WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2018
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Katla, congrats on your technology success. I'm so glad the place you're staying is quiet enough to make your dog feel safe. I hope tonight goes just as well.
Heather, lying awake at night thinking about the new house is something I've done every time we planned a move. Your new place looks so great. Changing rooms, reading, and having a snack sound like a great solution.
Kelly, until now we did all our phone stuff by going into the A T & T store and letting one of the nice men do all the work. The challenge with this phone is that we chose a phone company that doesn't have a local store. Jake chose them because he wanted to switch to Verizon and wanted to use a phone company that had values that matched ours. Doing the switch myself was the big fear. This morning I walked with my new phone, listened to an audio book through my blue tooth headphones, and tracked my walk on "Walk for a Dog" just like I did before. When I got home, the battery was down a lot less than it would have been on a similar walk with my old phone.
Barbie
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Katla "Janetr: Your granddaughter looks happy and YOUNG. How old is she?
My granddaughter is very young, she's 18 and will turn 19 August 27. She finished her first year at college in May. I'm afraid now she won't go back.
Janetr OKC3 -
Barbie I hope your new phone battery can keep up with your long walks...what kind of phone did you get this time?
Katla Yay for you to figure out how to do the hotspot yourself. So glad your pup is doing OK with the distant rumblings.
Heather So funny you could judge the football (soccer) game's progress by the groans and cheers from next door. Made me chuckle. Did you see how the sad Japanese fans and team cleaned the stands and locker room after being defeated by Belgium?
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My 12 year old grandson went to a summer camp 10 days ago - no screens allowed. So far he was punched in the face by an out-of-control kid that was subsequently expelled. His glasses were broken and his lip was split open. Then a week later, another camper broke into a locked cabinet in the camp pharmacy where my grandson's ADD medication was stored, & stole it (plus others). This was supposed to be such a wonderful camp experience for my grandboy, who had an extremely difficult school year. So my son & daughter-in-law are on their way to pick him up early. It's a 15 hour round trip. I hope they will be safe driving on the 4th of July. My granddaughter is sleeping in after her swim meet last night, with Grandpa keeping a watchful eye. She will spend part of the day with us. She has a pool party to go to this afternoon.
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Happy Birthday to the USA!
Karen in Virginia6 -
Karen in VA ~ So sorry to hear about your grandson's experience at camp. Camp is supposed to be a wonderful place. Prayers said that his future will be brighter!3
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Kate UK: Congrats to your team on the win.
Lisa: Our public library subscribes to something called Library to Go. It is managed by Amazon and there is a long list of titles available for free, both print and audio. Check out your public library and see if they offer that service. The neat thing is that you can access it from any place that you have internet access. I hope your real estate closing goes smoothly. :flowerforyou:
(((Machka))): You've been carrying an enormous load for a long time. I suspect you'll feel normal again eventually, and will end up on top of things.
KJ: I love the beach photos!
Barbie: I'm glad that the new phone is doing well. :flowerforyou:
Janetr: I hope your granddaughter goes back to college. DH & I married while we were students. Our parents continued to support us until we graduated.
Karen: That camp must have an amazing PR person or they'd be out of business. :grumble:
Heather: "Lost two and a half hours sleep last night. Just thinking about the new house in the middle of the night. I went into the spare room, read a bit, took a pill for my achy legs and had a slice of bread because I was really hungry. Eventually went back to sleep, so I'm more or less caught up. We are talking about where to put furniture etc and what to get rid of. DH is going to ring the agents and see if we can get a second look around when we are next down for the grandchildren. Tell the owners they don't have to tidy up!! We have all the measurements, but it's still hard to visualise. Some of our stuff is very tall. I would love to buy new, but that's not going to happen as DH's cash is cleared out on the purchase and he is very attached to some of his old bits and pieces. I have things I'm fond of, but I'm more prepared to make changes. I read a lot of decorator magazines."
I'm an addicted advice giver. We had tow homes at once and took things to the new place for a tryout. If we didn't like them we moved them into storage. Then we tried something else. We still have furniture in storage, but not much. We're down to DD's childhood bedroom set and DS's desk. Enjoy the move.
We have an overcast sky this morning, and the furnace is keeping us comfortably warm. Coming here was an excellent choice. We've been enjoying watching children running up and down the park roadway in front of us.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
July 2018 Resolutions:
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on strength and stamina.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least 3 glasses of water a day.
5. Monitor sleep. Average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
6. Avoid alcohol.
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Thanks all for the well wishes. It helps to know people care.
Wendy thanks for the link. Lots of good information.
Katla thanks for the song lyrics!
We don’t have a home base per say. We stayed in Columbus New Mexico for six months, and got PCP’s there but no one really specific. DH will have to see a specialist for the mesenteric panniculitis. This disease worries me much more than the stones. It is rare and usually indicates cancer. He had 10 polyps removed when he had a colonoscopy and they were the kind that go cancerous. He was supposed to go back for a recheck a year later but refused. The docs were worried then that they may still turn to cancer, but he didn’t want to hear it. Now with this diagnosis, I’m concerned it is colon cancer. I sa my Dad die of that, I don’t want to go through that again.
Why do men refuse to believe they are not invulnerable?
RV Rita in Winslow Arizona8 -
Katla - I don't know how much storage costs in the US, but it is very expensive over here. I would rather just get rid of stuff we don't need. DH is currently drawing plans of rooms on graph paper. One problem is we don't know the size of alcoves etc. We have requested a "measuring" visit for the 19th. We also are measuring the car. It fits in the garage, but you wouldn't be able to open the door. The parking space should be big enough though.
Having chicken, lentil and spinach curry tonight, that I had to cook because of the freezer debacle. The other half of it is in the kitchen freezer. Having it with cauliflower, DH some rice as well.
Rita - So sorry for your worries.
TV is all Wimbledon, in which I have even less interest than soccer. Grrrrrrrrrr!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
Hello all! Happy Independence Day to all in the USA. We are making a final trek to grand mommy’s house for Her to say goodbye to my dear daughter Rachel, she leaves for a semester abroad on Sunday. I will hold it together, this is a great opportunity and privilege and I just can’t believe it.
Hugs to all struggling with health concerns and kudos for all achieving great things with technology—I salute you
Day 4 of exercising and off the video puzzle—feeling strong
NYKAREN5 -
well we have a heat wave going on.. did laundry and went down to my DFIL ,he did well and fed himself... he rarely eats dinner.. in the nursing home there big meal is at noon, so dinner is light and usually soup and sandwich which isnt his cup of tea.. but usually he does very well at breakfast..
Tom cutting hedges and mowing lawn. awwww isnt that to bad, ha I dont have to do that anymore.
going to get off here and do some studying, exam is this thursday..5 -
Good morning ladies!
First of all - Rita you have been on my mind. Hope your DH will go to a specialist and get some professional input and saying prayers it's a simple treatment that won't interfere with your wonderful travels. It has to be a huge worry for both of you.
Rye - sorry to hear about your toe! Taping, icing, elevating-sounds like you are on top of it. Sometimes we can get stress fractures. Or maybe you just pulled a teensy muscle or strained a ligament. Also thank you for posting the photo of your cute childhood schnauzer and cute brothers! That pup looks like our schnoodle when she's past due for her groomer appointment - I like her with some curls and not shaved down to the skin too.
Katla - so glad you are settling in and your pupster is doing well without the loud boomers close by. Kind of fun to meet fellow campers. Did you say a friend of yours was also camping at that park?
Karen in VA - What an aggravation for your grandson! GOOD GRAVY!!!! Do you think this due to a lack of supervision by camp staff or just kids running amok being kids? Yes, I don't know how they can stay in business if they allow this to go on.
It's going to be close to 90 today, I was up early chopping veggies and have my version of "Progresso" lentil soup in the crockpot. Smells GREAT and should be done for lunch. Instead of spinach, I chopped up a handful of kale from the garden and some garlic scapes and threw them in there. Both the kale and garlic are volunteer.
Also have been watching a lot of Michael Mosley Youtube and TedX presenters about fasting. Mosley mentioned in one interview that it's looking like with the 5:2 fasting, on the 2 days - cutting carbs WAY DOWN does the same thing as fasting. He didn't go into it much and it's just early trials.
I also read a story about centenarians in the latest issue of WebMD in the doc's office. Something that jumped out at me - keeping a BMI of 27 is good. I'll grab that copy when I'm in the doc's office this coming Friday (they give them out) and read further.
I've been back on track with 12/3 - sometimes taking it to 16/3 ( 12 to 16 hours between evening meal and first meal the following day). AND keeping less than 20 gm added sugar. Trying to keep at 50% mostly healthy fats (nuts, olive oil, avocado), 30% complex carbs and 20% protein. Seems doable so far.
Happy 4th of July to those of you in the USA... for those of you in the UK, the sentiment is "Happy Treason Day You Ungrateful Colonists" lol.
Lanette
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Lanette Now I’m off to look for the low carb 5:2 research. That sounds VERY interesting. Any particular TedX talks catch your eye on fasting?1
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Well I wanted to share with you my progress page on mfp, birding know how to get my Fire Tablet to save that. Usually you click on the screen until you see the black bar up too with copy/save/share listed. I did that but it really only saved a part of a date. (The only part that turned blue). Well its a pretty mountain looking slope. From 3 months ago until now, I've shed 14 lbs. 36 lbs until Onderland!
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Rebecca - Do you have SCREENSHOT on your Fire? When there is no other way to do it, that's what I resort to. On my Samsung tablet I have to swipe my hand across. On my phone it's the "off" button.
The curry was heaven!
I'm so impatient to get going. Today on my tablet I'm reading a decor magazine in Spanish, killing two birds with one stone.
DH has more conservative taste than me, but we are mainly constricted by budget. Apart from one or two pieces, part of me would just like to start my decor over. I know I can't. Because of that we end up making more safe choices than I might if I had a free hand, because new stuff has to go with the old to some extent.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx
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Lanette Now I’m off to look for the low carb 5:2 research. That sounds VERY interesting. Any particular TedX talks catch your eye on fasting?
Rye - I will grab the tablet and see what all I watched, lol. I kind of let them automatically feed in after I rewatched Mosley's initial BBC special on 5:2 with Valter Longo and Mark Mattson who have done research on the benefits of fasting.
I'm kind of extrapolating that for those of us over 65, fasting might not be the best way to go - but the low-carb 5:2 and 12/3 have merit. Main thing for me is to fix insulin resistance and keep toxic sugar overload out of my brain.
Interesting factoid from a recent Dr. Greger's FB post - you can probably find it on his Nutrition Facts dot org web page - eating 4 Brazil nuts just once a month can really lower LDL! Very small human trial but was impressive. He said they are ultra high in selenium so don't eat them all the time, once a month was good and benefits seemed to last for a month.
Lanette
Warming and hazy SW WA State4 -
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Lanette yes there is some research suggesting that fasting (full ffasting) post 65 might not be as beneficial but is there any research on the 5:2 type of restricted calorie day’s?
Brazil nuts! When I started my diet I had one per week (again, b/c selenium) but stopped that. I might have to start that back up. I didn’t really like them, and kinda considered it to be like a once a week vitamin.
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Kidd Kirby and his brother Jackie Kane and cuteness overloaded7
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Stats for the day-
Bike ride, hm 2 gym- 7.06min, 13.6amph, 146mhr, 1.6mi= 75c
Apple Watch- 58c
Treadmill jog- 29.35min, 6.1-7.5sp, 144ahr, 162mhr, 9.31min mi 5k= 330c
Apple Watch- 355c
Floor exercises- 11.53min, 118ahr, 138mhr, 2sets of 10ea, 10 diff exercises= 103c
Apple Watch- 96c
23.6in box step up- 3.39min, 2sets of 10 ea, single leg, 131ahr, 140mh= 44c
Apple Watch- 98c
Chin/arm dip assist machine- 15.24min, 4sets 10ea w/70#, 1set 10 w/55#, and core legs extend to waist and knees to waist, 114ahr, 140mhr= 120c
Apple Watch-didn't start
Bike ride gym 2 Starbucks- 10.59min, 11.2amph, 151mhr, 2mi= 128c
Apple Watch- didn't record
Bike ride Starbucks 2 hm- 7.13min, 147mhr, 9.5amph, 1.1mi= 85c
Apple Watch- 79c
Total cal 8854 -
Prayers needed for my DnL's brother please. Won't go into the details but must say that he has worked tirelessly to overcome some past mistakes and found out yesterday there are still some hurdles to overcome due to lawyers ineptness and not his own.
Carol in GA7
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