WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2021
barbiecat
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I have been traveling this road to health and wellness with many of you for years. I am happier and healthier because of your support and encouragement. The name of the thread is Women Ages 50 + but all women are welcome. We share our successes and challenges on this journey. Be sure to sign your post with a name or nickname and a location, specific or general, so we can know each other better. Remember to bookmark this page so you can find it again. My plans for the month are the same as always--eat according to plan, drink a lot of water, seek every opportunity to be active, spend lots of time with my husband and my pets, and enjoy the return to line dance classes
Barbie in NW WAMy word for 2021 is "lighten up"--both in weight and in attitude toward life.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Barbie!
I'm Carla, aka, minicooper452, from Lakeville, MN
My plan is to increase my water, TRACK my food daily, walk as much as my knees will allow and spend time with family.6 -
Thanks Barbie! I appreciate you, as always, starting us all off on the right foot. An a 1, an a 2......
This month is all about appreciating family, have our hotel reservations, and leave mid month! Seeing middle son, his family, mother in law, and visit the coast as well! We don't have a set place we're staying at, on the coast and is the exciting. We shall wing it! I will try to keep to some intermittent fasting, but I will give myself grace this month. Its not every month I get to see my sweet Athena Rose!
Hugs
Rebecca7 -
I just came back from my evening walk. I am so happy. It was cool and cloudy and such a pleasure after the days of so much heat that I couldn't leave the house for more than a few minutes at a time. We live in PNW for this cool weather and the heat was tough on me and my dogs. Welcome, Carla, I hope you will come back every day. i read this thread with breakfast every morning and it helps me remember that health and fitness are at the top of list of priorities. Barbie in NW WA 5
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Thanks Barbie for starting us off fresh!
Okie in the TX Hill Country1 -
Thanks again Barbie xoxo1
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Well, I just got a call from Food Lion, they asked me not to come in tomorrow. Amanda, the gal who does the scheduling, had a worker there call me to tell me not to come in. To me, this is poor, she should have been the one to call me. I guess we shall see what Monday brings. I’m think it’s more that I don’t want to work full time. In a way, it’s a bit surprising. But I guess it is what it is. At least I know in my heart that I’ve been a good worker, always there on time, if I had extra time I always asked a manager if there was something I could help them with. Lots of kids who may be willing to work 8 hours just stand around doing nothing. At least I know that I didn’t.
Congrats to all the winners!!!
Carla – welcome!
Michele NC8 -
July Plans
• Pilates - about once a week.
• Audax meeting and "work" - that's the long distance cycling club of which I'm President (and hold several other positions).
• Designing two 50 km routes for Audax. These need to be in southern Tasmania which is challenging.
• Cycle a 50 km route. Plus shorter rides.
• Run at least one 5 km distance.
• Run a 6.2 km event on July 24.
• Climb Mount Ossa again virtually as part of a stair climbing challenge. Mt Ossa is the tallest mountain in Tasmania (1617 metres = 450 floors * 20 stairs/floor).
• Back to school! I'm taking a 5 week course called 'Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)' . It's all online and work-at-our-own-pace with no formal assignments, exams, etc. I am about halfway through and will finish it in July.
• Bees! My husband and I are booked for a refresher course about bees.
• My husband's medical appointments.
• Plus, of course, my 2021 To Do List: getting organise, simplifying, etc. I've got 4 projects on the go right now and I "switch-task" between them.
That's all in addition to almost full-time work (data) and caring for my husband who has a severe traumatic brain injury and heart issues (heart attack in May).
I have had my flu shot today. 3 vaxes in a couple months ... my poor left arm! And in the last 18 months I've had a total of 7 vaxes for different things.
It's winter here, although today is quite warm and lovely. One of the things I want to do is develop more energy in the evenings so I feel like doing any sort of workout in the evenings after work in our home gym. We've got a decent home gym now ... I just need to have the energy to use it.
But by the time I get home from work, these days all I want to do is sit and colour. It's dark, cold and I've had a long (usually hot) bus ride ... and I just don't feel like exercising or doing much of anything.
Hmmmmmm ...
Machka in Oz7 -
Thank you Barbie!1
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Thank you, Barbie! Your gift as a new thread is blessing. ❤️😘❤️⭐️❤️1
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Hey Carla from MN! Nice to meet you! Sounds like good goals to me!💖👍. I drink San Pellegrino mineral water, and though a bit pricey, I get some minerals as well. I like the taste, though some days depending on what I ate, the bubbles do a number on me.
Ooh today's meal was exceptionally yummy! A bit of kielbasa sausage, cabbage, diced tomatoes, and a sprinkling of wild rice sauteed in my homemade chicken broth. Added a generous amount of cayenne pepper and turmeric. It was spicy but not hot, and warmed my belly!
Remember ladies:
you can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first before you care for others.
Also:
You don't drown by being underwater, you drown by staying there.💖
Hugs Rebecca
Whidbey
Washington
Rebecca
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Thanks for the new monthly start Barbie.
Everyone take care Sue in WA2 -
Karen- hugs to you. I hope things smooth out soon.
Allie - I don’t know how your family can treat you so shabbily. It seems to me, as an outsider looking in, that if you aren’t at their beck and cal bending over backwards for them they treat you like dirt under their feet. It makes me sad for you.
I’m happy to read you had a lovely day. Happy Birthday
Rebecca- I was seriously depressed a few years ago and started reading and posting happy, positive, kind quotes nightly along with starting a gratitude journal it made a tremendous difference. I have recommended it to two friends that took me seriously and have since thanked me for the difference it has made in their lives and outlook.
Lisa - I want to quilt, my Mom did beautiful embroidery work and I have quilt blocks for all of the family. I just don’t think I have the patience for it. I like to see progress in my crafts quickly or I give up.
Barbie - thank you for the new thread. I really appreciate you all and enjoy catching up.
I am starting a 4 day weekend and next week is a 5 day weekend! This weekend we are buying a used vehicle from a friend so we will both have transportation. Neither vehicle is new and not in the best shape but as long as they get us where we’re going I’ll be happy.
We have been getting the tremendous heat here this week and it’s stifling in our trailer. I have been sitting on the deck in the evenings until way past bedtime. It’s currently 2240 and there is finally a nice breeze. I just went inside for a minute and it felt like walking into a furnace.
I think most of the restrictions are being abolished tomorrow. I don’t know how I feel about it since we are still on outbreak at work. It will be nice to have a family gathering with all of us though.
One of our resident’s son showed up with Wendy’s frosty’s for the staff today. What a special treat that was. I have never had one before and was shocked when I added it and found out the calorie count!!!! Since that was all I ate today at work I guess it was ok.
I’m down 3.2 lbs this month, I hope I can keep you it up.
Have a lovely day ladies.
Tomorrow is Canada Day but there is not a lot of celebrating going on this year.
Tracey in Edmonton10 -
Hello everyone!
Thank you Barbie for this lifeline, which truly helped me through lockdown. I have been on here for AGES. Very nearly 9 years!
Yes, hoping Barbara is OK.
Singing Zoom this afternoon and a Waitrose delivery later.
The cleaning went so well yesterday with my DH and me, that it really warmed my heart. I think I was most excited about the cooperation and mutual support. It felt like we were really working together on a project. Plus, I do love a clean house! 
My new extending 'feather' duster arrives today. I might go round and do the places I couldn’t reach. It's bendable. I love a gadget! Our old ones, not extendable, are all shrivelled and sad.
Love to all. We are meant to be coming out of restrictions finally on the 19th of July. Our covid rates are high at the moment among the unvaccinated young people, but, in Brighton, there is only one person in hospital and no one in intensive care. No deaths for ages. Over 18s can now get jabbed if they book themselves in. The over 60s infection rate is bumping along near zero. I'm hopeful. There is light!
We will get jabbed again as a booster in September (probably a different one) and get the flu jab around then too. My feeling is that the flu will be widespread this winter if they don't find the right vaccine for the strain. Our immune systems haven't had a lot to work on recently!
Machka - Are you the kind ofperson who can get up early to exercise? I guess not, but you could give it a week's trial. I personally would prefer it to the evening, but we are all different. I never used to be a morning person, but age has changed me!
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx4 -
Last day in Longyearbyen.
June ended with a fire alarm in our building just before midnight, when we'd both fallen asleep. We threw on some clothes and dashed out onto our outside stairs, bleary-eyed and unhappy. It was yet another false alarm. Someone in the end apartment was burning a pizza.
This morning we woke to new snow on the mountaintops. That's completely normal for Longyearbyen, even on July 1. I wish I could send a bit of cool air to those of you who have been sweltering.
At breakfast, I discovered the tail end of a rainbow right above runway at the airport. I'm taking it as a sign.
/Penny, with just six hours left at
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BARBIE Thanks for keeping us on track x
Lost 2 lbs this week, yay 😀
Hoping for cooler weather in Canada and NW USA ☔️
Welcome newbies.
Kate UK ❤️3 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - Are you the kind ofperson who can get up early to exercise? I guess not, but you could give it a week's trial. I personally would prefer it to the evening, but we are all different. I never used to be a morning person, but age has changed me!
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx
I'm trying to get at least 7.5 hours of sleep a night in an attempt to improve my energy level ... getting up earlier would mean less sleep.
I know, "Go to bed earlier" ... but the 1 - 1.5 hours between the time my husband goes to bed and I go to bed are precious to me. That's when I get things done and/or relax. I get about 10 hours each week for myself.
Until recent years, I had lots of energy after work. That's when I used to exercise and I'd get up to about 3 hours of exercise in!
But my energy in general at any time of day just seems to be dwindling away now.
M in Oz4 -
Thank you Barbie for setting us up for the new month.
Allie I am glad your birthday was a good day!
Machka I too have less energy than before. I too need that quiet time without DH. It use to be at 5 am, but now he is getting up then-smh. I am trying hard to just go with the flow. haha
Work rantIt was slow with walk in traffic yesterday which was good. I was managing to get some things accomplished while at work. In the afternoon, my DH and SIL were just sitting in the office talking while I was totaling and calling invoices. That was no big deal, I would rather be working, but then DH came to me and said we needed to go to the store. Really? I told him NO! I was busy getting stuffs done. If he needed to go, let his sister take him as she wasn't doing anything productive. Isn't getting the mowers out so money comes in important? SMH! She said she didn't want to go and asked why I wouldn't take him. I said because I was trying to catch up on at least the invoices. I figured if I could get those done, then he and I would just leave work a little early and go to store. NOPE! She left at 3:30. I got most of invoices done, need to finish up after chatting with y'all. I believe in teamwork. If I see something that needs to be done, I try to get it taken care of. If I can make someone else's job easier, I will. I understand that she has "her" work done, but sitting in the office isn't helping with anything! I do so much better when I know I am solo, then when I expect to get assistance and don't. I asked her to price things one morning....DH asked me to price them in pm. I said I was busy and had asked his sister to do it that morning. The next morning, he said something to her about needing prices. She did get it done. People see that she goes to work early and think she has this great work ethic. Just because she goes to work at the butt crack of dawn doesn't mean she has a great work ethic. It just means she wants to get stuff done so that she doesn't have to stay at the shop all day. I really want to call off today but you know I won't. Thank you for listening. Still trying to figure out how to change my attitude about it all. Would love to hire some more people, but few want to work and those that do are use to a more structured work place. We are small and everyone needs to just get done whatever needs doing.
Big Breath! We did go to the stores after work in search of new lights for detached garage. Couldn't find any to match what is up on the house as far as style, but did get similar color. It will work. No cookout at our house this year as there is no place to park due to concrete work. What a mess! Hopefully I will get some plants moved and a bunch of paperwork done. We will see. One bite at a time.
Better get going for the day.
Welcome to the New Ladies!
Thankful for all of you!
Hugs for EVERYONE!
Kylia in Ohio where we are getting a break from the heatwave.7 -
Penny Safe travels!!!!3
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Penny- you have so many memories of whrre you have lived these last years and bless you for sharing pictures of it to us armchair travelers..I know things will be different for you in Norway and im sure you will be able to find a new normal..
Alfie and I are just hanging out this morning..now that my birthday has passed i really have to knuckle down and start back on the weight loss journey.. the only good thing about the surgeries other than keeping me alive is I didnt have much of an appetite.. well now I eat everything and to much anf not enough exercise.. so back on the band wagon.1 -
Happy July! - Thank you, Barbie, as always, for getting us started right.
Kylia - it appears you need to hire Michele!
Heather - I love the thought of your cleaning partnership with your husband... that way you save the hassle of a cleaner, and can keep that money for future cruises!
Penny - If I did the math right, you're in your last hour in Longyearbyen as I write this. Deep breaths, my dear... thinking of you.
Nothing tugging at me today, so I will hopefully be able to piece the last rail onto my quilt and then begin binding it.
My spatial sense, including being able to know which way is the right way up for fabrics with a defined print, is pretty much shot to pieces, but then it was never good. The only test I bombed when I went in the military 42 years ago was the one where you decide which constructed box shape in the multiple-choice answers is the one that matches an unfolded and flattened box.
They decided I was cheating, saying I couldn't do that badly in the spatial section and do so well in the word knowledge part of the test. So they put me in a room with just me and a test proctor and made me retake the word knowledge part over. My score went even higher, because I had plenty of time to take it. Silly buggers.
My goals for June were:- Be lighter
- Stick to a budget
- Be healthier
Two out of three ain't bad. My goals for July are the same.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa3 -
I was part of a motivational career boosting thing recently. I found most of it just talk, talk, talk but there were a few interesting points.
One was an exercise where we were encouraged to list things under three headings: Stop | Start | Continue
That idea could be used for lots of things like, for example, losing weight and getting fit! I could use it like this, perhaps ...
Stop: I'm going to stop eating that extra little snack in the afternoons.
Start: I'm going start doing a long walk at lunch at least once a week.
Continue: I am going to continue climbing stairs at work.
Another was to track our wins and quantify them . The suggestion was to do that once a week ... kind of like a win or highlight each week. The idea was that in our careers, if we keep a log of quantified weekly wins, when the time comes for performance reviews or job interviews, we have concrete material to work with.
But it could be used in our lives outside our careers too ... I cycled so many kilometres this week, I kept track of my calories 5 days, I caught up on my laundry, I finished 3 things from my To Do list, etc.
A third was to let our supervisor, manager, etc. know what we're accomplishing, just casually about once a month. The idea is to keep our accomplishments in front of those who matter to us and perhaps to keep ourselves accountable .
Here, many of us tell each other what we're accomplishing because we can celebrate each other's wins and because it can help keep us accountable.
Machka in Oz5 -
Lisa - I'm the opposite to you! My spatial sense is by far my biggest score, and my word and maths is much lower. I am a spatial genius!
Not sure what that means as I've never really consciously used it, but I used to make all my own clothes when I was younger and I can put a flat pack together!
Machka - I can understand that you want to keep company with your husband while he is awake, but I spend most of my time in a different room, doing my own thing. I do my writing on my bed, plus watching videos, learning languages etc. I get a lot of time as downtime away from him. I expect your husband wants your company after you have been out all day at work and is probably quite needy. Must be a strain.
Saga rang today to check the health insurance. All good to go now. Next year, here we come! Mediterranean in March and Iceland in June 2022.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - I can understand that you want to keep company with your husband while he is awake, but I spend most of my time in a different room, doing my own thing. I do my writing on my bed, plus watching videos, learning languages etc. I get a lot of time as downtime away from him. I expect your husband wants your company after you have been out all day at work and is probably quite needy. Must be a strain.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
One of the many features of Traumatic Brain Injury is that the person can become very chatty ... my husband has been described by the experts as "tangential and verbose". So he spends most of the day most days at home alone thus when I get home in the evenings, he says everything! And sometimes when I am getting ready for work in the mornings too.
Going to Pilates on Tuesdays is good because then he can talk to our instructor for an hour. I try to take him to other things as well like his monthly Brain Injury Peer Group meetings, the Bee meetings and the Cycling meetings so he can talk to them. And me taking the extra day off each fortnight means that we can sometimes get out and do some shopping or other things which gives him the opportunity to talk to sales people etc. Doing that gives me a little bit of a break from having to engage in conversation.
The other thing is that there are often things I need to deal with. His memory is poor and he has a variety of other issues, so I can be kept busy some evenings finding things, confirming things, fixing things, organising things, etc. etc. etc.
I'm on duty from the time I get up at 8 am until he goes to bed at 10:30 pm. And then I can relax for a bit before I go to bed.
Sometimes I do exercise after 10:30 ... if I'm going to do core work, stretching or light weights, that's usually when I'll do it.
But usually I turn the lights down, put on music, and do whatever's next on my list.
M in Oz6 -
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Good Morning and Happy July 1st
Starting weight this month 152.2
Goal at end of month 145
Slept much better last night and am ready for the day. Scheduling this quarters Fire Drills and inspections for the hospital this morning and running a few reports, other than that not much going on at work today.
So glad I found this group! I'm still trying to catch up reading previous posts so I can figure out your stories so I can engage more in the conversations
Candy in LA8 -
Thank you Barbie!
It's warm and sunny here and I feel drowsy. I have an idea for a story to write, so I might do that later. Horseback riding depends on whether the thunderstorms are coming. And then dumbbells tonight.
The plumber replaced the water line to the fridge for the astounding price of $800. But the basement is still damp. I so hope we don't get mold.
Annie in Delaware2 -
Happy Canada Day !0
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