WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2023
Options
Replies
-
Hello ladies!
I tried the Gym Boss timer today with my bike. Excellent! I did five minutes of cruise speed followed by a twenty second sprint, four times, plus a five minute cool down. I was panting and sweaty, but not scared. The bike takes my pulse every ten seconds or so, so I keep an eye on that. And the timer is simple to set up, partly because it comes with good instructions. I'm calling it twenty seven minutes of leisurely riding as far as the calories on MFP.
Other than that, I bought Teddy some special dog food, which he really enjoyed. He earned coupons for his $$$ vet visit. I'm normally not much of a coupon person, but this was fifteen bucks off.
And I had a NSV today. My aunt brought homemade chocolate chip cookies and I passed. I decided I like my own chocolate better at 80 calories vs twice that for a cookie. And I never eat just one.
Have a great day, my friends!
Annie in Delaware10 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Morning, afternoon and evening, all,
Terri - Thanks for the explanation. Your participation in so many activities makes me envy your energy.
Barbara AHMOD - Thank you! I'm not sure it will feel real until the first of August goes by and there's no mortgage payment taken from the bank account. As someone else said, it's a pity there's no mortgage paper left to set on fire to celebrate. It's like my older laptop was waiting for the house payoff to die... it was the computer I used to set up and pay off the mortgage. I'll just have to burn down the drive on it to make up for the mortgage burning. (Geek joke.
)
Heather - Your London trip sounds both wonderful and utterly exhausting!
I feel as if I should accomplish something, but my headspace is all taken up by the dread of the colonoscopy prep beginning tomorrow and the procedure itself on Tuesday. I'm getting myself too worked up over it, I know. I just need to relax and get my mind off it, but the thought of two days with only clear liquids is seriously making me twitchy. Then again, Corey's making me grilled shrimp tonight, my favorite meal.
Rebecca, I've seen you deal with self-directed fasts for 24 hours and more; how do you make it through? Any hints from anyone else who has fasted for 48 hours or more?
Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR, trying to get over myself and quit whining...
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Morning, afternoon and evening, all,
Terri - Thanks for the explanation. Your participation in so many activities makes me envy your energy.
Barbara AHMOD - Thank you! I'm not sure it will feel real until the first of August goes by and there's no mortgage payment taken from the bank account. As someone else said, it's a pity there's no mortgage paper left to set on fire to celebrate. It's like my older laptop was waiting for the house payoff to die... it was the computer I used to set up and pay off the mortgage. I'll just have to burn down the drive on it to make up for the mortgage burning. (Geek joke. )
Heather - Your London trip sounds both wonderful and utterly exhausting!
I feel as if I should accomplish something, but my headspace is all taken up by the dread of the colonoscopy prep beginning tomorrow and the procedure itself on Tuesday. I'm getting myself too worked up over it, I know. I just need to relax and get my mind off it, but the thought of two days with only clear liquids is seriously making me twitchy. Then again, Corey's making me grilled shrimp tonight, my favorite meal.
Rebecca, I've seen you deal with self-directed fasts for 24 hours and more; how do you make it through? Any hints from anyone else who has fasted for 48 hours or more?
Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR, trying to get over myself and quit whining...
Hey Lisa, my last colonoscopy I fasted prior just so I wouldn't be dealing with so much. The day prior to drinking the prep mix I fasted. Water only. By the afternoon of the next day I was drinking the prep. Use that "green tinned bag balm" for your nether region, as a barrier for what is coming out during the night. Believe me, its strong stuff and you get painfully sore. In your 23rd hour of fasting you can get really amped up, like gitty! You can feel really cold too. Your body's energy is going into the vital stuff so feet and hands can become really cold. I took a hot shower the night before my procedure. By the time I got out of recovery, I was like 42 hrs fasted. Remember it takes a while for your digestive system to click on. Eat small amounts and realize it takes time. It took maybe 4 days to have a bowel movement afterwards. All in all a good experience. You got this.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa4 -
2382380
-
Oops the response posted twice oh well.
Yesterday husband brought flowers home for me, just because. He's a keeper.🤗💖
Today I bought kitchen things for my pen pal that's getting her first apartment. She's like 21 yrs old and calls me Auntie Rebecca. Bought her two bright yellow placemats, two pretty plates, 4 napkins, 2 colorful kitchen towels, drying mat, and have donated to her flatware for 8. I need to buy those boxes, "if it fits it ships" because with all that flatware it will be heavy. It was fun shopping for all that.😁
Then I checked out two library books:
"Breaking Up with Sugar" by Molly Carmel
Firefly cookbook. Recipes by the characters in the series "Firefly"😁
My dear husband just said, " why do you need a book to tell you to give up sugar"? "Do like I did and just don't have it". I said, " because I am not as disciplined as you, and I need help". "You though, just stop and that's that". (Then I think I used the word for donkey butt). 😂😂🙃
Men and their diss association with food and emotions. For many of us food and memories are intertwined. I can eat strawberry shortcake and think of summer, then canning, the scent of Ban De Sollie sun oil in its orange tube of heaven (No SPF to speak of though), then homemade root beer floats after hay season. Sadly foods and memories go hand in hand with me.
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
9 -
Thanks, Rebecca, I knew you'd have sound advice. You're a peach!1
-
2392390
-
Good evening ladies!
Today I ate 1193 calories, which is one yogurt over my target. A reasonable choice, after I was hungry for thirty minutes. Earlier I rode my bike for twenty seven minutes, then tonight I did my dumbbell routine. Yay! My deficit is 386, again reasonable.
I might have to rethink my cycling intervals if they make me too hungry. Hmm. Always a balance.
Annie in Delaware6 -
Today I am going to try to figure out where I left off, just over a week ago, before things got so hectic!
For those that don't know, I work a 9-day fortnight and last week was one of my 5-day weeks.
I had meetings piled on meetings, work to do in the evenings, heaps of decisions to make, stuff to figure out, appointments to attend with my husband ... it was a full on week!
I knew something wasn't right with my knee, but it wasn't till Friday that I was able to do something about it.
Today, I have nothing I have to do, so I'll try to find my head and reattach it.
In the middle of all that I was able to complete the bowel screen test my doctor has been strongly encouraging me to do. In Australia, we do an at-home bowel screen test. If nothing shows up, then we're good for 2 years. If something shows up, then we go for a colonoscopy or something. So far, I've never had a colonoscopy.
Machka in Oz
5 -
Today I am going to try to figure out where I left off, just over a week ago, before things got so hectic!
For those that don't know, I work a 9-day fortnight and last week was one of my 5-day weeks.
I had meetings piled on meetings, work to do in the evenings, heaps of decisions to make, stuff to figure out, appointments to attend with my husband ... it was a full on week!
Today, I have nothing I have to do, so I'll try to find my head and reattach it.
In the middle of all that I was able to complete the bowel screen test my doctor has been strongly encouraging me to do. In Australia, we do an at-home bowel screen test. If nothing shows up, then we're good for 2 years. If something shows up, then we go for a colonoscopy or something. So far, I've never had a colonoscopy.
Machka in Oz
Did you go in yet for your 6 month- full body scan??
0 -
dlfk202000 wrote: »Today I am going to try to figure out where I left off, just over a week ago, before things got so hectic!
For those that don't know, I work a 9-day fortnight and last week was one of my 5-day weeks.
I had meetings piled on meetings, work to do in the evenings, heaps of decisions to make, stuff to figure out, appointments to attend with my husband ... it was a full on week!
Today, I have nothing I have to do, so I'll try to find my head and reattach it.
In the middle of all that I was able to complete the bowel screen test my doctor has been strongly encouraging me to do. In Australia, we do an at-home bowel screen test. If nothing shows up, then we're good for 2 years. If something shows up, then we go for a colonoscopy or something. So far, I've never had a colonoscopy.
Machka in Oz
Did you go in yet for your 6 month- full body scan??
No ... my skin doctor is away till October. I'll get it done then. I haven't noticed anything suspicious.
2 -
0 -
7 -
Belated welcome @bonhalp. Yes you CAN. Start with baby steps, log everything that you eat/drink. It’s a real eye-opener.
Rebecca thanks for the Gesualdo Six recommendation. Found ‘em on YouTube. Brilliant. Just listened to “Gaudete”. Chills.
Rori “free of drama and has a warm, positive outlook on life” AND Mars like him? Happy to hear it!
Heather “…all the things I have learnt about life, healing and growth” sounds like you could fill an encyclopedia!
Lanette yes please do tell, would love to hear the courting story.
Lisa love your positive attitude story.
Ginny
that’s the sad other side of the “…never know what may happen” coin. ((hugs))
Debbie
;your spice rack. Well done!
Annie sounds like a successful and reasonable shopping compromise.
Michele sorry to hear about Jerry’s situation.
Tracey the shirts you made for Rodger made me laugh out loud!
Only thru pg 30 but time to snoozzzze.
7/10 gratitude: getting closer to line dance “Another one bites the dust.”07/09: Move: 2 sets PT w/ dogs to powerline. Steps:4303 :P
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=18 CI=1483 CO=353
Live: Joe, readings, BP, rX, church. Wt: 131.2
Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2023: Be of good cheer. July: Move more, fuel better (less sugar), live NOW.
2 -
About exercise ...
10 Things to Stop Doing If You Want to Exercise
https://www.verywellfit.com/things-to-stop-if-you-want-to-exercise-1231403
A few quotes from that article ...
"Too often, we wait for the motivation to exercise, but waiting for that is like waiting for the motivation to scrub the toilet. Do you really want to clean the toilet? No. It's just something you have to do, but when you do it, you're really glad you did."
"Look for opportunities to exercise, rather than reasons not to - If you don't have much time, try lunchtime workouts, shorter, more intense workouts or split your routine."
"Work with your life the way it is now - We're always waiting for things to calm down but when does that actually happen? If we're lucky, we may get a week or two now and then when life isn't utter chaos. Don't try changing your schedule to fit a workout. Instead, try fitting a workout into your schedule, even if it's just 10 minutes at a time."
Machka in Oz7 -
Tips that have worked for me
Put 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 ... weigh the food (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, then reassess how things are going.
Regarding Cheat Meals
When I was on a mission to lose weight in 2015, I never went over my calorie limit. I stuck to the plan like glue. And I lost the weight.
But I broke it up into weeks. When I started I had 15 weeks until we were going to Canada so my plan was to stick to the calorie limit for 15 weeks and then take a 1-month break while we were in Canada. I did that and lost 15 kg in that time. After the 1-month break, I eased back into it for a couple weeks, upped my calorie limit slightly, and then stuck to it like glue for the next 20 weeks in which I lost 11 kg and took me close to Christmas when I took another break for about a month.
I find that kind of set up works for me.
Machka in Oz6 -
Fitbee-when I was out getting walk in this am I walked past a man walking his little dog who commented "Getting it in early before the storms". We are having rain and it is muggy!
Machka-sorry to hear about knee. I know it takes a lot to keep you down. Hope rest and maybe therapy will take care of problem.
Dr. Katiebug-I like the chicken/apple sausage also. However, I currently stuck on Johnsonville turkey links. 80 calories for two of them. I've been know to use them for a random protein snack during the day also.
Rebecca-your pen pal experience is very interesting to me-I have never really seen it in action.
Yesterday was a restful day. Got in walk, shopping, laundry. Also took a nap (which is unusual for me). Stopping by church this am to talk about needs in the community. Will do my walk after that I think instead of fitting in before. Speaking at 8:30 service and 10:30 so there goes my morning. But I will survive!
Want to get a good stretch session in so off to start the day with my meditation first.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
5 -
I'm a little frustrated with not being able to exercise right now.
When I can exercise regularly, I keep control of my weight and even lose weight.
Exercise is also great stress relief.
On the topic of retirement ... I'm years away, but one of my hopes is that I'll be able to exercise more whenever I can retire!!
I was hoping to get into the garden today, but I would have needed to kneel and that's not an option right now.
So instead, I ...
... washed my sheets and hung them out to dry (with a little help from my husband).
... gave the bathroom a quick clean.
... tidied the dressing room.
... and waded through some of my emails from the past couple weeks, dealing with them. I had missed a payment in there because last week's chaos just put it right out of my mind. Oops.
Machka in Oz
3 -
Barbie: 🥰 the red Tesla. Have fun figuring out all the features.
Machka: That’s rotten luck about your knee. Hope I doesn’t take too long to mend.
We are helping DGSon to sort out the kitchen in his new apartment. Delivered the donated kitchen cupboards to him this morning.
Have a great day
☘️ Terri3 -
Quiet day. Catching up with The Archers-a very long running radio serial. It's dealing with the subject of brain tumour at the moment
I knew there was a cauliflower in the fridge, but couldn't face the faff of making cauliflower cheese, so I asked DH to make it 😅. I did go out and buy some bacon to put on the top. Also tomato juice for me. I'm trying to cut down on alcohol and I really like a very spicy tomato juice.
I'm still on low simple carbs and getting along OK. Had beetroot in my lunch salad.
Painting session today ✨️
Love Heather UK x3 -
Normally, the photo of the painting is better than the painting, but I think it's the other way round with this one! I'm quite pleased with it as it's a difficult subject. A beach in the Lofoten Islands. It's A4 size.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx9
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 391.6K Introduce Yourself
- 43.5K Getting Started
- 259.7K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.6K Food and Nutrition
- 47.3K Recipes
- 232.3K Fitness and Exercise
- 393 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.4K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 152.7K Motivation and Support
- 7.8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.3K MyFitnessPal Information
- 23 News and Announcements
- 937 Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.3K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions