Senior Golden Sneakers.....April...We are all young at hear

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I agree Barb, Brandy and Sasha are just as spoiled as our puppies. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I love it!! When we leave the house or even to calm Daisy down we put in her own DVD made for dogs. It is soothing and she can watch the other dogs and calm down. :laugh: :laugh: Happy Anniversary!! You have done a great job in one year. It took me that long to lose my weight and I still have that pound to pound and a half to go. I am determined to do it no matter how long it takes. :bigsmile:

Barbie, you sound like you are really missing your Jake, with how close you are I am sure it is hard to be apart for so long. My son is only gone 5 days and I miss him terrible and he is missing home. :sad: I seem to do better with exercise if my hubby leaves the house and you seem to keep busy with exercise. Sounds like we all need to see our dermatologists and get rid of all that ails us or itches us. Glad there was no skin cancer Barbie and I like you ; have no plans for any bikinis. :blushing:

Gayla, I hate the dentist also but if I have any work done other than cleaning I make him give me nitros along with novocaine so I feel nothing. I had a terrible experience with dentist as a child so when I came to this dentist I let him know my fear and he has taken care of me like a baby for over 20 years.

Irene, glad to hear from you. You are one talented lady, making a backpack sounds really hard to me. :huh: This year we are hardly planting any flowers in our back yard since Daisy will just dig them up. We can hardly wait for the trainer to come tomorrow to see if she can get her to stop jumping and nipping, especially at my husband. :grumble:

Bingo tonight......remember my rule.

Sandy

Just dropping in to say that I lost another pound! :bigsmile: It's got to be the exercising because I was a little naughty a few times this week!:blushing: Tax season is almost over (for the most part:grumble: ) so we've been very busy.:noway:
After the 15th maybe I can spend some time posting....but for now....have a good day!
BirdieM

Hello All--

Beth--It was good to to catch up with you.. BTW, your "part goat" rabbit would probably get along really well with my little "terror"--Bradley. On more than one occasion, I have stated that I think HE is part goat because of the fact that he will eat anything that doesn't try to eat him first (as long as it is a food item--otherwise he ignores it)

Birdie--I just told my tax preparer that I LOVE him!! :noway: :laugh: I recently discovered I would have some taxable income resulting from something that happened last year with an old whole life policy I had. I was afraid I would have to pay, since I changed my w/h for 2009 to compensate for a larger contribution to my FSA. My miracle worker just called to tell me he came up with me owing only $212!!! Considering I was expecting about $1200--I am VERY pleased, and relieved!!

Thank GOODNESS THAT is OVER for another year!!! I bet you feel the same, but I know it won't be over for you until May due to the deadline extension for Rhode Island this year. Good luck!!

Well, I need to hit the road for now, lots to do today.


Barb

:flowerforyou: Yes, the "naughties" are the most loved and most spoiled dogs on the planet.....I do not deny that. They are so cute and irresistible that I can't say "no" to them. When we got Brandy we bought a book about poodles that said that poodles want to be with their people all the time and that was the absolute truth. I hate leaving them alone but I'm not willing to stay home with them all day so I have to make sure things are comfy for them when I can't be with them. Jake spends more time sitting on the couch with them and with him gone they are extra lonely. And of course, I am a sucker. Right now I am sitting on one of the dining room chairs at the computer.....I've moved the soft office chair to the side because Haifa, the older cat, likes to sleep on the office chair and I don't want to disturb him. Not only are the dogs spoiled, the cats are, too.:laugh:

:flowerforyou: Sandy, Jake thinks the dogs like classic country music so that's the satellite music station that put on when we're gone. If Jake knew about a DVD just for dogs, he'd probably get it. :laugh: There was a sheep dog at the dog park today and I thought of you and Daisy when I watched her run and play.

:flowerforyou: Beth, that is great that your son is in the top 10% of his graduating class. You must be so proud of him and so glad that you'll be able to go and see him graduate. Keep up the good work with your triathlon training.

:flowerforyou: Birdie, congratulations on losing another pound especially in the midst of all the tax season stress.:bigsmile:

:flowerforyou: Gayla, that's a great picture of your family.:bigsmile:

:flowerforyou: Marie, you always have the right kind words to say to all of us to encourage us.

:bigsmile: Jake might be coming home a day early (Tuesday instead of Wednesday) so I'm pretty excited about that.
hugs Barbie

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: another day of exercise (line dance, dog walking at home and at the park, exercise bike), spoiling the pets (they want me to lie down in the hide-a-bed and watch TV with them) and missing Jake.

What's new with all of you ?

Hi All,

Just a quick note before I head out to buy pizza for a luncheon at work...yep I am eating the Pizza and enjoying the heck out of it. I burned off a boat load of calories this morning so I will cheat today and run 5 miles in the morning. Y'all are right... I am very proud of Cord (my son) he has been a little stressed out mess over his dad and his step monster... mostly the monster but he is doing great. Any kid with the nerve to walk out of a house where he is getting treated bad while his dad is away and his monster is incharge leave all his material posessions... he has guts Too bad his dad will not back down and at least let him have his clothing... 3 months into it almost 4 and he still wont let him have anything.

Barb - Sounds like Bradley and Fred (rabbit) would get along great... Fred can eat all the meat products and Fred would scarf up the other stuff LOL

Gayla - I love the profile picture... I need to get one on here Marie asked about it the other day I just never got that far. I am glad your snow is gone and you can enjoy srping

Barbie - So is it that the pets are spoiled or that they have you trained? Moving the chair out for a kitchen chair while the thing is asleep is too funny...Line dancing is fun...usually more fun to watch when people have been drinking however

Jeffrey - I am sorry things are going so insane for you at the moment I hope that Diane isnt suffering too much.

Marie - I will figure out how to add a picture on here eventually ... Maybe I will just have Nikki (daughter) do it for me, @ 15 she is more tech savy than I am or plan on being.
Enjoy the day All
Beth

Barbie, I bought some chard this morning and Don't know how to cook it. You don't used any of the pretty red stem? I have been looking on the internet But really don't have my mind on what I am going to do with it. Help!!!!!!!!! This is the first time I have seen it in the stores. Had to look on the tie thing to know what it was.

I think what I did was to cut the stems in small pieces and put them in a pan with water and boil them for awhile, then put a steamer basket over the stems and put the leaves in and steam them for awhile (like spinach). You might want to look up chard on the MFP food database because chard has a lot of sodium and you may not want to eat too much at one time if you are watching your sodium.
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:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: We finally had a few hours of weather that was warm enough for me to work outside. I used the time to pull all the weeds in the front yard that annoy me when I walk the dogs (that's not all the weeds, just the ones along the path and the driveway). It was very satisfying work and added a lot of satisfaction to my day. The rest of the day has been business as usual.....exercise bike, line dance, exercise bike, dog park,, exercise bike, dog walking, working on paperwork, and later there will be more time on the exercise bike. When Jake gets home I won't be able to eat my meals while riding the exercise bike and watching TV:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I have been a busy beaver but I want to check in and say hi. Our dog trainer was great, she gave us some good training tools to help with the jumping Daisy does and other bad behaviors. This is only the second day and she didn't jump on us once. It is the rule of being the alpha leader which Daisy was doing and now we have learned how to be the leaders. She has given us a couple of tools to work with, one being a little bag with a little chain in it so that when you throw it on the floor it startles her. The other is a little squirt bottle, but we haven't had to use either today after yesterdays lessons. The tool we are using is verbal and that is making the sound of bah in a growl type voice. When she was here we got Daisy to jump on us and the first time she went bah and threw down the little bean (chain) bag Daisy got startled but didn't jump again. As soon as her paws hit the ground she is praised. One of the other big things she did was teach us how to make her stay in the kitchen while someone rings the bell and comes in the door. I just couldn't believe she did that and we have practiced again today and she did great. I am very impressed with all that we learned and I think Daisy will be much happier not getting yelled at all the time. Sorry to go on about this so much but it makes such a difference in our lives.

This is a competition weekend so I will be gone part of Saturday and all day Sunday. Go PDC!!!

Jeffrey, my prayers are included.

Marie, I don't even know how to cook spinach so I am no help.

Barbie, glad you had nice weather to pull weeds and take those puppies to the dog park.

Gayla, thanks for checking in.

Barb, we animal lovers are a crazy bunch, but our animals love us.

Beth, you are one lucky lady to be rid of that ex husband. How can he deny his own son his possessions?

Have a great weekend, time for bed. :yawn:

Sandy

Welcome Charjeanne--

Your skin will shrink but it takes time. Slowing your rate of loss will help that process, as will making sure to drink lots of water. Toning exercises will help you firm flabby areas, but unfortunately, it takes longer to see results when you are old enough to be a member of this thread!!:ohwell:

Since you appear to be following a vegetarian diet I hope you are getting enough protein as it is very important for healthy weight loss, and also, if you are using a lot of soy, do some google searching to get the latest info on women's health concerns as regards too much soy-based proteins.

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Well, good morning to all. I am recovering from the HOA meeting we had last night for my condo. I am on the board, and we have a board member who made a last minute attempt to derail the success of a special election we have been working diligently to make a success for the last two months. The details are too complicated to get into. The question relates to a legal issue that affects the development of the remaining property that is part of our complex, and right now the HOA has authority and an interest in how this is done. I ended up telling this guy he has a conflict of interest and needed to recuse himself from voting while we had a board meeting prior to the membership meeting. He has a conflict of interest due to a business dealings that are indirectly related to the question we were voting on, and he deliberately withheld information from other board members about a question raised by a homeowner. He received the information almost a week ago and used it to question a decision the board made at a prior meeting that he didn't attend, but didn't see fit to inform us of what he was told or his views until two hours before the general membership meeting!!!

During the membership meeting, another person asked a question and proceeded to make a speech. She would not take a breath and began using inappropriate language. Our HOA manager, who is a paid person and not a board member, is a very professional and experienced real estate agent and property manager, and was trying to handle her tactfully and getting nowhere.

As I saw the meeting was imploding, I stood up in the middle of her yammering and loudly requested that she shut up!!:noway: That got her attention and everyone else's!!:laugh: Then I reminded her that the language was not needed and that if she had a question, in order for it to be answered, she had to take a breath in order for it to be answered!!

That brought things back to a dull roar, the manager was finally able to finish the answer to her question and we moved on to the business at hand.

As for the board member who is working at cross-purposes with the goals of the HOA,--he sent an amazing email after the meeting in which he took the position that the board had cut him out of decision making by not telling him about our last board meeting in March. Fortunately, I never delete emails (that's why there are about 10,000 of them in my yahoo account!!:noway: :laugh: This made it very easy for me to pull up two of them that were sent to him from two different sources with specific reference to the issue at hand and the upcoming meeting. I composted a literary masterpiece to put the accusation to rest but haven't yet sent it. I asked another to review it to make sure I am not over the top. As I don't want to win the battle and lose the war in the process. And after agreeing to recuse himself from the vote, and stating the same in the membership meeting, when our votes were tallied, there WAS a vote in there from him!! I managed to call him a liar in a very polite and sarcastic way in that email that I haven't sent yet!!

Thank goodness we are having board member elections in the next 30 days and I am NOT running for the board. I already resigned from it once, after serving for several years, but when we had two board members leave and having a special election in the midst of some legal negotiations would have delayed their completion, the remaining members came to me and asked that I return. Under our bylaws, since I was previously elected and resigned for personal reasons, rather than being voted out, I was the only person who could be appointed temporarily, and I was familiar with the legal issue at hand, so reluctantly, I agreed. I am looking forward to the day when I can walk my doggies again without being approached by a neighbor with an axe to grind!!:laugh:

Well, enough about that. I made a shocking discovery this morning. My belly is actually GOOD for something and when (not "if") it is gone, I may have to find a more creative solution to using my laptop when my two canine "laptops" are "helping". This morning, with Bradley in his customary spot to my right on the chair, and Pepper with his behind on the left side of my chair and the remainder on my hip, I realized that the laptop PC rests on my belly as well as on my right knee, so if I have no belly, not sure how that is going to work out. At the rate I am going it will be SEVERAL months before it becomes an issue:laugh: so we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

I am supposed to be getting ready to go do more storage unit work, but as you can see, I am not. So long for now.


Barb

Hi from sunny Saskatchewan! I am really thinking about the garden today and hope that I will be able to get out there soon. I watched a movie with Neil this morning, always glad when he will watch a 'chick flick'. His foot seems to be much less painful. I will change the dressing this evening and hope shows some improvement.

Sandy -- Great job with Daisy. She is a quick learner. I love watching the dog whisperer and it sounds like you are using some similar techniques. They call me the baby whisperer at work even though I don't have to resort to his techniques.

Charjeanne -- Welcome here. I, too, am 60 and have a similar amount of weight to lose. My tag at the bottom says less only because I had decided to break it up to be less disheartening. It didn't work so after I join WW I will be changing the setting to reflect an accurate goal. I have in the past found that skin shrinks, except for the arms always seem to have hangy (not a real word, I know) skin. Best of luck to you. Hope to see you post often.

Barb -- Reading your post reminded me why I am no longer a board member after serving for many years. I do admit, yours sounds far worse but I would not want to deal with that. Try not to let it stress you too much.

Jeffrey -- In my thoughts, as always.

Marie -- Hope you are having a 'dog'gone good day.

Take care all. Gayla

Thanks Barbie, I'm glad you got good news from your vet. I've got a 17 year old chow and I worry every time I have to get any test results so I know what a relief it is to get good news.

At what rate did you lose? I so want to bump the loss back up to a faster rate especially while I'm "highly" motivated. :bigsmile: Even tho I'm in it for the long haul there's nothing wrong with trying to make that haul just a little shorter. :drinker:

Gayla -- As funny as it sounds I AM looking forward to the journey. There seems to be something satisfying about it so far. Maybe it's a personal accomplishment or knowing you are doing something "right" for yourself. Whatever it is I feel better than I have in years- except for my knees. But I'll be having shots done in both knees soon and I should be able to get around better and maybe even do some exercising. There are some nice places here where I live for nature walks. Maybe I'll take a couple of my younger dogs and they'll make me go faster.:laugh:

Thanks for all the help, Charlotte


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Yeah Barbie that's the way I'm hoping it will be for me. Comfortable. After 6 weeks now I have noticed since I cut my carbs and I'm eating more fruits and veggies I'm not craving like I used to. I know it will be a life changing way of eating and I can never go back to as much breads, pasta and potatoes. So I'm gradually accepting this and using this time to try new veggies I've never tried before. The hardest part right now is being a vegetarian and trying to find enough protein so I don't start losing muscle along with the fat. But I'm working at it and enjoying the benefits.
Charlotte

Hi Marie, the more I read about low carb diets the more confused I get. A lot of them cut the carbs down to 20-30g a day. That seems extreme to me-- when I started on MFP I set the daily intake at 30%carbs, 30% protein and 40% fat. and I'm losing a lot with it set like that. Considering what I was eating before, 30% carbs is "low" to me. :laugh:
Charlotte

Good Evening Dear Friends!

Lots to share! First of all welcome to the new folks. I am a regular here but I have been AWOL with family issues over the last couple of weeks. Diane is fading. I just spoke with my BIL and he said that they have taken everything away but her pain meds. She is sleeping abut 100% of the time now. She is probably semi-comatose. Anyway her first journey, the one on this earth, is nearing an end. We are expecting closure soon. I will miss her.......

On brighter notes! Ihave had several job interviews lately and have 2 follow up interviews this week. I ran my first running race on Saturday. I won my age group! My age group was 55-59. It was a 5k with 390 runners. I finished 26th overall. I carried the AARP flag well! LOL It was really fun. I am looking for another race in the next week or so. It was really addictive in the race crowd. I really had a blast! I have cut some time off of my swimming. I am down to 11 min for 440 yards. I road the bike for time and rode my 14 miles in 37 minutes. I think that I am getting Triathlon ready. I can't wait for the race. This race will be different. This will be serious competitors. It should be quite a rush! I am hooked! See everyone, we are Golden not Olden! We still have what it takes!

Saturday Day and I bought a new car. A Nissan Altima. We loved our Mercedes but it just did not have a smooth enough ride for me anymore. I did not want to have spend for a larger Mercedes so we (Day) picked a blue Altima. I really like it.

The girls are good and doing fine. Sam will be going through graduation in 2 weeks but will still have her student teaching this fall. Stupid cat! Joe is drinking my milk as I type. Good thing I ate my cookie or he would have had that too. We have baby bunnies on our patio. The mother just came up to feed them and left. They have no fear of me. Our cats just sit and watch the show. I give up! I will probably start feeding them too if they stay around.

Well that is the over view for now. God only knows what He will present us with tomorrow. He will give us the strength to deal with it in his fashion. BTW Days mom is still nuttier than a fruit cake! Some things stay the same! LOL

Charlotte I have been fighting some loose skin issues with my weight loss. Just a couple of observations. It does "tighten" but not like it did years ago. Vitamin E lotions and scrubs may help too. I had a little success with that. It takes time! Be patient! BUT realize that the loose skin is no issue when you look at the benefits of loosing the weight. I would also suggest strength training. Muscle will replace the area where the lost fat stores were located. You will probably get the most benefit from the strength training. Begin with yoga! If you want some additional and more detailed assistance just drop me a note!

Gayla glad your Sunday was quiet.

Elli pretty impressive calorie burn posted!

Beth how is your training going? You ready girl?

Barbie I really like that picture!

Marie you are never far from my thoughts! Get that garden out! LOL

Tomorrows schedule is swimming 1/2 mile, running, and strength training.

Talk to you then!

Jeffrey