MaggieGirl135’s Challenges
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Mt doctors are the ones who suggested walking and swimming. I have had R.A. since I was 38.1
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@MorticiaAddamsMSFS So sorry to hear that you have RA, not fun. My husband has a somewhat similar autoimmune disease and it has definitely impacted his life for much of his life, although until in recent years, it has been mild.
@sls631 If you may recall, we use a BowFlex (a bendy-rod contraption) for weight lifting. It has a manual and each page shows and describes 2 exercises. I use a 'flash card' system. I copied the exercises that I needed (cutting each one to just the half page) and binder clip them together... stack for upper body and one for lower body. I finish an exercise and I flip to the next one. I scratch my weights for the sets on the paper in pencil and erase/change them when I go up in weight. I'm right there with you, old-school-wise.
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I have been able to usually control mine through diet and exercise but I have had a few flares.0
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How are you doing, Maggie? Happy Spring! 🌼0
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Wow! Just got done working out. Today was the first time I did one of my strength training routines since the cruise (end of Jan)! As I was doing it, I was asking myself, why didn't I start this earlier? (Answer: cruise, COVID, laziness, lack of desire to commit).
I continue dancing back and forth over the 25 BMI line. I have been tracking every day since 3-9-23, even if I had to guess the calories on restaurant days (only some restaurants have calorie info on the menu here). I had to the lose 3 pounds I gained on the cruise first, though. And thinking about it, I am pretty much exactly where I was prior to the cruise (somewhat disappointing, actually). At least my head is now fully in the logging and exercise routine. I want to lose 10 lbs (11 today, I bounced up this morning).
I am hoping to have that off by early June, early July, for sure.
What helps is that it is finally warm here and I will resume my playing outdoors (lopping branches, cutting them up, dragging them to the end of the driveway). My husband bought a little baby chainsaw that is on the end of a pole (not an uncommon toy here). His new toy joins his brothers (two chain saws, one for home (shy of 8000') and on for our camping property, closer to the Continental Divide (low-mid 9000's). They have to be tuned differently for the different elevations. Anyway, He used his new toy recently, so it's not just me creating work. I do enjoy it a lot, which sounds weird. It feels good to be outside and moving.
Btw, I have always thought that I was not a stress eater and recent events have proven this to be true. My husband was just diagnosed with cancer. Prognosis is very good; it was all removed (with clean edges). There is thought that further treatment (radiation/chemo) may not be necessary, but we will be going to an oncologist soon. My husband is feeling fine, other than in the area where the nodule was removed. He was recently diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus, which is high risk for esophageal cancer. He doesn't drink alcohol or smoke (but has in the distant past (30 yrs?)), and always has good blood test/blood pressure numbers. He has a bunch of further endoscopies in front of him, for ablation and monitoring. He really is doing well.
Hope you are all working on your goals!2 -
Great news about your husband's cancer prognosis.0
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Yes, I agree. Sending hugs, Maggie!0
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Thanks!0
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I hope everyone had a Happy Easter / continuing to have a good Passover holiday and time with friends and family!1
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Happy Easter!0
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Sorry to hear about husband’s cancer but sounds like it’s a good outcome and your attitude seems very positive. It’s got too be tough for you as well as him. Sending you both well wishes.0
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On top of all this, our niece just found out that she has thyroid cancer, but it is confirmed that it was all contained/small/etc. Like my husband, she'll be busy the next couple weeks with consults and such.
My weight loss is slow going. I want the last of it all off, all now! Up/down/up/down endlessly. I know that I am whiny; it is not helping that Colorado is being Colorado and every 1-2 weeks in April we get snow, maybe 1.5" last night. It was 60's and 70's for the past week. I am hoping that every last bit will melt today. It is really not likely, but I would guess the majority will.
We invited our new next door neighbors over for dinner next week. One really odd benefit of that is that I thoroughly clean the house (as opposed to just the highlights, so to speak). I am wiping down my kitchen cupboards now. It's sort-of weird; do they really get dirty? I think it is more me knowing that they are clean.
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I love deep cleaning.2
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Easter was great! I made 2 big plates to send home for a friend and her mom. They really enjoyed it!1
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The CT scan results for my husband came out really well…the cancer did not spread to the lymph nodes and all of the cancer was removed (as thought) from his esophagus. Thank goodness.1
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Great news!1
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Glad to hear it!0
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Thanks!0
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Yippee on husband’s cancer news!!!1
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Sending peace and hugs on this wonderful day!0
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Thanks! Right back at cha!1
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Last weekend, my husband and I attended a party in our neighborhood. So much fun! We invited another couple over for tomorrow night and just invited our new next door neighbor, who we had over a week or two ago (both her and her husband). Her husband is traveling for work all week and she is just a bit unnerved bring by herself in a new house (she’s mid-thirties). She has two dogs and ours comes over to visit, so she has that company, as well.1
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Nice neighborhood. My immediate neighbors on all sides are a mess. Drugs, police visits, a ton of dogs running loose, noisy. The ones a house or 2 away are great.1
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Friendly neighborhood too! I miss that. All the friendly ppl here have either passed away or are in a nursing home now.1
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We are all aging here. Some people improve as they age but my immediate neighbors are the same creeps they always were.0
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Yup, the creeps definitely do get creepier! We've got a mean one two doors down who gave our next door neighbor a lot of grief when any plant grew on his side of the fence. He was mean to my brother a lot too when my brother wanted to get a handicapped sticker for university parking. The "B" wouldn't give it to him. My brother had cardio myopathy. The university is huge, unlike the university I chose. My bro was fat too, and many ppl just think fat and lazy and give you a hard time.0
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Our one neighbor is a pervert. Really creepy.0
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Hello, @MorticiaAddamsMSFS and @beccaboo1276414 and any others in our group that may be reading! Today, I feel that the good weather is here and here to stay; I was starting to have some doubts for summer. We have had an unusually wet spring (always needed), which makes it a touch colder. We now have temps for the coming 1.5 weeks in the mid-high 60's (and one day of 30% chance of rain). We camp further west (1500' higher), which is typically 8-10 degrees colder than at our home. We've been there a couple times, for the day (1 hour away), and will bring our teardrop trailer there tomorrow. We leave it there for the summer. We have grabbed trees from there (dug up and transplanted to our home) both times (14 spruces and 3 aspen) and may get several more spruces. Our home property is wooded and our camping property is heavily wooded. I think it's funny to plant trees at our house because we have maybe a couple hundred trees. Sometimes you just want one in a certain place. Trees (and probably everything else) grow very slowly at our elevation (shy of 8000'), so these 1' spruces that I'm transplanting probably will be my height in 10 years (hugely guessing). We have a lot of Ponderosa pines; we transplant spruces for some diversity (so if a bug comes by and desires only one kind of tree, we'll have other, remaining trees). The aspen are about 2' in height and I dug them up together (same rootball). They do not like to be dug up, because they are all interconnected, root-wise, and don't like to leave their mother tree. This is our second attempt with aspen; the first five (dug individually) died fairly quickly. Their appearance certainly expressed their displeasure. They were ~4', so I'm hoping for better success. We'll see. I'm pretty sure this will be my last attempt.
Excluding when I'm writing an epistle, like I am today, I read/log mfp on my iPhone. So please forgive me if I do't respond right away; I do read all of your posts (and sometimes think to click a like or a hug)! I'm cheering you on, regardless.
@beccaboo1276414 , I did not know that statins also lower the good cholesterol, but I guess I can understand that (not really, I have no clue). You must have worked hard to bring the good cholesterol up; I believe it takes a bit of time with eating nuts and other 'good' foods. I think that it's odd that some nuts lower the bad and the good and others lower just one or the other. I know that peanuts lower the bad and don't raise the good, so I sometimes make the effort to only eat them. I love all nuts, but the calories can really undermine weight loss efforts.
Depression: hugs. As a therapist, I always want to encourage folks to see a therapist and if they have one, but haven't seen them in awhile, do know that it is nothing (effort-wise) to reengage. Even if you think it may not help, it usually does. But, that being said, there is MUCH to be said for getting outside, like you mentioned. The key is to do that every day, especially when you don't want to (mood or weather-wise). Getting together with friends/not becoming a hermit, it all helps. Write out daily goals (one being getting out of the house one time/day). They don't have to be big goals, just things to keep you busy and having the satisfaction of accomplishing them/checking them off the list. Certainly, bringing your brother's ashes to mountains will allow you one more small part of saying goodbye.
@MorticiaAddamsMSFS Hunger. I think that I have to confess that many of the times that I am 'hungry', I'm not really hungry. It's just that I'm not full and would like more food. I remind myself of that, but it doesn't usually help, sadly.
Well, I am off to dig holes (I usually don't pre-dig my holes, so this is very proactive of me). One of the three trees that I am transplanting is going in a spot where a different baby tree died. The spot is fine and will be re-used (and easy to dig). The other two locations are 'fresh' locations, meaning, not previously dug. And, well, ROCKY mountains. Possibly very invigorating. Many times, you just have to realize that a tree cannot be placed where you want it. A lot of granite and some quartz. Either way, super-hard and sometimes really large rocks.
Onward, ladies! Maggie
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Just reporting in...two holes dug. Only one in the 'fresh' location was needed. Hard work, but doable. Also picked up some sticks and dog poo; it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!0
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Hubby did some landscaping today and I cleaned the bird baths, and wildlife pool.0
