WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2013

Hello Ladies: Well I am down a pound this week. Yeah! I am starting to get caught up on my transcription now that I can take the sling off for a little bit longer periods. I am really anxious to start PT, two more weeks now. Tomorrow a group of us from choir at church are going to Kimball, SD to sing at our former music directors church. She left our church two years ago to be the pastor at Kimball. I am looking forward to that. The music is relatively easy and it will be a fun morning. The church is providing a meal for us after the service so no idea what the choices will be but I am sure it will be okay. I will just have to adjust my calories the rest of the day.

Welcome to all the newbies. This is a very positive encouraging thread. Congrats to all those with victories of whatever kind and prayers to all who need them. Sue in SD

Oh, I FEEL GOOD THIS MORNING! But my blood sugar was 129 so there is no denying I am a diabetic. DH was really hoping to see me 'get rid' of that diagnosis since my dose was decreases and my goal is to stop it altogether. So I had to tell him that our days of routinely going to DQ or Pizza Hut are over. But my weight still went down another pound.

My oldest daughter has the gift of Grace. She just has a way of saying something when needed and yet not hurting anyones feelings. Someone mentioned earlier that sometimes our diet takes over our whole lives. One time she just told me that Mom not all of us are on your diet and we have other things in our lives and like to talk about them and have you as a part of them. It was like a kick in the butt. I get so upset with my sister, she has so many medical problems, issues and medications that she talks about them ALL the time. She is turning her family away from her.

My daughter and family meaning my grand daughters!!! are coming this week They will be here on Friday and leave on Sunday. It's the oldest birthday and we will celebrate their birthdays. if weather is good we will go to our local amusement park. I say local but trip advisory rates it #1 in the US. Maybe you have heard of it, Holiday World and Splashing Safari. Ever since my younger daughter got a divorce and then hurt her back she has to avoid the big roller coasters. 2 of them have been rated #1 in the world. So we just don't go on them anymore. But my SIL still loves to and the oldest grand daughter will be 12 in a couple of weeks and adores her Dad so they are looking forward to doing the roller coasters. And the 6 year old is tall enough to be on more rides.

Everyone have a wonderful day, Joyce in Indiana

Hi, just a short post from London in the rain, where I am with my DGS . He is completely adorable and a credit to his parents, especially his mother, who is nothing to do with me! :laugh: DH, as always, was wonderful with him. It is a pleasure to behold. My friend came over as well, so that was a bonus. The only hiccup was when he was woken up by the thunder and sound of rain pouring down the gutters and did NOT want to go back to sleep. All quiet now.

Sorry to hear of our members' money worries and health issues. Also those dealing with loss of loved ones. My DH lost his beloved partner to breast cancer and when I got it soon after we were married you can imagine how he felt! I could hardly tell him. It was almost worse than dealing with my own feelings. All I can say is Palliative Care is often brilliant these days and I have a friend from our breast cancer group who died happily and peacefully that way. Another is living much longer than anyone thought. She does a blog - Lindsey in Extra Time. I always dread mine returning and value each year I have. It makes me want to "seize the day". My friend who visited today also has secondaries and looks and feels healthy. May you, Liz, have as much time as you need with your beloved sister. My thoughts are with you.

It is lovely to hear the sound of the rain. It has been a long time. I hope the garden at home has had a soaking.

We may catch an art exhibition on the way home tomorrow. L S Lowry. He was a painter from the north of England who painted industrial landscapes and the famous 'matchstick men'. Largely untaught. I have membership of the gallery which runs out on Tuesday, so it might be an idea to get it under my belt while I can.

My new friend from yoga has texted me to say she is up for a trip out to Winchester on Thursday. Lunch at Loch Fyne, which is mainly a fish restaurant. Last time I went to one of the chain I had mussels and oysters, very slimming, but I don't know about this time of year.:noway: The mussels from Shetland have just been banned as the plankton bloom has called severe levels of toxins! Hmmm!:frown: I will probably just have fish.:laugh: Anyway, , it's nice to have a local friend to go out with. I will have to collect my money from the consignment dress shop. And spend it on lunch!:laugh: Winchester, BTW, is a beautiful, historic cathedral city, which used to be the capital city of King Alfred in the 9th century. DH's books are written about that era and the first one is set in Winchester. The cathedral is amazing and I do a pretty good tour!:blushing: :bigsmile:

Love from me in wet and cooling London, UK - Heather

Good day ladies - so today is my normal weigh in day, when I report to my fitness group. I am down 2.4 lbs this week, just .6 lbs away from losing 50! Okay, long way to go but heck of start I'd say :happy:

I am happy to be here, on this thread. I get daily encouragement via facebook from the fitness group and our coach but this is just another way to stay in touch with where my journey needs to be heading. I love the positive feedback.

Had a sort of "cheat meal" today. I wanted some Puertorrican food and had some, end of story. It was delicious but I didn't over due it at all. I am getting ready now to do my zumba. I normally do the Hip Hop Abs workouts but like to change it up a few times a week. I am feeling latina today so zumba it is!! love that salsa music.

So I am wishing you a great day/evening...wherever you may be. See you soon.....:flowerforyou:

well here is post 500 so I am just bumping I guess!
Liz so sorry for your news. Iam sending hugs and prayers to you and your sister.

We have been out all day now going out for dinner with friends. More tomorrow. Take care, Meg

Good evening, ladies!

Sandy......before i forget again.........love the new pic!

Barbie............simply amazing change

Joyce.........glad your are feeling better and got your meds corrected

Liz........very sorry you are so hurting; there are no words to ease what you are feeling........just know we are here and will listen and keep you in our thoughts........my hope is that your sister is at peace and with out pain

Know I've forgotten a lot; have a pounder of a headache and have taken a med........ate poorly: Golden Corral for lunch (took a friend and her mom who is visiting from Miami; the mom's choice...... then did a short tour of some of the local horse barns) and Taco Bell for dinner; just a major case of summertime blahs, I think. Did get up very early and went to tai chi and yoga........bed will be early.

yanniejannie---mid-Atlantic

Thank you all for the compliments on my new pic, it's not easy to post pictures of myself.
Well today was weigh in day. I lost nothing and lost no inches either. On the brighter side I didn't gain anything. Went for a nice walk with my DD today. Planned my menu and made my grocery list. It's been a good day

Meg – I didn't know you had adopted from Russia, that is so awesome. I bet it was a challenge. I too had the same rule of trying at least everything. My DS wouldn't eat any meat whatsoever, so |I tried to hide turkey (finely chopped) in mac & cheese and they both sat there and picked every piece out. Kids!! :laugh:

Barbie – you look wonderful, you give me hope that I can do this. I'd like to chime in and say thanks for keeping this thread going

Mel – welcome, it's nice to meet you. I hope you come back often and post.

Joyce – so happy to hear you are feeling better and you found the cause of your not feeling well. It must have been scary.

Grandmallie – I'm so sorry you are struggling with your heel, it makes it so much harder to lose weight when you are in so much pain. I checked out our Y here and it was $47.00 a month, a little too much for me right now. I understand your fear about your job, I lost my job about 2 years ago and I thought I'd never make it but I did. I left it in God's hands and I am ok. I have a great job (not as much money) and enough money to pay my bills.

Kathy – I'm with you, I think this thread and all of the wonderful new friends have kept me comming back and giving me a little more faith in myself.

Liz – I'm so very sorry to hear about your sister. You both are in my prayers. Go easy on yourself as you travel this path with your sister.

Helen – welcome, I'm sure you will find this a great bunch of women who are very supportive.

Pat – I've tried everything for these migraines. I've been through all the tests and the only thing that they say is that there is a small part of my brain that isn't getting oxygen but it's nothing to worry about.
I'm very drug sensitive so some of the medications make me sicker then the actual migraine. So I just try and treat them instead of prevent them, though I have learned some triggers so I avoid those as much as possible.

Jodios – I hope you have a great time in Hawaii

I'm off to bed, have a good night everyone!

Sandy from Ontario

Stress really and truly does affect your weight, I'm totally convinced of that. My official weigh in day is today, and I'm -- believe it or not -- 4 pounds less than before we left for the wedding.

I did a yoga DVD today. Was going to go to the farmer's market but it's raining so hard and so much, the farmers probably won't even be there. DeeDee, Cindy, and sandshillmom - can you believe this rain???? I don't even know if the overflow pipe on the pool can handle this much.

Joyce from IN - congrats on getting to take the Metformin out of your regime. So what is your new regime?

DeeDee - you can make the dinner, I'll provide the dessert/s

grandmalle - The MD that we used to go to, his office was getting bare. People would get sick and without insurance they wouldn't go to the MD. Then they started charging for things that I thought were outrageous (like Vince needs to go every month for his protine. They always used to call with the results. Suddenly, the office said he "had to see the doctor". To get the same number that they would tell him over the phone! But in this way, they could charge for an office visit. Then Vince started going for his test on days when the MD wasn't in. We finally changed doctors) I hope your office doesn't start changing for things that they didn't before. Everything will work out, that's for sure. Have a good time at the party!

Liz in Halifax - my heart goes out to you and your sister. I can hardly imagine the pain both of you are going thru right now.

Helen - welcome! Were you able to have the laproscopic surgery?

Pat - what kind of Christmas cards do you make?

Sue in SD - have a good time tomorrow. Glad to hear you can keep that sling off for longer and longer periods of time now

subzeromambo - congrats on getting on that team!

Joyce in IN - have fun with your granddaughters. That is so nice that your oldest daughter has that gift. Have fun at the theme park

Well, we had a torrential rain. I guess we got about 6" of rain in a very short period of time. Vince was going to go downstairs to see if there was any problem with the septic, but it seems that we got water in the basement. I guess we must have had about an inch in my exercise room and in the storage room next to it. We have a shop vac that Vince was using, I was using just towels and trying to get the water into a bucket. Then I went to Lowe's and bought another shop vac so we could both be sucking water out of the rug at the same time. It's cleared up right now. We put down so much of the riverrock but there is just one small place where we haven't put it down. Well, you should see the way the red clay washed up. The pool is brown right now. Well, that happened last year so we know that you need to run the filter for a few days then the robotic cleaner and it'll get cleaned up.

Jane - how sad for your friend!

Heather - if you miss the sound of rain, just come to NC. We've got plenty (too much) !!!!

melfitnesspal - WTG!!!!

jodios - have a great time. And to think ---- you didn't invite me ---- hmmmfffff (LOL)

Sandy - it isn't just kids who will pick out each and every piece of something that they "think" they don't like. Vince does it all the time -- that is, IF he can see it....lol

Michele in NC

Michelle :flowerforyou: you asked what my new regime would be. I never even thought about it. I just figured I would go along like I always have. I am going to have to talk to some one. I have 2 visits left on my Medicare covered visits with a dietician. But those have to be scheduled. So I think I am going to call the doctors office Monday and just have his nurse ask and call me back. When I was in my diabetic classes I was told that for a diabetic you should consider your fasting blood sguar to be 101 - 110. I was striving to be below 100 because doctor always told me my blood sugar was always to high even though it was 102. You see I have always kind of believed I am not a diabetic. I convinced the doctor to finally give me the diagnosis because it was 102 or so while I am n Metformin. With the diagnosis I could get my classes free.

So if a non diabetic normal blood sugar is 10 points lower than a diabetic, when I finally got in the 90s I was actually to low then. Then when I dropped into the 80s I was really hypoglycemic. To a non diabetic 84 would not have been hypoglycemic. I don't know if I am confusing everyone or not. I know it was to my husband. So I a wondering if my doctor is not on the same page as the dietician. So I told my husband all he needed to know was that if my blood sugar ever went into the 80s that he needed to watch for certain signs and make sure I had some concentrated sugar. But since the blood sugar was 129 this morning I can no longer kid myself that I am not a diabetic.

So a routine???? I AM going to go to the Y on Monday whether I feel I can do it or not. I will not let myself get discouraged if I can only go 1 mile. I have to realize that I am also dealing with my MS in this and have to build my tolerance back. Hopefully the added exercise will help keep the blood sugar down. Now if I can just find my blood pressure cuff and keep track f my blood pressure. I know that with being almost 40 pounds lighter I may need those medicines readjusted. And that will make me be one happy person!!!!:happy: :happy: :happy:

My sister had breast cancer. It was some weird kind. She was so sure she wasn't going to make it so she wasn't going to go through any kind of treatment. She had already made arrangements with IU School of Medicine to donate her body to science and it would be one more thing for them to study. We convinced her to go through one treatment and if it didn't work then we were OK with her decision to stop it. So she did. I don't think she realized one treatment was going to last a full year!!!! She remembers our sister and how she did with her chemo and radiation, how she looked, the cost, the toll on the family and she died anyway. Well her family situation was different, ecxellent insurance, children out of the house and of course much better treatments. She has now been cancer free for 5 years and loves life!

Have a good night all, Joyce, Indiana

Good morning, everyone -

DeeDee, your rain is on its way here - the day I was planning on going to an all-day outdoor concert, boo! I spent all day Saturday working in the garden, shopping, and cooking for today. My favorite cooking magazine came last week, and for once it had an entire menu (picnic foods) I wanted to try. It included a fab-sounding quinoa salad with peaches, cherry tomatoes and pickled onions, herbed green beans with feta, and for dessert a (non-diet) cardamom pound cake with tea-poached plums. Yum! Oh, well, if it rains a lot I can always make a picnic on our living-room floor. I'm flexible that way :laugh:.

I was planning on working out this morning (to earn that pound cake) but woke up feeling very stiff. The rain showed up last night, so that probably has something to do with it - however, now that I've been up for a bit I'm feeling better, so better get after it!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend -

Cheers,

M.