WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2013

Okay, the parties are over, the company has just packed up and left and now it is time......
to whip this house back into shape,
to establish and re-establish some routine and good habits in eating and exercise,
to take some control of the clutter and disorganization,
to make those necessary but neglected phone calls and appointments.....

With a little refining and defining and specifics, those could be made into some decent goals for the month ahaead! Time to get off the computer and off the butt!

Glenda (in beautiful sunny - but windy- southern Alberta)

This looks like a wonderful group! I just joined after reading about MFP in Consumer Reports. I joined for the nifty tools, but I am realizing that the online support community will be just as important.

My goals for January are:
Zumba or Jazzercise five days a week (finally found great workouts that are fun to do)
Try out a new vegetable or fruit I've never had before
Have a vegetarian meal twice a week.

Happy 2013 to all!

Hi ladies and happy new year
I am not new to MCP have been here for over 2 yrs and lost 109 lbs but I am new to this group. I will be 50 on feb 7 YIKES ,I look forward to getting to know you.......themommie

Looking for motivation and the will to lose weight and exercise daily. I have ignored myself caring for others and I need to make this my time, 2013.

Hello, My name is Judie, I am 50 years old, and am new to My Fitness Pal. I would like to meet some friends. I need to get back in shape in 2013! I am determined to do it!!


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Hi everyone: Happy New Year! I've dabbled with this site for a while but I haven't checked out the Community or Friend Section - what a great resource of motivation! I'm looking forward to getting fit! Best wishes to all, Sassy

TGIF~Got my walking in,taking my daughter to the mall to spend her Christmas money.
Girlfriend with kidney cancer went for cat scan and thy found nodules on her lungs that look like cancer.We`ve been friends for 30+ years and found myself eating over it last night.Any prayers are welcome .
HUGS
jane

I'm going to skip 9 and 10 and just go on from here. Just hope to be able to come more than once a day.
Went to city today for hubbies eye glasses . He bought me a nice new sewing machine it's a brother never had nothing but singers hope I figure how to use it.
Got a lot of stuff at Zeller's going out of bussiness. Bought a set of queen size flannel sheets for $18.00 going to make pyjamas for grandkids out of them. Cheaper than buying flannel by the yard.
Well today was a good day except for to many cheesee's is that how they are spelt. On our way home. But had very light supper.
Should be ok.
Need to go fix my food tracker but I still have my yogurt and strawberries to have.

So hope you all had a great day.
See you all tomorrow.

Oh darn my goals for Jan. forgot.
1-To get as far as 200 as possible never seeing it again.
Drink my water lots of it
Exercise more not commiting to how much just more.

Easy doable and so far doing it.

:yawn: holy smokes what a day...what a week! I am trying to stay on track and start making progress again...not sure it is this seeking did manage to not gain over holidays so that is good and have restarted exercise routine ...I even did weights yesterday...however ..the new office...YIKES! All of the people in the office are very helpful but their procedures have twice as many steps, we are learning a new management system and our customer policy (insurance)info isn't in the new system yet...makes it difficult to get anything done...things will settle out but the short term is frustrating. To top off the week we were all there late tonight because a client needed coverage on his 9 snowmobiles for the 9 members of his family but he didn't think about it until late afternoon...oh well got it done and it was a team effort. Ok one more thing to vent about...ds wassullosed to fly back to CA today but when he tried to check in at airport they had no info???!! Even though he had confirmation from airline??? Not sure if he didn't follow through on something or the airline screwed up...tomorrow I have to drive him to airport...we are leaving at 4am

Ok now i am done whining ...thank you for listening!

Hope all the cold/flu/sinus sufferers feel better soon...Amanda sending positive thoughts your way for a problem free scan

In the words of my wise dh...better days are coming!

Who wanted to laugh everyday? In spite of the debacle of the work day...we did find time to laugh...even if it was at the absurdities of what our clients wanted!

Hugs and high fives!

Jen from New York State (2hours north of NYC)

Ok, I think I need some tough love. After seeing my first gain this morning since I started on August 3 I have felt down all day. So what am I doing at this exact moment???? Binging on the left over chocolate chip cookies my son made last night. I've had 3!!!! And I was at my calorie goal before I ate them. Haven't logged them yet. I am soooo upset with myself. So . . . I am going to go to Walmart and hopefully walk enough calories away to come out even tonight. What a dufus I am!!:frown:

Trying to remember some of the saying I used to quote.

Today on the lips, tomorrow on the hips.
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels (that was Jenny Craig)

JaneMartin - sorry about your friend. I'll says some prayers!
Gail / GA

Jane - Prayers for you and your friend..cancer is tough..she's fortunate to have you

LinC - Love the Fitbit..yesterday I had 9,337 steps and so far today I'm at 10,396...if I don't have enough steps I take another walk..it's a fantastic motivator!

Michele NC - How nice of the dentist not to charge you

Suebdew - Feel better soon

Wessecg - Don't beat yourself up over 3 cookies - you are already getting back on track by walking at WalMart - tomorrow is another day

Janie - We got my dad the LifeLine so if anything happens and we're not close by he'd still get help fast

Jen and all new friends - Glad you're here

Megblair1 - Take care and feel better

Denise - I used to snack alot in the evenings but started telling myself I couldn't eat after a certain time and that I would make it til morning

Robin - So glad you had a great day at work and sound so much better.

Welcome to everyone new posting

For everyone feeling under the weather get well soon

Colleen

I too read the article about MFP being the diet plan with the most customer satisfaction, scoring better than WW and Jenny Craig. That is so cool!
I got my fitbit online but I recently saw an ad from Bestbuy that they sold them in their stores.
Keep coming back,
MaryC, SE WI

Been a pretty nice day. We got all the decorations down, packed away and most of the rooms ready to clean tomorrow. It was sunny outside so DH and I walked down to the river for a few minutes. I think my cold is getting better. I also watch Dr Oz but sometimes just peruse the subject and delete if I'm not interested. If we took everything he recommends we'd gain weight from all the suppplements:ohwell:
Got ready to work on my Wii this afternoon and nothing worked. I haven't used it since the Grandkids were here for Thanksgiving. Had to synch everything. By the time I got everything ready it was suppertime. I did do 31 minutes of exercise after dishes were done.
Hope you ladies are staying strong in your minds and hearts. See ya tomorrow.
SuebDew

Welcome everyone who is new. I know right now that there will be too many to mention individually. You'll love it here, everyone is so caring and supportive with such great ideas.

dmendel - log in here and you'll find that even without thinking about it, you'll be sticking to your "resolution" and making a life change. We're here for you any time of the day or night. You're posting perfectly well.

Deb - a scrapbook is a fantastic idea. Thanks so much, I would never in a million years have thought of it. The nice thing is that a person doesn't have to read or understand English to look at pictures

Well, that darned Wii character said "that's overweight" again. I told you that it wouldn't last more than one day! On the positive, it didn't look like it was very much into the "overweight" zone.

Did an hour of a bosu workout today. I needed to see if this DVD was OK. I thought the write up said that it was only 30 minutes so I was surprised when it was an hour long. I did take it easy, tho with my foot. I do go to see the MD today at 1:45. I'm hoping that he'll just tell me to rest it. Yoga tomorrow. Oh, does the lemon in the hot water for your sinuses (is that what it's for?) have to be fresh lemon juice?

Deb - when we went to Olive Garden, I ordered my salad without dressing but they brought me a salad with dressing. I know that this probably embarassed Vince, but that's not my worry. I sent it baack asking for no dressing,. I didn't realize that they put crutons on it too so I asked if I could have it without the crutons. They didn't have a problem with it. Really, I didn't need to order the salad. For one thing, it was just iceburg lettuce -- not much nutritionally. And the chicken and broccoli really filled me up along with the soup. You know, I did find the soup to be a bit on the salty side. But part of that is probably because I'm used to not having much salt so I'm more sensitive to it. It's probably a prepared soup, but I am going to ask them if perhaps they make it. I doubt it, tho. Thanks for telling me about the website. I'll have to check it out. Maybe I could make one up for her for Valentine's day?

Eileen - I never knew what "bump" was an anchronym for. I just always thought it was a random word that people used to get the post in their "recent topics" list. How scary someone broke into your school! Glad things weren't real bad.

Lucy4TDieting - when Vince retired, we looked on the Internet. Hickory NC's last hurricane was over 20 years ago (Hurricane Hugo). I know a lot of people retire to the outer banks, but we didn't want to have to rebuild our house every few years. There is a change of seasons here. When it snows, the snows usually melts within a day or two. We're about an hour or so away from Charlotte (depends on which part of Charlotte you go to, could be more, could be less)

Marita - I hear ya, I don't like the "ohhhh" from the Wii, either. LOL about you giving her the bird. Probably makes you feel better if anything.

We have a Newcomer board meeting today at 10. I do want to go because there are things about the next general meeting that I need to get clarification on (along with Vince)

Judy - I feel so much better now, too. Now that the holidays are over and all that holiday eating. Getting back to a semi-normal routine, that feels so good

Liz - what are you doing on the Wii? I usually take the body test each day (why, I really don't know) but like doing some of the training games, balance games and even aerobics. I didn't think the toning stuff was good because they'd work one body part but not the opposing muscle group. I don't know enough about yoga to say if it's a good workout or not.

Amanda - good luck at the doctor's. Let us know his findings, OK?

Joyce - it's not a good idea to send your body into starvation mode. Once in a while is OK, but certainly not on any sort of regular basis. What will happen is that your body won't know when it's going to get more calories, so it'll hang on for dear life to what calories it has (and that'll be fat). In the end, you'll only hurt yourself.

Denise - congrats on making it thur the night! I find that a small piece of chocolate or some yogurt is helpful at night. Not a lot of calories, but enough to squelch those cravings.

Carolyn - you are NOT a baby feeling sad when your daughter goes back home after a visit. I totally understand how you feel. I haven't seen Bryan in two years, when I do it'll be waterworks time! It's great that she was able to spend the holidays with you. Good luck on your challenge! You know what's right for you (taking baby steps with exercise at first), so go for it! I got a zumba for the Wii, planning to try that Sunday. kathy's right - just because they're an adult doesn't make it any easier. They'll always be our little children. I hear ya loud and clear

emtjab - sending a virtual Kleenex

Kathy - congrats on getting dd to join MFP!

Robin - glad you're having such a great day. You deserve it. Your boss must be one sad person if she needs to make others so sad.

Jane from CO - safe travels

Marita - sounds like you have a very good plan.

jb - I'm sure you can get to 150. It may take time, it takes longer the closer you are to goal, but you can do it. I miss all the wonderful vegetables the summer has to offer

Geri - so sorry you were sick but am glad you're better now. Next year will be a wonderful Christmas for your grandson, he'll start to sort-of understand what's happening.

Went to the MD about my ankle. He agreed, he thinks it's probably an inflamed achilles tendon, too. He gave me a topical antiinflammatory to apply 4 times/day. He said that he could prescribe a pill, but honestly, I'm not so crazy about pills so I opted for the topical. He said that it doesn't seem that bad and he would expect it to be better in 2-3 weeks. I put the topical on earlier tonight for the first time, and maybe it's just my imagination, but to me it feels A LITTLE (A TINY BIT) better. Like I said, it may be my imagination. I just didn't want it to get any worse. He did say that I could continue my exercise (thank goodness, believe it or not that was one of my big concerns....would this interfer with my exercise?) but he said to ice it after exercising and to take it easy. I took it easy today, like doing side squats off the side of the bosu felt uncomfortable so I did them REAL slow. I know normally I could go faster and work up more of a sweat, but I wasn't about to injur myself so that I couldn't exercise at all.

Jen - be sure you get to bed early today since you'll be getting up early tomorrow. I bet the airline screwed up

Cheryl - hun, don't beat yourself up. We all have times when we gain, we can't constantly be losing. Now a loss will be that much sweeter.

Then I went to CVS to get batteries. They were on sale, I had a CVS coupon plus a manufacturer coupon. In the end, for 8 batteries I paid 31 cents. Then I went to Target to get more cat litter. It's really not a great sale, however, if you get 2 you get a $5 gift certificate and since I'd already bought some, I bought some more and used a gift certificate and got another one. Then I went to Kohls', found this really nice shirt. I thought it was full price but it was on sale and I had a coupon for $10 off so the shirt essentially cost me 0. Then I needed to stop at a dept store to return a pair of pants and shirt I'd bought that I realized when I got home that I really didn't need.

Meg - it's a good thing I made a big batch of that virtual chicken soup...so I'm sending some more to you.

bt and anyone else - you've come to the right place for motivation

karen - if I don't get my workout in early in the day, it doesn't get done. I try to do it before I think up excuse upon excuse (and I'm very good for excuses)

Linda in northern Ontario - yes, it's as if the tendon isn't long enough. The only time I really feel any discomfort is when I'm walking (flexing the foot).

Lin - when I first got my sewing machine years and years ago, MIL helped me figure out how to thread it. To be honest, I'm almost afraid to get a new one because I don't know if I'll be able to figure out how to thread it....lol

jane - prayers for your friend. That must be so hard for you.

Lindasundance - that would be too too funny if you made a profile for the puppy. I've made dog biscuits for a friend of ours. The only problem with them was that because they didn't have all those nasty preservatives in them, they didn't last as long as a MilkBone would. I don't know Dianna's email, or for that matter, if she even HAS one. I would think so, but I don't know what it is.

You know, I didn't get the heartrate monitor for Christmas. It would be great if there was something that tracked your heartrate, your steps and calories burned. Is there? I honestly don't know.

suebDew - I'm not crazy about suppliments. Even IF Dr. Oz recommends them. To me -- if God didn't make it..do we REALLY need it? He put everything we need here on earth, so why the need to suppliment? Not that I don't do it, I do use a calcium and Vit D suppliment and sometimes a protein suppliment.

Here's hoping everyone has a great evening.

Michele in NC