WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2014

Gardengail

Just a quick fly-by tonight -- worked over 12 hours at my desk today and I'm worn out! Oatmeal for dinner since it is so late. Scanned through the posts and know there were a couple I was going to comment to, but now don't remember what it was, so I guess I'll just get the oatmeal done. Yikes....

Gail, metro ATL

barbiecat

:flowerforyou: I'm doing fine with eating (we don't celebrate Easter, so that helps) and exercise ( walking with the dogs early morning and mid afternoon) but all I could do was read the posts without writing individual responses. I didn't log food or exercise today, either.

:flowerforyou: This morning I walked for two hours with my friend who comes over from Seattle once a month to walk and talk with me. While we were walking, Jake went out and took a test drive in the truck we looked at on the lot yesterday. He brought the truck home to see if it fit in the garage, so when I got home, the truck was in the garage so I could see that it fit.

:flowerforyou: We have been talking (haggling, debating) about replacing our current truck for a long time. Our current truck leaks oil and the mechanic said "don't take it out of town, it might break down". I haven't wanted to spend the money but I finally got comfortable with the idea.

:flowerforyou: The old truck is a 1998 model and the new one is 2001:flowerforyou: and beautiful.......Jake has been looking at trucks on the internet for months and considering all sorts of brands and models and checking with dealers in a 100 mile radius.

:flowerforyou: This truck is the brand I really wanted and was being sold by a local dealer who offered us a surprisingly high trade in value on the old truck, so we now have a new truck and we're both happy about it.

Barbie from NW Washington

Mountainsong129

Hi,
I haven't posted on here much, because I'm still relatively new. I just was wondering if you could share the name of that book? I know that I haven't necessarily processed the many losses in my life, so they keep piling up and pulling me down. By the time anyone is in their 50's for sure they have had losses...I'd say 99%, if not all of us.

Thanks in advance for sharing.

Mountainsong

Mountainsong129

I obviously don't have the hang of this yet; need to look for info. about how the posts work. I was referring to the book someone mentioned about grief. I thought I was replying to her post, but instead it seems to have posted to the general list.

Also, could someone please tell me what "Bump" is? And how do some of you manage to reply to several peoples' issues?

Questions, questions, questions!

I'll share a bit about my day and fitness journey. The weather was glorious today, and after a long and somewhat brutal, and 90% grey winter, it brings out the joy and carefree child in all of us Syracusans! We moved into our house last August, and are on a yearlong journey of discovering what the gardens have to bring. (Of course, November to March are pretty barren months,, unless one counts the snow!) So, currently, the front yard is sprinkled liberally with daffodils, which make me feel cheery. (No small feat!) I raked and loaded many leaves off the gardens. Yes, even this counts as exercise on MFP, as well it should be! Then a walk with a friend and our dogs uphill to a water tower with an impressive view of our city and hills beyond. All of this in a sleeveless shirt, woo hoo!

I still have a very hard time getting to the gym. Now that we finally have some nice weather days, there is no way I want to go inside to work on machines! So DH and I biked 5 miles yesterday, the walk today... Yet, I know this is not the same as lifting weights. Saving that for a rainy day. Literally!

I have not lost weight for 2 weeks (but have not gained, either). I am not going over my calories on the days that I post. But I do think I need to work towards the goal of posting daily, if I want to figure out why no weight loss. Granted, I don't have a lot to lose, and I need the other benefits more: easing depression and anxiety, preventing osteoporosis, and providing my knees with the strengthening to help ease the discomfort of arthritis.

I am not horribly discouraged about no weight loss, but don't want to throw the whole fitness thing out the window just because of that. I keep reminding myself of all the above benefits. Will keep reading and benefitting from what y'all share.

Mountainsong, in sunny central New York State

cityjaneLondon

Off to yoga this morning for the first time in 3 weeks! Our teacher is the mother of the young mum I want to treat to a meal so I hope to get that sorted.
I made some more flowers for the cake yesterday. :bigsmile:

Michele - I have lost the 14 lbs since LAST summer. Since January, nothing at all, but I am more or less at goal and only want to lose a tiny bit more to give me some leeway for splurges!:happy: :laugh:

Beth - I feel for your worrries about your son. You don't want to encourage them to quit, but it is also not good in life to keep plugging away when things are not working out. Especially for health reasons. I remember having that debate with myself overmy son's music lessons, which didn't seem to be going anywhere.

Joyce - I would suggest he goes out to eat on his own. :bigsmile: Then you can have exactly what you want at home. All that eating out must cost a fortune! ! ! ! My DH is far too mean, even if we could be bothered to get in the car every afternoon. :noway:

Tonight I will do something with the remains of our roast chicken.

Off to yoga!:bigsmile: Love Heather in gloomy Hampshire UK

DeeDee2211

Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Mountainsong I have quoted a few times, however I would have to be looking at it to tell you how to do it. I know there are several ladies here that know how, so I hope they will give you an answer! As for "Bump", it means "bring up my post" . Once you post on a topic, it will show up on the Community page under "My Topics" , click on My Topics and you will see all of the posts you`ve commented on, click on whichever one you want to go back to, I sometimes "Bump" on some of the recipes I see on here. When people comment on a lot of the posts, usually they either take notes, or open a word document and read and type the responses, then copy and paste. Hope that helped some:flowerforyou: !

My dog totally embarrassed me yesterday:embarassed: . My landscaper was here and he brought his beautiful blond English Setter , he is so sweet and loving, so I took Noel out to meet him, oh my, she was a B*tch:embarassed: :frown: , she was okay for a few minutes as they sniffed each other, and then she started growling and snarling and snapping, doing her best to bite him, I had to pick her up, he just looked at her like she was crazy, she is the size of his head:laugh: . I had to put her back inside where she showed her displeasure by peeing in the floor not once but twice . She will be 9 years old next month, I called her a grouchy old lady:laugh: .

Hope everyone has a most wonderful Tuesday!!! Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!!!

Hugs,
DeeDee in still dark NC:yawn:

grandmallie

well i slept alot last night, didnt get out to exercise, have to get the DH,dinner and lunch together...get my lunch together, which I wont have time to eat because the girls up front ,triple book when they know we only have 2 rooms open..they can eat at there desks but we just have to keep working..
God knows I could miss a few meals though
I didnt get to see my DFIL yesterday so I have to get dressed ,take the dogs for a walk and get over there before work at 9;30....
working until 6 p.m. then all over again tomorrow...

tiarapants

Good morning my beauties

This is a drive by post today as I'm rushing around like a headless chicken.

Love to all!
Amanda x

Deborah105

Marking my place. Hello everyone!

moeggep

Good Morning All,
At work again, yesterday I really let this place get to me and I'm going to try and block it all out today. I literally have ear plugs in to block out the talikng. I guess one of the biggest problems is that mornings are my best working time, I think clearer and get so much done but everyone else seems to be slower starting and have needs to chitchat first.
I work tonight at the Y so my exercise today will be walking breaks and lunch. My Fitbit no longer works and I'm bummed by that. I feel weird not wearing it. My sister just won one so I've asked her to sell me her old one, she hasn't said yet if she would. Since she had one she was not going to acept the prize, just have them give it to someone else so I'm hoping. She is funny about things sometimes.
Bailey (mydd's lab is really having a hard time. She was hit by a car and broke her back. This happened 9 days ago. They were taking her back to the vet yesterday, one of her paws started swelling and looks infected. She can't control her bowels either so they are really worried. She is such a sweet dog. Their other dog, another lab is a nervous wreck over all this. She was hit by a car years ago and seems to know just what is going on.

Welcome Cara, You can do this, and we can help. Jump right in.

Bonnie, Dementia has to be hard to deal with, hang in there.

Meg, tough times with your daughter right now. Maybe stepping back is all you can do until she is ready. She is probably very confused, maybe some type of counseling could help.

Carol NC, You sound like you are prepared, great planning. I need to work on that.

Kim N California, Wow 13 for cocktails and 10 for dinner! That’s a crowd. I had 10 for brunch and 5 children for the Easter Egg Hunt.

Welcome Debbie, It is never too late. Congrats on quitting smoking, it is hard to do. Where are you from?

I made and packed a really good lunch but forgot anything for breakfast. I am running down to the cafeteria to see what I can find.
Here is wishing everyone a happy and healthy day,
Patty, Cincinnati Ohio

bwcetc

Good Morning! Have a great day!

Beth in dreary and rainy Western New York

Stephelia500

Good morning! I'm 49 and will be 50 in October. I'd like to reach goal by 50 and stay there. My name is Stephanie and I just signed up for MFP (again.... did it years ago and it worked! but ...... well.....) so I'm starting fresh.

This looks like a great group of fabulous ladies, I've enjoyed reading your posts!

****QUESTION, HOW DO YOU GET THE COUNTER ON YOUR POSTS??*** thanks

Gardengail

Patty -- I will send you a message about FitBit. They replaced my FitBit when it stopped working at no cost. It took going through some hoops, but I have a new one.

Gail, metro ATL

linder4866

Following you as the thread continues. :bigsmile:

Lin in Central Iowa

tiarapants

Bump x

Rossergirl

To get the weight ticker, go to the top blue area & click on apps, then go the 2nd blue area and click on tickers. Then you pick your ticker! Hope this helps. Sherry

barbiecat

:bigsmile: :bigsmile: I am happy to report that we have no buyer's remorse about the new truck. Jake will go out today and buy floor mats and new wiper blades and put the "pooch pouch" in the back seat so the dogs can ride in the truck.

:flowerforyou: time to walk the dogs:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

redladee1

So sorry to hear about the puppy Patty. I've been off for about a week now and it's getting to me. I'm going to work with my DH at a new, local office but am not getting anything accomplished. I feel my entire day is wasted (since he's not "established" yet - still in the planning stages) and by the time I get home, I make dinner and catch up on things I needed to get done during the day. The next thing you know, it's after 9pm and I'm too mentally tired to exercise.
I wanted to re-start my previous program, since it was working, but can't until Wednesday. I have a routine medical check up this afternoon and hope to do aTurboFire 45 workout this evening, if for nothing else than to release some tension. The more time that passes without exercise, the more difficult it becomes to complete a workout! :ohwell: Tomorrow I'll start making more solid plans for the work week where I get up early enough to get my workout in and plan program meals for lunch (when I'm not home.)
I hope everyone has a great week!

mollywhippet

I think maybe I need to be on a cherry pie diet. This morning my weight is back down to where it was before Easter. Yesterday I went up three flights of stairs VERY easily. I was really tickled with that. Hubby was impressed. In past years I made a beeline to the elevator to go up to the ballroom for the banquet.

Today I go to the local pulmonologist to talk about that genetic lung disease. He wants me to do a test to check the current level of my lungs, but I've done that test before and it's very hard. I'm not going to do it again if I can help it. If I do, it won't be at our little Podunk hospital.

Stephanie - welcome! There is something you have to turn on the ticker under settings, I think, but I can't remember where it is. Then under apps there is a tab for tickers where you get to choose how it looks. I'm glad you are back and starting again. You are a good reminder to the rest of us that we have to stick with this long term. I don't want to gain mine back! How much are you going to lose?

Have a great day everyone!

Sylvia

meyllisa

:flowerforyou: marking my place
Have a great day everyone

Juanita in sudbury

CynthiaT60

marking

Cocotrendy

Hello - I'm not 50 yet but will be in November of this year. I am celebrating it early on a cruise with friends and family and that is part of my motivation to lose the weight. My other motivation is just too feel better both mentally and physically. I don't feel like I am too late in making a change. I feel like it is a new opportunity as I embark on a new milestone journey.

drkatiebug

Deborah, I apologize to you in advance for thinking it was hilarious that your "bump" was the 500th post and closed the last thread. Bless your heart! Thank goodness for the automatic link to the new thread.

I wanted to chime in on the "not enough sleep causing a carb craving" conversation. As I have whined before, this new schedule at school where I have to be there at 7:45 a.m. instead of my usual 9:00 a.m. has ruined the joy of my job for me. I blame it (together with the broken wrist) for my having put back on 18 pounds of the weight I had lost. No, DH's candy dish and the fact that I can't simply go to bed an hour and a half earlier have nothing to do with it! I honestly do think there is something to that study. Maybe I could leave the candy dish alone if I had enough sleep.

Well, after the insurance people got the results of my waist measurement, new weight, etc. I got a call from them saying my wellness coach would be calling me. Maybe that will be the wake-up call I need. She is calling Friday afternoon. I went to the insurance wellness site and tracked my walking since Jan 1. Compared to last year, it is a pitiful record. I've only met my goal of 5 times a week once since I fell on Jan 18. I always track it on here and my DH tracks it on our big family calendar. I also started yesterday adding a plus sign to my initial (the initial is for walking) on the days that I do the strength training from "Strong Women Stay Slim." I'm mad and refuse to buy new clothes in the size I gave away. Right now I only have two pairs of pants and one pair of jeans that fit me. My cute tank tops and sweaters from last spring are not attractive. It is sad, sad, sad! I am mad and ready to change things. I just hope I can hold that thought.

Cindy781

Good morning Ladies,

It is a nice day here in Oklahoma. I am down another pound, yay! I made pumpkin protein bars yesterday, I used Jamie Eason's recipe and added more spice and used "flax eggs" instead of all the egg whites. I did add some liquid egg whites as well, 1/4 cup. They turned out really well.

Yanniejannie, glad you liked the dog story. I thought it sounded like something from Lassie. How many of you remember her? Love that your house is still in 1950! I don't text well, or often.

Renny, feel better.

Meg, hugs. Sorry your DD acted that way.

Cara, welcome!

Bonnie, hugs. Dementia is hard.

Carol, congrats on the payoff!

Alison, lots of hugs to you!

Debbie, welcome!

Joyce, sorry your hubby acted like that. Hugs.

Michele, your workouts rock! Your shopping trip did too, congrats on the sales!

Barbie, yay! Glad the new truck purchase was a good one!

Sylvia, wish cherry pie did that for me.

DeeDee, sorry about your naughty dog experience.

For those dealing with grief, I just finished a really good book called "You Can Heal Your Heart" by Louse Hay. It really helped me.

Do something nice for you today ladies,

Cindy in OK

Katla49

Barbie: Congratulations on the new truck. I want to know all about the pooch pouch as my dog is getting my new back seat dirty. I’m over pouting about spending money and really like the new car.:flowerforyou:

Patty: So sorry to hear that your dog was hit by a car. Good luck with her rehabilitation.

Cocotrendy: You are not too late. You’re absolutely right that this is a new opportunity. Welcome.:flowerforyou:

Kay: I understand your feelings about the hours change on your job. Teaching always involves a long day, but shifting hours can disturb your whole sleep/rest/activity cycle. Stick with us. We’ll give you as much encouragement as we can.:flowerforyou:



Easter at DS’s & DDIL’s was lovely. We had an opportunity to go for a ride in their new canoe. That canoe is handmade in Canada of Kevlar & is amazingly light and easy to paddle. DS took me for a ride, and DDIL took DH. He was in the front, and the canoe wasn’t well balanced because DDIL is rather light & it looked a bit like they were plowing. They had a good time, anyway. I heard from DD last night. DSIL has a job interview today. Please put him in your prayers and/or good wishes. He needs a job that makes him feel like he is doing worthy work and they need the income. DD's job is a good one, but it is very hard to get by on one income these days.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison


April Goals:

1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Move more: cardio at least 3 days a week and strength training when able.
3. Find a way to have fun at least once every day.
4. Water: Pay attention to water intake and drink frequently during the day.

janemartin02

Good morning!!
The scale is finally moving the right way.Yah!!:drinker: :drinker:
Have a good one.
hugs
jane

gmom316

Good Morning everyone,

Doing my quick skim, quick post thing. Working on pulling another last minute order together. Mother of the bride wants candles in Georgia by the 1st of May:ohwell: I work well under pressure but asking the same questions 5 times to get the info I need for the label is starting to wear on me.

Did my T25 plus 30 minutes on the treadmill.

Stayed under calories yesterday, even with a little chocolate snitching and that leftover coconut cream pie. I only make it once a year and hate to throw it away (still one more piece left) but it seems so self destructive. After typing that I think I'll take one bite and toss the rest.

Welcome to the new visitors.

Am going to try to catch up a bit more later.

Happy day to all!

xo- Gloria in Metro Detroit

acasewick

Hi Ladies,

I am looking for motivational friends on MFP. I am 49 years old (50 in July) married two kids and two dogs. I live in Michigan and have been pretty sedentary for the last decade. I have about 120 pounds to shed so this needs to be a lifestyle change for me. I recently started a program through a local hospital using a combination of Fruits, Vegetables and Meal Replacements. I have also joined a fitness club.

If anyone in this group uses a Jawbone Up for fitness monitoring, I could use some teammates to hook up with.

So far I have lost 9 pounds and it hasn't been easy. When I was younger the weight came of much easier. At this age with my sloth like metabolism I have had to kick and scratch for every one of those nine pounds.

My new Mantra........Rome was not built in a day!

Angela

jb_2011

Tuesday good-news-day, no more cookie-day! 3 days is enough, don't you think? :huh: Yesterday when I got to work I threw out one whole box of icky store-bought brownies and gross little cupcakes leftover from the recital. However, I proceeded to help myself to a few of the cookies that for some strange reason I thought shouldn't go in the trash. :ohwell: I've learned over time that I don't get along with sugar, so why I derail myself is an intersting question! :grumble:

Today there will be no more of that nonsense. I intend to get my magic wand and give myself a good bonk on the head.

DeeDee, dogs are certainly interesting creatures, aren't they. :huh: Another dog set foot in Queen Noel's kingdom? The nerve! :laugh: She certainly gave you the "what for" about that, the little rascal. :devil:

Cara, Stephanie, welcome. :flowerforyou: And the same goes for the new ladies I've missed.

We have a bit of blue sky this morning, with clouds floating around, I suppose we might get rain again later. I've got gardening projects to do, need to grocery shop, walk dogs, and yes, I need to do my morning dance workout.

Great day to all :flowerforyou:

jb in Portland, trying to be an optimist, doing the cha-cha :bigsmile:

yanniejannie

SUN and blue skies!!!! Rain supposed to arrive later; but it will be nice for my walk. Tai chi and yoga later; then staying at Gwen's tonight so I can take her sister to the airport................At 4am!!!!!!!! Didn't know the time when I agreed.........lol.

Down a half pound!!!! This is the first the scale has gone down instead of up in months; maybe I have my mojo back??

jb.........I think the sugar thing is tied to the willpower thing, no answers.........sometimes I have it, sometimes I just don't. Maybe it all goes back to adequate, restfull sleep??????

Cindy........I certainly do remember Lassie; think that show made me cry more than any other, just the music would do it!

Very best to all. Welcome newbies!
yanniejannie
mid-Atlantic