WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2012

Happy hump day!
going to my knitting group.
Have a good one.
HUGS
jane

Laura80111
The chocolate lab- ate a doggy milk bone that was decorated as a reindeer ornament! Not chocolate! Lol.:laugh: It was 12 years old, it had glue and a little fuzzy red ball for the nose, 2 googly eyes and a red ribbon to hang it on the tree with.:noway: The dog can never get enough to eat or drink. I had her tested for diabetes, but no she does not have that.:noway:
I was so mad that she ate the preschool keepsake, that I asked her if she wanted a gastric bypass for Christmas! Lol:laugh:
I believe she would eat herself to death if she could.:ohwell:

BJ- I have seen that doggies shame website. I will have to put her on it! She was a very naughty lab! Sandy Claws might bring her a "coal milkbone" this year! Lol:explode: :laugh:

I just read my post from the iPhone and the typos and punctuation errors made me laugh.:laugh: :laugh: I am happy that I found the way to read the posts,so I don't have to wait to get on the computer to read them.:drinker:

I was thinking that a way to check how you are doing might be to look at your total calorie deficit for the week. It takes a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound. So, if you are not achieving this then there will not be a "true weight loss"
What do you think?
JB- praying for all the people/families affected by the senseless act of aggression that happened in Portland yesterday.Thinking of you today and hope that you are doing ok.:flowerforyou:

I have to go take a nap. To bed at 0230 and up at 0700, makes me a craving carbo,sweet monster! I do not want to be that character today. I am worth more than that crazy sleep deprived sweet craving monster!:drinker:

Linda C- you can be Linda C and I can be Linda S (S) =-Sundance** is the name of our yellow lab. She is the one in my weight loss ticker!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Hugs- be the best you can be today! Linda Sundance

Just changed my picture, just for fun. It's me and DS at Copper Mountain. What a fun day!

JB, so sorry to hear about the shooting, and so near you. It makes me sad how much senseless violence is occurring these days - really wonder about the tests they used to do about lab rats and how they react when in overpopulated and stressed situations. Ugh.

Just went for my walk - it's still chilly but if I run on the downhills I warm up pretty fast - I was shedding clothes by the end. Speaking of which, public safety announcement: when you've lost a lot of weight, you need to get rid of your workout clothes that don't fit. And possibly wear safety-underwear with your too-big pants when running. :blushing:

Cheers,

M.

Didn't have much to catch up to as I had my soup with you gals. Then went and made my meat pies managed to get 9 big ones and four little ones. And that's all i'm making this year. I'm wondering how in heck I used to make 100 and some years more to sell. That and cookies by the dozen. And fancy cookie baskets. To old for that now.

So sitting here waiting to take them out of oven. Got the first few out. Supper tonight meat pie and a salad and pickled beets. But only after tops lol.

Jane
Have fun at your stitch and ***** club. That's what we call our craft club.LOL

Debbie
Welcome back. You better prepare to read a lot. Better have a long lunch.

Linda S
My son had black labs the old one is a wonderful dog. You can put a dog bone in front of her and she won't take it until you say ok it's yours. But her daughter sure isn't the same. She's still a pup and pretty playful.
I add up my seven days here then see where I am calorie wise and everything else what I aim for is to be between 1200 and 1500 for my week.
Ok i'm Linda C

Cathy
welcome back. Glad you took care of the 14 lbs before it got to more.
How encouraging is that to have a bunch from work join in with you.
I'm lazy when it comes to exercise.
Been ok with my food.
Grandkids sure add a lot to Christmas. Sure would be boring without them.
Cathy are you from the Toronto area.

Well the meat pies are putting the Christmas smell through the house. And tonight it will be cookies.

Well it sure smells good in here.

Linda C

Happy 12-12-12 to everyone!!

Busy week here. Just one quick comment---

I make a smoothie everyday that's like ice cream. I love it, I really do not care what someone says about not chewing. By that logic my Smoothie is very healthy because it's so cold my body has to work to warm it up as I eat it with a spoon because there's no way it would ever go through a straw. :laugh: :laugh:

Be safe and drink that water. :drinker: :drinker:

Lin

Happy Weds everyone. Here's a great recipe for red beans. I made a half-batch today, which makes about 8 cups. Just cut everything in half from the list below.. This recipe is also excellent without sausage or meat of any kind, but today I added about 4 oz of leftover pork roast instead of using sausage. I don't add any salt since the even the reduced sodium chicken broth is plenty salty for my taste.

Yo Mama's Red Beans

2 T veg oil
2 c. chopped onions
1 c. chopped green peppers
1 lb smoked sausage (optional)
2 T. minced fresh garlic
2 T. minced fresh ginger
7-8 c. chicken stock
1/4 c lightly packed chopped fresh parsley
1 lb dried red kidney beans* (soaked overnight)
* or small red beans

Seasoning mix:
2 t dry mustard
1 t cayenne
1 t cumin
1 t garlic powder
1 t dried oregano
1 t ground dried pasilla chile peppers
1 t black pepper
1 t dried thyme
1/2 t white pepper
salt to taste (at the end of cooking only)

Slice and brown the sausage if using. Saute half of the onions, add garlic and ginger, saute for 5-10 mins, then add remaining onions, beans, sausage and seasonings. Cook 5 min. Add stock and cook 2 hrs.

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Linda, I laughed about that darn eye looking right at you from the pile of vomit! :laugh:

M, last spring I about lost my drawers while jogging one morning. :blushing: Now I can only wear them if I wear my rain pants over top to keep them from falling down around my ankles. They're still in great condition, so maybe I'll take them in if I ever get my sewing machine set up. Thanks for the warning, knowing me I would have forgotten about the underwear lol

The shooting here at the mall in Portland yesterday sure put a damper on everyone's spirits. My heart just breaks for the poor families of the two people killed. So very, very sad.

Time for me to head to work. Everyone have a wonderful afternoon.

jb

Love the vitamin F! This group always gives me something to go to when I need some inspiration. Thanks to all.
MaryC

Hello lovely ladies. What a day! We had our test review and I had a meeting, now I have been doing final clinical evaluations with students and trying to work on both my upcoming course and my current course’s gradebook to ensure that it is correct. OMG This learning platform system we have is incredibly complex, however, you can’t even do something simple like view all the points in the gradebook. It only gives the %. I cannot wrap my mind around a percent when you can only accumulate 300 points in one category, so the IT guy and I go round and round. Each semester he helps me set my course and gradebook up and each semester, it is totally screwed up and has to be monkeyed with.:explode:

Last night’s meeting with DD#1 went pretty well. She seemed to be open to what we had to say, especially me, so that was good. DD#2 and hubby are going to the counselor today, so when he has alone time with her, he is going to fill her in on all the weirdness we have going on. Such a drama factory.

Glenda: I too eventually look forward to the start of a new year and normalcy!

Cathy: oh my that is a lot of health problems to deal with! I am sending my best wishes to you and your family. Your DGD is a dolly!:flowerforyou:

Jjdig: I always get hungry as soon as the time changes!

Wessecg: maybe one of those industrial scales? (for the horse!)

DeeDee: I have had several flavorful foods today but my stomach is growling! I feel like I haven’t eaten in days!

Suebedew: you worked at Collin Street bakery? Oh my I would have poured one shot of brandy on the cake and one on me! Cake, me, cake, me, me….whooops…cake, me!:laugh:

Mothernicole: we adopted two “tweens” from Russia so we also do something special on January 7.

Annie: I once played golf in a really dense fog…seriously couldn’t see 10 feet; I’m not sure why the course was still open. Every once in a while you’d hear someone yell “OWWWW” It was pretty funny!:bigsmile:

Michele: you sound way busier than I do! And that’s saying a lot!:huh:

Kay: welcome and come back often

Barbie: I have never had a latke…sounds good though!

Linda: oh my attack of the critters! Our beagle started eating everything in sight as soon as he got well. He had never done that before. I would have been freaked out to see that eyeball.

Carol M: welcome to you too!

Pat: good for you on your weight loss despite your indulgences!

M: your fish recipe sounds great. We are eating fish at least once and sometimes twice a week and I’m always looking for a good way to fix it. Hope all your blood work is fine. Have some vitamin D with the vitamin F!

Laura: fabulous on your weight loss

BJ: what are Scottish oat cakes? I’m scottish and would like to try some!

OK I'm at the end of my one nerve....too many interruptions to continue. I started this 7 hours ago, and now we just had to tell DD#1 she has 2 weeks to buy her own car because she is not doing what we told her she needed to do in order to continue driving after the summer driving freak=out. Take care. Meg:drinker: ps pass the wine

Hi everyone :happy: I'm Sue and 55 yrs old. This sounds like a fun group and I'm looking forward to being a part of it. A friend told me about MFP and that she's having good results with it, so I decided to check it out. I joined in Nov. of this yr and I love it! I'm already losing how cool is that?!

This past Monday I fell after shoveling my driveway & sidewalk. Wouldn't you know I broke my arm :sad: Talk about a setback. Though I can't do my usual exercise I'm determined to eat healthy the best I can and hoping I can continue to lose weight.

My Goals for Dec.:
Eat healthy
Portion size foods
Lose weight

Hi Sue, and Welcome! Sorry about your arm -- but you can still run, walk or bike, right? You are off to a great start, and also have a terrific excuse to have someone else do the shoveling. (I screwed my shoulder up big time shoveling a couple of years ago; lots of physical therapy and still haven't gotten back into my upper body groove but that's on my January list...)

Well, I am officially in my pre-holiday stress eating. After I closed out my menu, I pigged out on some cookies and candy. I actually rationalized eating the candy by telling myself that the sooner I got it out of the house, the better. lol

Did 1 hr of yoga today then 1 hr of deep water. tomorrow I'll do a Jari Love (weights) DVD then it's my day to volunteer at the Green Room (theater, I do the box office)

kayciel, carolm (happy birthday!), welcome back mcdebbie, Sue, and anyone else that I may have missed - welcome

Liz - glad you're feeling better.

Denise called tonight. She's been sick for a while now. Last week Vince told her that she needs to go to the MD to see if she needs an antibiotic to knock it out of her system. So instead she got like $40 worth of OTC stuff. Then she calls toight to say that her fever is higher and would we pay for her med? Pay for med because she made a poor choice in not going to the MD sooner? I don't think so. She said the other day that she went to work. I'm surprised they let her, she sounds terrible over the phone to us, I can imagine how she sounds at work. And she's working at a daycare. If I were a parent, I sure wouldn't want someone who was sick to be with my child. But then again, why am I surprised? They let her start work even before any of her background checks were done. What if she were a child rapist and they let her work with children? That doesn't sit well with me at all, but there's nothing I can do.

barbie - do you keep the latkes in a baggie which you put into a dish of ice water? My grandmother used to make potato pancakes. I love them with sour cream, but haven't had them in a long time. You just can't have them without them being fried, and I really don't want something with a lot of oil

I was going to make these oatmeal raisin cookies but the other day Jessica mentioned some cookies that had a chocolate kiss on top. Most of the recipes I've found have peanut butter in them, but today at Aldi I found a box of shortbread with chocolate drops so I'll try those instead of the oatmeal raisin. Anyway, I be the only one who would eat the oatmeal raisin and Jessica can take home the chocolate drop cookies.

Laura - one of our cat's name is Loki -- the Norse god of mischief!!!!

Made the salmon cakes for Christmas Eve, they're just in the refrig, will probably fry them tomorrow. Also made shrimp tarts for an appetizer (and I'll probably be the only one eating them). Still need to make the pie, the soup, and the catfish. Plus the wrapping. I didn't realize that Vince used up so much wrapping paper last yuear, now I have to go buy more. I just feel so stressed. Thank goodness I'm not planning to go to that Mahjongg lunch. I just feel like there's too much that needs to be done. Need to work on cleaning the house too.

BJ - congrats on the NSV!

Cheryl - sounds very reasonable about the smoothies.

Linda - that eyeball looking up at you must have been something else.

A bit rushed tonight (can you tell?). I AM reading all the posts, just probably not responding to many

Sue - a broken arm! You poor thing, feel better fast

barbie - about those shakes, how are they in the protein dept? Is there much sugar in them? I looked at almost all the shakes on the market in the store, and either the second or third ingredient was sugar! It was just loaded with sugar. Those meal replacement or protein bars seemed to be more like glorified candy bars than anything else. the palm oil and coconut oil in them! So how do yours stack up? I know that you have to order them over the Internet. Is there a minimum amt you have to order, what is it?

Pete (SFB) just called, ?Denise is in the hospital, she has pneumonia.

Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele

Went to the Boise Botanical Garden with my SIL and Cousin in Law to see the Christmas light display. We had a great time, and the garden was beautiful.

Good morning ladies

What a cold day in London! Even with my thermals on I'm really feeling the cold.

It's hard to type with cold fingers.

Anyway, I hope you are all doing well, keeping warm and eating healthfully (not to mention drinking your water!)

Keep moving!

Love to all.
Amanda x

Checking in for a dose of Vitamin F!!!

Didn't sleep well last night and woke up thinking today was Friday. NOT!!! I am feeling the holiday crunch and stress all of a sudden. I am also stuck (once again) with my weight. And it is official...I am post menopausal. No friend for a year. Weird that I am a little sad about this.....

Plan- Today is a new day. I will eat within my calories today and get in some structured exercise. I will have a plan for tomorrow. One day at a time.....

Thanks to all my virtual friends. I am toasting your successes and sending hugs and prayers for your struggles....

Carolyn

Hello all, :happy:

Here's a thought. Yesterday & today my scale shows a 3 pound loss. :noway: . It's taken me three months to loose the three pounds before that. I don't believe it and I'm not going to record it until it's "held" for at least a week. We shall see. That 3 pounds puts me at my goal. I must say, there's a lot of incentive now to eat carefully and keep up the exercise, because that's a pretty motivating number on the scale!

DH the Etech thinks the problem with my Mac is the power cord, I really hope so. He had the machine apart last night and cleaned out all the lint and fluff. It charged overnight, so I am able to talk you all today. It's not charging now, though, so I may be off-line again soon.

I have been reading all your posts and keeping up with all the news.

A few folks have mentioned feeling overwhelmed by the pace of the season. Try not to let it get to you. It really is hard to stay out of the maelstrom, but when you get caught in the whirlpool it's time to take Glenda's advice: turn on the twinkle lights and sit down with a cup of spicy tea (or a glass of wine ) Focus on the fact it's "the season of light, hope and promise," all the rest is optional. It really is. Don't do it unless you're having fun. Hugs.

My rant is over now.

Linda-Sundance, I like the idea of a "Thoughtful Thursday", will carry that idea into the day with me.

We have gym class first thing today - the last gym class of the year because by Monday the stage will be set up in gym and we will be full-on into Christmas Concert rehearsal mode. The grade 7 class are the actors who perform the very sketchy play that links the classroom performances. Typical stuff, except I am the grade 7 teacher who has to get them up to the microphones. :ohwell: We are having fun practicing, it remains to be seen what they will do next week. In the meantime, I'm trying to think of an energetic basketball themed game to get them moving this morning. Maybe a full class scrimmage with more than one basketball. :laugh: That should get things moving.

I must go and get J'boy's breakfast eggs cooking. Such a lucky fellow, his mother makes him a hot breakfast.

Hasta pronto,

Nancy

Good morning, Ladies -

Nancy, I laughed when you said "My rant is over now" - all rants should be so kind and inspirational . . . :laugh: . DH still makes the kiddos breakfast when they're here, even though they rarely even eat it - can't tell if he's in competition with his ex or just trying to stay connected. It's hard when they get older and all are off on their own. If you're at your goal, I'm not surprised it's taken you that long to get there - as we're older our bodies resist more and simply have higher plateaus than before. Congratulations:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and I'll be keeping everything crossed for you to keep it off!

DeeDee, there's a board here about eating back your calories - they mention your body will "hoard" the calories as it's been used to being near starvation and will go into saving mode whenever it can. It's frequently the cause of plateaus too. Just keep doing the same thing for a while; you should see a change eventually. This is a long slow process. Even when you were gaining weight you undoubtedly had long periods where you weren't gaining or losing; same thing on the downside. At least that's been my experience.

Just got some new work-out DVDs for after the first of the year - more kickboxing-style. I love, love, love kickboxing and am very excited about these. The only issue, well, two issues, is that a) I've heard a lot of horror stories about what happens when you stop doing resistance training and b) the workouts are a lot shorter than I'm used to. I suspect after I start I may do resistance on the shorter workout days (only 30 minutes!), so basically doubles, and then I'll keep up with my afternoon walks too. I'm happy with the nutrition plan that came with these - it's a super-simple flash-card approach (similar to weight watchers, I suppose) where I get so many "units" of starches, legumes, proteins, etc. and can pick and choose from an extensive list of options. There really isn't anything that isn't "allowed", but it does have minimal dairy (something I notice about BeachBody diet plans in general) and uses coconut oil instead of olive or butter. I'll probably keep the olive oil anyway. It's a 60-day program - very excited to start!

OK, off to work. Enjoy your day, everyone!

Cheers,

M.