WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2013

Immmmmmm Back.....
Not good news.. I have a fairly large size heel spur and since I have been putting off seeing a podiatrist I dont know the extent of the damage. he did take x-rays,and now he want's me on steroids, he wrote me a script,but checking with my kidney dr before filling,I can still exercise, I can walk,but no pounding the pavement so to speak,I can go to the gym and peddle away,but NO treadmill.
I did take a picture of the x-ray with my phone but it didn't save So Oh well... the only thing I fear is having to have foot surgery.I will do anything I can to avoid it..
went to walmart and being my cocky self, there were some long gym pants,for $2.00 and some danskin t-shirts for $ 3.00 bought a could of large shirts( haven't lost much weight in the girls:blushing: ) and a size medium in the pants..thats a size 8-10 I am sure hoping by fall-time I can fit into those.. for 2 bucks how can you go wrong.
so now just waiting to hear back from the dr about meds and will start on those...

Thanks for the well wishes. I had a really good nights sleep, you know the kind that when you wake up in the morning the covers don't even look like they have been slept in. Shoulder feels much better this morning but neck still has a little pain. I'm wondering if some of it is because I slept to soundly in one place.

I guess I can believe my weight yesterday. This morning was down .2 pound.!

Joyce Indiana

No word on my tablet yet, if I don’t hear by end of day tomorrow I think I’ll go over to the store and maybe if I’m standing there they will be able to find it. :grumble:

It’s still unbelievably hot here. Do we ever just get used to it? I can’t wait for it to break, I hear that should be Friday night into Saturday morning. I have a hard time working out when it’s so hot. I have to be home for a bit to cool off and then hop on the treadmill or the bike.

Heather – I hope you knee feels better soon, take care of it.

DeeDee – the khaki eyeliner sounds great, I’ll have to see it I can find it up here.

Barbie – wow I’d love that weather, do you get bitterly cold winters?

M – congrats on the great find on the fridge.

Jane – happy anniversary! :flowerforyou: I hope you have a wonderful day

Katla – elephant ears? What on earth are they? I hope you enjoyed your yoga

Grandmallie – oh no, that sounds terribly painful. I’ve never had heel spurs but I imagine they are quite painful. What a great find at walmart. I have faith in you, you will be fitting into them in no time at all. :drinker:

Joyce – congratulations on the good night’s sleep. I myself don’t know that feeling…ever :laugh: I’m so glad that your shoulder is feeling much better. Yahoo on the .2 lbs down. It is definitely time for the happy dance. (we really need a happy dancer icon) :happy:

Yanniejannie – safe travels.

I should get back to work the boss will be back in shortly. Just like most of us, I’m dealing with the heat lol

Have a great day everyone

Sandy from Ontario

Hello ladies,
Still working happy! I just want to join in the chorus about how great it is to live in the PNW. The best part is that it is rarely too hot and rarely too cold. the difference between our summer and winter is about 20 to 30 degrees. It is typically 40's to 50's in the winter and 60's to 70's in the summer. I feel so blessed to live in such an awesome place. And it is sooooo green.:bigsmile:

I hope you all have a great day!!!

Robin Bodi Ritter all in the blessed PNW

Good afternoon beautiful ladies,

Yesterday the Ghiradelli Peppermint Bark that I ordered came in. I was so excited! I sometimes will have one or maybe two at night, and they are my serious guilty pleasure. I only recently finished the bag I had from Christmas. I opened one of the bags (I ordered three) and was so upset to find the chocolate had melted! Leave it to me to have them delivered on the hottest week of the year! :grumble: I put them in the refrigerator and hope they will be OK.

Tomorrow is my Friday off (I have off every other Friday). I had an appointment with the people who service my fireplace, but I called to reschedule because I am going to the beach with my girlfriend. Today and tomorrow are dangerously hot days and I want to be at the beach where the air is less humid and the ocean offers relief from the sweltering heat! I LOVE the beach. It’s my favorite thing about summer.:glasses:

My daughter is coming down to the area this weekend to bring her son to visit his dad and she will be visiting with me on Saturday, so although I am staying overnight at my girlfriend’s house on Friday, I’ll have to get home early on Saturday. She will be bringing the five year old for the visit, but her thirteen year old will be staying with his friend in Philly. I remember when he begged to come to my house, but alas, grandparents lose their appeal when toddlers become teenagers….sigh!:brokenheart: The five year old, however, still loves to visit with us.

We have a woodpecker that insists on pecking the side of our house starting around 5:30am….about 15 minutes BEFORE I have to get up! We have woods down the hill from our house with lots of trees, so I wonder why he insists on choosing the side of our house instead! Guess I don’t need an alarm clock after all!:ohwell:

Tina – Happy Anniversary and enjoy yourself! You are so fortunate to have found a dependable pet sitter. We have to kennel our dog when we vacation.

Sandy – The reason I became a morning person was so I could get my workouts in early before work, especially in the summer when it’s too hot at the end of the day. I don’t know about you, but I can’t seem to get motivated after work. Maybe it’s because I don’t get home until after 6pm, and by then I’m wiped out! Hope that tablet shows up soon.

:laugh: Katla – I hear ya on the wrinkly skin. Someone on here had a thread about wearing bikinis after a certain age. Even though I am in the best shape I’ve been in years, 60 year old skin will NEVER be the same as 30 year old skin. I’m not saying that exercise doesn’t help, but let’s just say you won’t be seeing me in a two piece suit at the beach anytime soon. Good luck with Direct TV. We have FIOS so I can’t give you any advice there.

:glasses: Vicki – I guess you sent the heat our way because the temperature is supposed to reach 98 degrees today and tomorrow with a heat index in the 100’s.

Linda – We are still dealing with ants at work. I think the boric acid works much like the chalk line, but although it has been better, we still see a few here and there.

:laugh: Pat – Oh, how great would it be to win the lottery and hire someone to make healthy AND delicious meals? BUT….back to reality! I’m not usually the type to kick one’s butt, but I’ll indulge you just this once because you CAN do this! So put on your big girl panties and get going!

Jb – My hair was getting so damaged between perms and color that I had to make a decision and choose one. Guess which one I chose? Between gray and curly or great color and straight, I’ll take the color and straight any day. Gray is NOT a good color on me!

:flowerforyou: Janie – OUCH! Hope that knee makes a quick recovery!

:noway: Heather –We’re not having much luck this year with our garden. Although our tomatoes and basil are doing great, our zucchini plant, which looked completely healthy last week, is totally dead now! We only got two good zucchini. I’m so disappointed, as last year, we had so many we were giving them away!

:happy: Joyce – So glad your headache is finally gone. I can totally relate to getting bored with eating the same things. Why don’t you try and change it up a bit? I alternate between low calorie bread and flat ones, which make wonderful wraps. They also have flat rounds and flat bagels which are all low calorie. A little variety goes a long way to help keep it interesting! Congrats on staying out of the 200’s and welcome to Onderland!

Meg – Beware of skipping meals. It only makes you eat more at the next one. The hardest lessons learned are the ones we don’t forget! Time to move on and revel in the progress you have made! Congrats on the weight loss and NSV from your instructor!

:drinker: Alison – You are amazing for getting in so many steps with your sore heel. My sister had plantar faciitis and spurs and still has to wear orthotics to keep the pain from becoming unbearable.

:laugh: Rhonda – I was picturing 65 people sleeping all over your house! So relieved they have a place to stay. Enjoy your time with family. It’s wonderful when you can get them all together!

Terri – If it were up to me, I’d eat chicken every night, but DH likes variety, and I must admit, once in awhile I do love a great steak or burger (especially on the grill). We also try and eat fish at least once a week.

:ohwell: DeeDee – I think you did great ONLY taking two hours to choose your washer/dryer. It took me MUCH longer when we got ours, and then had so many problems with delivery I thought I was going to lose it! But once all was said and done, we are very happy with our choice. And yes, sadly, they don’t make things the way they used to. They want you to have to buy replacements more frequently, so everything is made more cheaply. Sad, isn’t it?

:glasses: Deb – The weather has to cool down at some point (doesn’t it????) Try and keep cool!

:happy: Robin – Now that you are in a good place at your job, you can focus on getting back on track with getting your snacking under control. Stress makes everything harder. So happy things are improving for you and you can enjoy your job again.

:flowerforyou: Yanniejannie – Congratulations on reaching goal and welcome to maintenance!

Jfenner – Mmmm…..blueberry crisps sound awesome!


GOALS FOR JULY:
Consistent logging (Pretty good except on vacations)
Drink at least 9 glasses of water a day (90%)
Find an exercise class I enjoy (NOT YET!!!)
RUNNING OUTDOORS (Yep)
LOWER SODIUM FOODS (NOPE, but working on it!)
STOP OBSESSING ABOUT FOOD (Hmmmmm…..)

Welcome to all the newcomers. Jump right into the conversation and keep coming back!
Congrats to all on their success, and (((hugs))) to all who are struggling. Hang in…..it gets better!

Hugs,
Lucy in DE. :bigsmile:

Just letting you all know that I'm still here and thinking of you all.

There is NO WAY that I can possibly catch up on the posts, at least not from Vince's netbook. BTW -- I HATE this keyboard. And the screen is so small. But you need something small when traveling.

Anyway, the wedding was, I guess you could say,, nice.

After the wedding we went to Madrid. Now we're in Switzerland.

And Vince is in the hospital. About a month ago he had a blocked salivary gland. He was given antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory and one other drug. He went to the MD in the states right before we left and the MD couldn't feel any stone and gave him a clean bill of health.

When we got to Switzerland his cheek was swollen so we went to the emergency. They prescribed a pain killer which did nothing for Vince and some other things. But it got worse so, I guess it was our Tuesday that he went back to the emergency room and was admitted. They gave him morphene for the pain and he's been on IV antibiotics. Thank goodness in a sense that if this had to happen it happened in Switzerland. I'm staying with my girlfriend and her husband. Originally, we were supposed to leave for Paris this afternoon. Jessica and Denise went. We're HOPING that he'll get out of the hospital either late tomorrow or Sat then we'll take a train to Paris where we have plane tickets home.

Even my French is getting a tiny bit better. The signs here are in German and French Fortunately, Vince speaks some French and almost everyone at the hospital speaks some English.

I made an appointment for Vine to see our family MD for Tuesday. that was his first opening.

Oh, to top it off, they have one car and it broke down today. Won't be ready until next week. But switzerland has a good public transportation system (well, all of Europe does -- at least in the major cities)

I admit that I haven't been good about eating Honestly sometimes I don't know what's on the sandwich. Like the night Vince was admitted to the hospital I had to get something to eat out of the vending machine. First to figure out how to use it -- that alone was something else. Finally, I got what I thought was just chicken and bread. Well, I THIINK it was a fried chicken patty and there was some sort of mayo (I think that's what it was) on it. But I was so hungry, even the cafeteria was closed. In Madrid Denise wanted to stop at BK. I really didn't but that was something she felt familiar with. I ordered this grilled chicken sandwich but I didn't know how to say "no mayo" (now I do). I didn.t realize that I was going to get fries. I thought I could at least get water to drink but I couldn't find where to get it and no one else could so I wound up getting an iced tea.. Like I said, I don't know what's in some of the foods until we get it. We went to the Hard Rock Café Madrid and I ordered what I thought was a veggie burger. What it was was a hamburger with some veggies on top of it. Oh well.... But it was interesting, after eating that burger my stomach felt "yukky". But that went away,

I am sorry that I'm missing the food in Paris. It was wonderful last time we went.

I think I may just have a hard time convincing Vince to come to Europe again. The first time we came, his wallet was stolen. The second time we were ready to come -- had all the reservations and all, Vince hurt his back and couldn't make a transatlantic flight. The is the third time and now he's in the hospital.

Michele from NC (now in Switzerland)

Kelley: Elephant ears are fried dough that has been dusted with a cinnamon and sugar coating. They are varying sizes, but around the size of a dinner plate. I have never made them, and only buy one as a treat to share with DH from time to time. Here is a link to a recipe I found on line: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/elephant-ears-2/:flowerforyou:

Robin: I am pleased that you like your new job. Yay!:flowerforyou:

Lucy: I’m glad you’ll be able to go to the beach to escape heat. :flowerforyou:

Terri: Are you in the Roseburg or Medford area? I’m looking at the weather map trying to find places in Oregon that are that hot.:flowerforyou:

Michele: It is good to hear from you, but awful that Vince is in the hospital. I hope he’s better very soon. If I were Vince, with the luck he’s had in Europe, I wouldn’t want to go back again. His bad luck seems to be escalating. I hope things improve soon. Enjoy the rest of your trip.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:



Today is Thursday, and that is concert night in our little town. Every Thursday in summer we have a different musical group that plays outdoors in the Columbia View Park. The view is great, the music varies weekly, there is a beer garden, food and craft booths/carts, a playground for kids, and serious people watching to do. We usually sit in the beer garden with a group of our neighbors. I look forward to it. It is currently 70F in the shade on my deck and there is a nice breeze. Tomorrow we will be traveling to our son’s new place in Auburn, WA. He is very pleased with it and we look forward to seeing it. It is in a nice neighborhood of townhouses with a bike trail close-by, and halfway between his work and the school that DDIL will be attending this fall in Seattle. I’ll have my computer with me, but I don’t know if they have internet services yet. If I can touch bases, I probably will. This group has become an addiction. If I can’t post, I’ll wish everyone a great weekend right now.:bigsmile:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

July goals:
1. Log every bite
2. Move more.

Katla :flowerforyou: we have a festival that makes monster ears. They also have elephant ears but the monster ears are so much better. It's made of pancake batter. It's pretty flat, deep fried :sad: then dipped ion syrup and cinnamom. Needless to say I won't be having anymore of them. Our annual fall Festival is the largest street festival in the US except for New Orleans Mardi Gras. They have about 12 blocks, both sides, of food booths. We have a large German heritage here so it's all deep fried, your cholesterol goes up just breathing in the air as soon as you get out of the car.

Michelle :flowerforyou: so good to hear of some of your trip. Sorry it has been bad for Vince.

Joyce, Indiana

Just spoke to Vince. He explained that we have a flight out of Paris Sunday. I do hope he comes hoe tonight so that he can shower etc and then we take the train tomorrow. Since we'll be buying the train tickets in Switzerland, we can print them out here that's good. The other tickets we got in the US we bought had to be Fed Ex'd.

Fortunately he knows a fair amount of French because he said this morning he didn't get breakfast. Even tho many people speak Eglish, the gal thought he didn't want breakfast. I' having a REAL hard tie on this netbook so please excuse any typos.

The girls are evidntally having a good time in France. I'm so glad, just the sisters. I'm glad they decided to go.

Nothing more to report. Now its just wait and see. If the antibiotics didn't reduce the swelling, they were going to transfer him to another hosp in Bern but fortunately that didn't have to happen.

Thining of everyone.

Michele in NC who LOVES the Swiss chocolates