Senior Golden Sneakers - January 2011

lyn54

:flowerforyou: Introducing yourself to others who struggle is a good start. I have found logging my food, no matter what, helps me to put a lot more effort into watching what I am doing. In the beginning, it has to be your way of life to think of it all the time. Then it can become more your life habit rather than the ones you might have now. So, lots of us do not stay on the "straight path" all the time...if we continue to post and get encouragement, we soon get back to it. That is what is good about all this for me. Some of the others, who have been on here longer and are successful, will have even better tips.

This is a great forum that includes alll kinds of personalities and it helps to chat with others who have some of the same struggles, feelings and "ups and downs."

Good Luck and welcome:flowerforyou:

Sandydur

Hi June, welcome to our group. :flowerforyou: We have another Brit with our group, that would be Pam who is from England. We are from all over the world, but mostly from the US. I personally am from Itasca, Illinois which is about 25 miles west of Chicago. I also am 68 soon to be 69 in March and have lost of the weight I have wanted except for those last few pounds. We all have different ideas but we all record our calories, drink lots of water and do some sort of exercise if we want the program to work. I also watch my sugar in take but that is my personal thing. Record your calories even if you go over, it will help keep you motivated to stay under those calories and exercise to gain a few more. :drinker: Hope you enjoy us and stay with us. :bigsmile:


That being said I have been watching my calories, exercising, maybe not drinking enough water but I am gaining instead of losing. :explode: What is up with that???? Could it be muscle? Or maybe too much salt? Frustrated!!!! Help Me!!!

dayh1ker

That's some story, Connie! I'd love to think that you could be united with your sibling. I wonder if he/she even knows you exist. You're lucky that you came from a larger family and have your children, too. You're right to count those blessings. I have a half-brother that is 14 years younger than I, and I never had much opportunity to get to know him. I was out of the house when he was only 4 years old. A couple of years ago I was able to get in touch with him and we talked by phone several times, but he disappeared last year and I doubt I will ever hear from him again. (long story) My parents split when I was 7 and I didn't know my father and my mother and I weren't close at all. I left home when I was 18 and we went our separate ways. I never had kids, so my only family is my husband and I treasure him. I understand some of what you're going through, but when you get the blues, remember that what you have is what others must certainly envy. Although my family is very small, we've built a wonderful life and we have no regrets. Life is too short to look back at the past. It's more fun to make our future what we want it to be.

Welcome, Californiagramma. I think you'll like this thread. Lots of nice women!

Tried Zumba for the first time today and all I have to say is...WOW! They're not joking when they say you can burn 1000 calories in an hour. I danced (more like flailing) for 33 minutes and according to my heart rate monitor, I burned 454 calories. And, boy, was I sweating! I got the DVD through my library to see if I'd like it and it is a lot of fun, but it made me realize how uncoordinated I had become!:laugh: :laugh: It's much more fun than the treadmill and I'm able to get to and sustain my maximum heart rate better than the treadmill. They say that you should be able to drop a size in ten days. So, I'll be ordering the DVDs today and I'll find out. Let's see if this old gal can shake her money-maker like those cuties on the DVDs!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Has anyone heard from JoAn? I sent her an email with get well wishes and was hoping that she was feeling up to getting online and checking in with the Sneakers yesterday for her birthday. I hope she's doing okay, but the longer she's absent the more I worry about her. Knee surgery can really be brutal. She needs her friends.

Congrats to you Packers fans. My condolences to the Bears fans. I'm not a football fan...I get my sports thrills with hockey. I'm a HUGE Redwings fan, so when it comes time for the Stanley Cup playoffs, I hope to find more hockey fans out there. Hockey is almost a religion here in Michigan and just about everything centers around when the games are on. My brother-in-law and his son have a backyard rink and is trying to talk my husband into digging out his skates and giving it a go. He hasn't played in years, so I don't know if he'll do it or not. I'd pay to see it!!! They say it's like riding a bike...you get right back into it. I'd probably spend more time on my butt than on my skates!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I love the photo of the Sunbonnet Sue quilt. What a great job! Maybe, once I get all my work done, I can sit behind my machine and work on my wallhanging. I'd love to get it finished. Maybe I'll figure out how to post a pix of it when it's done. I just love show & tell. Show more, please!

Have a great day, Sneakers. I'll pop in again sometime!

Viki

Sandydur

Tried Zumba for the first time today and all I have to say is...WOW! They're not joking when they say you can burn 1000 calories in an hour. I danced (more like flailing) for 33 minutes and according to my heart rate monitor, I burned 454 calories. And, boy, was I sweating! I got the DVD through my library to see if I'd like it and it is a lot of fun, but it made me realize how uncoordinated I had become!:laugh: :laugh: It's much more fun than the treadmill and I'm able to get to and sustain my maximum heart rate better than the treadmill. They say that you should be able to drop a size in ten days. So, I'll be ordering the DVDs today and I'll find out. Let's see if this old gal can shake her money-maker like those cuties on the DVDs!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:



Viki

How was this on your knees Viki? I wanted to try it but just watching it on On Demand looked like it was hard on the knees.
Thanks

LUV2CRUZ

So, here's my story. All my life I remembered having a sister and a brother. I could remember my sister's nickname but nothing about the brother. I remember walking her to someones house (and I can still remember the house) and when my mother and I walked back, she wasn't with us. When I would talk to my husband about it, he would say that I was too little, it must have been a dream. Well, long story short,

It wasn't a dream. When my mother's sister was dying last year, I asked her and she mumbled that it was true. However, she was referring to the fact that her son, my cousin, was actually my brother as she had had a brief affair with my father. My mother and her sister were both pregnant at the same time. So I talked to him and I already love him so much I was glad to have him as a brother.

I came home and talked to my mother and she told me that I was right. She had been following the newspaper for any news of them and so she had a clipping of her engagement, wedding and birth of her son. I won't go into details or we will be here all day. But, it was the "old" days and things were different.

I called her and left a message. She knew nothing about it. I called again and they hung up on me. Then she checked with her only living aunt and she verified everything. It's almost a year since we all met and I love her more than you can imagine. My brother is a very quiet person who keeps to himself and so I don't know him as well. They were adopted by the same people so they grew up together.

She has already started to call my mother "mom" and has forgiven all. She is a Christian, and a very sweet one. There's more out there than you can imagine. My sons, my brother and my sister have all accepted this and love them as well. My mother and her sister were very close, although now, I can't imagine how. Only God's Grace can do that! It was a huge weight off of my mother's back. That's for sure. Forgiveness is a powerful thing!!!

LUV2CRUZ

Tried Zumba for the first time today and all I have to say is...WOW! They're not joking when they say you can burn 1000 calories in an hour. I danced (more like flailing) for 33 minutes and according to my heart rate monitor, I burned 454 calories. And, boy, was I sweating! I got the DVD through my library to see if I'd like it and it is a lot of fun, but it made me realize how uncoordinated I had become!:laugh: :laugh: It's much more fun than the treadmill and I'm able to get to and sustain my maximum heart rate better than the treadmill. They say that you should be able to drop a size in ten days. So, I'll be ordering the DVDs today and I'll find out. Let's see if this old gal can shake her money-maker like those cuties on the DVDs!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:



Viki

How was this on your knees Viki? I wanted to try it but just watching it on On Demand looked like it was hard on the knees.
Thanks

I'm waiting for zumba Wii to get here. Ordered from Amazon. Has really good reviews.

dayh1ker

Tried Zumba for the first time today and all I have to say is...WOW! They're not joking when they say you can burn 1000 calories in an hour. I danced (more like flailing) for 33 minutes and according to my heart rate monitor, I burned 454 calories. And, boy, was I sweating! I got the DVD through my library to see if I'd like it and it is a lot of fun, but it made me realize how uncoordinated I had become!:laugh: :laugh: It's much more fun than the treadmill and I'm able to get to and sustain my maximum heart rate better than the treadmill. They say that you should be able to drop a size in ten days. So, I'll be ordering the DVDs today and I'll find out. Let's see if this old gal can shake her money-maker like those cuties on the DVDs!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:



Viki

How was this on your knees Viki? I wanted to try it but just watching it on On Demand looked like it was hard on the knees.
Thanks

It wasn't hard on my knees at all and I've been pampering the one I had surgery on. No biggie. Now, I may change my tune tomorrow, but for now, the knees feel fine. You can dance as slow or as fast as you like. I think the most important thing is to keep moving and get your calorie-burn on! I had to slow down a couple of times because my HRM was telling me I was too close to my maximum heart rate, and I didn't even realize it. That's my kind of exercise!

lyn54

Okay, we are having an ice/snow storm coming in tonight.....my mind was on white sandy beaches and sunshine and I remembered a funny story...
Marie requested a funny story...it was funny to me.

My 2 Sons, DIL, DH and I were in Daytona Beach. This has been at least 8 years ago because I have two DILS now.

Anyway. My DIL and I were in the wooden chairs that are on the beach. My 2 Sons were playing volleyball. My DH was in the room. There were a long line of those wooden chairs. All of them had women, my age or younger. I was 45-46 at the time.
We were lying there basking in the sun and fun. Down the beach to our right came a guy running. He was all muscle and one of those that from a distance ..you were like....uh um..woo hoo. He came closer and he had blonde hair, tanned (George Hamilton-style) but the closer he came we could tell he was somewhere between 45-50. All the women were watching...(a line of women)...then he gets past us and the guy has on a thong!!:laugh: You thought speedos were something to see...now it isn't a bad view ....but not what we were expecting to see...when he was a respectable distance down the beach, we all laughed and laughed...I ran up to my sons and told them...while I was telling them, we see the guy turn and start back...evidently he wanted all the women in the line to have a re-run. My Sons were like, :blushing: MOM! They followed me back though their curiosity got the best of them too. The guy goes running back by ....he did this twice...:laugh: :laugh: Every time all the women could barely hold the laughter until he was far enough away....one of the things was his ego to run up and down in front of a line of women just so we could gaze.:laugh: Humans being what they are ...We Did!:laugh: :laugh:
Now some beaches you may see this alot...but not Panama City, Daytona or Ft Lauderdale.

When I returned home I was telling my Doctor about it. We are always exchanging funny happenings in our lives. He thought I should compile a book of funny stories and name it Squirrels and Thongs....The squirrel story is another story but anyway, he thought it would sell because no one could resist picking it up to see what it was about.:laugh: :laugh:

Hope it brought a smile ....if it did...it did what it was suppose to.

Sandydur

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The ego's of some people are just funny!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

CALIECAT

Hello all of you young Seniors Sneakers, My this thread has been busy this morning. and afternoon. Enjoying reading all of your post.

It is up in the 50's here but I am still ao cold.
my feet stayed cold all of the time. Poor old me.

we are waiting to hear what time Jerry goes into the hospital Friday Morning. Alice My daughter will come out Thurs to spend the night and will take us in. She lives 50 miles away and would have to frive clear across Dallas in all the traffic. to get here very early. Kathy My other daughter lives 50 miles East of us I think she is coming too. I am pretty tensed up about it. Not knowing what they will fine out.

Looked like you all have been busy With stories and exercise. Very interest Read. Thanks for sharing.

Welcome to our new member. so glad to have you here. BEtter go get me some more Hot tea.


Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

So mny posts that I wont try to keep up. Mrie, I know you are worried, I am right there with you, worrying too. I am also praying for your fmily. Tell Jerry we are wishing him good results.
Welome June, I love GB, even though Ive never been there
Great stories everyone, I love them

CALIECAT

Thanks Phoebe. That Gayla better pop in here and tell us about her trip.

Gayla I heard over the news they sucessfully implanted a human voive box into a lady and she is Talking normal now. So Maybe there is still hope. . Well there is alway hope.Never give up,

My granddughter and her friend well her live in guy. is comin in next week to work an an event for the super bowl. She works for espn In St Louis. Wanted to know what night I would like to go out and have dinner with them. WOO WOO Maybe I get to meet some of the pac.kers.

lyn54

One of my MFP friends, LJCannon has lost 174+ pounds. She has been in NYC taping for the Rachel Ray show...that will air January 31st. She goes to Curves all the time.

Thought you might be interested.

lyn54

Want to share something with you all....on my ticker is the weeping tree next to my sidewalk, my drive-way and a tree in the middle of my drive. I have an alarm on my drive that lets me know when someone or something is around. It went off so I went to the pc room(was my son's room until he married..has a 6'x6" window) pulled back the shade and peered out. There were 5 deer there eating off the trees, shrubs and ornamental grasses that edge my sidewalk. You can see basically the same scene from this window that is on the ticker except you can see more trees and drive to the left. These deer were within arms length part of the time if my window had been raised...I couldn't believe it:noway: Just had to share...

Lafla

Hi everyone!! I got back early this morning after a wonderful 6 days in Victoria, British Columbia. We did lots of walking and sightseeing. The weather was mostly good, a light rain on a couple of days which is to be expected on the West Coast. We had our umbrellas and it didn't slow us down. The skating was very good and I think we are sending some good skaters off to the World Championships. The temperature here has been very nice the last few days and I am hoping it stays that way for awhile (I have been spoiled after only a few days).

Neil missed coming home for the weekend but Dave was madly painting while I was away. He completed the entryway, hallways, family room and kitchen. I really like the colour. Now he wants to get going on the new flooring. What a lot of work. If I was clever enough to send a picture I would! Tomorrow we are taking Neil to get his new shoes!

I am really disappointed. I am tired but stayed up to watch the Nadal tennis match and it never did come on. Guess I will go to bed. I know they will show some of it tomorrow.

Marie -- I remember that you and Jerry were going for tests but after quickly looking at the posts I didn't see if you mentioned results. I hope all is well. Sorry if I missed the post about them.

Take care everyone and keep smiling. Gayla

LUV2CRUZ

It's snowing here AGAIN today. We are right on the line that decides if we're getting a lot, the middle or a little. (Yeah, I'm a poet) :glasses:

There are corn fields on two sides of our house and I wish we would see more deer. It's so open in the winter, that I think they may be afraid. But, the last year that we had a lot of snow, there were a hoof marks all over the yard like the deer had had a race or something. I can see why Lynn was so exited. :happy:

I would also like to know if any of Marie's test results are in. Still worried about you and Jerry...Come on girl, how are you guys feeling? :flowerforyou:

I'm wondering if JoAn is in a rehab facility working on her knees. Maybe that's why she hasn't popped in????? :flowerforyou:
I was in rehab for several weeks...I'll tell you about it if anyone is interested but let me just tell you the first day, I was in such bad shape that they had two people lifting me under my arms and one lifting in the back by my underwear trying to weigh me. What a wedgie!! And you know that weight was correct, don'tcha......:laugh:

British Columbia is a place I would like to visit. I'm sure it will never happen but a girl can always dream!!

And, where are our new friends???? Come on in girls and sit a spell. :drinker:

One more thing. ..... I've dipped under a number that has been a goal for awhile. I'm hoping it's still there tomorrow when I weigh in to post......please, please, please!!!!! :happy:

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

Hi all. Marie husband Jerry goes in for surgery on Friday.
joann will probably not visit for awhile,but it will be a good feeling to see all us asking about her while she is away.
i think the south beach diet is a good one to follow, i guess the met.mirle works coz I am a junk food junkie, and I need to break that bad habit !
I love watching deer grazing by our house. Try a bag of. Deer corn. We used to feed them in the winter but someone tried bowhunting them on our property so we stopped feeding them.
see ya later

LUV2CRUZ

What is Jerry having surgery for????

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

My post must've run away, so here's aquick hello instead. Be safe!

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

What is Jerry having surgery for????

he has almost lost his voice and I believe there is something on his throat they want to remove and biopsy.

LUV2CRUZ

What is Jerry having surgery for????

he has almost lost his voice and I believe there is something on his throat they want to remove and biopsy.

LUV2CRUZ

What is Jerry having surgery for????

he has almost lost his voice and I believe there is something on his throat they want to remove and biopsy.

Oh Lord, they must be a little scared. I will be praying for both of them!!!

californiagramma

thanks for the welcome,this seems like a very good site, easy to follow.Why is it so hard to lose the last few pounds.I have managed to keep off most of the weight I lost last year but 4 or 5 pounds crept on over the holidays.We are leaving on our annual trip to Jamaica Feb 12 so I know if I don't do something to get on track before then, I will be in trouble.Trying to up the walking, hopefully you guys are my motivation.Have a great day!!

CALIECAT

Mattie He is haveing throat susergy for he has been horse for the past 6 months. He has been going to the doctor with it and they have been haveing him gargle and been on antibolic But did not help. Fanally he went to another doctor and he sent him to a specilist . They put a tub down his throst and took pictures and found this growth on his throat so they are removing that Friday morning. The hospital called just now and said their should be an adult relative in the waiting room at all times. Which my daughters and I on doing anyway.That is all we know right now.

LUV2CRUZ

Mattie He is haveing throat susergy for he has been horse for the past 6 months. He has been going to the doctor with it and they have been haveing him gargle and been on antibolic But did not help. Fanally he went to another doctor and he sent him to a specilist . They put a tub down his throst and took pictures and found this growth on his throat so they are removing that Friday morning. The hospital called just now and said their should be an adult relative in the waiting room at all times. Which my daughters and I on doing anyway.That is all we know right now.

I will be praying for him and you while you wait. Waiting is so very hard, too.

CALIECAT

Thanks Matttie.

CALIECAT

Wanted to send this get well card to my Freind JO AN and let her know I am thinking of her If I don't get back on for a few days.




GET WELL SOON. Hope you are not too much pain. Love Marie

Lafla

Hi everyone! This will be short as I am on my iPad and it takes a little more time. Just the usual running around kind of day. I am checking for a WW meeting close to my work.

Marie -- thinking about Jerry and, of course, you. I hope the surgery goes well. So glad Alice will be with you. Take care.

Jo-an -- you are also in my thoughts. Get well soon.

Take care everyone, glad to read your interesting posts.
Gayla

tlp8rb

Sandy - Did you watch American Idol last night? I believe Chris Medina, the last contestant whose story includes his devotion to his fiancee, Juliana Medina are from Itasca. At least the Laurus Foundation which has set up a fund to help pay for some of Juliana's medical expenses is from Itasca.

The story of this young couple has really rocked me. His voice is equaled only by his integrity. I'm proud to walk the same earth with this man. I was also impressed with the gentle way rocker Steven Tyler interacted with her.

When I see Juliana's struggle it puts my problems with my weight in perspective.

CALIECAT

Good morning Sneakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beutiful day here Gonna get up in the 70's tomorrow. Now that is my kind of weather Come on
Mr. Weatherman put on a good show for all of our guest from Pittsburg and Green Bay. Walmart has got our stoes all deck out. I think I need to get dress an soak up some of this natural Vitamin D