WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY

:flowerforyou: Kathy, congratulations. That is great.:flowerforyou:


:flowerforyou: Vicki M, sounds like you will be getting a workout just keeping up with all the kids.:laugh:

Happy birthday Cindy.

Found you Barbie what a great group since hitting 50in April and going though the change i have started too gain weight .I am now on Hrt and feel great i feel i can get back to 10 stone again so here i am .
This is my first day just finding my way around everyone seems so nice and friendly .i shall make sure that i come on site as often as work allows thank you for your support it means a lot Diane

Happy Anniversary Barbie!!:flowerforyou: I loved reading yoru post - sounds loverly.

Happy Birthday Cindy!!:flowerforyou: Sounds like you, too, are having a good day.

Take care all.
Zaza

I just had the best salad ever at work. It was left over from a luncheon . It was mixed greens with small red /black grapes, diced apples and feta cheese. It was so good it didn't need any dressing. Anyway, back to work for me.

Jeannie

Hello everyone!

Well, today I was faced with the challenge of celebrating a co-workers birthday with...yup...the celebratory birthday cake offering.

Wow, the challenge, the temptation. What do I do???

Well, this is what I did and I'm sharing this with anyone who will undoubtedly be faced with this same dilemma.

I graciously accepted the piece of cake and then proceeded to socialize so much that all I really actually did was move my fork around my plate and into the cake making it "look" like I was in the process of eating cake but I actually never did. Every once in a while I put the fork in my mouth, but there actually wasn't any cake on it. The kicker was that no one actually noticed that I wasn't really eating the cake.

When the coast was clear and every one finished raving about how yummy the cake was, I discreetly went into the lunch room and discarded the cake into the garbage can.

Maybe some of you think that this is awful what I did, but let me explain. This morning before work, I googled the nutritional information on the cake and the icing (all name brand ingredients) and guess what, I calculated that my piece of cake was about 600 calories.

So....that is why I tossed the cake.

If anyone has any little "tricks" like this, I would love to read about it.

Well, tomorrow is my weigh in day, wish me luck!

Hello,

Happy Anniversary Barbie and Jake:flowerforyou:

Happy Birthday Cindy:flowerforyou:

Still smoke free and lost 1 lb.:bigsmile: Drinking lots of water:drinker: :drinker: but not having anytime for exercise right now. Too many demands at work requiring working 16+ hours a day. Kind of dragging, but things are looking better. My trip to Georgia has been rescheduled until week after next only this time I'll have to travel on the weekend to be there for a meeting 1st thing Monday. My husband isn't able to work so he goes with me on a lot of my trips. It gives him a break from being at home all of the time and he's company for me. Our son comes over and takes care of the dogs while we are gone son we don't have to worry about boarding them. We plan on going on to Orlando to stay a few days with the twins. Emily seems to be doing a lot better since leaving the hospital, but I will feel better seeing for myself.

Today we had 50 degree temps. seemed like spring had me thinking about gardening but I know we aren't past potential cold weather - have to get through March. Can still make plans though - love the fresh vegetables

Have a good weekend

Nancy

Congrats Debbie!! It was worth throwing out that piece of cake. Great suggestion by the way. I always want everything and that is why I am struggling now. I will think of you and your success the next time I am tempted.
Zaza

Good Morning ladies,
Quiet rainy morning her in Louisiana. I am getting ready for my Godchild's wedding shower for this afternoon. It is at 3 so i will eat a good lunch before, snack on veggies and eat a good supper later. that's the plan. Barbie what type of exercise bike do you have. I have one but I really dont like it. I love the one at the gym but it is an expensive one. I put mind inside a few months ago but never rode it. I do have my treadmill and elliptical in my living room right now and do use them, but have to change and put tennis on so the bike would be more readily able to jump on and off. Have a good day everyone.
Vicki M

:flowerforyou: Welcome gama1950! :flowerforyou:
With the tools and support here, you WILL succeed!:happy:

Just got home from my maiden ride on my new bicycle. Whew! Had to come back home and put on gloves even though it was almost 60 degrees and sunny. What an enjoyable way to burn calories!:glasses:

Havent weighted myself this week but hoping for at least 2lb lost..Staying below my calorie limit and keeping my journal(which really helps) Doing great with not snacking at night. Im more excited about that than anything else!

Talking about obesity: to me it's just horrible what they serve in restaurants! With so many families where both parents work, they tend to eat out a lot. I know that the place where dd works at, I asked for a baked crab cake on whole wheat. There were SO many french fries that came with it, that they were, literally, falling off the plate. The next time I asked for steamed broccoli instead of the fries. I almost had to use a magnifying glass to find the broccoli! Now I ask for two servings of the broccoli. Don't even get me started on going out to eat in the South! I've been told that the norm is for them to deep fry fish, but you have to specifically order it baked or grilled. Now why can't the norm be baked or grilled and you have to specifically ask for it deep fried?

committed - you talked about using pumpkin. Have you ever tried substituting pumpkin for the oil and eggs in boxed brownie mix? They do come out gooey, but to me they taste fine. Oh, you can still taste a bit of the pumpkin, but really, I don't think it's that bad. Also, what I do is take a box of spice cake mix (Duncan Hines is the only one I've found who makes this), mix it with a 20oz can of pumpkin (I think that's the size, somewhere around there, anyway)....that's IT. That will usually make 12 muffins. Just bake it at 350 for 30 min.

barbie - I do try to limit the sugary stuff. But this is the holidays and I admit that I would have a cookie or two. Thanks for checking out my diary. My New Year's Resolution is to try to eat more meatless meals. This should be interesting, seeings how dh is a real meat and potatoes man. That means two dinners (so what else is new?). I'm going to have to look for meatless recipes. Anybody have recipes that include the nutritionals? Oh, I know that I can get lots of vegetarian recipes, but they usually don't have the protein, etc.

weaklink - thanks for the explanation of the "raw" meat. Makes sense now that you explained it.

Debbie - it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the reason I can't get the yeast in jars has to do with the fact that here in the South, yeast isn't a real big thing. I almost fell over the first time I went food shopping and saw this HUMONGOUS can of lard. Yuk! Make something from scratch? Wouldn't surprise me if very few people do that. Well...I'm one of the weird ones, someone who asks for my food cooked a different way (not deep fried), someone who likes to know what's going into my body. Oh well..... Yup, I cook most of my own meals (which are healthy, much to dh's dismay). dh wants me to make his food w/o spices and he can't understand that you many times need to cook the food w/ the spice. He wants me to add the spices AFTER I've cooked it (only most times I don't) You know, the most interesting thing I've found is that now that I use almost no salt at all, I'm really sensitive to it when we go out and there's salt in the food. The other day we were at a restaurant and they put salt on the outside of a baked potato. Wonder why they did that (except to make you thirsty and therefore order more soda which increases their profit).

swissmiss - congrats to your hubby! What kind of work does he do?

Gonna go make my protein shake for tomorrow. What I do is take a ripe banana (those are usually cheaper, I've found that if you peel them and then freeze them, you can have bananas for cakes, breads, whatever), add some Whey Factors (this is the only one that I've found that doesn't contain any artificial sugars -- and the calorie count isn't so bad), add some water, then blend it all. If you blend it, it comes out creamy. Only lately my blender has been giving me grief -- the blades don't spin. I think the little thing that goes into the blade part is worn out. Looks like I'll need to buy a new one. Well, this one is ONLY 31 years young. Update: nope, the blades don't spin. Guess I'm just going to have to mix this one by shaking up the jar. Tomorrow....I hit the store

Just had some greek yogurt. mmmmmm....is that stuff good! I admit that I really don't like the plain, but add a tsp of honey or some fresh fruit....died and went to heaven!

Debbie - do you use a crockpot? I have a cookbook called "Fix It and Forget It Lightly" which has all the nutritionals. One recipe that we like is 4 chicken breast halves, 1 pkg dry Italian dressing mix, 1 cup water or chicken stock. Place chicken in slow cooker. Sprinkle w/ dressing mix. Pour water over chicken. Cover. Cook on low 8 - 10 hours or until juices run clear. Per serving (makes 4 servings) 160 cal. If you want, I can give you the rest of the nutritionals.

Well, I did buy myself a new blender today. Got another Oster. Actually, I got the cheap one b/c the more expensive ones had glass jars whereas the cheap one had a plastic jar. I'm afraid the glass might get real heavy once I put soup or whatever into it. Next thing I need to buy -- a new crockpot. I've had mine since before I was married, and I'm married 31 years. I think it's about time, don't ja think? One feature that I know that I want is one with a timer since right now I have a timer and I plug that into the wall and the crockpot into that. Another feature I'd like is a removable (for cleaning) crock. See, back when I got mine they didn't have these features. Are there any other features you like?

Is there a way to change the calories/day? According to the Harris Benedict formula, I should be taking in 1253.4 calories daily. Yet, MFP says I should have 1380.

Barbie and Jake - happy anniversary!

Cindy - that is so wonderful of your daughter to want to go on the ship. That speaks volumes about you, too. You raised such a wonderful daughter! Sometimes the experience you get is worth so much more than the pay for the job.

Wow Debbie! You sure do have great self-control, throwing out that cake. Me? I'd probably take a SMALL piece, savor it and when it's gone, that's IT. Many is the time when I make cookies or something for a special event (like Christmas) and then just don't want them in the house tempting me, I'll donate them to the local soup kitchen. That weight loss was worth throwing that piece of cake away!

barbie - we use 3/10cc needles for our cat (the diabetic one). He gets one unit of insulin 2x/day. The markings for the units are larger.

Alice - the interesting thing is that the insulin doesn't require a prescription but the needles do. Oh, barbie, what we do when we're through with the syringe is cut off the needle (with wire cutters). Then you can throw the syringe away but it can't be reused. We have a baby food jar just full of needles. Honestly, it'll probably be 20 years before we fill up the jar....lol the needles are so thin.

Have a great day everyone!

Exermom- I don't cook two meals for my meat and potatos half of the family. I just cook less meat and lots of other stuff. My daughter and I usually share a steak or a chicken breast where hubby and son each get their own. We have veggie burgers in the house and DD and I eat those. I don't use a separate pan, I just start the meat burgers first and put the veggie burgers in when I flip the others over. I work and barely have time to cook one dinner. Meatless nights always include pasta. It does save money in the long run.

To all that have lost - my congradulations.
To all struggling - hang in there.
SuzyQ - Enjoy your bike. I'm so proud of you for getting back on one and riding.

To all the snackers amoung us - I read an interesting article while waiting in a doctor's office. It said that instead of trying to stop snacking the first thing you should do is change what you snack on. It said to switch to single ingredient items like veggies, nuts or trail mix and only get things where the ingredients are whole items. That changing what you eat first will help you stop later and help improver your diet and save you calories in the mean time. I wish I could remember more, but it might be worth a try if those snacks are just too much for you to just stop.

Have a great evening everyone,

Jeannie

So here is what I was talking about. Thanks a bunch Memaw66--this is a riot!!!

You've heard about people who have been abducted and had their kidneys removed by black-market organ thieves.

My thighs were stolen from me during the night a few years ago, I went to sleep and woke up with someone else's thighs.. It was just that quick. The replacements had the texture of cooked oatmeal. Whose thighs were these and what happened to mine? I spent the entire summer looking for my thighs. Finally, hurt and angry, I resigned myself to living out my life in jeans. And then the thieves struck again!

My butt was next. I knew it was the same gang, because they took pains to match my new rear-end to the thighs they had stuck me with earlier. But my new butt was attached at least three inches lower than my original! I realized I'd have to give up my jeans in favor of long skirts.

Two years ago I realized my arms had been switched. One morning I was fixing my hair, and was horrified to see the flesh of my upper arm swing to and fro with the motion of the hairbrush. This was really getting scary - my body was being replaced one section at a time. What could they do to me next?

When my poor neck suddenly disappeared and it was replaced with a turkey neck, I decided to tell my story. Women of the world wake up and smell the coffee! Those 'plastic' surgeons are using REAL replacement body parts - stolen from you and me! The next time someone you know has something 'lifted', look again - was it lifted from you?

THIS IS NOT A HOAX.
This is happening to women everywhere every night!!
WARN YOUR FRIENDS!

P.S. Last year I thought someone had stolen my Boobs. I was lying in bed and they were gone! But when I jumped out of bed, I was relieved to see that they had
just been hiding in my armpits as I slept. Now I keep them hidden in my waistband.

Thought this was too 'important' not to pass on. Have a wonderful day - with a joy filled heart. Always remember to laugh!! Helps the heart AND the wrinkles!!

p.p.s. Those same thieves come in my closet and shrink my clothes! How do they do it???

Memaw