WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2023
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I am still stuck, and I am frustrated, and angry. I am Katla and that is my pov. I am willing to use Katla 49. I do not know how to return to my normal ID. Advice is welcome.
Katla aka Katla 491 -
Was in bed sick since Wed. night so just now trying to catch up here. On page 62. Still not feeling great but a little better than yesterday. Have to pick up Ezie at 1:10. I won't be walking today.
Supposed to rain off and on all day anyways. At least it isn't snow. My sister called me and she is snowed in- first time in the ten or so years she has lived up there. She is in Cloverdale. Snow on the mountains around my mom's.
Need to eat something but nothing sounds good- not sure if that is why I am feeling off still- handful of tortilla chips with my tea yesterday then half an English muffin w/sausage(because that is what dh brought home) was it for the day. Didn't eat much Wed and what I did came back up a few hours later and all night. I never sleep during the day and I ended up sleeping or resting all day. Barely even looked at my phone and didn't turn on my desktop.
Have a great weekend ladies
Debbie
Napa Valley,CA
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Katla,
Try this:
Go to the top of this page and click on the big myfitnesspal in the upper left corner:
This page should come up. Look in the small print at the top of the page. Toward the right, you should see "log out”. Click on that.
Then you should get a log in page like this.
Don’t use the automatic name that comes up.
Click on the blank email or username window and type in your preferred user name (Katla49), or your email, or whatever you usually use as your log in name. See if that brings up the right password and account. If you can’t remember your password, click “forgot password” and follow the instructions to reset it.
Sorry you are having trouble.
Karen in Virginia1 -
Afternoon ladies
Well here I am...I begged off of going to Lauries funeral .. even wearing a mask im worried about getting something and being so close to my trip don't want to chance it.. I know she would understand.. i did let her youngest son know..
Well the dress i ordered for the wedding came and its to small. Sooooo I went online to Amazon and ordered another dress which is very pretty and a pair of tights, a pair of control top panty hose,a elastic waist belt, and a pair of shoes..
So im going to bring 2 dresses
I got in the mail today an invitation to brunch on Friday the 17th the day before the wedding for Joelle the bride and her bridesmaids.. which I thought was so very sweet..
They included me also in Sarahs wedding when I went last time.. It must be a sothern thing.. but I want to look decent.. and in March who knows what the weather is going to be down there Rita ? Im only taking a carry on and a large handbag...so the last wedding i had a summery dress and I was chilly.. so im bringing both a warm dress and and the fancy dress for the wedding..im really wondering if i should bring my big fuzzy coat.
Well I went to AccuWeather and for when im there its forcasted to be between 53-663 -
Thanks, Karen. I’ll give it a try.
Katla490 -
Good afternoon ladies!
I did my yoga and my aerobic walking Yay! I ate 1083 calories for a deficit of 309. Yay!
I might do more yoga tonight if I get bored. I was playing with lunges a little bit and confirmed that I just can't do them. I either have to give it up or somehow develop patience and a proper sense of progression. That's okay, my exercise routine is working so I really shouldn't change it. It's tough to remember that when I get excited about new things.
I can put my hands flat on the floor, partly because I stretch and also because my legs are short.
Katla good luck with your login. What happens when you try to log out? Can you get your daughter to help you? I know it's frustrating but it shouldn't be permanent.
Annie in Delaware
Annie2 -
Well its afternoon here now. Hello everyone!
Annie/ How do you get yourself into a routine to exercise?
Seems like I just can’t get myself to do anything. Even keeping up with some housekeeping seems overwhelming. The storms have made my neuropathy go crazy. Also congrats on a great loss!
Michele/ I know what the spasms your husband is having feels like. I’ve been getting them in my legs. You can see my whole muscles moving, it looks like an alien is inside of me. I hope he is getting some relief.
Tina/ I have a touch faucet. On our control box, you can adjust the water mixture to the temperature you want for when it comes on. Maybe yours has that too?
Lisa/ Hope you start feeling better, the big C sucks. I had it the first time before they even reported it being a thing here in the US. I went in for a flu test, they said that I had the flu but nothing like they had seen before on test results. Keep your healthcare provider in the loop, sometimes there care can be lingering side effects.
Sorry to seem like such a downer. I’m just stuck. My body is fighting me tooth and nail. In the last few days my weight has fluctuated up and down 10+ pounds overnight repeatedly, it’s draining. I wasn’t even able to go back home to WI, for my mother’s surgery. My husband’s schedule wouldn’t allow him to go along. ( He works for a mining/drilling company) His backup lead quit. So, I was afraid to travel alone just yet.
They just got done doing 3 MRI’s blood work, and EMG and I’ve had a lumbar puncture. They still can’t find a reason for the paralysis I had or the neuropathy it left me with. My neurologist just handed me off to a PA because he couldn’t find anything and wouldn’t discuss the possibility of it being covid or vaccine related. So, they prescribed me the same muscle relaxers, pain med and gabapentin that I’ve been taking for the last 2.5 years. So much for $3000+ dollars of wasted money.
Please forgive the whining. Maybe writing it down and being able to tell someone will get me into a better place. I started logging in again today and with the inspiration of your chats I’ll walk on the treadmill a bit and do my remote PT. The Corgis love to bark at the treadmill and can’t understand why we aren’t taking a walk outside drives me crazy. Sorry pups, two feet of snow is not my jam
Belinda
BFE, Nevada
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Stats for the day-
Walk w/family- RAIN & WINDY!- 1hr 55min 13sec, 81elev, 97ahr, 127mhr, 6.06mi= 669c
Strava app= 742c
Zwift home spin bike- strava stats- 36min, 126aw, 16.8amph, 722elev, 112ahr, 140mhr, 10.08mi= 261c
Strava app= 261c
Zwift stats- 36.05min, 724elev, 126aw, 52arpm, 16.79amph, 10.1mi= 262c
Total cal 9303 -
Tracy sent me a video of Miles ,Ive been singing old McDonald had a farm
And he gets a kick out of the Ei Ei Oh
So the video... is him trotting around saying Ei Ei he hasn't gotten the Oh part yet lol
What a hoot that boy cracks me up..4 -
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I prefer Katla 49 as my user name.1 -
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Okie in the TX Hill Country0 -
Belinda, I get inspired by my father, who is 88 and still walks three miles three times a week. We exercise in the basement together on the other days.
It took a lot of experimenting to find a routine that works for me. I have a weak knee and I have ADHD which means I lose count easily. So I did everything for a single set of thirty reps, or hold for a fast count of seventy five. I am more interested in weight loss than muscle building, so I try to keep moving for seventy five minutes but I use light weights, and don't lift to failure. The goal is to be a little tired and stiff overall, but not really in any one muscle. I try to alternate the harder exercises with stretches, for active recovery. So I have strayed pretty far from straight weightlifting in my search for the perfect workout for me.
If you keep trying, you will find some form of movement that works for you. Start small, light and easy. I sort of collected various exercises from physical therapy and different fitness
experts. Good luck on your journey, keep at it!
Annie in Delaware
PS I walk in circles in the basement and it drives my little dog crazy!4 -
Carla - Happy Birthday youngster!
Katla - I've been where you are, devices and apps want to do things differently after upgrades or they just "burp" and it's nearly impossible to figure out how to get back to square one.
Lisa - Sorry you were under the weather, glad Corey is doing better. There's lots of crud going around.
Ginny - Sounds like you are doing better and slowly getting energy back. Glad it's a weekend!
Carol - Sorry to hear about the tooth! I'm probably going to go thru the same thing one of these days. I'd probably go for a partial depending on where the absent tooth is. Some of my crowns are over 30 years old.
Belinda - Sorry you are going through such a rough time. I messaged you with some info.
Debbie - hope you are feeling better!
Have a fabulous weekend, ladies!
Lanette
SW WA State
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I am Katla 491
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I am totally frustrated by MFP. I am Katla 49. I want the site to get rid of the false name.1
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Did 20-40-60 workout today. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Tracy Long Longevity series DVD. After exercise today went to Aldi. Was in and out in 5 minutes. Now home waiting for the dishwasher to be installed
kylia – so glad the procedure went so well.
Katla – so good that you have such wonderful neighbors. This will help put your mind at ease. I know you’ll miss your home, but you have your dd and everyone else there. Did MFP just change your name without you requesting/authorizing it???
Tracey – feel better fast. Pain is no fun
M – yea for the good results from the GP. How wonderful that you’re on leave and then will be in another department. So this means you won’t have dealings with that difficult co-worker!
Carla – what a baby you are!!! Happy birthday
Tina – Vince...exercise….he’s waiting for Vitamin E to be developed. If the MD suggested it, he just might do it. thanks so much for the link. I’ve bookmarked it. I spoke to Vince about possibly doing some back strengthening after this calms down and while he didn’t completely dismiss the idea, he didn’t completely agree, either. Now I’ll just let him think about it.
Carol – hope without the crown your tooth doesn’t hurt real bad
Anne DE – I avoid lunges because I fractured the right foot. Even tho it was last year, the MD told me that the bone is weakened and I should avoid putting all my weight on that bone. So I have to come up with alternatives or just omit them from the workout completely
Got our new dishwasher. In retrospect, I wish we’d gotten a full size refrigerator in stainless steel. Oh well…
As usual, went in the pool after the dishwasher guys left. Also took down the grapefruit pie I made for the pot luck. I signed us up before Vince’s back problems and said that’s what I’d bring so I felt it only right that I bring it.
I get a free bouquet of flowers from Publix. So what I’m thinking I’ll do is get a vase from a thrift store and put the flowers in it, leave it in the clubhouse with a note “thank you for all your prayers, good wishes, offers of help, and everything else you have done.”
After laying in the sun I went in the pool. How I miss the water aerobics! I had my kickboard and was just kicking my legs. I can somewhat feel it now. Nothing terrible, but I can tell that I used the muscle. Can’t wait until we open our pool
Off to take a shower.
Michele in lovely, warm FL6 -
It has been quite a week ... my last week of work where I have been for the past 8 months. Sort of.
Monday -- I had a GP appt where I found out that the cyst in my brain is stable (yay) although sometimes I wonder if it is the cause of some of my headaches. I also found out that my bloodwork is great - blood sugars and cholesterol came down a bit - except for my kidney numbers which are borderline troublesome. They've been that way for a while.
Monday to Wednesday night at midnight -- I worked as quickly as I could to move my project toward my goal. My Project Plan had 3 goals and I wanted to get each of them up to a certain point. I finished Goal 3 about about a week ago. One of the IT guys and I settled on Goal 2 and I did some research and passed on info about how that would be accomplished. But Goal 1 was a big goal in the sense of being time consuming. I had been working on it for a while but both Tuesday and Wednesday nights I worked through till midnight. I wasn't going to get it done otherwise.
Thursday morning -- I touched things up and sent out what I had been promising for Goal 1. Then I quickly wrote up what I wanted to say in a 15 minute presentation to a group of the organisations management, including the highest level management, and printed out handouts.
Meanwhile, about 10 seconds after I hit "Send" to send out my Goal 1 accomplishment, my difficult coworker walked in, prepared to hate everything I had done. She logged in, looked at what I sent for all of about 30 seconds and started in yelling at me. I had done everything wrong and was a complete waste of time. There was more, but I turned my back and walked out. Even in the printer room where I was printing the handouts, I could still hear that she was yelling for a bit. Fortunately, she had quieted down when I got back into our area and I put on my music (ear buds) and relaxed before my presentation.
The presentation went really well ... better than I expected. I was so pleased.
After the presentation my difficult coworker had more unpleasant things to say about me and the project, but quieter this time. I just smiled at her.
Then it was lunch and I walked to a large stationery store where I got a few more pens for my colouring. It was a beautiful day and I felt so relaxed.
When I returned to work my difficult coworker was walking around looking absolutely furious but avoiding me which I appreciated. I had called a meeting at 1:30 to run through what I had done with Goal 1 and had invited my unit and my managers. My difficult coworker, another coworker (really nice one) and my manager came, and when my difficult coworker announced to the room that she would have nothing to do with Goal 1 or anything related to it, my manager told her she could leave the room. She didn't and suddenly perked up and showed an interest. But she left to go home immediately after the meeting which I didn't mind at all.
My third meeting of the day was about an hour later ... my farewell afternoon tea. With cake. It was lovely.
Do you remember that, in January, I said I had a secret?
First post on Page 87, here, Days 4 and 12 in my list ...
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10880701/women-ages-50-for-january-2023/p87
Well, part of that secret is that I'm on leave for a while ... and then I'm being seconded to another department for a bit!
I'll go into more detail next week, I hope.
Machka in OzMachka... congratulations on maintaining your calm with an outlandish co-worker. Hopefully the leave of absence is a good thing? I'm assuming since there was a farewell tea that all is well.
Beth near Buffalo
Yes, my leave is just normal annual leave, not a leave of absence. I booked it because I wanted some time off between positions, especially since the last couple months have been quite intense.
Much needed time to spend in my garden, to cycle, to colour, to read ... time to let my brain relax.
The secondment is also very definitely my choice.Anniesquats100 wrote: »Machka hope your difficult coworker sees the light before you come back. In my experience, being asked to leave a meeting for unprofessional behavior is a step towards being fired. I wonder what she would do if you said you were recording her.
Annie in Delaware
I don't have to record her. When she gets yelling everyone can hear her and about 3 weeks ago or so, she was going at me in our area, so I walked away into the kitchenette. As it happened my manager's manager's manager was there (3 levels up). I get along with her and we were chatting about cycling - we both cycle. All of a sudden my difficult coworker appeared in the kitchen and was extremely rude to me, right in front of our manager's manager's manager who was shocked. My difficult coworker was talked to and I had formal apologies from management.
But that didn't stop my difficult coworker.
Have you ever encountered a person in a professional workplace meeting who leaned across the table and snapped her fingers at the manager's manager (2 levels up) while shouting "HEY! HEY!"?? And then announced to the room that the manager's manager was not listening.
She did that in 2 different meetings recently. She was explaining something, everyone was listening, but the manager's manager happened to looked down at the meeting handouts for a moment instead of at her.
I've been in a lot of meetings in different places, and I've simply never come across something like that before!! The manager's manager was not impressed, and the manager's manager was the one who asked the difficult coworker to leave the meeting in our last meeting.LisaInArkansas wrote: »Machka - Well done! How much time do you get for leave, and how long will you be seconded to another department? I'm pleased your difficult person is showing her colors in front of management, and I'm sure you won't miss her.
Later, y'all,
Love, Lisa in AR
2.5 weeks leave. And it's right at the end of summer, early autumn here which is usually a lovely time of year.
I'm being seconded for just over 2 years.
I've really enjoyed the work and learned a lot - it's right up my alley - and most of the people in the office are lovely - I've been warmly welcomed and treated very well by 99% of them - but I feel like I need the break and hopefully the office structure will change a little in that time.
Machka in Oz6 -
myvt9v4crh wrote: »I have had a frustrating time. I AM Katla. My preferred name ID is Katla or Katla49.
Pip—I haven’t worked this mess out and I welcome help.myvt9v4crh wrote: »I am still stuck, and I am frustrated, and angry. I am Katla and that is my pov. I am willing to use Katla 49. I do not know how to return to my normal ID. Advice is welcome.
Katla aka Katla 49
Wait until you're feeling refreshed. Have a good night's sleep, a cup of coffee, breakfast, and then give it a go.
Sign out and sign back in as yourself.
Machka in Oz3 -
Anniesquats100 wrote: »Good morning ladies!
I lost 2.2 pounds last week! Yay!
Annie in Delaware
Well done!!0
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