WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2019
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Hi. I am Annie from Delaware. I am retired and divorced and living with my parents. My daughter just finished college in Virginia. My dog Teddy is half Maltese and half Cavalier King Charles.
My current weight is about 163, I would like to hit 140 by New Year. This is a long slow process! I am eating overnight oatmeal with protein powder for lunch every day. I don't mind the 1200 calorie limit on weekdays, but it seems like I bust every weekend. So I'm trying to plan for more weekend calories. I try to hit my fiber and protein minimums daily to help me feel full, and some chocolate for sanity.
Wishing you all the best on your weight loss journeys,
Annie in Delaware9 -
Morning, afternoon and evening all,
NSV this morning was going to the gym at all... starting on my sixth week now, and this morning, it was all I could do to go. This is typical for me, as I really do hate the resistance exercises, but I know I need them. Also know that I can't do cardio every day, as my joints start breaking down quickly if I don't give myself a day in between. *sigh* Also know, if I don't go every day, I will eventually not go at all.
There are hazards to knowing yourself as well as we do now that we're older....
Welcome to all who are new, hugs to those as need them, and Machka, if you didn't know it, you inspire me every day to just get up and keep going. Your strength is a marvel.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR7 -
Sitting in surgery waiting room drinking coffee and reading posts. DH is in surgery. I’ve yet to go to registration and prereg for my colonoscopy next week. Don’t much feel like it bu going to take a couple more hours for DH surgery.
I’ve not been as good with eating and put on 1/2 pound in August. Wrong way! With only 8 pounds to go, I need to get back on track.
So.... September goals:
1. Keep carbs under 50 grams (aiming for less than 20 grams) with the rest of my calories from good fats mostly and protein.
2. Weigh less at end of month
3. Get back to 10,000 steps a day most days
RV Rita
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Pip: I have no idea whether the color of eggs impacts nutrient content. The food the chicken eats sure does. I like free range araucona chicken eggs best, but I’m seldom able to get them. I had an egg lady for a few years who sold us free range araucona eggs. The eggshells were a mix of different colors and were blue, green, pink, or tan. These birds were not kept in a huge open room with lights 24/7. The went outdoors and scratched up bugs and plants to eat. I miss their quality and the novelty of the pretty colors.
Barbara: Your deck looks wonderful! :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Hi all, still wresting with my laptop and OneDrive. I found the unsync from this computer once, but chickened out of clicking the button. Now can't remember where it was. I really want to just unsync photos. Grrrrrrrrrr!
Makes me very tired and cranky.
Still exhausted from yesterday. I've got to wash my hair for the dancing, then might nap before putting face on and cooking early dinner. Not feeling it.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
Annie-Congrats on Daughter Graduation 👩🎓!!!
Barbara-I try to be cruelty free -Free range their happier (unless at night they went in but had a large section open at top so they could climb a tree or leave as they pleased...the 1 who refused to go in could go in lol) the eggs are healthier because they can eat snakes 🐍 to lizards,bugs ,(lots of protein compared to caged bird) ,grass to seeds,food you feed y left overs ,y much more even greasy rain water to better nail care naturally. Caged ones eat their own eggs due to protein deficiency.Their nails have to be cut by man.My free range only 1 needed his spurs cut but he was more into mating than moving around lol.
Drinking crystal light peach tea 5calories. Yummy nice change. Hubby got correct chicken yesterday!!! Woohoo so chick chick chicken tonight. JR vegetarian meal since he still has meat aversion (gags) like his sister think she was 4 when she finally started eating raw to boiled crab to fish (pescatarian). So gonna keep giving vitamins healthy meals just wait it out.
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Big brother is in Florida and they are getting the feeder bands from Dorian.Hopefully dorian continues to lose strength and no one gets damage.Stay safe to all who may be in his path.
Debby In Va6 -
My goal is to be a healthier, happier active 61 year old. What happened in the past is in the past. I do not have to binge eat my life away.5
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Welcome to all the new members of our community. I came to MFP and this thread at age 62 after countless unsuccessful attempts to lose weight. Every day I learned something new about health, fitness, and weight loss and now I have a very well organized plan that includes eating nutrition dense foods, drinking a lot of water, and seeking every opportunity to be active. I didn't think it would ever work for me but it has worked well for a long time.
Barbie in NW WA5 -
Pip: I have no idea whether the color of eggs impacts nutrient content. The food the chicken eats sure does. I like free range araucona chicken eggs best, but I’m seldom able to get them. I had an egg lady for a few years who sold us free range araucona eggs. The eggshells were a mix of different colors and were blue, green, pink, or tan. These birds were not kept in a huge open room with lights 24/7. The went outdoors and scratched up bugs and plants to eat. I miss their quality and the novelty of the pretty colors.
Barbara: Your deck looks wonderful! :bigsmile:
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Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Miss all the farm fresh food EXCEPT for 1 thing and that was chicken. Don’t ask me why but when I discovered satire chicken, I was in heaven . We made our own butter and cheese, that was cool.
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morning , afternoon, evening...
what a spectacular weekend... left from there at 3:15 in the morning to get down here so that I could take Chester to the vet for blood work.. did that and they put fluid under his skin,Tom will stop and pay when he gets out of work..results tomorrow afternoon..
My SIL is coming home tomorrow with her mom so my phone will come back to me then... I left it up there
so a day and a 1/2 without the phone oh well...
I am spending the day with the 3 dogs ,Chester not well so spending what time I can with him while I can.. will get him outside before Tom and Elena get home..
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Managed to unsync my OneDrive. Not quite what I wanted, but, it will do. I don't want them extracting more money out of me.
It's a relief. I have Dropbox, which I pay for.
Will import more stuff tomorrow so I have everything on the laptop. Then copy all of it to Dropbox. My old photo files are not on it. I have numerous back up USB sticks and the hard drive.Plus, of course, the old laptop. Neurotic? Moi?
Off to dancing now. I had a 20 min nap which did refresh me.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx6 -
hi I missed a couple of days or so and 10 pages of messages! I skimmed but I'm just going to jump in and hope to understand the major things I missed little by little.
Hi Annie from Delaware. Welcome.
@Kevrit Rita wow for aimignfor under 20 carbs. I find limiting carbs soooo hard.
@JRsLateInLifeMom free range sounds right. I was wondering about diet drinks. you barely see them here anymore.
@lindabortner sounds like a good goal
@barbiecat nice to hear it has worked for you.
@pipcd34 what is "satire chicken"?
@grandmallie mandatory unplanned phone detox ?0 -
hello! It has been a long time since I have posted on this site. I fell off my wagon last year after breaking a rib and dealing with the stress of both losing my job and planning my daughter's wedding. The wedding is over now, the rib has healed, and I am learning to cope with the disappointment of a waning career. I decided to try and get myself back together. I need to lose serious amounts of weight to improve my overall health, regain both mental and physical stamina, and because I want to be able to do things I love such as hike and horseback ride, and I really want to be an active grammie someday (not rushing the newlyweds:) I have been working my plan since June. I have lost 17 pounds so far. I have to admit I am frustrated by the absolute glacial pace of weight loss. Unfortunately, I have not seen a resounding drop in my daily blood sugar numbers so still working on that. I have worked up to and am now walking 5 miles 5x per week, hoping to get up to 6 by the end of Sept.
My goals for the month:
Try to lose 5 pounds
Try to increase walks to 6m per day 5x per week
Try to have daily sugar readings come in under 130
Try to have at least 150 calories left at the end of the day (or try not to eat back ALL of my exercise gained calories)
Find a job
Overall I need to lose 90 lbs , but my first goal is 12 lbs away. Trying.....8 -
Banana and oranges- Dentist told my mom the reason she had no teeth enamel anymore was because she drank Diet Coke in large quantities daily! It’s bad for your teeth so many avoid them. Not sure about the zero cokes to other types tho.
JR has realized everyone in the family has glasses! Ugghh now he wants them! Trying to explain to a 2yr old it’s better he doesn’t need them or want them is impossible. So every 5sec today I hear 👂...” I wanna glassesss 👓.” He had fake ones but he destroyed them pretty fast 💨.He’s not gentle but Daughter wasn’t either. Lol now she’s in the Navy but in Elementary teacher called me because the whole class of boys hanged up on her to prove they were stronger than the shortest girl 👧. Lol she used 1 hand knocked the whole group over like dominos the 1st boy falling took them all down.They never tried that again accepted that they just couldn’t beat her at sports 🥎 to academics lol 😂. She didn’t even notice them as she went through was more occupied on getting to the books they were in her way! Lol 😂. Teacher 👩🏫 couldn’t help but giggle said she found it funny since Daughter was so so tiny yet she stomped around with a deep voice y was Paul Bunyan of the school lol. Now I got a giant who’s rough but gentle hearted wouldn’t couldn’t hurt a fly.
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This evening is Day 2 of "Reinventing Rhonda" . . . Although I stayed under my caloric limit and did the other items on my list of goals, I succumbed to eating too much fat as I had done yesterday. But as Scarlet O'Hara said in Gone With the Wind, "Tomorrow's another day! As G is my witness, I will be thin again!" Okay, she didn't say that, but I like the proclamation anyway.
I will be thin again!
I will be thin again!
I will be thin again!!!
Thanks to those that offered me a warm welcome. It felt good.
Barbie - Sending a hug to you for the loss of a {{hug}} and big thanks for keeping the group going!
Amber Tx - Your post cracked me up - I call my grand-daughter "Little Booger" (she's biracial, too :-)
Barbara - SOCoastie - We have a few things in common. Are you a Duck or a Beaver?[/b]
Shelly - I'm new to the group also, and can attest that meditation makes me better in many ways.
Rebecca - Ah, sisters. I have two, too! Your brief post reminded me of how much love I feel for them.
New Linda in TX - Wow!!! 107# gone!?! You are an inspiration. I have much to learn from you!
Connie in KY - I hope you can find solace in knowing you're a good daughter and niece {{hugs}}
Kim from NoCali - You have resilience and strength. You're model for younger generations and half-way to your goal. You deserve an applause {{{{ hands clapping }}}}
I hope to become acquainted with everyone as the days, weeks and months fly by and the pounds drop off.
Kind regards,
Rhonda (south of PDX :-)
I will be thin again!
I will be thin again!!
I will be thin again!!!
Where abouts in Portland? I grew up in Gresham, went to San Barlow HS, earlier I attended Boring Grade School. My childhood home is off 242nd and Regner rd. I have no idea how to spell that anymore!!! Presently we live on Whidbey island in Washington.👍
Rebecca1 -
Welcome to all the new ladies. Keep coming back as this is a great place for fellowship and support .
Weigh in this morning was disappointing up, I think I keep losing and gaining the same 4-5 pounds. I have to break this cycle. So my one goal for this month is to weigh first thing each morning and see what kind of pattern I see.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE7 -
Grateful:
conversation with B.
B and P supportive.
weather very pleasant
health care
osteopath
rest
decent colleagues1 -
Pip: I have no idea whether the color of eggs impacts nutrient content. The food the chicken eats sure does. I like free range araucona chicken eggs best, but I’m seldom able to get them. I had an egg lady for a few years who sold us free range araucona eggs. The eggshells were a mix of different colors and were blue, green, pink, or tan. These birds were not kept in a huge open room with lights 24/7. The went outdoors and scratched up bugs and plants to eat. I miss their quality and the novelty of the pretty colors.
Barbara: Your deck looks wonderful! :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
I learned that chicken do need to eat bugs or some kind of protein to be healthy. I notice the shells are thicker when I buy better quality eggs usually the cagefree or free range ones. The color does not make so much difference. It is how the chicken is treated.3 -
Some of you have posted your journey stories so I shall tell you mine.
"Once upon a time I was a slim person. Ok stop laughing I wassss, with the help of Jenny Craig and boatloads of money. This was in 2010. I saw 189 for about a week. But did I dance thru the house? Scream Hallelujah thru.the aisles of the grocery store? Tell anyone? No. I was dealing with a husband who had opted out of getting treatment for his failing liver. I was angry, scared and eating Jenny's food was the only thing I could control. While all around me seemed chaotic. Jenny Craig was about $400 a month, so once I stopped losing, I felt guilty and ended it. From 2010-2012 I gained back up to 215 lbs. When husband went into his first of many ammonia comas from his liver, the doctors told us to get up to Oregon to get on the liver transplant list. I quit my bakers job, yanked my son out of 8th grade, and up we went on 12-12-12. I became husband's caregiver until 2014, when he received his complete liver transplant. These ladies here have supported me thru many scares when my husband had his many stent procedures to keep his bike duct open. I am now learning how to put me first, how to understand that both of us are survivors in this.
I have 3 sons. Husband and I live with our eldest active duty son here on Whidbey island. Husband is retired Navy so we get to use the facilities on the airbase here. Our middle son and daughter in-law put their 4 years in the Navy and she is studying to be a nurses assistant on the Navy's dime. She just had our first grandbaby, so I am thrilled to be a grandma! My youngest son is overseas serving in a ship out of Japan, and has been in the Navy for 2 years. I miss him terribly.
I am presently at 240 lbs. I was at 255 when we moved here, so I am feeling positive. Husband and I attend the base gym 4 times a week, and I think my.body has leaned up some. I feel like I can carry myself easier, and husband and I are appreciating life more. Next week we celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary and we have so much to be thankful for.
I appreciate you ladies, your stories and your unending strength 💪💖.I
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Lanette How's your rash?
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Loving reading all your stories!
Wasn't feeling it tonight at the dancing. Wonder if I'm coming down with something. It was nice to see everyone again though.
Early night for me tonight.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx3 -
Heather Probably still exhausted from the grandchildren day. Hope you feel chipper in the morning!
Karen in Virginia2 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Lanette How's your rash?
Karen - DH took me to drugstore last night. Aveeno itch cream seems to do great job!! Taking benadryl and 1/2 Pepcid every 6 hours. Called surgeon this am, going in to see him tomorrow at 1. Looks like I will survive, lol. When I told his nurse what I was doing w the benadryl & pepcid, she said that was great!
I owe you!!!!
And nurse said I am cleared to drive, lol.
So many, many thanks.
Lanette
Catching a nap soon in sunny SW WA State
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Margaret: I agree with you that the color of a chicken egg is not an indicator of quality. The intensity of the color of the yolk and firmness of the raw white tell the story of their quality. I just happened to enjoy looking at the colored araucana eggs. It seemed like Easter Eggs. Nutritionally they were excellent. I think that comes from the opportunity to be outside and scratch in the dirt for bugs. The eggs we’re able to get now are not all that great. :ohwell:
Lanette: I’m glad that you’ve been cleared to drive. Yay!!!
I am looking for fun birthday cards. My stash of the good ones is getting thin. There is a hardware store in a town about 20 miles from here that has had some fun and funny cards in the past. I’m planning to go there in the next few days to see if I can find more good ones.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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