WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2013

Yesterday was a BIG eating day – went way over my calories and ended up with a stomach ache to boot.:explode: :grumble: This morning the scale reflected all the extra food and sodium.:devil: My DH and I took off of work so we could drive down into the city with our DD who needed to figure out just where her internship that starts next week is located. I do not envy her the drive but the mass transit alternative is not great with one of the main train lines shut down for construction.
We went to the Museum of Science and Industry next (delicious scone for a snack), headed to Chinatown for lunch – don’t even want to think about the sodium and calories consumed there – but it was yummy.
Cooking lessons were last night and the kids had requested baking and grilling so we made these delicious German Chocolate cupcakes and had Fajitas for dinner.

So today I started off with one of my toughest circuit training DVD’s and had a healthy breakfast and lunch. I did have one of the left over cupcakes for a snack (they really are yummy).:devil: I’m hoping the rest of the family eats the remaining so the temptation is removed. I’m drinking a ton of water to try and flush out all that sodium…I think I might just float away!:laugh:

I have a couple of minutes so am hoping to catch up with all you lovely ladies

Jo – your nature walk sounded amazing. I’m still trying to figure out the maintenance thing too. Stick with the weight training – it will reshape your body…I actually like my arms now.

Kathy – what is it with your family and donuts??? Great restraint! I have my fingers crossed for your interview.:drinker:

Yardtigress – I checked out your jewelry – really cool!:flowerforyou:

Barbie – your breakup with cheese has caused quite the stir. I’m a moderator so I still eat a little, but have cut way way back because I’m trying to get my cholesterol down. The only cheese I have now is reduced fat, only occasionally and in very small doses. I have given up almost all junk – I can’t remember the last time I had a potato chip…that is one food I have to abstain from completely! Just read your post about low bone density…I don’t know how I’d feel if I was told to put on weight. How are you going to do it? Your DH is a doll!

DeeDee – hope you survived your dentist appointment okay

Lucy – hope you have good weather for the weekend trip:glasses:

Katia – my DH would love to get an RV for some reason…thing is he hates to drive????:laugh: :laugh:

Sue in SD – hope you are feeling better and enjoying your visit with your DD:happy:

CityJane/Heather – all your Indian dinners sound so yummy! I agree with you, the BMI range is wide and doesn't really help you figure out your target weight. FYI - Another healthy weight measure is waist to hip ratio...I don't know what it is but I'm sure there is info somewhere on line

Gail – happy anniversary:flowerforyou:

Joyce – happy dancing with you – congrats on your NSV:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Robin – hope you are feeling better and can enjoy your birthday this weekend. :flowerforyou: My b-day is next Tuesday and I like your “do what ever you want day” approach and think I might adopt it.

Liz – my heart aches reading your post. You are there for your sister and that is all anyone can do…enjoy the birthday celebration.

I think I'm all caught up. I've got to figure out something to do with the left over fajita chicken. Enjoy your evening.

Jodios from the sun is actually shining northern Il. :laugh: :flowerforyou: :smooched: :drinker: :bigsmile:

The DH is laying a guilt trip on me,because I took my window feeder down. I fed the birds till I ran out of seed and now that is is almost the end of May I think they can fend for themselves.. Of course he has to throw in that they have babies that they need to feed..
Gosh I hate guilt trips.. Mama Cardinal landed on the window sill and was peeking at me through the window and was giving me the evil eye.
I do have the hummingbird feeder on my window and hopefully they will come back.. one buzzed the window as I was taking the other feeder down.
going to put the boot on early tonight and hope that my heel feels better. I will go to the gym tomorrow a.m., come home and make taco fixin's for the DH and then go to work.. our associate Dr is leaving and another starts tuesday. So we will have lunch tomorrow for him. ordering from a restaurant, and I cant decide to have the orchard chicken salad, or a BLT,
supposed to be a bit stormy the next few days maybe even into sunday a.m.

Ok folks, I've not been writing because . . . . well . . . . because I've been awful for 3 days. I don't even want to log what I've been eating. Major candy binging. There's not even a reason for it. I am going to go bang my head on a wall now.

That's all. Hope everyone else is staying on task better than I am right now.

Thought I'd introduce myself on this forum as I'm 55 and many of the other forums did not appear to get many posts.
I've 100lbs to loose. No gimmicks, no special diets planned. Just want to make some life changes/habits and see how it goes.
I lost 40lbs last year and gained 20 back. The 40 came off with diligently utilizing food diary.
Decline happened with laptop dying (no food tracking); my doc moved away and I couldn't convince myself to see usefulness of the nutritionist I was going to. I basically lost my support system and . . . well? . . . here I am 20lbs heavier. Oh, and I foolishly thought I could make it through the holidays without my support system. Duh?

Look forward to meeting everyone and look forward to hearing what is working for you.

jb - it wouldn't surprise me one bit if since you haven't been able to have sugar lately, when you can you find that you really don't care for it. Just keep holding onto that feeling.

Gail - have fun at the parties. I know you'll do well food-wise

rori - have you ever had the Arctic Zero ice cream? It's made for lactose intolerant people. Yes, it is a bit on the expensive side, but it's also decent calorie-wise and protein wise (for an ice cream). I'm hoping by posting my different exercise that that might spur someone to try something different. Glad to hear your family is fine.

katla - sure hope the weather gets better for you. Have a great time on the boat

Kathy - safe travels, how nice of you to take your sister and friend out

Meg - thinking of you and all you are doing

robin - happy birthday!

cityjane, I mean Heather - wow! What a loss, great! Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with us

Did levels 1, 2 and 3 of the 30DS today, probably did about an hour because I didn't do the cool down or warm up portion between levels. Tomorrow I'll do Denise Austin's Boot Camp DVD.

After exercising I made a pineapple angel food cake. Vince likes it and it's pretty decent on the calories. then we went to Lowes Hardware, he needed some wires and other things for the lights around the pool, bought gas, then went to Big Lots. See, we got new stools for our kitchen, only I got all the store in Newton had so I went to the store in Hickory. Unfortunately, when they packaged the seat, they packaged it right side up so when Vince went to cut the box open, he also cut the seat. I put another stool on hold with them but Vince wanted to be sure we got the new one. Actually, instead of having to buy a whole new stool they just gave me a new seat. Vince found this cool looking cat that's solar, we had to buy it for by the pool.

then we went to PetSmart to get some cat food, then Aldi. Vince warned me that he was hungry so he bought a big container of cashews and some M&M ice cream cones. Actually, I think he's never been in Aldi as he was looking at everything. I knew exactly what I wanted so I was shopping quickly. Then we came home.

Last yr Kohl's had these real nice 24oz insulated tumblers. Unfortunately, they don't have them this year. I'd like to get more. Will just have to keep my eyes open at other places. Amazon has something like it, but the glasses have a tapered bottom so that they'll fit in a cup holder. I'm not looking for something that'll fit into a cup holder.

One of the gals at mahjongg's birthday is next week so in true fashion, I'm making her something. She requested a strawberry shortcake. I found this recipe for individual strawberry shortcakes. I have never before made whipped cream from scratch, so I guess there's a first for everything. I seem to remember Emerils show one time did something about whipped cream and they said that you needed to have the bowl chilled, only I can't for the life of me remember if you should use a glass bowl or a metal one. Can someone help me out?

Tonight Vince and I are going to go to the movies. There's a movie theater around here that plays second run movies. We're going to see "olympus has fallen". They raised their prices this year from $2 to $3. I don't know...............

yanniejannie - congrats on the loss!

jodios - happy birthday to you

Looks like it'll be nice tomorrow so we're thinking we'll work some more on the river rock. Then I'll get all sweaty and go in the pool, at least I'm hoping to. It was so nice and refreshing and relaxing last time, it'll probably be the same way this time

Cheryl - we all binge from time to time. Even if you are binging and having nothing all day but candy, log it. It really does help. Be kind to yourself, you deserve it.

Just got back from the movies. Vince enjoyed it because, as he says "lots of s*** gets blown up". We put that solar cat out by the upper patio where there aren't any landscape lights. To be honest, I thought it would be brighter. But then again, it's solar. Really, we got it more because it's cute and with us having 4 cats it's very appropriate. I'm not really worried.

NewLuna - welcome to a great support system! Check in often. We're here for you at all hours of the day or night.

Oh, remember those work gloves I got for Mother's Day but ripped one of the fingers open? Well, I went to one Lowe's Hardware and got 2 different types, took one back today but this Lowe's Hardware had gloves like Vince has (they have suede) and a Velcro closure on the wrist and they fit me! So I got them now I'll have to take the second pair back. Oh well.....

Need to go take a shower, finish my salad from dinner and get to bed. Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele in NC

Going to see the grand kids tomorrow. Now sure how much I'll be on the internet, if any. Also they love fried food, fast food, Gatsbys, anything high in fat and sodium. Since we pay for all the meals we out while we are there hopefully we can have a little more control over where we go. But they live in a small town, but next to a big city.

Joyce, seeing her grandkids in Kentucky

I did a little research on the citrate/carbonate business......there are sites that seem to favor one or the other; tried to stay with sites that looked reputable; like webmd and some osteo ones. Some say not to take more than 500mg. at a time as this is all the body is capable of absorbing at a time; others talk about "elemental" calcium which is much lower than the mgs. advertised and is what is actually used by the body........not really anything you could call agreement on the subject, very conflicting info out there.

jodios.......sorry to hear about your stomach ache and your DD's not so great drive to her summer internship.......my DD made the meal last night....... a pesto/cheese chicken pounded thin and rolled up and baked tomatoes. (also with cheeses...good, but lots of cheeses) and when I looked at the bottle of olive oil, it looked like she managed to use about 4oz. (!!!!) I managed 2 slices of tomato and half a breast but I think we really need your healthy cooking classes rather badly........LOL;;do you travel??????

BJ........chips are my all time worst downfall; absolutely can't touch them or the whole bag is gone.......for bread, I use Trader Joes flourless wheatberry and I'm satisfied with it

grandmallie......awwwww.........poor birdies; my dad would pull his feeders in the summer but I feed year round

wessecg.......forgive yourself and move ahead; that's all any of us can do

suebdew.......hope you feel better.......I remember enjoying your posts about your golf games back when I was still just lurking

Michele........wow, another super busy day for you........all that river rock!!!

Joyce..........enjoy your visit with your grandchildren

Have great days, everyone!

yanniejannie.......wide awake since 4am and going to try to sleep some more

I know I know,now I am feeling horribly guilty about the birds.. dont know if I should put it back up or not:frown:
I tried the artic zero ,it was ok, but not something I would buy again.. the 2 frozen things that I have found that are really good are
Outshine-coconut water and pineapple bars-60 calories,nice and refreshing and sugar free naturally
Sunkist-orange sorbet and low fat ice cream bars- 50 calories - nice and creamy
And my favorite thing that is new to me with the weight loss journey is PB2- I bought a small jar to try and ,loved it so much bought lb bags on amazon -both chocolate and regular. 45 calories for 2-Tbls..I make it in a 90 calorie wrap with 1/2 a banana for breakfast and it is under 200 calories all together and Yummy..
I hope everyone enjoys this holiday weekend and remember why we have this holiday..

Ok Michelle, per your advice I entered my calories for yesterday - about 900 over for the day. You are right, it can't work if I don't keep it honest. I'm just mad at myself.

Today I am not going to weigh myself but I will get back on track.

Barbie - I didn't read earlier posts but I'm thinking you need to gain weight? Sounds like a good thing to need to do, but I can totally see you being afraid of getting back in the habit. But couldn't you just walk less rather than eat more?

Good morning to all my VitF folks. Getting an earlier start today. Supposes to play golf but it looks like rain but hey a true golfer plays no matter what the weather. We played in 25 mph gusts on Tuesday. Not pretty!

Michele - I agree with you that posting all your different exercises gives people ideas. I couldn't believe your did 3DShred 1,2, and 3!. That is amazing. You remind me of the energizer bunny! :noway:

Jodios - Happy Birthday. Hope you make it special and congratulations on getting below your goal.

Barbie - hope you get some good insights from your visit to the specialist. One of my friends who is very tall and thin fell at Christmas right on her hip bone and scattered it. The doctor told her she needed to put on some weight. I've never had that problem. When I was in college in a drill team the director ordered my uniform one size too small. She said, "just lose 5 lbs". Well, back then it was no problem but not so now.

yanniejannie - are you playing golf? We're lucky we can play year round here (not always nice weather tho). We have some ladies who shoot their age and they are in their 80's. Hope I can still be out there swinging a club when I'm 80.:noway:

Joyce - enjoy your visit to your grandkids. Sometimes the little ones crave veggies also.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Our town has a field of flags honoring veterans so I want to go down and see it tonight. We have a street dance and party here in our community but we probably won't go to that.

Sue in TX

Hi all,
Well here we are down in beautiful Cornwall. The weather is COLD and windy, but the sun is popping out now and again. When we arrived we had lunch in the conservatory which was baking hot, but as I lie on the sofa inside I can hear the wind whipping round. The view out the back of the rolling countryside is stunning and we are really isolated here. Just what we like - peace and quiet.
I managed to get the Wi Fi on. Had to find the switch first! :laugh:
Travelling is always hard for diets, but we stopped on the way for a cup of tea and although DH had a toasted tea cake I just had a portion of my emergency nuts and raisins I keep in my bag. Then when we got here the bread in the coolbox was still frozen so lunch was a measured piece of cheese and tomatoes! I will have a slice of bread as a snack when we are all unpacked and settled. I have brought a homemade chilli with me for the first night as I can't be bothered driving some distance to a supermarket on the first day. Also a large bunch of spinach from our garden. Yum! I picked a lot of herbs to bring with us as well so the fridge is full of green stuff. The basil plant survived the journey and is warming up in the conservatory.
The TV has died here so we will be doing any TV watching on the internet. Friday is my favourite evening with 3 comedy shows in a row, so we will be watching them with a time lag!
I am having a day off exercising today, but did my face ones in the car. :bigsmile: The dumbbells are waiting in the hall so tomorrow it will be 30D off the internet and some extra lifting.
There is some wonderful walking round here with a stately home about a mile away. The converted chapel we are staying in was the Nonconformist chapel for the house. Also a lovely walk through woods to an old station with a steam engine. The signal box sells amazing cakes, which this year I won't be able to indulge in.:sad:
Love to all, Heather in stunningly beautiful Cornwall:flowerforyou:

TGIF!!A little cool today,maybe up to 60.Tomato plants are doing good.
Have a party for my 3 year old niece and nephew tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a great week-end.
HUGS
jane

Haven't had time to catch up on the posts today (hopefully sometime over the long weekend). The weight I put on is slowly coming off. :grumble: Neither my DD or I felt like exercising today, so I challenged my DD to a dance off. We just finished 45 minutes of Just Dance 2 on the Wii - what a blast! Definitely a fun way to torch some calories. Now we are going to eat a healthy lunch. Thank goodness the cupcakes are gone! Temptation gone.

Have a great day and holiday weekend.

Jodios from sunny but cool N. Il:laugh: :glasses: :drinker: :bigsmile:

Well, finished my running around and came home a little late for lunch, I bought fresh strawberries and a strawberry Vinagrette cooked some chicken and made a yummy salad.

Barbie-I'm the same way with breads, I lose control so I just can't eat it. The more wheat products I eat, the more I go out of control. I had to start all over I gained 10 pounds, now I have those to lose too. But that's ok, just a couple of weeks of hard work an boom gone.
Checked my tomato plants and I have tomatoes. Yippie

Tigress from GA

Hi dear friends,

Here at work, and have 3 days coming up off.....:bigsmile: . Poor DH, he was totally bushed today and when I called him 2 different times he was napping...We have been doing alot in the last few days and then last night had our Gem and Mineral club to go to for pot luck :ohwell: That is always a mine field to wade through. I went a tiny bit over by 100 calories... but I also had exercise calories burned so it was ok. I just do not like to go over 1200 calories even with my exercise added in. I think tonight we will veg and get to sleep early.

Wessecg- we all go over our calories now and then.... you need to forgive yourself and start again. There is always a lesson to learn from everything. Just come and join in the gang that has all done the same!

City Jane - Sounds like a wonderful trip, can just imagine how beautiful it is there. A few years ago, DH lost a sister to cancer, and with her went all the knowledge of genealogy as her kids deleted everythng on her computer.... she had gotten DH 's family back to England and Ireland and Scotland. I took up the banner and am continuing on with the hunt. I am soooooooo amazed how far back we have gotten the line, and how intertwined the line is. Anyway some of the family were Corwall people! One thing I have on my "bucket" list is to visit those countries and walk in the steps of all the Lynch family.

Meg- Hugs to you! Praying Dad is much better soon. Rest when you can.

Liz - you too... Rest and know we are thinking about you!

Hugs to all
Connie