WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2012

Just wanted to check in . Working another day and then I have Tuesday off. Barbie, was able to share with us the "now is now" info from her line dancing at the senior home. It is amazing how God teaches me lessons right when they need to be learned.

Yesterday, I was extremely tired and got into the Halloween candy in the evening. Went back to my old mentality of not caring much about what I ate for the evening. Once I settled down to the computer I opened my Facebook to find at the top of the page that my friend had died of breast cancer. Her name is Kathy. She was diagnosed when we were in preschool with our children. She fought courageously for 11 years. She always put her family and friends first. She was an amazing woman, who leaves behind 3 teenage children and her husband. She was in her 40"s.
This put me back on track as it made me realize that "now is now" and I need to be as nurturing and loving to this one body that I have, so that I can be here for my family and friends.
We need to pray that there will be a cure for breast cancer/all cancers soon. So many young women have lost there battle with this dreadful disease. Rest in peace my friend Kathy.
Linda

Linda - do sorry for the loss of your friend. She fought hard and is now at rest. x

So can I jump in please, I like the sound of this?

September-okay few problems with weight lifting so putting that on the back burner

Purchased cross trainer, doing okay

October-keep going and measuring/weighing food

Agreed-it's never too late

Following the EM2WL route

Made mistakes with friends on here, hope to rectify that.

Be me!

Thanks:drinker:

@Linda--keeping you and Kathy's family in my prayers...)


In a real hurry this a.m., but excited to be down 1.1 pound (total of 11.6 since I joined) and very happy that my DH has seen the benefits of MFP and when he got home from Presbytery yesterday was proudly showing me how he had been using his phone to log his eating over the weekend. I'm still out in front in the contest, though!

Didn't fulfil my goals for September, so will revisit them and post October's later.

Have a great active day, everyone!

Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Linda so sorry for the loss of your friend. Will keep you and her family in my prayers!

Barbie thank you for starting the Oct. thread:flowerforyou: !!! Glad you had a good time at the retreat! Enjoy your time with your friend!!!

I will be back ladies later today. Noel has an appt. to get her rabies shot this morning, so I must rush off now.

Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!!!

Happy October!!!

Hugs,
DeeDee

Morning to all!

Here we are starting the work week again. I am thankful to have a job and be independent.

I love the banner for the new thread. Thanks Barbie! I am taking the time to count my blessings and remember, Now is Now.....

Kitten update- The black kitten looks about 6 to 8 wks old and is still hanging around the back door. I am feeding it but it is not used to humans and it hides when I open the back door. I have the garage ready in case it will show more social signs. If not, I hope DH will agree to some sort of shelter for it this winter....

Linda I am so sorry about your friend. I will say prayers for you and her family. Cancer is an awful disease.

October goals-
Keep up with Jazzercise twice a week
Yoga once a week
Keep logging daily
8 glasses of water
Do not buy Halloween candy too early!!! (buy the kind I don't like!)

Carolyn

Marking my place for later.

Linda, I am so sorry about your friend. What a valiant fight on her part! That is determination to emulate. It is a terrible disease.

Several years ago I walked in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk here in Atlanta, the 60-mile one. Months of training ahead of time with two gals from church, three days of concerted walking, amazing stories from the speakers in the camp at night (including men -- they need to be aware as well), and a wonderful tribute to those who both continue to fight or have lost their battle at the closing ceremony.

Thank you, Barbie, for starting us up again.

Off to work on a rainy day.

Gail

Morning all ~

Linda, my condolences on the loss of your dear friend ~ very sad.

Lila, we still haven't made a decision on where in BC to move. DH has been dragging his feet about sitting down with me to at least make a decision on whether it'll be on the island or the mainland, and what type of home we'd be interested in. I have my own ideas but until I can pin him down, everything's still up in the air ~ our plan is to buy something in the spring in order to get the process started and probably rent it out which I hear is quite common. We've lived in Alberta since we married (I was born and raised here). Lila, where are you from?

Easter paska actually originated in eastern Europe and is a semi-sweetish egg bread. My Baba was born in Ukraine and she loved to cook. When my kids were still young, I would also make paska but now I (sadly) just buy it at the grocery store when Easter rolls around.

I am facing a day full with domestic duties and errands, but want to establish my place for the month! Difficult to believe that September is behind us now. I'm reading a few comments about October goals ~ do we just post our monthly goals here?

Will check in later...

Deborah:flowerforyou:

Linda - sorry for the loss of your friend. Sorry for everyone who has lost someone to cancer and to those who are struggling to live with the disease. My dad has lymphoma but is ok at this point; his brother died of lymphoma. I don't think I know many families that have not been touched by some form of cancer.

Barbie - thanks for the October start-up. Lovely graphic and always great thoughts are shared. I again want to thank you for the walking inspiration. I am not walking up to your level but I am getting 5 miles in most days. Yeah.

My now is now moment came this past week when I heard from a former coworker. It seems a gentleman I worked with on numerous projects was killed in a freak traffic accident. He had been to NE Iowa to help his mother with something and was driving back to DSM when he got in an accident and was killed instantly. That shook me in my boots since of course that's *exactly* what I have been doing for years and have actually become increasingly uncomfortable with the solitary drive. And I'm often fatigued when I drive.

Time to go now. Thanks so much----it helps to much to keep in touch.

Lin
:flowerforyou:

Hello all and Happy October,

I trust that those of us who don’t work on weekends had a lovely time off. :flowerforyou: I sure did.

I put up 7 500ml jars of salsa for the cold room and 1 liter for the fridge. Also made very good pumpkin cake (for boys only) and two great dinners for the family. I did not get any official “exercise” but did wear my HRM in the kitchen on Saturday just to see if I really do burn any calories there. My heart rate never went much over 80 (resting is about 60) but I suppose that’s something more than lying about reading or watching TV.

September goal review:

No bedtime snacks, no second helpings! - did pretty well here, except occasional weekends when my resistance was low :blushing: .

Get the routine chores done – no procrastination! Oh dear, :noway: there was laundry on the floor of my bedroom closet last time I looked.

24 hours of exercise in the month. Total on the HRM: 21.5 this does not count the PE classes at school, or kitchen work. Still, I was hoping for 24 on the HRM.

Be a role model of healthy living for my students. I am already dressed to lead, not just dictate, the Monday PE heart-smart workout.

I lost a couple of pounds in September, putting me back where I was at the beginning of July. Now time to get the last five out of the way so I can scream GOOOOAL!

We are going to have a trying time at school over the next few weeks :grumble: enrolment is down, so staffing’s been reduced by one teacher. This means one less classroom in the intermediate wing, so instead of having grades 4,5,6 and 7 we will have 4/5, 4/6 and 6/7. I’ll probably be the 6/7 teacher but one of the intermediate teachers will have to take a dog’s breakfast of a job, filling in as a .4 primary teacher, working in the computer lab, teaching a smidgen of ESL, etc.

The superintendent of schools and director of personnel came on Friday to talk to staff, it was pretty dreadful. The elephant in the room no one wanted to mention is the fear that this is just the beginning, and the school may end up being closed. :frown: The liberating thing for me was realizing, half way through the meeting (which was so predictable I could have written the script) that I didn’t have to stay! :laugh: I’m not on the admin team anymore. So I made my excuses and scampered over to the Rec Centre for my 4 pm spin class. Hah!

People at work are busy blaming admin staff for the state of schools and parents for the state of students. :grumble: :noway: I have fought long and hard to overcome depression - if there's one thing I know it's that I have to stay away from negative people. Give me a bunch of jolly 12 year old boys any day!

Linda's grief over the loss of her friend brings life into a much clearer focus. My sympathy to you, dear. :flowerforyou:

October goals:
Try a different drop-in exercise class at the Rec Centre each week.
Work out with my students on Mondays.
Stay positive when folks get negative at work, surround myself with positive people.

I'm off to make a peach smoothie and enjoy the sunshine!

Nancy

October goals:

1. break into the "decade" for my goal weight.
2. no more than one day over per week
3. organize my new guest room now Aaron is off to college
4. plant all the spring bulbs before first frost
5. Be kind

:flowerforyou: Happy October and Good Monday Morning to all,

Welcome to the newbies:flowerforyou: keep posting and let us get to know you.

Linda- so sorry for the loss of your friend Prayers for you and her family. Ahh the dreaded Halloween candy, my hubby was asking me if we should buy our yet and I said NO, it's bad enough that I have the Hershey's Nuggets that my friend gave me for my birthday...I just stay out of the livingroom where they are and don't think about them.

Lin-so sorry to hear about the gentleman you'd worked with and his sudden accident. You be carefeul on your road trips. It was a good reminder that tomorrow is promised to no one and that we only have today to be the best we can be.:flowerforyou:

jb- glad you enjoyed your time at the coast, that's something I miss :sad: living in Colorado getting away for a weekend or a day to the coast used to be such a pick me up for us when we used to live in Oregon. I love your "top toeing" toward your birthday this coming weekend

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Sounds like we are well on our way to getting to those October goals.

I met two of my three goals for September, losing the #2 and doing cardio for 20 days...never did get back on track to doing my squats:grumble: they just didn't seem to fit into my workout schedule.
October goals are to lose the final #2, another 20 days of cardio and 5 days of kettlebells.

This past weekend was busy with hubby working on Saturday so I did house work and got the fall decorations out ...it's amazing how quickly you forget what it's like to fill up your weekend with housework. Hubby has been doing it all since he was unemployeed and I will admit I got spoiled:blushing: I don't consider house work dusting, vaccuming, mopping and laundry with going up and down stairs "exercise" even if I do work up a sweat...to me it's just regular living. It was good to have a clean house but was still so busy that i didn't have the time to sit and enjoy it.

Yesterday when we were just getting ready to head out to a bike ride #2 son called to say they were taking the grandkiddos to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate #1 grandsons 5th birthday...so we cleaned up and headed over there insead. Spent a couple of hours with them and came home it was time for the Broncos game and I decided I just had to get in some exercise so I spent from the middle of the 1st qtr to the end of the game on the treadmill...and I've decided that's the way I need to watch all football games killing two birds with one stone For the 4th qtr hubby came down and joined me so it was a good workout afternoon.

Last night we went to Elephant Bar with Son #3 & DIL so they could celebrate hubbys birthday we did pretty good but it was the sodium that got me so today I'm flushing it out. But was glad that we were able to eat something that keeps hubby on track he's pretty encouraged right now and I'm hearing determination in his voice when he talks about what he can and can't eat. and how he wants to get back in shape:happy:

Barbie once again thank you for getting us started on a new month not sure where we'd be without your excellent guidance.:flowerforyou:

Everyone have a great Monday, post your goals, drink plenty of water, get in some exercise and log your food :drinker:

Laura80111

Good morning, all my MFP friends. My #1 goal for October is to try to keep up with this group.

Linda, condolences on the loss of your friend.

I kind of set a mini-goal of being down to 210 by the birth of my granddaughter, who will be here in two weeks. That goal may be doubtful since I have 2.8 lbs to go,but hey, every oz closer is a victory! If I don't make it by her birthday, maybe I can make it by mine (October 27). My second mini-goal is to be in Onederland by the end of this year.

My weight loss goals for October are to continue logging my food and exercise and lose as much as I can. I'm kind of in survival mode since our house is still in disarray from a remodeling project.The new grandbaby will create more chaos. I have tons of stuff to get finished at work so that I can take a week off to help with the baby. 1 to 1.5 lbs a week would be nice, but I'll be happy with any loss at all. With all the chaos, my biggest goal is to still find 1 hour a day for my walk.

My October daily goals:

* Track food and exercise
* Do 45 minutes of cardio
* Yoga 3 times a week
* Strive for 10,000 pedometer steps
* Stay on plan
* Have a positive outlook


Deborah:flowerforyou:

Good morning ladies.

I am home sick with some kind of stomach thing. But I needed to mark my spot.

Linda sorry for your loss. Facebook can sure slap in the face sometimes.

My goal for October is to have a Sober October. I love my wine and my vodka to unwind with work stress but I am giving it up for the month. I will need a lot of encouragement to make it through. I will keep up with my 20+ flights of stairs daily, and 10,000 steps. I did good in September. I want to tap dance more in October and I think I am going to add a litre of water to my day making it 3 litres instead of two.

Have a great day all

Robin, Bodi and Ritter.