WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2013

Hi Ladies: Had a great morning decided to put my pedometer to use,just started that I would run some errands, then ended taking the two fur babies out for a short walk....8000 steps later we are all still alive and actually have a spring in our step , but they need a bath now kind of muddy out there yet! Finally after 4 months my scale has moved and my knees are not fighting me with every step!!They will never be good but better I'll take. Thank you for all the inspiration from everyone, Prayers for all in need! Congrats to all the victorys made so far. We are Women hear us roar, or groan on a good workout day take care

Juanita in Sudbury still waiting for spring.......

Hi all - just time for a quick post. I stole a page from Grandmallie and got up earlier than usual so I could get in a workout before my 8am call. So glad I did. I feel so much better when I get the blood pumping.

We had terrible storms this morning. :sad: I was presenting some research on an 8am conference call. Our larger dog is deathly afraid of thunder and lightening and opened the door to my office so she could hide under my desk. As the call wore on the storm stopped and she fell asleep - snoring loudly. My client group are good sports and just laughed...thank goodness.:laugh:

I had lunch at the Yard House with a group of other independent consultants. I wrote down the calories of a number of lunch items to bring with me so I could "be good". I was a bit embarrassed pulling the list out. :blushing: No need - instead they ended up passing it around and everyone selected something from my "be good" list:drinker:

Though I have no time to post individually know I'm thinking of all of you sending congrats to those with SV and NSV and warm supportive thoughts to all those who are struggling.

Welcome newbies.

Got to get back to work now. Have a great rest of the day. Jodios :flowerforyou: :smooched: :bigsmile:

Hi, Ladies!
I've been without my computer for a couple of days and although my husband offered his mac, I wasn't confident enough about using it to write. I did log food and exercise, though. This site is so great for that.
It's been storming here in Michigan today and the weather has become a lot cooler. I did enjoy getting outside for a walk and even yard work for a few days.
My ear problems are finally somewhat under control. The doc thinks it's allergies and his meds seem to be helping. Such a relief!
Tomorrow's weigh in day. I'm actually looking forward to it.
Thanks for the encouragement you ladies give me.
Sharon from Michigan

Evening Chica's
Hopefully everyones day was well.
Juanita, those cocktail's on your profile pic look yummy!!!
Had a good day at work, a patient brought in Subway sandwiches, and I instead of a lean cuisine broke down and had a 1/4 of a turkey on multi-grain with let,tom,cheese and cukes, no dressing and it was delicious,also had a bag of light chips,that were only 75 calories...so I sort of splurged.. But have stayed under my calorie count, dont know about the sodium I feel sort of puffy,but drank quite a bit of water today.
We will be getting those thunderstorms coming through tonight I think, Hopefully I wont have a dog sitting on my head :laugh:
gonna take Chester to the groomer's early a.m. and then do some errands.

bump! I belong in this group!

In the bump crowd today...
Gail, metro ATL

MA - that's terrible about Charlie's pad! Glad you go her to the vet. When we lived in PA, there were LOTS of foxes. Well they had a alot for the fox hunts.

Well, we played rummy-que. There were 6 of us. I was asked to do it again next month! Most people thought buying subs was a good idea. One lady is having her kitchen redone so I gave her the rest of the subs. She can't cook right now so at least this'll give her something to have. Also gave her some of the upside down apple cake and cream cheese brownies. I'll probably take the rest of the brownies to Newcomers bowling tomorrow night. Actually, there are some things that people left here that I really don't want (like one lady brought cranberry juice cocktail - light - but it has ascesulfane potassium in it. I know that I won't drink it, so I'll just take it to the soup kitchen tomorrow.

Meg - so glad your daughter is fine and that the accident wasn't serious.

Tari - I never thought of doing the rock star jumps in a poo! When we're using our pool, that's something that I'm going to have to try. Thanks for the idea

yanniejannie - I'm so amazed at some of the people on our senior bowling league, there's one lady who has an artificial leg, a couple of people who use oxygen, but they keep going. I bet its the same way with your class. Congrats on the wonderful NSV. I can never wear skinny jeans.

Got up, did 40 min of the Personal Training with Jackie Warner DVD, then went to the soup kitchen to leave some sandwiches for them. Someone used to always be there at 7a.m. but there wasn't anyone there at that time today. I can't believe they come in at 11, they need to fix the food! So I just left the sandwiches on the doorknob. Tomorrow I'm planning to do incline intervals on the treadmill. Then we went to senior bowling, there were only 2 on our team and 3 on the other. On the way home stopped to pick up a ring I'd left at a jewelers. I had thought originally that I'd have some of the diamonds taken out and made into earrings. But then I remembered about a necklace and earrings that I had. It probably would be nicer if it was in white gold (would match my dress better probably), but I think I'll live with the yellow gold. Tonight we have Newcomer bowling

Viv - I met Dianna about 1-1/2 yrs ago for a few hours at Jessica's place. Honestly, I didn't know how much English she understood. You know, now that I think of it, she didn't say much to me. Anyway, Bryan says that she felt awkward, that I was staring at her. Well, what's done is done. I certainly didn't mean to make her uncomfortable. She's never been to our house. Bryan won't let us talk to her, get to know her. He originally asked for approx $10,000 US dollars for the wedding. Well, with paying for our airfare to Spain and probably my one daughter's, we aren't exactly in that position. Then he asked for approx. $2,000 to match what her family is going to be paying, I don't think we can even do that much. Her family isn't flying anywhere. Bryan was always the thoughtful, mature one. I don't know what's happened. But I fully intend to go to that wedding. I certainly don't want the last time I see my son to be that one time at Jessica's. We've flown over there, we were going to go last year but Vince hurt his back and couldn't make a transatlantic flight. How I miss him! I guess that's it in a nutshell. He won't let us talk to her, not sure why. I did send a friend reguest on facebook to Dianna, but she hasn't accepted, not that I expect she will. But at least I made the gesture. Not sure if she's the one who's harboring ill feelings or Bryan or is Bryan stressed about the wedding?? He won't let us talk to her to find out. I don't know if Jessica talks to her or just facebooks her, if she talks to Dianna maybe she would ask Dianna why Bryan won't let us talk to her.

ohiomom - I'm going to try to learn a little Spanish, if anything, to show that I made the effort. I bet her family isn't going to make the effort to learn a bit of English...but that'll be their loss.

grandmalie - hoping you get better real fast

Shari - congrats on the great loss.

Welcome to everyone new. This is a great thread to be on

Kate - have a wonderful trip

jb - love the meanings of FEAR

cityjaneLondon - hope you had a great day. Good for you getting your workout in

jodios - we have a cat who snores...loudly

jmkmomm - what a scare you had, but glad your hubby is fine now

ohiomom - great news!!!!! doing a happy dance for you

Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele in NC

Question and feedback needed. When I set up my account, instead of having MFP set my goals, I had set my own calorie goal at 1350. I selected Sedentary because I spend most of the work day sitting. When not at work I am usually busy and on my feet a lot. I also find that I am still hungry with the 1350 calories.
I am not happy with my weight loss so far it's been 80 days and I have only lost a total of 13 lbs. However am now up 2 lbs. from some bad eating in the past couple weeks.
I don't get in much exercise, I live in the sticks, no equipment here at home and limited to walking, but at mercy of the weather and my knees and bad ankle.
I am thinking of dropping my calories to 1200, what do you all think.
I would really appreciate some input on this.
Thanking you in advance
Carol

Katla – you mentioned that due to your lactose intolerance you couldn’t do protein shakes, the protein powder I use is a brown rice (organic) powder so that may be one you could use with soy or almond milk.

CityJaneLondon – What a lovely evening you had out on the town with your dear husband. Sounds like great fun, and good food choices. It’s a good plan to make it a regular “date”, as you said it is so very easy to fall into the “sit and watch TV”rut.

Jodios – I can just picture your dog (and hear the snoring!) - - I once had a (huge) male husky who was also deathly afraid of thunder and fireworks, he would “hide” in the bathtub, bless his heart! :happy:

Ohiomom0f2 – Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grandmallie – Picturing you with a dog on your head :laugh:

Carol (cooky) – May I please have the wheatberry salad recipe too???

WVgirlnfl – Welcome, come back to read and post often – great inspiration to be found here!

Barbie – Love your “word of the year” STRETCH can be applied to so many situations to foster our growth and resilience! :flowerforyou:



Brooke from Colorado

“I’m not losing weight. I’m getting rid of it. I have no intention of finding it again.”

Katla – you mentioned that due to your lactose intolerance you couldn’t do protein shakes, the protein powder I use is a brown rice (organic) powder so that may be one you could use with soy or almond milk.

What is the name of the protein powder, and where can I look for it?