Seniors Golden Sneakers Club week of 3/9 -3/16

Sandydur

Hi Darlene and Welcome!! :flowerforyou:

I am new since January and love this group. It is so nice to be with people around your own age. :blushing:
I am 67 years young, married for the second time, have four of mine, two of his, 6 grandchildren, 4 girls and two boys. I live in Itasca, Illinois a suburb of Chicago.
I am trying to lose 16 pounds, will be happy with ten and have lost 5 so far. :ohwell:
It is a slow process but in keeping company with this group, we all encourage each other, support each other and just listen when needed. :laugh:

Have fun and keep in touch.

Sandy

Sandydur

Ellie,
Acid Reflex can be terrifying, you think you are having a heart attack and are relieved when you find it wasn't. :flowerforyou:

Take care of yourself.

CALIECAT

Howdy folks,
Having another day without the sun. Still chilly and damp. But boy did we need the rain.

Jerry had his test ran yesterday on his prostate. Now for the wait to find out something.

My back brace is fine except I don't wear it much. I usally wear it in the morning to get things done around here and if I get out. They told me not to wear it all the time. Just when I am active. And It does make you feel full

My vintage diet is doing just great. I love going back and eat the things I used to eat and I have conferdence in it, and stay full. I guess it is all this protein. And a good balance diet. I have change a couple things : ! T olive oil a day and used non-fat yogurt for FF Milk sometime. Neither one was listed in the original diet But other than that I am sticking to it.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/44664-somethings-for-my-fellow-texans This is a topic I am going to now and we are talking about a get together for all of us Texan and friends. Should be fun if they get anything work out.

Everybody have a great day.

Good morning to our new member Carlene

Good to see you back Elli

Phoebe hope all is going well.

Jeffrey Wish I could have been there for your speech. I bet it was great and that you help some of our teens

barbie Have you gone to the dog park yet?

Sandy--- Love reading your posts.

Biggramma, Don't know who is sending us all this rain. Is it by way of Ca. or canada? I guess it is Canada since it is so chilly here. The high today is to be 39. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope I didn't leave anybody out Gonna have to make me a list of you guys.

Love to all Caliecat

Sandydur

Happy Friday the 13th!!

Sunny day here today, makes it seem warmer than it is.

Did 45 minutes of Wii Fitness Coach today, although part of it was an evaluation. (counted it anyway since you have to do certain exercises) Sometimes I wonder why we all go through this, but then I remember how good it feels when we are done and that we are smart enough to worry about our health. I love feeling energentic and even if it is my imagination I think my clothes are fitting better.

I am happy to be part of this group and enjoy reading all of your posts. Don't ever feel discouraged if things don't seem to be happening as fast as you would like, all our effort will pay off. :flowerforyou:

Have a good weekend, life is good.

jeffrey71

Good Afternoon All!

Welcome Darlene!

I am 55 and I live in Indiana, wife my beautiful wife. We have 2 daughters, one in Goergia and one in college. I love to work out! Pretty much it!

I can't believe how much our board has grown!

We have a quiet weekend ahead, sort of. Going to a fish dinner tonight at a little town by us. Tomorrow we are setting up a health fair at our church. Sunday we are doing the health fair at our church! LOL

The youngest coming back to Indiana to college tomorrow after being with her sister for a week in Georgia.

Everyone stay busy and keep moving! Those of you that can, I really recommend you check out Tai-Chi. Very soothing, and a great stretch. I have been doing it for about a year now and I never get bored with it. There a lot of good resources for it, library, web, local groups Y and such.

Have a great Friday!

Jeffrey

barbiecat

:flowerforyou:
Good Afternoon, All,:bigsmile: and Welcome, Darlene:bigsmile:

Sunny and not so cold. I don't let the weather keep me from the dog park:bigsmile: I'm still not adjusted to daylight savings time so even though I mean to get up early, I don't. If I don't waste time, I can get up after 7 and still have time to walk the dogs, eat breakfast, go to the dog park, shower and get to line dance class on time (it's 9:30 on Friday and 9:00 on Wednesday and Thursday).

I've realized that since nobody I know commented as I gained weight, they won't be commenting as I lose. I need to rely on all of you for support. I'm so glad you are all there.:bigsmile:

I'd love to know what everybody else is eating for breakfast. I love my breakfast but I'm interested in some other ideas.

My breakfast is
*1/3 cup Quaker whole grain oatmeal (I make it in the microwave)
*1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce ( I make my own applesauce in the fall but it's all gone now so I eat the store bought stuff
* a sliced banana

It's time now to get on the exercise bike. I either watch TV or listen to music on my MP3 player to help pass the time.


Have a happy day and a great weekend.:bigsmile:

CALIECAT

Hello out there,
Hope you all had a wonderful day. We did it is still cold and damp here but we are in for a warming trend here tomorrow.

For breakfast i had a Danish cheese on whole wheat toast. Consisted of 1/4 c ricotto cheese and 1/2 c crused pineapple
For lunch I had a big salad with tuna , Apple
For supper I had a big bowl of homemade chili with lots of veggies in it. and Yogurt
For late snack it will be yogurt and 1/2 banana

good night all

Sandydur

Happy Saturday!!

Another sunny day with temperatures in the 50's. :flowerforyou:

For breakfast I have been eating the same thing for years. :laugh: I take my pills with OJ deluted with water, cheerios with a banana and coffee with coffee mate. It is approx. 300 calories. I eat 30 minutes before working out because my son who used to be a trainer said you lose more calories that way. After exercising I wait another 30 minutes and have a protein shake. (just started this) I then try to eat something small, like a yogurt or some almonds every three or so hours. I will let you know if this works and if I lose any more than the 5 pounds I have lost.

Barb, whatever you are doing is working, you have lost 5 pounds in a month. :drinker:
Marie, you are very good in staying with your ww diet, keep it up.
Jeffrey, you are still my hero, anyone who is helping kids the way you do, I truly respect.
BGamma, how are you we miss you.
Elli, hope you are doing ok. :flowerforyou:
Phoebe, keep in touch. :happy:
Darlene, how is it going?

Have a wonderful day, will talk with you soon.

Sandy

CALIECAT

Good Saturday Morning.
, got my menu planned out for today.

* breakfast: 1/4 c. cottage cjheese. 1/2 c Pineapple. 1 sl. of whole wheat toast

* Lunch: !/2 grilled cheese, [ 1 sl. of whole wheat, 2 oz of hard cheese] veggies,. small Salad, apple

* Supper: taco Salad [ Shedded lettuce with 5 oz. of homemade chili I mad yesterday and it is loaded with veggies. Orange !/2 c corn.

that will leave me with 2 serving of milk. for my snacks. Will used some of my 1 T. fat on grilled cheese
the rest on my salad.

** Will do my chair exercise today

Have a happy day and enjoy your meals

Love Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

welcome darlene, hope you are still with us!

I stayed home yesterday to get a little done, picking up/throwing out/ and restoring junk we moved while putting the flooring down. ended up with no plan for dinner so I had my favorite, cereal! a bowl of special K protein plus mixed with multi grain cheerios. Coffee and yogurt later.

We call every day sometimes twice to see how Jim's dad is faring. We may visit him tomorrow. We leave on Monday to return to work. We accepted that he won't get well. He may get a bit better, but more than likely he is at his best right now. He slept most of yesterday, he didn't want to get up. He may do the same today, but his kids will be over and they will bug him to get up..he gets ill when he is told what to do!! :noway: We just let him have his way now.

I've got laundry and a trip to Kohl's on my list today. I'm returning a sofa cover I tried.. sure hope they don't mind that I couldn't possibly re fold it and get it into that small package again.. whew!
I will exchange it if they have another one I like. I have a good one, but I shrunk it, shouldn't have put it in the dryer.

Glad you all seem to be doing great.. Marie, that is interesting about the old ww plan.

take care all

CALIECAT

Good to hear from you Phoebe and for the update on Jim's father.
My Vintage Diet is coming along just fine. Just got thru with my lunch and it was very filling.

It is still cool down here but warming spell is on its way s, so they say.

Biggramma--- What are you cooking for your son this weekend? You always have him something good cook up. If the wind is not blowing too hard I think I will get Jerry to cook a couple chickens on the grilled to eat next week.

Barbie----Hope your weather is fine so you could get your walk in this morning. I wish we had a dog park by us. but never have heard of one here. I seen them on TV and Sammy would love to go to one and be free from a least like Mother nature intending them to be.

sandy---Doing great girl, Keep it up. You don't have much more to lose.

Ali--- How is our little country girl doing?I called my daughter this morning to see how they made it thru 3 days of rain. Said it was a muddy mess. They were fixing to head out to buy some grass seeds Will try to post a picture of thier house and post here---be right back. I'm back I could not get it to work Will try again later.

Jeffrey---Have a nice weekend

Carlene---Lookin to see you back here.

Marie

CALIECAT

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elli

hi everyone! happy Saturday afternoon!
Thanks Sandy - for understanding about that acid reflux stuff - sure was SCARY! I didn't actually feel all right until today! I was a little better each day tho, so that's cool.

Oh man Caliecat - i can imagine what a muddy mess your daughters farm is after 3 days of rain. I know we NEED the rain but i'd so much rather have snow. It doesn't turn into as BIG a muddy mess. I'm going to try and cut and paste the link to see if i can see the picture. We're having really nice weather - i think it's around 50 today. They were supposed to be working on my house and they're not so that's kind of a bummer.

Darlene - how's it going with counting your food and exercise? It's easy on here huh?

Phoebe - i eat cereal a LOT for dinner. Only i eat kashi go lean crunch with lowfat vanilla yogurt and fruit and nuts. YUM! It's like my favorite supper! Hope they took your couch cover back!

I had my first 2 times of eating out since i started this plan - i went over a little bit yesterday 'cause my daughter in law and i split a piece of cheesecake - at the Cheesecake Factory. Oh man that was good! We went and saw Phantom of the Opera down in Denver - it was SO great. Then this morning we met my son Dakota and his g/f Katie for lunch - but i didn't eat breakfast so hopefully I'll be all right. I'm getting ready to walk the dogs now. OH but the farmer who keeps cattle here in the fall put a dead one down at his pit - right by where i walk the dogs YUCH!!!!!!!

Everyone have a great rest of Saturday! I'll check back in later tonite or tomorrow!

elli

barbiecat

:flowerforyou:

good evening, everyone:bigsmile:

This was a very sedentary day for me.:sad: We had to be at a meeting 60 miles from here at 9AM so we got up at 5:30, walked the dogs, got ready and left. It was 120 miles of sitting in the car along with 4 1/2 hours of mostly sitting at the meeting. It was raining so I couldn't even walk outside at lunch time.

We did a very smart thing. We brought our own snack/lunch----hard boiled eggs, apples, baby carrots, bananas, Balance protein bar, tea bags, and bottled water. It was perfect because it kept us away from the muffins in the morning and the spaghetti and garlic bread for lunch.

We had our regular supper at the regular time and have no regrets.:bigsmile:

I will do some on the exercise bike but my exercise will be way low today.

Sandy:flowerforyou: I'm going to try to remember to wait 30 minutes after I eat to get on the bike (that's why I'm at the computer instead of on the bike):bigsmile:


Marie:flowerforyou: I do the same thing you do, three meals and an evening snack. I have my cereal and either soy milk or yogurt at 8:30. It's a perfect end to my day.

Phoebe:bigsmile: I am a big cereal fan. I have oatmeal with applesauce and a banana for breakfast and Kashi go Lean crunch at bedtime otherwise, I'd probably have it for supper.

Elli:flowerforyou: I haven't tried going out to eat yet since I started planning my meals. We're going to do that tomorrow and I hope I can be as successful as you. We're going to a Vietnamese restaurant so there won't be any cheesecake.

Keep up the good work, everybody, and stay on the sunny side.:flowerforyou:

CALIECAT

Elli I am trying one more time. This is their house before it was finish. I will take pictures at Easter when we go back out there I forgot my camera this past week end. also a picture of their Longhorns

Hey it work. even tho it did not say I needed to sign in I just did and it work.
Marie

elli

oh Marie - YAY!! Thank you for the pics!:flowerforyou: It looks like SUCH a great place! So they bought the land and then built their house? How FUN!

Barbie - sounds like you did a great job bring your own food to the meeting. it can be SO easy to mess up when the only choices are ones we shouldn't be making! Oh - when i first lost all my weight one of the very first places i ate out at was a VIetnamese restaurant. I ordered cashew vegetables and only ate half - i didn't feel like it was "bad" at all! Good luck tomorrow night!

I stayed under 1200 calories today, but all i got to do exercise wise was walk the dogs. I'm hoping to get to hot yoga tomorrow evening unless my friends want to work on sanding wood in my house.:ohwell: I'm back in most of my size 4 jeans now, so I don't have THAT far to go, it's just that those last few pounds seem SO hard to get off!

OK everyone - have a good night! And a happy Sunday morning. Talk to you all soon! elli

CALIECAT

Oh elli A size 4 Wow I never seen a pair of 4's/ How much lower do you want to get? Don't go to low. Need some meat on them bones. Just kidding, I admire you for sticking with it. And I love reading your posts. Dont' leave us when you get to where you want to be.

I am just hoping to get to a size 12. OK girls and guy what size do you want to be.?

gonna get warmer today, maybe I can get out of my sweatshirts.

Haven't got my Menu ready yet. Lazy Sunday Morning be back later with it. I like making it up for I can copy it aand put it on my fridge I did follow yesterday plan to a T.* I get a star.* Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good morning: ALLI, PHOEBE, JEFFREY, BIGGRAMMA, BARBIE, CARLENE. AND ANY VISTORS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE

Love to all Marie

elli

good morning Marie and all! well - i know that sounds little, but i'm only 5'2" - so i'm supposed to be little! :laugh: I only want to lose 5 or 6 more pounds - between 115 and 120 is where i'm the most comfortable. I joined mfp because all my life i've lost the weight and then gained it back. THIS time i joined after i gained 12 pounds instead of the whole 40! So i'm excited that maybe FINALLY i'm going to figure this thing out! I'm SO going to stick with you guys even when i lose it all!

I'm having a tough time getting started this morning. I should REALLY go over to my house and start sanding wood, but i REALLY don't like this part of the renovatng - the sanding.:frown: So - i'll read the paper and drink a cup of tea for awhile and then hopefully get moving!

Happy Sunday everyone!

BIGGRAMMA

GOOD MORNING....Today is a day of mixed emotions for me...Twenty seven years ago today my grandson, Kasey, was born....it was a wonderful day..........However I am very sad that he is not here to see this beautiful Sunday morning......

We lost him on December 7th 2001 at the age of 19....But I feel very blessed to have had him in our lives for almost 20 years....I also feel very blessed that he did not suffer...he was killed in a car accident and died before reaching the hospital....So God was good....

I will probably spend some time with his mother, my daughter, because she still has a very hard time with this...:brokenheart: ..Time does not seemed to have dulled the pain for her...So I hope you keep her in your thoughts and prayers today.....

I hope you all have a very blessed Sunday....:flowerforyou:

elli

oh gee BG. I'm SOOOO sorry for you and yours. I'm sending you and your daughter big love and prayers this morning...........i can't even imagine, i just can't. I'm glad for your daughter that she has you to help her through. l, e

CALIECAT

biggramma--- My heart ache for you and your daughter. What a sad time. what a terrible pain for you to bare. Your friend Marie.

Ok Elli I looked at your pictures on your profile . So tell me Who is who and also is that your house you are fixing up. I like it . It look so homey/
Caliecat

barbiecat

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Biggramma, I send my warm thoughts to you on this sad day.

Elli, one of the things I like about my new friends on MFP is that we support each other no matter what goals we have.:bigsmile: If your clothes don't fit well it doesn't matter whether they are size 4 or size XXL. Right now with so much weight to lose, it is coming off surprisingly fast. Hearing from you helps me understand what the challenges will be as I get closer to my goal.

I don't want to quit just because my 16 pants are getting baggy.

I had planned to stay off the scale all month, but with my clothes fitting better and some of my ribs seeming to be closer to the surface, I decided to do a mid-month check. The news was good. I lost 5 pounds since March 1which makes a total of 9 pounds on MFP and 13 pounds since I started planning meals on January 14 (our 20th wedding anniversary).

Enjoy your weekend and don't let the weather, restaurant meals, or too much work around the house get you down.:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

CALIECAT

Great Barbie on your loss. You have already made your goal for the month of March. A job well done.
I haven't made it yeat but I am working on it.

QUESTION????????? HOW DO YOU POST A PICTURE ON YOUR PROFILE PAGE???????????

CALIECAT

elli

oh BARBIE! you are doing AWESOME. You go girl! no no - don't quit just 'cause your size 16s are too big - go out and get some size 14s (while i was losing my weight i bought clothes at the second hand store 'cause i KNEW i was going to have to keep on buying different sizes for awhile) AND - get RID of those ones that are too big! Congrats on your weight loss! Oh, I also wanted to tell you how fun i think it is that you and hubby travel around in the motor home - i love the pic of you and him! ALSO - you are married to the love of your life - WOW! it makes me so happy when people in our age group say that!

Marie - on my main picture it's my son Dakota (22), his girlfriend Katie and myself on a trip we took to Hawaii 2 years ago. We were going ziplining through the trees and over the canyons. SOOOOO fun!
There's a picture of my soldier/son, Dillon (27) and his wife Andi and myself too. OK, so to post pictures (let me see if i can explain this - it may take someone more computer savvy) you go to your profile, to pictures, to add pictures and then hit browse and go through your pictures on your computer and choose the one(s) you want and hit upload. I THINK that's kind of how it goes, but it's hard for me when i'm not actually DOING it. There's a tech support section on mfp that's real helpful as well. Good luck! Oh, and yes - that is my house with the addition started. It's SOOOOOOO much work but it's going to be fun when i can live in it again! elli

elli

Marie - sorry, on your home page - under your current picture just go to edit photos! it'll walk you right through it! elli

CALIECAT

Thanks elli. I haven't fot if fiure out yet, but I will. soner or later.

Here is my menu for today

Breakfast---1 egg, 1 sl of toast, 1 orange
Lunch----2/3 c cottage cheese. 1 c dole frozen fruits [ Which was really good. the peaches was soft, 1 sl. of toast
Supper----baked chicken, French style green beans, pickle beets sbaked apple. yogurt
Snack---Yogurt And sthat complete my require food.

See you guys tomorrow,

this thread is really rocking,, Love it----caliecat

CALIECAT

Time to get up all you seniors.
This is a brand new week. Let's make the most of it.
Everyone is doing such a terrific job here.

Breakfast:--- Egg with some veggies cook with it., toast. uogurt and a orange .

Lunch----: Tuna salad, sliced apple ,, Toast,, yogurt

Supper:---- baked chicken, Pickle beets, green beans, Mixed fruit,

nitetime snack---Yogurt

Have a great and happy day.
Lovwe Marie

barbiecat

:flowerforyou: Hi Marie,

What do you put in your tuna salad? I love tuna and want to include it more often.


I'm off to the dog park. I'll write more later.

elli

good morning everyone! It's supposed to be 70 degrees here today. MAYBE someone will come work on my house!

Marie - sounds like you have a good plan going for today, doesn't even look hard to stick to!
I tried that laughing cow cheese for breakfast - with a bagel alternative (110 calories for a whole, small bagel!). That and some fruit made a great breakfast!

This is my morning to weigh - i lost a pound this week. It's slow, but i'm going to hang in there. I know I have a better chance of keeping it off if i lose it slow. I still have 7 pounds to go.

OK - I better get to work now! Happy Monday everyone. Let's get the week off to a great start! Hopefully everyone will get their exercise in today. I'm going to the gym after work.

elli::flowerforyou:

CALIECAT

:flowerforyou: Hi Marie,

What do you put in your tuna salad? I love tuna and want to include it more often.


I'm off to the dog park. I'll write more later.

Barbie, in my tuna salad i used a big bowl of shedded lettuce. 1 Pkg of tuna.,Thinely slice appes with skin .That the basic then I might add some non starchy veggies of what I have on hand and 2 T. light ranch dressing. That and a sl. of whole wheat toast and yogurt is a good filling meal and healthy.
Another good salad I like is a big bowl of fresh spinach. Cup of slice fresh strawberries, chicken.and 2 T light rasberries dressing along with 1 sl of toast and yogurt. another good satisfying meal. Marie