WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2013

Quick check in. I'm none the worse for wear with my yellow jacket stings. One on the back of my thigh is a little red and puffy. DH missed it with the bite stick. The others that he did treat aren't even noticeable today.

Deb, good luck with the inspires. I had one when they first came out, but I usually used the plate that turned it back into an 84. I think they are more user-friendly now, but I still love my 84 so I will keep it. I had to leave the inspire with the school when I changed jobs.

Off to walk,
Kay

Happy birthday Gail.:flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker:

Hello Friends,

Happy Sunday. I'm HOME for another 2 weeks so trying to get some projects done. Yesterday DH and I came to a quick consensus (this happens as often as a planetary alignment) at Home Depot. After years of living with a sad looking master bath, we'll soon be getting a new vanity, sink and faucet. Can't wait.

Meg: Good for you and DH for getting the dancing started. You sound like a gal after my own heart.

Barbie and Jodios: Thanks for pushing the weight training challenge. I’ve needed to get myself to a class or gym to introduce some variety to my exercise routine. Now, I’ll have focus. Count me in!

Jane: Proud of you for getting out to the gym and for your walks. I like artichokes steamed till they are soft. Peel off the tough outer leaves. Eat the soft side of the inner leaves with a drizzle of olive oil and sea salt.

Garom21: Your goals sound sensible and I agree in starting realistically. In his book “The Heart of Change” John Kotter talks about getting quick wins as a way to begin to initiate permanent change.

JuliesInsulin: Welcome, and I hope you will continue to post. Next time, please let us know where you are from. We so enjoy the global scope of this community.

Suebdew: Best of luck in your match this Tuesday.
Sandy in Ontario: Cheers to you for doing the mile on the track and all your smart planning for the movies and week ahead. WTG!

Melanie: I don’t dance Bollywood, or even Hollywood style, but I’m doing a happy dance for you in celebration of exceeding 50 pounds lost. Keep it up!

Michelle: Lucky Lance! Not only does the daily insulin help, but the daily brushing will minimize likelihood of hairballs. My tabby, Mars loves to be brushed, so I do it while we are outside on our daily walk. He walks on a leash like a puppy.

Gail: I’m green with envy…a massage, a facial and a gift of a fitbit. Happy, healthy and fun birthday, and you deserve it!

Janie: I can’t get enough of those cardio poodles! Seen them about 5 times and still crack up. And now the bunnies...cute!

Anamika: Happy Friendship Day to you, too. Looking forward to getting to know you better.

Grandmallie: Excellent, excellent way to deal with the big Italian restaurant meal and dessert options. Proud of you.

DeeDee: You’ll dissolve those sodium pounds soon. Meanwhile, keep that tiara on and be good to yourself during the nice sunny days. Has your injury healed up?

Crumbecky: Welcome. I hope you find the encouragement and motivation you need from this community. I know I have. Keep coming back.

Jeneba: I love Marianne Williamson, and I hope you share some her wisdom with us.

Hrbo: Welcome. Your attitude is superb and if you are ever feeling emotionally or physically challenged you have a community here that will help pull back onto the path of optimum health.

Genealace: How lovely of you to visit your Aunt and another person in a retirement home. I’ve done some tatting, and stand in awe of anyone who can make lace. Hope the appointment for bone density scan goes well.

Sunbaby: Welcome and keep coming back. I used to visit FB, Twitter and other social media sites. However, this is the only site I visit now. It’s essential to my health, whereas the other ones are just fun, but don’t support me.

Deb A: Best of luck to you with the teaching and home improvement challenges. A clean, organized house helps my state of mind and quality of focus. There must be something to feng shui.

Heather: Too bad DH’s DD had to learn a hard lesson through this terrible incident. I’m not a cheese person, but enjoy a nice piece of brie now and then. Good for you committing to colon check. I recently lost a friend from high school who succumbed to colon cancer.

Kate: C25K – you can do it! You inspire me to push a little longer on the treadmill.

Katla: Cheers to you. Not easy to bust through a plateau (oh, how well I know this!)

PatPhoo: Did not know you are singer. I hope the queasiness completely disappears and you have a fantastic visit with the opera singers.

AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY: I recognize the barriers to achieving my goals and I move around them, over them and through them.

Stay well.
Rori in the Colorado Foothills

August Goals:
Nourish my mind and faith with daily positive affirmations.
80 oz of water per day, except on flight days
Embrace the strength training challenge and seek professional help with it at my community center
Get a double digit number on my weight loss ticker.

Hi everyone. I’m trying to put my dinner in and it says the site is down. Weird. I can do everything else. Nice day today. Went for a walk for 45 minutes and worked in the garden for 1 ½ hours. Had a scrumptious grilled chicken dinner with a honey/lemon/tarragon marinade. DD#1 made the salads without too much trouble except she had no idea how to cut tomatoes into little squares!!! I found it very interesting that she came home from work last night complaining about people who don’t speak English!!! Both DH and I about fell out of our chairs. She hardly speaks English herself and most people can’t understand her and she’s complaining???? OMG. (Those of you who don't know our kids are adopted from Russia)

Jane: good for you to get that walk in. I’m convinced it’s the little changes that make the biggest difference. I have lots of artichoke recipes, but none use fresh ones. I don’t know what to do with them either!

Sue (and Cheryl): my best friend’s horse had to be put down and when she died she fell right on my friend’s leg, breaking it just below the knee. She has had multiple blood clots there so now is on anticoagulants and can’t ride any longer.

Cinderella: welcome!

Garom21: good goals. I agree with starting small and working up!

Juliesinsulin: welcome to you too. Glad your thyroid issue is now under control!

Sue: great job to get some golfing in even though it was hot!

Barbie: glad you are back to your old self again

Sandy: great job on the walk. A drive in movie sounds delightful! You’ll save both money and calories by taking your own snacks!

Melfitnesspal: wow wonderful news on your weight loss! That is awesome!

Michele: I love your idea of making “inspiration pants”!!!

Gail: I heard on the weather channel that August is supposed to be cooler than normal for you. Happy birthday!

Janie: excellent job on the exercise today!

Anamika: good for you to get that yoga done. I am trying a yoga tape twice a week, and I can’t do any of the poses, but I try and I end up sweating, so I’m doing something. I always say that the downward facing dog bites me!

Grandmallie: great self motivation to do so well at your restaurant! Be sure to have some down time tonight before starting back at work.

DeeDee: that sodium weight will be gone in no time! Boss those boys around!

Becky: welcome to our group. It’s amazing to find out what we actually eat, isn’t it? I was amazed and appalled at the same time!

Janeba: sometimes it is hard to remain positive isn’t it, especially with all the twists and turns life throws our way.

Hrbo: welcome! Wow you have done a ton of things (pun not intended!) to get yourself healthy already. Good for you to make yourself the priority and get rid of that junk food even if the kids were mad.

Genealace: I bet DBF appreciates you being such a good friend. Let us know about the bone density scan

Sunbaby: you’ll catch on!

Deb: sounds like you are one busy lady!

Heather: OMgoodness. I about fell out of my chair when I MISread your post: “so will have English cherries for dessert instead of stewed fruit to save a few CATS” CATS???????? Oh, wait, it’s cals!!!! OK what is a pram suit? I know what a pram is but not a suit for one.

Kate: thanks for the explanation. You’ll make that goal in no time I’m sure!

Katla: yay for the weight loss!

Terri: yummy dinner! Most of us here say that salmon melts the pounds off!

Pat: glad you are starting to feel better

Vicki: glad you are having some great weather to enjoy. I love Broken Bow.

Kay: I missed your post about being stung by yellow jackets. OUCH! Hope the stings are better soon.

Rori: I am starting to envision a time after the kids move out when we can remodel both bathrooms upstairs. We did the powder room off the dining room 2 years ago and this year I got new custom curtains (actually they are more like valences) for the dining room and am waiting for the hardwood floor. Remodeling is so much fun!

Jill: I have been having problems with the site too.

OK I’m off. I need to shower and get my nails done before baseball starts in less than 2 hours! Take care everyone. Meg from Omaha where it is unseasonably cool.

Hello Ladies, been a really sunny cool day here at last so we got lots of outside work done including killing a wasps nest that was in the garden shed, they are really bad this year for some reason.
Well I finally lost 1 lb. been the same or up one off and on for ever and then out of nowhere 1 lb gone so happy,I have lost enough in
inches to go down a few sizes so hanging in is worth the wait
Happy Birthday to Gail hope you enjoyed your day.
Vicki: I envy you getting to ride motorcycles, my husband had a Goldwing for over 30 years we enjoyed the open road and met many wonderful sometimes colourful people he retired and his health wasn't good so it was a sad day when we sold the bike,
Congrats to all the great losses some are having and the NSV as well
Well wishes to all who are not feeling well,
Came across this quote and thought I would share

There comes a time when you have to stop Remembering your mistakes and move on.
No regrets in life just lessons (:



Have a great evening Juanita in Sudbury ont.

Gail - wow, you certainly get your steps in!

janie - I'm always amazed at how sweaty and much water I drink when I do one of Leslie Sanson's DVD's. I know when I got my first one I thought "oh, this is going to be a piece of cake", but you really do work up a sweat!. I tell you, the first time I did HIIT, I thought for sure I was going to die! Now I'm up to an hour on the elliptical. I sprint for 30 seconds and then recover (still pedaling, just not as intense) for a minute. Who needs rain? I'll be more than glad to send you some!!! lol It has helped so much when I log my food before I eat it. Sometimes I'm over but by eliminating something, I can keep the calories down. Sometimes I just need to change what I'm having (like more veges rather than a potato)

Vince and I went and worked on the pool some today. He cleaned the filters. Boy, were they ever dirty! I swept as much of the red clay as I could and tried to clean off the concrete. Then I vacuumed out the spa and the steps to the pool. Tomorrow we'll probably run the robotic cleaner. Oh, I gotta tell ya....I HATE mice. Just the sight of them gives me the willies. Well, there was a mouse in the pool. Vince was working behingd the equipment pad draining the pump, etc. so his shoes were really muddy. Well, I put on my big girl pants and used the net to scoop that mouse out of the pool. Admitted, I didn't look at it but threw it over the fence. Vince says I should have thrown it further away, but I felt like that was a big achievement for me....I got rid of a mouse. To me, it was a 3' rat.

Welcome to everyone new. Log in daily and post lots so we get to know more and more about you.

You have no idea how many times I've walked by the cookies for Vince, because I make them small I have been tempted to have one. Then I just think about how I looked in those pants, and I don't want them any more. I do know that August is usually my worst month as far as water retention goes. It's a LITTLE bit harder to put my watch on. I can still get it on, its just not as loose as it is in October. But this happens every year so I'm not concerned.

Deb A in CNY - sounds like you have a busy day planned!

Kate - I'd never heard of Century Link, either. You're right, maybe they're not on the East coast. We have Verizon and haven't had an problem with customer service. So sorry you have problems with Sprint's

I remember when I had my colonoscopy a few years ago (I'll probably be due for it again next year). Drinking that yukky stuff and constantly stitting on the throne. They weighed me right before the procedure and I'd only lose something like 3 lbs. Not worth it, that's certainly not the way to lose weight!

genalace - I've never heard of Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Is it Prolia that you're on? How long have you been taking it? I take Reclast for my osteoporosis. You get an infusion of it once/year.

katla - woohoo breaking that plateau. I just know you smashed it into thousands of little pieces so it can't be put back together.

grandmalle - would you like to come here and clean?

Terri - what a lovely day you had. Sounds so wonderful! Good company, good food...what else can one ask for?

DeeDee - that yellow thing is in the sky again today. Can't believe it, two whole days in a row. I think Vince is going to do the weedwacking today (he mowed the grass yesterday while I was at church) so I'll probably go outside later today and sweep the grass clippings off the driveway, etc.

Becky - welcome! Log in daily and before you know it, you'll be feeling right at home and will miss it when you don't log in. Yes, it is so important to log each and every bite, especially at first. It's amazing how we think we're doing well, but when we log it, we find that we didn't do as well as we thought we had

hrbo - welcome, sounds like you are ready to go!

Pat - sure hope you feel better real fast. Thanks for your prayers.

Gail - happy birthday! Sending you a virtual birthday cake (hey, it doesn't have any calories!)

Vicki - I like your idea of a new bracelet. That is so neat. You know it took me 30 years to finally figure out why God took my mother when I was so young. I just hope it doesn't take me another 30 years to figure out why this is happening (with Bryan)and what it is I'm supposed to be learning from it. I'm thinking that I'm going to make a new commitment. Every week when I'm not serving or lectoring, I'm going to light a candle for each of the kids. Hopefully, that'll help me.

janie - what an adorble pic for Gail's birthday. Love it

Well, Vince and I worked outside some. The bad part about working in the evening is that the bugs start to come out. I used the lawn mower, he weed wacked, I swept behind him. Guess we were out only for about 2 hours.

Rori - good for you getting that new bathroom. It'll feel so nice. When do you start on it? We cut the cats nails out on the deck so that I don't have to clean up. Only we do Bonnie in the bathroom. For her, we have to close all the doors, when she realizes that there isn't anywhere to go, she just puts up with it. Mars will walk on a leash? None of our cats would ever have done that. Cocoa did follow me all over, tho, but not on a leash. I check in on FB only to see if someone has news. I'm not on it that much. What are flight days? Are you maybe a pilot?

Jill - I remember my aunt making jelly. We'd pick the blueberries and she'd make jelly. Of course, back then they put lots and lots of sugar in it. I remember she had this big cone-shaped thing, she'd put the blueberries in it after they had been mashed and the juice would soak thru the cone. Thanks for the memory

Meg - that's happened to me. when I would go to enter my food by hitting the "food" tab, I would get a message that the site is temporarily down. One time I clicked on "add food" on the homepage and it allowed me to add all my food. Try it

Usually I do yoga at home on Mondays, but I can't tomorrow. But I will go to the extremepump class.

Michele in NC

Thanks to all for their birthday wishes! The fellows left a short while ago and I'm nearly ready for bed. DH got home about 8:45p or so, so it was a late dinner. Earlier in the afternoon I grilled chicken, some teriyaki shrimp and brats (for DH) - even enough for during the week. Also baked potatos, the do-over brownies, and cut up the salad things and strawberries. Never did get to the Y or out to walk in the evening and I'm surely not going out there now.

Sweet dreams--- 8,642 steps so far today, so not as much as yesterday, but it will do.

Gail, metro ATL

Bump to find my place.

Hello Ladies!
Talk about becoming a part of a group and belonging........ cant believe so many of u read my post and had something to say about it ..... the smile is not leaving my face ))))
Happy birthday Gail! Loved the garden prefix.
I havent figured out how to post those amazing animations put up by some of our friends, so sending u lots of warm wishes.
Thanks everyone, have a super day!

Morning everyone,

well it was a really busy weekend and I didn't do so great but when I weighed in this morning the scale said I am down 2 lbs

It is one month till my 32 anniversary and it would be nice to lose 10 lbs by then. Pretty ambitious goal if you ask me. It's doable but I will have to stay very focused and be extremely wise about my food choices.

My goals for August:

Lose 10 lbs
Exercise everyday
Drink lots of water
log my calories
Choose food carefully

Dogs are waiting to be let out and be fed. Lots to do today

I'll come back and read the posts a little later.

Cindy