WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2020
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Rebecca: We looked for Cambridge Island in Washington and didn't find it on the map. There is a Camano Island. It was the closest we could come. Where is Cambridge Island??? I'd like to find it on our map.
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We are having a Waitrose delivery tomorrow. It's the last one before Christmas as the later slots were booked out weeks ago. We have masses of food in the house! I can pick up veggies, milk and bread locally, and we are not catering for others for Christmas, so I think we will be fine. I found the brown shrimps I was looking for to go with the Dover Sole.
The AF wine was sold out, but I found the one I like on Amazon. 6 bottles coming tomorrow. I'm hoping to mull a bottle for our pre - Christmas garden get together with the family.
Hoping to Zoom with Edie on Friday about her quiz on Roman toilets and sanitation.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
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Rebecca: We looked for Cambridge Island in Washington and didn't find it on the map. There is a Camano Island. It was the closest we could come. Where is Cambridge Island??? I'd like to find it on our map.
Katla[/
oopsy, I got it wrong the story take place on Orcas Island. :-)
Rebecca
(who needs to study up on Washington history, and places. :-)1 -
Charsuzy in WA: I have monthly resolutions that serve me well. Perhaps one of them may help your situation or spark an idea for you. I've posted them below. The last one is harder for me than others.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
December 2020 Resolutions
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on strength and stamina.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least 3 glasses of water a day.
5. Monitor sleep. Average 7 or more hours nightly.
6. Abstain from alcohol.
Katla
Those look like good resolutions and I'm having problems drinking plain water, yuk! It is so BORING yet I know it's good for us!
Thank you for sharing your list - they look great! I already abstain from alcohol. I don't like my mind being under the influence; I'm already having problems with it, HA HA! Have a good day! 💗💪
charsuzy
WA state, US
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Hi all that remember me but this place is so very busy. I just don't have the time to answer to all or half the time read all. but just to say i'm still here.
Linda in Northern Ontario.11 -
You are correct! My bad. The company that produces it puts out some amazing work! It's Emulsion graphics, so much to look at and take in. :-)0 -
Linda in Northern Ontario: It is great to see you! Post when you can.
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Most of my exercise is in the form of line dancing. I attend up to 6 classes a week at the local Y, but it can easily be done at home. It doesn’t seem like exercise when I am dancing.
The link below is a playlist on You Tube used by one of my instructors. There are over 200 dances ranging from beginner to intermediate. I sometimes use the playlist to do “homework” for the more advanced dances.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLT17uo9eTbtbmOBgFInXWgIUBA3D7eplH
Cathy in Arlington, TX
PS - I checked the link and only the most recent dance displays. If you search in You Tube for “Laura Jackson line dance” then YMCA line dances, that is the play list referred to above. There is a second shorter playlist YMCA central line dances that may be more beginner dances.
The video is a demo of the entire dance and then a teach section where the dance is broken down to the steps.6 -
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Pip: I love the photos of Yogi-especially the ones with Santa & the Fisherman. 🎅😊1
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Stat for the day-
Walk w/family- 2hrs 20min 43sec,1.73ap, 184elev, 5.84mi= 675c
Strava app = 708c0 -
🙋♀️ I’ve not had much time today. We were up and out early for groceries, the we decided to go for a walk, as weather was due to worsen after lunch. Lots of little chores needed doing.
Covid Vaccinations have started here. Not sure how long it will take until it’s our turn. Probably not until the new year, as they are working down through the age groups.
More unasked for advice:
1. Plan your menus, and use the plan to make out your shopping list. (When I was teaching I had a month’s menus planned in advance, so I always knew what I was going to cook.)
2. Measure/weigh food portions. (Guestimates and eyeballing portions are notoriously inaccurate)
3. Log all your food/beverages, preferably in advance. (I copy my day’s log to the following week, and adjust amounts when I am serving out portions)
4. If you slip up, own it and move on. We’re only human, and guilt is such an unproductive use of time and energy.4 -
Worked today. Work tomorrow.
Allie – what happens if you go into afib again? Did they give you any “tricks” to do to convert your heartrate back to normal?
Yea M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just read in the paper that grocery stores are exempt from this 10-5 mandate. It seems a lot of other things are, too. So what is this supposed to accomplish?
Barbie – (((HUG))) Glad it wasn’t something real serious
Evie – most stores here have changed their hours, too. They SAY it’s so they can restock and clean. To be honest, I really don’t see a difference in cleanliness or stocked shelves. I’m thinking that the reduced hours are just the stores way of saving money (they don’t have to pay the worker or the utilities)
Azalea and Sandy and MB – welcome!
Mary – so good to see you. How’s Shep?
Linda – So good to see you. Welcome back!
I like to at least plan what we’re going to have for dinner the night before. Ideally, I like to plan the week before so that I know what I need when I go shopping. But with Jess and Colby here, that’s real hard if not impossible.
Great Christmas Light Fights on tonight. Want to take a shower before watching it.
Michele NC
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Pip: Really living thee life. 😂1
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Michele Shep is now with my daughter and son-in-law living at their horse ranch. He loves it there.
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250 calories over and I am stopping right now. Taking care of my mom after her surgery and she keeps pushing more food and wine. I said no 4 times and then had a half glass of wine and two mini Kit Kat’s. Not throwing the whole night away food wise. Stopping now and taking a victory in that. Will walk extra tomorrow for sure ! Need to be able to be with my mom and stay firm on asking her to stop with pushing the food and wine..and most important if she does not stop with the pushing, I need to stay calm, focused and stay with my plan for me. I am going to work off those extra calories and during some extra water. Tracking that overage really helped me stop when I saw the calories go over and coming here to post is super helpful. I am blessed my mom is going to be well and I need to be responsible for my wellness...regardless of what is happening around me.8
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The landscaper called this afternoon to say that he and his crew could be here in 15 minutes if that was OK, so now we have a coral bark maple and two small burgundy maples planted on the side of our house where we can see them out our windows. They are very small now but will flesh out and start growing for real in the spring. My unsolicited advice is to focus on nutrition dense foods so there's a lot to eat and a lot a good nutrition for the fewest calories. Also, seek every opportunity to be active even if it's just putting the folded laundry away one piece at a time.
Barbie in NW WA 5 -
Mary, Nice to see you! I am now an OMADER and loving it. Most days are eating between 12 noon and 4 pm, one meal and a smaller snack. I nurse a coffee so I try to be done nursing a coffee by 4pm. I guess you could officially state I am a 20/4 IMer. I use to deal with a skin condition taking steroid cream to deal with it, but that has all but gone into remission. So I believe my fasting has helped a great deal. :-)
Hugs,
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Namaste – good for you stopping when you did! I’m very proud
Michele NC
good night everyone
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Rebecca I usually eat one main meal then the rest of my calories as snacks very similar to what you do! I'm glad to hear that IF helped with your skin! IF you remember I started because of my Chronic Lyme's disease. Great health benefits 1
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fanncy0626 wrote: »Rebecca I usually eat one main meal then the rest of my calories as snacks very similar to what you do! I'm glad to hear that IF helped with your skin! IF you remember I started because of my Chronic Lyme's disease. Great health benefits
Fasting has magical qualities. I feel like I have a fountain of youth access pass.
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"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: board meeting prep, partial info emailed to grant writer, OSHA/Fire Marshal Covid-19 binder, OSHA sign, board meeting. Biggest victory, decided to log food and take vitamins instead of pouring myself a Buttershots and Bailey’s. Rough board meeting.
Bonus: followed up OSHA question with HRAnswers, massage
Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, call CD, call R, minutes, roster to Cal-Ore, call State Fire Marshall’s office re: reporting, Copy CPFA folder and deliver to Chief, Analyze CPFA folder, email population and area info to grantwriter, watch STAS Day 18 (go sniff), submit grant pics and receipts, test Bluetooth speaker so can do BB&B or T’ai Chi from voice recordings, make experimental almond paste, declutter sideboard, practice new dances (I ain’t never gonna love nobody but Cornell Crawford (Alley cat), A Little Less Broken, One margarita, I’m so used to being broke, All Night, Nothing but You, Blame it on my beating heart, Homesick); finish mulching flowerbed; broadcast cover crop seed in veg garden areas, invest another 10 minutes in prepping living trust, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine, find and configure a screen time popup, figure out where to plant naked lady bulbs, and soon as it warms up above 50 and dries out below 60% humidity I’ll tape and spray paint those rusted areas of Aunt Elsie’s stove. Reconcile Joe’s EOB’s Thrivent shows only 2263.48 so far.
Reward: inventory seeds, plan next year’s garden, wishlist replenishments.
Do Good December
9: Notice when you’re hard on yourself or others, and be kind instead. Oops. Too late. Rough board meeting. Will try very hard to be kind in the minutes
Margaret love the creativity of your newsletter comics with captions, but couldn’t quite read the tiny print…
Welcome @azalea4175 Azalea in Maine, @sandy_in_sandy_land Sandy in CA, @mbfink2018 MB, and @Kim_ATX!
Carol, the turtleneck that LL Bean says was delivered Tuesday has still not arrived in my P.O. Box as of this afternoon.
Debbie good luck!
Pip
Monterey, Yogi even more.
Mary from AZ/MN good to see you!
Allie great news that you’re walking and will soon be moved to the step down unit. ((hugs))
Heather would you share the Amazon AF wine link?
@lhcarpentier2 Good to see you popping in Linda from Ont! Don’t even try to answer all, just pop in when you can and let us know how you’re doing.
Cathy in Arlington How surprised I was to find that your Laura Jackson choreographed “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” You wouldn’t believe how hard it was to find that video when our group first started doing it. Subscribed to her youTube channel. I’m jealous, but I wouldn’t be dancing inside even if our teacher hadn’t moved away.
Barbie oww for the fall, glad the goose egg has gone down and those trees sound lovely! Look forward to pics especially next autumn.
@namaste2017 sometimes just stopping where you are IS a huge victory. Well done! Can you make some kind of in-joke with your mom to get her to stop pushing the extra food and wine?
Dreams: 3 years after I stopped smoking I had a smoking dream so vivid I got up out of bed and checked to make sure there was no pack of cigarettes in my purse.
My board meeting anger has eased enough that I’m getting sleepy. And all without the desired Buttershots and Bailey’s!
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
December: better than November.
daily: sit with Joe: 7, weigh: 9, steps>5505=3749 but average still ok vits=9 log=9 CI<CO=9 CI<250<CO=8 Tumble & Shadow 5=9 mfp=9 outside=8 up hill=8
wkly: T’ai Chi or BB&B x3 =0 rx= dance= clean 30 mins=1.5
mnthly: board mtg=1 grant=1 20for20=0
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One thing we do to help us with feeling 'full' is to eat a lot of vegetables. There is always a big heap for our evening meal. If the meal isn't appropriate for vegetables, like pizza, then I serve a green side salad.
I have noticed, looking at IP cookery sites etc, that people are often not eating many low calorie vegetables. Occasionally our meal is nearly all roasted vegetables.
Normally we eat a cabbage between us, or a cauliflower, or a large broccoli head. Asparagus in the summer, a big helping of green beans. We prefer everything 'al dente '. Often, in order to decide what to eat for dinner, I look in the fridge in the morning to see what vegetables I have and choose an appropriate protein accompaniment.
The vegetables are extremely good for gut health as well as being filling. We also eat bananas and fruit for breakfast with oats, lots of berries, and a small wholegrain sandwich with salad items for lunch. My afternoon snack is protein, usually cottage cheese with avocado etc. Dinner dessert is my husband's low sugar stewed fruit with homemade yoghurt.
To satisfy the sweet element I have two squares of dark chocolate occasionally after dinner, or one toffee.
So basically, it is a high vegetable and fruit, high protein, low carb, low sugar diet, which has become as natural as breathing for both of us and we both adore. I love to eat! I lost 57 lbs over eight years ago and got down to goal weight. I have maintained since then, but a few pounds crept on last winter. I have stayed the same throughout covid, thanks to my exercise regime.
I believe it is important to love your food. I look forward to every meal. I wouldn't say I plan, but the freezers are full if delicious protein and the fridge is stocked with vegetables and fruit. I have an idea of a rotation - meat, fish, veggie day, fish , meat etc. It's always varied. I get up in the morning get out something from the freezer. Today is salmon. Broccoli. And some wet element, like tomatoes, or mushy peas. The salmon is spicy. Often chipotle.
I try to make restaurant quality food every night with three courses.
I use the IP a lot as we often have wet food, like stews and curries.
Barbara, it's the UK site and it was hard to find. My feeling is they are low in stock. Torres Natureo. I like it, DH finds it a bit acid.
Love Heather xxxxxxxx5 -
Good early morning ,i woke up and had to use the commode so the nurse had to come in.
They have a bed for me in the stepdown unit so will be there before 7am...slowly but surely im getting there11 -
Thanks Cathy for the link. I've subscribed. I used to love line dancing on the cruises, quite the highlight of the trip! 9 am every sea day.
I have to be careful, because of my knee and gluteal strain, but should be able to do it gingerly.
I really miss dancing. We used to go to Lindyhop classes once a week. I've danced most of my life, including modern ballet and jazz dance. DH is a reluctant partner and may not go back. I hope my aches and pains will clear enough for me to enjoy it when it starts up again.
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We eat quite a large quantity of veggies too. They are part of lunch, dinner and sometimes even snacks. We get fresh veggies from the garden or fresh fruit and veg markets and frozen veggies from the supermarket.
Tips that have worked for mePut your current numbers into MFP
Select sedentary as your activity level
Choose how much you'd like to lose (i.e. 1 lb/week)
MFP will give you the number of calories to eat
Eat those calories
... and weigh (with food scale) and log every bite.
A few extra things have helped me along the way:
1) Exploring my grocery stores and markets to find delicious, filling low calorie foods. It's amazing what's out there.
2) Exercising as much as possible. Exercise gives me extra calories to work with so that I can have things like pizza now and then ... but to keep my sanity and not wear myself out, my exercise quantity varies as does what I do for exercise.
Also, I tend not to eat all my exercise calories back.
If I've just done a little bit of exercise like a 3 km walk or something, I'll eat about 50% of my calories back.
If I've done a moderate amount of exercise like a 5 km run or 50 km bicycle ride, I'll eat about 75% of my calories back.
If I've done a lot of exercise, like a half marathon or a 100 km bicycle ride, I might eat about 90% of my calories back.
3) Eating how I want to eat. This is where everyone is different ... some people prefer to employ fasting, others like high protein diets, some like vegetarian diets, some like to eat 2 or 3 meals a day, others like to graze. Go with what works for you.
Personally, if I had to define what I do, my diet is probably most similar to a Mediterranean diet with a vegetarian lean ... and I'm a grazer. I also have to adjust what I do depending on my cycling events ... they're tricky because I need the fuel without going overboard.
Stick to it for 5 weeks, without any "cheat meals/days", then reassess how things are going.
10 Things to Stop Doing If You Want to Exercise
https://www.verywellfit.com/things-to-stop-if-you-want-to-exercise-1231403
A little bit about me ...I'm Machka and I am in Tasmania, Australia.
Some of my favourite hobbies/sports/activities include:
-- cycling
-- walking
-- hiking
-- running
-- reading
-- working on my website
-- photography
I bake, but don't cook, sew, knit, garden, etc.
Most of my day is spent working fulltime with health data, catching up on 6 years worth of projects at home, and spending time with my husband (who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury 2.5 years ago) and kitty, Rhody. The backlog of projects is because I was focused on university, but I have just graduated with my Master's degree.
My husband is not able to work anymore, so one of his main activities is gardening. He works at that at his own pace and we've got quite a lovely garden of flowers, fruit and veggies.
This is Rhody ... a young, all black, "domestic" who joined us at the end of March.
I joined MFP in February 2015 and promptly lost 15 kg, took a 1-month break, then lost another 11 kg. By Christmas 2015, I was down to a weight I hadn't seen in quite a few years ... since my early 30s.
In 2016, 2017 and the early part of 2018 I maintained while increasing my cycling. My sport, within cycling, is ultradistance cycling: Audax, Randonneuring, 24-hour races, etc.
Here's me in 2016 in Brisbane, QLD a couple days after cycling a 300 km event in 18 hours including all breaks.
In late 2017 and early 2018, my husband and I were in great shape and feeling good. We were cycling events and on our own and building up the distances in the hopes of going to France in 2019 to ride the Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 km event. We met on a Paris-Brest-Paris in 2003, and the 2019 one was going to be a bit of an anniversary trip.
And then on March 22, 2018, my husband had a very bad accident at work ... and life changed. He was in a coma for 3 weeks and post traumatic amnesia for 7 weeks and in hospital for 100 days. Then, a year after the accident, he had a tonic clonic (grand mal) seizure which set him back. He'll never fully recover but he's doing better then they originally predicted.
He is cycling again but gets very tired so can't cycle consistently or for long distances.
Because cycling is something we've always done together, this means I'm not cycling the ultra long distances at this point either. In an attempt to boost my exercise we've set up a home gym, and I've got into running again. I hadn't run since I was in my late teens!
But all the time sitting at the hospital and dealing with the aspects of care for my husband, plus working, plus attending university has taken its toll on my weight and I don't look like that picture above anymore! This year I have maintained my weight but I'd really like to lose a bit.
So that's me in a rather large nutshell.
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I did 10,130 steps today! I'm glad I can do 10,000 steps every so often. If I do that many every day my knees start getting inflamed. I've been doing red light treatment on my knees several times a week to help heal my knees and joints, and help get rid of pain due to inflammation. It also helps my skin which I use on my face and hands. I'm not going to just look any way I look and am not letting myself blow in the wind. I want to look good at any age.
Cathy in Arlington, TX: The dance video looks fun! What a great idea! I will check them out. It seems good exercixe videos are good for when it's rainy outside and I can't go walking.
Pip: I love the photos too! And nice stats!
Rebecca in Whidbey WA: I've toyed with the idea of OMAD but I'm not sure I could do OMAD every day. I'm a snacker and trying to control the snacking.
Machka in Oz: I love the photo of Rhody. Cats are the best! Thank you for sharing your story of biking with your husband. I feel so sorry reading about his accident and how it has effected you both so that you're not biking together like you used to. I'm glad he survived.
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