WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2022
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I wonder how many women come with some frequency on this thread. It seems like many dozens...
Busy times here.
How are you all doing?
I'm finding the CICO not easy to master!4 -
I just found you here and would like to join in if there is a march thread. I turned 50 last summer and am at my highest weight ever, more than in my pregnancies. It is time to get rid if some and make time for being active. So I hope joining you here will help me build and Stick to better habits. Good morning from Europe.8
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bananasandoranges wrote: »I wonder how many women come with some frequency on this thread. It seems like many dozens...
You've asked this question before ... you could count it.
It wouldn't be too hard to do. I'd do it in Excel and each time you come to a name, type it into Excel. If you come to it again, put an X in the box next to the name. Might be interesting!bananasandoranges wrote: »How are you all doing?
How are you doing?bananasandoranges wrote: »I'm finding the CICO not easy to master!
What are you finding difficult?
The concept is super simple ... eat fewer calories than you burn. CI < CO.
The execution takes some effort in the sense of focus, concentration and deliberation.
M in Oz
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Accountability:Chose well: rx, Joe, yoga, readings, BP, dogs to powerline, steps >7400, CI<CO, CI<250<CO, active : 5:21
Bonus: 36 mins grooming Tumble
Workin’ on it: 143.5, H20x4.
Friendly February 2022
26: Make uninterrupted time for your loved ones.
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Scale down .9 lb, despite last night’s snacking. It’s a mystery.
Got dogs down to powerline just as the rain was starting. Happy to see it even though it meant no dog group today.
Lisa being able to sit in office longer is a victory, not stupid. Likewise being able to absorb those nutrients. You’ll find your balance soon enough.
Belated best birthday wishes Carla!
Margaret “…sometimes the critic was me…” “…patience and letting go of outcome… skills I need more practice” Me too.
Carol “… and he is no conversationalist…” our husbands could be brothers from another mother.
Katla I’m so with you about live game and grocers.
Allie those early pet losses leave deep holes. ((hugs))
Beth your can’t sleep prayers, yes that. In addition to our gals here, and other worries, giving thanks for everyone who has ever loved me and everyone I have ever loved helps to end the session on a positive note. ((hugs)) for this sad day.
Rita ((hugs))
Machka
the “healing” meme . . . and the To Do list one too! :laugh:
Julie good to see you popping in. CICO is not easy if I’m honest in my logging. Hope all your busy ness means good progress on your writing/research project.
Welcome @buxbert in Europe! Barbiecat will post a link to the March thread on the last day of February. Hope to see you there.
Well Joe’s up an hour early so off I go!
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
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Morning, afternoon and evening, my dears,
Hope all are as well as we can be, and that we all enjoy/enjoyed a peaceful Sunday.
Pip - all my sympathy and many gentle hugs. I'm glad you're able to stay still, but I know how hard that must be. Thank you for letting us know.
Beth - It doesn't seem to be possible that a year has passed since your son died. My heart goes out to you and your family. Grief is never far away for those big losses, but the power of its impact does diminish over time.
Margaret - Your son's loss is still on my mind as well. I hope you're doing OK.
Carla - Belated happy birthday!
Julie - One thing I learned from this group was to pay more attention to a weekly CICO. Helped stop that constant barrage of negative self-talk for me.
Allie - Have you thought about having a roommate? Might ease some of the financial burden as well as have someone there to alleviate the loneliness. Just a thought.
I've lost the rest of the responses I thought of as I was reading... Possibly because my insomnia kicked back in and I was up before 3 a.m. my time. I can take a nap later if need be.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
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I keep forgetting to add that I've also found a recipe app that is making me very, very happy. It's called Copy Me That, and I actually ponied up to buy a lifetime membership ($25 - cheaper than a new cookbook).
Please note, I do NOT get any money to say this, it's something my best friend uses and I finally decided to try it. Lots of extra stuff like planning meals out for a week or a month, generating shopping lists, and my favorite part, which is that it strips off all the verbiage around recipes which are just mondo annoying, and just copies the recipe itself into your set.
It satisfies my organizing soul, and will let me get rid of a hundred or more bookmarks. It will also let me add my own recipes into the site, and even build a cookbook (for a fee, of course). I'm debating on sending my daughter a gift subscription - I think she would like it.
Last plus for me is that if a website goes dark, which they do a lot, it won't impact the recipe, as the recipe will be in my set.
Later y'all,
Love, Lisa in AR3 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »I keep forgetting to add that I've also found a recipe app that is making me very, very happy. It's called Copy Me That, and I actually ponied up to buy a lifetime membership ($25 - cheaper than a new cookbook).
Please note, I do NOT get any money to say this, it's something my best friend uses and I finally decided to try it. Lots of extra stuff like planning meals out for a week or a month, generating shopping lists, and my favorite part, which is that it strips off all the verbiage around recipes which are just mondo annoying, and just copies the recipe itself into your set.
It satisfies my organizing soul, and will let me get rid of a hundred or more bookmarks. It will also let me add my own recipes into the site, and even build a cookbook (for a fee, of course). I'm debating on sending my daughter a gift subscription - I think she would like it.
Last plus for me is that if a website goes dark, which they do a lot, it won't impact the recipe, as the recipe will be in my set.
Later y'all,
Love, Lisa in AR
That sounds very interesting.
So if I've got a recipe I like from a website, I copy it into this app, it gets cleaned up so it's just the recipe and I can access it from the app?
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Good morning ladies. In no particular order:
Allie-glad things went well for Sean, hope his recovery continues. You seem very active to me-I spend most of the two years worrying you would get Covid with all of your running around!
Carla-glad your husband was able to do the right thing so you had a happy birthday.
Alexandria-good to see recovery continuing.
Pip-well, at least now they have you on track to find out what it is. Constant pain is draining. I do better once I know what something is and can plan a course of action. Prayers for you and Kirby.
Lisa-sorry you are going through the same cycle again. Good luck with balance.
Julie-I get what you mean about CI/CO-sounds so simple but some days is so tough. I think we do well it we hit it the majority of the time. Food is a necessity (we have to ear to live) so it is easy to go overboard.
Annie-I would check out what even a part time job may do if you receive any disability benefits.
Beth-hard to believe it has been a year since your son’s passing. You have shown great strength.
Spent most of yesterday cutting out one section for basement ceiling in the bathroom. It goes around the drain pipes (like from the upstairs toilet!). Made several attempts. Last one is not bad-left it until this am to see if I want to retry with the last one as a template (gaps around holes a bit bigger than I would like), or I may just put it up and say "good enough!" I think it's pretty good for a 67 year old lady, but still want it decent.
Discover plumbing leaking with toilet down there (it is the original put in down there in the late 1950s). While I have installed more than one toilet in my lifetime-I am contacting a plumber for this one! The placement is on a small platform next to the shower. Not sure why there is a step up-not sure if toilet removal will show damage to said platform.
Youngest son is coming over next weekend to help me demo the old bar and storage counter in basement. Very dated, ugly, non functional. Having it gone will just give a very large open area. Will get new floor down later this year and walls painted.
Well-better get off to to actually doing work than just talking about it. Also want to walk and get work out in today.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
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It rained all day ... drizzled. So we did some shopping and came home with 3 plants, a little table for my laptop, a collection of music, and a few other things.
Then I rowed for 20 minutes and lifted weights.
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »I keep forgetting to add that I've also found a recipe app that is making me very, very happy. It's called Copy Me That, and I actually ponied up to buy a lifetime membership ($25 - cheaper than a new cookbook).
Please note, I do NOT get any money to say this, it's something my best friend uses and I finally decided to try it. Lots of extra stuff like planning meals out for a week or a month, generating shopping lists, and my favorite part, which is that it strips off all the verbiage around recipes which are just mondo annoying, and just copies the recipe itself into your set.
It satisfies my organizing soul, and will let me get rid of a hundred or more bookmarks. It will also let me add my own recipes into the site, and even build a cookbook (for a fee, of course). I'm debating on sending my daughter a gift subscription - I think she would like it.
Last plus for me is that if a website goes dark, which they do a lot, it won't impact the recipe, as the recipe will be in my set.
Later y'all,
Love, Lisa in AR
That sounds very interesting.
So if I've got a recipe I like from a website, I copy it into this app, it gets cleaned up so it's just the recipe and I can access it from the app?
M in Oz
Yep - you have the ability to keep each recipe private or public. You can also check the recipe to see if there are any lines you don't want to keep and simply uncheck them. In Microsoft Edge or Chrome, it's just a click on the apps button at top right.2 -
((Beth)). Please tell us some of your fondest memories of your son. I would love to hear more about who he was.
Pip - I am glad you can find a way to keep the pain under control. Love the doggy photos.
Julie - Concerning CI/CO: in my opinion, the CI part is pretty straightforward. The CO part - not so much. Each body is a unique chameleon.
Off to watch my granddaughter in day #3 of District Swimming Champs. She just aged up to 13, so it's a whole new arena for her!
Karen in Virginia6 -
Good Sunday from Kentucky (just for this weekend)
I have a lot to read to catch up on! Just thought I would pop on and let you know that I am still alive!
I did have the cataract surgery done in both eyes now. I was surprised at how much perifial (sp) vision I had lost on the left side! The left was done on the 3rd which was my 59th birthday. The nurses drew pretty balloons and happy birthday on my chart. We were in the middle of an ice storm, but my oldest daughter handled it well. I never thought I would have to have cataracts done before I was 60. The right eye was done on the 17th so is still in healing stages with drops. Only cheaters for now for some smaller reading. Distance is really good. Question for those who have had the surgery done....my left eye is out of drop stage, but has been aching since then. Is that normal? Yes, I will call my eye doctor tomorrow to ask. I don't return to him until the middle of March.
Depression has been real. Vitamin D3 has helped, but I still feel overwhelmed. I am sure the cataract surgeries along with two crowns in the same two weeks hasn't helped. My DH tries so hard to help, but doesn't realize that there isn't much he can do other than to hug me when I am crying and put me back in line when I am being b**chy. My doctor is running a thyroid test in July to see if that is part of the problem. I quit taking my estradol because I kept forgetting to take it anyway, but will be starting it back up. Can't handle the side effects and lack of sleeping!
I am otherwise doing okay. I am going to start reading to catch up before March. March will be crazy insane. I need to be my best, so here's to figuring this all out.
For now,
Hugs to those who need them
Congratulations to the losers and healers
Warm thoughts for you all as you have been on my mind even if I haven't been present online.
Kylia in Ohio normally7 -
Beth - Much love.
Rita - You have a lot of worry to deal with.
Allie - My pet traumas as a child put me off for life. You are braver than me! I'm sure you miss having a companion. Someone said, "I have plenty of people to do something with, but no one to do nothing with."
I am very happy just with DH, but I found living alone very, very hard.
My big news is that I have lost another pound!!!
Last week was a wipe out, but I managed to keep it together this week. That is 5 lbs in 5 weeks. Two more weeks to go, so I am perfectly on track.
I am absolutely delighted!
Had a lovely long phone conversation this morning with my friend K, who has been in South Korea for three months, with her new born twin grandsons. She is home and her son and family are coming back to live permanently nearby in July. Huge relief to her. The wife is Korean.
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
Morning Ladies
Lisa- I dont have the room here 1 to have a roomate and 2 because it is a condo complex the bylaws dont allow that . Although alot of the elderly people here have one of there children living with them here,how they do that in 1 bedrrom condo is beyond me there are 2 bedroom ones also..
Heather- your right it is hard to live on my own.. i should be used to it, its been almost 5 yrs but it seems only after my surgeries and not having the stamina i once had that seems to make it worse.
If I didn't have Alfie i think id be off my rocker..he really is my fur baby
Got a text from my kids dad Rich,I found a friend of ours actually she was our bosses daughter who will be turning 50 lol but she is a sweetheart ..we met at a bar so there ya go many many moons ago.. anyway. Remember i told you how he has been in a depression well ,Michelle and I were chatting in messenger on Facebook for quite awhile and I knew that hearing from her would cheer him up.. so I gave her his # and I texted him and gave him her # and let it be...
Well Michelle messaged me yesterday saying that Rich called her yesterday and they talked for an hr .. and she plans to call once a month to check on him and he is going to DQ with our son Dan.. so im so glad I was able to at least bring him a little lift.4 -
Did pilates for runners DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do Cathe Drill Max DVD.
Buxburt – welcome! Stay tuned for the March thread!!!!
Hugs to everyone who needs them
Michele
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Thanks for all the birthday wishes friends!
Hubby is also coordinating a family gathering tonight. The girls couldn't get together on Friday night because Lacy had a late doctor's appointment and Anne had football practice. He's really coming through for me.
Rita... Worry IS exhausting, my friend. Sending love and prayers that you hear something soon. Glad you're feeling better. And I always try to remember what Erma Bombeck said about worry. We learned that pretty fast having kids in the Marine Corps too. No sense in worrying about something we couldn't control. I know that's no help, but we're here for you.
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Well, Vince was thinking that we were meeting Diane at 12 only it’s at 1 that we’re meeting her so we leave an hour later. His comment? “I didn’t have to get up so early” Well, his fault. We’re meeting Dick and Karen at 12 next week.
Michele1 -
Morning peeps. I was thinking, if they take this mass out, maybe I’ll loose a pound or so , score!!7
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KYLIA 2 crowns and cataract surgery is a lot!!!!! when I get dental (more than a simple cavity) work done I usually go to the osteopath soon after as I think it takes a toll. And fatigue, etc, takes a toll on mood. IF you are going the natural route : B12 is good, omega 3s, and more plant-y medically ( double blind tested) is saint john's wort. Less side effects as medical anti-depressants, and at least as efficient ON AVERAGE, according to many serious studies, BUT it's a case by cast thing and I am no doctor.
HEATHER woohoo for 1 lb per week for 5 weeks!
MACHKAbananasandoranges wrote: »I wonder how many women come with some frequency on this thread. It seems like many dozens...
. you could count it.
It wouldn't be too hard to do. I'd do it in Excel and each time you come to a name, type it into Excel. If you come to it again, put an X in the box next to the name. Might be interesting!bananasandoranges wrote: »I'm finding the CICO not easy to master!
What are you finding difficult?
The concept is super simple ... eat fewer calories than you burn. CI < CO.
The execution takes some effort in the sense of focus, concentration and deliberation.
M in Oz
I'm not motivated nor regular enough to count! but I tend to count things more than many people (my dad was always counting things, so I surely got it from him). so I figured there might well be some other counters out there!
The concept CICO is indeed not difficult mathematically.
Finding difficult ? not the concept but the execution part.What are you finding difficult?
The execution takes some effort in the sense of focus, concentration and deliberation.
BARBARA
.Julie good to see you popping in. CICO is not easy if I’m honest in my logging. Hope all your busy ness means good progress on your writing/research project
Nice to pop in! Agreed about CICO. Hummm for the rest.
LISAJulie - One thing I learned from this group was to pay more attention to a weekly CICO. Helped stop that constant barrage of negative self-talk for me.
Good idea. I think in free laptop version only the daily is visible. I know in phone version the weekly is available in free version. (weird that variance!). Counting weekly is more reasonable.
KAREN it's not the calculating that is hard but the execution!
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Basically, metabolism is said to slow down some with age. I had always been quite active, even VERY active. But at around 50-55 I had minor foot and knee issues so running (an easy quick calorie burn) is out. I have not found a replacement, and I'm simply not as into sports as I used to be. I eat out of stress slightly more than I did in my late 30s to early 50s. (not a ton more, just a bit, a few crackers here and there, for example..- but over years...).
It's like some saying some old writer said (maybe someone can find it) something like: "With an income of 20 pounds 20.04 spent every month and 19.96 spent every month, is the difference between hell and heaven"( very very approximately quoted). Same with food. The variance is incidental, but over years it adds up.
I'm really not that into sports like I used to be. I'm all for varying life experiences and liking to do more this and less that at different times of life. BUT exercise is one of those relative non-negotiable. I can pretty much commit to walking 30 min a day and following through on that. Other than that, I often don't follow through and when I do I often don't enjoy it...
and sometimes I'm just plum tired too....also an age thing presumably. I had energy to burn and to give until my mid thirties at least, very active. didn't like to sit still much...
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So I'm experimenting.
Skipping meals seems a fair option to experiment with.
a few years back that was seen as a big dietary no-no. not so these days.
having one yummy full meal can be an option.
Today I had
breakfast - carrot juice mixed with mango kombucha + 5 walnut halves
lunch - went out for buckwheat crepes:
savoury: 1. appetiser : salad greens and a bit of grated carrot beet radish, plus very vinagery vinaigrette; 2. main : asparagus, avocado, cheese buckwheat, crepe; 3.sweet (dessert) frozen raspberries and honey and lemon on buckwheat crepe.
So a pretty full meal but not massive. Fine for having just 1 meal per day.
about 40 min of walking...
had insomnia last night...so now I'm knackered at 5pm!4 -
bananasandoranges wrote: »I wonder how many women come with some frequency on this thread. It seems like many dozens...
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popped into my head this morning, quick rough estimate 30 including you and me!
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pip your positive spin! 1
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Before yesterday I hadn’t had a poop for 3 days (est). Yesterday I had a couple of marbles which is not much, but I feel a poop coming on, another score!!!10
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Pip - Hoping you’re feeling better and better. 1
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Pip - Hoping you’re feeling better and better.
Thx, I feel okay as long as I sit and don’t move, like nothing is wrong. But I can’t stay still ALL day. I will start hurting more and more when I start moving. At least I have pain pills to help out if I need them. My sense of humor has never left me tho10 -
Found out, after the event, that DH's niece and nephew were running the Brighton half marathon today. DH did not tell me, despite me talking at length about the event this morning. It passes along the seafront just near us.
She sent me a message afterwards saying they hadn't seen us. 
I am annoyed to say the least.
I think DH feels a bit aggrieved at them not taking enough notice of him. In my opinion it's mutual. Interesting that she texted me! I would definitely have gone down to cheer them on.
Trying not to be cross.
Julie - As I understand it , you are not particularly large. So maybe it doesn't matter enough to you. It took the cruise and evening dresses to concentrate my mind. Rolls of pudge. I do 950 calories burn every day (except when we had visitors and sprained ankle, still did 600) and eat 1500. Without our machines it would be very difficult, in fact impossible for me. It is very hard work.
Found this old photo of me in the box of letters. I think it's from around 88-89. Hardly recognise myself! I remember the jacket very well though.
Much love, Heather UK xxxxxx
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Barbie— I would like your advice on poodles. We are hoping to buy a poodle from a reputable local breeder who was recommended by our Veterinarian’s office. I am wondering about the differences between a Standard Poodle compared to Medium Poodle. Do you have advice? Does one need more exercise? DH prefers medium sized & I’m not sure what I think. Our veterinarian’s office recommended this breeder and we trust the breeder has healthy dogs.
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