WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2013

Good afternoon my lovely Vit F ladies!

Boy, am I tired! Three or four days of being around young children, disrupted sleep almost every night, and being the perfect, sociable hostess have knocked me out! :yawn: :huh: I have loved all of it, but need a break. Like several others, I need to space out my socialising with a liberal dose of me time.

I have just got back from my arm massage, so feel extra spaced out. I love my massage therapist and she always has some good stories to tell me of her dating exploits. Of course I shared my NAKED SON story! ! ! :laugh:

Will regroup tomorrow and do boring things like make an appointment to have my blood pressure checked again. I can't believe I should be on the same medication I was on 47 lbs heavier and not fit.:noway: I also need to book a hotel in Bath for our girly getaway in October and I may look at a week in a cottage in Dorset for the 2nd week in September. I expect the best places will be booked, but it's worth a look. Dorset is a beautiful county with lots of interesting sights and a lovely coast, but we always seem to be charging past it on the way to Cornwall or Devon. It's not far away, but I think it would be nice to stay there outside the school holidays. Must put my research hat on.:laugh:

It's been a week now since I got into normal BMI and nothing has changed on the scales, but everyone is noticing. I do feel slimmer than my 150 lbs proclaims. Even got my gymming in this morning while the visitors were sleeping in. I must say I have been feeling extra hungry in the last few days. By the time our guests got here last evening I was feeling quite faint and was about to start on the dinner without them. Gone are the days when I could fill that empty corner with crisps and peanuts!

About to start on dinner now - chunky cod fillets, breaded and baked, with home grown yellow zucchini, garlic and parsley, and celeriac mash.

On the food issue - I do nearly always buy organic meat, chicken and eggs, because I reckon I am eating less of them than I used to and therefore I can spend a bit more and we rarely spend money on eating out. I also feel it is an animal welfare issue - I like the idea of 'happy hens', 'happy pigs' etc. We do also have our own veg and salad, although I still have to buy in. The one thing that does hit my conscience is milk. Dairy cows, on the whole, are appallingly treated, but organic milk is an outrageous price so I don't, I am sorry to say, buy it. I should, I know.

OK ladies, onwards and upwards!

Love from Heather in showery Hampshire U K.

Don't know what's going on today but I am dizzy. Since yesterdays blood sugar was OK I thought I would be going back to my once a week. I guess not. After I ate lunch and feeling really dizzy I checked it and it is 143. It's raining cats and dogs outside , glad it's not inside:laugh: So I am not going to the Y. I guess I need to do some kind of exercise with my one dumb bell. It's 3.3 pounds.

It makes me even more dizzy to real so I better close the computer.

Joyce, swimming in Indiana

Happy tues!
had a plan to have a picnic at the park with Violet.The weather had other plans.So went to Mcd`s to play.
Hope everyone is having a good day!!
HUGS
jane

Good afternoon from cooler GI NE. It is only 71 this afternoon and calling for rain the next couple daysl I enjoy having the windows open and fresh air. Today was wiegh in day and I lost .4. Was hoping for more, but I keep telling myself I did not gain. I have not been logging my walks as don't want to eat back the calories. Firgure if I don't see them I won't want them.

Jodio- Hope your vacation gets better and you get a chance to enjoy the beach.

Polley- Welcome and you have come to the right group for support and friendship.

Kathy- Great NSV at the pool. I know delling on the past is a hard habit to break. Alot of things I would like to do over and change the outcome. I do alot of talking to God and I am working on letting it go and know that I am in a better place then I was then.

Joyce- Have you called you doctor?? Please take care of yourself. News travels fast on FB. Sometim
es this is good and sometimes not. I like having it so I can keep in touch with family and the kids that live out of state. I have learned not to over react to what I read as they can mean something totally different from what I read.

Paula- Welcome

Sue TX- Hope you are feeling better. One day at a time. and never give up.

Cinday- Good news on the farm front.

Michelle- I understand how you feel about water in the house. Last Dec a pipe in our basement leaked(we had it replaced in Aug) Thank God for insurance. They had a company come in and took out all the carpet and dry everything up. Then they treated for mold and put down new carptet. I learned several years ago to make sure we have replacement insurance and not funkal insurance. So they had to replace it with new carpet of the same grade.

Well hope everyonehas a good evening. Be kind to yourself,
Blessed
Vicki GI NE

Bumping. So far so good. Sticking to the plan.:bigsmile: Job is great and the weather is awesome.

Robin Bodi and Rit.
Life is good in the PNW

We had beautiful weather last weekend. But my daughter and grand kids are coming this weekend and we were planning on going to an amusement park. So what is the weather predicted.....rain:sad: :sad: Oh well. There is an indoor water park we can go to. It's a little more expensive and it doesn't have the amusement park section like roller coasters and such. So my husband won't have as much fun because he won't have his musical shows but yet I'm not sure he ever has fun anywhere he goes. But he is a generous man and wants to make sure everyone else has a good time, still grumbling but wants us all to have a good time.

Joyce

What happened to MFP? :noway: Who changed it? :laugh:

Jane - what a beautiful picture. They are gorgeous.

Have a great night everyone, I'm off to bed early tonight.

Sandy from Ontario

I am feeling much better tonight. I have no idea why my body goes through these swings.

Yes, my husband loves to provide a nice vacation for everyone but he is very regimented. Like when we went to Gatlinburgh for spring break. All those places to eat down there where we would never go to around here. And we go to Texas Roadhouse, Subway, and places like that. We go to Texas roadhouse once a week and would go more often if I would say yes. We paid for the whole family to go to Disney World but it was the same there. If he doesn't like the looks of a place we do't go in, or we don't shop. It kind of makes people feel guilty that they are wanting to do what they want to do, including me. I have suggested that we allow the other families to have a night out by themselves, but we came together, we eat together. GRRRRR.Disney World was 2 years ago and the little one was 4. So sometimes they used the excuse that she needed to go back to the hotel and get to bed and he is very protective about me and my MS and we would go back so I could get to bed early. As far as this park this weekend, he will let us all know at the end of the day that we didn't want to go to the music shows instead of the thrill rides. He was a VERY controlling Dad when our girls were young. I thin he wold have watched them walk across the street to middle school if I didn't convince him that he eventually needs to let them go. Our job at some point is to help pick them up if something fails instead of preventing the failure. He sees now that he had more than the usual problems when they were growing up and he tries to make it up by being so generous now. But he still loves to excert his control. But we brought up two very headstrong girls and they know how to stand up to him when needed. Our ex son in law craved parenteral attention so much he put up with it. Both his parents were drunks, abused the kids terribly, his Mom ran over his Dad with a car and killed him so the kids were orphans during his teen years. Those years are usually the ones where kids are rebellious so it was hard for him in foster homes so he was put in group homes and eventually he found a loving, nurturing one. Actually he had two group homes he loved. When my daughter and him got married he wanted me to somehow work it out in the wedding that his two 'Moms' and I would light their unity candle as 'his' Moms but I convinced him that at that time I am my daughters Mom. When they got divorced it was hard on me. I felt my daughters betrayal on his cheating on her several times but I also lost a 'son'. I know eventually I will contact him, he is on face book. But my daughter has to be aware of it and approve it. I'm not asking for a relationship but just occasionally say hi and actually make comments on his face book page on his children. My my, I wasn't planning on writing all this but sometimes I miss him. He loved my Mom so much, He called her Grandma.

I guess I've done enough damage to my emotions tonight I should shut up., Joyce

This may sound silly but I am very proud of having washed, dried and groomed my Siberian Husky today without any help from a groomer. It has been four years since I was healthy enough to do it by myself.
I had a bit of emotional eating yesterday but I logged everything. I think logging everything helped stop the emotional eating from getting out of hand. I had two gluten-free pecan shortbread cookies. Yummy!

We survived Flossie. It is back to beautiful here in paradise. Just wanted to let everyone know we were okay. Have a great day, Jodios

Hi there everyone!

August approaching fast. It hasn't been favourite month for a long time - I consider it the dog end of summer when everything starts to look a bit overblown and tired. In London it used to be horrible with the underground overheated and all the tourists!:laugh: Now we live in the countryside we just hunker down, try not to go anywhere near tourists and enjoy the bountiful harvest of our garden. Should be some plums this year. Last year we had two! The year we arrived we had buckets full and made our first jam in 30 years.:bigsmile:
I am going to Winchester tomorrow, although I haven't heard yet from my new friend. I have sold two dresses at the consignment shop, so will pick up that money. Hooray! They were such beautiful and expensive dresses that I am glad they have gone to a good home, even if I haven't made a lot of money. Now I will have to buy a new winter coat as my old, very expensive one is hanging off me. You don't think of outerwear as getting too big! I have my eye on a red boiled wool one from Boden. I would never have worn a red coat when I was bigger.:bigsmile:
Joyce- I am not saying your husband's approach is right, but, as a bit of a control freak myself, I can see where he's coming from! I have to really rein myself in when I get the urge to organise everyone and I always know best!:laugh: And my mother would always manage to remind us how much she had spent/sacrificed for us. In the end I would tell her that I would rather she didn't give me anything if she was going to hold it over me for the rest of my life! I must have got it from her!:blushing: :embarassed: I deliberately adopted a hands off approach with my boys and tried never to run a guilt trip on them as I so hated my mum's approach. But I still wanted them to be wonderful and independent and clever and . . . . .:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Quiet day today. Done my gymming and weight training. I'm up to 20 press ups! Used not to be able to do one!
Got to catch up on admin and organising.

Jodios- so glad the sun has come out. Enjoy!:flowerforyou:

Heather from cloudy Hampshire UK

Good Morning All..New & Old;
Not much going on in this neck of the woods..been reading quite a bit finally found a good series to read...Thank God for libraries...I could never afford to buy all the books that I read...started early doing my housework....cleaning from under my cabinets to scrubbing and putting a coat of shine on it...or at least I hope it shines :grumble: cleaning in the bathroom felt like it took forever...gotta put some directions on the toilet for DH..:grumble: or he needs to turn the light on...sheeeeeesh!!!! :noway:
Going to be a nice day today ...so I am heading out for a walk... as soon as I can walk on my floors to get out :grumble: ...I am doing a lot of grumbling I see ....so I think I will go find that lady who was actually smiling in the mirror this morning.....I hope she hasn't run away :noway:
Anyway...I hope you ALL have a happy and low calorie day!!! :flowerforyou:

Liz fr Halifax NS

well weds are NOT good for me, I eat way to much:grumble:
sorta had a NSV- i was walking the dogs last night, and our neighbor down the street, I stopped to say hi,because he was leaving for cal. for a month. He said I looked HOT :blushing: i just sort of brushed it off. hells bells,im still lumpy and 160 lbs im trying, but I guess not nearly enough:noway:
anyway did 2 loads of laundry , and now gonna take the boys for a walk... I havent really exercised today because I am so sore from yesterday..

Happy hump day.Another rainy day in the midwest and cool temps-60-70.
Hope u all have a good day.
My Best friend finds out today if the chemo has helped or if the cancer has spread.Could use some prayers for her.Weve been friends for over 30 years.
HUGS
jane