WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018
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DanaReel180 wrote: »Good evening!
DH and I took the grandkids to a flea market today. They didn’t know what it was and Zech the older of the two asked me on the way there what was sold there. I told him fleas! LOL! We drove up to a back parking lot with gravel covering most of it and the woods growing right up to the edge. Kind of spooky looking back there really. It’s a huge old warehouse from years past and they must have 100 spaces for antiques, treasures and just stuff. Gabby found beanie babies and a sleeping kitten that had rabbit fur on it. It looks real and is battery operated to make it look like it’s breathing. It’s cute! I have to take s nail file to the battery connections to get off some rust but I put the batteries in it and it works! Zech found a car he liked. He’s getting into the age where he would rather put things on a shelf. Last week I told them I would get them something; he opted for a live plant! He likes plants. Go figure! I never know what to expect.
It’s been 15 days now since DYD dropped them off. It is starting to wear on us. We just can’t take off like we like, you know it’s hard after all the kids have been gone for over 20 years.
Lenora I’m so sorry you have been having such a hard time if it lately. Prayers for you dear!
Have a good evening, I’m trying to leave to snacks alone! I’m winning!!
Dana in Arkansas
I can't imagine having my grandkids for that length of time it's nice to have them, but not to have to be responsible 24 hours a day.
My MIL and FIL have raised my niece she is 18 now, but being in their 70's I think it's time they were able to be alone and enjoy their life.1 -
Lisa, I have made egg’s home one of my favorites. I look forward to following along as you help that house reach its full potential.2
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Okie, Barbie, and Katla- Count me in as someone who likes to drink room temperature water. I actually have a 20 oz water bottle that I fill with room temp water and work my way through that (refilling it when empty). I placed blue hair elastics on it and move them from the top to the bottom, to track how many ounces I have drank during the day. I usually get a good 50 ounces down before 9am. Then I taper off after dinner, so that I am not up all night peeing!
Barbara-the tattoo I got when I turned 50 was one I had in my mind for many years. My son paid for it for a birthday gift. SO...I have the words "carpe diem" in script at the nape of my neck. Most of the time my hair covers it. I have had plans for another tattoo for about eight years. It would be larger and more expensive and probably partially visible in the summer as it would travel up my spine.
Heather- the music podcasts sound interesting! I find it very interesting to think about how different music speaks to different people and why.
Well, I got my shopping and paperwork done yesterday. We will see how much of the baseboards I can get painted today. I used some bonus points that I earned from scholastic book orders and was able to get about 10 books for Joaquin! I found out that he had no Eric Carle books, among other children's classic books! DD is an Usborne consultant so he has lots of very cool Usborne books; but so many schools and classes refer to certain children's books like Goodnight Moon, Runaway Bunny, Very Hungry Caterpillar, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, etc. I am very excited! The order is due to arrive this week and I can send them home with DD and Joaquin after their visit in THREE WEEKS!!!
Well, I better get busy! It is a overcast yucky day and if I don't get moving, I could easily let this be a day of sitting on my butt. This type of weather always makes me feel like doing nothing! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
I love buying books for my grandchildren, we buy them a book for birthday and Christmas each year. I like giving them books based on their personality and interest each time but I also try to find some my SIL will enjoy as well. He is not a big fan of reading out loud, but every other night he still reads to them so I try to make it enjoyable for him as well.
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LisaInNCNow wrote: »Morning, all...
Kind of off-cycle from beginning each month on the 1st, as I started this re-dedication to the proposition of getting healthier and losing weight on January 24, but pleased to say I've lost nearly four pounds this month (after only two last month). I think it was Snowflake who was asking about how much you should try to lose weekly... and the answer still remains whatever you can stick with. I know that my body will snap back if I try to lose too much too fast. For my fellow numbers junkies, the graphs are below for this five-month journey so far. The overall goal seems to recede into the distance on occasion, but I went into it as a long-term thing, knowing that it would reasonably take me at least a year. So, I just do my best to take it literally one day at a time.
Am averaging now about one pound loss over every five to six days. I'm tracking to hit my first major weight-loss goal (150) at almost exactly the one-year mark from my start date. I know loss will slow down between now and then, so pretty relaxed about the end date on that. When I get there, I'll decide whether I wish to continue down to 135, which would put me in the "normal" BMI for the first time since I was 19 years old.
For those who don't know me, I had gastric bypass done in Sept. 2005, when I weighed 303 pounds, lost 99 pounds in the first six months after the surgery, and within the following year, hit my low of 137. Got divorced, remarried, happy, and the scale started inching back upward. The 217.9 point that I hit in January of this year was my highest since the surgery.
Anyway, for now, the most immediate goal is 164, which would put me at "overweight" instead of "obese." Working on getting to that by Thanksgiving.
Feeling pretty pleased, overall, with my journey from 217.9 pounds to 190.5:
Love y'all,
Lisa in Arkansas
That was me asking, thanks for sharing your graphs, it helps put things in perspective. I feel like I've plateaued for the last three or 4 weeks. I just need to have patience and determination I think.
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Wow, I hadn't been on since Friday it took me over 2 hours to catch up!
This weekend was so busy, we built a flower bed on Saturday. My husband built it and I loaded 90% of the dirt into it. It is 10' long and 3' wide, took almost 1 cubic yard of dirt. I still have two flats of plants left to figure out what to do with. I think I need to go buy some more pots. I had little "help" on Sunday, I had to re-plant a couple because she thought she was helping by pulling them out of the dirt.
Tracey in Edmonton6 -
Mary so sorry for the stress on your family. Prayers.
I am down 10 pounds since I have changed my diet. I like what a friend said to me. Think about the delicious food I am able to eat and enjoy versus what is no longer on the menu. I also respect that others may not feel as strongly as I do about the changes I have made. Everyone has to come up with a diet that works for them to keep them healthy. I am using the word diet to mean the food choices you make.
The change came from reading Bright Line Eating that had a more rigorous approach and The Microbiome Solution. I will caution you if you read Bright Line Eating and take the how addicted to sweets you are you will be on her e-mail list. When I see her e-mails I use it as a check to see if my diet is on track. She also recommends you watch how much you exercise and I am not on that page with her. I do like her basic diet and sticking to three meals a day. Her diet is in line with helping you establish a healthier gut. The Microbiome Solution diet is similar to hers, but it is easier for me to follow. The Bright Line Eating convinced me to remove as much as I could from my diet sugar and refined grains from my diet. The Microbiome got me to look more closely at corn, soybeans, and wheat and how they are grown. I also look for foods that are non GMOS.
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coastalgosgal wrote: »
Question. What do you ladies do when a relative doesn't make good on their word? Ok, my step sister has a bunch of pages showing her recently passed father and my mother, like when they met etc. I sent them to her for his funeral this last March. She said she'd sent it all back. Nothing. I have emailed her our new address, etc, and she has replied stating its by her door waiting to get packed up. That's as far as its gotten. I even told her a white lie stating I was making photo albums for each of the boys, and would really like those pictures back, since Grandpa Bob was really the only grandpa they knew. No response! Aack! Any suggestions? I have sent her an email that just says, I would really appreciate those pictures back.
Rebecca
Whidbey island
Washington
WHAT DO YOU MEAN. ! I CALL THEM OUT!!
Well, being that her father had passed/ my step father, I wanted to be respectful of that. People do have different time tables than mine, and to demand my pictures seemed a bit callous.
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Dr. Katie Bug: Lisa, I have made egg’s home one of my favorites. I look forward to following along as you help that house reach its full potential.
Thanks, Kay! I'm just trying to keep myself busy in the next 3.7 weeks (not that I'm counting or anything) until we close. Tomorrow or the next day, I'll put up the inside pics. Lots and lots (and lots) of work, but we'll make a priority list and knock them down one at a time. Going to take some serious Kilz painting to knock down the smoke smell in a couple rooms. Will probably have to wash walls just to get the paint to stick. Evidently the older lady who's selling it kept it up beautifully, but when she moved into town, the son and girlfriend moved in and just let everything go to heck in a handbasket.Tracy in Edmonton: That was me asking, thanks for sharing your graphs, it helps put things in perspective. I feel like I've plateaued for the last three or 4 weeks. I just need to have patience and determination I think.
Tracy - that's one of the reasons I use the graphs so extensively. If you look at them, the month by month one looks like a nice, smooth progression. The weekly one looks more jagged, and the daily one looks like a road you would drive very carefully. It's never as smooth as it looks in the long-term... it's days and sometimes a week of setbacks, and without the graphs, I'd get very discouraged.
And because I really am a numbers junkie, this one helps the most:
Every point on this graph is the difference between the weight I am on a given day and the weight I was a week prior--so Tuesday compares to the previous Tuesday. Obviously, I'd like them all to be below that center 0 line, but they're not, and they never have been. But, one noticeable pattern is that when I struggle for a week or so, I see more losing points. It looks like a heartbeat pattern on a monitor, almost, and tells me that things always swing the other way before dropping or rising again. As long as I'm continuing to stick very close to my eating plan, I can ignore the daily blows that the scale can often give, if that makes sense, as this tells me it's rhythmic and not straight line.
More than you ever wanted to know, I'm thinking!
Love y'all!
Lisa in Arkansas
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LisaInNCNow wrote: »Dr. Katie Bug: Lisa, I have made egg’s home one of my favorites. I look forward to following along as you help that house reach its full potential.
Thanks, Kay! I'm just trying to keep myself busy in the next 3.7 weeks (not that I'm counting or anything) until we close. Tomorrow or the next day, I'll put up the inside pics. Lots and lots (and lots) of work, but we'll make a priority list and knock them down one at a time. Going to take some serious Kilz painting to knock down the smoke smell in a couple rooms. Will probably have to wash walls just to get the paint to stick. Evidently the older lady who's selling it kept it up beautifully, but when she moved into town, the son and girlfriend moved in and just let everything go to heck in a handbasket.Tracy in Edmonton: That was me asking, thanks for sharing your graphs, it helps put things in perspective. I feel like I've plateaued for the last three or 4 weeks. I just need to have patience and determination I think.
Tracy - that's one of the reasons I use the graphs so extensively. If you look at them, the month by month one looks like a nice, smooth progression. The weekly one looks more jagged, and the daily one looks like a road you would drive very carefully. It's never as smooth as it looks in the long-term... it's days and sometimes a week of setbacks, and without the graphs, I'd get very discouraged.
And because I really am a numbers junkie, this one helps the most:
Every point on this graph is the difference between the weight I am on a given day and the weight I was a week prior--so Tuesday compares to the previous Tuesday. Obviously, I'd like them all to be below that center 0 line, but they're not, and they never have been. But, one noticeable pattern is that when I struggle for a week or so, I see more losing points. It looks like a heartbeat pattern on a monitor, almost, and tells me that things always swing the other way before dropping or rising again. As long as I'm continuing to stick very close to my eating plan, I can ignore the daily blows that the scale can often give, if that makes sense, as this tells me it's rhythmic and not straight line.
More than you ever wanted to know, I'm thinking!
Love y'all!
Lisa in Arkansas
That's awesome, do you log your weight daily? I only put losses in over 1/2 a pound and I never enter gains.0 -
"Most big things are accomplished every day with teeny tiny steps"2 -
Hi all. Well I am finally awake after a sleep-induced weekend from melatonin. I can't remember what I told you guys, but I was prescribed that and Wellbutrin, and I start the Wellbutrin this Thursday. OMG that melatonin about knocked me senseless, but I am slowly getting used to it now.
Just heard a friend died Friday. Funeral is tomorrow. He was 39. UGH so young.
OK That's all for now. Take care, Meg from Omaha where it is STILL raining
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Lisa ~ We got an ozone machine that got the awful cigarette smoke out of our rental. It was expensive but I think you could probably rent one. You can't be in the house while it's doing the job. We ran it for two days.0
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Lisa, the longest weeks our life have been the periods between the time the real estate offers have been accepted and the day of signing the closing documents. Even when everything seems to have fallen into place, there are so many possible things that can happen. When we sold our last house, the buyers were two very frail looking women in their 80's and we hoped every day that neither of them would die before the deal closed. I wish you peaceful times until your deal closes. I look forward to reading about your adventures. 1 -
Snowflake: That's awesome, do you log your weight daily? I only put losses in over 1/2 a pound and I never enter gains.
Snowflake, I log my weight down to the 10th of a pound and I made a commitment to myself that, good or bad, I would enter it every day. When I'm traveling and can't weigh, I take the beginning of the travel weight and the end, and figure out about how much it would have changed every day. Lose, gain, it's a commitment to tell the truth. This is only true for me, but if I don't enter my gains, then I feel like I'm lying to myself again. And lying to myself is how I got to this weight. I lied to myself about how much I was eating, and whether I needed or just wanted to eat. Until I could own it, I couldn't fix it.
Warmest regards,
Lisa in AR4 -
I agree with Lisa - when I was losing I logged my weight up or down. I know my journey was not a steady downhill run. There were a lot of downs but some ups as well. I also logged all food (and drinks, condiments and cooking oil) down to the ounce (or gram) regardless of whether I was within my calorie goal or over.
Now I only log once a week, but still log each Friday, up or down.
Okie1 -
I'm trying to weigh only when I've calculated (in my head) that I've got a deficit of 3,500 calories. I've got one more day for that since the cruise. I hope I'll be down a pound, but so much depends on water retention, BMs etc. It certainly isn't linear.
Towards the end of losing weight, as I approached maintenance it got sooooooooooooo slow, it was glacial. I still work on a basic 1200, but eat back my morning exercise calories of 600.
Recently I added bonus exercise calories in the afternoon which I don't calculate. Around 200-300. That got the scale moving again after a maintenance weight gain of 6 lbs. I was back at target before the cruise, but I gained two pounds on holiday.
Luckily, I've got to the point when I actually enjoy exercise. In the past I hated and despised it. :laugh:
Yoga tomorrow. If I wake up early I might go out for a run in the cool of the morning before hand. It's predicted high temps in the daytime.
Heard nothing from the Hove estate agents. Useless.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx1 -
okiewoman510 wrote: »I agree with Lisa - when I was losing I logged my weight up or down. I know my journey was not a steady downhill run. There were a lot of downs but some ups as well. I also logged all food (and drinks, condiments and cooking oil) down to the ounce (or gram) regardless of whether I was within my calorie goal or over.
Now I only log once a week, but still log each Friday, up or down.
Okie
Mmm, yes, I should have mentioned logging as well. It's a similar commitment. During the first four and a half months of this particular journey I was not logging my food at all. I simply made the commitment to myself to get rid of things like bread, sugar, potatoes, all the "white" foods, pretty much, other than fat-free, no-sugar-added dairy. I eat lean proteins, fat-free dairy, and vegetables when I can get myself to eat them (they mostly taste like green, bitter dirt to me, so that's a work in progress if ever was). The only exception on the carbohydrate front is oat bran, which I cook every morning in the microwave in unsweetened almond milk.
All this was until about eight days ago, when I realized I'd stalled out for two weeks, very nearly. So I stayed on the same choice of foods menu, but started logging what I ate, and immediately dropped a couple more pounds, and got off that stall. Keeping my calories under about 1300 a day, and not eating back what few exercise calories I get at the moment. Like Okie, am logging every calorie, over or under the calorie allowance given by MFP, which comes under that same heading of trying to quit lying to myself about what goes in my mouth.
Lisa
EDIT: Since I still have a few minutes to edit this, I need to say, all of the above is absolutely ZERO judgment of anyone else's way of making MFP work for them or getting healthier. These are purely observations about what's working for me. Some things we all have in common, but as has been stated before, you should absolutely do what works for you, and what you will continue doing. Taking someone else's path may or may not work of you. I think we all use the elements of other's paths and wind them into our own success at varying rates.
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Finally seeing results from months of MFP. Down 11 pounds, fitting into clothes that I haven't been able to wear in 3 years, and going to the doctor and seeing that my BMI has moved from obese to overweight category and my BP was 111/75. Nice when you see real impact from making better choices.7
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evening ladies~
birds are singing, have the windows open, going to bed soon.. working 10-5 tomorrow1 -
Hey ho! I am still here. Just a crazy morning, afternoon. Just got chicken off the grill and made myself a salad to go with it. Don't be too impressed with my healthy choices. I am having my favorite stout with it. I made a cilantro lime marinade for the chicken and it turned out FANTASTIC! I know cilantro is one of those love it or hate it herbs; but for those who would like to try this: four pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts ( prepping for the week), a half cup of olive oil, a third cup of lime juice, a bunch of cilantro (literally, a bunch, like the way you purchase it in stores or markets),a tbsp of minced garlic, a tbsp of agave nectar, a bit of sea salt. Blend all of that (not the chicken) until it is well mixed. Marinate breasts for at least 8 hours (I had mine marinating almost 24 hours). DH is sleeping; but he is my resident cilantro hater/non-adventurous eater (so his opinion wouldn't count, anyway). DYS made it home from work as I was pulling it off the grill and said that it's the best chicken to EVER be cooked on my grill. I agreed.
Katla- Were you the one who asked if I had Heather's children's book? I don't! But thank you for reminding me. I have another grant coming in a couple of weeks, so I will be buying her book with that!
Kristin- Congrats on being down 11 pounds! Doesn't it feel good to put on clothes that you weren't sure you would ever get back into?! Yea, YOU!
Lisa- I need to check out your new blog and bookmark it! thanks for the heads up!
Heather- Does your area get humid with the high temps? I think I am kind of an oddball with the fact that I tolerate cold weather much better than hot. Seems so many start looking at warmer climates for living as they age, I don't think I could handle it. Unless I had unlimited access and time to sit in a cool pool.
Well, I have to get busy and tie-dye some tee shirts for the kiddos. We have a field trip to the downtown area on Wednesday. Our theme this week is Adventure Grand Haven. So we are learning about our city, history, things to do/see. On Wednesday we will take the transit downtown (for most of them this is the first time on a bus), visit the museum, picnic, playground with splash pad, take a trolley tour, and get an ice cream before we head home. If we have time we will walk the board walk and pier. We will see...
I guess that is all I have in my head for now. ttfn xoxoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
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I did things differently. I did not log my weight unless it was a loss while I was losing weight. But I weighed myself most days.
Now that I’m in maintenance (more or less, this month I am attempting to shed a couple sanity pounds) I let the scale auto sync to my device. I usually forget on Saturday’s when I have to work but otherwise I weigh every day.
For me, the emotional crush and feeling of failure was too much to face in logging weigh-ins that were up - but now in maintenance it is less emotionally driven and I like all the data points.
Rye
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kristingjertsen wrote: »Finally seeing results from months of MFP. Down 11 pounds, fitting into clothes that I haven't been able to wear in 3 years, and going to the doctor and seeing that my BMI has moved from obese to overweight category and my BP was 111/75. Nice when you see real impact from making better choices.
You go, girl!
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Hello all: Wow, Thunder storms in WA last night. Puppy rattled around in her kennel when it started but then settled down and went back to sleep. I hope that portends good things for the 4th and she will not be frightened by the fireworks.The rain was good for the pastures as they were getting dry. Got some errands run today but not much else. Too wet for outdoor work and I just can't get going on indoor stuff. I had a tomato stuffed with tuna salad for lunch today. It was very good, I should do that more often.
Lisa - I like the title for your blog, Egg's home.
KJ - Sounds like a grand adventure.
Meg - Nice to hear form you.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA1 -
I did things differently. I did not log my weight unless it was a loss while I was losing weight. But I weighed myself most days.
Now that I’m in maintenance (more or less, this month I am attempting to shed a couple sanity pounds) I let the scale auto sync to my device. I usually forget on Saturday’s when I have to work but otherwise I weigh every day.
For me, the emotional crush and feeling of failure was too much to face in logging weigh-ins that were up - but now in maintenance it is less emotionally driven and I like all the data points.
Rye
I used to log the ups, but it got me very discouraged, now I just log the losses. I weigh daily though and am learning to live with the fluctuations. Right now I’m plateauing a bit, but I know it’s because I’ve been making delicious but poor food choices.2 -
Margaret - thanks for your prayers for my daughter and daughter in law. Hopefully both will start to improve. My daughter in law seems to be getting worse instead of better and my daughter is home but we wish she was in the hospital because we think the pain pills are masking the issue which should be addressed.
Mary from Minnesota \ Arizona4 -
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stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.32min, 127mhr, 12.7amph. 1.5mi= 59c
apple watch- 60c
TREADMILL, walk- 30min, 103ahr, 111mhr, 14.5incline, 3.5sp 1.72mi= = 173c
apple watch- 218c
STAIRCLIMBER- 15min, 114ahr, 139mhr, 64floors, lvl7, 1115steps, some evry other step= 112c
apple watch- 136c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 5.07min, 122mhr, 17.2amph, 1.4mi= 39c
apple watch- 46c
bike ride puy 2 sumn sta- 14.41min, 12.4amph, 112ahr, 134mhr, 3mi= 113c
apple watch- 117c
jog sta 2 wk- 4.50min, 148mhr, 135ahr, 9.19min mi, .5mi= 59c
apple watch- 52c
jog wk 2 sumn sta- windy!! 4.22min, 123ahr, 151mhr, 9.28min mi, .4mi= 59c
apple watch- 52c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 14MPH WINDS!! 20.16min, 7.6amph, 123ahr, 142mhr, 2.5mi= 173c
apple watch- 137c
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coastalgosgal wrote: »coastalgosgal wrote: »
Question. What do you ladies do when a relative doesn't make good on their word? Ok, my step sister has a bunch of pages showing her recently passed father and my mother, like when they met etc. I sent them to her for his funeral this last March. She said she'd sent it all back. Nothing. I have emailed her our new address, etc, and she has replied stating its by her door waiting to get packed up. That's as far as its gotten. I even told her a white lie stating I was making photo albums for each of the boys, and would really like those pictures back, since Grandpa Bob was really the only grandpa they knew. No response! Aack! Any suggestions? I have sent her an email that just says, I would really appreciate those pictures back.
Rebecca
Whidbey island
Washington
WHAT DO YOU MEAN. ! I CALL THEM OUT!!
Well, being that her father had passed/ my step father, I wanted to be respectful of that. People do have different time tables than mine, and to demand my pictures seemed a bit callous.
Rebecca
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Our dog walker is gone on a cruise to Alaska so we had to board the dogs to keep them safe while we go to Seattle tomorrow for Jake's semi-annual visit to the cardiologist. We miss them. Bernie, the cat, misses them. We can't pick them up until Wednesday because we won't get home early enough to pick them up.Sue, we had thunder and lightning here, too. When I got up this morning, Bessie was on the floor next to the bed on my side instead of in her regular dog bed. Fortunately it was quiet when we went out to walk in the morning. Barbie 2
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