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Let’s share our #1 priority for the coming week...
Because I am away from home 4 days this week, mine will be to ensure I do an extra 15 mins exercise for those 4 days to compensate for eating out. 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️3 -
Hi,
Retired hippie, 62, living with diabetes, been on MFP since 2014. Been yoyo-ing between 260 and 245. Currently 227 (yay!)
MFP helps me monitor calories and macros (and my A1C is about 7.5), but only if I log meals faithfully and honestly.
I always way myself every morning, even if I'm gaining. I write it on the calendar.
Since COVID, my wife works from home so we have lunch together every day. We started going for a walk afterwards, and that has increase to 2 miles almost every day, usually more on the weekends.
That's it for now-hope you are doing well in these trying times.
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michaelhardie13 wrote: »Hi,
Retired hippie, 62, living with diabetes, been on MFP since 2014. Been yoyo-ing between 260 and 245. Currently 227 (yay!)
MFP helps me monitor calories and macros (and my A1C is about 7.5), but only if I log meals faithfully and honestly.
I always way myself every morning, even if I'm gaining. I write it on the calendar.
Since COVID, my wife works from home so we have lunch together every day. We started going for a walk afterwards, and that has increase to 2 miles almost every day, usually more on the weekends.
That's it for now-hope you are doing well in these trying times.
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Hey Michael. I noticed you don't have any friends. I believe if you collected some friends it would help you on your journey. I have found a great bunch of people on here that provide great support and accountability. Shoot me a friend's request if you want. I would be glad to provide support. Congrats on getting down to 227!6 -
Tuppence26 wrote: »Let’s share our #1 priority for the coming week...
Because I am away from home 4 days this week, mine will be to ensure I do an extra 15 mins exercise for those 4 days to compensate for eating out. 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️
Hmmm. I'm kind of a slacker, don't mostly think about things in terms of goals or priorities.
I do have an exercise *hope* for the week, I guess. We had rain-outs this week for my usual Wednesday and Friday rows, and it was slightly scary-windy today (but it being Saturday we had 4 people, enough for a quad, which - since a bigger boat, around 40' long - is safer in waves than our usual singles/doubles).
I used the weather as an opportunity (excuse?) to skip the 5-mile walk I've been doing on rowing days, when weather permits, because I've been having some mild hip/quad discomfort, and wasn't sure whether it was mainly muscular (from increased volume), or something more persistent like an uptick in arthritis or a new impingement or something. So, I greatly reduced cardio volume for a few days, as an experiment, rather than swapping lower-volume indoor stuff for higher-volume outdoor with the weather issue.
I'm hoping we have more favorable rowing weather this week, so I can experiment with ramping back up what I'd been doing outdoors, see how things go. I've felt more comfortable after a few days rest, hoping that will take care of the problem, or that simply soldiering on will overcome it, so I can go full-bore with summer outdoor enjoyment.
Forecast looks better for Monday rowing, so fingers crossed.1 -
Hi all. I just joined MFP Premium today. My goal is to lose thirty pounds. I'm 66 years old and weigh much more than I ever have. I've been having some knee aches and pains the last few weeks and last night I felt like I had sprained an ankle from no apparent reason. My husband had to help me get into the house from the garage. I soaked my feet up to my ankles in Epsom Salts and at bedtime I used CBD salve on my ankle, knee, and heel (yes, plantar fasciitis also). This morning my ankle feels ok. Weird, but wonderful! However, I still have the knee and heel issues.
All of this I believe could be caused by the extra weight I'm carrying nowadays. I walk three miles several days a week, and my husband and I just returned to the gym this week because it's getting so warm and will be hot very soon.
I plan to start logging all my meals and snacks and weighing myself daily (worked for me in the past), so I hope joining this group will give me some added inspiration to achieve my health and weight goals.
Good luck to all of you on your journeys to improve your health, and thank you for your inspiring posts!8 -
Hi and welcome, @michaelhardie13 and @millst711!
@michaelhardie13, it's nice to see another current and/or former hippie admitting to it here! Sounds like you and your wife are off to a good start, for health improvements.
@millst711, my joint issues (arthritis, torn meniscus) have been *so much* less discomfort-provoking or painful since losing weight (I lost a bit over 50 pounds in 2015-16 at age 59-60, stayed at a healthy weight since, now 65). For sure, reduced stress on the joints was a factor, but I also have a suspicion that I have less systemic inflammation at a healthy body weight, too, though I don't have data to demonstrate that. Getting stronger helped, in addition, but I 100% understand that that's tricky when there's pain or injuries that are easily provoked. I also feel like my balance is better at a healthy weight, which can help with those ankle-twist risks, though I admit I've worked on balance improvement explicitly, as well.
Wishing you both much success!2 -
My #1 priority will be to keep my keto meal plan during this memorial weekend. But I do love corn on the cob and watermelon. Otherwise it's Meat and veggies. I plan to walk on my 3 days off. 1
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Stuck to calorie allowance today, but heavy rain so no walk. Should have got on stationary bike😜maybe tomorrow😁😁
Have a good day all! Hey4 -
Hi there - I am a 69 yo female West Australian, looking to re-lose the weight I lost in 2011/12 - from 98 kilograms down 25 kilograms to 73 kilograms- but most of it has snuck back slowly and steadily when I wasn't looking! I'm 5'6" tall, I'm 92 kilograms down from a recent high of 95 kilograms, but want to get back to 75 kilograms - altho anything less than I am at the moment will be an improvement.
I found MFP very helpful the last time and hoping to get myself motivated and on track again. I'm currently suffering from Benign Postural Vertigo, but it is slowly improving. Like many others, I have knees and hips that sometimes decide to play up, but on the whole, I'm pretty healthy, just lazy! Looking at doing some Step videos I can do at home, so that if I fall over, at least I'm at home LOL. We tend to eat *mostly* vegetarian food, and I find as I get older I need to make my meals smaller which is a good thing.
We are coming into our winter in Australia, and it's actually raining as I type which is a good thing, as we don't get a lot of rain here in Perth! :-)6 -
Morning, I am thrilled to be on this mission with everyone in this group. My goal is to make sure that everyday I do something for myself....take a walk, do weights, golf and eat healthy, which brings me to a quick question for you I have myfitnesspal premium - why do i not see the meal scan on my apple IOS S 6, the barcode is there but not the meal scan....can anyone shed some light on this for me.....thanks in advance3
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I use the Map My Walk app, and it posts them to MFP, automatically. Today was 2.2 miles for 410 calories.
I'm about halfway through to my goal of losing 50 lbs or so.
I have diabetes, well managed with oral medications. I am looking for friends like me, too (well, too much like me would make you a weirdo, which is ok - but not like me is ok, too!) {:8^{D}7 -
Hi there - I am a 69 yo female West Australian, looking to re-lose the weight I lost in 2011/12 - from 98 kilograms down 25 kilograms to 73 kilograms- but most of it has snuck back slowly and steadily when I wasn't looking! I'm 5'6" tall, I'm 92 kilograms down from a recent high of 95 kilograms, but want to get back to 75 kilograms - altho anything less than I am at the moment will be an improvement.
I found MFP very helpful the last time and hoping to get myself motivated and on track again. I'm currently suffering from Benign Postural Vertigo, but it is slowly improving. Like many others, I have knees and hips that sometimes decide to play up, but on the whole, I'm pretty healthy, just lazy! Looking at doing some Step videos I can do at home, so that if I fall over, at least I'm at home LOL. We tend to eat *mostly* vegetarian food, and I find as I get older I need to make my meals smaller which is a good thing.
We are coming into our winter in Australia, and it's actually raining as I type which is a good thing, as we don't get a lot of rain here in Perth! :-)
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Hello from NZ. I’d love to swap winters with you. We are in s flooding situation here. Managed a walk today after a couple of days stuck inside🙆♀️. Funny how those kgs slip on when we’re not watching.. mine snuck up while I was focused on giving up smoking. Good luck with your journey2
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Morning, I am thrilled to be on this mission with everyone in this group. My goal is to make sure that everyday I do something for myself....take a walk, do weights, golf and eat healthy, which brings me to a quick question for you I have myfitnesspal premium - why do i not see the meal scan on my apple IOS S 6, the barcode is there but not the meal scan....can anyone shed some light on this for me.....thanks in advance
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Hi, sorry can not help you.. I just use the website, not premium, I am sure someone will have the answer. Good luck with the weight loss0
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Going on a trip to Branson with our older kids/grandsons and a little anxious as it's the first time traveling since my husband's neurological disease so don't know how it will be so trying to not stress eat. Eating does not change anything so don't know why I revert back to it. Keep positive everyone. We are back to not weather (100 +) so activity level is down but just got out pool cleaned and ready to go so I'm diving in.2
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Texas got like 6-8 inches last month raining 25 days out of 31. The forecast for next, first week of June, more thunderstorms, flash flooding. It's get old already. Glad I have the stationary bike. Happy Day to All!1
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@SbetaK, that's a stunning photo you posted: Lovely!
Sending a "Hi and Welcome!" to our new folks, I noticed @ChrisS_51, @holmesgh - apologies if I missed anyone, but welcome to you, too, if I did!
@holmesgh, I have premium but not Apple, so I don't have your answer, either - apologies. I admit, I wish meal scan were available for Android, because I'd like to check it out. (I'm pretty skeptical about how accurate it could possibly be, given the learning curve and subtleties for logging, but I'm open to being surprised/delighted. 😉) I checked in with some fellow MFP old-timer buddies, hoping someone may have an answer for you.
@ChrisS_51, I've had bouts of BPPV, too. Do you have access to a physical therapist who can do the Epley maneuver? There are also some YouTube videos with DIY versions, but a professional PT can tailor it to your case. (I got a PT referral, but thankfully mine subsided, mostly, pretty fast, so I didn't use it. Every once in a while, I still get a bit of a vertiginous spin if I whip my head around in just the wrong way. 😬) Also, I'm a vegetarian (ovo-lacto), too, so we have (sort of) that in common, too.
I'm thinking about our soldiers who gave everything for us, today, on US Memorial Day. I hope we - collectively - deserve their sacrifice, and can sustain its value!
On my trivial personal front, I had a nice day. We got good weather, so we rowed a little over 7K this morning in a quad (one of those skinny rowing boats, 4 rowers, 2 oars per person), with a line-up in which the youngest was . . . gee, I dunno, in her 50s at youngest, but maybe 60s, not sure; plus 3 other women that I know are 65 (me & one other), and one 74 - nearly 75, and probably muscularly the strongest of the lot of us, since she's been lifting and doing other workouts for 40+ years now. So fun! I'm the bossy bow rower (bow calls steering commands) and I also throw in a bit of coaching for the less experienced rowers, having had coaching education/certs in the past . . . some good technical progress was made, today, in our boat, yay! Boat felt really good.
After the row, I went to a park nearby, and took a slow (3.1mph average) 5.1 mile walk, which was delightful. Lots of families out on this beautiful day (around 70 degrees F), cute kids; people with beautiful sleek (or curly) dogs; wildflowers; fuzzy baby geese; all kinds of goodness. One fun thing was this yarn-bombed tree (with a sort of crocheted tree cozy?):
On the far end of the trail, I took a little detour up to a local sprawling produce/grocery/more market, and indulged myself for the holiday with a cup of gelato, half chocolate caramel pretzel flavor, half tiramisu. So yum!
Back home, got in my upper body strength workout. (Guilty admission: I don't enjoy strength training . . . but I know it's good for me. It comes in and drops out of my schedule, because discipline is not my strong suit, but it's back in again right now . . . for the moment 😉.)
Happy Monday to all: Wishing you all a great week! 😊6 -
Morning, I am thrilled to be on this mission with everyone in this group. My goal is to make sure that everyday I do something for myself....take a walk, do weights, golf and eat healthy, which brings me to a quick question for you I have myfitnesspal premium - why do i not see the meal scan on my apple IOS S 6, the barcode is there but not the meal scan....can anyone shed some light on this for me.....thanks in advance
@holmesgh, are other premium features working for you OK, so you know that MFP got you properly enrolled in that?
Beyond that, an experienced MFP friend said this, when I asked about your scenario:The other issue might be that their phone is an older model that doesn't support that feature. I just opened MFP on an old iPhone 5 that I keep around to listen to radio when I'm not in a room that has one (WFH), and that option isn't available. I'm not sure because they say "Apple IOS S 6". If it's an iPhone 6S, that might still not support that feature. My old iPhone 5S is running iOS 12.5.3 and my iPhone 8 (a few years old model, but still runs most things) is running iOS 14.6. Apple stops supporting things when they get to a certain age. I've heard of people with older Android devices unable to do some things on MFP because their phones are old. Could be same deal here.
I hope that may give you some insights.1 -
michaelhardie13 wrote: »I use the Map My Walk app, and it posts them to MFP, automatically. Today was 2.2 miles for 410 calories.
I'm about halfway through to my goal of losing 50 lbs or so.
I have diabetes, well managed with oral medications. I am looking for friends like me, too (well, too much like me would make you a weirdo, which is ok - but not like me is ok, too!) {:8^{D}
"Normal" is overrated.
I had been using "Map My Run" but recently started using "Runkeeper" (because the audio stats recordings amuse me). Both update to MFP whether I'm walking, running, or riding my bike. Mostly walking and biking these days.
I've also been diagnosed with diabetes. Got my A1C way down with diet and meds. I'm almost afraid to have it tested again (I don't have to test daily, thankfully). I've been stalled weight-wise for awhile and now I'm heading in the wrong direction so I need to get serious again as I have another 30 pounds or so to get to where I want/need to be.
It will happen...
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Drive by check-in. I usually enjoy amusement parks, but this roller coaster I'm on right now ain't no fun. 😆
Hanging in, though. You all remind me to keep fighting the good fight.11 -
alteredsteve175 wrote: »Drive by check-in. I usually enjoy amusement parks, but this roller coaster I'm on right now ain't no fun. 😆
Hanging in, though. You all remind me to keep fighting the good fight.
Glad to see you're still managing to be on the march, Steve. Hang in there: You know we're all cheering for you, and for your wife.1 -
Found a new low calorie treat. Costco has mint chip yogurt ice cream bars that don't bust my plan so I can have a great when my husband has dessert. All you with your exercise spur me on to move more. Turning 74 in the 13th and want to be able to up my walking from 2 miles to 3 moving toward my ultimate goal of 5. I walk on treadmill with air conditioning on high and music and video. Special hi to you Steve praying for you.
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Better day yesterday. Fingers crossed for continued mood improvement. Thanks for the kind words, @AnnPT77 and @anawake13.
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Looking for motivational friends. 2 years of bad health and the weight gain to go with it.1
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🙏🙏prayers and continued good vibes being sent to you and your wife Steve!
Welcome and good luck on your journey dejavu!1 -
Thanks for the kind words, Mindi!
Checking in. My wife is doing better - we've seen two good days in a row. Hoping for three today. 🤞
My weight is up and down, but I'm holding under 200. Not sleeping well or getting enough exercise. Always room for improvement there.9 -
It's good to hear that she had two good days in a row. All good thoughts and wishes going your way for many more good days.2
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Steve-sounds like the last couple days have been a little upbeat for both of you. Hope it continues, one day at a time. Keep up those dog walks, they can be refreshing and helpful right now. Glad you are taking the time to take care of yourself too. Hugs to both of you.1
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Steve. praying the good trend continues. Any thoughts about her able to be released?
I have had to return to work the past few mornings and after 15 months of remote I am totally traumatized!!! LOL. <kidding> <not kidding> Everyone is masked but it is pretty annoying to wear full time and I hope that requirement is lifted soon. I tell myself just a few more years until retirement. Hey if our US medical system wasn't so broken I would be GONE now.3
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