WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR FEBRUARY 2018
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Mary, hope you feel better soon, if not probably should call the doctor to make sure nothing else is going on.
Janetr OKC2 -
Terry- I hope that works for you! Let me know because my husband really need something for his feet. For some reason I can't get him to go to an orthopedic.
Janetr - thanks! I feel a lot better now. I think the hot tub helped my sinuses and my vertigo seems like it is gone. Just left with a slight headache and feeling a bit weak.
I haven't been able to Swing my Kettlebell since I got vertigo and will probably skip tomorrow. I'm a little leary of it coming back and don't want to mix anything up. Any advice would be appreciated!
Mary from Arizona6 -
Mary, do you have Meniere's (inner ear problems that produce vertigo). It can be made worse by high salt diet. https://draxe.com/menieres-disease/ Wendy4
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Marcelyn, what time is dinner?
Janetr OKC3 -
Mary, good news. Hope it's gone on its way.
Janetr OKC2 -
Kelly, congrats on the awesome inspection! (as if it would go any other way!)
Allie, so happy to hear that your brother is stepping up and dealing with some of your dad's stuff! The outdoor zen den sounds lovely!
Pip, burpees are misnamed, in my opinion! The real name is barfies!!! Hate them!
Rori, congrats on your retirement! The zen den sounds wonderful!
Heather, congrats on your new home! So happy for you! We moved just 8 mos ago, it's so wonderful to be somewhere you really want to be! And it looks lovely!
Sharon, so glad you took your daughter with you, to speak for you. Also glad that you are off for March and hopefully you will win your challenge and get disability. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!! And you should absolutely ask for gas money! You're not a taxi service, after all. I'm sure you love helping out your granddaughter, but I kinda get the feeling you don't care for her mother, so I can understand your reluctance to want to help her!
Katla, I hope your headache takes a hike and soon!
Rye, that kinda sucks about your fridge.... wish I had some words of wisdom, but I got nothin'. Hope you can find a solution.
Mary, oh dear! I do hope your vertigo takes the same hike as Katla's headache! Update: glad to hear that you are feeling better, but yes, you should give it a day or two before restarting vigorous exercise!
Becca, those are 3 of my fave movies too! Also Dirty Dancing, anything with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts and, strangely enough, Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood! Congrats on the bead! I don't know how old your son is, but don't stress about a girlfriend. My oldest was 28 before he met his fiancee (wedding in May) and I was despairing that he would ever find someone, and then one day...POOF! Into his life she came! And she is a wonderful young lady! Now my younger son....... sigh. Nothing permanent for him yet and he's 29 now!
Kerri, HUGS to you, my dear! Hoping you can kick that fatty liver right on outta there! Well, not the whole liver, you understand, just the fatty part.... Sounds like a reasonable amount of time to lose 15 lbs, and the foods list seems reasonable, except for the no salt..... Although with no bread or white rice and I assume no white potatoes, that would cut out a lot of salt and sugar right there.
Yvonne, good luck with the taxes and probate and everything! And you're right, since when is a will not a legal document??? That was all I needed, well, that and a death certificate, to get my dad's banking and other stuff taken care of. Different country (I'm in Canada), different laws, I guess.
Wendy, there's a LOT of stuff of Netflix! Some fave series for me Grace and Frankie (Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda), Father Brown Mysteries, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, and my brain has gone blank..... You can scroll thru tho and find all kinds of stuff! I scrolled and wrote down a bunch that I want to see, will get to them eventually! lol
Well, another month is pretty much done. I did not do so great this month, only down 1.4 lbs when my goal is 6. sigh. Oh well, I did have some back issues that prevented me from exercising for a couple of weeks. I am feeling much better now, just need to stay on track. If I can lose 10 lbs over March and April and then maybe a few more in May, I will be looking pretty good in the dress for the wedding! Today has been a good day, so far anyway. Still have dinner and after dinner to go! Will have to remember to brush my teeth right after dinner. I was feeling kind of munchie this afternoon so instead of sitting in the living room (very close to kitchen) I decided to come upstairs where my computer is. Much better for my waistline! lol
Hope everyone has a great day!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island
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amen to renaming burpees4
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"Poerava14 wrote: »Machka: I'm just in awe at how much distance you cover on your rides. Thanks for the photo tour.
My two magical months of living in countdown mode are about to end. ONE. MORE. DAY. My retirement is going to be a surprise to most of my associates around the country. It's my choice to make a quiet exit. My team wants me to come back to NYC in March for a face to face sendoff. No way! No parties, no gifts, no cards, please. Biggest honor would be for them to support our council in Puerto Rico, which is in a world of hurt because they had to cancel their cookie sale this year. It's a disastrous hit to their finances. Hope they hear me.
Thanks!! It's something I really enjoy doing and would like to do even more!
And congratulations!!
Regarding retirement ...
On the one hand, I would like to be able to retire now, but I'd have to have a hefty lottery win for that. Instead, I figure I've got roughly 19 years of work left. And that's why I'm pursuing this Master's Degree ... slowly but surely. I'd rather continue on an upward trajectory in my career/employment and not end up spending the last, say, 10 or 12 years eking out a living doing something I don't really want to do because I haven't kept up with the times.
That's life!!
M in Oz
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Wendy - thanks for the information!
Mary from Arizona3 -
fanncy0626 wrote: »Sorry I have not been around. I have been battling vertigo for the last three days. I tried the maneuver that everyone talks about but it made it 100 times worse. I thought my head was going to explode. Just taking it easy and fighting what feels like carsickness because of the dizziness.
I get that for 2 or 3 days before most of my periods, and have done ever since I went into perimenopause back in about 2010 or so. Sometimes it is really bad so that I can hardly walk a straight line and can't ride my bicycle. Sometimes it is just mild ... I might be working on my computer and all of a sudden everything spins for a second.
Drs and my obgyn tell me it is probably just a part of perimenopause. Yay.
I have found that ginger tablets help a little bit ... at least they help that carsickness feeling a bit. During those times, I have to take a ginger tablet before going home on the bus, or I feel like I won't make it.
Machka in Oz
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Regarding handspinning - I did it for years! Ended up with nasty thumb tendonitis and surgery like carpal tunnel. So I sold my wheels and gave it up for good. It was a lot like patting the head and rubbing the tummy at the same time, but at the same time kind of therapeutic to hear the whirr of the wheel and feel the fiber in my hands.
Funny thing was, as I was attempting it for the first time, I was wondering about the ergonomics of it all!
M in Oz
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Looking forward to March's thread!!
Especially since I'm already 11 hours and 18 minutes into March.5 -
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Machka- sorry to hear that! I would not ever want anyone to experience what I did. I hope yours clears up when you're through with peri menopause! Thanks for the information on ginger tablets.
Mary from Arizona3 -
fanncy0626 wrote: »Machka- sorry to hear that! I would not ever want anyone to experience what I did. I hope yours clears up when you're through with peri menopause! Thanks for the information on ginger tablets.
Mary from Arizona
Thankfully, it has eased up quite a bit in the last year or so ... about the time I started skipping the occasional period. So I'm hoping that as my periods stop, it will go away completely.
M in Oz
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Mary, my father in law had it. Could not get out of bed for months without head whirling and risk of falling. Eventually he had surgery which made him deaf in one ear in order to be able to function normally otherwise. Not nice and very debilitating. He is way better now with his hearing aid. Wendy4
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fanncy0626 wrote: »Thanks for the well wishes with my vertigo! Still waiting for it to go go go… Not as bad today though. I was able to get up and do a couple of things. I don't think I have an ear infection because that is generally associated with pain. I'm going to go sit in the hot tub and see if that can help with my sinuses. It may still be but I am a little stuffed up from the flu and bronchitis.
Lanette- you have such a great sense of humor!
Mary from Arizona
Google vertigo exercise. I did it and darn, if it worked. If you can't find it, click on me!
Becca
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fanncy0626 wrote: »Rori - congratulations on your retirement!
Heather - congratulations on your home! It's beautiful!
Sorry I have not been around. I have been battling vertigo for the last three days. I tried the maneuver that everyone talks about but it made it 100 times worse. I thought my head was going to explode. Just taking it easy and fighting what feels like carsickness because of the dizziness.
Mary from Arizona
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stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.35min, 145mhr, 11.7amph. 1.4mi= 85c
apple watch- 69c
*new* HELIX Machine- 15min, 60ar, 120ahr, 139mhr, lvl3and5, 1.40mi= 120c
apple watch-
*new* STAIRSTEPPER- 15min, 50floors, lvl4-7, 131mhr, 121ahr= 122c
apple watch- 128c
floor exercises- 11.56min, 2sets of 10ea- bounce single leg toe touches, planks elbows to hands, planks, hamstring leglifts, push-ups, all 4's elbow to knee, reverse bicycles, leg lifts, pelvic lifts, crunches, sit-ups, on butt-knees to chest, 136mhr= 74c
apple watch- 78c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 5.38min, 15.7amph, 134mhr, 1.4mi= 56c
apple watch- 50c
Bike ride puy 2 sumn sta- 15.41min, 11.6amph, 150mhr, 3mi= 154c
apple watch- 117c
jog sta 2 wk- 5.42min, 11.05min mi, 150mhr .5mi= 68c
apple watch- 56c
jog wk 2 sta- 4.57min, 132ahr, 151mhr, 9.37min mi, .5mi= 65c
apple watch- 56c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 20.24min, 7.6amph, 144mhr, 2.5mi= 198c
apple watch- 147c
total cal 9424 -
It is bedtime for me and tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand so it must be time for the new thread for March.
Here is the link:
community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10647066/women-ages-50-for-march-2018#latest1 -
Wow, we were wordy since yesterday.
I think it was Katla that said she hoped Medicare helped me with my expenses. The bill I was speaking of was from my orthopedic appointment I had back when I was seeing him. I have been discharged from him for quite a while. So those expenses won't be coming up again. I was just saying that it's terrible what they charge in that quick 10 minute time when they come in the exam room that you have been in for quite a while,M look at your X-rays and give their opinion. Wish I could have made that much an hour when I was working,
And speaking of working, congrats Rori! Now you can go around and recruite people like Lisa all the time to fill open positions. When Charlie retired, his first days were kind of like 'what do I do'.
Sharon, here in the states the road to disability is a bit different. You file your paperwork with Social Security and sit and wait. I was just like the majority of people and got a rejection letter. So you reapply. After 3 rejections, you go before a judge. It's before a judge that you really can plead your case. There was this one person there that told the judge that with the disabilities I had that I would be calling in sick X amount of days a month. I was happy yet sad the day I got my papers in the mail, it said I was approved yet it said I was permaenetly disabled. Those words just hit me and went through me like a knife. But that check each month is so nice and you know that both you and your budget can have a relief.
Heather, that hous is so cute. I love the front yard. I'm with the others, I want pictures!
Wendy, I think you can get tv series also. Have you seen This is us?
I'm trying to type during the first episode of Survivor. Gotta go
Joyce, Indiana3 -
Evelyn, Vancouver Island,
But my son is 28 now!!! Lol! I shall be patient! Plus when we live with him, I will get him business cards and secretly hand them out!!! Too strong.... OK OK..
Becca3 -
Hello,
Sunkist and Becky Sorry you both had siblings like my DS. It is awful not to know why they treat you like that other than simple greed. My sister was always jealous of me and could not stand to see me own a house, have a decent husband, kids and 10 grandkids!
Neither of her two children wanted kids and now they are 40 and they probably won’t. She lives with her daughter because she can’t afford to live on her own.
Well, this past Sunday I had an eye opening event. I was at church for about 10 minutes and I thought I was having a heart attack or something. DH drove me to the ER and I was admitted and a bunch of tests were done. CT scan, X-ray, (for blood clots since I had one last March) and an Echocardiogram. Nothing was found! Thank you God!! But the doctor told me I need to relax and maybe try meditation.
So, I’m over worrying about my DS or DM. My DM is gone and my DS went back to Vegas where she belongs! (No offense to any Las Vegas residents) I’m happy she left Arkansas!
She had the nerve to text me to ask if I wanted any ashes of my DM. No, I do not. I guess she saved some out of the urn. I don’t expect to talk to her again.
Now I can get on with my life. The past 2-1/2 years was hell.
The past two days had been the greatest! I even danced in the kitchen today! I got my portable speaker out and turned on my iPhone! Party! I even walked with my DH and Dolly around the block. I’m back and I’m looking forward to seeing my DGs in Panama City Beach!
Good evening!
Dana in Arkansas
More rain!!!
Dolly and DH:
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Kelly, congrats on the awesome inspection! (as if it would go any other way!)
Allie, so happy to hear that your brother is stepping up and dealing with some of your dad's stuff! The outdoor zen den sounds lovely!
Pip, burpees are misnamed, in my opinion! The real name is barfies!!! Hate them!
Rori, congrats on your retirement! The zen den sounds wonderful!
Heather, congrats on your new home! So happy for you! We moved just 8 mos ago, it's so wonderful to be somewhere you really want to be! And it looks lovely!
Sharon, so glad you took your daughter with you, to speak for you. Also glad that you are off for March and hopefully you will win your challenge and get disability. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!! And you should absolutely ask for gas money! You're not a taxi service, after all. I'm sure you love helping out your granddaughter, but I kinda get the feeling you don't care for her mother, so I can understand your reluctance to want to help her!
Katla, I hope your headache takes a hike and soon!
Rye, that kinda sucks about your fridge.... wish I had some words of wisdom, but I got nothin'. Hope you can find a solution.
Mary, oh dear! I do hope your vertigo takes the same hike as Katla's headache! Update: glad to hear that you are feeling better, but yes, you should give it a day or two before restarting vigorous exercise!
Becca, those are 3 of my fave movies too! Also Dirty Dancing, anything with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts and, strangely enough, Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood! Congrats on the bead! I don't know how old your son is, but don't stress about a girlfriend. My oldest was 28 before he met his fiancee (wedding in May) and I was despairing that he would ever find someone, and then one day...POOF! Into his life she came! And she is a wonderful young lady! Now my younger son....... sigh. Nothing permanent for him yet and he's 29 now!
Kerri, HUGS to you, my dear! Hoping you can kick that fatty liver right on outta there! Well, not the whole liver, you understand, just the fatty part.... Sounds like a reasonable amount of time to lose 15 lbs, and the foods list seems reasonable, except for the no salt..... Although with no bread or white rice and I assume no white potatoes, that would cut out a lot of salt and sugar right there.
Yvonne, good luck with the taxes and probate and everything! And you're right, since when is a will not a legal document??? That was all I needed, well, that and a death certificate, to get my dad's banking and other stuff taken care of. Different country (I'm in Canada), different laws, I guess.
Wendy, there's a LOT of stuff of Netflix! Some fave series for me Grace and Frankie (Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda), Father Brown Mysteries, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, and my brain has gone blank..... You can scroll thru tho and find all kinds of stuff! I scrolled and wrote down a bunch that I want to see, will get to them eventually! lol
Well, another month is pretty much done. I did not do so great this month, only down 1.4 lbs when my goal is 6. sigh. Oh well, I did have some back issues that prevented me from exercising for a couple of weeks. I am feeling much better now, just need to stay on track. If I can lose 10 lbs over March and April and then maybe a few more in May, I will be looking pretty good in the dress for the wedding! Today has been a good day, so far anyway. Still have dinner and after dinner to go! Will have to remember to brush my teeth right after dinner. I was feeling kind of munchie this afternoon so instead of sitting in the living room (very close to kitchen) I decided to come upstairs where my computer is. Much better for my waistline! lol
Hope everyone has a great day!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island
☺️ burpees are misnamed, in my opinion! The real name is barfies!!! Lol
Sue in Troutdale, OR2 -
Becca- thanks for the information. I tried a maneuver but that made it feel like my head was going to explode. It wasn't at all like the one you described. If you have a link would you message it to me or put it on here since we're not trying to make money on it LOL I definitely am going to get Dramamine to have on hand.
Wendy - i'm just wondering if something like this isn't genetic. I know that my sister and nephew have issues with their ears. I would go for the operation if this continues as well. Three days of it was agony.
Dana- i'm sorry to hear about the stress you are going through. Better to just let it go and have a fantastic life with your husband!
Mary from Arizona2 -
It is bedtime for me and tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand so it must be time for the new thread for March.
Here is the link:
community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10647066/women-ages-50-for-march-2018#latest
See Barbie's quote above - we've begun the March thread, a chance to wipe February off the board and start fresh. See you there!1 -
webmd.com has the Epley manoeuvre for vertigo. I watched it on Utube, done by two doctors. You can't do it for yourself, you need someone very firm and determined to do it to you as it is extremely frightening and does feel like your head is exploding. My DH was screaming in panic. But it totally worked, in one session.
Find a strong, reassuring and determined person to help you. We did it on the foot of the double bed.
Best thing ever!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx3 -
Heather - thanks! I watched the video and will have DH assist me if this is still here or comes back. I still don't feel normal. Not dizzy anymore though. I still feel like something is not quite right with my right ear. That's why I'm still up!
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