WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2013
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Oh, Barbie! Those songs are priceless.
I'm still struggling, hoping to make it through the holidays without too much damage. I missed another day of logging in yesterday dealing with family stuff. My brother lost his house in a fire. They have two kids, ten and eleven. The eleven year old saved them all. The smoke woke her up, she got everybody else woken up and out then ran next door to call 911. Please keep them in your prayers.
Because they are staying with mama, we will host my sister and family when they come for Christmas. More stress! But everyone is safe and life is good.0 -
Hi Ladies,
My name is Lori . I am a "nubie" to the group. I work on the computer all day and thought the last thing I want to do is "go on the computer". Ha ha ha, ...I decided to join because I really think logging in my food calories and exercise will bring me closer to my goals. I used to think setting goals was useless. Then I read something that said most successful people who are successful in their endeavors set goals so . Now I will try to set goals. My main problem has been inconsistent exercise and movement. I know that sitting at the computer contributes to the whole lethargy and wt gain syndrome. However, I have the best intention to go to the gym which I actually like in the evening, but I allow something else to take over. I call her the "lazy one", especially since it has gotten cold. I live in NC a transplant from NY and still hate the cold. I do really well in the warmth, and in summer months. Then winter comes and I gain it all back, lose the motivation and forget that I am fat. Then the summer comes and I am reminded when I go to try on clothes that "I am fat". So I went to the gym twice today because I misjudged the time the first time and could only spend 12 minutes to be exact. I did return to finish an extra 25minutes. ..yeah I am so bad at going in the morning, no lie, I have been setting the clock to get up at 6:15am for a complete year. I get up go to the bathroom, re-se the clock and go back to bed. Now that is bad. I even had a friend call me when she went to the gym(a different one). I talked to her told her I was getting up..went back to bed. so I am still working on the am uprising.
When I logged my food, water and exercise, it actually found it fun. I can even see that it will be critical in my weight loss endeavors.
Okay, have to go to movies with my son. It was a pleasure meeting you all and seeing the support you've given to each other.
I hope to continue this journey to Health with everyone.
Lori0 -
Dr katiebug-sorry about your brother,will pray for them.
barbie,love the songs,thanks
Baked some cookies and ate none.Then the dryer went out.
Have a good night,off to the laundramat.
HUGSjane0 -
:flowerforyou: welcome Lori
Love the songs Barbie, thank you for keeping them, glad your back is improving, but take care.
Dr. Katiebug prayers going out to you and your family, so glad they got out in time, smart little girl.
Very cold night here so off to snuggle up and read no calories there....
Goodnite juanita0 -
Lori, you remind me so much of myself. I hate mornings. I hate it when my body wakes itself before 11 AM. I know that there are classes at the Y I need to be in but I just can't make myself do it. So I go in the afternoon and do the machines. I purposefully don't have an alarm clock in my room just so that I can't hit the snooze. I don't have the phone in my room so that I have to get up and go to the kitchen. I use my cell phone which I use very rarely as a phone so no one has the number except my family members. But I'm retired now and don't have to go to work anymore. I was never late and as an RN knew that I couldn't call in at the last moment and expect my patients to be taken care of properly. Stay with us and get to know us.
Joyce, Indiana0 -
Rebel - how wonderful of you to help you daughter out! I hope her, the child and your husband get better (but her and the child first)
Joyce - how scary for your husband to have witnessed that! I fully understand how shook up he must have been
Viv - have fun shopping
Pat - After a while, you do get to the point where you'd rather taste the FOOD than the extras. Like right now I don't care for sweet potatoes with sugar and honey and all that stuff on them. I'd rather taste just the sweet potato. I don't want meats with gravies, sauce, etc. , I want to taste the MEAT (not that I'm a big beef eater). I think everyone is different in when they get to this point. I know it took me a few years. Now I'm always asking if there's butter on vegetables because it seems like places put so much butter on them.
I'm feeling blue today. Haven't heard a word from Bryan or Diana, don't have their Christmas/birthday lists or anything. I guess I'm just missing having any communication with them at all. I just know that if there ever are grandchildren, I'll never know about it. Or if anything (God forbid) bad happens to them (like an illness or something), I'll nevear know about it. Well, I'm thinking that I'll make the cookies for the bowling for Wed. Actually, I'll make quite a few since we're going to meet Jessica and Kris (who's moving into a new apt this weekend) Thurs so I'll give them some of the cookies, some for my bowling team, some for Vince's bowling team. Whatever is leftover, I know Vince will finish.
Vicki - I think at this time of the year, we all (with the probable exception of barbie) are going over on calories. But I know you'll get back into the swing of things after the holidays. I'm trying, trying, trying to keep it down as to how much I go over. I also know that as soon as these holidays are over, it'll be back to a more normal routine for me. Plus...I'm feeling blue thinking about Bryan and that easily can lead to sympathy eating. Yet, I also know that if I let that happen, that's giving him even more power. Oh...the ones we love have the ability to hurt us the most. Prayers for your friend's gs
katla - safe travels, have fun with DDIL
Joyce - ONLY 48 lbs????? ONLY!!!!! I haven't lost anywhere near that amount. I'm with you on the blander to some but not to me feeling. I would much rather have my vegetables without any butter or spices. To some people that is so bland, but to me I want to taste the vegetable -- not the butter.
barbie - WOW, 3 minute plank!!!! Congrats especially that your back didn't hurt. Thanks for the copies of the songs.
Eileen - congrats on the grandsons. Sorry to hear about your cousin
drkatiebug - so glad your brother and his family are safe.
Lori - welcome! where in NC are you?
Did an hour of yoga today. Tomorrow I'm planning to do some training on the Wii. Made the shrimp cornbread casserole for Christmas eve, made the crab cakes and now have them in the refrigerator (will probably fry them tomorrow), then made 2 batches of chocolate cookies for the bowling. We're going to pick up Jessica's cats Thurs so I'llo give some to her. Ken came here to watch some sort of 4 hr blueray about synthesizers (don't ask me about it, alls I know is that it took 4 hours). Put ornaments on the tree, now going to give it a few days and see if I need to add any more. Also, need to see it in the daylight.
Tomorrow a friend is coming over. She didn't see episodes 1 and 2 of Downtown Abbey, so we're going to get her caught up. I'll go to WalMart and get some subs for us to eat. Got myself some grapes to munch on while I'm watching and bought some Skinny Pop (that stuff is gooood, thanks for telling me about it)
Michele in NC0 -
Drkakiebug, I'm so sorry to hear about the fire at your brothers house. Thank goodness for that little girl! What a hero! Give her a big hug from all of us.
Sylvia0 -
Michelle have you ever thought of adopting another person for Christmas as a proxy/substitute for your son. Or better yet a couple. You could have them come for dinner or send them a dinner. Get involved in their lives, give them all the love that you would your son. Oh sometimes I feel so bad for myself, I am really good at that, when I see the huge amounts of weight people have lost. Or I see these challenges on the regular board about losing a certain amount of weight by a certain date. I just can't do that. I'm with you about learning to love actual food tastes. I love the plain sweet potato. Sweet is part of it's name! Use it. But then on holidays I have to have my casserole with brown sugar, milk and marshmellows!
Joyce0 -
Hello ladies!
Glad to share completed my 10k run in 1hr 6 mins, official time. It was the Pinkathon, for awareness of breast cancer. It was such a festive affair, zumba warm up, music and cool temps, not like the ice n snow some of you r facing. Initially my mind kept saying, You have not prepared properly, I shot back I have been consistently doing 5ks on weekends and yoga and weights, I can do this....... It was nice running past some of the younger ladies. around the end of 8th km my legs reminded me I should stop and walk a while. I immediately thought of all of you my wonderful friends who keep going through thick and thin . Specially Barbie who has slowly walked herself back to good health and...... hold your breath I could hear all of you cheering me on :bigsmile:
Thanks. have a great day all!
Prayers for all in need. Michelle loved the idea Joyce shared, so u can channelize all your love. Sending love to Bryan and Diana, may they soon come Home.
Anamika from Mumbai0 -
Anamika - that is a wonderful achievement! :drinker: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
You must be so proud. I wish I could run or dance, but my knee wouldn:flowerforyou: 't like it. Your 10k time was pretty good too. My fastest 5k very fast walk was 57 minutes so you were definitely running!
Katie- so sorry to hear of your brother's house. It must be terrible to lose all your things, but I bet they are glad to have survived! Well done the daughter!:flowerforyou:
My NSV yesterday was keeping my calories down to 1250 on a non-exercise day! For those of you who eat that normally I say kudos to you! It was hard. I ate a lot of celery and carrots!:laugh:
I have been alcohol light or free for 6 days now and it's feeling good. I find my willpower is lowered by even one drink so, as I am making an extra push for my last lb, it is definitely helping.
Nearly finished my wrapping. I seem to have got fixated on wrapping paper, ribbons and tags, so have been ordering extra on Amazon and other companies. I have waited for some really lovely paper and tags to come before I wrap my DDIL's presents because I know she will really appreciate a beautiful presentation. The new paper etc I bought I can use all year round, not just for Christmas. But I think I am becoming obsessed! ! ! ! :noway:
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Today I turned on the radio for my normal gymming programme snd it was Nelson Mandela's funeral. Much as I really admire and appreciate him it's not really gymming accompaniment. Especially on the radio. I put on my French café songs. During one of them I was so enjoying myself I went over my goal. I thought of you, Joyce, on your bike at the Y, watching your programmes. The song was "Boum", by Charles Trenet, which is one I would like played at my cremation. It's about the way love transforms everything. I only want jolly music at my funeral. Another one is "Enjoy Yourself it's Later than You Think" ! :laugh: :laugh: :bigsmile: My motto ever since I had breast cancer.:happy:
Barbie - so happy for you being able to do a 3 min plank. That is my limit and it is HARD!:sad: You have made a great recovery with a lot of determination.
My game stew was DELICIOUS yesterday and I kept enough back to have with noodles tonight. I may have real pasta if I have enough calories left, otherwise it will be shiritaki.
As far as slimming food being bland, all I can say is, you want to come to my house. :laugh: :laugh: :bigsmile:
If it's not delicious I'm not eating it! :drinker: Every day we finish our meal and say, "Wow, that was absolutely fabulous, I can't believe I'm on a diet!" Mind you, I have a kitchen full of herbs and spices and weird ingedients. I think those of us that love to cook have a great advantage. But, like you Michele, I also think there is nothing better than GOOD ingredients, simply cooked. But then I'm also a bit of a perfectionist about my ingredients, especially meat and fish. And eggs. I think I drive DH mad sometimes, looking for 'happy hen' eggs, when he would just buy the cheapest!:laugh: But we are lucky not to be limited in our food budget.
Hope to get the tree up today. DH hasn't ventured up into the loft yet. I will have to kick him up there. I hate heights snd ladders so can't do it myself.:blushing:
Love Heather in drizzly Hampshire UK.0 -
Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:
Katiebug Oh my, so sorry to hear about the house fire, thank goodness everyone got out and they are safe!!! Will keep them in my prayers:flowerforyou: !
Anamika Congratulations on your race:flowerforyou: !!!!!
Welcome to everyone new! Come in often and chat!
Heather I want to come to your house and eat:bigsmile: !
No more time this morning. I`m going to go boss the boys today, one of my favorite things to do !
Have a great Sunday! Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!
Hugs,
DeeDee in chilly but not raining NC0 -
Good Morning Ladies,
DeeDee I am drinking my water as I type.
Barbie 3 min. plank.:drinker: Love the songs
Anamika congratulations on your race.:drinker:
Michele My son was going through a difficult time two years ago at Christmas time. He would not speak to me. Things have since gotten better for him so we are on good terms now. I know how hard it is when you don't here from your children.
Katla safe trip
Eileen sorry about your cousin.
drkatiebig Prayers to your family.
Welcome Lori
Joyce 48 pounds WOW!. I am proud of you! We need a character that claps.
Went to my friend's Santa Lucia party last night. Her daughter is older now. She was with her friends still willing to serve us cookies. A good time was had by all. :drinker:
My intentional act of kindness today is to wrap up a small gift for each student in my friend's kindergarten class.
Time to get ready to go sing in choir.
Margaret0 -
Good morning All..and to the new ones welcome!!! :flowerforyou:
I know I haven't been on for awhile but things have been hectic here at home...I will be glad when 2014 comes
has got to be better.
Woke up to a major snowstorm..warning drivers to stay off the roads... unless it is necessary....the wind is howling and I love to hear it....will more then likely lose our power... we usually do..I took out of the freezer what we can eat without cooking it..have lots of bread... we won't starve....
Would someone describe the Plank to me so I can start doing it..Please and Thank you :flowerforyou: Been doing some walking was even going outside for awhile..my DH went with me so I felt more able to be out there...the weather and me being unwell for awhile has kept us from going....so I want to do more exercises at home....
I pray you all are doing ok....will try to get on sooner next time......and I am not doing a goal for December because it hasn't worked for me so far.:grumble: ....totally my fault
......I hope you all have better results with yours....
Take Care!!
Liz from Halifax, NS0 -
Good morning, wanted to share an excerpt from a book called "The Exercise Cure" by Jordan D. Metzl, MD. I was listening to the radio the other day while driving and heard an interview on NPR's Science Friday show. I've placed a hold for the book at the library, I'm looking forward to reading it. Anything to help inspire us to move more...
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"The doctor only smiles . . . and begins telling you all about this mythical, magical miracle drug.
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First of all, he says, it's the weight-loss drug millions have been waiting for. It's very simple: If you use this drug, you will lose weight in a totally healthy way. Imagine, he says, the implications for the obesity crisis. And for those who have weight-related health issues, the drug gives immediate benefits. In the endocrine system, for example, research has shown that this miracle drug can reduce the progression of type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. For some patients who stay on this drug longterm and increase their dosage, type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
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Also, and this is a big one, we know that chronic low-level inflammation in the body plays a key role in causing some of the worst diseases we have: heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinsons disease, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, and more. Our miracle drug, when used regularly, helps tame inflammation in the body, thus helping prevent all of these nasty outcomes.
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That's part of the miracle in this miracle drug: The more you take it, the more active you become. This drug can make you better at your favorite sport. It helps you jump higher, run faster, and improve your flexibility and coordination.
Last but not least: This drug even helps prevent certain types of cancer and can help you fight back if you ever get a diagnosis.
Every single person who takes this medicine decreases their risk of premature death, and every single person who takes this medicine raises their quality of life.
By now you've guessed it. The miracle medicine that works across every disease state is called exercise.
And everything I just told you is true. Science has shown again and again, across all manner of diseases, maladies, and health risks, that exercise can prevent, improve, or outright cure your symptoms. As a sports medicine physician and an avid athlete myself, I've written this book to teach you how to maximize your dose of the world's most effective medicine."
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Have a happy Sunday, I'm off to wrap the remainder of gifts to be shipped out tomorrow, then head to the track for a spin. I really should head to the track FIRST and THEN wrap gifts! :huh: Switch-o change-o.....get those priorities straight! jb in Portland 0 -
Good Sunday morning. We had a very nice evening with friends at the Singing Christmas tree. Everytime I see it I get all teary. When they put Jesus up on the cross it really hits home. So glad we went. It is not something I would do every year as afraid it would get old. But going every 4-5 years, they try and add something every year. This is the 40th year they have been doing this. I just find that interesting as so many people are in this and they give up alot of their time. They do 9 shows a weekend for the 3 before Christmas. Today it is to get up to 45 degrees. So hoping this evening when we go to the journey to Bethlehem as most of it is outside. My NSV is that I know I will be able to walk and enjoy this and last year I would of never consider going as couldn't walk very far.
drkatiebug--:sad: So sorry to hear about your DB and his family. Praise God they all got out ok. That young girl should be so proud. Prayers out to them.
Lori--Welcome. Come back often and get to know us and let us know you. This is a great group for friendship and support.
Joyce--What a great idea:happy: :happy: Michele I understand how hard it is not hearing from them and over the holidays it is harder. Not sure that is a word. Prayers to you.
Anamika--Congrates on a great time. You should be so proud.
grandmallie--Glad you missed traveling in the bad weather. Hope that the rest of the trip goes well.
Barbie--Thanks for sharing. We have some very talented women in this group.
Eileen--:flowerforyou: Hugs first Christmas after losing a parent is not easy. Memories are so much comfort. Congrates on the 2 new grandsons coming in the New Year. I think grandkids are the best. Such a Blessing.
Well hope you all have a good rest of Sunday and take care of yourselves.
Blessed! Vicki GI NE0 -
Normally I don't post this early but I had to, stepped on the scale this morning when I first got up. Yeah, I know I'm not supposed to weigh every day but at least I don't weigh before I go walk, when I come home from walking, before I go to supper, when I get back, and again at bedtime. That's the hubbie. Anyway I do step on the scale 3 times to make sure it is accurate. Two times was 184 and one was 183.8. Another pound gone forever!!!! One more pound to the big 50!
Welcome back Liz
Joyce, Indiana0 -
Blessed Sunday Morning, My Friends!
It is beautiful here in southern Az this morning, and I am beginning to feel like myself again, and not a walking zombie from the marathon road trip. I was in bed before 9:30 last night and slept all the way to about 9:45 this morning! I slept while Bill got up and went to church! And, yes, he did tell everyone who asked that I was being a sloth and sleeping in. They laughed. We will go Christmas caroling with the church later, so that will make up for my laziness.
I am struggling with the food, but I am, at least, trying to keep track of what is happening instead of just blindly stuffing food into my face. I think getting back in touch w/ my OA friends and all of you is helping. Today will be a challenge because I know that every house we visit will offer goodies, and I will just have to be strong. I am still gluten free in everyway that I can be conscious of, but I think something I ate must have had some gluten mixed in because my tum has been wonky for a couple of days, so it must have been something we had at one of the truck stops along the way. I will have to go back to being hyper-vigilant for a while.
BarbieCat- I love your lyrics! May we copy and mail them out to friends?
Katiebug- Angels were watching your brother and his family! Thank Heavens for that! Take care and be well, rejoice in the happy news that only "things" were lost. Don't stress over hosting the Christmas, just enjoy it!
Michele- It just breaks my heart when you are sad because of Bryan and Diana. I want to get all positve and tell you everything will be fine, but they both appear to be so self-centered that I just can't. I know that you are kind, generous, caring and loving, and it angers me that they don't see that. If I, who have never even met you in person, can see all of your good qualities, why can't they? It is their loss. Fill your life with people who do appreciate you, and then just keep praying for them to realize their mistake.
Joyce- Congrats on the weight loss, now, don't let that scale ruin your day by controlling you! You are doing well, enjoy it!
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Blessed Sunday Morning, My Friends!
It is beautiful here in southern Az this morning, and I am beginning to feel like myself again, and not a walking zombie from the marathon road trip. I was in bed before 9:30 last night and slept all the way to about 9:45 this morning! I slept while Bill got up and went to church! And, yes, he did tell everyone who asked that I was being a sloth and sleeping in. They laughed. We will go Christmas caroling with the church later, so that will make up for my laziness.
I am struggling with the food, but I am, at least, trying to keep track of what is happening instead of just blindly stuffing food into my face. I think getting back in touch w/ my OA friends and all of you is helping. Today will be a challenge because I know that every house we visit will offer goodies, and I will just have to be strong. I am still gluten free in everyway that I can be conscious of, but I think something I ate must have had some gluten mixed in because my tum has been wonky for a couple of days, so it must have been something we had at one of the truck stops along the way. I will have to go back to being hyper-vigilant for a while.
BarbieCat- I love your lyrics! May we copy and mail them out to friends?
Katiebug- Angels were watching your brother and his family! Thank Heavens for that! Take care and be well, rejoice in the happy news that only "things" were lost. Don't stress over hosting the Christmas, just enjoy it!
Michele- It just breaks my heart when you are sad because of Bryan and Diana. I want to get all positve and tell you everything will be fine, but they both appear to be so self-centered that I just can't. I know that you are kind, generous, caring and loving, and it angers me that they don't see that. If I, who have never even met you in person, can see all of your good qualities, why can't they? It is their loss. Fill your life with people who do appreciate you, and then just keep praying for them to realize their mistake.
Joyce- Congrats on the weight loss, now, don't let that scale ruin your day by controlling you! You are doing well, enjoy it!
For Today:
planned meals
gluten free
put up the tree and decorate outside.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Pat (Phoo)0 -
The tree is up! Hooray!:drinker:
Even better DS#1 has just texted me and said he is coming down to his dad's on the 22nd and could he come to me on the 21st and stay the night! COULD HE ? ? ! ! I am so happy becsuse he is the world's worst communicator and I hardly ever see him. We fsiled to make a rendezvous with his brother and me before so I had resigned myself to not seeing him this Christmas. So now that is 5 guests plus 2 kids staying over the holidays, but not all at once, thank goodness. I was worrying about washing sheets between people, but I have decided to put DS#1 in DGS's bed, in the new dinosaur duvet set :bigsmile: as DGS isn't going to worry about his uncke having slept in it for one night.:laugh: We enjoyed our game stew with papardelle so much this evening that I am going to make it again for DS#1. Easy and I can make it ahead, which I like.
The only downside to all this is that I have a lunch out on Tuesday with the yoga group, a lunch out on Friday with my brother snd DSIL, then 3 days of eating with guests, then Christmas and Boxing Day. :sad: :sad: :noway: :laugh: Iron self control is going to be needed and exact logging. The only day I am planning to go over is Christmas Day itself. The rest of the time I will stick to my calories. I am on reduced calories at the moment in the effort to lose my 1 lb, but my normal allowance is quite generous with the exercising so I will (I WILL) be able to do it. My downfall is alcohol, as it weakens my resolve, but I will keep that for the evening meals. That is my plan so I WILL stick to it. I keep telling myself that anyway!:laugh:
Hugs to you Michele. Even as I was writing about my happy news I was thinking of you. I have suffered quite a lot from my son not getting in touch and not replying to me. I'm sure things will work out for you and your son.
Love to all.
Heather UK
Joyce- congrats on the weight loss. Let's get rid of that pesky 1 lb! ! ! !0 -
:flowerforyou: Eileen, it’s good to see you again……congrats about the upcoming grandchildren……how sad about your cousin
:brokenheart: Drkatiebug, I’m sorry to hear about your brother’s house and glad to hear that they are all safe….:bigsmile:
:flowerforyou: Lori, welcome…..if you keep coming back and reading this thread and becoming part of our community you will get the additional encouragement you need to keep exercising and eating right….I get up very early but it took a long period of going to bed a few minutes earlier every night until I found the right formula.
:bigsmile: Jane, congrats on baking cookies and eating none…..I had to give up baking because I wasn’t able to do that.
:flowerforyou: Juanita, thanks for the reminder to take care……I can easily overdo.
:flowerforyou: Michele, doing kind things for others (like all the baking you do) is a good remedy for the sadness you feel about your son……the biggest reason that I won’t be going over calories much during the rest of this month is that we don’t celebrate Christmas……there are other times that I’m challenged by tempting foods and have to use every strategy I know to keep my eating within healthy boundaries.
:bigsmile: Anamika , with the difference in time zones, I may not have been literally cheering you on as your ran but you have been in my thoughts…..as much as I walk, running is not something I do and I have boundless admiration for your running.
:flowerforyou: Heather, you are the one that provided the challenge to me to hold the plank for three minutes…..I will rest from it today to not overstress my back…..I know exactly what you mean about the challenge of keeping calories low on a non-exercise day…there is no room for any sort of indulgence (alcohol, salad dressing, sweet treat, etc)……your plans for family and Christmas sound like there are coming together is a wonderful way and they include some special events for you so you’re not devoting all your energy to doing things for other people.
:bigsmile: DeeDee, I love hearing about your Sunday adventure “bossing the boys”….Sunday Is a good day for a special event.
:flowerforyou: Margaret, I’ve heard about Santa Lucia parties…how nice that you went to one…was there a girl with candles in her hair?
:flowerforyou: Liz, here is a picture of a plank……..when I started, my first goal was to get into position and keep my back straight……later I began to keep track of how long I could hold it, beginning with 10 seconds and gradually extending the time.
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:flowerforyou: Joyce, the people who have lost such huge amounts of weight started out much heavier than you…..and remember, just having a big weight loss goal, doesn’t mean you’ll get there…..lots of people set goals to lose a ton of weight but have no idea how to go about doing it…..you are doing so many things right…..don’t compare yourself to other people.
:flowerforyou: Jb, thanks for sharing the excerpt from “The Exercise Cure”…..if I hadn’t already taken a walk with the dogs this morning, I’d shut down the computer and go right outside. My library doesn’t have the book yet so I’ll have to be patient.
:flowerforyou: Pat (phoo) the lyrics were written by jb and several others on this thread last year (I feel sad that I don’t remember who all the other great lyric writers were)….probably jb is the person to ask if you can share the great “O Fitness Pal” song.
:bigsmile: Vicki, congrats on your NSV to know you’ll be able to walk to see something that’s important to you.
:bigsmile: I defrosted a piece of salmon….the fish was caught by a friend in the water a few hours from here…..I baked it and will make salmon patties for our lunch. Now there’s a giant white pumpkin in the oven. I’ll freeze a lot of it to eat this winter and save some in the refrigerator to put in Isagenix shakes for our evening meal.
:flowerforyou: I’ve walked with dogs for two hours this morning and may walk with them again, but otherwise this will be a rest day to do laundry and watch my favorite NFL team…once I finish washing the sheets and putting them back on the bed, I might crawl in bed with my book and read and maybe nap. Barbie from beautiful chilly NW Washington
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT."
“If it’s important to you then you will find a way, if it’s not you’ll find an excuse.”
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~Confucius0 -
Thanks for all the well wishes for my DB and his family. They will be okay given time. They were well insured so they should be able to recreate a nice home. The important thing was indeed their lives.
I'm going back up there in a bit. I wanted to get my walk in first. A woman from my church got them all new pillows. I need to take them to them.
Y'all take care. Enjoy your Sunday.0 -
afternoon all, OMG,I'm exsausted:indifferent:
we finally got here about 45 minutes ago and I am just sooooo tired. granted Tom did most of the driving ,just 23 hrs on the road it is just yucky...
now to relax.. I cant complain to much it is in the low 70's with a little breeze. just wanted to stop in and tell you all that we got here in one piece... will check in with you all in the morning:flowerforyou:0 -
HI!All.
Went to church today and got some walking in.
Made cookies again,tried a bite side of one,wasn`t sure if I cooked long enough,others are put away.
Going to son`s tonite,so have a good one.
HUGS
jane0 -
Barbie: Thanks for positing the Fitness Christmas lyrics. I love them all over again.
Dr. Katie: I’m so glad your brother’s family is safe. Their daughter is a real heroine.:flowerforyou:
Lori: Welcome.:flowerforyou:
Michele: Thanks for your good wishes. We’re having a wonderful time with DDIL, and got to talk to our son on the phone this morning. It has been a fabulous day. Tomorrow she’s going back to class and we’re going home.:flowerforyou:
Heather: Game stew sounds intriguing. I have a recipe book from the 1930’s with recipes for all sorts of wild game. I’ve never actually cooked any of these things, at least not so far. I’m happy that you’ll get to see your son.:flowerforyou:
Liz from Halifax: Nice to see you. You can search YouTube for planks and see videos.:flowerforyou:
JB: I love the impact on exercise in my life. I’m going to look for the Exercise Cure.:flowerforyou:
Joyce: Congratulations on the loss!:flowerforyou:
Pat (Phoo): I’m glad your home. I hope things go well.:flowerforyou:
We are enjoying our visit with DDIL and will head home tomorrow as she heads back to school. We went to a car museum in Tacoma yesterday and enjoyed seeing hundreds of cars dating from the 1899 to an early Prius from about 2000. There were lots of motorcycles, and some experimental cars from design classes, too. I enjoyed seeing the old vehicles but managed to get lost in the museum. Thank goodness for cell phones! I called my family and they came and got me.:blushing: :bigsmile:
Katla in beautiful NW Washington
December goals:
1. Log every bite and swallow
2. Focus on fitness: cardio and strength every week
3. Drink at least 3 glasses of water every day0 -
I just noticed that the plank picture didn't show up when I thought I posted it earlier0 -
Janie and I wrote most of the Christmas song lyrics last year, and as far as I'm concerned, anyone is welcome to share them with friends. It's such fun, I laughed so hard a few times that I almost.......well, you know. :laugh:
There's still time to write more, I'll have to think of a song. Suggestions welcome! jb 0 -
Barbie my friends daughter is in her teens now when she was younger she wore the candles. I think my friend was happy she was willing to serve us cookies. ( I am referring to a Santa Lucia party I went to. It is a Swedish custom.)
I am subbing tomorrow and will need to get off early so I am posting now. My intentional act of kindness tomorrow will be to donate some prizes for the teacher I am subbing for tomorrow prize box. She gives tickets to her students and they have drawings for prizes. The students love it.
Have a great night and day tomorrow.
Margaret0 -
Busy weekend, so I'm just checking back in now while the last load of laundry finishes up. Went to the choir Christmas party [for my former church] on Friday night and stayed overnight with my good friend. On Saturday morning we went to 'Cookie Walk', which is the women's ministry annual fundraiser at my former church. It made me so happy to see they were doing a very brisk business! I bought some cookies for giving away and made an extra donation for their programs. I was able to see all the wonderful gals I used to hang out with - I still miss them! I also made several batches of cookies when I got home - sugar cookies cut outs, white chocolate macadamia nut (for DS#1), sugar-free peanut butter (for DH), oatmeal raisin (for the boss), mandelbrat (for dear friends), and ritz cracker thin mints (cutting the sugar of the chocolate coating by 1/3 for DH by using some unsweetened baker's chocolate). I finished up frosting the sugar cookies this morning, let it set up for a few hours, then packaged them up for the boss' family, a couple of co-workers, three neighbors and our family friends. Left a few for Christmas Day celebrations and will send anything left home with the sons.. So glad to have them packaged up and distributed - such temptation!!
Tomorrow is my check up with the cardiologist and I hope they put me on an annual rotation going forward. DH has an appointment to have his eyes checked at the glaucoma doctor as our regular eye doc had some concerns at the annual exam, especially since he is diabetic.
The Christmas cards STILL have not been tended to!
Oh! My sister in IL sent me an 'open early' Christmas gift. She cross-stitched this pattern with the Christmas star in the skies and the city below, from the perspective of the approaching wise men. The colors are beautiful jewel tones on blue aida cloth and she had it framed so it hangs in a diamond shape. Nativities and the holy family are my favorite Christmas decorations and she has stitched a couple of others for me in the past. I just love them! Then I did a big counted cross-stitch of the holy family with an angel that we put on the mantle each year. If I get ambitious I'll post a picture or two... IF! :laugh:
Well, buzzer time on the laundry! Tomorrow starts me back on the straight and narrow....having been to the only holiday party I'm likely to attend.
Gail, metro ATL0 -
Joyce - I'm thinking that once Jessica is married, I'll probably wind up using her husband as a proxy son. The problem I know I'm going to fall into is that I'll have to constantly remember that it's NOT my son, I need to be watchful that I don't try to do too much. Well...... I haven't lost huge amount of weight. Ohhh...NSV (for me, anyway) SO FAR this holiday season I've been keeping in the upper 130 weight range. Admitted, that Wii character keeps telling me "that's overweight" (does he know anything else? Maybe he's in some sort of "loop". I can dream, huh?). Oh, well, in one sense I can't wait for these holidays to be over so that I can get back to more normal eating.
Lynette wanted me to go to a Christmas party with her yesterday. For one thing, I'm not a fan of Mexican food and it was at a Mexican restaurant. but even if it was being held at someplace that I absolutely loved, I wouldn't go. I don't know anyone. I'm sure they're paying, and to make them pay for someone they don't even know? No...I wouldn't do that
Anamika - great time for your marathon
I've prelogged my food, and it's so depressing in a way. I don't have very many calories left over. Well, I know that I have to stick to what I logged. Hmmm...maybe I can make that sandwich last longer?
Heather - good for you keeping your calories down! You SHOULD be proud. Being a perfectionist about your cooking is a good thing. I remember once I made something, I even forget what it was now, but it called for basil and I used the dried basil the first time. Vince ate it. The second time I used the fresh basil. I thought it had much better flavor. But Vince wouldn't eat it, he didn't like "that green stuff". So I got to finish it (yea for me). When I worked in the home ec department (it isn't called that anymore), one of the things I learned was the importance of FRESH foods, how much it makes things taste better. Oh, hey a question - when a recipe calls for a fresh herb but you need to cut it up into small pieces, is there some sort of food-chopper-type-of-thing that can be used? I can never get the pieces small enough if I just use a knife. Like the other night I made rosemary shortbread. You were supposed to cut up the rosemary, but try as I might, I couldn't get the pieces small enough.
I ordered these things for Vince, they came from Amazon in the mail yesterday. Today I got an email from Amazon saying that they couldn't deliver it. Well...I'm not going to worry about it. I have the items, that's the important thing
DeeDee - when you go to Heather's, I'm coming along....lol Boss those guys around -- they need it to get ready for the holiday. As I type this, I have a cup of green tea right in front of me.
margaretturk - I agree, we need a clapping icon
Saw on facebook that some of the mahjongg gals were doing the "Secret Santa" again. I did it last year and, honestly, I thougtht it was a bit on the dumb side. When I was asked what my interests were, I told them crafts but I specifically said not to get me anything that needs to be completed. So what did I get as a gift? You were supposed to send the person a small gift 3 or 4 times during the year, then in Dec. they had a party where your "secret santa" was revealed. No, the gal wouldn't change the party to sometime in Jan. There's just so much going on in Dec. the last thing I needed was a secret santa lunch. I wasn't asked to join in this year (and I noticed that the person whose secret santa I was last year wasn't asked either, she's a busy lady and didn't make the lunch last year)
Liz from Halifax - when the weatherman calls for snow, do people up there run to the store and buy out all the milk and bread like they're going to be standed for weeks? That's what they do here, even when we lived in PA they did that. I would always keep some bread in the freezer and have juice, we can have that if we run out of milk.
Did an hour of balance games. I was originally planning to do training games on the Wii but changed my mind at the last minute. There's this one training game where you simulate pedaling a bicycle looking for these flags. No matter how hard I try, I can never seem to find that last flag. But the positive is that I can easily rack up 20 minutes. With the balance games you can only get 3 or 4 minutes at a pop. Tomorrow is yoga, holding my plank, and then the extremepump class.
Joyce - big congrats to you.
Pat - hoping your tummy gets better fast. Thank you for your kind words about me. It has been said of me "your heart is in the right place, sometimes your words just aren't, but your heart is always in the right place". Bryan used to be such a wonderful son. When we moved into the house, he helped us move in (he carried the box of all the liquor downstairs -- and that box was HEAVY), when Vince had the tibial plateau fracture and we had a truck in our driveway to bring to the storage unit in NC, it was Bryan who said "ma, you can't leave daddy. Jessica will drive the truck, I'll take your car, we'll unload and drive back to PA". That night he went out, bought the meat, and made dinner for Jessica and Denise while I as at the hospita. He used to call us all the time (ok, not real frequently) what has happened? Well, all I can say is "his loss". I know God has a plan, I just for the life of me can't figure out what it is. Maybe He's trying to teach me something (but what?). Well...it took me 30 years to figure out why He took my mother when I was so young. On another note - yes, absolutely get back to OA, especially at this time of year. Temptation is rampant
Well, I think the tree is finished being decorated. Vince brought in the train that he's going to use this year (The Polar Express) and is going to put that under the tree. If I let him, he'd have it all around the house, but I don't want to be tripping over track all over. I don't mind under and next to the tree. Update: it's all done
Oh, if anyone cares, my name is Michele LeGrand. Send me a facebook request and just tell me you know me from MFP. I'll be posting a video there of our Christmas decorations. I posted one of the Halloween decorations, and they were the warm up to the Christmas ones.
Heather - how wonderful that your son will be staying with you!!!! I like making food ahead of time, which reminds me that I should probably be making the soup for Christmas Eve and freezing it. Only problem is -- my freezer is getting stuffed!!! Update: I never did make the soup tonight. But I did fry the crab cakes
Liz - I KNEW someone would post a pic of the plank for you which is why I didn't
And so it begins...... a neighbor of ours just brought by a tin of cookies (only 2, thank goodness) that you could tell were definitely decorated by the kids. I ate my cookie, now for Vince's. How can you NOT have a cookie that was decorated by a kid? I'll wash out the tin and probably give them some of the cookies that I made. Actually, I suspect part of the reason they gave them to us was to say "thank you for the decorations". Their children (well, the oldest really) was over here many times while we were setting up.
Watched episodes 1 and 2 of season 4 of Downtown Abbey today. That Skinny Pop is good stuff, let me tell you. Thank you so much for turning me on to it. It has good flavor. I told Nancie (who came to watch) that we'll probably watch episodes 6,7, and 8 sometime after the holiday. Even tho it'll be on in the US, those episodes won't be here yet so we'll get a good preview. It was neat to watch 1 and 2 again, but I did find that I had to keep myself from saying too much because I knew what was coming.
jb - I can't get over some of the real good benefits of exercise. Actually, I can't think of any downside. Oh yea, I guess there is one tiny one. The time I spend exercising prevents me from doing other things (like sleeping later, etc). I know that when I exercise, my hot flashes aren't anywhere near as bad as they are when I'm not exercising.
grandmalle - 23 hours of driving!!!! That's something. Sounds heavenly -- temp in the 70's. Have a great time
janemartin - whenever I make cookies (especially if I'm using the silicon mat), I usually bake them for an extra minute or two (but not so that they burn on the bottom)
gail - those crossstitch pictures sound absolutely beautiful. I know how much work they can be. But it means even more when it's handmade.
Michele in NC0 -
We went to the lake cabin this weekend, having missed a few visits because of my heart stuff, so we spent the night and BOY was it cold in there. The heater (which is actually in the attic) works pretty well upstairs but downstairs it doesn't, even though there are heater vents and we had a special blower installed to push the heat downstairs, it really doesn't work. And we forgot to take firewood. We have two space heaters and a heater in the bathroom, but it was still so cold that we took the dogs upstairs and just camped out up there all afternoon and evening. Hubby was grading papers all weekend, so I don't see the point of going at all. But enough grumbling about that. We came home in early afternoon and I went to Joplin for a friends pottery open house. That was fun. I also was going to do some Christmas shopping, but after just one store I was pooped. And all I managed to buy was a new ball for Molly. My chest hasn't been feeling quite right today. Probably my imagination getting the best of me. I'll mention it at rehab tomorrow though.
Made sautéed sweet potatoes for supper. Yummy! I don't know how I lived 58 years without knowing how much I love sweet potatoes. What else is out there that I think I don't like but I really love? More research is needed to answer this question. Hmmm.
Well, I'm tired, so it's bedtime. I hope everyone had a great weekend.
Sylvia0
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