WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

Greetings all. Welcome Richmondhillgal, SallyCC and kathymurphy.

I have been trying too get wallpaper glue off of a wall pretty much all day. Stopped to go shopping for just a couple of hours. Also did vacuuming, furniture moving and taking hardware out of walls...so hopefully burned lots and lots of calories today!! Eating has been less, too, due to being so gosh-darned busy.

Regarding the weekend eating...I know when I worked full time I usually overindulged on the weekends...
:noway: starting on Thursday because the next day was Friday (translation...reason to celebrate!),
:noway: ususally would go out to dinner or maybe order a pizza on Friday because it was Friday (reason to celebrate),
:noway: would often times go out to dinner on Saturday night with friends and treat myself to something really yummy (translation high fat/high calorie) because
a) it was Saturday,
b) I'd worked hard all week, and
c) I deserved it!!
:noway: Sunday I would ususally just do a lot of comfort eating because I had to go to work the next day.

I still have the incessant compulsion to "treat" myself...but thanks to this site and OA I am finally learning that I am being kinder to myself by watching what I eat than by stuffing myself with a bunch of fattening junk! So :drinker: here's to a new outlook and a healthier lifestyle...and eventually, a normal, healthy weight...which is, after all, the desire of my heart!!

Hope everyone has a great Saturday night and Sunday!!
Terri

Warning this is a looooong post

Have been MIA awhile trying to wii before reading and never enough time.

Barb "wii wii wii..." Oui! You crack me up! Thanks! Congrats for conquering the cheesecake/donut/muffin MayAsWells.
BRAVA for being back to your current ticker reading! You'll blast on down now!
Did you know that smelling, seeing, thinking about food can make you gain weight? without taking a single bite? This from
http://www.dietingtipsetc.com/can_you_gain_weight_just_looking_at_food.html
quote A Matter of Nature Working Against Us
Yale University recently conducted a very interesting study. They checked the insulin levels of hungry people who were exposed to the sight, smell and even just the thought of char-broiled steaks. Without even taking a single bite, these people’s insulin levels skyrocketed and their body’s started converting glucose into fat. What does this mean? Without taking a single bite of food, these people started gaining weight. unquote

Bleah.

And THANKS for the clue about restoring deleted items. You're right. We really should be able to pick our favorites.
Comfort pizza and yellowtail shiraz merlot cold remedy? Move over, I feel the sniffles coming on...

Get up early someone else's colonscopy? NO WAY! Someday ask me about my first colonscopy, its a looong and dog related story...

Think an eagle could swoop up Bradley. When the rivers freeze they're H U N G R Y.

my BF's young daughter loved the Canaterbury ghost, called it "Boogedy!" and watched it often.

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Barbie size 4 jeans WOW!
I've been saying I want to work til 67, but may have to rethink. Joe wants to retire at 62, and there have been so
many layoffs, I may be lucky to get that far. What scares me most is health insurance until Medicare.
Happy Baby with Cat on Chest-LOL!
Can't wait til the Pooga DVD comes out, sign me up!

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bsfriese Welcome another Barbara! While I prefer the long form Barbara too, I can go by bk, if that helps, so:
#1-Barbie (barbiecat)
#2-Barb (weaklink)
#3-Barbara or bk (auntiebk)
#4-Barbara (bsfriese)

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BirdieM Practical goals, yeah! Moderate alcohol helping all us middle aged women loose weight and maintain? Yippee!
My problem is not the calories in the glass of wine or beer, its what I do afterwards. So at least for Lent, no booze Mon-Thurs... and it does seem to be working. When I get down to maintenance, my reward will be to add back the daily wine or
beer. Thanks!

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constancemwj not really 50+ yet... both you and your kids are right. You can't replace your beloved lab Spice, but you DO need another doggie and God knows there are dogs that need you. Erwin and Owl might not agree... but they'll figure it out.

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Doobiedoo Splenda helps me reduce sugar intake. Not everyone favors artificial sweeteners and the others all give me a headache.

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Jackie- Aha! All those old metal fillings and the refrigerator magnets! NOW I understand. OFF the magnets go!
No hot tub til May? In Idaho this is prime hot tub weather... Eating for the sake of eating yeah it feels wrong when I do it too. Reading posts instead. Please never stop with the jokes. Even tho' I didn't get the hairy lip squid, I had to chuckle at the dish soap name. Fairy liquid has an entirely different connotation in the US and would not sell well. Great diet tip! Before the restaurant could throw me out, I'd be throwing up! Dog exercises, especially the dislocated shoulder... whichever comes first! HA!

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Jeannie-Sorry the surgery was longer and harder than expected, ghappy to hear it went well.

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JoAnn 25 lbs since Jan 5 W O W!

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kackie, isn't it funny, even though we miss the DH when he's away, there's always an adjustment when he returns and is ALWAYS around. Skiing in MT every day for 3 weeks = you really lead the "DO it NOW!" philosophy by example. Its true on so many levels.

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LifeAfter50 Debbie (RealThin) I don't dream of food, but 3 years after I quit smoking I had such a vivid dream of smoking that when I woke up I jumped out of bed and ran to my purse to make sure there was no pack of cigarettes there.
Last week had a great dream. Could see myself and didn't look like Jabba the Hut but more like I did 25 years ago. Maybe it is possible to change the inner image!

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MacMadam new meaning to the phrase "running date with DH"...

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MamaCindy About DST, MacMadame said it best. Throws me off for at least 3 weeks twice a year. :{

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Mary msh0530 Whoooeee! ! ! What a ticker! Con VERY gratulations! How are you doing on your plan? Looks like success to me! Log every bite, lick or sip, LOVE it! Know what you mean about being excited to be obese. wii told me Thursday that I was Overweight instead of Obese and I cried for joy! Let me know when you're overweight too and we'll celebrate!

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pmjsmom=Belated (3/8?) Happy Birthday Kathy! Tell me more about the diet soda cake, is there a recipe? Surprise to hear you and Jan can both have cats AND gerbils at the same time, would imagine the cats think of the gerbils as prey...Fruit tree order? getting 165 arranged? So you own a nursery?

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RebelRenny= Rebel Sorry about the cholesterol but good news about the rest and WOW for the Triglycerides! You referred to a "Skinny Saturday" could u tell me more? I need some of thse. How is Natalie doing? Still in a lot of pain? Changed my meals from names to times: 5-9am, 9am-1pm, 1pm-5pm 5pm-9pm after 9 pm

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smwert-welcome back and congrats!

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Spaniel-Happy happy Birthay, 60sister! "...week 10 of a diet with exercise and still no weight loss."How frustrated you must be. This may sound strange but are you eating enough? How about sodium? You'll find the whole range of exercise times here, from 10 mins per session everyother day to folks who seem to workout/run/bike for hours every day. Me I started with a goal of 30 mins/day, mostly aerobic up to 40 mins/day this month. Now I need to add in some strength (weights) and flexibility (yoga). As with exercise, crating is largely individual. When Robby and I picked Dixie up (after a play date) from breed rescue, she jumped into the back of the car, went straight into the crate, lay down on her side and promplty fell asleep. Rescuer said she'd never seen a rescue dog settle in so fast with new owner. Little did she know it would take over a year, 3 fences and a near-divorce for Dixie to "settle in". :} Robby just hates to be crated and left alone, so they both have the run of the house whenever we leave.

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Susanita-Great job passing up the creme brule! I haven't dared to try any of the Jilliam Nichaels DVDs ;}

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SuzyQ stability ball posture change in 2 days. OK I'm sold! Should hve gotten the country dance dvd when you mentioned it, now sold out at Wal~Mart. And size 10! Congratulations! Windy here too, makes me reluctant to work outside.

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Terri We must be on the same schedule, It took me 4 hours to read the posts from pag 8. But it did keep me from eating anything and going over my allotment, a first for a Saturday. Thanks gals!

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Texem Karen your affirmation story is inspiring!

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Viv, have to agree with Debbie, Barbie and Barb. I plan and log all the day's food first thing in the morning, but never log exercise until its really done If you're mornings are too rushed, plan and log tomorrow's food tonight like Barb. Planning and logging is almost as key as "Never never never give up!" Congratulations on your healthy snack plans, sounds like you are on the right track now!

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Thanks all, and good night!

Barbara aka Auntiebk, you are my inspiration. I LOVE how you take time to respond to everyone individually. :flowerforyou:

After a week of deep cleaning the house and then gardening I was so sore yesterday I took the day off from exercise. Still not sure if it was all the up and down on the ladder cleaning that was the culprit or the bending over digging grass out of the flowerbed. I can't beleive it made me sore with all the different kinds of exercise I've been doing.

My trip to meet girlfriends at the beach is only 16 days away and I'm still not sleek enough to feel comfortable in the two piece my BF is encouraging me to wear. :blushing: Its a great improvement from the size I was last March, but I can still see buldges in places they don't belong. So guess I'll be hitting the stability ball and cardio extra hard between now and then, or buying a one piece with tummy control at the last minute.

Should have my test results from my annual exam tomorrow or the next day.

Got to head out the door to Praise Team practice, so hope to catch up with you all later today. At least as long as I'm singing, I don't think about eating. Its all about choices and focus. How about if today we choose to live life ON PURPOSE! :drinker:

pmjsmom=Belated (3/8?) Happy Birthday Kathy! Tell me more about the diet soda cake, is there a recipe? Surprise to hear you and Jan can both have cats AND gerbils at the same time, would imagine the cats think of the gerbils as prey...Fruit tree order? getting 165 arranged? So you own a nursery?

barbarabk--there are a number of threads here about the diet soda cake. Basically it's a cake mix mixed with 10-12 oz. diet soda and then baked. I also added 1 egg white to help it be a bit fluffier. Then bake according to package directions. I used a white cake mix with diet orange soda and frosted it it with lite cool whip--everyone loved it! You can mix and match the flavors of mix and soda. There's no oil and very few eggs so it is lower in calories and fat.

We do keep Daisy (our gerbil) in a covered fish tank because Krispy (cat) can get ANY plastic cage open! He's never actually hurt one, though--he'd take one out and watch it run around! I(n fact, Lily, an older gerbil who recently died, was brought home by Krispy a couple of years ago!) (A neighbor had let her small animals go because she was tired of them!) Krispy does spend some time each day trying to catch the gerbil, who I think taunts him because she knows he can't get her!

I work in the Garden Center at our local Lowes store. I am a vendor (Live Goods Merchandiser) and my job is to unload and arrange the plants and trees, deadhead, etc. and help clean up. I love it! It's very physical work and I am getting quite a workout from it!

I want to welcome our new people! You'll love it here. Everyone is SO supportive and that helps so much!

Greetings all. Welcome Richmondhillgal, SallyCC and kathymurphy.

I have been trying too get wallpaper glue off of a wall pretty much all day. Stopped to go shopping for just a couple of hours. Also did vacuuming, furniture moving and taking hardware out of walls...so hopefully burned lots and lots of calories today!! Eating has been less, too, due to being so gosh-darned busy.

Regarding the weekend eating...I know when I worked full time I usually overindulged on the weekends...
:noway: starting on Thursday because the next day was Friday (translation...reason to celebrate!),
:noway: ususally would go out to dinner or maybe order a pizza on Friday because it was Friday (reason to celebrate),
:noway: would often times go out to dinner on Saturday night with friends and treat myself to something really yummy (translation high fat/high calorie) because
a) it was Saturday,
b) I'd worked hard all week, and
c) I deserved it!!
:noway: Sunday I would ususally just do a lot of comfort eating because I had to go to work the next day.

I still have the incessant compulsion to "treat" myself...but thanks to this site and OA I am finally learning that I am being kinder to myself by watching what I eat than by stuffing myself with a bunch of fattening junk! So :drinker: here's to a new outlook and a healthier lifestyle...and eventually, a normal, healthy weight...which is, after all, the desire of my heart!!

Hope everyone has a great Saturday night and Sunday!!
Terri

hey there! thanks for the welcome! You seem to be on the right trsack and if we totally deny oursleves a treat now and then I think we are doomed to overindulge. It is a gloomy day here, rainy and chilly. I am watching trashy reality tv. haha Have a great Sunday, ya'll!!!

Sorry trying to post with the quote attached..... I thought I would pass along one of my tips for removing wallpaper and the glue... this is really quite easy....

1 cup of downy fabric softener
1 gallon of warm water

Just let it sit on the wall for a few minutes and it scrapes right off... just be sure to score your wallpaper with a round scoring tool you can pick up at home depot or lowes...

Hope this helps... although you may already be finished... maybe you can try it next time....
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Welcome Cynthia. I know you'll enjoy this group.

Barb #2 - that was so cute about the nail. Thanks for the smile. It's interesting that Jillian Michael's recommended not to do crunches until you've lost the weight. I would think you should do crunches, even tho the muscles will be gettting bigger. At the same time you should also be doing cardio which burns off the fat. This way, when the fat goes, you have ab muscles there.

It's Wed. Did the deep water class, then did a little food shopping (just what was on sale), made a donation to the local soup kitchen, then made a donation to the Salvation Army. I tell you, I can NOT pass by that place and not at least look. I did find these Corelleware plates. See, I try to buy Corelleware or melamine and use those plates to put something on when I go somewhere. It doesn't cost me much, it's helping someone else out, and it looks better than giving someone a cake on a paper plate. I decided to look to see if there were any St. Patrick's day shirts (there weren't). While looking, I came across a pair of shorts, didn't know if they'd fit me or not. They're a size 5 -- is that a junior size? They fit so I'll wash and keep them. Also saw this gold fancy shirt that is for the Christmas holiday. Didn't know if it would fit (it did). I guess it fit since it was a long sleeved shirt, if it's a sleeveless (especially) I need a petite size.

I did my yoga today. I never realized how when I do down dog, that makes a great tunnel for a cat. I also learned that when I have my arms in, say, triangle, I can rub the cat's chin with the hand that's on the floor (or in my case, on my leg). Admitted, tho, it IS a bit tough to do a plank and then go down to the floor when the cat is sitting right under you.....lol I guess it could be worse, tho.

Went to a St. Patrick's day/birthday party at the home of this one gal. I must admit I did pretty well. Had 2 helpings of carrots and cabbage, took a small bite of the two different Irish Soda Breads that I'd brought (no butter), had one of these spinach bacon tartlets (got the recipe from Taste of Home, each tartlet has something like 48 calories in it). Then she had a birthday cake. Fortunately for me, it was whipped cream icing, I'm not a real big fan of whipped cream icing. I only had a very little. Did drink what I'm estimating was 16oz of water.

Madgoth - so sorry about the job. How disappointing. But something even better will come along, of that I'm sure.

Mary - have a great time camping!

WTG Terri!

Well, it's Friday. So far I've had 64oz of water, done 1 hr of hulahoop on the Wii. Tomorrow I'll probably do some yoga at home, then I have those fitness workshops. The ones that are on the same day as the Y's fundraiser, the one I won't be going to, I'll go where my passion is and it's not fundraising. So...I gotta make myself a lunch to take with me since there are two classes and I'm going to both.

Viv - whenever I get on the Wii, it says "oohh"

It's now Sunday. So far I've had 72oz of water and did 1 hr on the Wii. Did the ski jump. You know how they say that some days your balance is just "off". Well, today is one of those days for me!

It's rainy and colder today. Yuk! I really liked it yesterday when the temp was in the 70's.

Took the fitness workshops yesterday. I really like this gal. She must have awesome classes! We only did a shortened version of certain exercises (instead of 32, we only did 8), yet I can really feel it today. Gotta try to figure out which exercise it was that is making me feel it so.

Off to do my yoga. So far, I've been pretty good about doing the extra 15 minutes of yoga/day.

I'm thinking that I'll do spinning tomorrow. Haven't done that in a while. Then Tues I'll do pilates and then this toning class. The gal was in the workshop with me so I laughingly said to her "I'll be in class Tuesday so I expect to see some of these things incorporated into it". Wed. I'll take the deep water class, I'm also going to get my measurements taken by a gal who works there. Thurs I'll do a resistance training DVD (don't remember which one) and then Fri. I'll do some HIIT.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Michele

When I first got my Wii Fit, I had already been warned that the Mii would blow up like a balloon if you were obese. So when it happened, I laughed and laughed! It was fun to get it to go back down over time as I lost weight, too.

Hello all,

I hope you guys are doing better than I am. I just can't seem to make myself exercise lately. I haven't gained, but I want to lose, not just stay the same. I keep thinking it is the time of day I choose, but I think I am just unmotivated. :sad:

Thanks mamacindy81, I accept the challenge.

:bigsmile:

I'm glad I read through quite a few posts...sounds like others have a hard time on the weekends. I'd been doing so well until I went to San Francisco on Saturday and spent the day and how can you not eat in that beautiul city? Then I had book club last nite which we should actually call "eating club" because there are always delicious cheeses and desserts and of course wine which gets everyone talking and eating more but not always about the book ha! Its fun to be with good friends though and if too much eating occurs oh well.....I'll do better next time! I found if I just keep coming back to this site though I can get back on track again and that is something I really was'nt able to do before! If I blew it over a weekend or anytime that was it until I could'nt stand not feeling healthy again...not anymore! Have a good week everyone!

Hi everyone,

Back now from my week in the Lakes, Had a great time but ate and drank far too much. Not been weighed yet. Did do some mountain walks though so hoping it's not too bad, back on track today. Will catch up with posts later.

Hi, I am fairly new to this site and just found this thread. It is nice to talk to and read about people from my age group. i think we have our own problems dropping some of those extra pounds as we get older- at least I do.
I live with a supportive husband and 2 fairly supportive sons- one is nearly 16 and the other will be 20 tomorrow. They don't always get it because all of then are fairly thin. I have found this to be a very, very motivational site to go to and have turned a couple of my friends onto it.

My goal for March is to compete the 30 day challenge on wii active, complete the biggest loser on wii each week and now that it is warmer and not as wet outside try to get a have hour walk in each evening. :flowerforyou:

Still stuggling to lose my weight. Been going to WW but I feel counting calories is the best . Do you have any recipes to share?
My goal is to have lost 20 pounds by July.

Hi Sunshine:

I made a tomato cucumber salad for lunch today.

I used 2 small vine ripe tomatoes, 1 small cuke, about 1 oz of feta cheese and fresh basil julienned (about 5 leaves). Toss together with 2 tbs of Ken's Light Ceasar salad dressing. Tastes like summer! This was a side dish that served 3 people.

You can get a lot of recipes off the WW web site.

I think the main thing isn't what people eat so much as they are eating too much because they don't take the time to weigh or measure out correct portion sizes. So here as much as on weight watchers weigh and measure your food.

The other thing that is a problem for me is stress or boredom eating.

I hope everyone else is having a good day.

Cindy