WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2018
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Wendy, Thank you for feeling the way I do about the path. Have been nursing a wasabi plant along, but its not doing very well. Maybe I'll plant it near the creek and let the magic take over.
Carol The first time I saw the area around the cistern, I knew it was a magical place. So magical in fact that pics just don't capture it. Lovely new/original hair color!
Katla our forest would be impossible to maintain as most of our land is vertical
Fortunately Joe and I prefer the natural woodland look. We have a little patch of lawn over the septic field, dwarf fruit trees and a few veggies in the side yard. Joe mows maybe once or twice a month, and recently cut back the hedge overgrowing the drive. This is the first time I've done any serious hacking on the path. Do you use a smoke filtering mask?
mnewell Con very grats for taking off that pound! Remind me of your name? Chemo at 15 must have been very hard.
NYKaren nice view, can you walk to the beach? When do you see your daughter?
Barbie
negative information is still information. Hope your Dr. can put a rush on the imaging, you've been suffering too long already. ((hugs))
Welcome Lynn - WI.
Yesterday never made it out of my bathrobe, but did do 3 loads of laundry and combed almost a pound of hair out from Tumble. Groomer just called to postpone appointment as she and her little ones have icky tummy. Very glad she didn't want to share!
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
60 g protein 11/13, meditate 7/13, walk one more step 4/13, knee exercises 7/13, core 4/8, walk Tumble 5/8 times, SWSY 0/4, hang up or purge art 0/1, AF 9/13
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Pip, just lovely!
Rebecca- I can eat the same breakfast and lunch everyday for months! If it is healthy, pack and I don't have to waste time on the way to work. Trying to re-boot myself this year with a little IF so I have given up my egg and avocado breakfast at the moment. Just had my half a mini avocado as a snack though.... Dinner is always my variant....
NyKaren-(not in NY) Capetown... wow! We have friends who travel there and they love it!. Someday.... Next trip for us is back to San Francisco and Carmel in the fall....
Trying to be more mindful of things each day... what I eat and how I feel and how they relate.... Dinner out tonight, the DH's day off.... But I did cook healthy meals for us the last 3 nights in a row so I will count this day four of a really good streak as long as I behave tonight! I feel determined....
Tracey- Congratulations on hitting one of the milestones. That right now is my goal. If I look at the big picture, I will get depressed so instead just one step at a time...In relation to my post about CA in the fall, I don't think I will be all the way to the goal by then but on the way would be nice... At least in CA they like their healthy!!!!
Trying to find the best time to make MFP a priority, I know I need it....
Frankiesgirl- still raining in Pa... who cuts grass 2x a week in August????6 -
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Rebecca
Confused in Whidbey Island1 -
Hi all, thank you for sharing all your stories; it’s inspiring to know there are other 50+ women trying to be healthy amidst all that life throws at us. I’m new to this fitness community and app. I’ve been trying to get to prechild weight (140lbs) for about 20 years, but have maintained a cap of 180. I did a moderate amount of running around and a little yoga and kayaking but nothing changed. I started recording food and weight July 29 with a goal of 2lbs/wk. I also moved and started a new job. I’ve lost 5.6lbs in two weeks! so I’m on track for August. I hope I can keep up the loss with the moving exercise over. There’s a pool at our new place, but I haven’t swam in years...5
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Congratulations to all the “losers”! Well done girls!
Pip, you haven’t changed and are still beautiful with that killer smile!
Didn’t do a darn think today except take a shower. Guess I’ll try to do more tomorrow.
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Hi Gals,
Machka – the bike idea is great, but messy the way they did it, use sticky Velcro on the back of the picture, so you put one side of the velco on the back of the pic, locate it on the wheel where you want and then put the other piece of velco over the spokes and on to the picture, which will make the picture look like its “hanging” without the clip… you could use kids bike wheels for smaller ones…
Allie (((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))
Beautiful art work!
Pip – you look great thin, but were beautiful heavy also
Newbies – welcome, we are a chatty bunch
Kelly – love that you are making your time on the weekend with day care fun for you as well as for him… would he like to cook with you? Sometimes just one is more flexible than a group. As I recall you do some/most of your cook prep on the weekend.
Smiles
Kim from N. California
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Lanette sounds like we are on similar diets. I agree I feel satisfied after I eat. I often have the same breakfast either no sugar peanut butter, a banana , Kombucha, coffee no sugar, and water or for instead of the peanut butter I make myself a pancake out of oatmeal, yogurt, baking powder (no aluminum) egg, salt, lemon with rind from a zeste. I top with butter and blueberries and banana no syrup. YUM. Love your applesauce with walnuts and yogurt idea. Yum! Lunch does vary for me, but does includes lots of veggies and a fruit. I too go for the 90% chocolate.
Your applesauce with cinnamon added too idea sounds like it would be good on my pancake. I make one big pancake.2 -
frankiesgirl21 wrote: »Pip, just lovely!
Trying to be more mindful of things each day... what I eat and how I feel and how they relate.... Dinner out tonight, the DH's day off.... But I did cook healthy meals for us the last 3 nights in a row so I will count this day four of a really good streak as long as I behave tonight! I feel determined....
Frankiesgirl- still raining in Pa... who cuts grass 2x a week in August????
I have been trying to look at a menu ahead of time. It really helps me find a choice that works for me. When we went to a Kurdish restaurant last Friday. The others at my table thought mine looked like one of the better choices overall. It was an entree loaded with cooked veggies, chicken, and spices. Delicious. I did skip eating the rice. We ended up at out friends for desert and rather then have the peach pie with ice cream I enjoyed a fresh peach and sparkling water. Wonderful.
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Hi Sisters, just a quick hello before I get my rain gear on and go hand out breakfast to the furr family.
Katla, sorry to hear your friend's horse has laminitis. I monitor my horse's feed very carefully by using pens to lock them off the grass and only let them graze part-time, or I use an electric fence to strip graze them and only allow them a certain amount of grass each day. The sugar in grass is lower at night so if a horse is a "good doer" sometimes it's better to let them graze at night and lock them up during the day. I like to give my horses mostly hay, with grass as a extra. I have never had a horse founder by using this system. As for DuckDuckGo, I've been using it for several months now and haven't had any problem with it. You can try it out and you can use it whether or not it is installed on your computer as your default browser, I think.
Margaret and Lanette, I too have been looking at the high-fibre diets. They fit very well into my mostly vegan menus. I think fibre might be the secret key that makes the body systems work just right.
Chat more later, Wendy
PS: Last night's play: Travels in Narnia
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Pip & Kirby:
Tracy in Edmonton: Congrats on the official 20lb loss!!! :bigsmile:
Barbie: The smoke and haze hasn't been bad enough to keep me from walking or horseback riding in the past day or two, but today DH can't handle it. He's having an afternoon snooze just now. It is a good choice. I am also choosing to be less active than yesterday because of smoke in the air, but I just came in from picking blueberries. They are washed and in the freezer.
Becca: I eat the same breakfast nearly every day. It is 1/2 cup of 2% cottage cheese topped with about a tablespoon of blueberries.
Carol: I think you look wonderful with this hairstyle and color. I hope you enjoy it.
NYKaren: Your trip sounds great so far. I hope you'll post the things you see and do while you're there.
Lanette: We're planning on doing different outings day by day. DDIL has some classes that she's taking while they're here, so we'll probably hang out near home until she's finished with them. We plan to see the Columbia River Gorge if possible, and also the coast. The coast is more likely to be pleasant if weather continues to be so smoky.
Barbara the Southern Oregon coastie: We have not used any masks with the air situation so far. When things are too out of whack, we hunker down in our air-conditioned house. DH has a worse time of it than I do because of his health challenges. :ohwell:
Wendy: Thanks for the information on laminitis. I am learning so much, and this is helpful. Most of my horsey friends have been owners for years and are quite savvy. I'm not an owner at all, but want to educate myself. DH has offered to buy a horse many times, but I keep saying no. His situation is not quite stable, and I have to make him the top priority. I don't think I'm in a good position to manage the care of a horse at a level that is good enough for the health and welfare of the animal. I'm delighted to help my friend with Arrow. Between us, we seem to be doing a good job keeping him healthy (100% her work) and happy (partly my work). :bigsmile:
We did several errands today and are now in a resting mode at home. It looks foggy outside, but the fog actually is smoke from the BC fires.
Katla in Beautiful but smokey NW Oregon
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OK Ladies ~ I turned 70 today. That was the reason for the hair color change. My mom dyed her hair until her death at 91 and so did my beloved Grandmother! LOL Don't know if I will keep it but will see if I can adjust to the darker color.6
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I like the color, Carol... You can always go back to blond if you hate it. I'm going to whiter and whiter blonde... figure I'll meet the gray hair somewhere in the middle and finally get to stop dying it!
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Wendy, I keep meaning to mention how impressed I am with the changes you are making to the picture... the snowy path and the fireworks ones are my favorites - so far....
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROL0
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Carol happy birthday friend!!💗
Here's to many many more years of celebrating! Love your hair color!!
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Happy Birthday Carol.. Love the new hair color, it really suits you. I’m 79 now and still dying my hair. It just makes me feel better.
Didn’t do much today as I am still tired from the weekend activities. Will try to post a really cute pic of DGD.
SueBDew in TX
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Happy Birthday Carol!
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Rebecca - I eat the same breakfast every day and the same lunch every weekday. I haven’t gotten tired of it yet and it’s been over a year. I don’t know if I mentioned my hub has gotten into his weight loss groove so dinner every night has been the same too. He eats out at lunch so we have a big salad for dinner. Of course, that means I’m eating salad twice a day, but I also have popcorn with butter as an evening snack I’m trying to increase my fats. I’ve been extremely low fat for a long time since that’s how we were eating for the hubs gallbladder issues.
Okie in the TX Hill Country
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Happy birthday, Carol!0
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Carol Happy Birthday!!! I'll turn 69 in November, my hair is pretty much totally white. I gave up several years ago dyeing it blonde. It grows so fast and I wear it so short it needed colored way too often. I figured I earned this "silver fox" look. Lol
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Katla – I will drop into FB just to check on some of my friends and family. It’s gotten so political that you cannot make any comment that some ‘random’ stranger turns it into a name calling fest. I’ve got enough to deal with without that sort of $#*T. God Bless them, they certainly need it. One DDnL has FB as her “Home Page” with her cell ‘on’ 24/7. Son ‘*kitten*’ about it all the time. Of course, Louis’s attitude is ‘tell her if she must keep it on 24/7 – just go sleep out on the sofa. Other DDnL just ‘deleted’ her account. So many reasons for that and I hope to find out when we go visit. No time to waste on a phone call.
I agree this is an amazing group of ladies. Yeah, it will be a ‘jump in and catch up’. But, I have a few people who can fill me in.
Barbie – I will be back on MFP - Community. If I have anything that I ‘think’ is ‘cute’ or ‘informative’ then I will pass them on through ‘snail email’. I guess when you get to our age. I’m 67 – I don’t have to learn how to keep up with the changes. All I see is that Markie ZipperButt did was expose everybody to just anybody. And he is still censoring things that he does not agree with.
I was supposed to start physical therapy; but, called them and told that that since I am still on a ‘driving restriction’ that we’d have to talk about it after Labor Day. My balance just suxs. I fell today after rearranging some boxes on top of the rack in my utility room and misjudges the last step on the ladder that Louis bought me to climb up on it. My DR because of my seizures was lifted in mid-May; but, now on a driving restriction for excessive sleepiness and ‘sleep apnea’ MD told me NO driving until after I see him for a follow-up. That will be sometime in September.
My MD thinks that going will help me with my balance. The dizziness – well, I guess I will end up having to take medication for that. I did not tell Louis that I fell off the 3-step ladder today. Thankfully, I did not get hurt; but, the boxes that were up on the wire rack we have in our utility room was driving me nuts – just thrown up there. GGGrrrrr!!!!!
Pip – Beautiful; but, the “Buff Pip” is all I have ever known here.
Carol – I’ll be seeing Margaret for the first time in about 2 years. She is ‘supposedly’ letting her ‘bleached blond’ hair go gray. It will be interesting seeing her. She’s had blond hair since they moved to Miami 35+ years ago.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GIRL!!!!!
Lenora2 -
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Rebecca
Confused in Whidbey Island
U should be around for the MS ride, we go around whidby island1 -
Thanks for all the fat compliments:0)
Happyyyyy bdayyyyyyyy!!!!! To you carol0 -
Carol!! Happy Happy birthday you young thing !!
Lanette0 -
Hi friends. I got home yesterday at about 6 pm, slept like a log (God that's a long drive) and today I am still tired. I will be going to bed after dinner! I'll behave tomorrow. Too tired to think about it now. Take care all and Happy Birthday Carol! Meg from Omaha1
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70, that's a good number. What are you doing to celebrate? I like to celebrate the smallest thing, LOL. Any excuse and turning 70 would be a majorly great reason. Spoil yourself silly!
Barbara, I have a special spot in my heart for forest and garden paths. There is something about a path that calls me to wander down it, especially if I can't see where it is going and it's a mystery and adventure. I often get lost in forests because I can't resist the siren call of a new path...but I've always managed to find my way out again before dark. LOL2 -
Happy Birthday Carol!!!! Hope you are doing something special.
Lenora, no more falling. Those boxes just aren’t worth your getting hurt.
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Happy Birthday Carol* hope it was a sweet one...
Today is Alfie's first Birthday..he got some little ceasers mixed in with his kibble and he gobbled it up...
Going to sleep.
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