WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2013

Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

No time this morning, just popping in to say...Have a wonderful day!!!!

Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!

Hugs,
DeeDee in (still rainy and gloomy)NC

Hello all you vit. F friends. In -34 weather maybe I should be singing the blue bird song.

Linder
Your runs sound interesting. Lots of excercise on U tube no reason to not exercise if you have a puter.

Meg
No one fell asleep with your talk so you kept it interesting
the wii lies it told me 39 one day 79 a few days later. lol.
All depends on your balance the day you do it.
Before going out to buy zumba dvd's check it out on U tube.

TLC
Are you being closely watched by a doctor. Your calories are way to low.

Colleen
-34 with wind chill -45 is what they are saying.
No walking outside for me. Leslie Sansone this morning.

Barbie
All your best friends lined up in order. Glad Jake placed first was sure i was going to see the dogs lol.

Kackie
Welcome back

Renee
Life and death go hand in hand.

Liz
Glad your feeling better and back with it.

Gail
Good food day and that's a lot of weights

Sally
Thank you. Your looking for substitutes for flour for myself I use oatmeal.
Put it in my Ninja and pulse till I get an oatmeal consistency.
I use it in pancakes and I made a pumpkin and raisin muffin I found on U tube
There was also a video of someone who mixed a bunch of different flours like rice, and other kinds
together and she claims you can use in any recipe that calls for flour.

Lila
One drink won't hurt you. It's like one meal didn't make you fat.
Before buying DVD's check if they have the same thing in U tube.

Deedee
Make it a good day

Amanda
Sure hope the antibiotics work.
Seven weeks of company is a long time.
Sure you and hubby will enjoy some me time again.

There finished before 9 but I was up before seven two hours of this is enough. Time to get dressed and on with my day.

Make it a great day and don't forger to flush and I don't mean the toilet. :laugh:

Linda C in the cold cold North brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

After 7 days (including the weekend) of 16 hour work days - non stop - I succumbed. My manager who is in India right now had left her cookies unprotected on her desk. I ate 7 of them!!!

Is anyone missing me yet? I've had no time to read anything lately. Oh well, today is my last day killing myself.

Good Morning, I am in Big GI in Nebraska. I know we need the rain, but I will settle for the 50 degree days.
If I don't get up in the early morning and work out, I just don't do it. You just can't come up with excuses at 4:40 in the morning.
And working out that early is just the best way to start the day for me.

Good morning beautiful ladies!

I have maintained my commitment of averaging 15000 steps per day this month. averaging 15 flights of stairs daily, 60 minutes on the dreadmill daily, averaging 1450 calories daily(not doing so great on this one this week:ohwell: ) 3 liters of water per day and getting chores done more consistently.

I have a much better frame of mind and my rainbow cloak is working wonders on other aspects of my life. I am just being altogether more positive and it is drawing positive energy my way. (I think the regular dreadmilling may be contributing to that as well)

Ritter has started digging again and is just being very impish lately. I keep waiting for him to mature a bit more. I have to remind myself he is still young. He has an affinity for my shoelaces. If I leave my shoes within his reach I eventually have nothing to tie them with. And he has gotten very vocal lately. He really talks back when we say no. He makes this sound like a tribble. (Old Star Trek reference):laugh:

Bodi is his wonderful self as always. He is the bestest yellow dog in the whole wide world. IMHO.

One more week and then I get to see my daughters and OLIVIA!!!! It is so hard to believe that she will be one year old next week. Time really does just fly by.


Have a thrilling Thursday everyone.

Robin, Bodi and Ritter
very very chilly PNW

I got home late from book club last night (State of Wonder by Ann Patchett), so logged the calories this morning. I must say that I'm feeling rather proud of myself -- I stayed within my calories for the day! It's always hard when there is an "eating" function. Dad is 84 years old today, and we are going to take him to Red Lobster for dinner, his favorite restaurant. He's doing fairly well eating without teeth -- the VA still hasn't even given us an appointment to begin the dentures. He wants an Angel Food cake with strawberries, so that shouldn't be too bad.

Lin – I loved the bunny slippers – so cute! Hooray for zipping the winter coat!! Since you’re doing a virtual walk, I thought you might be interested in reading about a real one. My friend, Polly Letofsky, spent 5 years walking around the world to raise awareness for breast cancer. Her book is called “3 MPH.” She writes extremely well and it’s a fun read.

Texasgal – Hope you got that shopping time in yesterday – one of my favorite occupations!

Stardancer – Let us know if you come to Denver. There are so many things to see and do here.

Positivepower – If I did the math correctly, that translates into a 5 lb. loss. Great job!! :flowerforyou:

Linda C – Slow and steady wins the race. 6 weeks of consecutive losses is wonderful! :flowerforyou:

Renny – The “circle of life” is something that I think about a lot, now that I’m old enough to be more introspective. My condolences to your friend on her loss.

Lila – So glad that your check-up went well!

Cheryl – It sounds like you’ve been practically killing yourself at work. I’m glad that things are about to slow down. We’ve missed hearing from you!

LucyT4dieting – Good luck with your meeting today, and have fun in Mexico! Where do you go? We spend a lot of time in Playa del Carmen. :glasses:

Robin – You are amazing!!!

Jane in Colorado

Good morning, ladies. I agree, Laura – long week, long weekend! Yay. Yesterday I got a surprise crown – had a cracked tooth that started to crumble and infect the next tooth . . . fortunately my dentist rocks and got me in and out in an hour and fifteen minutes, pain free. The only drawback is he does that dentist thing of asking me a question with all the tools in my mouth. I called him on it . Now I hope the temp crown lasts until next month when I go in for the mold. It was a little uncomfortable sleeping last night, and DH and the kids were laughing at me when I was trying to eat soup last night, but pffft :laugh:.

Laura, I hope the missing file shows up and work starts to ease up. For you and me lol.

Robin, GREAT job on keeping up the steps! That’s terrific. Getting all the water in is still a struggle for me too, but I’ve been doing pretty good overall on it – so just keep chugging whenever you think about it. And another terrific benefit – you’re keeping a good attitude about work. Dogs go through teenagehood too – my kitty, who is 4+ years old still races around the house every morning like a kitten. Enjoy it while you can :laugh:.

Lucy, have a WONDERFUL time on your vacation! I’ll be virtually sunning myself with you – but not in a weird, stalking way :laugh:. Best wishes on your meeting with your bosses – at least they’ll have some time to think about it even if they can’t give you any solid fixes today.

Katla, LOL at Inferna.

Cheryl, there’s that stress eating again. However, I would say 16-hour work days deserve some cookies! I’m glad it’s the last day of killing yourself – we’ve missed you!

Julie, congrats on resisting temptation. I have a rule I picked up somewhere along the way: If I’m going to have a treat, it’s going to be something that makes my mouth absolutely salivate. Stale donuts and plain old bagels just don’t do it. I’m also noticing I’m not missing wine right now at all – I notice it when I’ve cut sugar out that I also lose that need for wine-thirty.

Amanda, my husband notices the same thing when he’s not drinking – he always wonders why he’s friends with his derelict friends :laugh:. Wow, it’s been seven weeks already? I hope you had fun with him.

Lila, so glad to hear your post-op visit went well! That’s a huge sigh of relief.

Sally, thanks for the snack ideas. I have a lot of those in my regular rotation – I think my issue is that I try to keep snacks around 100 cals but it’s just not enough.

Gail, your food plan sounds great! You’ll be losing weight if you keep it up like that.

LizM, glad to hear you’re finally on the mend – it’s been a long, hard winter, hasn’t it?

Renny, you’re WALKING!!! I’m sorry to hear about your friend’s loss, and congratulations on your other friend’s birth – yes, life and death.

Barbie, whew! Glad you got to relax finally, although with the bike?

TCL, your calories sound way too low. You’ll start to feel better and keep your immune system stronger if you’re eating at least 1200 calories of nutrient-rich foods – good luck!

Meg, wow, five hours? That’s a long time to yap at anyone :laugh:. Having a low age is a good thing, right?

LindaC – congratulations on another pound gone! Great, great work. Give yourself a pat on the back!

Lin in IA, I told DH about the virtual walk thinking he and his pals at work would enjoy it at work (they run at lunch). Thanks for that – he’s thrilled! Congratulations on squeezing into the coat – you’re right, it’s probably just the extra sweaters that are making it tight this year, but next year it’ll be loose!

JaneH, happy birthday (again) to your father today. Have a wonderful visit with him and your brother. LOL at not having cake = not having a Christmas tree. Now I’ve converted DSD to GCC, so she would be majorly disappointed if I didn’t make a cake on Sunday.

Jb, I like your Treetrunk workout! I’m looking for more to do inside, but I’m not sure I’m going to keep adding on – there are only so many minutes in a day :laugh:. I think I’ll keep the max at two hours/day unless it’s a gardening day or something. I will keep doing this for the rest of my life though – it’s crucial!

Ellie, yay for picking out the vacation destination. Be sure you check out all of the fun things to do in Denver and around the area – it’s fabulous in the summer!

Judy, congratulation on those holiday helpers moving on out!

OK, back to work. Have a wonderful day, everyone!

Cheers,

M

Hello,

Starting over again...last year I stopped smoking, this year I am determined to improve health. Looking forward to checking out this blog and getting support/tips.

CG

Awww. You ladies are so nice.:flowerforyou: :drinker: . So many words of encouragement yesterday. How could a girl not be reinvigorated. I so appreciate it. I took a nice brisk and chilly 2 mile walk yesterday. The cold air (15) really makes you feel alive and I thought about all the things said. I'm just going to have to reevaluate in a week if the scale still isn't moving. You'ld think with all this new exercise and keeping my cals at 1400 things would move, but if I have to go down to 1200 to loose I will. But I have such a long journey ahead, that seems to low of calories to start off with. But I'll give it another week and see how it goes.
I went to a yoga class today for the first time. After a half hour I was pouring sweat. Felt good to do something new. I like mixing it up with my exercise. And I'm drinking my water.... what more can a girl do.

Lin, that virtual walk across America sounds so interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the link
Linda C, way to go again on your weight loss at tops. You go girl
Meg, I always convince myself to enjoy my muscle aches that comes from exercise. It means we have pushed another muscle group out of it's comfort zone, and thats a good thing.
TLC, i think someone else mentioned this, but 700 to 1000 calories seems to low to me too. Eat more, and I hope you get some help with your fluctuating hormone issues. That can really do a number on you.
Colleen, hi friend. Have a good day, even though you are super busy.
Barbie, you are amazing in the exercise department. I'm kind of tired just reading your update. :yawn:
Kackie, have a great day. By the way, interesting name. Is that your real name or a nickname? Never heard of Kackie before.
Renny, way to go on taking on a 10k run challenge for the spring. Have you done any runs before?
Liz, glad you a re feeling better. I had bronchitis, pneumonia and a sinus infection in November. Took me a month to get back to myself.
Gail, hope you had a great nights sleep.
Sally, thanks for the encouragement yesterday. Yes this is a good board, these women have all been there and done it. Their advise and help really is good.
Lila, blessings and healing to you. Glaad for the good report. My DH would have loved to drink to your health. He's a bit of a scotch officinado himself.
Dee, Dee, and Katia, good day to you both.
Good day to Amanda also. So you are a "londoner". Love the times i Have visited. Do you work in an art gallery?
Linda C, hi to you also. Is it really 34 below zero where you are? Holy Pete, that's cold.
Julie, good job on resisting the temptation and plannin ahead to have your own healthy snack.
Wessecg, sorry about the cookies. Sometimes a girl just has to have them.
Katia, and Lucy, thanks also for your kind words. Have a good day you two.
Robin, I'm amazed at the amount of steps you get in every day. You just must walk, and walk, and walk. When I counted steps, I never came anywhere near that. Good for you
Laura, good day to you, what part of Colorado do you live in. What a beautiful state. Enjoyed it multiple times.
Jane, great on keeping with your calories while you were out. Do you love your bookclub? Mine meets tomorrow. I love mine. Oh how I love to get lost in my books.
Shrimp me,,,, What's a color blaze?
M, sorry about the crown, Aren't those Dentist's crazy? Why do they do that?
Judy, a new job sounds exciting. Hope it's a good promotion for you.
CG, best of luck with your plans for the new year, and congratulations on the quitting smoking. Major accomplishment.
Razbet, how lucky for you that you have your own personal trainer in the family. Hopefully she doesn't charge you. Good luck with your efforts.

Have a great day everyone Drink your water, they say that is part of the secret of success, That is the way the body flushes the fat out of your body, once you have burned off a pound. So if you work hard to loose it, you want to get it out of you. Take care you all.

Karen From Mi.

I am thrilled that someone else is reading me.
Thank you Positivepower.
I have been doing good for me, so tomorrow I get my hair made-over.
I can't wait.
How about you all? Short hair or Long?
I am going from Medium to Short, but not pixie short.
And of coarse the gray has to go..............!!!!

I went to yoga this morning and did my best. There were only two students plus the instructor today. She also teaches evening classes, but I prefer to get things moving in the morning. The evening classes interfere with my dinner routine. I have acid reflux issues and can't eat too late without painful consequences.:frown: It isn't a great idea to go to yoga with a full stomach.:noway:

We've been in the process of refinancing our house for months to take advantage of lower interest rates, and were supposed to sign the papers today. The bank made ANOTHER mistake and didn't use the correct legal description of our property. They said to sign it anyway, and we said no. The Notary did her best with an impossible situation and I don't know what will happen next.
:grumble: :explode:

I think I'll spend some time on the bike to burn off frustration. That is sure to improve my mood.:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Not a great visit to the doctor today - after three weeks of 'behaving' and , for me, some increase in exercise and activity - I lost a grand total of 300 grams (which means I did not eat breakfast before I went!) So discouraging. I told her that I really cannot eat much better than I am and still have a life and I just don't have more time to exercise! I am trying to get my head around the fact that I already know.....that this lifestyle is better for me - and that I feel better - whether the scale moves or nor. but man, it would be nice if it would move - IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!!!:noway:

On a brighter note, I am down 8 pounds from this time last year....

Renny - thanks for the perspective....life and death...it makes my complaints trivial.

linda C -a pound a week is a great loss - consistent and healthy - celebrate it!

Cheryl - good work on your goals and good upbeat attitude. And unprotected cookies are always fair game!

There - I feel a little better. be well
g

Another interesting day on the thread. You ladies are all so active and fun.:flowerforyou: I joined the Virtual Walk last night and had already gone 5.1 miles. It's really interesting to see all the scenery as you log your miles.
Meg - glad your students were focused. That helps the speaker a lot.What did you do on the Wii to get sore inner thighs? I really need an exercise to work that area.
Gail - I love your term YOYO dinner. I'll tell my DH tonight he is YOYO as I went to Spring Creek BBQ for lunch and will be very calorie lite tonight.
Lila - so glad you had a good report and are healing well. Scotch is quite a good medicine, I've heard.
Linda C - No way, -34!!!! I don't see how you could go outside. Stay warm.
Amanda - that is a long time on antibiotics. Are you eating yogurt or taking pro-botics?
Julie - great NSV for you!
Cheryl - you must have been planning to log your cookies because you counted them.:laugh:
Lucy - hope your meeting was productive and satisfying for you. Perfect time for a vacation.:noway:
Laura - I'm glad you're getting some warmer weather. We had 62 and sun today. Just had to go outside and walk.
Judy - jb's poem was a motivational one (page 11) and Vit F stands for friendships.
Razbet- Welcome and what a great thing to have a DD who is a trainer. Only problem is you can't fire her!
Well I said I'd exercise when I got home from the youth dinner last night and almost chickened out but one of those cookies just appeared in my hand and my mouth so I had to do a 2 mile walk.:blushing: Hope everyone has a great evening. I'm looking forward to playing golf tomorrow for the first time in awhile.
SueBDew in TX

DeeDee - we go down to FL for the race every year. We usually stay about a week or so. Whenever we went down before, I always felt like I needed to get my "fill" of the pool....but I won't feel that way this year. If I don't get my "fill", I'll get it when we get home

Did an hour of yoga today (Wed) then an hour of the deep water class. I just found out that the other gal who was teaching the class isn't teaching it any longer but another gal is. I knew the first gal had some sort of ear problem so I just assumed that the other gal was substituting. Guess not. Tomorrow I'll do Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred DVD. After exercise I did a little food shopping then home and went to senior bowling. Came home and made these apple chippers, only I won't tell Jessica they're apple chippers, I'll just tell her they're chocolate chip cookies. Then made (really, heated up) dinner, I had chicken & bean soup. Now I'm so full! Tomorrow is my day to do volunteer work at the Green Room. Afterwards I'm thinking that I need to go to the BiLo again, I know today I had a valentine's day card in my hand for Bryan, but I don't see it on the receipt so maybe I put it down without even realizing it. Vince will probably start to box up his presents tomorrow. I baked the pie for him, need to get the cookies that I have in the freezer for him so Vince can pack those, too.

Lin - I'm happy you're happy. Was there something special that prompted this? I really don't know what it was, but last night I was really stressing. Maybe it was because I didn't know that 4 new people would be at bunco, so I really didn't know how many to prepare for. But it's all over with now

Tammy in VA Beach - was that the first time your dog had seizures? One of our cats has a seizure disorder, so we have to give him meds twice/day. Glad she's better, it is so scary to watch

M - when you were telling katla about how you'd tease the kids, it reminded me of the show "Gilligan's Island"

Lin in Central Iowa - Congrats on getting closer and closer to wearing that coat. How great is that???

Ellie - welcome back! That's just great that you won your pick, even if it isn't going to be this year.

Deb in Nebraska - I haven't taken a body pump class in so long, the closest thing around here is the extremepump class. How I wish the routine was on uTube!

Meg - I, too, love the idea of paying for a class up front and then getting something back each time you go. The only thing I would think of is "would this cause bookkeeping nightmares?"

Linda C in Northern Ontario - congrats on the loss! Awesome

Meg - there is a zumba class at the Y right after our yoga class. Honestly, I have never in my life seen such rude people. They constantly open the door (like 20 minutes before their class begins) and close it. Then, as soon as our class is over, they rush in and turn on all the lights. I don't like classes that are so packed that you feel uncomfortable. Which is probably one of the reasons I would do the zumba at home

Renny - so sorry about your ex-colleague's hubby. Life sure can be weird, a death and a birth, all at the same time.

They're calling for 1"-2" of snow, and you should see the panic that's surrounding. A friend of mine had her mother bring her eggs so that she'd have something to feed her husband, she also called a friend of hers (because he has a 4 wheel drive) to pick her up and take her to work. Honestly, 1-2" of snows....makes me laugh. I had to stop at the store because I knew I'd picked up this valentines card for Bryan but when I got home yesterday it wasn't in my groceries but I wasn't charged for it either. So I went to the store today after my volunteering at the Green Room. This one lady must have had at least 4 gallons of milk! The lines!!! I find it all highly amusing. The worst part, to me, is that I was planning to go to the Y tomorrow in the a.m. and if there's snow on the ground I may not, but we shall see. In some ways that may be the time to go since there'll probably be no one on the roads. Then I went to CVS to pick up 3 prescriptions for Vince

Gail - great sounding meals. You can come cook for me anytime at all!

Made some more of the spinach cheese muffins that I made the other day. This time I tried adding in some mozzarella cheese. We shall see how it is.

At bunco one of the ladies brought a bag of Dove dark chocolates. I was glad it was dark chocolates, but the funny thing was that as she was leaving, it seemed that she was going to leave the chocolates here. Do you know that all I could think of when I looked at them was "50-some calories". I taped up the bag and gave it back to her to take home with her. Her "thing" was that she wasn't eating anything with wheat, she'd read that it helps lose weight and she thought the info behind it made sense. I didn't say anything, but to me it isn't wheat per se that's the problem, it's the REFINED wheat. Oh well......

LindaC - I sometimes use oats and grind them up finely in the food processor, too.

Julie - great resistance! My girlfriend from Switzerland just sent me a box of Swiss chocolates. One part of me doesn't really care for them, but then there is the other part that is saying "Swiss chocolates...it doesn't get much better than that". I'm thinking that maybe I'll have one for dessert every day until the box is gone. Hopefully, Vince'll have some too so that's that much less for me to have.

Lucy4TDieting - have a wonderful wonderful trip. I'm sure the meeting will go fine, but let us know, OK?

linder - LOVED the slippers, thanks

Robin - glad that cloak is doing multiple jobs for you

Did 50 minutes of the 30 Day Shred DVD (levels 2 + 3). The PLAN is to do some HIIT tomorrow (Fri), but if there's snow on the ground when I get up, I'll do something at home, not sure what yet, but something.

Judy - that is so nice of you to be helping your coworkers like you are. Good luck on the job interview. The "F" in Vitamin F stands for "friends". Lots and lots of Vitamin F here.

CG - woohoo stopping smoking. That's just wonderful!

razbet - how wonderful to have your own personal trainer!

Liz from CT - another good reason to have others with you while you're doing wall sits, you can gab between youself and the time seems to go by so much faster

mndtowka - I made a deal with Vince, if he got his hair cut I'd grow mine long. I was thinking that if I kept it in a ponytail, eventually he'd just say "oh, I never get to see it anyway". But no deal! Now I'm threatening that if he doesn't keep his hair cut to a decent length, I'll get mine cut. Actually, I HATE it long, it's such a pain when I'm exercising and I have to always put it up when I go in the pool. What a pain in the ......

sueBDew - yup, cookies have a way of somehow magically appearing in your hand. I totally understand

You know, the more I think about it, the more I think I'll do the rebounder DVD that I have tomorrow. Evidentally, it's not supposed to snow all that much, but it as been raining and the temps are going to go lower in the evening, so that'll mean ice and I do not like to drive on ice. I don't really know anyone who does.

Eileen - San Diego - I find that I get colder, too.

Well, hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele in NC

Hello Dear Ladies"

I'm slowly catching up,with everyone! Welcome, new Ladies! This is THE best place for help and support...and friendship!

Karen in MI- my real name is Katharine (Kathy), but our first granddaughter called me Kackie, so my nickname became Kackie.

Lin-THANKS for the welcome back!

Robin-Olivia will be ONE? Wow...time flies! I know you are SO excited to see her. Be sure and post photos!

Have a great evening! Kackie