WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2024

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  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,387 Member
    Today is Take your dog to work day. I do every day!! 👽 I only have my ears pierced, 2 holes. Any body piercings here?? Give a hug to your family today!!

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  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,387 Member
    edited June 28
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    Dinner yesterday, ground Elk with bbq (home made, no sugar) sauce. (not sure how DH cooked it, but it tasted really good. Not gamey at all. Tasked like lean burger!) topped with cheddar, fried onions, peppers, mushrooms, I put on the side, Tomatoes from our garden tossed with olives and a bit of DH’s Italian dressing. A slice of honey wheat bread.

    Snack was a cup of cantaloupe with 1 apricot and 5 macadamia nuts, supper was 2 celery stick with 1.5 TB of organic fresh ground peanut butter. And a Lindy’s Italian ice for dessert. And a handful of grapes.

    I had 34 calories left after walks and leg exercises. For me, sticking with fruits rather than sweets works better. The dinner I always try to match the “MyFoodPlate” guidelines. Breakfast today was cream of rice cereal with almond milk, butter, and almond butter, 1/2 banana. 341 calories. Higher than I’d like, but all I have for breakfast. I may 1/2 the cereal tomorrow. To many carbs in this one.

    I checked how I’m doing with macros and found I’m higher on fats than either protein or carbs. But that works for carb and diabetes control. Should work for my kidneys too and is working for my colitis. I think I got this! 😊

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  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,387 Member
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  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,145 Member
    Going to take Alfie for a walk,then will go feed Ginger and get her out later and go to a birthday party for a friend who will be 95 tomorrow.
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,701 Member
    Margaret - I really enjoy reading about what you are discovering about your own health and strategies for improvement. You are doing so well and I've been picking up a few tips from you. Thank you.

    Lisa - impressive herb haul! And look at those tomatoes... I'm envious. <3 I'm proud that I haven't killed that basil yet sitting in my kitchen window. :p

    My project this week - Bay laurel starts. My current bush is in a too small container, needs to go bye-bye and it's best just to start over. In past years I've been successful with cuttings, let's see if my luck holds. I might do a couple more - all I need is one.
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    By the way, I'm rarely on FB these days other than to scroll through and get the weather report and local news happenings, obituaries. I do pop in to "friends" pages but not very often. Nothing personal, just a time factor. ;)

    Rita - thanks again for posting your stats and yummy meal. I definitely think healthy fats keep our appetites under control. And by the way, glad to hear your DH is being such an attentive cook - I wonder if your spell a couple weeks ago didn't spark a new interest for him.

    Received the info for Monday's class from Diabetes Educator Melanie yesterday. Topic is using calories burned in exercise to help with weight loss and eating additional calories without going overboard to still lose weight. As MFP will calculate. Perhaps she'll build on that with her decision, in my case, to aim for 1500 calories per day which is too few for me, in my opinion, considering I don't have much weight to lose. If I get into "starving" mode from too few calories and too little fat & fiber, the overeating window opens. Wide. It will be interesting to see what she comes up with.

    Machka - I have a hunch if my A1C continues to rise, and/or I start getting T2 symptoms, Dr. Lisa will order a glucose tolerance test. I've kind of been doing my own - checking blood sugar 1 1/2 to 2 hours after a meal with carbs several times per week. I generally vary from 110-130, which is good from what the blood sugar testing gizmo insert says.

    I think I'd go for a continuous glucose monitor if it came to that. Where I can get a better feel for what foods are triggers. I've read that in some people, potatoes don't make much difference where in others, glucose goes sky high. We are all different. I don't think the standard glucose tolerance test picks up these variables.

    If I eventually go that route, I'll need a smarter smart phone. My 5 year old one is starting to fail with some of the apps. It's only 3G and now 5G seems to be the norm. As long as I can call and text, I'm holding off though until I have time to really shop. I bought a new 7" Fire tablet which is light and fits in my purse and should be able to hook up to Walmart and Starbucks parking lot wi-fi so I can check email and Messaging the rare times I need them when I'm in town.

    Lanette <3
    SW WA State where sun is out, nice breeze blowing. The mower will be calling my name.
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,255 Member
    kevrit wrote: »
    My herbs did well last summer. This year they all burned. Too hot too fast. I think I will look for some sort of sun shade for them next year, or have DH build me a planter that can be moved and kept in partial to full shade here. I have basil growing in a pot in indirect sun and is doing very well. Going to buy some pine nuts next pay day and make pesto. You all have inspired me there! I have enough dried Italian herbs from last year to last but not parsley. My parsley didn’t do well at all this year and have gone to seed or dried up. I planted smaller early girl tomato plants this year and got some tomatoes already, but small and only a few. There are more ‘baby’ tomatoes but with the heat, I’m not sure they will do much. My peppers, I have 2 pepper plants and one produced 4 peppers that got soft and rotted before ripening. This plant is full of flowers again. The other plant has 3 small orange peppers on it. I need to pick those. I had one orphan potato plant that came up with the snow peas (they did well) and sprang off runner potato plants. I dug up the potato on the ‘mother’ plant and got enough for 1 meal out of that plant but have 2 more small potato plants growing from the runners. I will let them go and hope they produce too. I had planted beets, which started coming up but burned from the heat. In the fall I will try planting more snow peas and the beats. They should do better in the cooler weather. I have onion tops growing, a full pot of them. These are doing very well! At least one crop is coming up nicely. My mums are budding and getting ready for the early summer bloom, and what I thought was passion flower, were daisies that came up. They are doing well flowering. They will come back next year and spread in the bucket, like my mums did.

    All in all, pretty disappointed in my garden this year, but still caring for it and taking note of what I need to do different next year (if we are still here!) We are not planning on leaving the park, but must be prepared for anything. If we do leave, of course the planting buckets will stay. We don’t have the room to take them with us. I’ll just start again! Unless I get my herb garden box, from DH that is! LOL

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    I use walnuts or almonds in my pesto beings pine nuts are so expensive. With all the other strong flavors(LOTS of garlic and the basil) it doesn't change the flavor a lot- just an option. Almonds give it a bit more texture

  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,255 Member
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    My project this week - Bay laurel starts. My current bush is in a too small container, needs to go bye-bye and it's best just to start over. In past years I've been successful with cuttings, let's see if my luck holds. I might do a couple more - all I need is one.
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    By the way, I'm rarely on FB these days other than to scroll through and get the weather report and local news happenings, obituaries. I do pop in to "friends" pages but not very often. Nothing personal, just a time factor. ;)



    If I eventually go that route, I'll need a smarter smart phone. My 5 year old one is starting to fail with some of the apps. It's only 3G and now 5G seems to be the norm. As long as I can call and text, I'm holding off though until I have time to really shop. I bought a new 7" Fire tablet which is light and fits in my purse and should be able to hook up to Walmart and Starbucks parking lot wi-fi so I can check email and Messaging the rare times I need them when I'm in town.

    Lanette <3
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    Thanks for the reminder- I need to pick some bay/laurel leaves off the trees at moms. We have TONS of them at the edge of the property plus one right near the house.

    Haha- I am on Facebook WAY too much- Need to work on that.
    With the exception of zumba, Facebook and MFP are the only real interaction I have with people for the most part- I do have a few friends, including former hubby that I text but only like 3 people including him

    Debbie
    Napa Valley,Ca
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,255 Member
    SophieRosieMom wrote: »

    Debbie - I'm envious of the wild Bay Laurel. We've tried planting some of my starts in the soil at this place and they just don't make it. They do in large containers however. I don't use a lot, but it's nice to have them handy. Very expensive in the store. Have a good time at your mom's and enjoy dinner with your friend.

    Here are the tomato seeds I stocked up for next year:
    Renee's Garden: Tasmanian Chocolate Heirloom Container & Super Bush Container

    Totally Tomatoes: Little Napoli Hybrid (I have been planting one called Little Sicily they don't carry anymore, the plant is very sturdy and stays small. Fruit doesn't split!) I'm hoping the Little Napoli is similar. Edible Potted Red Velvet Hybrid, Celano Hybrid, Fantastico Hybrid (a mini plum).

    I have some old Principe Borghese seeds - this plant must be indeterminate since it gets quite large but the late summer cherry tomatoes don't seem to crack and store well. Didn't plant any this year, but hope to get some going next year. I can attach them to the fence and not have to dink around with tomato cages. Another PITA, lol. And I'm not talking about bread! >:):p

    Got my big mow done this morning. I like mowing just fine if the weather is nice like today. It's not so much the mowing tho as much as how nice it looks for a couple days before the dandelions get wild again. Kind of like doing dishes. I'm not a fan of that, but love the feeling of satisfaction seeing them in the drainer with the stovetop and oven wiped down.

    Enough chatter. :p
    Lanette B)
    SW WA State

    Two of the tomatoes I am very anxious to get some tomatoes off of are ones that my dad saved seeds from for years. The one is a very large dark pink tomato- Holmes Mexican. The other one we don't know the real name of it. Dad got the seeds from his friend who's last name was Bertoli- his great grandfather brought the seeds years before with him from Italy when he immigrated to US. So, we call them Bertoli. A meaty one like a Roma but bigger.

    I have a red velvet that my friend gave me- have never tried it .

  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,145 Member
    🤗🤗🤗 and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.

    🙋‍♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.

    ☘️ Terri
  • pipcd34
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,687 Member
    Books read by the half-year point ...

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  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,071 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,786 Member
    Tracey - He has always done the Thursday fruit and veg shop. He is responsible for breakfast, which is homemade muesli, (inc nuts and seeds he buys), fruits and many berries, and I have homemade yoghurt on top. :D
    He also stews fruit regularly for dessert, like apricots, or apples and berries, plums, or pears. He uses different juices to stew them, so they are no sugar.
    In addition, he buys the normal veg, (broccoli, cauliflower, green beans etc) and salad stuff, plus a bit of bread, or anything like sea bass, if they have it. He then staggers home with all this in two bags!
    I do my Waitrose order about once a fortnight, but it's not so much fresh stuff, though I do order avocados and flat beans, onions. He likes to pick out the raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, nectarines, etc. himself.
    I normally get extras from the deli, things he doesn't automatically buy, that I like.
    Tonight is cod that he previously bought from the fish market , with a coating of panko and pesto, with crushed peas in olive oil, and broccoli. Yum! Last night's chicken medley was divine, with a German rose wine! It's called Stepp, and is unexpectedly delightful. We order it regularly.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • margaretturk
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  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,728 Member
    edited June 29
    Good morning!
    Well I reckon I slept better last night. Woke up feeling rested and not tired, so that is good. My AHI score was 16 (that was events per hour) Last night I had 5 with the mask. No leakage. Not much bothers me once I fall asleep. Just dealing with frustrations of not being able to log into anything because my main email address is hooked up with DH's account. RRR. Will hopefully be able to fix on Monday.

    Annie- I hope you get to go for your walk.

    Love all the plant pictures.

    Heading out to a car show shortly.

    Much loves,
    Kylia in Ohio

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