WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2013

Good afternoon all,

Well, the vertigo and all the lingering symptoms are gone and I feel clear-headed today. Thanks to all who offered support and encouragement for my little pity party the other day. I know that in reality my kids and grandkids are still within driving distance and there are so many who have family members in other countries or at least across this country, so that has put things in perspective for me and I am feeling better about my DD's move. I did my 2 miles on the TM last night and my strength routine this morning. It helps to keep at it on a consistent basis. I find that if I fall off my regular routine, it sometimes is harder to get back to it.

Jane - Thanks for the information on vertigo. I usually get it every few years myself, but I had an especially severe one a few months back, so even though this one was mild, I was a little concerned. All is well today.

Robin- These things have a way of working themselves out. It looks like your boss is on your side and your issue will be resoved very soon.

:ohwell: Barbie - I am definitely an "abstainer".

:sick: Meg - Sounds like allergy season might be kicking in.

:ohwell: Renny - Glad to hear you stood your ground and at least are getting a partial payment for the incorrect lens.

:noway: Michele - I make snickerdoodles at Christmas time, but I never heard of ones with white beans in them. It IS the cookies you are talking about, right? My daughter is moving to Somerset, which is about an hour or so from Pittsburgh.

:sad: Linda S - There are lots of people who subscribe to the "eat more to weigh less" theory. Sadly, it doesn't seem to work for me.

:brokenheart: Alison - I am praying that your DD and DG are spared from harm. I know how hard it is to "Let Go and Let God". Enjoy your cruise. You deserve the rest!

:frown: DeeDee - There seem to be an awful lot of us suffering from headaches lately. I wonder if it's due to the time change?

:flowerforyou: Jodios - Everyone needs a rest day to give those muscles a chance to heal.

:happy: Lin - There are many paths to a healthy lifestyle. So glad you found yours!

jmkmomm - You and your sister still have each other. It's OK to make new traditions!

Phyllis - I used to eat microwave popcorn, but found that it's easy, fun and more low calorie to pop my own. I usually buy gourmet kernels which taste better & I use a minimal amount of oil.

:flowerforyou: Cheryl - It always helps to see our progress (or lack thereof) in black & white. You definitely have the desire, and I KNOW you are going to be successful!

Well, time to sign off. Welcome to all who are new and keep coming back. Many of us have found comfort in the friendships found on this thread, and some great new ideas to help us on this journey to better health.

Hugs,
Lucy in Delaware :bigsmile:

Happy tues.
Back is doing ok today,thanks for the concern.
It`s a Violet day.She`s helping mop the floors.Quite a good helper for 4 years old.
Have a great day!!
HUGS
jane

Well I thought about not putting in my binge of chocolate last night but I went ahead and counted it. I can not believe the amount of calories and carbs I ate during the night and for lunch. My stomach still doens't feel like it wants to accept food for supper.

Good afternoon everyone. Well I just returned from my first meeting with the library board at church. Not sure why I agreed to be on it except that I like to read and Nancy who sings in Joyful Accord and choir with me and leads our church book club asked me. Oh well, one more thing to add to my busy life.

Sundance: Constant carbs was recommended by my dietician. I am not diabetic and I think it was oringinally meant for that. One is supposed to eat small meals every two to three hours throughout the day and include one to two carbs every meal for a total of 12-15 carbs in the day. A carb is considered approxmately 15 grams of carbohydrate. She gave me a carbohydrate and noncarbohydrate list of foods and also a sheet for estimating carbs from a nutrition label. The theory is that if you eat a small steady stream of carbs throughout the day you do not have any large insulin spikes and the energy is used by your body and not stored as fat. So far it has been working well for me but I did a diet with a bariatric doctor in 2004 that was much the same and I lost a great deal of weight. Unfortunately he moved and I kind of lost my impetous. I was able to maintain for a while but have now put back on not all of it but a great deal too much. So here I go again!

Jb: Thanks for the quote. That is awesome and something to remember when I am faced with temptation.

Sending healing angels to all who are under the weather or even just stressed. Everyone keep on keeping on. Sue in SD

Lovely group of talented and active ladies here. I'm 60yrs. old li:flowerforyou: ve in Northern Ontario thats in Canada. with my retired Hubbyof 43yrs we have 2 children and 2 grandkids also 2 spoiled toy poodles Am struggeling to get the extra pounds off also. Limited to the exersise I can do for health reasons, but spring will soon be here I say as we have a blizzard going on outside at the moment and I love to work in the garden. So better days ahead! Hi to all:flowerforyou:

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Well I am going to ahve to go buy a pair of size 14 jeans and hang them over my clothes rod as my inspiration. I am wearing my last inspiration. it hung for quite a while. My sister bought me some size 1 X for tops my birthday and I am anxious to try them. i still am a doubter that they will fit. I to have quite a few clothes that if I would weed through them I don't know what would be left. Last summer I took a lot of the clothes that I probably could be wearing now and took them to Goodwill. I wish I knew then that I would go on a diet. I hate shopping for a bunch of clothes to fit me now and they won't fit me in a couple of months. Basically I don't like summer clothes at all. I have psoriasis especially on my lower legs and I wear long pants all the time. My family tries to convince me that when I am with them only not to worry about it. So next month when we are on vacation I may just do that. I don't own a bathing suit because of my weight and psoriasis and will wear shorts and top in the hot tub at out cabin.

I just managed to lose all of my responses. I not only lost the word processor, but also the bar at the bottom where you shut down the computer. I called hubby, who says that he'll have to come home and see what I did, so I guess they're gone. I wrote to several people I haven't written to before, too. :grumble: It's so annoying, as I know most of you can attest. If you said anything I should have answered, please assume that I did and that my responses were spot-on and amazing! (Might as well go for the gold, since I can't be checked up on!). :bigsmile:

I do know that I told Linda Sundance that her scooby site also said that I don't eat enough calories. I'm really bummed today, because my scale jumped up 4 lbs. overnight. It HAS to be water! (Do you hear me, powers-that-be????). I've been good for the past several days, logging my food and drinking my new Isagenix. Last night I had salad bar (not the pasta salad stuff) with balsalmic and a cup of tomato soup. I stayed within my calories, so what gives? This is the most I've weighed in 6 months, and I can't see any good reason for it. :noway: :noway: :noway: If I'd known this was going to happen, I'd have eaten cake and ice cream instead of lettuce! Thank you for letting me rave. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow!

My new Fitbit came this morning, so I'm trying to figure out how to sync it to everything. I know that I don't move nearly enough, so hopefully this will provide some motivation.

Jane in Colorado (who won't be thin for Friday's lunch).

Enjoyed the comments about popcorn. We love popcorn! I have a duck machine - we put the corn kernels into the hat to measure them, then we put them into his body and plug in. After a couple of minutes he starts to pop the corn and it comes out of his mouth! It requires quite a large bowl to catch it all. We eat the corn plain while watching films! We are now so used to plain popped corn that anything else is either too sweet or too salty! Much better than other high fat snacks!
I have used my 'puking duck' at Sunday School as a vis aid that even if you are or feel small, in the right hands you can make something happen (like the loaves and fishes)! A four minute talk and a bowl of popcorn to share! My duck can be a vis aid for a number of different stories and the kids love it (the adults usually come and have their share too!!).

Sending all good wishes to those who are in need of healing, for yourselves or family members, and rejoicing with those who are happy!
MA in Midlands England

Hi to all my lovely friends.:flowerforyou: It’s another cool day here in Omaha but I think the snow will be gone in a day or two. Spent the entire day working on packets for my faculty and I had these binders with tabs that kept cutting my fingers all day long. Then I was supposed to help proctor a test at 11:30. I went down there and the students were hanging around and one finally asked me why I was there. I said “To proctor your test.” They said “IT was at 9!” Seems the instructor of that class changed class times and didn’t tell me. So they had a good laugh at my expense!:glasses:

Janie: I’m like you; I never leave “on time” and often work during holidays and shut down days. I need to get more in control of my life since that impacrts my working out too. The best thing will be when I no longer have to pick my daughter up from school!

Rori: I was born and grew up in Hawaii. I lived on Pearl Island, which is in the middle of Pearl Harbor

Jen: holy cow! I am so glad your ds is ok!!!

Renny: did you say that to the optometrist? I’m a little aggressive when it come to that kind of thing. My friends always have me call places to complain for them! I think customer service has gone way downhill recently which surprises me since the economy is bad, you’d think places would be all over customer service

Cooky: glad to see you made it back!

Michele: the beans sounded interesting. Yes, the decongestant is a two way sword….more water means more bathroom trips!

Jolene: how are you feeling these days? Hope you get rested up!

Lila: can’t wait to see your new do! I am bucking the trend and have grown my hair out to just about shoulder length and am loving it! I either blow it under or just scrunch it…I have very curly hair. It’s funny because I always thought the same about shorter hair but I have been getting told I look younger! Woo hoo I’ll take that! Well post a pic and let us see the new you! Spring? What’s that???

Viv: what is sugar soap?

Lindasundance: sounds like your weekend was great! Fruit trees. YUM

Amanda: have fun with the grandbabies!

Grandmallie: how old is DD? My DD#1 is kind of like that too….she only works 8-12 hours a week, right now is not taking any classes, and just sits around all day long…does not want to make any decisions about what to do with herself.

DeeDee: so glad your headache went away! It sure is different when they stop asking for toys, isn’t it? Omg wait…you said 12 year old granddaughter???? You look way too young for that! I had to read that twice!:noway:

Moxie: a pox on TOM! Hope you are feeling better soon!

Jersey: welcome and love the pic!

Jodios: keeping you in my thoughts and prayers that the flood does not materialize

Jb: good cantaloupe is a sure sign that spring is on the way. Good for you on the weight loss.

Lin: sounds like your plans to be healthier are working out! Good for you for being able to come off so many meds!

Jmkmomm: do you think thoughts of your mom and your traditions were keeping you awake last night? That’s awful when you eat too much and then feel gross. Don’t beat yourself up though…we all have days/nights/weeks like that. You will be back on track in no time. :flowerforyou:

Phyllis: what an interesting story! You must miss your son though. I don’t eat much popcorn but there are all kinds so I guess health wise it depends on what you get.

Debra; welcome!

Robin: well isn’t that interesting that your boss would sabotage you that way. I’m sure you will be glad when all this is over with

Wessecg: that’s great about your weight loss!

Lucy: I find that too…about being hard to get back to exercising once you have gotten away from it. Glad you are feeling better!

Kate: keep up that breathing! Will you be shopping soon?

Jane: I have 4 college degrees and still think that there is a squirrel inside my computer and if I make him mad, well here come the crashes and viruses! LOL.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Don’t feel bad; there are worse things than being technology challenged!

MA: oh your popcorn duck sounds fabulous and so much fun!:happy:

Barbie have a safe trip into town. I wonder why it takes so long to get a doctors appointment there?

Well I’m off for the evening. It’s already 7:30…where does the time go? Take care, Meg:drinker:

Good afternoon everyone. Well I just returned from my first meeting with the library board at church. Not sure why I agreed to be on it except that I like to read and Nancy who sings in Joyful Accord and choir with me and leads our church book club asked me. Oh well, one more thing to add to my busy life.

Sue in SD

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Did an hour of HIIT on the elliptical today. Originally, I was planning to only do 30 minutes of HIIT and then 30 minutes on the AMT stepping, but someone got on that machine before I could so I just continued with the HIIT. Tomorrow I'll do a step DVD at home. We have the Newcomers general meeting. This one lady (to lots of people, including Vince and me, she's really not with it) decided it would be nice to have a breakfast so she's having someone else do all the prep work. Well, there is another group that meets in that room before us (I told them this months ago), but they're still going to have this breakfast. I really don't know how this is going to work out. When we have our meetings, I usually get there early, have to clean up from this group, wipe down the tables, set up the greeting tables. Well, I was told that they were taking care of it all, so we shall see what happens. The breakfast will be catered by the restaurant that's there. I already know of at least one person who told me they were coming but as far as I know they haven't told them. And, of course, they need a head count.

Renny - I'm the same way as Lila - I don't check in with the f&v challenge, but I certainly add them.

grandmallie - your trip sounds heavenly!

DeeDee - glad your gd gave up on the iphone. Sounds like you had a great day shopping, tho. So sorry about your headache, but glad it's gone now.

Went to Big Lots to get more stools for our kitchen. Really, I'm not that impressed with them, but Vince is in his "they're a good price" mode right now. To me, you get what you pay for. I'm not expecting that they'll last a long time, but if this makes him happy, what's the harm?

bollingrox - welcome! So sorry about your father. Check in often so we get to know you.

Lin - I love your mindset "I may not succeed, but I won't give up!"

jmkmomm - happy belated birthday. Good for you putting in your binge of chocolate. It's good to be accountable for everything, the good and the bad. So proud of you.

debrawalin - welcome!

Glenda - what was your call about? Nothing serious, I hope

Yes, Colorado lunch ladies, we'll be thinking of you

Robin - sounds like things are going your way. Wonder why she would encourage you not to attend the meeting you are supposed to run??

Lucy in DE - yup, it is the cookie that I'm talking about (the snickerdoodle with white beans in it) I wish the "eat more to weigh less" theory would work for me, too. It doesn't.

I probably won't be responding to too many. Know that I've read all the posts. I have a kink in my neck (I guess it's a trap muscle). I'm going to go for a massage tomorrow. It is just a pain. It's a bit uncomfortable to be looking at the computer screen.

Did a little food shopping today. I hadn't been to this store in quite a while. Not much has changed, but you never know.

Beth in SC - I just got a rebounding DVD. It's a very good workout.

The only time I use the microwave popcorn is when I want to take just a small amount with me to the movies. Also, I have some that I bought a while ago down at the condo, but once that is gone, no more.

Kate - it feel so good to have an empty closet, doesn't it? Don't fill it up with too much because you'll just be getting rid of all that too.

Welcome to everyone that is new. So glad you found us

Jane in CO - I would say I'm like you, a moderator for the most part but there are a few items that I had to be an abstainer about.

MA - love your popcorn duck

Need to go now. You're all in my thoughts, even if I didn't respond to each one of you. That stupid muscle is still bothering me. Can't wait to get it massaged tomorrow nmight. Hope that does the trick.

Michele in NC

Better day today. Logged everything I ate. Just reading everyone's comments is encouraging.
Wessecg, I think you are right. Winter has been hard this year but it almost over and I look forward to riding my bike outside.
Keep coming back,
MaryC, SE WI

cute story