WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2013

wow...I didn't read for 2 days..and Bam! the old one was locked and a new one started.

Brooke from CO: Rewarding yourself with a new scale is a great idea! Congratulations on smart thinking—and on the weight loss.:flowerforyou:

Sunshine61250: I’ve been watching a new series on the food channel called Food Hospital. It is a real medical practice in the UK that tries to cure or manage various ailments with diet. They had a person with hereditary gout, and he was able to reduce his symptoms dramatically with diet alone. The staff includes physicians and a nutritionist. I’m sorry I can’t remember what the gout sufferer was eating, but I think he switched away from meat and alcohol. Maybe a nutritionist could help your son.:flowerforyou:

DeeDee in NC: Happy Valentine’s Day to you, too!:flowerforyou:

Amanda: Take care of yourself. I’m impressed that you can translate Latin. It wasn’t even offered when I was in school, and I probably wouldn't have had the good sense to take it if it had been available. :flowerforyou:

Nancy: Vitamin D3 also helps against depression, as do daylight temperature lamps. You can’t have too many tools to help combat depression in my opinion. Good luck.:flowerforyou:


I went over my calorie goals yesterday for the first time in quite awhile. I would normally offset the over eating with exercise, but didn’t feel good enough to jump on the bike and work it off. :noway: That means I’ll have to be more careful and do more exercise today and for the foreseeable future. The effects are fixable, with good behavior and effort. :bigsmile: :bigsmile: That is something I learned right here! It feels really good to know how to manage my weight and not be such a victim in life. Thanks to all of you for your help in learning that lesson! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

Katla in NW Oregon

Good morning & Happy Valentine's Day to all,

DH is taking me to Carraba's for lunch today so I am going to look up their menu to see what is good and healthy. I am so fortunate to have married the most wonderful man. I wake up smiling every single day. Valentine's Day is so much sweeter when you have that special person to share it with. :happy:

:glasses: Jane - Have a wonderful time in Mexico and have a margarita for me since I missed mine this year! Unplanned trips can be the best.

:sick: Laura - I hope you're feeling better soon. Do you suffer from Vertigo?

Beth - MFP will help you to modify your diet to fit your lifestyle. You'll be losing weight before you know it! Sounds like you already have a good start.

:frown: Joy - I told my son that gout is an old man's disease and he wasn't too happy about that either. The doctors also told him he could be suffering from a form of arthritis. He is still awaiting test results. It's hard when your child is in pain and there isn't anything you can do to help.

:flowerforyou: There seems to be a lot of you who are under the weather. Spring is coming, and hopefully all the winter colds and flu will go away.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,
Lucy in Delaware:bigsmile:

Vitamin F friends -




Lin in Central Iowa

Happy Valentine's Day! and welcomes to Beth and Dianne!

I've only had a few minutes to read the latest posts and make a reply so,

LucyT- my DH also has gout. It almost immobilized him before he sucked it up and went in to see the doctor. He had to have the knee drained and it still flairs up on occasion. Dietary restrictions are one preventative.

I also avoid soft drinks in general and have noticed the aspartame after taste. I stick to water and tea (both hot and cold.) I sweeten my hot tea with a tsp of honey.

I'm so accustomed to rewarding myself with food that I haven't set any rewards for reaching my goals. I should try to find a non-food reward for motivation. Any suggestions? :bigsmile:

Hope everyone has a marvelous day!

Hello my lovelies, Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you!

Two days ago my DH started a 2 week holiday so it was decided we needed to go look for tiles for the downstairs bathroom, tiles that befitted my DH’s vision for his masterpiece. We went from showroom to showroom (which of course are all located on the opposite end of the city) and with calculator in hand, I was trying to convince DH to lower his expectations. $$$. We did finally find something but figured we would have to put off buying it for a bit, definitely until we could go home to do some better measuring to know just how much tile of each size we would need. DH is a great one for guesstimating and always having too much.

Short version, we decided just to go to Home Depot to pick up the concrete backer-board and voila! We found some tile there that someone had special ordered in, didn’t like and so the store was selling it as a special. WOW! We got it for 25% of what we were looking at in town and for 1/10 of what it originally cost! Yippee! It’s lovely travertine marble but DH has a mountain of cutting ahead of him as they are 18” x18” square and he will need to cut some of it to 4” x 4” to cover the shower floor. I have faith in him!

Yesterday morning we dropped off the truck for new brakes (just started grinding) and in the cold and blowing snow, my DH has set up his table saw outside (okay, it’s the only room left) so he can carry on with the bathroom renos. This is his last set of 2 weeks off without a conference attached and he wants to get as close to finishing as he can as we have guests coming this summer. I am on standby as his aid.

I decided it was a baking day of sorts and after putting on a load of laundry, I started a new recipe of yogurt raisin scones (where the raisins are soaked in rum… hehehe). Just when I have dough up to elbow, DH calls, can I come hold the board for him outside so the concrete backer-board won’t crack while he saws?

Wash the hands, put on my winter jacket, gloves and boots, out to the back yard I go. The air is brisk, fresh and then he starts… great clouds of dust swirl up around us, cough, cough cough, he forgot to tell me I’d need a mask! Job done, back inside, out of my gear, back into the baking. The scones are just into the oven and the dinger goes for the washing machine. Wash up, downstairs I go, change loads and back upstairs to start on the gingersnaps.

Once again the call for fresh air comes, mark my place on the recipe so I’ll know what I have done so far, back into my gear, oops, the dinger goes for the scones, pull them out of the oven and get back outside. Roooaaarrrrrr, cough, cough cough! Back inside, out of my gear and back to baking. Just as my hands are covered in dough again, rolling the balls of gingersnaps in sugar, the laundry dinger goes. Wash up again, downstairs to change over loads, back up, hands back in dough and you guessed it, the call of the wild echoes again!

I did actually get the baking done… eventually, didn’t burn either the cookies or the scones (very tasty by the way), managed to get the laundry done before the call came that our truck was done. All I can say is that it’s a good thing we got such a great deal on our tiles because it cost $800 for the front brakes!! Cough, cough, cough… holy smokes! That wasn’t in the cards!!!

I’m still in a February funk but trying to dig myself out, …. I must, I keep nibbling those naughties. I am still posting but not losing any weight. I need flowers today!! I am going to buy myself some flowers, no, they will not be forthcoming from DH, there is not a romantic bone in his body and I must not forget to call my younger bachelor brother tonight to wish him Happy Birthday.

I do not get here as often as I would like lately, must do better. I get a half hour here and there, make notes and then few days later we are 20 pages gone! We are chatty!

Hearts and flowers to all of you my friends,

Kate, Sherwood Park, Alberta

Happy Valentine's Day to all the ladies who post here,

I am doing OK and yes, I did have a donut for breakfast. lol It was a heart shaped one from Dunkin Donuts.

Have a great day everyone,

Jeannie

I have loved The Downton Abbey series - hang in there! Seen all three of the series and the end I didn't see coming!

Yes It is the same as Fat Tuesday - traditionally the time you used up food before Lent.

Don't think I have replied to a quote very well - any one can give me a tutorial?

Happy valentines Day all.

Cooking a low fat valentines meal tomorrow as my DH runs a swimming club on aThursday and he is so special and romantic all of the time.that I was happy to let him go even though he offered to stay at home. I am so lucky

Can''tget the hang of replying to all so keep going on your journey and keep strong.

Jo

Happy Day! stopping in to say hello - I am on my way to the rec center today; I feel like walking and have decided it is time to get back with the program of exercise:bigsmile:

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! Seeing all the discussion about Fat Tuesday and Lent has made me realize that if I could just follow the Lenten Fast I could probably lose a couple pounds!! (I'm Greek Orthodox and we take Lent seriously - no meat, oil (nope ... nothing can be fried), dairy, alcohol, etc - basically 40 days of water and fresh fruits and vegetables). But we don't start our Lent until the middle of March, so I still have time to talk myself out of it ... LOL!


I need to lose at least 25 pounds. I currently weigh about 172 and am 5'3". I initially joined MFP about 2 years ago and lost about 10 pounds.

I know that I am a lot healthier than I was 2 years ago - I have actually run 4 5k's in the past year ... Well, "run" is a strong word - lets go with jogged/walked 4 5k's. A month after my first 5K I turned 50 and had a hysterectomy. Ever since, my weight has been creeping back up so I'm right back where I started. It is so frustrating when I'm working out with my workout buddies - they are all so thin (of course they are all in their mid 30's ... I was thinner back then too...)

Has anyone else had problems with weight gain after a hysterectomy?

Would someone please come get these valentine candies out of my desk drawer?? .... Oops - went off course there....



Beth