WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2019
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Hey I got to use the disagree button already! lol Pip, no one could ever call you dumb!
I'm still lurking, got caught up on reading but no time to comment!
Hope everyone is doing well, I'm hanging in there!
Hugs for those needing them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
Barbie, condolences on the loss of your cousin.
Allie, so sorry to hear about Chester, my hope is that his end is peaceful and painless.
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Rita: I love your blog and the great advice. Thank you for sharing !!!
Pip: Your airstream looks cozy and homey. I would love to be there to see the Deception Pass MS ride. Someday. . . Thank you for participating.
Annie in DE: We all eat things we shouldn’t from time to time. Nobody is perfect. :noway: Here is the savior—exercise. Go out and walk off the cookie calories—or what-ever you need to burn away, and then enjoy your dinner. Keep an eye on portion sizes.
Michele: It appears that you and DH made very good choices when you moved to NC. You selected a homesite that is away from the risk of harm and in a lovely setting. WTG!!!
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Those orange medals on either side are past yeas MS medals. They really changed them up this year!!9 -
On the road again....
Is that an Airstream? We want to get a new trailer so badly. Sold ours 3 years ago after my husband had a stroke and we downsized. We’re now sort of/kind of in the market again, but he’s hold out for a 5th wheel. He works from home, so we could travel any time and as long as he has internet, he can work. If I hadn’t had to quit my job last year (long, ugly story), and my Mini Cooper hadn’t been totaled forcing us to buy a new car before we were ready, next year we would have been looking. But alas, finances just aren’t there, yet. Although the raise he just found out he got certainly helps
Probably no rides for us tomorrow as we are both battling colds now, thankyouverymuch for sharing, dear hubby!
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Pip - have you considered riding in El Tour de Tucson? As a cyclist, I’m sure you probably know about it. I would love to be in shape enough to ride the 50/55 miles part of it, but I’m not there yet. I could do the 25 mile, but the route is so hilly, I’m not sure! Still need to work on strength and endurance. However, if you saw my earlier post, you will see that we probably aren’t riding tomorrow as we both are battling colds. Ah well. Next week. 2
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AZTeri2016 wrote: »On the road again....
Is that an Airstream? We want to get a new trailer so badly. Sold ours 3 years ago after my husband had a stroke and we downsized. We’re now sort of/kind of in the market again, but he’s hold out for a 5th wheel. He works from home, so we could travel any time and as long as he has internet, he can work. If I hadn’t had to quit my job last year (long, ugly story), and my Mini Cooper hadn’t been totaled forcing us to buy a new car before we were ready, next year we would have been looking. But alas, finances just aren’t there, yet. Although the raise he just found out he got certainly helps
Probably no rides for us tomorrow as we are both battling colds now, thankyouverymuch for sharing, dear hubby!
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Got through the endoscopy yesterday and 2 ulcers are healed and the 3rd is healing. Gastritis gone and most of esophagitis so altogether good. I was so tired from the sedation that I slept until 12:30 after my DD brought me home. Then I was able to go to bed last night and sleep some more.
Pip - hope you and Kirby have a great ride.
Margaret and Karen - I have read a couple of Temple Grandin's books and saw the movie. She is very impressive. She was in Seattle a while ago at UW and DD and I tried to get tickets but they sold out really fast.
Allie - Hope Chester has a peaceful passing.
Lanette - I never had allergies except cigarette smoke and soy bean dust until I moved to WA. They have gotten worse each year I have been here (4). Last spring they were so bad my sinuses were swollen completely shut and I ended up with a bacterial sinus infection.
Rebecca - My BF is coming from Parker, CO this next week and we are going to take the ferry to Whidbey to do some touristy stuff. Should be fun. I am going to wave in your direction when we get there.
Goat day at DD's place of employment. Wilbur and Orville modeling Archie McPhee products.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA
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Tucked in and going to sleep. Just watched the movie Poms. With Diane Keaton and Rhea Perlman .real cute movie3
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AZTeri2016 wrote: »Pip - have you considered riding in El Tour de Tucson? As a cyclist, I’m sure you probably know about it. I would love to be in shape enough to ride the 50/55 miles part of it, but I’m not there yet. I could do the 25 mile, but the route is so hilly, I’m not sure! Still need to work on strength and endurance. However, if you saw my earlier post, you will see that we probably aren’t riding tomorrow as we both are battling colds. Ah well. Next week.
We haven’t. We probably would b able to do it tho. Keep trukin you’ll get there, don’t give u. We all start somewhere
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Hi Gals,
I’ve been reading on my phone, as all I do any more is run from thing to thing, so to keep up I have been trying to read in the restroom “loo” a few posts at a time, but that means I have been missing things…. So I am backing up to scan for a few minutes!
Karen – your GS is a good looking young man!
Pip – great pictures – have a good, fun, safe ride.
Heather – you are making huge steps on the computer challenges.
Kim from N. California
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coastalgosgal wrote: »coastalgosgal wrote: »Thanks for the input ladies! On the good side, when I done with the 5-10 minutes sauna, my body is "humming". I do like that feeling! Its like a metabolism high. When we got home I sat in our recliner just being quiet. My soreness isn't painful, so I will not worry about it. I have gone thru menopause, so done with all that.
What do you eat after you work out?
Well we usually get home about 10:30/11 am so too early for me to eat lunch, so I normally have a cup of coffee, maybe a piece of fruit.👍
You might consider going with a yogurt or something with a bit of protein.
Also, are you doing the same workout each time ... working the same muscles? Or are you focusing on different muscle groups each time?
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I tried several different saddles and people kept suggesting the Brooks saddles ... I was very sceptical but finally got one and haven't looked back. I like the men's B17s for most of my bicycles, but the women's for my mtn bike and our tandem because it has a shorter nose.
The only bicycle without a Brooks, right now, is my trainer bicycle ... an older Giant OCR3 on a older Nashbar fluid trainer.
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This is his wooden bike with the brooks saddle4 -
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hey beautiful ladies..
I will be 50 by March and have been gaining weight like no one's business, that I came back to myfitnesspal (back after 2014)
I found it very exciting to be back counting those calories.. very positive that I would be able to shed that extra weight..
Am also contemplating how to make my life more enjoying and purposeful, currently my work is causing me a lot of stress. I hope to get some decision on the same.
Goals for september:
1. Decide on the job position etc.
2. Workout consistently
3. Count those calories
4. Drink a lot of water
5. Keep smiling and happy (whatever be the life situation) ahem ;-)8 -
Is it custom-built? Or is there a manufacturer who makes them?0 -
Annie DE – it’s not a bad thing to have a cookie now and then. But only one (ok, two, but no more). If you hadn’t had that broken cookie, you would have felt really deprived. Good for you giving something up in order to stay under calories.
Katla – we love our home. Prices are much lower down here, too, as compared to PA. There is no way on this green earth we could have afforded the kind of home we have here.
Pip – wow, those medals
Welcome everyone new and those returning
Umanatraj – of course you can do it!
Michele in NC
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Karen in Virginia I do want to learn how to post pics and cute emojis other than the few that are offered above. Perhaps there's instruction in the help section that I'll need to look at some time.
Lisa in ARMichele NC Lanette Awww, thanks for the kind words and well wishes :-)
Barbie in NW WA I get what you say about preferring to eat only things you prepare yourself. My best friend is like that. She's very picky (and a great cook ;-) My family grew their own food, primarily, then moving to the PNW I got involved in a food growing community. Eating for me has a social component and I sometime forget to eat if I don't have someone to do it with, which isn't a healthy practice. One of my big goals right now is to remember to eat at regular intervals.
Lanette Thanks for the kind words and well wishes :-) A cleaner, did you say? One that uses hypoallergenic supplies?
Lisa I pretty much been a writer most of my life, although not professionally. It's just something I've always liked to do. I'm the genealogist for both sides of my family, and over the years learned some very fascinating things about them. I've had the desire to write a novel about what's gone on and signed up recently for a novel writing class, locally, just this week
We'll see how it turns out, um, in a few years????
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon Is the yoga you attend with several +50 attendees in/around Portland. If so, I'm definitely interested . . . .
pip I like your rig (getting three bikes standing in it :-) The Airstream's okay, too. JK - It's awesome!!!! But, um, the Renovo . . . It's breathtaking! And should be hermetically sealed!!!
M in OZ Renovo bikes were made in Portland, Oregon beginning around 2005. The company closed their shop about a year ago. Each one was custom made. Most of the hardwoods in their manufacturing process used were imported. But look very closely at Pip's photos and you'll see very dark wood detailing between the medium color wood and the light wood and you'll see very dark wood detailing. Some of that dark wood that Renovo used is Black Walnut, sourced in the PNW.
Day 6 "Reinventing Rhonda"
Did good. Walked, watched portions, ate at regular intervals, and came under all limits except fat
And I've lost a little weight already since Sept 1. Hopefully, less fat and many more days ahead like today
Happy weekend everyone!
Rho (South of PDX)
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MFP used to open directly to the last page opened last time on. now it opens to page 1 and I have to dig up last post.is that only happening to me? or is that happening to someone else too?
Knee
I don't see any progress at all. the male GP recommended and prescribed PT. He was comparing my meniscus tear to his own some time ago. He says he just walks normally and uses a brace when he's gonna be at the museum all day or something like that. It didn't seem very scientific to assume my tear was similar to his. yesterday I was in a seminar all day. At the end of the day I walked about 15 min or so round trip to get a drink w a colleague and my knee hurt. He didn't recommend a sports doctor or rheumatologist. The female doctor gave me a note for a specialist and said I could see a rheumatologist OR a knee surgeon which ever I preferred, but not both.
I'm afraid it's always going to be in pain from now on since I don't see any healing progress.
@Machka9 That's very healthy balanced eating. I'm a flexitarian according to what you wrote: mostly plant based.
One of the directors of the schools I work at is vegan not too common here and so our meal during seminar yesterday was vegan; it was the 1st time in the years I had been there that that had happened. it was good, middle-eastern fare : tabouli, samosas, hummus, pita, felafels.Allergies:
I'm allergic to some pollen, especially grasses, and quite allergic to dustmites. I do change sheets rather often and wash in hot water. When I got a new bed - some years after discovering allergies- I did get an allergy-free type one. I use a mattress cover that I change at least 1x a month. I can't wash clothes hot as they will just shrink and shrivel for the most part. I hang dry but can't in sunshine on balcony (not allowed to hang clothes outside visible to others in the city). Storing bedding in plastic bags or boxes sounds like a good idea, but extra effort. I always avoid carpeting, and plush furnishings. I dislike vacuuming for the noise and prefer sweeping, but the new young cleaning woman loves vacuuming (I think she would spend 20 minutes vacuuming this 200 sq ft apartment if I let her.) I had never heard eucalyptus helps with allergies though I do take it in lozenges on occasion if I have a cold.
Do you think eucalyptus repels dust mites or kills them?
@exermom I was thinking about freezing fruit. I have a guy friend who used to be very overweight and when I was a guest at his home I saw he always had frozen grapes in the freezer. I buy some frozen fruit which helps in that way but it seems a shame not to sometimes eat fresh fruit for it's nutrients, texture and flavour. the 20 dollar bathings suits I the 80s are probably more like 50-60 dollar bathing suits now. they were not the on sale ones, but still, back then, in the pools I was in, a swimsuit only lasted 2 months with 1h swims every day of the week. Now I swim rarely so it's not an issue.
@auntiebk Barbara thanks for the well-wishes and good thoughts
@lhscapil I got allergies in my mid-thirties. I have definitely met some people who had had hay fever and then it went away and they had no idea why.
more allergies: my MIL had allergy shots and she said after 3 years of shots the allergies got better for 2 years and then got worse. of course they work for some. It says about 80% success rate on line. I tried the under the tongue technique, but it being daily with refrigerated drops, I forgot on occasion and then you have to go back some In treatment. I used to camp and hike a lot and visit and stay w friends quite a bit and it was too hard for me. shots, less frequent would have been more manageable on that level, but I just gave up quite early on, after a couple of months or so at most.
@kevrit did the allergy shots work while you were taking them? how long were the series of shots?
@LyndaBSS I'm sorry about your bad hospital experience. Good for you that your action was effective.
@Anniesquats100 I think many effective eating plans suggest having treats is part of most successful long-term plans, for most people0 -
KJ - Fat boy Slim is opening the Lagoon Fest just round the corner from us this morning. I debated whether to rush round there just for you, but decided it would be too tight on my exercising! Sorry!
We will visit this afternoon, but he won't be there then I should think.
He saved the Beach Café at the Lagoon, by purchasing it when it was going to be scrapped. He lives very nearby in a beachfront house.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx3 -
grateful:
seminar interesting yesterday
feeling somewhat involved with the team
decent lunch at seminar yesterday
relieved:
colleague who was evoking suicide last July (due to lack of work) is back to work and got more hours, not enough; but less bad situation. I had sent him several short mails telling him about job listings that I know he's interested in, and a few other suggestions.
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@bananasandoranges
Pure eucalyptus oil apparently kills them.
If I were you, I'd ask for a sports dr or a physio who specialises in knees.
And it is going to take a very long time, but if you go to a good physio and do what they tell you to do, there should be gradual improvement.
I've had both a podiatrist and physio working on my hip for several months now, and just recently I've been able to start running a tiny bit again.
M in Oz
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pip I like your rig (getting three bikes standing in it :-) The Airstream's okay, too. JK - It's awesome!!!! But, um, the Renovo . . . It's breathtaking! And should be hermetically sealed!!!
M in OZ Renovo bikes were made in Portland, Oregon beginning around 2005. The company closed their shop about a year ago. Each one was custom made. Most of the hardwoods in their manufacturing process used were imported. But look very closely at Pip's photos and you'll see very dark wood detailing between the medium color wood and the light wood and you'll see very dark wood detailing. Some of that dark wood that Renovo used is Black Walnut, sourced in the PNW.
Rho (South of PDX)
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