WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

Hi, I am 56 and well on my way. My biggest problem is sugar, I love it. I have 30 lbs to go.


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Cindy: I like your plan! I really feel like part of the group here and will keep up the food journaling, exercise, etc. Thanks for the support :flowerforyou:

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:

Maybe you haven't found the right exercise yet.

What kinds of stuff do you like to do and what are you doing?

So true! Thanks for the reminder that it really just matters that I am out there walking regardless of the aches and pains! Actually I am really blessed that I can be outside and mixing it up with nature and just enjoying the moment.

:flowerforyou: Suzanita, I have tendonitis mainly in my left knee and a little in my right. My doctor had me buy a support strap for it. What is your knee problem?

:flowerforyou: Terri, I can't count the number of times that I have accidentally delete everything that I had typed. I just give up and turn my computer off when that happens. So frustrating.

Hey, a massage is a great motivational tool. I have been wanting one. Soooo, if I can get 20 pounds off of me I think I will splurge on one.

I went to a meeting at my girls' school for their trip to Florida next week. Wow, a week without any kids. Can't wait. My husband and I will also be celebrating our anniversary while they are gone.

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, I'm one of those who works and cooks for family (none who are overweight like me) and I've gotten a lot of good recipes from the recipes forums here on MFP. One of my favorites is the crock pot thread, but there are many threads going there. Even though I have many cookbooks I got a new one that has the calories and nutritional information in it. The one I got is called something like 450 meals in 30 minutes. It has really helped.

Good luck,

Jeannie

Barbie thanks for the word about Barb, was missing her posts along with vacationing Jackie

Loved the Thursday-Sunday weekend justificsations. Sounds EXACTLY like me. I'm with Viv, have been "treating" myself to emptycaloriefood, beer or wine, then more emptycaloriefood. for decades! Foregoing booze weekdays this Lent has been harder than expected, but Somebody upstairs must be helping cuz I haven't cheated once . . . so far!

Madgoth MamaCindy and MacMadame are 100 % right! You have to find some activity you like. I've always been one of those people who lie down until the urge to exercise passes... until I eliminated the dread word "exercise" from my inner vocabulary, substituted "activity", found yoga, then line dancing and now scottish dancing. I get really short of breath in the fast dances or walking up the least little slope, could be the 30 yrs of smoking (smoke-free now for 10 years thankyouverymuch!), could be the extra 45 pounds. Yes, sometimes I have to stop and catch my breath. Right now there's an up slope I have to stop on 3 times... but one day I'll only have to stop twice, then once, then... Barbie also said it right, if your Moving, your Losing!

Mary sleet and snow? Thank goodness for motels and neices' houses and good attitudes! Hope the rest of your family was as positive as you!

Michelle cat yoga an HOUR of wii hulahoop?!? Balance is off only SOME days? This from she-who-snowballs down the ski jump more often than not. Will look for that Spinach bacon tartlet from Taste of Home,sounds YUMMY! Have been struggling with your Board issues. Yes I think the guy acted like a jerk. Yes fundraising is the bitter truth of non-profits. If I were you I'd find a more congenial board, then find some fund raising activity I could support to do my share of the yucky task. Some way of offering people a chance to do good by giving, but with no pressure. When you figure out how to do that, would you tell me?

pmjsmom Kathy "(A neighbor:devil: had let her small animals go because she was tired of them!) " Grr makes me crazy/mad... :mad: :explode: but then God sent a Krispy angel to bring Lily to you so she could end her days in peace and safety. Wow you really DO get a workout, what a great name "Live goods!"

Rebel running 1/3 of the way is more than "a bit" Great Job! You are so right about the coffee. Tea too!
I've been trying to run but at best its a jigglejogging few steps...

RichmondHillgal Whos the cutie on your ticker? Congrats on quitting smoking and the 2 5Ks. 10K wow!

Suzanita How jealous I am of your SF evening. Some of the things I miss most about the Bay Area are the Sourdough bread, the great, cheap produce, the sourdough bread, the really good cheap California red wine, and of course the sourdough bread... Guess its just as well we live in Idaho now ;} This site is GREAT for getting back on track right away instead of doing weeks or months more damage. These gals are the best! As for knees, I take Knox gelatine every day, and after about 3 weeks it helps the pain walking downstairs. I used to take the Knox gelatine/glucosamine/chondroitin but didn't like some of the things I read about either the glucosame or the chondroitin, and now can't remember what it was. Does anyone remember Vioxx? Now that was something that WORKED. Glad I only took it when I was traveling or really suffering and always went off it for a couple of months between times.


SuzyQ Annual exam? If anyone can stability ball her way into a 2 piece its you! Do Violet and Muffin "help" like Brandy/Tasha/Shilo help Barbie? and Michelles cats help her?

Terri - The massage as treat was just what I needed to hear. Won't wait as long as the rest of you though, soon as I hit the 15 lb down mark I'm making the call. 20 lbs will be a new pair of shoes. . . ;}

chrissyepson - maybe bad knees are part and parcel of the accumulation of years , but the accumulation of pounds just makes them worse. Every gal who's on this thread is doing the #1 best thing she can to relieve knee pain... take off those pounds! :flowerforyou:

Hugs to all,

Good afternoon.

This is the first time I've had to post. It's been a busy day. We had a consultant come out and give us an estimate for a metal roof today. 29K Wow, who knew they went for that much! Of course hubby started with the top of the line but that is a little steep. Yes we knew they cost a lot more than shingles. The Company will give us a 7K discount if we keep a sign in the yard for 4 months and give them 3 referrals. Even bringing the cost down to 22K that's pretty steep. He told us that shingles start at around 8K. There's a lot more that needs to be done to this house so we will have to make a decision about which way we want to go.

I have had a good exercise day 455 calories burned. Well I have plenty of calories to eat but am over on my fat grams so I guess I'll be eating fruit or veggies.

I also just got finished planting a bed of spinach. Hopefully it will germinate. My little seedlings are coming along. My purple tomatoes have germinated. I sowed them in these little expandable peat pots. Eric says they look spindly so I'm going to have to put them in bigger pots with more dirt. I told him he can do it next time. He was in some class in high school where he said they started seed in pig manure and other stuff and the plants came up really healthy. I told him he can do it next time. Ugh, men, well maybe not all men but sometimes they are just know it alls! Okay, venting over because he is great in so many other ways.

Menopause just s*cks.:mad: I keep thinking I'm done and then Tom shows back up. Oh, well what's a girl to do?

Kitchen is calling me. It wants to be cleaned up really badly.

Cindy

Hello all,

For what it is worth the doctor that fixed DD's hip said that vitamin C is one of the best things for joints and it is cheaper than gluclosomene. He also said that treadmills are not good ideas due to secondary movement can cause injuries. He swears by stationary bicycles. (upright with no resistance if your joints are really bad sitting with you hands behind your back grabbing the seat with your fingers.) DD was on the bike for 20 minutes within a day of the surgery. She has to do 20 minutes pr more 2x's a day for the next 3 months.

DD started vitamin C today, so we will see if it helps. I'm assuming it will take a while to prove anything.

Good luck to all of you with bad knees, hips, wrists, elbows, ankles, shoulders, backs and necks. It's hard to exercise when you hurt.

Jeannie

I'm not exactly sure what my knee problem is but I believe it is arthritis...which is why I get occasional flare ups....I wore a light knee brace today while walking and it seemed to help!

I have upped the intensity (not the time or distance) on my swimming for the past two days, and I AM TIRED! However, I know that this too shall pass, and I will be able to do that much more. A year ago, although I swam a fair amount, I could not do more than one lap of the crawl stroke, and it had me panting and wondering if I could make it. As of this week, I am swimming 1/3 of a mile several times a week, and 80% of it is the crawl stroke! I am hoping to make it 100% within another month or so. So, Madgoth, hang in there. If you just keep pushing yourself a little bit, I think that your breathing will improve. I was also a very large woman with asthma. Now I am a fairly large woman with a little less asthma! :laugh:
Hope all are doing well, and here's to smart choices!

DUMB QUESTION.........does crystal light count as water drank?

Hi Ladies,

Did anyone see the latest article on Yahoo from JAMA (medical publication) about women our age needing to exercise at least an hour a day just to maintain? I included the link - hope it goes through. When you look at what MFP tells us we need to burn a week in calories, they are right on target. MFP is one great site

Here's the link: http://health.yahoo.com/featured/91/exercise-can-help-prevent-weight-gain-but-it-won-t-be-easy

Have a wonderful day. It's time to get back to the spring cleaning :sad:

All fluid counts. Even soup!

Some people say caffeinated beverages don't count because caffeine is a diuretic. Except it turns out that it isn't, after all. So I count the caffeinated beverages -- not that I drink that many.