WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2012

Tigress - welcome back!

Tinteardrop – do keep up with the doctor on the heart issue. Resolving my aortic valve with replacement surgery has made a world of difference. Clearly it was affecting other things I was not even aware of, including my ability to address the weight.

Jan – so proud of your continued success in quitting smoking.

I didn’t get to the gym (or do housework!) this weekend, but…. I mowed the grass and trimmed the edges yesterday evening. Today I trimmed a few shrubs, did some general cleanup, worked a bit on the gate, then sprayed weed killer on a bunch of weeds and a bunch of grass. Spraying the grass was on purpose - we will be creating a drainage channel and expanding some of the planting beds a bit later in fall, but (1) you have to spray the grass while it is still growing and (2) it is Bermuda grass, so it is bound to take multiple sprays. It didn’t really seem like much, but I started tripping over my own feet after a couple of hours.

After I cleaned up I cooked a bunch for the coming week: gingered-carrot soup which we’ll have with sandwiches, chicken and noodles (tonight’s meal) and I put a pork roast in the crockpot. DH made a delicious eggplant parmesan casserole as well, so I’ll be able to take my lunches and have easy to finish meals when I get home at night.

My weight didn’t change in the past month, also no big change in measurements – ½ “ off each thigh is about it. But my endurance is much better and I am lifting heavier weights now, both good things.

DH and I went again to a church we’ve been visiting periodically and ended up going to a prospective member meeting after the service. We’ve been members at our current church for many years, but moved quite a distance away about 5 years ago and the travel was problematic. It took some time to wind down our commitments there and about 2 years ago we started visiting new/local churches. Shortly after we started doing that our eldest son had his brain injury and the prolonged recovery, followed by my surgery, really derailed that process, so I’m very excited to think that we’ll finally be settling in again. I’m looking forward to a church family again!

Hope you all have a great week.

Gail

What great goals! The last one is so very important and the one I have the most trouble with. Good luck this month.
Take care,
Doni

Jan- I am so proud of you for not smoking, you will feel better everyday.

Tigress

Hi Ladies - one week down, hope it was a good week for everyone! I am doing good with my September goals....lets keep it strong!!!

Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Deb welcome to the group:flowerforyou: ,come in often and chat with us.

Carolyn slow and steady for the weight loss, I sure wish it would come off faster too!!! I celebrate every ounce that comes off!!!!

Lin salmon is rich in omegas, lots of good fats!!!! 6 pounds in two weeks....Congrats:flowerforyou: .

Leeleedc welcome to the group:flowerforyou: , come in often and chat with us!

Tigress congrats on your show doing so well!!!!

Ann welcome :flowerforyou: , the ladies here are the best!!! Lots of support and motivation! Come in often and chat,

Katejkelly congrats on reaching your 20 pound goal :flowerforyou: !!!!

Liz hope you enjoyed the game!!!

Nancy congrats on your 1st and 3rd place wins, and your new title....Pickle Queen of Creston, wear the crown proudly!!!!

Meg Love long naps:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: !!!!!!

Glenda sounds like you had a busy and fun weekend!!!

Kathy your ticker is working now, 18 pounds gone....woo hoo!!!!

Micki congrats on your NSV!!!!

Lila glad you had a good birthday!!!

Texasgal(Teri) yesterday was beautiful here too, I enjoyed being outside in the drier somewhat cooler air! I'm ready for fall!!!

Cj you had a busy weekend, hope your knees are feeling better!!!

1234exercise glad you're feeling better:flowerforyou: , congrats on your weight loss!!!

Jan congrats, smoke free!!!!

Wessecg Congrats on your 20,000 steps!!!!

Stutts welcome to the group:flowerforyou: , come in often and chat with us.

Doni congrats on joining a gym!!! Enjoy the time with your mom, I still miss mine so much!

Manleymann welcome to the group:flowerforyou: , come I often and chat with us.

Michele mini doughnuts...YUM, are they low cal?

Gail ginger carrot soup sounds fabulous, do you have a recipe you can share?

Junerbooner welcome:flowerforyou: , congrats on 27 pounds gone!!!!!

I had a wonderful laid back day yesterday. I met up with a friend of mine who has just gotten a new puppy, all of three pounds of wiggly, kissy, goodness . After I had been properly bathed by the puppy, she curled up in my lap and took a nap. Then I came home and got bathed again by my doggie and then we went on a long walk, which we both enjoyed. I decided a nap was in order after the walk, so slept for an hour and a half, and then went on another long walk, I love that the humidity has decreased and our long walks are so pleasant now:glasses: . I have taken another week off just for me, and now that I'm feeling better, I think I'll try to get some things done around the house. My youngest granddaughter turns 6 on Wed. so I've got to go shopping for presents, I'll probably do that today. Hopefully sometime this week I'll get to the farmers market, I just love fresh veggies!!!

Time to get started on this beautiful day. Hope you all have a wonderful, happy, joyous Monday!!!! Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!!!!

Hugs,
DeeDee

Just turned 52 a couple of days ago. I am almost to goal and then starting serious weight triaing. I bought the new rules for weight lifting for middle age..... Didn't even know they had that one. LOL

Hello everyone, I hope your week is off to a good start. :happy:

Thanks to all who cheered along with me for my Fall Fair triumph. :laugh:

Thanks for the encouragement, Meg.

I am feeling quite ashamed :blushing: and a bit discouraged because I really let myself go with food & drink and the scale shows it this morning. I have to pick up a mantra or something that will stop me in my tracks – is this immediate gratification worth the sabotage of my long term goals? Sigh. You’a thunk I’d have it figured out by now.

Congratulations on your NSV, Micki.

Happy belated birthday, Sasha

Hi cjspensley, it was the BMI index that kickstarted me too! :noway: Do take a little time off for yourself, you need to recharge those creative batteries of yours!

Good work, Jan, staying on track during a stressful weekend. :drinker: Smoke free too!

Sutts, Welcome. What part of N Ontario are you living in?

Michelle, I poach my salmon filets and play with adding different flavourings to the water – sometimes lemon, sometimes herbs from the garden, sometimes a drop or two of liquid smoke. I cook 4 at a time and have them in the fridge for my lunch salads. Thanks for the tip on the downloadable workouts. I will try it out.

Spatchcocking is cutting the backbone out of the chicken and flattening it on the grill under a weight of some kind (I use the lid from my big cast iron pot). It cooks more quickly and evenly than trying to do a whole chicken, and it’s kind of dramatic in presentation at the end. I put a mix of minced garlic & fresh rosemary & sea salt under the skin for extra flavour.

Barbie I’m glad to read that your DH will be home for good on Tuesday, you’ve been lonely, I think.


Bassgirl51 weight training is great – lift heavy!

Must go and get J'boy & me ready for another day.

Nancy

September goals:
No bedtime snacks, no second helpings!
Get the routine chores done – no procrastination!
24 hours of exercise in the month. Total to date: 4.8hours
Be a role model of healthy living for my students.

:flowerforyou: Another beautiful Monday,

Just poppling in to say HI, no time to read and catch up. Spent the weekend sorting and cleaning as I had plenty of time because hubby was gone camping. Did a lot of walking down memory lane as I was sorting some of Mom & Dad's stuff, still have a lot of boxes to go through but it was a start

Because I was so busy I didn't track my food like I should have over the weekend, did manage to drink a lot of water and didn't do any special exercise...so today I'm back on track.

Hope everyone had a good weekend, it will take me some time to catch up with everyone but maybe by tomorrow I will have.

We can do this, one day at a time.:drinker:

Laura80111

Good Monday morning! A bit of rain overnight here, but not enough to put all of my flowers face-down in the dirt, thank goodness. I'm not quite ready for that yet. Weather report shows we're in for another warm, sunny week after the clouds work their way outta here tomorrow. I sure hope that's the case.

Nancy, you little Pickle Queen you! :bigsmile: I'm in the exact same boat with my scale this morning. :blushing: You'd think I would have learned by now to control myself on weekends, but no such luck. But you know, it's perfectly ok to let ourselves go a little as long as we get right back to business on the weekdays. That's my plan. C'mon, chin up, let's do this. :flowerforyou:

I don't have a lot of time to write this morning, wishing you all a wonderful, productive, healthy day!

jb

Good afternoon ladies, I went out and did my exercise today, so I am feeling pretty good. I have tracked my food here and in my book. Which is the only way I stay on track. I have to go to the store and buy food for the next couple of days as soon as I am done here.
I have adjusted my weight, :sad: I gained 3 lbs, sitting on my butt making earrings and not walking daily. Today I did 40 minutes and I will do a video when I get home from the store. Then I will make earrings :laugh:

I will look back later and read more posts, everyone is just so busy and doing so much stuff. Tigress

It's Monday again! Time to get moving! I went to the pool for 2 back to back classes-105 minutes total! Knock on wood, my toe and knee are ok at the moment and I plan to start cleaning out the garage with DH next! The scale was down one more lb. today and I am so excited that even though it's coming off slow, I have more energy and I'm keeping it off!:bigsmile:

DeeDee - That sounded like so much fun-playing with the new puppy!

Barbie - Your cat grapic is soooo cute!

JunerBooner - Congrats on the new grandbaby!

Time to get off the couch and drink some more water!:drinker:

Blessings to you all!

Kathy

Had a wonderful weekend with the quilt ladies but now I need to get back on track. I think I "rewarded" myself for dealing with my mother's failing memory and did not make good food choices the part of the time. Now I need to get the sugar back out of my system. I did sit next to mom over the weekend and realized just how bad her memory is. I have learned to accept that she is going downhill in that respect and that all I can do is support her best I can. Got quite a bit of handwork done, took a number of good walks and stayed up late with friends. Overall a good time was had by all.

Candace & cjspensley - I live on the west side of Cleveland and we were at a church camp down in Amish country. We always hit the fabric stores on our way to camp.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a job opportunity that came up over the weekend. I am working now, but unfortunately fall into the "under-employed" category.

Zumba starts back up tonight and while I know I should go and will feel better afterwards, part of me would just like to go home and crash. I will go though because I am trying to adopt a new more active lifestyle and I told my DIL I would sign her in because I get there early and they are going to start limiting the class size. I laughed when someone else posted that even though their class was cancelled, they worked out anyhow because they had told us they were going
to. Accountability is an awesome thing!

Someone asked about acrylic nails - I had nais for about 15 years, the last three were gel nails which I found to be stronger. I LOVED my nails! But they were the first thing to go when my income was cut. Growing them out after all that time was difficult. I used nail strengtheners and still do, but they spilt regularly. I have to say that using and iphone is much easier without them!

Off to Zumba now.
Gini

Loving the positivity on this thread and enjoying the catch-up.

Capitulated to a candy craving on Friday night. Both my daughters were working and my husband had to stay overnight in another town--felt really gross later on and on Saturday morning, too. It really wasn't worth giving in to--so doing a little happy dance on a lesson learned.

Had a happy time yesterday using the new digital scale that I purchased Saturday morning...if I'm going to log my food, then I may as well be accurate...and I'm seeing that some of the data in the data base is incorrect. At this point, with about 116 pounds to lose, I'm thinking that my smaller portion sizes and whole foods approach is such a positive change that worrying over one or two g. of fiber or 30 calories here/there isn't as big a deal as it will become. Doing the math is good for my brain, anyway!

I'm feeling great keeping my water bottle with me--the downside is how far the nearest staff bathroom is from my classroom--I am certainly perfecting my power walking in between classes! LOL!

My DH and I did our contest weigh-in last night, and this time he lost also--but I'm still in the lead. I'm proud of him, though--he's come from being a man who removes the lettuce from his triple burger to eating--with enjoyment--a spinach and strawberry. Am I being wicked adding slivered almonds to his and not to my own? :laugh:

Hello Ladies,

@Junerboomer--Congrats on New Grandbaby.:flowerforyou:
@Dee--Not Footballl game try 3 games-- I enjoy 1 game I enjoy hanging out with my DH but after 1 I just check in to keep up with score and it encourages him. It was a good time catching up on my reading, emails etc..But still it is fun with it on.
@Glenda yay for you on making it to class.

Welcome everyone new I truly enjoy this thread very encouraging, supportive, and accepting group here.
Today has been doing lots of errands and chores getting a lot of things done.

Hope everyone has a nice day.

Lots of good wishes to all.

Liz:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Welcom junerbooner! I have found that in time I really don't care for processed food, and you will get there too. Congrats on the weight loss!

Doni - I think we all have problems with being patient. I know that I do.

Gail - congrts on the NSV - endurance and lifting heavier weights. That's something to be proud of. I, too, like to do most (if not all) of my cooking on Sundays or some other day on the weekend so that I only have to heat things up. I do have to cook a potato. But I'll put that in the microwave.

barbie - love the cat using the keyboard! Our one cat likes to sit on my processor

DeeDee - for two of those minidonuts it's only 144 calories. They're baked, not deep fried. Basically, I would say that its more like a chocolate cake in the shape of a small donut

junerbooner - congrats on the addition!

kathy - you're really on a roll. Sounds great!

glendalight - When I go to the water classes, I use the girl/family locker room. There is almost never anyone in there and I can get dressed so much faster. I can lay out my clothes which I can't do in the women's locker room.

Gini - Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

dragonfly - welcome and congrats on being smoke free for so long. That's great. Your goals are great. Check in every day and you'll get lots of motivation

Got up, had a clementine, then did 20 min of yoga, bought gas, then went to the Extremepump class. They've started having another class right before it which can be a problem since it takes us a while to set up. Stopped at a vege stand only they didn't have the tomatoes I wanted (but I did get some apples, what I like is that about 2 apples is a pound, so you don't have to buy a large quantity). Gave Loki his med. Went to Aldi's to get some things I needed (forgot Vince's turkey, oh well....), came home and you won't believe this but I started stringing the popcorn for our Christmas tree. See, I like to do it on the deck since the pieces of popcorn that break off can blow away and I don't have to clean up. It was cool today, but not very breezy. Nothing happened with the pool guys today, but we did check out some of the tiles. He's supposed to be here tomorrow with the guy who is going to do the retaining wall, we'll talk about the wall. Still waiting for the bonding inspection for the spa and then that'll be backfilled.

Going to do Denise Austin's bootcamp DVD tomorrow, then probably talk with the guys and string some more popcorn, it's supposed to be a nice day.

Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele