WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

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Michelle - I am sorry that being a volunteer is being hard on you. They really can't do anything to you if you don't do what they want. Do you think they would tell you to stop volunteering? If they do find an elementary school and volunteer to help the gym teacher or any teachers do sports with their classes. I did that one year and what a blast! There is nothing like watching kindergardeners run the bases backwards during dodge ball.

Weighing in every day is suppose to be helpful in loosing weight. I'm testing that theory this month and next. I hope it works.

I bought a pair of jeans and a pair of black swim shorts today in a size 12. They fit perfect. I debated whether to hold out and decided the jeans will be incentive for going to Vail and not gaining weight while we are there.

Well, I need to lay down. My tummy is too full. I did not eat all my calories today, but it was a bigger dinner than I am use to any more.

May this Monday morning be a good one for all of us.

Jeannie

Michelle - I am sorry that being a volunteer is being hard on you. They really can't do anything to you if you don't do what they want. Do you think they would tell you to stop volunteering? If they do find an elementary school and volunteer to help the gym teacher or any teachers do sports with their classes. I did that one year and what a blast! There is nothing like watching kindergardeners run the bases backwards during dodge ball.

You know, I used to do substitute work in the school district -- mainly worked in the elemenetary schools. Yes, it was great! Reading that book to those preschoolers brought me back to the days when I'd help out in the kindergarten room. Sometimes I would sub for the aide in a classroom, sometimes work one-on-one with a handicapped child or a child with a learning disability, but I always had a good time.

Michele

Hi everyone, I haven't posted lately and I am having a hard time reading all the posts but I love reading them all. It makes me realize I am not alone. I had a pretty good week and if I can believe my scale I lost 6 pounds. Time will tell. I didn't walk today but I did carry five wheelbarrows full of wood and stacked it in the garage. It took 45 minutes so I think that helped. It's getting late so I'll try to check in tomorrow. Have a great day tomorrow.

Lucy

I changed my March goals. Instead of cooking once a week, I put "go to bed before midnight" in instead.

I decided the bedtime thing was more important and I've been totally unmotivated to cook anyway. I need to get to the point where I can go to bed around 10pm so I can do morning workouts and also get to work earlier so I need to work on the bedtime thing and it's going to take a while.

Hey, I've been skimming the thread but I just can't keep up any more. But good wishes to everyone!

:flowerforyou: Good afternoon ladies from a lovely sunny N.Wales. Still had to scrape the car of ice though this morning... :bigsmile: actually I didn't but Peter did!
Scales were the same this morning so at least I've got through the weekend without gaining :happy: ... better than last weekend .
I've been to work so I've got cleaning calories to play with if I want. Can't see me doing any more exercise today though:noway: as now i have both arms aching:frown: ... It was only my right arm up 'til Sunday ( continuation from a few weeks back when my wrist etc went haywire) now my left arm aches right up into my neck ..... possibly the Salsa lessons ? Tension? ...or I just need that sunshine and to be lying by the pool in Lanzarote? ...Yep! that's it!!!! Until then it'll have to be ...keep taking the paracetamol!

Anyway ....:ohwell: I'm off now to dish out some pills to you know who, clean the kitchen, pop some washing in, run the hoover around and ... change mum's bed. What did I say about not doing anymore exercise?
I'm sure we don't really realise how much we do do sometimes!!!

:drinker: Keep up the good work ladies ... if you can't be good ... be careful (what you eat ..that is)!!

BFN
Jackie

Morning gals, haven't caught up on posts, but had to add the latest installment on the continuing drama...The Return of the Son of The scale LIES: Saturday 277 calories over, 2.1 lbs UP
Sunday 322 calories over 2.5 lbs DOWN

Go figure.

and YES weekends are a struggle ;}

It's Monday....gloomy:frown: ...rainy....reminds me of Oregon...you gett pretty spoiled with sunshine:glasses: here in Colorado.

So many posts to read...Welcome to the new ones:flowerforyou: So glad you have decided to join us.

Jeannie, sorry to read you are "catching" some bug:sick: .

BirdieM, I know how it is when you have been away from work and the paper's piling up:grumble: , sometimes it's better if everyone would just leave your work alone, but since you are dealing with peoples taxes that's probably not an option for you. Just continue to get well and let the exercise come back when you really feel better.:bigsmile:

Rebel, good job on the inches lost:flowerforyou: ...that's the best results!

Jackie, hats off to you for eating plain popcorn:drinker: ...not sure if I could do that.

Barb, you are so good about walking your 'babies' in all weather:bigsmile: ....yesterday would have been a great day for me to walk Peanut (my long haired dashshund) but alas I didn't.:grumble:

Michele, so sorry about your frustration at the Y:grumble: , I guess people expect everyone to have the same attitude they do and feel no problem volunteering other's to do what they think is important...and unfortunately good hearts :bigsmile: get stepped on sometimes.

What a weekend, the only thing I can think of is that it was a total "lets eat out this weekend" kind...NOT GOOD:grumble: . I did really well on Friday night, because I was able to cruise the Red Robin web site and knew beforhand what I was going to eat. Saturday I planned for so that splurge was almost controlled. But last night was a total distaster , our #3 Son and DIL wanted to go to one of those Brazil all the meat + that you can eat. I really thought I'd done okay because I even did a bit extra on my exercises for yesterday....but NO the scale had killer numbers:grumble: I'm up 2.20 lbs this morning and I haven't had that much of a jump since the second week of Jan...I just hate having to relose something that I know is not really there. I'm hoping that a lot of it is water weight as I was very thirsty last night and sleeping was just not happening:frown: . I guess the main thing that upsets me is that Mondays are my weigh in days for the week...needless to say I'm not putting that number in!:noway:

Hope everyone has a good day, I will be tackling this desk and see if I can get caught up. As far as diet & exercise there is always tomorrow to look forward to as we fight off those "kicking & screaming" pounds.

Laura

I just sent the executive director of the Y a note saying that I won't be at this fundraiser since I have the opportunity to attend some fitness workshops. We shall see what happens.

Did my 1 hr of deep water workout today. Tomorrow I'm thinking that I'll take a pilates class and then a toning class. Actually, I would like more in the toning class, but Thurs. I'm going to do the Jillian Michaels No More Trouble Zones DVD. Oh, Amazon said they shipped some of my DVD's (step aerobics, Jari Love get Extremely Ripped and Yogaworks) so I'm somewhat happy. Of course, can't wait to get them. So far today I've had 96oz of water. See, I'm a BIG water drinker.

I just realized that the "recent foods" you can't delete things from. There's this one kind of beef jerky that I'm pretty sure they've discontinued and I'd like to delete it from that list, but I can't. Oh well...... if I don't enter it for a while, will it go to the end of the list?

Welcome Denise! Pull up a chair, put your feet up, and hop right it. Boy, you do a lot of traveling...lucky you!

Laura - you know, I'm seriously considering quitting this Board at the Y early next year (right before this children'ts fund). I really don't feel like going thru the same thing over again. I really like the one branch near me. Yes, they don't have a lot of classes, it's really more geared towards parents w/o children. But the "air" is much friendlier. I don't know what I can do there. You know, I just might make a donation to the children's fund, but do it at that branch. See, they're not pressuring me. Wonder what kinds of fundraisers they're going to have? I hope they or another branch (not the one that I'm on the Board at) has one from Pampered Chef. I know something that I want to get and I'd buy it from them.

Cindy - I'm cleaning out my pantry, too. I have these two chafing dishes that I've never used. I think my father gave them to me. Anyway, I don't know if they're silverplate or real silver (I'm guessing silverplate). Really, I'll maybe donate them. I know what you mean, I have those times when I just want to eat and eat and eat. Carbs usually set me off. One thing that someone that I worked with told me (she'd gotten this recipe from Weight Watchers) was to make bran muffins. Basically, take one egg (used as the binder), 3 cups of wheat bran, and 1-1/2 cups of water. Bake that at 350 for 30 min. The bran makes you want to drink a lot (usually with each muffin I can drink at least 24oz) which makes you feel real full. I ran this thru my Mastercook, and each muffin is something like 53 calories. I have a thing on my computer that converts the nutritionals to Weight Watcher points, and this is 0 points (probably because of the high fiber) One thing I found with my pedometer, definitely invest in the strap that clips onto your pants. My first pedometer found its way into the toilet, but I can't count the number of times the second one fell off my pants but because I had that strap, it caught the pedometer. Whenever I'm wearing jeans, it never registers correctly.

Right now I'm looking to buy a new waffle maker. The handle on my old one just broke off. But I know that one feature I definitely want is removeable plates. You know, there aren't too many with removeable plates. I did find one (and only one) made by Wolfgang Puck on Amazon for $99. There were some others that were upwards of $1,000 which may have had removeable plates, but I didn't even look at them.

I also need a new crock pot. The one I have I'd had since before I was married -- and I'm married 31 years! I know that some of the features that I would want is for it not to be stainless steel or brushed chrome (I'd really prefer a white or other color -- not black -- ceramic), it definitely needs to have a timer with a keep warm setting, I'd really like for it to have a locking lid and I'd like it to be round rather than oblong. I don't think I'm asking too much, am I????

Michele

Michele: I bought a new crock pot last year - really it's a three in one crockpot. It's a Hamilton Beach with 2 qt, 4 qt and 6 qt bowls that fit into a base. It's really easy to clean and gives you the option of different size bowls. I finally had to get rid of my "harvest gold" crock pot that was 40 years old (wedding shower gift). Good luck in your search for a new one!

Have a good evening everyone.