WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Cheri How is your home furnishing/settling in coming along?
Karen in Virginia
Very well! All rooms set up except my crafting room. Working on the details. Pictures and such. I'll have pics soon.
Cheri
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Good evening ladies!
I had a busy busy day!
My grandkids are keeping running which is good. We went swimming at the Y again today. I signed them up for a month membership for $24 each so that was less that signing up for a month membership for $59, plus a $75 sign up fee. So they are all good until July 17th! We’ll see if they go home by then or not!
After 10 days I’m finally getting into the swing of things with them.
I leisurely swam back and forth for 50 minutes! Then I held onto the side and did scissor kicks. I’m feeling it tonight!
On the way home we stopped at Sonic and got cherry slushes. The kids did, not me!!
I figured one thing out. It’s better to just make spaghetti and rotini rather than to argue!! Gabby wanted spaghetti and Zech wanted rotini noodles. Geeze!
Sue in WA I’m glad Bandit got home safe and sound. Even though horses can eat while traveling I hate to see them stand so long. Throw him a kiss for me!
Marion Welcome back to the club. I joined up March 2017 and lost a total of 32 lbs. I went back up when my mom passed, but back on track now.
I’m married to a cool guy, Bob and we have a fur baby named Dolly. (Picture attached) I have 3 children from a previous marriage and 10 grandkids! Bob doesn’t have any children.
We both worked for the State of Texas in Austin, retired in 2015, and bought our retirement home in Hot Springs, Arkansas. So, I still want to lose 60 lbs or more.
Heather From all your pictures it looks like you had a wonderful vacation. Love it!!
Sleeping alone Even though we have a king bed, I have to have ear plugs on. DH and I both have CPAP machines and DH has a sound machine going to with frogs, crickets and a bubbling stream. Dolly is in her kennel next to me and she snores!!
As far as being alone, I watch YouTube videos anyway till midnight and beyond so I fall asleep whenever.
Plus I have my handgun nearby. If anyone wants to break in, Dolly will hear them first then I’ll be backing her up!! I think I scared the crap out of DH when we first got married when someone was at the door drunk at 3 in the morning. I grabbed my 357 and was at the door!! He doesn’t care for guns so much, so it was shocking for him to see me jump into action! So it doesn’t bother me to be alone. I’ll tell you a few stories sometime.
Kids are requesting cake! The movie “Coco” is on Netflix.
Good night my fitness palls!!
Dana in Arkansas
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stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.05min, 142mhr, 13.3amph. 1.5mi= 73c
apple watch- 62c
TREADMILL, walk- 7.26min, 103ahr, 111mhr, 5incline, 4.0sp .50mi= = 51c
apple watch- 64c
other- 7min, box step up and incline 1st 15, slow then fast, pushups, 1st 15 2leg and single, 124ahr, 146mhr= 54c
apple watch- 57c
floor exercises- 13min, 1st of 15ea, 10 diff exercises, 104ahr, 137mhr= 78c
apple watch- 77c
bike ride gym 2 sumn sta- 47.22min, 133ahr, 156mhr, 15.1amph, 11.9mi= 455c 15.1 6/18/18
apple watch- 460c
jog sta 2 wk- 4.27min, 154mhr, 143ahr, 8.40min mi, .5mi= 57c
apple watch- 51c
jog wk 2 sumn sta- w/hvy bg of tamales- 6min approx, .4mi= 55c
apple watch- no record
bike ride Puyallup 2 hm- windy and w/19#backpack- 53.05min, 152mhr, 133ahr, 11.1amph, 9.8mi= 531c
apple watch- 426c
total cal 13543 -
Tomorrow is my general Navy clinic doctor, and it can't be soon enough. Its a doctor I haven't seen before, so a bit of back pedalling with him or her is needed. I am thinking since I have those overactive parathyroids and my calcium levels are high, my vertigo is connected to that somehow. Vertigo is caused by the CALCIUM crystals in my ear coming out of wack. Being where they shouldn't be. So tired of being tired and achy. My joints literally ache which makes it hard to sleep. I have done the maneuvers stated in the videos with no relief. So I'm hoping for some answers tomorrow.
Rebecca6 -
Hi, I'm awake early. Couldn't get to sleep.Partly because my legs ache so much.
Then I was awake again three hours later. Oh well, I've only got to get in a taxi and be driven home. I might even nod off in the car.
DH and I talked a bit over dinner last night about the house business, so that didn't help my sleeping.
We are pretty undecided about what to do. When we get back we will have a look at what is on the market, but we are not going to kill ourselves just to move. We are really only interested in about four streets in Hove and not the whole of those. We love the house we live in and we don't have to move. With two houses fallen through our enthusiasm is waning.
Soon our morning tea will arrive and our day begins. Our car leaves at 9.30.
I hope you have enjoyed my little travelogue. It's been fun to share with you.
Much love, Heather back in the UK xxxxxxxxxx11 -
Morning all, not a bad day here in Liverpool. Today DH and I celebrate our 53rd wedding anniversary. Exchanged cards and had a cuddle this morning. Not sure where the years went but we are both happy to still be here and fit and well.
HEATHER nice to be home isn't it. Your cruise looked wonderful, I wouldn't mind trying one but DH says it's his idea of hell so I've told him I'll wait until he's gone and go on my own. But he says he's not going LOL
Love the line dancing video, I keep threatening to join in the dancing on the beach in Benidorm but haven't done it yet, maybe when we are there in September.
REBECCA hope your visit to doc goes well
Off to do KB workout and cardio vid
Kate UK 7 -
not too bad
Kate UK11 -
spikeyhair wrote: »Morning all, not a bad day here in Liverpool. Today DH and I celebrate our 53rd wedding anniversary. Exchanged cards and had a cuddle this morning. Not sure where the years went but we are both happy to still be here and fit and well.
HEATHER nice to be home isn't it. Your cruise looked wonderful, I wouldn't mind trying one but DH says it's his idea of hell so I've told him I'll wait until he's gone and go on my own. But he says he's not going LOL
Love the line dancing video, I keep threatening to join in the dancing on the beach in Benidorm but haven't done it yet, maybe when we are there in September.
REBECCA hope your visit to doc goes well
Off to do KB workout and cardio vid
Kate UK
Happy Anniversary! X1 -
Kate UK - that was what my DH used to say. I was going to go on my own the first time because I really wanted to go to the Arctic. He only agreed to come with me after I had provisionally booked it. Didn't want to be left behind.
Now he is hooked. None of the things he was worried about were true.
Heather UK XXXXXX on the car journey home.2 -
morning ladies~
I am up and staggering.. having some stomach pain and not feeling great.. but you do what you gotta do.. getting Tal on the bus..then walking the dogs,and feeding my DFIL..he didnt eat yesterday afternoon, and seems to only eat for me.. ugh... this is not good as it only makes me feel bad if I cant get there
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »I read message boards and blogs a lot while I'm at work, as I'm bored. Tomorrow I have someone from head office coming to teach me sales, so this might not be my normal for much longer.
I read a comment today from someone on one of the boards that when your goals are set to lose 2lbs per week it is too aggressive for people under 200 because it is less than 1% of your body weight.
What does everyone think of this, is it true or is it an individual thing?
Tracey in Edmonton
When I started with MFP, I set my goal at 0.5 kg (or approx. 1 lb). As it happened, I lost 2 lbs/week ... wasn't planned, but the weight just dropped off. In 16 weeks, I dropped 15 kg, and was comfortably within my normal weight range again.
Then I took a 1-month diet break, and when I resumed, I deliberately went a little less aggressively. I increased my calorie intake by 100 cal/day, and over the next 16 weeks, I dropped 10 kg.
But I wouldn't deliberately set my goal to lose 2 lbs/week. I know how few calories I'd have to eat to accomplish that, and it wouldn't be pretty.
Machka in Oz4 -
Good morning all! Happy Tuesday!
Marion- Wow! What a crazy few years you have had recently! Welcome back!
Heather- Thank you so much for including us on your daily adventures! My DH is the homebody, but he does enjoy hotels; which makes me think that cruising would be a vacation he could enjoy. Different cultures make him nervous, but I think if he had the comfort of a ship/cabin to come back to each day, (rather than the total immersion that I seek), we could actually vacation together. Otherwise, when financially able, I will just go on my own.
Barbie, Rye, other dancers- I loved the line dance videos. I have never been into country music, but I do like to dance. The line dance reminds me of the first dance I ever "formally" learned...The Hustle (back in the seventies). The majority of my dancing was learned from American Bandstand and just dancing with friends in my bedroom. In high school I was on the pom-pon squad (which was not the cheer team, pom-pon was the dance team). DH doesn't dance, but I love to but do it only when we are at weddings and if I have a good partner. Maybe I need to find a line dance class and go a couple of times. I might be able to even like country music if I were dancing to it.
Audio books- I have tried to do audio books, but I get so engrossed in them that I can't focus on what I am doing while I am listening. I tried listening to a book while I was on a treadmill, but found that I was slowing down. The one series of books that I really enjoyed on audio book were the Stieg Larsson Millenium series. It really helped to have the "reader" pronouncing some of the Swedish words, because reading them; they are pronounced completely different than how they look. (Penny, lol, I do look up a lot of things you write about)
I am counting down the weeks until I have DD and Joaquin here with me. I probably shouldn't because now time will drag on. BUT, four weeks!
Well, it looks to be another humid and overcast day, today. Hopefully will get a walk in with the kids without getting a soaking! We have new bug boxes and this week is Insect Adventure! We have bug crafts, bug books, we will be walking to different "habitat" areas to see different insects. (yard, garden, beach, forest, meadow). Today we will turn our painted foot prints into grasshoppers for craft!
ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)7 -
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I think I will ride to work again this morning instead of taking the local train... morning peeps.4
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KJ - If anyone deserves a cruise, you do.
Love Heather UK XXXXXX nearly home.3 -
Just discovered this.Thanks for the inspiration! I guess I achieved one goal by getting here6
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Morning! Interviews/demos are finished! Feeling very excited to have 2 young and promising teachers hired to work in our orchestra program. Even though it makes me feel a little “experienced” I feel excited to eventually hand over the reigns to them someday (5! Years from now)
Too hot to want to eat much so the losses keep coming. I will hit maintenance if I stay the course in July.
NYKAREN5 -
Kelly- so if you have never read any of the janet evonovich books, Stephanie plum series listen to One for the money on audio ,get there voices in your head and then you can read the rest of the series regular,when I worked where I could wear headphones I listened to one and was literally in tears laughing when I was listening... Now when I read I have the voices in my head and still Lol when I read them....here with Taliah ,Tracy found a tick on her foot and freaked out..she doesn't treat her dog ,she will.now...2
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »I read message boards and blogs a lot while I'm at work, as I'm bored. Tomorrow I have someone from head office coming to teach me sales, so this might not be my normal for much longer.
I read a comment today from someone on one of the boards that when your goals are set to lose 2lbs per week it is too aggressive for people under 200 because it is less than 1% of your body weight.
What does everyone think of this, is it true or is it an individual thing?
Tracey in Edmonton
I agree with Machka above that setting your goals at losing two pounds per week is a little high. The number these people are using is based on research that was done in 1958. That research basically stated that, to lose one pound of body fat, you must cut your diet (or up your exercise burn) by 3,500 calories per week. To lose two pounds, you have to cut your diet or burn 7,000 calories per week more than you did previously. That's a LOT of calories... and by the way, was based on a "typical" man's calorie intake and burn. And... doctors are finally figuring out that, in some ways, there's no such thing as a "typical" human being. Everyone's metabolic rate, etc., is different--and every single human processes carbohydrates, protein and fat quite differently.
This video is one of the best explanations I've seen of how the combination of fat, protein and carbohydrates works in the body. But even that, please note, is focused on losing weight, not maintenance. Effectively, the simplest explanation seems to be that the whole "fat-free" drive had a massive rebound effect as populations were equating the fat we eat with the fat we store on our bodies, when in reality, most nutrition scientists agree now that excess carbohydrates that the body doesn't use for quick energy are stored as body fat.
There is no single answer for a single human being, and your body WILL adjust to what you eat. You can change that through diet and exercise, but it takes perseverance, time, and an ability to convince yourself to keep going through the inevitable stalls.
I've found that FOR ME, and I'm not extrapolating to everyone else, carbohydrates beget more carbohydrates, with a few exceptions. When I eat bread or any form of sugar, I want more. It doesn't satisfy my hunger, it makes me more hungry. I eat oat bran for breakfast every morning, cooked in unsweetened almond milk. That seems to satisfy my body's need for some carbohydrates (and in an unintended consequence, has also dropped my bad cholesterol by 40 points in five months). While I am eating little fat these days, it's more because fat = 9 calories per gram and protein = 4 calories per gram. Essentially, I can eat more food when I stay with higher protein and less fat, so I feel satisfied that way, and am more likely to stick with it.
I'm not saying mine is the perfect diet - it's the diet that's working FOR ME. As long as you're getting the nutrients your body needs, you're fine. The key is finding something that YOU will stick with, and not worrying about whether the scale goes down every day (or even every week).
Sorry - didn't mean to write a book!
Lisa in AR6 -
Kelly, Line dance is not all country music. We dance to pop music (Uptown Funk, Cake by the Ocean) latin rhythms (Fin de Semana, Havana), tango, waltz, and lots of other stuff. We also dance to Alan Jackson and All My Ex's Live in Texas. There is something for everyone.Tracey, the best food plan is the one you'll stick to. I tried starting at a low calorie level and found that I was weak and shaky after a long walk. I had to be sure to be providing enough nourishment to my body.Kate, Happy Anniversary 4
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