wrote: »cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - nice poster, but achieved is spelled wrongly. :laugh: Perhaps that's on purpose!
DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
Concerning Cadbury chocolate. Isn't that a UK company? I like Lindt 85% but I am no connoisseur. What is your favorite?
Karen in Virginia
Lindt is, I think, a somewhat better quality chocolate (and more expensive), but the Cadbury is all right.
Our Cadbury chocolates are made here in Tasmania ... where the run was held.
https://www.cadbury.com.au/About-Cadbury/Cadbury-in-Australia.aspx
"In 1922, Cadbury and Fry, joined by Pascall, create a new Australian company named Cadbury-Fry and Pascall.
The company chose a factory site in Claremont, in Tasmania, whose location was ideal because of its close proximity to the city of Hobart, good source of inexpensive hydro-electricity and plentiful supply of high-quality fresh milk."
And how it's made ...
https://www.cadbury.com.au/About-Chocolate/Chocolate-Making.aspx
"Production starts at the Singapore cocoa factory where the top quality cocoa beans are processed to produce the cocoa mass - which contains 53% cocoa and cocoa butter - the basis for all chocolate products.
When chocolate is made, the 'mass' goes straight to our factories in Victoria or Tasmania.
Fresh full cream milk is collected and condensed and transported to the factories. Sugar is added to the condensed milk with some of the cocoa mass, making a rich creamy chocolate liquid, which is then evaporated to make milk chocolate crumb.
As these ingredients are cooked together, the special rich creamy taste of Cadbury chocolate is produced. Each year, 22,000 tonnes of crumb is produced at Claremont to be made into chocolate.
On arrival at the chocolate factory, the crumb is passed through a pin mill and mixed with cocoa liquor and cocoa butter, as well as special chocolate flavouring. The amount of emulsifiers added depends on the consistency of the chocolate required. Thick chocolate is needed for moulded blocks, while a thinner consistency is used for assortments and covering bars." (and more within the link above)
Interesting ...
I just looked up a Cadbury UK Dairy Milk Wholenut Chocolate Bar, and the ingredients listed are:
Milk, sugar, cocoa butter, roasted hazelnuts, cocoa mass, vegetable fats (palm, shea), emulsifiers (E442, E476), flavourings.
https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-wholenut-11330
Whereas the ingredients listed on the bar of Cadbury Australia Dairy Milk Roast Almond I have in my fridge are:
Full cream milk, sugar, almonds (19%), cocoa butter, cocoa mass, milk solids, emulsifiers (soy lecithin, 476), flavours
Milk chocolate contains cocoa solids 26% and milk solids minimum 24%
M in Oz
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Rye- Is there a high school or junior high school near you? I remember my days as a drama parent/booster, there were a few men and women from the community, who had no ties to the school, that would come in and help us with set design, make up, hair, costumes. They were fantastic and it was a way they could help and stay involved in the community doing something they enjoyed. They also need people to do things like costume "laundry". Or script copying, etc. Things that you can do at home when it is convenient for you. Or think about your passion and volunteer to help during an event. Like an art event. Communities always need some one to help organize and set up those events.
Becca - I rarely do canned soups anymore. The sodium in them is a food diary nightmare and as I have cut most sodium from my diet, they taste really salty to me. Try buying sodium free broths. That is what I use, then I can flavor/salt to my taste.
Heather- Enjoy your Burns Night! I think, if I could be a fly on the wall, I would want to do so at your place and watch this party! (Although, if you are like me, any fly on the wall in my house would be meeting an untimely death). I hear you on the tomato juice. I have long enjoyed Bloody Mary's during vacations or occasionally on days off. Since kicking the sodium habit, I have to either make my own or ask for it to be made with tomato juice (and they just give me the condiment bottles to add the spices). It really is amazing once you swear off sodium, how much you notice it in EVERYTHING! I am also a bit of a chocolate snob. I buy a bar of dark chocolate in the specialty section and keep it in "my" cupboard. DH and DYS don't eat it, they aren't dark chocolate fans. We have a couple of chocolatiers in our community, one woman makes the most beautiful chocolate pieces of art! Expensive, but I get them for my daughter for a stocking stuffer at Christmas and for me as a treat when I reach a goal. I haven't had any in more than a year (lol, I need to get my tushie in gear).
Machka- I love how you broke down your weight loss journey into bite sized pieces! I just did two things yesterday. Displayed two jars in my kitchen: One with 88 glass stones to represent the 88 pounds I want to lose, and one empty. I am hoping the visual of moving each stone from a full jar to the emptier one will spur me forward. The other thing I did: Break my goals down into manageable "bites" in my journal. (ie A goal for six weeks, a goal for 12 weeks, another 12 after that, and so on...) Seeing it written down gave me new energy! You are an inspiration! I can do this!
I had to walk very slowly yesterday, as my knee was sore. I was up and down on the ladder Sunday night to put up Luau deco and Monday night to take it down. My knee swelled a bit. I guess it is okay with walking but the stairs are still something I need to wait or just not do too many. *sigh Going slow is SOOOOOO hard! My knee feels much better this morning. AFter my walk, I got off it and iced it, then took a shower before an early "to bed". Missed a Viber chat with Joaquin (I could hear the tones in my sleep), but DH got to talk to them.
I have another interview with a family looking for care two days a week for their baby. I will go through with the interview. They don't need care until April. I am on the fence about adding another baby. I can do it. Not doubting my ability, just trying to weigh the money it would bring in, with my desire to have another baby here (even for two days).
kids arriving. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)5 -
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A bit late, but only just recently got these photos ...
This is me crossing the finish line of the Cadbury 10K run on January 14.
BTW - I went to my chiro today about my numb foot (my left foot kept falling asleep during the run) ,and a bit of niggly pain in my right knee.
I've got an inflamed and irritated disc in my lower back which could be from running or from all the walking I did during those 8 days of the course. All that walking I did to and from the university (4 km every day) plus all the walking I did at lunches (anywhere from 1.8 to 8.5 km) was done with a relatively heavy backpack on my back. Or it could have been a combination of the two.
Also, my right knee isn't tracking quite right. I kind of suspected as much. Cycling works 3 of the 4 quads which tends to pull the knee off track ... the 3 strong quads pull the knee outward, and the 4th quad on the inside isn't strong enough to do anything about it. So I've got to start doing more weights and things to strengthen that 4th quad.
I haven't run since the 10K, which is probably a good thing right now, and probably shouldn't for a couple more weeks until I can build up the strength of that 4th quad a bit.
Meanwhile, my focus is on cycling and walking, which my chiro was happy for me to continue to do.
M in Oz5 -
Machka- I love how you broke down your weight loss journey into bite sized pieces! I just did two things yesterday. Displayed two jars in my kitchen: One with 88 glass stones to represent the 88 pounds I want to lose, and one empty. I am hoping the visual of moving each stone from a full jar to the emptier one will spur me forward. The other thing I did: Break my goals down into manageable "bites" in my journal. (ie A goal for six weeks, a goal for 12 weeks, another 12 after that, and so on...) Seeing it written down gave me new energy! You are an inspiration! I can do this!
Thanks! And you can do this!
During my first week, for a moment, I thought about this as a forever thing and had a small meltdown. But when I told myself it was only for a few weeks, that was OK.
As it happened, I had started my first uni course toward my Masters right about the same time as I signed on with MFP and my uni course was 14 weeks. I figured if I could handle 14 weeks of the course ... working full time while attending classes and doing assignments etc., I could handle eating less. And in many ways it was a relief to have a fairly set diet. I was so busy, but I didn't have to think about food. I knew that if I just ate this now and that then, I'd be all right. By the time I had finished the exam and everything, the 16 weeks was up!
But this is also how we are "taught" to handle the long distance rides I and my husband and many of our friends and acquaintances do. One bit at a time.
If I start a 200 kilometre ride and think to myself, "Well, I've got 199.9 km to go!" ... I'd probably turn around and go home. But if I think, "OK, it's only 40 km to the first stop. I've done 40 km many times. That's all I've got to do ... just 40 km." Then I'll go and do that 40 km, and when I get there, I'll think ... "Now I've got 50 km to the next stop. This one is a little bit longer than the last stretch, but the last stretch was all right and I've done 50 km many times". So I'll just go ride 50 km ... and so on, and before I know it, I'm done.
It's not so daunting that way. One step at a time.
Machka in Oz
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It's not so daunting that way. One step at a time.
Machka in OzI'm having trouble getting motivated about this project for the class I'm currently taking. I need to have something ready for next Monday and then finish it a few days later, but my desire to work on it is low.
However, I did do some work tonight and should have the first step or maybe even second step done tomorrow.
Machka in Oz
I have to take my own advice when it comes to this project ... get working on it one step at a time!!
M in Oz
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I started my weight loss journey on MFP with an approach of "just for today". Gradually I made changes until I reached a set of practices that worked. At first I had periods of watching the clock waiting for the next meal I had planned. In time, the practices became habits and now are a standard part of my life like brushing my teeth or bathing. 9
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Morning Ladies~
Lisa How appropriate your blog was yesterday.. about the will... holy cow ,we know dad had one, dont know the attorney ,and were to even look for it, that will be a work in progress.
Sean said I should slow down and try and relax, because we are in the thick of things right now, But I will trudge on...3 -
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Rye- Is there a high school or junior high school near you? I remember my days as a drama parent/booster, there were a few men and women from the community, who had no ties to the school, that would come in and help us with set design, make up, hair, costumes. They were fantastic and it was a way they could help and stay involved in the community doing something they enjoyed. They also need people to do things like costume "laundry". Or script copying, etc. Things that you can do at home when it is convenient for you. Or think about your passion and volunteer to help during an event. Like an art event. Communities always need some one to help organize and set up those events.
KJ (Kelly)
Thanks for thinking of me KJ! My environs (say 1.5 mile radius) is pretty bleak tho. Homes, churches and basic retail like a supermarket, dry cleaners, several liquor stores and gas stations. A wonderful strip of restaurants and coffee shops near the hospital and the hospital district. (Dr offices and pharmacies as far as the legs can walk, lol. ). High school drama sounds lovely, but I can not sew, draw, paint or do anything I can think of that could be useful with my motor coordination difficulties.
I sound ungrateful and like a ‘negative Nancy’. But really I’m not, I’m just highly realistic. Take weight training. Wonderful advice here in this thread and on MFP in general. But my disabilities are such that most of it can’t work for me. So realistically I had to figure out the why the recommendations worked, what good they did, and invent my own workout that tries to accomplish the same things safely for me. (I should be able to save the money to see a personal trainer sometime this spring so I hope to even get an official word on the program’s efficacy (inefficiency for sure as I am limited to isolation exercising with weights, but ultimately the same muscle workout).) So, I welcome input like yours as the more I get the more likely I am to figure something out for my peculiar situation.
Step by step vs. Big leap I think the step by step approach y’all discuss works well for most people. Some odd types like myself, tho, would not be well served by it. Unless I commit completely it is way to easy for me to blow off the small changes. My diet last year started off to a frustratingly poor and slow start, Four months with less than 10 pound loss to show for 100+ 1200 calorie days and lots of exercise had me on the verge of giving up. Only because I had committed (to myself and to others) to get to a healthy weight did I continue. I guess I’m just one of the “in for a penny, in for a pound” types.
MIL needs some help, got to go now.
Rye5 -
My Moto: “ Never give up, never surrender!” (Galaxy Quest, 2014).
Off to the doctor for allergy testing and to review results. I will also get order for ‘further testing ‘ on my left breast.
Did 2 miles in one walk yesterday. Still trudging along. Ate badly however- 4 tacos, brownie, and small bag of popcorn. Oh, well, today is another day.
RV Rita in sunny New Mexico5 -
Rye ~ I'm glad you have experimented and found what works best for you. We are all individuals with different bodies that react differently to food and exercise.
Carol in GA2 -
Machka - My left knee doesn't track properly and I first became aware of it at 16 years old when it blew up like a football during school celebrations. I had endless investigations at hospitals etc and nobody could find anything wrong. Very frustrating as it stopped me doing so much and that leg got very weak, so eventually I had to pick it up with my hands to get into the car. Eventually I went to see a sports physio because I had tried a bit of mild dancing at the gym and it blew up again. She knew exactly what it was straight away! (Stupid doctors) Ever since I have been working on strengthening it and do exercises every day. It is now usable and I am able to shuffle/run on it, but it is not perfect. Grrrrrrrrrr!
KJ - I use my chart on the fridge as a visual reminder of my progress with AF days and calculating my intake. It really works for me. I like seeing all my gold stars.
Made my ice cream, though DH and I cut up each chocolate chip individually!
I've also mashed the neeps and tatties, though I will add cream, butter and chives tomorrow. I won't be having a large portion!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
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