WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY

Good morning to everyone! Thank you, Jeannie, for the welcome! It's a beautiful sunny day in San Antonio, TX. Nice after all the rain and cold we've had. Today I'm spending time with my 3 grandsons, which are 9 years, 3 years and 11 months.. They bring so much joy to my life and so much happiness when they're around. I love spending the days with them! Intbb, weight gain does happen. I don't know how often you weigh yourself, but I do know that weight fluturates. I weight myself once a week and don't even get on the scale any other time, but Thursday mornings. Good luck to you and to everyone else in your journey! Have a wonderful Saturday.

Hugs to all!
Brenda : :flowerforyou:

Good morning, everyone!

This is going to be a good day! I'm going to get my hair cut--by a professional!:laugh: I cut it myself a couple of months ago and really messed it up. I'm going to have them trim it and give it some shape so it looks good as it grows out.

I'm also going to try to find some more clothes on sale or at the Goodwill store. My newest ones are getting loose already!

Debbie--isn't it a good feeling to see those inches coming off? I've only lost 3 from my waist (but I never did have much of a waist!:grumble: ) but I have lost about 5 from my hips and another 4 or 5 from my bust. I love it!:happy:

Jeannie--here's a link about eating your exercise calories:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo

I don't eat all of mine but I do eat some.

I was too tired to stay up to watch the Opening Ceremonies but I'll be watching the games. I'm disappointed that I don't have a channel that is televising the curling events, though.:huh: I'll find them online, as my daughter likes to watch curling, too!

Have a good weekend, all!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

I've done my first workout for the day and am off to the shower (after doing the Shred, I need it!:laugh: )

Hi everyone!!! .... just posting after yet another "Wicked" day!!!:devil: Not as bad as yesterday ...Yet!!! We went + mum to my DIL's parents for tea. Had a great time , didn't pig out but did have a glass of wine and some cream trifle.:noway:

:frown: Scales were the same this morning so once again ... better than going up. Tonight I'll at least do some swimming arm exercises in the tub .. Thought the dance DVD's would come today but now will have to wait until Monday to get DH moving!! WE HOPE!!
Also it's housework tomorrow at home so that can give me a few calories.

Watching thewinter games tonight - great opening but sad for Georgia. A good friend is out there as PA to the Para Olympics President and I can't wait 'til I see her pictures when we lunch in March. The photos she had from Bejjing were amazing.

:blushing: So... I feel a bit guilty ....a bit? ... no ....VERY guilty about my lack of willpower during the last few days but hope I can do better next week. Onward and downward on the weight journey!!!

Bye for now ..... :drinker: just thanks for being beside me on this trip!! Great to have you all alongside.!!
Jackie

:flowerforyou: Good Afternoon everyone, I am back for a very short visit.:huh: We have been snowed, blowed, rained and sleeted on for the past two weeks. :noway: My life has been very difficult and I haven't been home much. As you probably know my husband and I work in a nursing home, When there is any kind of weather emergency we are required to work. We live in Delaware (work in Maryland a half hour from our home) and have been under a state of emergency off and on for the last 2 weeks so work put us up in a hotel.:sad: We spend our days transporting essential personell to and from work (which was both scary and dangerous) and when my husband wasn't driving we were chipping in at work where ever we were needed. I am exhausted:yawn: and to say the least have not been diet oriented and have gained 7 lbs.:explode: I am home for today and with another unpredictable snow system on the horizon,:huh: I will be leaving for Christiana tomorrow instaed of Monday. (My MIL starts her cancer treatments on Monday and it is 2 hour drive each way so we are staying in a hotel next week) I haven't been able to keep up with all the post but did notice some new names and would like to welcome them to a very supportive family.
I probably won't have access to a computer for the next week but will try to get back in the swing of things soon. I miss you terribly. As always my prayers are with you all, Rose
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Good evening ladies,
Not sure if I will get to read all of the post but just wanted to say hi. We arrived at Disney about noon today. Got checked into our condo and went to the gym right away. I burned over 500 calories. I also did pretty good on calories. Ate at cracker barrel for breakfast, actually skipped lunch and then had salad for supper. we plan to get up at 6 go to gym and then to first park. should have a lot of calories again tomorrow. eating lunch at rainforest so that will be another good salad. the only complaint I have is that it is cold here too. not quite as cold as home but pretty close. unusual weather for here but cant change that. hope to read and post again tomorrow. hope everyone is doing well.
Vicki M

:happy: Still have 27 calories to spare.

:happy: Well done to all the losers!!!

I am saying nothing today! You can guess why!!

:bigsmile: WooHoo...I got my 3 lbs back off and 1 extra one, and its bacause of all the support on this site. You guys and gals on here all ROCK! :flowerforyou: THANKS.....

:sick: Hi Ladies! Well, instead of going away for a lovely weekend for DH 60th birthday, I ended up quite sick. Looks like I have some kind of infection. My woes started with a toothache this past week. Then an allergic reaction to msg on Friday night. Perhaps the two combined threw me over the edge. I am still feverish and nauseous, so will see the dentist tomorrow and/or the doctor. Until then, it's a diet of tylenol and gravol and trying to drink a bit of gingerale.

Okay, back to bed or the couch. Getting to watch a lot of Olympics though. Always a silver lining some where.

Rebel

Well the snow came as expected, again, and my dh just got home after plowing the last 7 hours. The county took all the plows off the roads because the snow is covering as fast as they can plow. They get to go back out in the morning and start all over again. This winter seems to have been hard on all the states. The snow crews are just really tired and everyone else that can't get out of our homes and enjoy at least a little fresh air are getting depressed. COME ON SPRING!!!!!!!!!!
I've got the house work done and am thinking that many more days of this and I might have to start ripping the old wallpaper out of our bedroom and start painting. I'm trying to think of everything but eating...
Sounds like everyone has had a pretty good weight loss week and, with spring coming, we're bound to have even better results in the coming weeks.
GREAT JOB EVERYONE...

Good afternoon ladies, We went to Animal Kingdom today and we are back at condo now to rest. We got up at 6 am to go to the gym, then ate breakfast here (cereal) then to the parks. I wore my HRM and from 8 am til 4 pm burned over 3000 calories. Not logging those but good to know how much we burned. Lots of walking. Had a good salad at Rain Forest for lunch and will eat something light like cereal or smoothie for supper. I read quickly some of the posts. Great work on weight loss. Hope to post again tomorrow.
Vicki M

It's good to hear from all of you, even if I don't have time to answer individually. I managed to do Valentine's Day without depriving myself with calories to spare! The grandsons are here while my daughter and son in law catch a movie, so we are trying to get them to sleep, and I still have to clean up the kitchen from the Valentine's dinner the 4 year old and I cooked. Happy Valentine's Day to all!

Welcome any recent newbies that I haven't acknowledged.:flowerforyou:

Will try to reply to some of what I have read, but will, no doubt, overlook someone, so apologizing in advance for anyone missed. :flowerforyou: There is always next time:ohwell:

Renny--Get well soon. Sorry you missed the party.

Rose--Thanks for checking in. I wondered where you had been. I don't have to tell you "Snow" is a four-letter word!!!! So is "rain" but at least you don't have to SHOVEL rain!!!:laugh:

Jackie--Good luck staying on track. Sounds like you might have run into a couple of bumps on the road. Don't give up!!:flowerforyou:

I am finally on here after a busy weekend where I was short on sleep. Friday night, couldn't sleep. Got only about 4 hours worth before it was time to wake up and go to work at 6am:noway: :yawn: Didn't do any better in the sleep department on Saturday night either, as you will see.

Saturday afternoon got doggies walked, did some Gazelle and weight workout time, and colored my hair, then took off up the Gorge with my neighbor to pickup another doggie!!!---HOLD ON!! No jumping to conclusions allowed. THIS ONE is going to another home!! My neighbor is taking a retired from breeding French Bulldog named "Archie." A real sweetie pie. Loves the "Katie"--the Pug who is already in that home. We took Katie, as well as Bradley and Pepper with us, but Mai Li was such a prima donna last weekend that I decided she needed to go visit her "Aunt Linda" for the evening, so I dropped her off there on the way out of town. Once she stopped sitting by the front door whining for "momma":brokenheart: :sad: she had a good time, and created a little havoc that I will mention later.

Our destination was the same place we went for Superbowl Sunday. So there was food involved, again, and, once again, I was in charge of it. THIS TIME ALL FOOD ARRIVED AT DESTINATION!!!:blushing: (Not like last weekend where some airhead accidentally forgot to put a significant portion of it in the car. We actually managed to eat most of those things this time around.)

Things still didn't go quite as planned. Our hostess had to leave THREE times during the evening. The first time--to try and jumpstart her son's dead pickup truck during his lunch hour at work. That didn't work as the problem is a dead alternator (assumption based upon symptoms leading up to starting failure). She came back home and then had to go pick up son's girlfriend from her work, and leave a third time to get the son from his workplace. In between this, we nibbled on snacks and visited with hubby and drank a little beer. We waited to have the main course of our dinner in between her second and third departure.

Then I had the bright idea of mentioning the Wii that they got for Christmas, so about 10:30p we started "Wii bowling." I have never used the Wii before, but found the controller fairly easy to deal with, and like my experience with "real" bowling, I soon discovered that my bowling score seemed to improve with the consumption of my last two beers!!!!:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: We finally finished our "Wii marathon" about 1:30a--and I learned that I am a better virtual bowler than golfer. I am virtually AWFUL at Wii golf!!!

I only had four beers altogether for an 8 hour period, so tiredly and soberly, I drove us the 75 miles back to home--with a skeptical, but quiet, Archie in a carrier, and the other three taking turns lending moral support by sniffing him through the carrier door and wagging their tails. Thanks to Mai Li's absence, it was a much quieter trip than it would have been. We were coming back so late, I had already called Linda earlier in the evening to ask if Mai Li could spend the night, so I didn't hear about her activities until this morning.

Mai Li managed to cause a little havoc in Linda's kitchen. As she does at home, she was hanging out in the kitchen to "help" with dinner preparations. Linda was having chili, and about the time she opened the can and began placing it in a dish to warm up, Mai Li let out one of her very loud and unexpected barks:noway: and it caused Linda to react with surprise at the sudden noise, so she spilled a portion of her chili on the floor, which she had no need to clean up, as Mai Li made short work of the spillage!!:laugh: :laugh:

Linda asked me why on earth Mai Li would bark like that out of the blue, and I had to laugh--she basically was letting Linda know she was "there and willing to share"--the bark simply expedited the process!!!:laugh:

By the time I got home, about 2:45am on Sunday morning, and got in a hot bathtub--to counteract the soreness I was experiencing from that new workout I had tried with weights earlier in the day--it was 3:30a before I got to bed. In a moment of lunacy the day before I had scheduled an appointment at 8am on Sunday morning for a checkup on Bradley's foot, which had an infection between the toe pads that we have been treating. I turned off the 7:15a alarm and awoke again at 8:20!!:yawn: "oops!" So there went that appointment. Fortunately, they could see him at 10a. so I went then.

When I returned home, I started logging my food for Sat and Sun while watching the Daytona 500. My plan was to take a nap for an hour or so, otherwise I figured I would be sleeping in church later in the evening. So much for planning.:laugh:

My neighbor called and said "lets go have breakfast"--for me it was lunch, but I still had bacon and eggs, as well as cottage cheese and tomatoes in lieu of toast and hash browns. Then we went to Costco--where he filled my gas tank, since we had taken my car to get his new doggie--and I found several items I didn't realize I couldn't live without!!:noway: :laugh: Sometimes I think dealing with my finances would be much simpler if I just signed my paycheck over to Costco and eliminated the middleman"--my bank!!:laugh: .

By the time I got home, I had just enough time to dry and redo my hair--due to getting caught in a cloudburst while loading the car with our purchases--before it was time to leave for church. So much for a nap.:yawn: I did manage to not sleep during the sermon, and we had a bite to eat after Mass. I finally got home about 8, and my intention was to get on the Gazelle for about 40 minutes before crashing. Instead, I fell asleep in the chair while composing this post and woke up as the 11p news was finishing.

Now I really AM going to bed. I went over my calories today, since I never did get that Gazelle time in, but tomorrow is another day.

As for "Archie" the transplanted bulldog--he felt comfortable enough with his new daddy to spend some "lap time" with him after receiving his first bath in his new home. Like most little boys, Archie would prefer not to be too well-acquainted with soap and water!!:grumble: :laugh:

Hope everyone had a good Sunday and a great weekend. So long for now.


Barb

Surprise...It's me. :bigsmile: there is a computer in the lobby...YEAH. Just a moment to read and post because there are people waiting to use the computer...DARN:grumble: :laugh: Barb I must say your post made me laugh which I really needed.:laugh: THANK YOU and Thank you to all of the ladies for your support and prayers. MIL is in the room asleep, last night wasn't toooo bad, she slept most of the night which gave my lungs a break from the cigarette smoke:smokin: . I told her the bathroom was the NO SMOKING ZONE:smokin: so I would have some place to go to get a break because it is too frigid outside to go walking. I am hoping it warms up a bit so I can walk while she is having her treatment. Well I better go, people are getting restless. Love, (((Hugs))), and Prayers to all, Rose
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