WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2013
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Happy Tuesday. Have just come to the realization that by reading this board in the evenings after dinner, I am far less inclined to keep nibbilng, and I drink more water. Thanks, ladies.
Jb_2011 Bravo on losing the 10 pant sizes! Enjoy those size 10’s. I’m sure you look fabulous. :smokin:
Judy – Congrats on the race. You are TOUGH and POSITiVE. Keep posting your inspiring stories.
Kate in Alberta – You make me laugh. May the ice melt soon and you enjoy every exotic, savory morsel you will try while DH is away.
LucyT - Totally relate to losing a shoe size. Happened to a friend of mine, too. Now you’ve given me the urge to shop for shoes. Actually, I'm always in the mood to shop for shoes. :laugh:
Marge – Welcome. Just with your post you are on the path to losing those 30#s. Keep checking back in and soaking up the friendship and wisdom from your 50+ sisters.
Lin – Fibro is a *****. I’ve managed to *control* it by doing cardio 6x a week and taking acupuncture treatments as soon as I feel any symptoms. Take care.
Got an icepack on my lower back as per my chiropractor's orders. :grumble: Am doing whatever I need to get fixed up and back in the gym. For now, just have to take it easy.
Stay well, my friends.
Rori in the Colorado Foothills0 -
Hi ladies,
I just found this site tonight and was happy to find a group of "seasoned" women in a community. I'm 54 years old, 5'4", live in Verona Wisconsin and am just getting over shingles. I had a relatively severe case and have been very inactive for over 2 months. Unfortunately, the disease didn't hurt my appetite so I gained 14 lbs between New Year's Eve and today.
I got a Fitbit for Christmas and started using it yesterday. I'm very serious about losing the extra lbs (and another 10-15) before June 2013. Can I join your group? What does "bump" mean?0 -
Hello I am interested in being a part of this group..I have been reading some of your posts...but I really wish I could get an answer as to what everyone keeps saying BUMP for???? I asked this before but cannot find my post now....thank you...
Im Nel and 65 years old.. 0 -
Hi,
New to this group. Liked the way you post, very conversational. Nice style!
Marcia (Northern Va and expecting a big snow storm!)....Not sure, but I think "bump" means ditto, or agree, or same.. as in if I say I loved Lincoln, and one of you replies, "bump" you loved it too!0 -
One answer I read was that 'bump' was used to reserve your spot. I don't understand that either.0
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I finish up my diabetic class training tomorrow. But then I have 3 individual classes that I can get because of my Medicare. Can't decide whether I want to take advantage of that.0
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BUMP means "bring up my post." Really it just shows you where you left off...
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Marti- you joined by posting! No, there's nothing special you need to do, just come in and get lots of motivation, vitamin F (friends), tips, and ideas. Glad to have you with us. Sounds like you've been thru a lot lately.
Roz - I know what you mean by so many posts. I didn't have a lot of time last night, but I couldn't get over how many posts there were! Which pilates DVD do you have? I'm always looking for new pilates ones
Did an hour of a DVD that I have for the bosu. Tomorrow I'll go to yoga and then deep water.
Linda Sundance - I've found yoga helps me to be more flexible (and I'm the most inflexible person on the faace of this earth). Good luck to you!
Laurie - welcome. Keep posting, you'll get lots of encouragement
Sandy - woo hoo, so close to your milestone. Do you have something special planned for when you do get there? Good luck to you on your weight in
Amanda - feel bettter fast! Good luck on the tests you have upcoming
Sandy from Ontario - we're glad to have you join us!
I can't wait for Sunday to get here, either. Counting down the days
DeeDee - it's amost 10 and it's been raining here a while now. I have to go get my hair done, then I'll probably play mahjongg.
M - safe travels to CO. That's so nice of you to stay with your mother! Can you take some pilates or yoga DVD's with you? You'll probably need to put some towels down on the floor so it's not so hard (or maybe a blanket) What about a walking DVD? These are some of the things I take to the condo with me, I have to be mindful of the people below us (not make much noise) and the fact that there isn't a whole lot of room to workout. Happy birthday to you sd
Jo - lol re: sun. Really made me smile.
Welcome everyone new
Nancy - so close, you can do it!
jb - yea down to a 14! You go girl! 10 pants sizes, that's awesome
Judy - congrats on the run! You SHOULD be proud of yourself
Meg - so sorry to hear about Benny Beagle. Givek him lots of love, that'll help him AND you. You're lucky you were given until 35 to have sex. According to my daughter, Vince and I didn't have sex and don't. Isn't that a hoot?
BetsyAnn - the numbers are going down. OK, it may be slowly, but at least they're going down and not up. Keep up the good work
I was at mahjongg today and my cousin called to tell me that my other cousin passed away. We knew it was coming, she had ovarian cancer, was on chemo for the last 5 years but discontinued it (for a myrad of reasons). I don't know why, but it hit me hard. Maybe because she was only 2 years older than I am. Maybe it's because we grew up together, I don't know. But I left mahjongg. Will go to Mexican Train tonight, tho.
Marge/Judy - thanks, Judy, for bringing Marge to us. I know she'll love it here.
grandmalle - Vince likes me to cook things that HE likes, so what I do is I cook something for him (right now it's a meatloaf) and put it in the freezer, Cook the two items and put one in the freezer or cook a double batch and put some in the freezer. Eventually, you'll only have to cook one meal. Vince likes Hungry Jack waffles, I like the Fiber One. So I make two, and freeze one. Then the next time I make them, I make two of the other one, have one and freeze one. It all works out. I can't believe you got a cookie bouquet!
Lin - I do hope you feel better fast. Pain isn't for sissys
Roz - awesome weight loss
I can't believe how late it was when we got back from Mexican Train. Just had fruit and the sausage cheese balls that I brought. Too many what looked like fried foods or dips that were creamy. And I didn't have dessert (it just doesn't appeal to me)
barbie - will Jake need to be in the hospital very long this time. I wouldn't think so.
"bump" is an ancronym for "bring my post up". What it means is that it's on the top of your list of places where you post under "my topics" You can just click on that and it'll bring you right here.
Worked out today, then left to get my hair colored, then went to play mahjongg but before we started my cousin called to tell me my other cousin had passed away, so I left early, got Vince his donuts came home, made dinner, then went to play Mexican Train. Can't believe how late we got home! Had to rush to take my shower, than goodness I had most of the things for the next day ready (clothes for exercise, my breakfast, etc). Now just popping in here, will be going to bed soon.
Hope everyone has a great evening
Michele in NC0 -
Ok, I've finished day 3 of being sick. It's killing me to look at my fitbit and see 2000 steps for the day, and that's only because I'm in the basement and have to go up the stairs to get anything. So, I have a good stair count (17) but the steps - so depressing. I do feel much better and feel I'll probably go to work tomorrow, or at the very least work from home.
Have to admit I wasn't up to reading everything but I selfishly scanned for my name.
Lin - thank you, Lucy - I wish I had grandkids for my dogs to stumble over.
Sundance - yup the old Mom's club. My 17 year old was shocked at my friends' drinking ability at the New Year's Eve party with went to.
Jodio - yes the kids were here to, but since I was ill they had unlimited computer time and I pretty much couldn't tell they were here.
Kate - I didn't understand your post at first - when you said 10 training videos - I was thinking exercise videos and thought how cool, the company is on a fitness kick, then realized you said training. Yes any new management is a pain.0 -
Barbie: You and Jake are in my prayers. It is tough when your life partner is in the hospital. I have recent experience with this, and also with the need to just keep doing the next thing. I hope tomorrow goes smoothly and everything is good.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
Katla in NW Oregon0 -
:flowerforyou: Good Morning
:flowerforyou: Barbie what a busy day, and then having to leave Jake for another bout of surgery, I hope he gets back home soon with you and the doggies.
:sad: Michele sorry for your loss. A few weeks ago I went to my nieces baby and toddler's christening, it was lovely to see relatives I haven't seen for ages, catching up with them etc, usually it's sad circumstances that bring us all together. We all said we should meet up at least once a year for a catch up. Hopefully we'll get something organised for later this year.
:flowerforyou: Lin and Wessecg hope you both feel better soon pain is so debilitating.
:flowerforyou: Meg hope Benny the beagle is okay, I know what you mean about animals being our "babies"
:flowerforyou: Amanda sorry I'm a bit out of the loop - are you having tests for something? Hope all goes well.
:flowerforyou: Renny I'd love to do Zumba and the one for the oldies sounds just up my street, nothing around here though, I've been thinking about getting a dvd but not sure if I could keep up with it :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
Time has run away with me again, so much for me starting to exercise this morning I need to organise my time better - I will go for a walk at lunchtime today (something I haven't been doing) and will try and get some exercise done tonight when I get home from work.
Must dash
Have a lovely day all
Viv York UK0 -
Hi, It is so good to find a group that is in my age group...I have looked at your posting and you all really support one another, I am finding it SO hard to lose the weight but I keep plugging along...I have Fibro and some other Chronic diseases but trying to not let these stop me from losing the weight..but It is hard at times.
Well ladies you have a great Wednesday...hope I can come back to visit.0 -
Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:
Cheryl Hope you feel better:flowerforyou: !
Meg Sending well wishes to Benny Beagle:flowerforyou: !!! They are our babies !!!
Michele So sorry about your cousin
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Viv It`s so nice to see you posting again!!!!!
Barbie Sending good wishes to Jake:flowerforyou: !!!!
LizPlus It is hard to lose this pesky extra weight:grumble: , but it will come off eventually, just keep logging your food and drinking your water, and moving a bit more! You`re always welcome here!!!
I did read all the posts and I`m sending everyone good thoughts!!! Have a wonderful day ladies!!!
Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: (it really is important):drinker: and log your food!!!
Hugs,
DeeDee in chilly, windy but no snow:bigsmile: NC0 -
Happy Hump (bump) Day!! :drinker:
Ooo!!..I found the end!!....for a brief moment. :laugh:
I finally fell off the darn diet plateau...after having been stuck on that ledge for a month now. I have been upping exercise, tweaking my diet and calories, and trying to figure out how to get the scale to budge.
While I was doing all of that, it is nice to read others notes of progress, motivations, and just friendly posts! Thank you ladies!
As for losing weight after 50...what with peri-menopause, health issues, etc...... :explode: Things can just get frustrating after a while.
I have found that buying and using a food kitchen scale has helped tremendously, especially with MFP. I have been teaching myself what portions look like, and trying to find the happy median with eating smaller portions. No more "home buffet"..eat all you want. And it has been making a difference.
Weightloss just takes longer than in my 40's and younger days. Used to be, half a pound a day would come off a day, if I ate right and exercised. That was motivation enough. Now, the rules changed and i am just getting the memo.
Also, dealing with hypoglycemia and PCOS, I have to watch what I eat and how I eat. I can't allow my blood sugar to go too low, or else I pay for it for a few days by feeling bad. So, I am finding MFP helps with that also. Not to mention it adds everything up immediately.0 -
Good Wednesday Morning,
I have been reading but not posting. Good luck, good planning, and good followthrough for today.....off to class.
BJ, SWOnt.0 -
Good morning ladies! Enjoying reading everyones posts - it really is motivating to know that I am not in the weight struggle alone!
Yesterday to celebrate my 51st birthday I .... worked out. 40 minutes of intense cardio (rebounding) and then 20 minutes of shoulder work (planks), abs, lunges, and then 5 blissful minutes of stretching .... my workout buddies really push me to keep going (easy for them - they are all still in their 30's!)
Grandmallie: I bought girl scout cookies from a friend last weekend and they are still in my refrigerator - that is a HUGE success for me...usually they are eaten within a day or 2!!
JB: Thank you for the water info - makes it easier to remember to drink it when you know the actual "reason" for drinking it other than just "your supposed to"
awake4777: Congrats on nearing the 100 lb mark! That is FANTASTIC!!
Sue: Welcome! Hope to see you on here often
Tammy: I hate seeing myself in a picture or sometimes a passing glimpse in the mirror. If I see a picture of myself I tend to nitpick every little thing.
wessecg: I have a 13 year old daughter at home .... Lord help me thru her teen years!!
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Well again I sat here typed everything out, hit a wrong button and POOF~ away it goes :laugh:
Barbie sorry to hear that Jake had to stay another night,hopefully it is fixed permenantly now, I am truly in awe of your walking,I am going to buy the pain free book ,so that I can get myself walking and feeling better again.
Meg so sad to hear about Benny, we have 2 furbabies and one is on meds for bladder stones ,he has had one operation already and will need another soon. It is so hard to see our little ones suffer.give him big hugs from his buddy Alison(me)and from his fur buddies, Homer and Chester.
went in to get my coat in the locker room and started chatting with a few of the regular girls there, they are in fantastic shape,told them I aspire to be them someday..they said you will do it!!! then started bragging about MFP, got them both so excited that they immediately put it on there phones~told them what a great bunch of ladies I hang out with and how the program works,and that I am trying to do 1200 cal a day,they were impressed. So Im proud of myself,helping along fellow friends on our way to health and fitness:blushing:
Just had pasta with sauce and veggies for breakfast,unusual but filling..gonna log it in a second.. now answer me something if you can, when measuring out pasta, say 2 oz. dry do you go by that calorie count when it is cooked. because cooked it says 220 calories for the same thing.. I get confused:grumble:
dont work until noontime today so putzing around on the computer and making the DH his dinner and lunch, then to the shower and get ready for work. I dont have the t.v. on I am just typing away listening to the birdies sing!! makes me so very:happy:
my favorite prayer is the serenity prayer; at it truly applies
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference..
sometimes in this crazy world we get caught up in all sorts of drama, and stress... but we just have to take a step back, take a deep breath and say ok, and move on with it.
at least that is how I feel, we all have issues in our lives, but one thing we have is friendship and we are all working on a common goal~ so stay sweet my lovelies and enjoy the day xoxox . 0 -
never mind the calories came up on the calorie counter~~ wow that was a big breakfast lol, oh well will finish the day with fruits and dairy0
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Snow day today -- always dangerous to be at home near the refrigerator! DH has a colonoscopy tomorrow so I am considering joining him in his liquid diet today for support and to keep myself from eating everything in sight. I'm posting a two pound loss today -- finally off the #$#@ plateau and moving back towards pre-holiday weight?0
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Good morning dear ladies,
I just finished reading posts, and as everyone else is saying.... Overwhelming!! Yes, difficult to comment on everyone's thoughts, but feel most of them to my bones! This group is great because we do all feel the same frustrations and the encouragement from one another is astounding.
:flowerforyou: Meg... so sorry about your sweet Bennie... pray that whatever you decide to do with your vet will be the best for all.
:flowerforyou: Barbie... praying that Jake's "wire" is repositioned properly and quickly and you get him home with you and the poochies.
:flowerforyou: Ekafont ... Happy Birthday! I think it's easier being 51 than it is 50... (I'm really good at camouflaging myself in photos with other people, flowers, etc. Just never be the person on the end in a group of people!!! )
:flowerforyou: Wessecg ... I always look for the photo of you on your horse. While I only have one left in college, (and one just graduated), I still feel like the mom of teenagers... but I'm NOT!! haha
:flowerforyou: Amanda... Hope the doctors help stabilize everything for you.
:flowerforyou: Moxie.. I totally understand about the plateau and not budging even with better diet and exercise. Frustrating, but I keep telling myself... I'm healthier. It takes longer to repair all the damage I've done inside my body.... and then poof! it will happen, right???
Has anyone read the book Eat to Live? Or seen the movie, "Fat, Sick, Nearly Dead?" I'm already doing a lot of the recommendations, but it has really had an impact on my food intake... well, except for that teeny tiny piece of Tiramisu that was in the refrigerator for a week!!!! I finally went ahead and ate half of it and told DH that if he didn't eat the rest I was tossing it in the TRASHCAN!!! Hope that was a good chuckle for you all.
Have a great day!
xoxo
Tammy in VA Beach (no snow, only some rain and LOTs of wind!)0 -
Happy wet Wednesday, drip drip drip, tinkling drops of water from the sky adorn this Portland morn.
Michele, so sorry to hear about your cousin. So sad.
Nancy, I'll be thinking of you on your adventure, have a great time! Vaya con Dios!
Ekafont, happy belated! I'm glad the water info helps. It's just something we need to learn to love. It took me awhile, but I have no problem drinking 8-10 glasses a day anymore.
Barbie, thinking of you, and Jake.
Grandmallie, you can search the foods database for "cooked" pasta which should give amounts in cups rather than ounces. It's about 100 calories for 1/2 cup cooked. Easier for me to measure that way.
Well those size 12 jeans managed to stretch out after wearing them a full day, so now I'm thinking I might just have to suck it in and cram myself into size 10 so that by the end of the day they're not looking like hobo jeans. Gads, I do have a time finding jeans to fit right. Tried NYD jeans, they bagged out in no time flat but they're perfect for dog walks. I'm wishing I could find jeans that aren't made of stretchy denim! I did try on some "skinny" jeans but they're too clingy. Isn't there a happy medium? If I'd force myself to go shopping more often than once every 6 months, maybe I'd have better luck.
Time for me to get moving. I have an early appt this morning and need to get some exercises done beforehand!
Wishing you all a very nice Weds. jb in drippy PNW 0 -
Good morning Ladies!
Someone above mentioned a food scale--I second this! I wasn't really that far off on my calculations prior to the scale, but now I'm more confident that I'm more accurately logging and aware of my caloric intake.
I envy those of you with the tickers approaching 20, 25, 50, 75, 100 pounds! I seem to have been staring at 12 and 13 for two months now, and today when I was weighed, I didn't lose a single ounce in one week :noway:
BUT, the huge thing is my body fat dropped 2% in that week (or it could've been in 2 weeks), and 6% since I started with the trainer back in January. What that tells me is since a pound of muscle takes up less "space" than a pound of fat (I hate when folks say a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat--a pound is always a pound), that I am shrinking even if my arch-nemesis reports I'm staying the same. All in all, though, I still need to see the scale go down. Not sure what else I should be doing, but for now I'm just going to stick with the plan. I noticed even my bracelets are looser!
Some folks wanted a pic of the new dress--we hired a photographer for the event who will be taking portrait pictures on a winding French'ish staircase at the venue, so I will have a photo. Let's hope I like it. If not, my kid takes some pretty darned flattering pics of me.
Happy Hump Day to all! I always start looking forward to the weekend today.
Jackie in Cherry Hill outside of Philly0 -
Good morning Sweetpeas!!
Another sunny day in middle Alberta, yes I know, it won’t last long but I can revel in its temporary glory can I not?
News flash: Today after my morning shower and some slow stretching exercises….. I touched my toes! I touched base with my base and returned to the upright position without having to call 911 (I had my phone handy just in case.) There have been no ill effects, no body lacerations from waistband strangulation or even vertigo, nothing other than a slightly giddy feeling of victory.
Today my toes, tomorrow the world!
Decided also to bite the bullet so to speak (better that than the chocolate chips) and do another weigh-in and I have lost three of the chocolate pounds I put on in February. Lovely! Must be the extra veggies!
It was a gorgeous walk outside in the sunshine yesterday, so hopeful for spring. I chose a parking lot that was fairly free of snow and ice and walked up and down the rows of cars, any onlookers must have thought I had forgotten where I parked, haha!
Last night’s supper of tandoori chicken, fire roasted sweet potato slices (with rosemary and garlic), asparagus and naan bread was delish!! (Must watch the naan bread, only allowed ¼ piece!) DH doesn’t know what he is missing by not trying these things! Unfortunately I didn’t get to eat it until 9:30 at night. I got called into work and ended up doing a lot of heavy lifting; the shipment came in late after staff had gone, the boss couldn’t do it with a broken arm and I lived the closest. I didn’t mind at all, it was a good workout!
No luck with the invisible mending for DH suit trousers, I hit every drycleaner in town and all of the tailors! ♫ Where have all the menders gone, long time passing…♪ ♫ I guess I will have to get out my super-duper magnifying glass with the light and see if I can’t try my hand at it! First time for everything….. this man is going to owe me. Yesterday morning I had to Fed-Ex his business cards to him in NYC, (he forgot them) and it cost me $48!!
I’m just enjoying my morning coffee, hazelnut cream, another pleasure when DH is away and contemplating brekkie. Think I will make oatmeal porridge and load it blackberries today! Hehehehe! While the cat’s away….
Have a fabulous day, good luck and love to all of you,♥
Kate,
in Alberta
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well depressing I regained about a lb and a half,but who knows ,im being bad and weighing myself every day. So not gonna beat myself up.I shouldnt be winey, but wish I could push the scale down quicker, like many of you,it is hard to be patient.. and good things come to those who weight( get it )
I have to remember that I cant push myself especially with my heel.but have to see if I can find other things to try to get the weight down.
Have a great day my little chickadee's:bigsmile:0 -
Jb: Regarding jeans, I like Lee and Levi’s. They’re supposed to be casual so as long as they don’t cut off my circulation or fall off of me, I’m not too picky about fit. I’m picky about shades of blue and the feel of the fabric. I hate the stretchy ones. I’m envious that you’re thinking of cramming yourself into a size 10. That seems a long way off for me.
I haven’t crammed myself into a 10 since I was “dressing for success” in my early 30’s. I'd like to think I'll do it again some day.
Kate in Alberta: Congratulations on touching your toes without bending your knees! I think that counts as a NSV for sure. The emoticons “live” on the MFP site. They show up when I’m posting in a bar above the window where we write. Click on the words "Add Smiley" to see them and then click on the ones you want. They appear by magic.:flowerforyou:
Grandmallle: DH has some of your health issues and is also losing slowly. He is making progress and so are you. In this race the tortoise definitely wins. Keep up the good work.:flowerforyou:
Barbie: I’m thinking good thoughts for you and Jake today. :flowerforyou:
Amanda: I hope things are going well.:flowerforyou:
At last, I’m back down to my previous low! :bigsmile: Sickness and injury is a real detriment to progress. I am thinking that part of the current win is that I’m paying more attention to water consumption again. I tend to forget the value of water in washing the pounds away.:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
Today DH and DD want to visit an antique shop in Scappoose because they saw a pedal car outside. I’ll bet it is expensive if they still have it. It will be fun to see, but then I have to worry about them actually BUYING it and where we'd put the thing. :grumble:
Have a great day!:flowerforyou:
Katla in NW Oregon where it is gray but not raining right this minute.0 -
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:flowerforyou: Thankful it's Hump day Wednesday,
jb- congrats on that NSV of getting in smaller jeans:drinker: It's only March and if I remember correctly sun in the Pacific Northwest is only hit and miss at best until about July Finding jeans of the right size is one of the hardest things for me, I've found that there are about 4 sizes that fit me right now depending on the style:grumble: very frustrating. That rain you have is supposed to be our snow Friday night into Saturday...just glad it's coming on the weekend and I don't have to drive in it:happy:
Jodios- Yes I consider 30 min sleeping in and am always wishing I could on a work day.
Judy- congrats on your race. Sounds like you do have the exercise down...yep eating in moderation is what will help. With your job being one of tasting foods You will definately need to keep a glass of water handy to wash away that extra sodium:drinker: it does sound like you are ready to make the change to get the exercise and eating working hand in hand.
Nancy-have a great time on your trip:flowerforyou:
Glenda- fires and then snow:noway: crazy weather we all have.
Kate- sounds like you have BIG plans for while hubby is away at the conference, meals planned, cleaning up the dust in the basement project and of course your 5 hrs for work you will never get back:noway: Maybe you can just skim the new training and won't have to take a full 5 hrs. :ohwell: About those Chocolate Chips have you considered weighing them ahead of time and then logging them and allowing yourself just one or two at a time? I know that when I am struggling with my "want" of chocolate if it sits on the counter and it's already logged then I know I can have it sometime during the day but when it's gone, it's gone. Cute emotions come from the "add Smiley" in the upper right corner when you are posting a reply.
Lucy:flowerforyou: great NSV, I know I was excited when I was able to get my boots over my jeans too. Yes I have heard of people losing shoe sizes. For me that would be a disaster as I already wear size 5's and they are so hard to find anything smaller and I'm looking at kids shoes:grumble: and last time I looked they don't have cute heels in size 4.5:laugh:
Meg-sorry to hear about Benny Beagle, hoping his surgery goes well and that he's home again soon:flowerforyou: We do love our pets.
Jeri- take it slow this is a lifestyle journey and you want to make the changes permenant. Hoping your leg feels better soon.:flowerforyou:
grandmallie- sorry no need for another hubby....the one I have is plenty When I have extras of meals I just freeze it for a later date as my hubby doesn't like the same thing the next day either. But as far as his lunches, thank goodness he makes his own and since he's doing the low carb thing he knows what he wants I just help make our salads and then my own lunch.
Viv- yep it's usually better to log the food in advance so that if you need to make adjustments before you eat you can:drinker:
Lin-sorry to hear you are experiencing so much pain. Hoping that the streching works:flowerforyou:
Roz-great job on the exercise and yes adding more veggies to your goal is a great idea:drinker: We can always use more veggies.
Renny- a class for the golden ages...that's a great idea and what a class it was:drinker: 3/4 of a billion blooms I'm sure that spring will be looking wonderful there
Amanda- I must have missed your post about you not feeling well and needing tests...hoping they come out with help:flowerforyou:
Barbie- your goals for a day are amazing:drinker: :drinker:
Rori- hoping your back is better soon:flowerforyou:
M- are you here in Colorado right now?:huh:
Michele-sorry to hear about the loss of your cousin.:flowerforyou:
Cheryl-three days of being sick:flowerforyou: hoping your are better sooner than later.
Moxie- you are so right about the rules changed for us in the 50+ ages. Those younger ones have no idea what it takes for us to lose this weight but we have great examples in Barbie, Amanda and others that it can be done:flowerforyou:
lenti- how supportive of you to do the liquid diet with hubby:flowerforyou:
Tammi- eating half of the Tiramisu and then telling hubby to eat it or it goes to the trash:drinker: good for you.
allison-hang in there, things are getting smaller and the scale is sure to move at some point. I know there are people that say as long as you are losing inches that the scale means nothing....I think for us the scale means a lot because that's the way it's always been in our generation.
Brooke- YEAH for those #5:drinker: gone.
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My bookkeeper came in yesterday and after several hours of discussion it has been decided that we won't be moving our company into the accrual system but keep it on cash....so the last two months + have just gone down the drain. I probably won't be able to be back here for some time as I will be reentering everything in the accounting system since Jan 1st:sad:
I will keep telling myself I'm in control of what I eat since obviously my work life is TOTALLY out of control:grumble: :explode:
That's it for me for awhile.
Have a great day all and let's keep up that logging of our food, drinking plenty of water and moving our bodies:drinker:
Laura80111 in Colorado 0 -
Good morning all!
Yesterday I actually played the intro to one of my new DVD’s: 10 Pounds Down Cardio Abs (a killer workout similar to JM). Jessica Smith, the trainer, mentioned a free ab eating plan on her web site. Not only does she have that but also suggested work out plans by level: beginner, intermediate and advanced and offers a ton of free videos to support those plans. :flowerforyou: This morning I did her free dance party videos and a stretching video. You can access them via her website: www.jessicasmithtv.com or youtube. I know a lot of you do JM videos on youtube so thought you might be interested in checking out Jessica Smith as another option.
Also, I did a quick search on chair yoga and found there are a number of videos on youtube and amazon.com has DVD’s if you just want to check it out:flowerforyou:
The scale is still stuck for me (and of course DH is still melting off the pounds) so having a down moment. :sad: Hoping reading this thread will help snap me out of it and getting me going in a more positive direction:grumble:
Meg – sorry to hear about your Beagle. :sad: Hope everything turns out okay
Marge – hang in there you will take the weight back off. Where are you in Illinois? There are a couple of us in the far north suburbs of Chicago
Lin – hope you are feeling better today – sending good thoughts your way
Renny – when I go to Zumba I stay away from the mirrors so I don’t see how silly I look and just let loose, sweat and have fun. I love this workout as long as I can’t see what I’m doing:laugh: :laugh:
Kate – thanks for your quote – I’m really trying to choose happiness right now. :happy: Yeah on touching your toes and the weight loss. :flowerforyou: Your dinner sounded delish
Barbie – hope Jake’s f/u surgery goes well. You are such an inspiration. Get some rest:yawn:
To all the newbies – as soon as you posted on this thread you became part of this group. Click communinity, my topics and you’ll see the women over 50+ thread listed. Click on that and you are back. Please come back often – this is a great group! Also, Bump is what you can type in when you don’t have time to write anything but want to post on the thread so it will show up on my posts on your personal page
Michelle – sorry for your loss
Cheryl – give yourself time to get well – then you can kick in on the exercise again (although I thought I saw on my homepage that you did a nice long walk this morning). Hope that means you are feeling better.:flowerforyou:
Ekafont – happy b-day:drinker:
Grandmallie – thanks for the inspiring post this morning!
Jb – congrats on the even smaller jeans.:happy: I’m trying to drink more water and green tea, but Its tough. :grumble: I think I’ll just try and have a glass or mug of something next to me as I work all day and see if that helps. FYI – my Lee jeans also stretch out a lot. I found the jeans I got at the Loft didn’t stretch quite so much…I bought their straight leg style (not as clingy as skinny’s). I do like my Gap skinny’s though – not too tight and don’t stretch a ton.
Brooke – good for you – 5 lbs whoohooooooo. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: I think you can log the happy dance under dance-general
Okay - feeling a bit better now and have to get back to work. Have a great day everyone. Jodios 0
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