WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER

This summer has been so cold and gloomy. With occasional very hot days mixed in. It sucks!

Also, I did this to my sports watch:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=6890908&fbid=468739610662&id=286664895662

It's going to take $100 to replace it. Sigh.

I'm back! We had a wonderful time at my nephew's wedding, although it was a lot of time in the car. My grandsons (ages 5 and 2) deserve a medal for traveling so well. I am still tired, so didn't make it back on the boards until today. I started my bell choir for the new school year last night, and tonight I'm going to band practice at the community college. Guess I'd better go work on supper, but wanted to say hi to all!

I really wanted to be organized and get to this in the beginning of the month, but as usual I forgot. So how is everyone and your goals look great for the month by the way, so here are mine.

For september I would like to finish loosing the 100 lbs I started to loose in September of 2000. I have 5.2 lbs to go, so September 25 th will be the day I will need to create a new goal. Maybe my goals seem few but I need to push past this number, and not be the quitter I was almost 8-9 years ago with 1.6 lbs to go.

I do have another goal, to take atleast 1 Zumba class a week, it is so much fun you have to try it.

Good Luck Everyone I hope you get your goals accomplished, but if you fall short remember you can always try again.

Good evening. I was updating my food diary, so I thought I'd check in really quickly.

My new job is going well. There is sooooo much to learn :huh: , it's hard to remember it all. Everyone's been very nice, though, and understanding. I actually worked alone today, which was nice, but a little scary. I hope I didn't make too many mistakes. It's a very long day for me, but a short week, and tomorrow I'm done at 4:00 instead of 6:00. :bigsmile: I think it will all work out. It's just going to take some getting used to. Having the change of pace from the office to the school and back to the office helps to break things up.

Dora - Welcome :flowerforyou: You have found a great group to belong to. You will get lots of help and support along the way. Good luck!! :bigsmile:

Exermom - Where is Bryan going? You probably mentioned it already, but I haven't kept up on everyone's posts. You're right, though, I should be happy she will be on the same continent, but I'm not dwelling on how far away she might be next year. She still has to finish her schooling at UCLA.

Chiclet - I'm really sorry to hear about all your troubles. I will keep you in my prayers. I hope everything works out for you. I'm glad to hear Boo is doing better. I don't always understand a person's attachment to their pets, but I'm not alone like you are. If I were in your shoes, I'd probably be very attached to my cats. As it is, I'm lucky to be surrounded by people who care. I will pray that you will find someone who will care about you and not desert you. Hang in there. It sounds like the CD's you were talking about would be good to listen to.

I'm going to go watch "Bones" right now. It's my favorite show. It's being recorded right now, so I can fast forward past all the commercials. I'll try to check in sometime over the weekend, but it's going to be a busy one, so I'm not making any promises.

Take care, everyone. Keep drinking your water and getting in some form of exercise.

Erica

Michele:flowerforyou:

Whenever I come accross a vegetable or item I don't know how to cook I look it up on the internet.
Here is onse site for the celery root. I think it had other links for other seasonal veggies too.

http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/seasonalcooking/winter/cooknow_celeryroot


By the way, my baby is home from surgery. When I entered the vets office and told them I was there to pick up
Boo she heard my voice and started barking and howling loudly. He let her go from the back and she walked quickly up to me and we hugged each other and gave kisses. I took her outside there and she peed everywhere with NO PAIN! Thank goodness! Doc gave me the bladder stones. One was an inch and a half wide and the remaining 11 were the size of a marble, there were also tiny pieces too. He said in the bladder they are like a puzzle, they all fit together and make a ball. These things must have taken up so much of her room in the bladder! Poor thing. She came home and was starving. I fed her some chicken and broccoli, but she was still hungry so I gave her a pouch of dog food which she gobbled up. She hasn't eaten dog food in over a month. Only turkey and chicken. Doc says the bladder stones caused the lack of appetite. The only reason she ate the chicken was because it was human food. But even still in the last days before the surgery she even stopped eating that. So I guess I can feed her dog food again and she will eat it. She is resting right now. She is so tired. The whole vet/emergency rooms visits have wiped her out. She hates going to the vet. She knows it means pain. She even cries when she gets her yearly shots!

You should have seen me today. Since 1:30 in the afternoon I have been trying to find someone that could take me to pick her up. The vet closed at 6pm. At 5:26pm I had to finally call them and tell them I couldn't pick her up. Then 5 minutes later a friend called and said she would take me. I called back the vet and asked if they would wait for me and I would be there in 20 minutes. They said yes. So she is home where she belongs now. And I am very happy. I missed her very much.

Talk to you later, going to check on my baby.

Chiclet:flowerforyou:

Chiclet - just saw your post after I posted. SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND BOO!!! Yes, the capital letters mean that I am shouting that! Have some fun cuddling with Boo.:drinker:
Bec

Well it's 1:30 in the morning and I have been on Boo watch. Had to give her some pain med around 9pm because I noticed in her eyes and on her forehead that she seemed a little anxious from pain. After I gave it to her she has relaxed and has been sleeping. My apartment feels like a home again with her here. She has been a little clingy but she is getting back to normal as am I.

You know, it makes me wonder how I would be now if I had had to put her to sleep. My nerves are a wreck right now. My hair is falling out and it looks so thin. I know it's stress that is doing it. I think I would have just caved if I lost Boo at this time. I have never felt so alone in my life as I do right now. Trying to find transportation for something that was an emergency and having to wait hours before getting it was the worst thing yet. I can't stand to see anything human or animal suffer. (Even when working in the dental field, if someone came into the office in severe pain I took them back to an empty room and had the doctor give them an injection to numb the pain, so they wouldn't have to sit in the waiting room in pain). I don't understand what some of the people I contacted for a ride were saying and thinking about Boo" just" being an animal.

All my life I have had pets and thought of them as part of my family. I did everything I could for them that was feasibly possible on my end. And if they suffered from something terminal I always put them to sleep. I remember my neighbor telling me that her dog had died the day before. It had been bitten by a spider and she said she noticed the dog lying out in the middle of the yard in the hot sun, but she didn't go and check on him. The dog suffered for at least 4 hours before it finally died in that spot. I asked her why she didn't check on it before, and she said " I knew something was wrong, but it was just the dog and I figured it would be okay." She didn't even think it was weird that he was in the same spot for all those hours and in 100 degree weather?? :noway: When they took it to the vet to find out what killed it, that was when they found out it was a spider bite, which the vet could have done something for.

As Bec has commented "They love us unconditionally". You can't even say that about humans! You can treat an animal like crap and the minute you show it love again it accepts you back (unless it is severly abused of course). But they take so much from us and they just keep on loving us. How can people not understand what pets mean to their owners? I mean owners like me, that consider their pets family. It's not rocket science. It's plain as day.

Barbie and Barb:flowerforyou:
Thank you for your kind words when all this was going on and for your support. This was a particularly trying time.

Erica:flowerforyou:
Thank you for your prayers for us. I hope someday I do have someone that will be there for me again.

Robin:flowerforyou:
You said you named your male dog Boo. Mine is a female, she is all white, and I named her that thinking she looked like a ghost and would say Boo! (Didn't want to name her ghost or something typical like snowball or snowy). Do you remember why you named yours Boo? Thank you for your comforting words too.

Viv:flowerforyou:
I have had a car since I was 16 years old. I lost my car last year. I have never had to experience life without a car in California. You have to have one here to survive. I hate being dependent on someone for something all Californian's take for granted. When my Ex lets me borrow the car twice a month I have to do everything in the hours that he is at work. So I am grocery shopping, going to the laundromat, paying bills, doctor appointments; everything I can jam into those hours. When sometimes I have to go to my PO Box still on the way home so he can drop me off, he gets mad at me and yells, "You've had the car all day, what do you do with it?" Sometimes he lets me get the mail and sometimes he doesn't. Depends on his mood.
Thank you for sympathizing.

Bec:flowerforyou:
The picture of your GD is adorable. She looks like an angel. I like the effect of the picture being in black and white. How is Angus doing. When will you know if it is a liver disorder? Did they run some tests? Good to know about the Milk thistle. I will have to remember that too. It's nice to hear that it has worked for other people. It's encouraging. Yes, you are right, unconditional love....you can't beat it. Thank you for your thoughts too.

:flowerforyou:
This was an extremely tense time, and I plead temporary insanity during this time. I even forgot to take my blood pressure pills and realized it tonight when I had some pounding in my ears. Once again thank you all for your sympathy, empathy, kind words and encouragement. Believe it or not, you all, were all that I had during this time. I told Boo when she got home about all the people all over, that were wishing her good thoughts and prayers and what a lucky dog she was to have them. It meant a lot to me. She listened intently and I think she understood. (She is a very smart dog) Thanks again everyone. Even if it was just a dog.

Hi, It is nice reading all the posts. My goal this month is to lose 4 pounds. When I was young I would go on a diet and the pounds would just drop off. I am finding it quite challenging now but enjoying the process more. Instead of starving it off I am just trying track my calories, eat healthy and exercise every day.
I have been active on MFP for a little over 2 months. I have had a lot of over the top days but I keep logging them anyway. I have learned a lot from my failures and can see where I am starting to automatically make different, healthier choices. Still I would like to get the scale moving down.
One thing I am concerned about, I have had an extra 100 pounds on for about 12 years. I carry most of my weight in my arms and chest. Has anyone lost a 100 or more pounds? Has your skin shrunk as you have lost the weight?

Michelle, both the Ys I go to have the usual machines. One has a rehabilitation stepper (like a recumbent bike, but a step machine). Both have bands and resistant cable machines like they have in PT places. I'm trying to learn how to use the resistant cable machines for strength training, but I feel so silly having to ask for so much help. I'm too short to change the settings when they are at the top by myself.

I think I'm coming down with the what ever that is going through both work, school and home. I feel kind of out of it. So, I will cut this short and go get a cup of tea.

Jeannie

Just marking my spot. Will get back to you later. Welcome to all the newbies!
Bec

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Chiclet, I'm so happy that Boo is doing better and the vet was able to repair what was wrong......As someone who sleeps with at least one and sometimes all four pets, I know how you felt being alone.....I hope you can find some yoga or prayer or meditation or something to keep you focused on the moment and help relieve your stress.....

Hi everyone.
Sorry I've been absent so long. I had a long haul recovering from my bicycling crash 6 weeks ago, doing physical therapy for my injured back and getting my bike repaired properly, etc. The body heals, but the mind takes a bit longer to get back into the "being well and moving forward" mode.

But the good news is, my orthopedist and therapist have given me the go ahead to embark on my 2 week bike trip. We fly out later today, 9/11 [of all days], for France. I don't think I'm quite 100%, but I have been out riding/training locally without back pain, so I'm good enough to go. Besides, I won't actually be riding until 3 days from now, which gives me a little longer to mend. I have a repertoire of stretching and strengthening exercises and some anti-inflamartory pills if necessary. I think hauling suitcases is going to be more troublesome than riding... and trying to sleep comfortably in a cramped "cheap" transatlantic flight seat. LOL

I found it a bit hard to strictly follow my eating program since I wasn't doing much shopping or cooking until the past 2 weeks or so, depending on my hubby for meals, but I still managed to lose 1 pound, rather than gain, so I guess I learned something along the way... keep portions moderate, try to eat only wholesome food, not junk and even if you can't exercise as you'd like, you're still in control of what you put in your mouth. I decided I wasn't going to compensate for being laid low by making my body pay any more price than it already had. Besides, wholesome food heals.

So, wishing you all the best... I'll "see you" and report on the trip and whether I managed to lose weight biking every day even though I'll be eating croissants for breakfast. ;>}

:flowerforyou: CHICLET Sorry it's been a while since I posted, had a 12 hour sleep, did the mind good. As for the lunges start small and work up. I did 10 to start on each leg. Bend as far as it is comfortable, so if you can only bend slightly that is fine. The treatment goes to keep doing them, as the reps (10) get easier go to 15 and then on from there. Twenty reps is a hint to try a slighter deeper angel in the bend, but do this slowly, don't jump in them as the original lunge goes, remember this is a therapy approach.

Marching in spot may help with the legs also. Just lift as far as you can and do that for as long as you feel comfortable. Remember slowly, this works the muscles better and gives no impact to the legs. Natural gravity is a friend to help build muscle tissue and body weight with that gives the work needed to signal the body to support the muscles, by getting them food and water. so too remember drink water ( 1litre (16 oz.) per day) plus what ever else you drink, coffee and tea do not count.


Hope everyone is doing well, got to get to the bird feeders and chores around the house, 12 hours is a good sleep but it sure leaves me feeling slow. Chat a little later, luv to all

Marilyn

Thought this was a weight loss forum not a dog lovers forum.

:flowerforyou: Evening everyone

I found a little black bunny today on the way home from my uncles today. :noway: It was just wandering about in a garden a few doors down from me. I rushed home and told my daughter and we went to get it as I was worried it would get run over. By the time we found it, it had already wandered into another garden. It seemed friendly and we took it home, put it in the cat carrier and tried to find its owner. It actually belonged to the person at the end of our street, near where I saw it originally, she wasn't sure how it had escaped from the back garden. At least pet and owner were re-united.

We've had changeable weather here the last few days, from very windy and wet to hot and sunny, sometimes in the space of 15 mins or so. I was fed up yesterday putting the washing on the line, bringing it in, taking it out again. In the end I shoved it all in the drier :bigsmile:

Judith123 This is a weight loss forum, but lots of us are animal lovers too and we talk about our pets as well as our weight losses (and gains :frown: ) In fact we talk about lots of different things - that's what makes us so special and supporting of each other. Do you have any pets?

missjo113 you sound as if you have been very busy, well done you for managing to keep up your healthy eating despite renovating your kitchen. Think I might have resorted to the local take away! I am also lucky in that my parents are still both alive and in good health. Mum is recovering from a cataract op on Friday, but she is doing well.

Barbiecat1 welcome back and glad you are feeling better after your bike crash. Take care on your trip to France.

Mimi I've lapsed with my eating of veggies,:ohwell: but I did a big shop today to stock up on fruit and veggies so will get back on track. I've missed your posts, your enthusiasm for good healthy food and roasted veggies in particular helps keep me motivated

Well I have a few things to do. Chat again soon.

BFN
Viv