WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR JANUARY 2019
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I have been eyeing the frozen pizza with cauliflower crust at the grocery store for several weeks. Today we bought one and had it for lunch. Jake was willing to try something new. It was delicious--great spices along with fewer calories and less sodium than the other "healthier" frozen pizzas we've bought before He said he would eat it again. It seems to me that the problem with pizza is that the crust has most of the calories along with the nutritional equivalent of eating the cardboard box.
Heather, congrats to you for saying No to your friends about an outing that doesn't suit you.
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »CONSTELLATION
In the distance you can see the cream Regency terraces that Brighton and Hove is famous for. The skeleton object in the sea is the remains of the West Pier which burnt down years ago. The tall needle is the i360 that you can go up in a pod.
I LOVE my run.
Heather UK XXXXXX
Very nice!
And it's good to have an interesting place to run ... it can be motivational.
M in Oz2 -
Been spending a lot of time watching the docu series so kind of missed a lot here. I did skim over the posts so I know what’s happening. Cold with 45 mph wind today.
Rori- Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary
I have been 19 days with limiting sugar. Must say I am proud of myself.
Suebdew in TX6 -
cariwaldick wrote: »The recent ones have these little boxes of questions and conversation starters, called Table Topics. I'll post a few here, if anyone's interested in sharing their answers.
What tiny object is most precious to you?
When you've had a tough day, what makes you feel better?
What would you like to celebrate?
What's your biggest wish in life?
Tiny object: The thing that leaps to mind is my wedding band. It's a simple tungsten band. Not expensive. But it is more about what it symbolises.
Tough Day: Music & prayer.
Celebrate: Life.
Biggest Wish: If I could win the lottery, I would ... buy a house in Canada, buy a house in mainland Australia, and buy a house in France (I have locations in mind). I'd rent them out on a 6-12 month basis ... I've got a rough schedule in mind. Then I'd pack up our stuff and put most of it into storage (again), and we'd travel the world.
But this is where the rent schedule would come in. We might live in France for 6-12 months, attend the language school in Royan, and travel around Europe. Then we might live in Australia for 6-12 months while I finish my current degree, and travel around Australia. Then we might live in Canada for 6-12 months, and I might look at starting/doing a PhD, and travel around Canada. Then we might rent out all the properties and travel around Asia for a while. And so on. Any time we felt like settling for a bit, we'd pick a house and stay there for a while. If we felt like a change of scenery, we'd pick a different house or just go travelling.
Now I've just got to win a lottery.
If you were to send a Thank you not to someone, whom would it be?
I rarely send thank you notes.
I prefer to tell people face to face or in emails or whatever ... a more immediate communication.
Who is a good friend to you?
My best friend is my husband ... that's partly why this past year has been so difficult. It's not just having everything change between marriage partners, it's also losing an element of the friendship as well.
My mother is also a good friend. We haven't always had a great relationship, but I think it gets better with age.
What small thing did you do recently, that made someone very happy?
One of the new side effects of my husband's brain injury is that it is very easy to do small things to make him happy ... suggesting that we have ice cream, for example, can have him beaming.
What's the biggest surprise you have ever had?
That I'd actually be living in Australia.
What color do you most like to wear?
Blue ... and there's a certain shade of blue I'm most attracted to.
Oddly enough, if you were to ask, what's the most common colour in your wardrobe, it's actually black. For years I wore black ... and people started commenting. "Why don't you wear something with more colour?" It's still almost an effort for me to buy clothes with colour, and I don't have very many things in my favourite shade of blue. But I like wearing that blue ... I feel good in it.
Machka in Oz4 -
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Did Ab workout with Gilad DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do some training games on the Wii.
M – I’m glad this root canal is going better for you and hope it continues to do so.
I don’t think I’d like a class reunion with multiple classes. Not that I’d go if we had a high school reunion. I just didn’t think those years were anything special. We had a 25 year reunion of our grammar school a while back (over 20 years ago) and that I made sure to go to. It’s surprising how many of our classmates were no longer with us
Supposed to lector at the church tomorrow am so I won’t be going to mass tonight. I really don’t like the Sunday morning service. Why did I say that I’d do it?
Made some more chocolate bran muffins. Just realized that I was getting low.
Rita – thanks so much for the big smile you gave me. Illegal alien…priceless
Barbie – even some restaurants are offering the cauliflower crust! Personally, I really like it.
Clothing: I need to have light colors on top and dark colors on bottom. Sometimes this can be a real challenge
Michele in NC
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Katla... I had to research the yellow squash with green stripes ... it’s a delicata! Now to find the best way to cook it.3
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We have vinyl flooring in our bathroom.
We have a scale with little rubber feet.
We've got yellow spots on the vinyl flooring where the rubber feet of the scale have touched.
We did not know that there's a chemical reaction between between vinyl and rubber which causes yellow spots!!
http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/how-to-remove-yellowing-from-vinyl-flooring/
Now I'm trying some of those methods to remove it.
It's all about Googling these days.
Machka in Oz3 -
Janetr - I can definitely see that Olivia takes after her grandma
Mary from Arizona2 -
Hanging on by a thread
Karen5 -
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DH still awful. I didn't get to sleep until 1.30, turning over my crossness with my 'difficult friend' who doesn't get NO for an answer. She's accepted it at last, but doesn't like it and is still agitating everyone but me to go to France to her house and to Bordeaux. Well, I'm not going, but my brain is still arguing. Grrrrrrrrrr!
I read for a bit . I'm in the guest bedroom/my study. Too much coughing to share a bed! I'm reading a biography of Winston Churchill.
Will do my exercises, slowly. Have a quiet day. DH is barely creeping about.
I would love to run, but I will listen to my body. The worst thing is how depressed you feel.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
HEATHER so sorry to hear about your friends attitude, stick to your guns. Re your cold virus, from watching the docu series Vit C is wonderful, DH and I take it every day but Im going to massively increase the dose. Sounds daft but Im waiting to see if it works when either of us starts with a cold. Just need to get DH on board as Ive ordered B vits as well he'll say not more supplements. He is 78 in March doesn't eat a very healthy diet so he probably needs them more than I do. Well we'll see
Kate UK2 -
morning ladies~
I am up and having my tea..... last night had a blast with my friends.. Trudy made chili, today she is making chicken cordon blue, but no breading on mine, thats a true friend knowing what i am eating and helping me stick to it..
I did gain a couple of lbs over yesterday but had quite a bit of sodium so i know it will come right back off.
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Morning, all,
Day 3 of a cold. Pushing zinc (Zicam) gummies every three hours, and am certainly feeling better today than yesterday, but I might have anyway, who knows? At least the sore throat part is over. Drank loads of hot tea yesterday, and napped a lot in between. Pretty much have the same plan for today. It's just not cool to feel crappy over a three-day weekend.
Oh, and we got our first snow (not much, a dusting) at this house yesterday, and the boys kept a roaring fire going all day, so it was a good day for Netflixing and chilling (OK, whining).
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR5 -
Thanks Kate UK. I've managed to drag through all my exercises except strength training and weights. Did machines and yoga stretching. I'm fending the worst of it off so far compared to poor DH.
I even managed 300 words of my memoir. And I did one 'change of address' I've been putting off. Phew! I still have a few more to do before the mail redirection runs out at the end of the month. Will do one more this pm.
The sun is shining. I have to go out to get beans for a lamb stew so can add a few steps to bring me up to 600 calories. That means I can eat.
By the way, in the photo of the seafront that I posted, in the middle distance is a small, brick oval building right in the middle of the promenade. Those are toilets and are the halfway point of my 5k, where I run round them to come home. I am happy when they come into my line of vision. They also mark the bottom of the road that leads up to my son's house and is the route the grandchildren take to the beach. The toilets are at the start of the Parkrun, by the café, and the route runs to either side of them, twice round, up and down. I haven’t done a Parkrun since November, but will start again soon.
Much love, Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
Good morning Ladies -
Things are plugging along at my house. I am finally down into the correct decade, 1.6 lbs and I'll be back at the top of my happy range, so 6.6 more to go to get to the bottom of my range and get my wiggle room back that will allow me to be a little more free and easy with my choices. We are heading home for a baby shower in two weeks so I'm trying to get within my happy zone before we leave. If I don't, that's OK too.
I am feeling quite accomplished this morning. I have been asking the hub for over a year to get our smart light bulbs working with our home kit so I can control them through Siri or have certain functions automated. He has tried half heartedly a couple of times but never gotten it done. I saw an article on how to do it this morning so I set myself up with his iPad and got it done. Yeah me! I set up an automation that will turn the back porch light on if we arrive after dark and turn it off 5 minutes later. I think I may have to swizzle a few settings, and that part I will wait until he is here for so I don't screw anything up.
Have a great day Ladies -
Okie in the TX Hill Country8 -
Beth - Delicata is one of my favorite squash, and it's generally on the sweeter side. I have a couple in the garage right now I'll peel with the potato peeler, then halve lengthwise, remove the seeds, then cut into 1" strips. Put on non-stick cookie sheet, dust with cinnamon, and roast at 400 for perhaps 20 minutes. There are lots of good recipes.
Kim - love the photo of precious Levi curled up for a nap. Are you able to take him along on your gardening jobs?
Barbie - I too was pleasantly surprised at how good a frozen pizza is with a cauliflower crust!
Heather - sorry to hear your DH got hit so hard with the cold and glad he's on antibiotics. Do they have the pneumonia shots in the UK? It's irritating when others can't take the "no" to your not wanting to go with them this time around. There's nothing wrong with wanting to stick around your new home. You don't need to travel on a train to some other city for an adventure - you have a lot to explore just outside your door. Love to hear about your shopping and what goes on at the waterfront.
Kate - my DH is like yours with not wanting to take another pill! He does take D3 but wish I could get some B vitamins, especially the B12 into his pill-holder.
Katla - glad you are enjoying the information brought forth on the health series. I saw Dr. Andrew Saul in a film several years ago, I think it was "The Vitamin Movie" - he's a big proponent of huge doses of Vitamin C. I take 1000 mg of it each day. Again, cheap insurance is how I see it.
DH and I were just commenting neither of us has had a cold or sore throat/bronchial crud in years. I think a big part of it is limited exposure. DH doesn't go out in public much with due to his compromised immune system from his RA meds, plus his increasing anxiety being around the general public. I do my grocery shopping when the stores are less crowded, avoid people with sniffles and sneezes and use hand sanitizer and wash my hands a lot when out and about. We aren't around kids so don't get to share their germs. . I no longer work in a crowded office environment where the bug used to race around.
Here's a Charlie Brown cartoon for you dog lovers:
Have a great day, ladies!
Lanette
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Lanette ... that sounds like a wonderful way to prepare delicata squash!
Karen (prisoner2food) ... hang in there!!
We finally got a snow storm here near Buffalo. Not nearly as bad as some in the past ... about a foot of snow with drifts much higher. Husband and I got up early as we usually meet the pastor for prayer at 8:00. We cleared the vehicles, didn't bother to blow out the driveway (just barreled through it with the truck), and got to the church by 7:55 ... to find out they cancelled church services because cold winds are coming in?? I guess the pastor had emailed my husband at 7:38 but we were out in the driveway at that time. So back home with my coffee and waiting for a livestream message from the pastor at 10:00. Wimpy generation.
Good news today ... I'm down 2.5 pounds for the week for a total loss of 7.5 pounds since the start of the new year. The 19:5 fasting schedule is a good tool for me so far. There's a rhythm to it and I've found that regardless of when I open my window to eat, it needs to be closed by 7:00. My complexion is constantly pink, which people have noticed. My husband, who has no idea that I'm IF, said my face looked thinner. I'm wearing a pair of jeans that were a tad uncomfortable at the waist before the holidays. So I'll march on with this for a while. I've scheduled to meet with my doctor in April, after 3 months, to look at labs and make certain that this is a healthy option for me. I have also been journalling ... something I rarely do ... making this a "Study of One."
Hoping NY Karen made it home safely.
Beth near Buffalo where she has lots of snow to move ...
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Beth, IF wouldn't work for me because I get dizzy if I don't eat every few hours but I'm glad it's working for you. It's another example of "the best eating plan is the one you'll stick to". I, too, am surprised when I show up somewhere and find that it's been cancelled because of bad weather.
Heather, I'm sorry to hear that your difficult friend continues to be difficult. When I tell someone that I'm not available, I don't like to be argued with about it. Hope you and DH feel better soon.
The dogs and I are up on time and have walked for 30 minutes, then eaten our breakfast, and are eager to go on our after breakfast walk with our friend. We are enjoying the slightly more daylight each morning.
Barbie in beautiful NW WA4 -
Hello all! I tried to post a couple of times in the past couple days and I just erased it because I felt it was too long and I was talking too much about the new daycare family! SO...suffice it to say, the past two days with the new family have gone WONDERFULLY! I went from two/three meltdowns on the first day, to one on Friday, then none yesterday! We came close yesterday, but were able to calm him before things got out of control! He actually even sat down and ate meals with us Friday and Saturday, too. Hurray! Thank you for all of your kind words and concerns! I am so glad it has worked out and I don't have to make tough choices in regards to caring for him. Friday we went on another night hike and explored the beach in winter. Found lots of driftwood. Yesterday I got the sleds and snowboards out and the boys had a ball sledding/boarding on the slope behind my house. They had hot cocoa and granola bars for post sledding snack at 6:30pm, so we ate dinner at 8:00. (They did, I ate my dinner while they had hot cocoa.) SO...today is just Trentin. I need to make a ham and prep some fresh fruits and veggies for tomorrow's Mid Winter Luau!
My yogurt that I started yesterday, didn't solidify. This is the second time it has happened to me. Is it because I have added the culture when the milk is still too hot? Is the liquid "yogurt" still good to use? Do any of you use your batches that don't turn out?
I can't remember who asked; Machka maybe? I have children in my house from 6:30am-11:30pm about five days a week; then Trentin on every other weekend from 11:30-11:30 and the new boys every Saturday from 4:00pm-11:30pm. I usually have two weekday evenings child free (usually Tuesday and Thursday).
Machka- Love your beautiful vacation photos and your marathon video is fantastic. You must be good at hiding pain, because you look like powerful woman running that last leg of the race! Hope you feel better soon in regards to your root canal.
Janet- Olivia is adorable! She has really grown in the past few years!
Karen VA- Love, LoVe, LOVE the work you are doing with your grandson! That is a great essay that he wrote! I always looked at things like that as a way to get my kids debating. It is good to learn to argue your point of view in a articulate and healthy way.
Heather- So sorry you and DH are dealing with colds/flu! I think those are the worst part of the "winter" season. Hope you feel better soon! I would hope your friends would understand you not being able to get together with them at this time. lol well, maybe all understand except the "one" pampered friend. I love your view on your run!
Rita- Love your photos and hearing of your adventures as you tend to your park duties! Little green men and skeleton cowboys; just what I think New Mexico would be like!
Beth- our produce box looks great! I got a giggle from your "sunday morning snow excursion". I often think the same about this generation. I really think the advances in technology (weather predictions and social media) has given everyone the excuse to stay inside.
Going to wave hello and send warm thoughts, hugs, etc to the rest of you! I have gone back about five pages to glean for things my brain has forgotten, that is about all I can handle this morning! lol ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)6 -
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En route to visit DED and her boys. New iPhone is super fast, a big improvement. Already did HIIT and lower body workout to get ahead.
Heather: Love your seafront. Having somewhere like that to walk makes all the difference. Hope hubby gets better soon and you keep it at bay. Totally understand your wish to stay home. Some people don’t know how to take ‘no’ for an answer.
KJ: You have the magic touch with kids. They are so lucky to have you in their lives.
Karen VA: Great way to get your grandson to do his work. He’s learning and doesn’t know it yet. He deserved the reprieve.
Well we’re nearly there so will sign off.
☘️ Terri4 -
beth we made it home before the storm! We had a very quick goodbye at the front of Rachel’s new apt just a block from the Capitol Building. The overnight storm has left us with mostly ice and the temps are dropping severely so I’m staying in for the next two days!!
kJ take the temp of the milk after it reaches 180, it has to drop down to lower than 110 Fahrenheit. The not set yogurt is essentially kefir and is drinkable, don’t throw it out. Also make sure the live culture from old yogurt you use is room temperature before adding it to the milk. Hope these tips work, the temps are super important to the process in the instant pot. I’ve actually just started my weekly batch.
Home bound weekend will help the two of us get paperwork cleared up and decluttering projects finished.
Stay warm and cozy everyone. NYKAREN
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1948Peachy wrote: »
I feel your pain right now thermometer says 0 degrees here.3 -
For Georgia, 32 degrees is pretty darn cold!
I really feel for all you Northerners!1 -
margaretturk wrote: »1948Peachy wrote: »
I feel your pain right now thermometer says 0 degrees here.
Cold here too, 18 degrees, and I have daffodils trying to bloom. I suppose those just popping through the soil will be okay, but not too hopeful for those that were already forming buds.
Staying in today and watching football championship games
Janetr OKC
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1948Peachy wrote: »
I haven't even been outside yet...DH says it like the frozen tundra out there! Very cold and very windy!!! Currently the "feels like" temp is 21!!!2
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