WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR FEBRUARY 2018
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Cheri prayers. Time for me to rewatch the movie Wonder. If I have to choose being right or kind choose kind.
Working today so just a quick hello.
Margaret
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blackburn23 wrote: »Hi ladies!
I am a 51 year old female who would really like to join this group. I have been gone from mfp for a while and just started back this month. I have 50+ lbs. to lose and could really use some motivation along the way. I have struggled with my weight for years, and though I'm not at my highest weight, I haven't done much in the last little while to help my cause either. So, I am back to logging my food and working on exercising more. Me and my DH are expecting our first grandchild in March, so "she" is one of my biggest motivators for staying on track. I am open to any advice and ideas on helping me achieve my goal.
Welcome to our friendly community. When I started my most recent journey to health, weight loss, and fitness after years of false starts, I made my health my number one priority and my hobby. I sought every opportunity to be active. I exchanged activities like baking and knitting for walking, dancing, strength training, and riding an exercise bike. I read every book that was recommended about healthy eating, fitness, and longevity. Barbie from NW Washington 6 -
Anyone here do Keto??1
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dreamwriter wrote: »Allie - More hugs. Old habits die hard. Do remember why you are in that court house in the first place. You didn't cause this.
KJ - Poor Joaquin. Praying for a quick recovery.
NYKaren - Ah....Roma. Enjoy! Enjoy! Are you visiting the Sistine Chapel? Fun fact - I wanted to marry Michaelangelo when I was much younger. My Mom burst that bubble for me. Lol
DJ - The flowers are beautiful.
Janetr - Hope the pain goes away soon.
Pip - You make me laugh. I need that.
Yvonne - Congratulations on being in Onederland.
Vicki - I think you may have landed in the right place. These ladies are Amazing!
Cheri - The school shooting is so tragic. The poor people of Parkland. This world is crazy at times.
Becca - Thanks for the laugh.
Getting chased around the house is a huge compliment.
Crazy weather here again. Schools were closed, roads were closed. "She" wanted me to drive Harmony to dance today but I told her that Harmony could skip today's tap lesson. Dance school sent out an email that said not to stress about missed classes as they were aware that driving conditions were not good. I'm glad I stuck to my guns because there was a 9 car pile up on the bridge at the time we would have been on there.
Not going to dance gave me time to make roast and scalloped potatoes for supper. We were going to do something special outside our home but the weather changed our minds. Larry said my cooking was better than most restaurants anyways. We don't always give each other presents for Valentine's Day. My present today was that he watched the Pairs figure skating with me. Canada won Bronze so that was exciting. The German team definitely deserved their Gold Medal. I loved watching them. His present was a back massage.
Chico's present was to lay across both of us while we watched TV. All happy campers tonight.
-Sharon in Lethbridge dreaming of warmer days.
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Sue - Nessa is adorable -- what an intelligent face! I can see the poodle in her! I'll bet she'll be easy to train and a very loyal companion for you and your family. Give her a hug for me!!
Becca - if you weren't so far away I'd drive down for that crab feed. YUMMY! I don't mind cracking crab, a pair of pliers works fine. Dungeness is my favorite! Love your sayings. How's the Chief doing tonight?
Sue and Janetr - sending you healing thoughts for your dentist experiences.
Pip, Rita, Pat - love your dog pictures! Pat, how old is Pup-pup? What a doll!
Joyce - loved the photo of your kitties! So glad they are getting along so well. I see what you mean about Mozart being a big boy. When we got a second one, it never did make up with the first one - maybe because they were both adults and set in their ways.
Hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day!
We've been watching the Olympic Ice Skating today. Enjoyed the skiing jumps and snowboarding the past couple days. The luge made my neck and abs hurt, lol.
New ladies coming on here with concerns about weight loss and health problems...I am a fan of strength training. I thank Barbie and Mary and Heather and Michele and Kate in the UK and Pip (and there are several others of you who are escaping me right now) for getting me off to a good start last year. Barbie with the "Strong Women Stay Young" book and you other gals for being such a good examples of the power of exercise in weight loss, helping with maintenance, boosting metabolism after menopause.
Rye found the link for "Strong Women Stay Young" book - I think it's here: http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/ with the free downloadable book.
I've been strength training with little dumbbells and ankle weights in a room attached to my DH's shop since May 20th of last year. I'm here to tell you I'm a lot stronger, balance is better, blood sugar better, blood pressure better AND my metabolism is really gung-ho doing this light weight lifting routine approximately 30 minutes a day three times a week.
I stepped on the scale this morning and am now down to 161.2 (I am 5'9" when I first get out of bed in the morning). I've lost around 8 lbs since I started the strength training with trying to eat right but falling off the wagon plenty with the sugary and salty snacks. I'm now making more of an effort to curtail the junk food since it's so bad for my brain!
MFP has a good system of logging if you are keeping track of calories. I'm not worried about calories in/calories out but endeavor to eat plenty of good quality foods including healthy fats and if I don't stray too far into the snack cupboard, I generally am close to MFP's recommended calories anyhow.
I was 65 when I started doing this last year and had never lifted a weight in my life, so it can be done, and I was coming off painful round of bursitis in my knee.
If you want to start, my advice is take it slow and talk with your doctor if you have physical concerns. I have some joint issues so I keep my weights down a little and add more sets or reps.
I know I have a lot of bad habits, but this good habit tops my list and I look forward to it every time.
Lanette
SW WA State
Awwwww thank u gurlfriend!! I am here for ya babe3 -
Just finished my run.
Starting Saturday I will be walking 5 mins, running 28 mins and walking 5 mins. 
Even when I've finished the 9 week course I will be nowhere near 5k because I run sooooooo slowly! I've mapped out a 5k course that I will run when the c25k app has finished.
On my run today I passed an old guy I often see out walking for his constitutional. He said "You look fit as a butcher's dog!" I don't know if you know that expression, but its fairly self explanatory.
I don't know about the sleek coat and shiny nose, but I'm taking it as a compliment!!! :laugh:
Making Black Bean and Ham hock soup today in the IP. DH will have had a pub lunch and we can each have as much soup as we feel like. It'll be windy tonight!
Lisa - I hope you have a wonderful time.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx7 -
Hi ladies,
Sue, your new fur buddy is so adorable. I just want to cuddle him.
Rita, Wicket is so cute. What kind of dog is he?
Machka, was a jewel you have for a husband. His comment must have made your day.
Becca, so glad you had some company while your DH was having the procedure done. What a wonderful son you have. I love those headboards! Here is a good recipe for making lasagna without the pasta. It’s yummy. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/172958/no-noodle-zucchini-lasagna/
Wendy, smart move to be gone with their next visit. What is “I deserve a donut”?
Rori, sounds like retirement is going to agree with you. How perceptive you are to realize the impact your schedule made.
Jeri Lynn, Welcome! I know it’s hard to keep up. I frequently though out the day read the latest posts or I’d never get caught up. No worried, do what you can do.
Blackburn23, you are in the group just by posting. We are a chatty group but full of encouragement and support. Let us know what you would like to be called and where you are from. Helps to keep everyone straight as there are quite a few of us here. How exciting, your first grandchild!
Sharon, good for you for sticking to your guns. Harmony and your safely is paramount.
(((Sheri)))
Lisa, happy to hear you are getting some alone time with DH. That’s so very important. Good job on losing a pound.
Kelly, I’m with you on the anger. It is inconceivable that no one is doing anything. My heat goes out to the loved ones.
Going to dr today about the bladder infection. Don't want to wait with the weekend coming up.
Terry in VT6 -
Hi, Kay - I think Mary is going keto. I'm on the Dukan diet--basically keto without the fat. Lean meats and non-starchy vegetables, lots of sugar-free Jell-O. The only variation from keto besides limited fat is adding one serving of oat bran a day. Doing fairly well, down 9.2 pounds in 22 days...
Ran 1.5 miles (2.4K) in 35 minutes today (told you I was slow!). Just finally cooled down enough to want to go get in the shower...
Have a good Friday everyone... Oh, that's right, it's MY Friday. Headed up to the Smoky Mountains with my hubby tomorrow, to a "boutique hotel." That jetted tub sounds pretty good. Supposedly also a steam shower. Three days to ourselves sounds completely glorious at this point, even if it is supposed to rain.
Love y'all,
Lisa in NC
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Thank you!! I have not heard of this one...will research it!!!2
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Lisa - Have a great weekend away! You are doing great on your weight loss! It is my Friday too. Since I got my hours cut to two days a week I only work Tu-We. I am so used to working either Tu-We-Th (or when it was two days a week before Tu and Th) that since I am off today my mind thinks it is Friday. When I realize hubs won't be off tomorrow I feel a let down every week. I'll get used to it eventually, probably about the time they want me to start working 3 days a week again.
Terry - I'm glad you are going to the Dr today. My last bladder infection hit the morning I was leaving for a friends Mom's funeral. Talk about a long flight and an even longer drive from the airport!! The drive was only 90 minutes but I had to stop 1/2 way going and coming. The funeral was on Friday so I couldn't get in to the Dr. until Monday. It was a very long weekend. Luckily, the Dr. gave me a refill on the antibiotic since it wasn't my first rodeo and I knew exactly what it was. He said that way I didn't have to suffer next time
. So far I haven't needed it, but I have it when I do.
Kay - I'm no help with keto. I eat anything I want as long as it fits in the calories. Well, except pasta. I tried to eat a 2 oz serving of pasta and it set like a rock in my stomach (and my hubs). It was a very long night after that and I haven't tried it again. Now I just make zoodles when I want pasta. I'm thinking about trying to make lasagna noodles with spaghetti. The hub has been wanting lasagna.
Speaking of eating anything I want...last week on vaca the friends we were with kept asking "can you eat that?". I told them repeatedly that I can eat anything I want. If there was somewhere they really wanted to go, I could find something that I would eat. I generally start with a green salad and eat all of it to take up a bunch of room in my stomach and then add whatever I want. Last week it was mostly grilled fish, yum! Fresh fish is hard to find here so I was in 7th Heaven all week.
Michelle - you asked about the roll around your middle. Have you tried limiting sugar (including natural sugars in fruit) for a couple off weeks (or a month) to see if it makes a difference? I know when I eat a lot of fruit that I tend to not lose anything even though I weigh every portion of the fruit on my food scale and it easily fits in my calories. Something about a lot of fruit and my body don't mix well. I normally have a banana and 1/2 an apple each day and do OK with that. I don't know if it would make a difference for you or not.
Love all the dog pictures! I so miss my Sam dog.
Okie in the TX Hill Country
edited to change to Kay I was directing the Keto comment to. Sorry!
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Lisa ...what do you have your goals set on here with protein, carbs and fat??
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Michelle - I too have wondered how to tell who has liked our post or hugged us.
Okie4 -
Kay - actually, on Dukan, I don't set protein, carbs or fat goals, though I might once I hit the Consolidation phase - sometime in September, if I tracked it correctly. Don't pay attention to calories, either, though it's low in calories. I'm in the second phase, called the Cruise phase now, and eat only lean proteins one day, lean proteins and non-starchy vegetables the next. I can have like a teaspoon of olive oil for cooking things, but use low-fat mayo (I've yet to find fat-free anywhere), fat-free dairy, etc.
Yesterday was cod salad with celery sticks for lunch (like tuna salad, just with leftover cod from the night before). Plus Jell-O whenever I wanted it. Dinner was an entire package of baby bella mushrooms sauteed with that little bit of olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and the remains of the cod salad. Tonight will probably be boiled shrimp, with a homemade remoulade sauce, made with lowfat mayo, spices, and dill relish. Also yummy. Tomorrow I'll add veggies back in, right now, I'm working with celery, cauliflower and mushrooms, but that's because I struggle to eat most vegetables at all. Breakfast tends to be lots of scrambled egg whites with rendered bacon bits. You can scramble the oat bran right into them, too, or eat it as a cereal.
I like it because I'm NOT counting things, and can eat whatever I want of the allowed foods whenever I want to. I'm here in this group for the company, not the calorie counting right now.
Lisa in NC
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Heather I've never heard the expression but I will bet you look so healthy and fit he couldn't resist commenting!
Lisa Enjoy your boutique hotel experience. I'm so looking forward to a vacation with my DH I can hardly stand it!
NYKAREN4 -
Spent the Day yesterday driving 1.5 hours one way to hospital for DH’s pre-op. Surgery is next Wednesday. No time set yet. 3 hours of drinking 4 hours waiting around hospitals with grumpy scared DH took it’s toll on me. Emotional eating last night.
Back to it though. Old fashioned oatmeal with Zevia and cinnamon and a bana for breakfast. After coffee, and phone call to make yet another allergy appointment for more shots for DH, it is walk time.
RV Rita6 -
Did 30 min on the elliptical then took the power hour class. i really like that class. Lots of new things and it's quite challenging. The plan for tomorrow is to do a step DVD. They don't have a rebounder down here and the bosu that they have doesn't have the stability bar. I'm hesitant to do a bosu workout w/o the bar since I have the bar at home and am used to it.
Does anyone know which burns the most calories -- walking on the treadmill or using the elliptical (with the arms). Heather -- do you maybe have both pieces of equipment?
Vince had some acid reflux. The last time he had it it went into his lungs so he was worried it went into his lungs again. He went to the emergency care but his lungs sound OK, so they put him on antibiotic as a precaution.
Heather - do you log your food or just watch what you eat?
Okie - I know that I'll have a hard time limiting my sugar in fruits. I don't use much added sugar at all, but after vegetables I love fruit. I'll try to give it a try...no promises
Kay - I'm basicaly like Okie in that I eat whatever I want as long as it's within my calorie limit. I do try to watch what I put in my body, tho.
Michele who will vacuum and then maybe sit by the pool4 -
KayKallsen52 wrote: »Lisa ...what do you have your goals set on here with protein, carbs and fat??
Thanks Okie!!
@KayKallsen52 Here is a low carb group you might be interested in: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group
Karen in Virginia2 -
I think it is time American's stop asking politicians "How many kids have to die in school shootings" and instead ask "Whose kids have to die in school shootings" in order to have some action taken for gun control. Obviously sheer numbers won't move our politicians. This is America, land of "who you know". Not that I wish any more school shootings, but how quickly would things get resolved if those politician's children and grandchildren were the among the students involved?! My heart is so hurt; but I am SO incredibly angry that this is still going on and NO action has been taken for gun control.
Spending the day with small innocent children, who in a couple of years will be going to school, where they will be having "shooter drills" on what to do if a shooter enters the school.
sorry if too political. It's all I've got in my head this morning. Turning the news off so that the kids don't see it. Sending love to you all. Especially you, Cheri, with friends and family still in the Parkland community! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
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