Senior Golden Sneakers - February 2011

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  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Happy Wednesday everyone!

    Sandy - happy bingo nite and good luck! Thanks for letting us know about Jeffrey too! I'm glad he's still running! So this morning i show another pound down! Pretty excited, but won't post it unless it's still gone on Monday.

    Maddie - Jeffrey was in our group - he's like Barbie. He lost a TON of weight and works out/runs like a maniac! He's awesome. Neil is Gaylas adult son with special needs. We all love him and worry over him - but mostly that's his Mom's job. She's his greatest advocate (as you can tell by her posts) and care giver. I don't know what stink bugs are - I'll look 'em up. Last spring i had spiders that hatched IN my house and sent out their little strings all over the place (like Charlottes Web) then we had these itty bitty false cinch bugs migrating outside......very strange! All due to changing weather patterns. Congrats on your lost pound!!!!!!! OH - and thank you for talking about those vitalicious things! I just ordered a sample pack! Excited to try them!

    Gayla - glad the surgery went well AND you got to watch it! I got to watch the last c/s i attended and that was pretty freaking cool! Also glad you're melting! I always love the sound of the melting snow and the sun and blue skies that accompany it! :laugh: I just read that sentence over - i guess you AND your snow are both melting!!!!!!!

    Barbie - I hope your house sells quickly! Thanks for the cauliflower idea - that sounds great! Lots of time my supper is steamed cabbage w/ butter spray and garlic and a couple apples. Me too - i pretty much love where i live, although - the idea of sun, sand and surf IS pretty appealing to me right around now. I used to love running Florida this time of year when i drove for a living.

    Tomorrow I'm going to up my calories to 1200. I know the weight will come off even SLOWER - but hopefully i really only have 2 pounds left to lose and slow will be all right.

    Happy Day to all! We're going up to 67 degrees today!!!!!!!! woot hoooooooot!!!!!!!!:bigsmile:
  • CALIECAT
    CALIECAT Posts: 12,530 Member
    Hello
    Mattie and Elli. Mattie did you run everybody off?

    I pick p a Woman's World Mag. this morning. Very interest article on Cookin lean like Paula Dean By Lindsay Rudolph.

    Her daughter [LINDSAY"s] is going to be on her blog for Kids It remind me of Irene's Great Granddaughter in the Kitchen.

    Here is their web site So cute

    http://www.cookinlean.com/
  • LUV2CRUZ
    LUV2CRUZ Posts: 356 Member
    Hello
    Mattie and Elli. Mattie did you run everybody off?

    I pick p a Woman's World Mag. this morning. Very interest article on Cookin lean like Paula Dean By Lindsay Rudolph.

    Her daughter [LINDSAY"s] is going to be on her blog for Kids It remind me of Irene's Great Granddaughter in the Kitchen.

    Here is their web site So cute

    http://www.cookinlean.com/
    I'm starting to think so. Almost nobody yesterday and now today.....Maybe I've been dumped! :frown:
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    uh oh Maddie!!!! What have we DONE?????:huh:
  • lyn54
    lyn54 Posts: 415
    Hello Ladies,:flowerforyou:

    No such luck, I am back!!!:laugh:

    Maddie, you can't get so lucky..:tongue: .na, na, na, na, na, na...you can't run me ooofff.:bigsmile:

    I think Jeffrey was on here a few times when I first posted.

    Marie, I love Paula Deen...she probably wouldn't think I have an accent..:bigsmile:

    Vicki -thanks for the info.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

    Gayla--so glad the surgery is over and spring melt is on it's way..however it comes...:flowerforyou:

    Sandy-good luck with your bingo.:flowerforyou:

    Elli -you luck isn't much better than Maddie's .:bigsmile: ..where I am concerned. Wow! just 2 pounds to lose...that is awesome.:flowerforyou:

    Barbie --wish you a speedy sale!:flowerforyou:

    Phoebe is "on the road again" ..right there with Willie Nelson..I would be Barbie has done a line dance to Willie.:drinker: :drinker:

    Pam --your handle makes me smile everytime!:wink::happy:

    Irene-aren't grandkids (great) wonderful.:flowerforyou: ..I think that's why they are called grand!:wink:

    Xyla a smart trick to clean the screens. I have a smart phone that I bought last fall..I have the most unusual things happen...my screen has coconut oil that was spilled in the vicinity of :noway: and I didn't realize it.:noway: It went down into some crevice and now there is a dark blob under the screen...Yep! that's me!:blushing:

    Connie -congrats on losing a pound...you have made a step in your 12-step program.:wink:

    JoAn -that was interesting telling about your life. I'm glad you are happy now.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

    Buzz-thanks for painting Hawaii...:flowerforyou: didn't know you were a "word" artist!

    I have been outside walking and playing with 2 grandchildren (boy 3-girl 4) . It has been 70 + today. It's supposed to be 75 and 20-30 mile ph winds tomorrow...that is March weather in Feb.
    It will make everyone sick if a snow comes back in now..but it could change in a day, here. I am just going to enjoy the sun while we have it.:wink::flowerforyou:

    My weight has held steady for the past 2 days..I hope that means an end is sight for the standstill and seesawing up and down 2 lbs. It's been a long seige but ...no war was ever won in a day...(that I know of)...and I am fighting for my health as well as how I look. :tongue:

    Hope all goes well with each of you!
  • tlp8rb
    tlp8rb Posts: 556 Member
    Don't know where everyone else is, but I've been outside. It is 70 degrees here, the sun is shining brightly. No coat or sweater needed to work in the yard, rake winter's leaves, mulch some fall left-overs into the soil and uproot the stragglers that were left behind in the garden. Our Magnolia is covered with ***** willow-like buds, there's new growth on the apple and pear trees and I'm feeling reborn.

    I'm not naive enough to think that winter is over for us but like Indian Summer in the fall, this Indian Spring cannot be ignored.
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Lynn and Connie - where do you both live that it's 70 out? I'm in colorado - it's in the 60s today but SO windy i won't be able to walk my dogs......guess i'll hit the gym after work.

    Lynn - I just re read your profile - glad your health is improving - it truly is the most important thing we have!

    Take care all.

    elli
  • CALIECAT
    CALIECAT Posts: 12,530 Member
    We just hit 70 after the sun came out sure hope thing don't bud out and we lose all the fruit trees aroun.d here (f it freeze again. We usally have one before Easter.We don't have any but the Pecans tree.
  • lyn54
    lyn54 Posts: 415
    That's a danger here the next 3 mos..with peaches, apples, strawberries..etc...:flowerforyou: Last year it was dry weather that hurt apples before it was all said and done.:noway: Hope all the fruit and veggies do well this year.
  • lyn54
    lyn54 Posts: 415
    Elli said
    Lynn and Connie - where do you both live that it's 70 out? I'm in colorado - it's in the 60s today but SO windy i won't be able to walk my dogs......guess i'll hit the gym after work.

    Lynn - I just re read your profile - glad your health is improving - it truly is the most important thing we have!

    I live in South Central Kentucky. Tomorrow it is supposed to be 75 or so and 20-30 mph winds.
    Thank you so much for wishing me well. I am doing better at the moment and I am thankful for this time. Thank you so much for wishing me well...well:happy: I really do appreciate it...but humor comes out in everything I do sometimes....:wink:
  • marlouise
    marlouise Posts: 286
    Hello ladies, on a skim through not enough time to read and catchup on everyone.
    CALIECAT My hopes are with you and Jerry. Good thing it was caught early.
    I have had a wild life in the past two weeks. I slipped a disc in my lower spine getting out of my truck. I did not think anything to serious of it, it has done that lots, however on this day it moved farther and made me take some notice. That night I decided that maybe I need some extra sleep, my back will feel better next day. NOT. 4 am I called to my sister to call 911, I was hanging on the toilet paper roll for dear life. Just in my nightie, hair looking like I fell out of a dryer, not washed up and sitting on the potty.....two gents come up the stairs to the bathroom. WHAT WAS I THINKING???? Breathe. Well they looked after me and we got to the hospital. Three days there, and home for 9.
    I think I should buy a crash suit, this year is starting off wild!
    Well I am determined anyway to get back what left, so I am starting Pilates at the basic level, this teaches breathing, proper contraction of the lower abdominals, and works into a exercise routine that I can add into another so I can get back to strength training once I have finished and mastered the main exercises of Pilates. My food portioning is off to a better start since my intestines have been crunched by my lack of posture. Now to get them cleaned out and into better shape. I have been keeping an ice pack on my back which has reduced the swelling to 30%, feels nice to be able to put my socks on with out pain.
    Hope to keep up again, catch you all soon.

    Remember motivation can not happen if you don't make the choice to create it.

    Marilyn
  • tlp8rb
    tlp8rb Posts: 556 Member
    elli asked:
    Lynn and Connie - where do you both live that it's 70 out? I'm in colorado - it's in the 60s today but SO windy i won't be able to walk my dogs.

    Elli, I am in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks. We're about 30 miles from the Arkansas border on one of the plateaus that make up our "mountains". Our anemometer registered a gust or two as high as 17 mph, but most of the day the breeze was around 10 mph. Enough to blow the leaves around but not enough to be uncomfortable.

    Connie
  • pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA
    pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA Posts: 1,701 Member
    I dont know the mph, but in parts of Calif., it was Windy! We watched a big metal drum roll by, get rescuedgo by again! Dirt was flying. Clouds sun rain, etc. I just finished driving for the night. Having grilled ckn mini salad in Wendys. Read the posts but cant comment on all of them. Marilyn, so sorry about your back and the position you found yourself in. Bless your heart! Sometimes just a twist the wrong way can do it. Take care all of you.
  • lyn54
    lyn54 Posts: 415
    Phoebe said
    I just finished driving for the night. Having grilled ckn mini salad in Wendys. Read the posts but cant comment on all of them.

    Phoebe, I must say, I am in awe of you and your driving. I was raised around farm machinery and large trucks..like 2 ton trucks and such. I could drive all of those. I always wanted to get in a semi and drive it...but never had the opportunity. I haven't been in or around farm machinery or trucks now in years. It would be a power trip to control one of those "babies." you drive...:bigsmile: I can remember when you didn't see women driving semi's...people thought I was nuts when I would say I might drive one sometime just to see if I could. We've come a long way, baby:flowerforyou: :smokin:

    I've lived a softer life since those days...:tongue:

    It has been windy here today...where I live, in March, we have a lot of wind..and today felt like March weather here. We hare supposed to have 20-30 mph winds tomorrow and even warmer. Be Safe!:flowerforyou:

    ps. Connie did you notice my quotes...:happy:
  • lyn54
    lyn54 Posts: 415
    :happy: do you all remember the commercial for a perfume ....I believe it was perfume...(senior momet:bigsmile: ).....I can bring home the bacon ...fry it up in a pan...and never, never, let you forget you're a man...I'm a woman..w-o-m-a-n....It was a song too, of course...my brain thinks in songs. I have done that all my life.:bigsmile: Thinking about Phoebe and others who WORK and can do all kinds of other things too:bigsmile:
    Sometime, I'll tell you what all I have done in my life...well...maybe most of it.:laugh:
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Connie - sorry, now i remember - a cheesehead who relocated to the MO Ozarks. It's pretty there. Humid in the summer though isn't it?

    Lynn - that's funny - i SO remember that commercial!

    Phoebe - do you and your hubby actually team drive? I was never good at that at all. No way could i sleep behind someone else driving. Sure do get more miles like that though......Hope you're out of the wind!

    Marilyn - sorry about your back - backs are weird like that - you can just move the wrong way and throw it out. I got mine pretty good while we were renovating my house. I was lucky to get it cleared up with exercises.

    well, i'm done for the night - i'm pretty excited to up my calories to 1200 starting tomorrow!!!!!!! Have a good one everybody.

    elli
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,289 Member
    :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
    my walking friend who comes over from Seattle thought there would be rain today so she didn't come.....the weather turned out pretty good so the dogs had a great time at the dog park and I did a bit of work in the yard and Jake and I had time in the afternoon to have a good meal together (fish, squash, and spinach) and spend time doing things together.....

    :flowerforyou: I got my to my goal of 10,000 steps but not the 20,000 I get when I walk four and a half miles with my friend.

    :flowerforyou: We haven't done yoga in awhile and someone just reminded me of it so I'm going to remind Jake about it tomorrow after he comes back from lunch with his friend.

    :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: we've been going to bed earlier and getting up earlier and we like it. :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Hello all you Golden Sneakers, can I join your post? I'm 62, retired a couple of years ago but feel very much still young at heart. You do all seem to have a good laugh on here and I know, if I'm going to shift a few pounds I need to keep a sense of humour!! I live in the UK but spent several years in Canada back in the 70's and also travelled across the US in an old Buick with a friend so know where some folk are geographically. I'm off to dig in my allotment for an hour but will pop back and dip my toes in the post later.
  • CALIECAT
    CALIECAT Posts: 12,530 Member
    pinkperil welcome to the Golden Sneakers. We have another one from the UK. Her name is Pam. We all love her So sweet and nice. Hope to get to know you better too. We are a very good bunch of Seniors. Trying out best to get rid of our excess fat and enjoy life . Looking forward to seeing you again:flowerforyou: :heart: :flowerforyou: .
  • CALIECAT
    CALIECAT Posts: 12,530 Member
    ha ha ha ! Mattie I beat you here this morning. This is a leisure day no Place to go today . Can stay home and cook a pot of beans and work on my quilt.

    Gonna be a nice day here in Texas. So Sammy and I will get a couple walks in .
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Good Morning Sneakers!

    Barbie - me too, I haven't done yoga in awhile and really want to get back to it. My goal is to go back in April. I HOPE by then i've reached my goal and i think hot yoga will be a real good maintenance/toning tool. You do a dvd right? I LOVE going to bed and getting up early. I keep reading about the importance of 8 hours of sleep at our age and that is hard for me! On the weekends i try and force myself to stay in bed 'till 7 but i'm not successful unless i stayed up really late the night before........:yawn:

    Marie - your day sounds really nice. I love it when i have a Sat or Sun like that - cook, clean, hang out with the dogs.........good times!:smile:

    Welcome Pink - you're in the right place - i'd say we're ALL young at heart here right gang?????:love:

    I upped my calories to 1200 today so i'm pretty psyched. I know it'll slow my weight loss even more but i'm not going to worry about it. As long as i eat right and stay active - i'll get there. We ALL will!!!!!

    Happy Friday EVE!:happy:

    elli
  • Sandydur
    Sandydur Posts: 9,372 Member
    Happy Thursday!! Did not go to bingo last night, so no report of any wins. :ohwell:

    I am frustrated today because my scale said I gained a pound and I have been working so hard on exercise and calories that I just don't get it. :angry: The only thing I can think of is that I had too much salt in something at lunch yesterday. :grumble: I also noticed that when I went back to check on my calories, I forgot the rice I had with my chicken, so I probably was over calories. Bad day yesterday.:angry:

    Today is a new day and hopefully it will be a better day!! :bigsmile:

    Elli, glad you upped your calories, I was afraid you were going to go into starvation mode. You are such a little thing and so active, you do need to eat all your calories including your exercise calories. :drinker:

    Marie, you were up bright and early. Take this day just for yourself and enjoy it!!! :love:

    Pink, welcome, glad to have you join us. I love your accent and your way with words, so distinguished, just like Pam. Stick with us a while and hopefully we can help you shift those pounds away!!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

    Barbie, 10,000 steps?? Gosh you put me to shame, I am thrilled just to burn 400 calories and that is hard work. You are such a good example of what MFP is all about. :blushing:

    I am kind of in a bad mood today and I am not sure why. I am glad I am going to my meeting so that I get off my pity pot. :ohwell:

    Have a great day everyone, I will be back later in a better place.
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Sandy - it's ok, we still love you, bad mood and all. And of COURSE you're in a bad mood - that dang SCALE! argh:explode: it's so frustrating!!!!!!!!! I know - Barbie right? I'm like you, if i burn 400 calories in a day i'm ecstatic! When you told me about the salt and i quit using so much i know i lost another pound right after that - so it could be. Also there's always the muscle weighs more than fat......we get so hung up on the scale, i know i do it too:ohwell: Hang in there - it will come off. We know when we're down to just the last few pounds how HARD it is! Hope you end up having a great day today.
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Thanks Caliecat, elli and Sandydur for your warm welcome. Don't know about my accent Sandy, I try hard not to appear posh as I type as my friends would tell you I'm nothing like that!! By the way, hope you don't mind but I'm going to steal your ""pity pot" term. What a wonderful phrase. :laugh:
    Reading some of your ladies posts I see there is a general pattern that can create frustration when trying to lose weight so I'm delighted to join in and not feel I'm struggling on my own, although my friend Jillycornwall and I meet up for a swim each week and compare notes which helps tremendously.
    I must share my joke of the day in that, after a swim this morning and then a couple of hours digging on the allotment I completed my diary for the day and the result was a message telling me if every day was like today I'd lose about 14 lbs in a month. I laughed out loud because to be honest if every day was like today I'd be on my knees in exhaustion!! It was just coincidence that I did both on the same day. Tomorrow I will be recovering with my feet up!!
    I can't wait to get to know you all more as we progress. I will especially be looking for some good old American muffin recipes as they are one of my favourites.:drinker:
  • pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA
    pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA Posts: 1,701 Member
    Hi pink and welcome! We will enjoy your posts!
    another windy day in CA. Busy one too. Marie, is Jerry doing ok? And for that matter, how are you? I know you are glad for the warm up there.
    Yes, Elli, my dh and I drive team. Some days are easy, some are not.
    lynn, you know we'd. Love to hear about all youve done, but never forget that twhat you do now is appreciated by all of us. We love to hear you sing, and post.
    Sandy, a bad mood is part of making the good mood feel good.
    All for now, be safe
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Pink - i forgot to ask you before - what's an allotment?

    Oh yea, i love it when i'm done with my food diary at the end of the day and it tells me i'll weigh 107 in 5 weeks:laugh: SUUUUUUre i will!:laugh: I think it's great to have a body buddy to help you get through exercising. Swimming is such great exercise too!

    Don't know if i told you guys i ordered a sample box of those vitalicious muffin tops - they came today and look REALLY good! I stuck them all in the freezer and kept an apple crumb one out to have with my tea before the gym. I'll let you know what i think!

    OK - here's a favor i have to ask everyone. Remember that business i bought back in May? It's doing SCARY bad:sad: Would you guys mind - anyone who uses facebook go to our website there and like us, or comment, or SOMETHING???????? Anything will help. Thanks guys. Oh - duh, it's called: Just Bekuz Products

    :heart: elli
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    p.s. - not our website, our facebook page............:tongue:
  • pinkperil
    pinkperil Posts: 5,072 Member
    Thanks pjsattic, I look forward to chatting on a regular basis. Is that beautiful cat yours? Looks like a femaile so I'll say she looks very pretty.
    elli ~ You're right, if only it was that easy:happy: An allotment is a piece of ground that the local authority purchase for the specific use of locals to grow vegetables and fruit. It's a large field that is divided up into about 50 plots approximately 20 feet by 60 feet each and we have to dig our section over to clear the meadow grass before planting seeds and fruit bushes. We can grow whatever we want and pay a nominal annual fee of £7 ($12??). They are very popular in this country so there are long waiting lists to get one. I share it with my neighbours but because I'm retired and they still work I can spend more time digging. It's a beautiful spot with wonderful views across the countryside and so peaceful with birdsong being the only sound other than me huffing and puffing!!!:laugh:
  • elli
    elli Posts: 593
    Pink - that sounds very cool! There are quite a few of us on this thread who love to garden. You should try and post a picture of it!
    Thanks for answering my question!

    elli
  • LUV2CRUZ
    LUV2CRUZ Posts: 356 Member
    So, HELLO! I see everyone came out to play today.....

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    Marie: You did get here before me and you always bring the girls out to play. I, too, hope the fruit trees are not hurt this year, fruit is so expensive here already. And, I didn't even know that Paula Dean cooked anything lean. (what a poem :wink: ) I only ever see her cook fattening southern stuff. Keeping Jerry in my thoughts. :flowerforyou:

    Barbie: Cauliflower for a bedtime snack!! OMG, save me from that fate. I love the Vitalicious tops...high fiber and way better than that C stuff.....I hope you sell your house quickly. It will sell exactly when it's supposed to so don't worry too much about it. :drinker:

    Gayla: I think I mentioned that my cousin is challenged and he's the most wonderful guy. Takes one day at a time. I always tell him that he's my hero.....I'll bet Neil is just like that, too!

    Phoebe: Be very careful out on the road. I'm sure you guys are good drivers but like my mom always says and I mean always....WATCH OUT FOR THE OTHER GUY! :laugh:

    Elli: You will like those treats. I've only tried chocolate and I'm hooked! I'm not familiar with your business but I'll check it out. :flowerforyou:

    Lynn: Hold down the fort....come out with guns blazin....put those 2 lbs in their place, duck! Huff and puff and blow their house down.....:laugh:

    Sandy: Pity Pot is a phrase from the PA Dutch. If I were on my pity pot my mother would tell me to just "go piss around a pretzel!" :wink:

    Pinkperil: Welcome to the nuthouse. The only way that we know we're in the "older" age group is if one of us accidentally looks directly into a mirror!! You may steal "pity pot" if I may steal "posh" Love it! :drinker:

    And Marilyn, my favorite: I could not stop laughing at your situation. Everyone who knows me knows that I have a phobia about something happening to me in the bathroom. They know that whoever finds me is to make sure my pants are pulled up and I'm laying on my back on the floor. That way, all the skin and stuff on your face falls back and you look younger! Watch on TV, the cops always look down first for nudity and then at your face to look for a pulse!! :glasses:

    Had a blast with Nate today, he's walking everywhere now. What a cutie pie! :bigsmile:

    And that's what's happening in my part of the world.....Later,
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