WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2024
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Tracey - I'd buy the other cabinet, but I'd stack them. Saves your floor space, and would still be a nice wooden counterpoint to your painted china cabinet, while giving you twice the storage. It's generally easy to safely stack them with a bit of glue. Just a thought.
I've lived in small spaces for quite a bit of my life, as well.
I get the disappointment in the 96.25%, but that would be magna cum laude honors in any college in the U.S. You're excelling among your peers, dear heart. Hang onto that. I'm so proud of you.
Heading for bed early.
Love,
Lisa in AR4 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »My blood tests results went up on my doctors site. All are normal. Sugars, rheumatic, all red/white blood counts. So, it is still a mystery!
I am now wondering about intermittent claudication. I took my blood pressure this morning, just about OK, and did my ankle. Pressure was higher in my ankle, but I wasn't sure what I was doing. If it's lower there's a problem.
Lanette - my son, his dad, is 6ft 2ins.Max was always a bit short for his age, so it must be a relief to him. Edie had a growth spurt over Christmas, which pleased her, as she was also short. Her mum is tiny. Bea is taller than average at the moment.
Just waiting for Bea to turn up.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
So not sjogrens syndrome?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/4929-sjogrens-syndrome
I wonder sometimes if I've got sjogrens syndrome because I've got a large number of the symptoms and a family history.
For me, drinking lots of water is not a problem because I always have a dry mouth and throat and drinking water relieves it.
What about compartment syndrome? Have you looked into that?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15315-compartment-syndrome
Also, what's your water intake like and do you take a daily magnesium supplement?
Machka in Oz2 -
Thank you- @auntiebk and @exermom
My husband made me an incredible chicken soup! and I am trying to drink a lot of liquid. I don't like to drink water when I am sick so I made cold herbal tea. I love the new blueberry flavor I got. I am pre diabetic so I don't drink juice.
Thank you for welcoming into your group!
Paz, CT
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Took the blinds off, we kinda like it like that, tomorrow the new blinds get installed!6 -
My husband and I have signed up for fencing lessons!!
Machka in Oz8 -
Lanette - This diploma course is broken up into different sessions. Once we complete a session, we get a final grade for that particular session. So I still have 5 more sessions to do before my 2 month practicum starts before receiving my diploma. I’m doing well my average is over 95% for the whole course so far, but I don’t like when it’s the wording that messes up my marks.
Thank you for your kind words about me.
Sue - can you legally evict her? I know it will be a hassle but maybe you can have the sheriff assist?
What a mess.
Lisa - I hadnt thought of stacking. The only problem would be reaching the drawers. Hmmmm something to consider.
I don’t know if this school does that or not. I should check. Thanks!
Pip - it’s nice seeing your patio lights.
Machka - was it fun?
My foot is hurting a fair amount today, so I didn’t do much. That’s not bad though I managed to not become debilitated with pain after my weekend last weekend and I’ve kept going most of the week. Maybe it’s starting to improve.
I have to get some stuff on my walls tomorrow. Lauryn and the kids may be out, if they are we’ll craft. If they don’t I may try to do my closet.
My cousin’s granddaughter (Brooke 32) whose parents have both passed within the last five years posted today that it was a tough day and she just wished she could call her parents. I texted her to check in and she was telling me that she had to check on one of her vendors today, he told her to contact the driver directly because he was in the city because his sister had a stroke. The sister was 36, and has 3 children at home.
Brooke said it just makes you remember that time isn’t promised. Her Mom and Dad, and Rodger and I were the same age, went to school together, married a week after one another and had kids at the same time. I kept Brooke and her two brothers while their mom worked for a couple of years.
It just seems unfair sometimes
Tracey in Edmonton10 -
Annie - I would be so upset over that hidden charge. Is there any way you can dispute it?
Kim - what a sweet memento of Levi.
~April in Indiana3 -
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After fencing, I went for a walk.
And yes, @Snowflake1968 ... fencing was great fun! It was also more of a workout than I had thought it would be.
Machka in Oz5 -
Kim - That picture of Levi's paw prints is really beautiful.
Tracey - sorry about the cupboard. If you can't return it, I would put it down to experience, find it a good home, and look for something else. It will just annoy you otherwise. Could Rodger build you something? Or is that too much pressure?
Round here there are cupboards and shelves advertised all the time on Freecycle. What do you need it for? Does it have a specific purpose?
I am moving towards peripheral vascular disease with intermittent claudication. I will discuss this with the doctor. There are easy tests. I have always needed to keep my feet up, hate standing, and get leg ache. My ankles sometimes swell. I wear socks all year. No treatment, apart from losing weight and more walking. I suspect it is inherited from my father. His leg circulation was poor and always had cold feet. My chloresterol is normal. Helps me resolve to get my weight back down.
I am well hydrated and all my bloods are normal. I do have slightly elevated blood pressure and take medication.
I can do all my exercises, climb stairs etc. Flexibility good for my age.
Just ache and can't walk far. Grrrrr!!!!!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Hello I am not a newbie here but am starting over and would love to join your group my name is Debbie from Manitoba Canada I am looking forward to making friends as I start my new healthy losing the weight life style 10
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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
- To find out how many calories you are eating, weigh your 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.
What do I eat during the week:This is my usual work day ... quick & convenient ...
11:30 am snack - crackers & cheese or a banana - 100 cals
2:00 pm lunch - rice, chicken, veg - 337 cals
3:30 pm snack - yogurt (175 grams) - 73 cals
4:30 pm snack - either apple (or other fruit) or crackers & cheese - 100 cals
Sub-total: 610 cals
7:00 pm dinner - lots of veg + something else - usually about 400 cals, but occasionally more. Once in a while even as much as 700 cal!
Sub-total: 1010 cals
And then a couple evening snacks around 8:30 pm. These are what I often have to "counteract" with exercise. If I don't do much exercise, I can maintain my weight like nobody's business! But if I eat fewer snacks and/or exercise more, I lose weight.
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.
10 Things to Stop Doing If You Want to Exercise
https://www.verywellfit.com/things-to-stop-if-you-want-to-exercise-1231403
A little bit about me ...I'm Machka and I am a Canadian/Australian in Tasmania, Australia.
Some of my favourite hobbies/sports/activities include:
-- cycling
-- walking
-- hiking
-- running
-- reading
-- working on my website
-- photography
-- colouring
-- gardening ... this is a really new thing for me!
-- attending courses
I bake, but don't cook, sew, knit, etc.
Most of my day is spent working with health data, doing some of the hobbies/sports/activities above and spending time with my husband (who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury 2 years ago) and cat, Rhody.
My husband is not able to work anymore, so one of his main activities is gardening. He works at that at his own pace and we've got quite a lovely garden of flowers, fruit and veggies. We're also beekeepers, but unfortunately we don't have bees just now.
This is Rhody ... an all black, year old "domestic" who joined us at the end of March 2020. He's our COVID Kitty!
I joined MFP in February 2015 and promptly lost 15 kg, took a 1-month break, then lost another 11 kg. By Christmas 2015, I was down to a weight I hadn't seen in quite a few years ... since my early 30s.
In 2016, 2017 and the early part of 2018 I maintained while increasing my cycling. My sport, within cycling, is ultradistance cycling: Audax, Randonneuring, 24-hour races, etc.
Here's me in 2016 in Brisbane, QLD a couple days after cycling a 300 km event in 18 hours including all breaks. I'm 49 years old there.
In late 2017 and early 2018, my husband and I were in great shape and feeling good. We were cycling events and on our own and building up the distances in the hopes of going to France in 2019 to ride the Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 km event. We met on a Paris-Brest-Paris in 2003, and the 2019 one was going to be a bit of an anniversary trip.
And then on March 22, 2018, my husband had a very bad accident at work ... and life changed. He was in a coma for 3 weeks and post traumatic amnesia for 7 weeks and in hospital for 100 days. Then, a year after the accident, he had a tonic clonic (grand mal) seizure which set him back. He'll never fully recover but he's doing better then they originally predicted.
He is cycling again but gets very tired so can't cycle consistently or for long distances.
Because cycling is something we've always done together, this means I'm not cycling the ultra long distances at this point either. In an attempt to boost my exercise we've set up a home gym, and I've got into running a bit again. I hadn't run since I was in my late teens!
But all the time sitting at the hospital and dealing with the aspects of care for my husband, plus working, plus attending university took its toll on my weight and I don't look like that picture above anymore!
So that's me in a rather large nutshell.
Machka in Oz6 -
This past week or so has been a bit of an adventure!!
Celebrations:
- My husband's passport arrived
- The final step of his settlement finally took place
- I finished a quarterly report using the new code I've been putting together
- My work from home plan was approved
- I got new trail running shoes
- Last week I walked the furthest in a week since September 2021: 24.2 km
- I'm getting back into the stair climbing
- We got back on our bicycles again for the second time this year
- We started fencing classes!
New adventures:
- The fencing classes
- House hunting!
We've started looking around at houses ... and even went through the process of putting in an offer on one place!! That's the first time I have ever gone that far toward purchasing a house. It scared the crap out of me! The house was nice and ticked most of our boxes. I would put it at about 85% but I did have misgivings about the other 15% and was actually a little bit relieved when our offer was rejected. However, we've done this once now, so maybe a second time at some point in the future won't be so scary.
I like challenges to help keep me motivated with exercise and since I'm on Strava, I do some of the Strava challenges.
Machka in Oz
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Today’s gratitude: found my AF beer at liquor store.
Kim ((hugs)) Love the paw print flowers. She’s a good friend. ((hugs))
Lisa (gentle hugs) the irony was not lost on me, too bad the gastro scheduler didn’t get it. (gentle hugs)
Annie does your local library offer online books, like through Libby or Hoopla? Free and immediate, unlike Amazon.
Lanette Brava for filling up that shredding box. Well done!
celebrating and navigating.
Sue is there an eviction procedure you have started? Don’t understand the tenant calling the sheriff on you. SMH.
Paz in CT your DH’s chicken soup looks like what Mama used to make. Bound to make you feel better.
Welcome back, @Deb__23 Debbie in Manitoba!
Machka the fencing pics, doing the happy dance for the final step of your DH’s settlement, at last!
2/16: Move mins- wii:12 PT:0 d:0 x&a:0 dogs:0 Jeopardy walking:42 Steps:7786Finally got MRI appointment (March 18) at one of the two locations in the county. Preferred PT place is not even scheduling new patients. THey have a 40 person wait list, I’m number 41. Will call other places next week and if can find one to take me will then call MD and have them send the order. Kinda backwards but guess that’s the way things go now. Will also follow up with the other MRI place to see if they’ve received the order that MD has now sent three times. So that’s my navigation. Grateful that Bob and Brad have so many helpful rotator cuff stretches and exercises, maybe I can heal before the MRI and PT
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=10 CI<CO net=80 vits=1
Live: Joe, readings, BP, ptT, ptS, All Star, BiMart, Post Office, Grocery Outlet, Freddie’s. Wt:131.2 This week’s massage really made a difference.
Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
February: Move more than yesterday, fuel better than yesterday, live NOW.
Open heart and mind before mouth.
2024: Strengthen: body, mind, heart-connections.
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Machka - when I did my courses, we were taught to say, I choose to ...... instead of have to. It amounts to the same thing. Most of the time we are choosing those things.
Good news about the house hunting. You deserve a house of your own. It's often not a smooth ride though.
Done all my exercises.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »Machka - when I did my courses, we were taught to say, I choose to ...... instead of have to. It amounts to the same thing. Most of the time we are choosing those things.
Good news about the house hunting. You deserve a house of your own. It's often not a smooth ride though.
Done all my exercises.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx
To my relief, we're backing off the house hunting idea. I've never owned a house, and part of me doesn't see the point. But it was an interesting exercise.
M in Oz5 -
My brother just texted me to say he has a new great grandson, Theo. So I am a great, great, aunt once again! There were problems with the pregnancy, so she had a Caesarian at 35 weeks. Baby bit slow to breathe, on oxygen, but jaundice is clearing. Mother well. So glad the hospital were on the ball! The baby is heavy for its gestation.
I got him to ring me and we are trying to arrange a date to meet. I was telling him about my leg troubles, and how they may be inherited from my father, and he said he had the same thing. My brother is diabetic, but I'm not.
Nice to chat with him.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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