WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2018
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Okie ~ You look great and so young. Are you sure you aren't in your 30's?
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Peach!! - Thanks! You’re a doll! I’ll be 51 next month. Hats and sunglasses hide a lot
Okie
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Christmas 2009. Weight 265
Nov 2016. ( the same weight I am now) weight 235
I think I have improved over the years, putting my health more in the forefront. A couple of stressful times here and there. Times when I ate whatever. No thought as to nutrients. Nope not anymore!
Rebecca
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Thanks Rye0
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Okie are you sure that before picture is you,! You look like a completely different person and you look fabulous darling. Lol
I played golf today and got really hot as it was 93 when we got finished. Just chillin and doing laundry now.
My brain is fried so I will quit for now.1 -
Sue - You are too kind. Thank you!
ETA - the dimples are the same
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Great Before and After, Okie. Give us your top three tips on how you did it!1
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Thanks Wendy! I think mine are probably the same as a lot of you ladies.
1. Eat foods I enjoy within my calorie allotment
2. Break a sweat every day - preferably for 30+ minutes (most days it is 60 min)
3. Weigh and log all my food and drinks, every day, whether above or below my calorie goal. Weigh and log my weight twice a week up or down. Compare the two if my weight was up to understand why.
Okie.
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Wendy,I've always thought I was active but when I made healthy eating activity my hobby, I started seeing out additional opportunities to be active. I added additional dance classes to my weekly routine and bought an exercise bike for the living room. Now I walk the dogs for about three hours a day, go to two two hour line dance classes each week and ride the exercise bike and knit while I watch TV or talk to Jake. I meet my friends for a walk rather that for a meal. I continue to find ways to cut down on the time i spend at the computer.
These last few weeks since the pain started in my hip and leg, I've had to cut way down on walking. I haven't' gone to line dance class and I'm not riding the exercise bike. I've had to vastly reduce the amount of food I eatl. It has been very frustrating but I've found more time to read.
Barbie 5 -
Whew! Tracey! So happy to see the cactus is alive and well.
Well, not that I’ve shaken my funk, DH has one. I wish he could talk out his feelings. I just have to guess. My guess is that he’s subconsciously worried about his friend who had the heart attack, but who knows really?
Well, we’re going to visit tomorrow. Maybe that will cheer him up.5 -
I love looking at photos of you LOSERS
Yes Okie, great photo of your daughter, lol.... or is that your granddaughter?
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Lanette - Ha! Thanks for the kind words. I was going to say the hard work of trying to maintain the loss starts now and I realized I’ve been in my maintenance range for over 5 months now.
Okie2 -
okiewoman510 wrote: »Lanette - Ha! Thanks for the kind words. I was going to say the hard work of trying to maintain the loss starts now and I realized I’ve been in my maintenance range for over 5 months now.
Okie
Okie -
Good for you! Maintenance is often harder than losing it seems so you are doing an amazing job!
When I got down to my WW goal I kept losing despite experimenting with adding "points". I then stopped losing, wobbled a bit then started gaining again.
This group is so neat because of all the neat tips and I really like MFP's setup for tracking macro's. And being able to review what is working and ascertain why. WW never had that capability when I left it a couple years ago.
Lanette
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trucker743 wrote: »I am in Washington State also, east of Seattle near the foothills of the Cascades. Thankfully the worst of the smoke is gone today. We have clouds instead! 😪
Welcome Trucker! Good for you taking some weight off!!
My DH and I used to live in Snoqualmie - had a view of Mt. Si we took for granted I'm afraid (and the neighbor's trees were small, lol). We loved living in that rural area despite the hour commute to and from Seattle every day. That was 35+ years ago and your area has really grown.
Lanette
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stats for the day:
no gym workout
rode e-bike, my bike went to the shop to get tuned up for the ride
bike ride hm 2 gym- 6.49min, 13.9amph, 131mhr, 1.5mi= 76c
apple watch- 66c
bike ride gym 2 sumn station- 40.20min, 148mhr, 126ahr, 17.8amph, 11.9mi= 371c
apple watch- 505c
jog sta 2 wk- 4.20min, 8.32min mi, 140ahr, 153mhr, .5mi= 58c
apple watch- 52c
jog wk 2 sumn sta- 4.37min, 10.04min mi, 122ahr, 147mhr, .4mi= 63c
apple watch- 53c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 11.46min, 13.1amph, 124ahr, 144mhr, 2.5mi= 127c
apple watch- 170c
total cal 6954 -
Just back from the movie ,wow it was a doozie...a Nicholas Sparks. Called the Choice..,now thunderstorms going to be coming in1
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The MRI went well but the lorazepam turned me into a stumble bum for the rest of the day. I didn't get much done. I read the report and have no idea what it means. Fortuntely I have an appointment with my doctor on Wednesday to go over the report and figure out what to do next. 5
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Loving the before and after photos! So inspiring to see the successes!
Trucker If you drink a single Premier Protein shake a day, you may be able to meet your protein needs without adding a lot of calories, fat, or carbs. One shake is 30g of protein, 160 calories.
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okiewoman510 wrote: »Thanks Wendy! I think mine are probably the same as a lot of you ladies.
1. Eat foods I enjoy within my calorie allotment
2. Break a sweat every day - preferably for 30+ minutes (most days it is 60 min)
3. Weigh and log all my food and drinks, every day, whether above or below my calorie goal. Weigh and log my weight twice a week up or down. Compare the two if my weight was up to understand why.
Okie.
That's pretty much what works for me. Only I weigh myself every day to help understand my fluctuations.
You look great!!
Machka in Oz0 -
Did the Firm Max Cardio DVD today. The plan for tomorrow is to do Debbie Siebers Keep It Up DVD (another new one)
Katie – I’m so glad your son finally woke up. I’m sure that’s such a relief for you. You should be very proud
Jess left to go to the DMV. I understand there are long lines because now because people have to apply for a certain type of license in order to fly starting in 2020. Plus, they say they usually are busier in the summertime. Update: she said the line wasn't bad
Margaret – regarding losing weight fast releasing toxins, wonder what happens to people who have WLS? Perhaps these are minuscule toxins. But without the WLS, some people would be very bad off, so I guess it’s a tradeoff.
Heather – is that REALLY you?????? Wowza!!
Well, we got a new member for Newcomers so I emailed the webmaster telling him that I no longer have admin privileges and cc’d the president and another gal who is interested in getting new members on the website asap. Then I find out that the old membership application was on the website. It looks like he now has the new application on the website, but how many people used the old one? I hope not many. At this point, with all these problems and the president is just sticking her head in the sand, I really don’t have any desire to continue in membership. A while ago Vince couldn’t get into the website. Now the webmaster was very good and responded to Vince quickly. Vince tried what he suggested but still couldn’t get in. Then he was told to try something else and then could get in. But, really, this shouldn’t have happened. Vince mentioned how he couldn’t see the member’s interests and found out that this was custom code that the old webmaster did (the one who died) and the new webmaster can’t fix it. The president didn’t feel that many members used this feature. Well, just today I had a member mention to me that they couldn’t see this information. Now here is a member who would like to use this feature but can’t. Vince suggested using an outside firm to get this feature back, but nothing’s been done. Update: not sure who put up the correct application, but he emailed me saying that he'd take care of it (the application) when he got back from vacation. Have no idea how long he'll be gone. I just hope my admin privileges aren't custom code. Guess we shall see.....
Rebecca – many times Vince and I don’t eat the same thing. Like tonight, he had this pizza bake thing that I made and I had soup and shirataki noodles. Vince likes thins PLAIN, I like some spice. So I make it with the spice and let him scrape it off. Yes, like a 2-year-old
Sharon – welcome! Come back lots
Okie – another wowza!!!!
Barbie – so glad the MRI went well
Michele in NC
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Before picture about 6 years ago, before gastric bypass surgery.
After picture, last Saturday, going to 50th anniversary party for friends, 125# later
Janetr OKC
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Before picture taken at my first retirement from teaching in 2009. From left to right: Mama, Daddy, Husband, me, and a friend.
During picture taken at thanksgiving last year. Me, my daughter, son-in-law in back, grandkids with my son sitting in swing.
I still have at least 25 lbs to go, maybe more.
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trucker743 wrote: »I am in Washington State also, east of Seattle near the foothills of the Cascades. Thankfully the worst of the smoke is gone today. We have clouds instead! 😪
Trucker, I'm 68. I had by-pass surgery five years ago this coming December. You are so right, it does require a lot of changes in your eating. I lost 125# had both knees replaced after that and it's been a whole new lease on life. I'd do it over again in a heartbeat.
Hang in there, find a good support group. You CAN do it.
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Hi Gals,
Its always great to log in here and read about how all are doing even if I don’t have much to report. I have been really busy with my business…I have been working at increasing the amount of publicity and that seems to be paying off. I am hoping that by the time I am 65 (5 more years); I would like to give at least some of the gardening and replace it with the embroidery; 2 of my gardening jobs are a lot of heavy work, one in particular – it’s digging holes and moving plants for 3 hours each week – I have been gardening at this house with all the plant moving for 8 years, and all the digging was exhausting then and it’s exhausting now ! I figure I have to work until I am 70, or so.
Smiles
Kim from N. California
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Better day today. But long.
Love y'all,
Lisa from Arkansas, in New Mexico, heading for Texas on Monday. For a couple days.3 -
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Kate UK 1
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