WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

hi folks

Went for a long (for me) walk with two friends yesterday. Would never have happened except that it was "scheduled" and no one wanted to let the others down. It feels like a great accomplishment! This afternoon I hope to fit in an hour or so of yoga, something I've always loved to do. I'm also doing my best to log meals / snacks. Is helping to increase my "awareness".

...SuzyQ I too have trouble exercising when DH is in the house. He pops his head around the corner and sometimes mimics what I'm doing. Know he's trying to make me laugh and lighten up... BUT...sometimes its doggone irritating
How's your size 10 coming? I've lost 10 pounds and am still wearing 16W pants and 18P shirts. :explode:
Doggoned frustrating....

My clothes are fitting better, but won't do an official weigh n measure until Monday. I've been putting everything I've got into cardio and got a new abs/ core DVD by Leslie Sansone that uses a stability ball.. I've never used one before, so this should be interesting. And I'm feeling soreness in places I didn't before, so we'll see.... I've NEVER worked so hard to look good in my entire life!!!!

It never ceases to amaze me how slowly progress happens... at least for me. It has taken me 54 weeks to lose 36 pounds and go from a size 18 to a 12. I'm hoping to blast the last 20 lbs off riding my bike when warm weather gets here to stay. I'm determined to get these buldges and rolls gone no matter if it takes all summer long! Can I make a 10 by Easter? Hope so!!!!

Staying within calories comes at a price, but one I'm willing to pay. I skipped our church potluck last night and ate an apple with peanut butter at home instead. Then last night when hubby was snacking on popcorn and ice cream bars, I drank a cup of Sensible Sweets hot chocolate (only 35 calories). I also got some sugar-free jello (10 calories) for such a time as this. Hubby is working days so its alot easier for me to eat healthy this week. I'm beginning to notice how not resting well effects my appetite and ability to lose when he works nights.

Hi All,

Today is my late day for work, so I am on here before I go, should be getting ready, but, I decided to stop in here first and catch up.

Spaniel--

Forgot to welcome you in my last post--so WELCOME!! I plead disability, read below for my answer to Barbara/AKA Auntiebk for an explanation. Love your pics. Besides being the over 50 women's thread, this place sometimes doubles as "Doggies R Us"--:laugh: :laugh: There are a few cats around too, but we don't hear as much about them. When you sleep 15 hours a day, you don't have time to create as much havoc as pesky little doggies:bigsmile:

ProfanJ--Welcome also. You will grow to love this group. And it keeps getting bigger every day.

Kath(plantlady)--

I am glad you got some time for you. Anxiety is no joke. I am all too familiar with it. I have been trying to keep mine in line by not committing to as much as I used to, and not overdoing it on my days off. Take care of yourself. I am glad your sister stepped in to give you a break. Don't let DH get you down. He may have something going on in his head that he hasn't expressed. Men seem to be good at making their problem YOUR problem without letting you in on the fact that there IS a problem. It's that recessive communication gene they have. It resides next to the recessive shopping gene (I used to tease my hubby (now ex- so we get along great:bigsmile: ) about that.

Here is a funny about the dentist that happened to me. Back when cell phones were just starting to be smaller and more common, I was at the dentist, and as he was drilling away, I could hear another noise. He was standing in such a way that I realized whatever I was hearing was in his pocket!! So I raised my hand to stop the drilling and told him "Should I be concerned that your pants are ringing?" We both had a good laugh, and he told his wife he would call her back when he was finished!!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

aissar--

Welcome back. Haven't seen you much lately. I discovered the Wii is a real workout when I did my first encounter with it, a bowling and golf marathon. Only problem is I found that I bowl better after drinking beer in a virtual bowling environment, just like in a bowling alley. Since we didn't have any "virtual" beer, I only have experience with the real thing!!!:laugh: :laugh:

Alice-

Love your cow on a bicycle.

Terri--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

kackie--

Welcome to the thread. Your yoga question was answered by a previous poster. Good luck in your journey.

Kathy(pmjs)--

I will send you a PM when I have more info on my plans. I can't remember if you have doggies or not. If you do, you probably know some doggie friendly places in your area, if not, let me know and I will do some googling for doggie parks in your area. If the weather cooperates, that might be a good option, if it doesn't work for me to visit you where you live.

Barbara(Auntiebk)

To answer your questions. I fell in January, did a face plant in a wet parking lot, ended up in the hospital for a few hours, got a concussion and have been dealing with the after effects. I posted a story in the January thread about my experience. If anyone wants to go back to find it, you can click on the number of posts below my avatar and it will bring up all my posts from most recent on back. My accident happened on Jan 24th, so look for something within a day or two of that date.

My B-Day is April 6th. I have had my Gazelle for a couple of years, but have been using it regularly for the last couple of months because of the weather not being conducive to outdoor walking. Right now it works especially well because I don't have to worry about my balance, which has been a problem since my head injury. It is getting better. I also like that for the same amount of time on the Gazelle, I can burn way more calories than I do walking.

Laura, I am sorry to say that our mothers seem to get more "mule"-ee" as they get older. Therefore, anyone who wants them to do something that is good for them but that is contrary to their wishes is "mean":ohwell: :bigsmile:

I hope she progresses from the PT and learns that effort = success.

I am REALLY past the time I should have started getting ready for work, so bye for now.

Barb

welcome keewee! You'll get lots of support here. Boy, I can't keep up with all the new people! Welcome everyone! Constance - don't worry about age -- it's only a number, that's all. We're so glad to have you with us. Hi Kackie

thanks, Barb for the explanation of logging in.

Does anyone have a WiiFit? I have My Fitness Coach. Some days I'll do the yoga on there. One thing I've found is that the "trainer" gives you the instructions for a certain series of moves once and then you are to do them yourself the next couple of times. Honestly, I can't remember the exact sequence. Is there any way to change a setting or something so that she will give instructions all the time rather than just the once?

I bought two of those Yoplait smoothies. I was really disappointed.:grumble: I was of the opinion that it was the entire smoothie already premade. What it is, essentially, is just frozen fruit. $3 for some fruit, when I can get it lots cheaper? I don't think so.

SuzyQ - I'm thinking that I can probably do those LS walking tapes on a rebounder -- what do you think? Next step will be for me to get a rebounder.

Well, it's Tuesday. I was going to do this one Biggest Loser DVD, but there was a problem with it in my DVD player so I opted to do all the workouts on the 30day Shred DVD. I did skip past the cooldown. Tomorrow I'll take the deep water class.

According to the Wii, my BMI has gone down from 24 to the high 23's. Hope it stays this way!

Good for you Debbi - changing up your workouts. Gotta keep those muscles guessing what we'll do next, eh???

Terri - I was just about to say the same thing to DeeJayy! Thanks for taking care of it for me

auntibk - the first time I did Lion's pose, I thought I would never stop laughing! But it IS very effective.

Vicki - I hate it when the restaurant lists something on their website that I want, but when I get to the restaurant they don't have that item. AHHHHH

It's now Wednesday, did 1 hr deep water workout. Tomorrow I think I'll do a burn & firm DVD at home, just not sure if I should do it for the 45 minutes or try for the double workout which is something like 77 minutes.

Well, it's now Thursday. I did the DVD for 77 minutes. The double workout is really just the 45 minute workout repeated (minus the abs and cooldown until you get to the end of the 77 minute workout). Then we went out to lunch with this group of ours. I think I was pretty good. I ordered the grilled salmon and I even brought in some containers with me and took half of it home. I also got the steamed vegetables and instead of the rice I got an extra order of the steamed vegetables which I brought home. Now this is a heavily mediterranean restaurant so the vegetables had a lot of garlic on them. They also had some oil, which I'm going to assume is olive oil since they have such a heavy mediterranean influence. I also got a salad. I asked tfor the dressing on the side, but you really didn't need any dressing. It seems like they put some oil on it and spices.

Nighttime snacking is my downfall, too. Right now I'm trying making a blanket and watching TV after dinner. No matter what I do, if I eat late in the day, I ALWAYS, without fail, will show a gain the next day.

Laura - so glad Gerald's shot worked! I've been keeping up with this. What good news! My MIL used to scream that the nurses and PT people were "killing" her. I know that all's they wanted was to help her. Yup, maybe it has something to do with being in the 80's

Birdie - that's great that your clothes are so large now. I just donate my clothes away, don't even want a reminder in the house. Maybe you can cut some of the shoulderpads out of the clothes.

I'm thinking that I'll do one of my spinning downloadable workouts tomorrow.

Michele

Me again... I thought I'd share this weightloss story with you. I know it's not specifically for ladies but here it is....

"WONDER WEIGHTLOSS FOR YOU" ....... Want to lose weight? Ring now!!

A guy calls a company and orders their 5-day, 10 lb. weight loss program..

The next day, there's a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign around her neck.

She introduces herself as a representative of the weightloss company. The sign reads, 'If you can catch me,you can have me.'
Without a second thought, he takes off after her. A few miles later huffing and puffing, he finally gives up..

The same girl shows up for the next four days and the same thing happens.

On the fifth day, he weighs himself and is delighted to find he has lost 10 lbs. as promised.

He calls the company and orders their 5-day/20 pound program.

The next day there's a knock at the door and there stands the most stunning, beautiful, sexy woman he has ever seen in his life.. She is wearing nothing but Reebok running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads, 'If you catch me you can have me'.

Well, he's out the door after her like a shot. This girl is in excellent shape and he does his best, but no such luck. So for the next four days, the same routine happens with him gradually getting in better and better shape, much to his delight on the fifth day when he weighs himself, he discovers that he has lost another 20 lbs. as promised.

He decides to go for broke and calls the company to order the 7-day/50 pound program

'Are you sure?' asks the representative on the phone...

'This is our most rigorous program.'
'Absolutely,' he replies, 'I haven't felt this good in years.'

The next day there's a knock at the door; and when he opens it he finds a huge muscular guy standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck that reads, 'If I catch you, you're mine.'

He lost 63 pounds that week.

Have a good night now!!
Jackie:bigsmile:

:flowerforyou: Birdie!!! You are a total inspiration!!! I can picture exactly what you said about the clothes from last year . . way too big, and then older clothes that are way out of style!!!! You are amazing! Usually cutting out the shoulder pads just leaves a weird looking garment. I say you deserve to splurge a little on something that is just your new size, and your new style!
Yesterday I took the weights up quite a bit (trainer says it’s time) . . . so I leg pressed something like 130 pounds! :noway: I do upper body one day, then lower body the next. Then a rest day from weights, then repeat of day one and two. I try to do cardio everyday. I’ve been running on a treadmill and alternating that with walking, but I don’t like it much. I like the elliptical, but I’m anxious to be outside more than anything!! Weather in SE Washington State was glorious and sunny today, so I’m hoping for more of the same over the weekend. I seem to struggle on the weekends to exercise? Have a great rest of the week . . I’m trying to focus mentally on my goals!!!:happy:

Oh Jackie, I laughed and laughed at your joke about the diet company. Have a good evening, everyone!

I have to agree - that was one funny joke.I laughed out loud. Good exercise!

Good Morning All! Day 5 and feeling really good. And SusieQ, your quote on your post is the BEST!!! Also, the vision of Birdie tossing out clothes that are TOO BIG is also a great visual inspiration! I have to spend some time playing with the site so that I can post my "progress bar" & goals on my posts too. So much to learn...

:flowerforyou: Good afternoon Ladies ...... It's Friday and I'm hoping to have a good weekend - hope you will too. Plans are to do the housework on Saturday and on Sunday.. a family lunch for my son and co. then ...:happy: in the afternoon we're taking the grandkids off to the pictures to see the new Alice in Wonderland film. Son and DIL will sit with mum while we're out. I'm really looking forward to that.

So far today I've been good. I've planned the food, filled in the diary, worked 3 hours cleaning.:frown: I didn't get to do my Latino Tone last night as mum was watching TV with me. In a minute I'll try and get Peter to do some Salsa .... now the heating has been fixed!!!!
I was well within my calories and should be the same today. Scales were good too ... I can't get out of the habit of weighing daily, first thing with nothing on ... and I'm back to where I was 4lb lost. I know that if I can keep on the straight and narrow all weekend I should lose again.:drinker: So .... Exercise, Log and Stick to the Plan...Exercise, Log and Stick to the Plan .....Exercise, Log and Stick to the Plan!!!!

Must go now and get dancing . Then I'll start to get tea. Mum will be home from her Day Centre soon and normal service will be resumed!!

:laugh: Have a good evening everybody and be happy.
Jackie