WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2013

It is sunny but cold right now, and I know DH will be spending time working on his boat. We made an apple dessert last night that we really like, but we’re having a hard time figuring out the calories, so my first task of the day is to enter it into the computer and see how it adds up. The dessert is apple pie filling in a custard cup with a pie crust only on top. The apple pie numbers that come up on MFP don’t seem close to realistic. It makes a yummy dessert. This morning it made a yummy breakfast with an added slice of cheddar cheese. :bigsmile: The skinny jeans are going back. :grumble: I tried them on with my boots and the knees still bagged, although not as much. Next time I shop for skinny jeans I'll wear the boots so I can see what works and what doesn't.



Heather: I’m wondering how you acquire partridges. Do you have to hunt them, or are they available from partridge growers at the market? I’ve never seen them here, but we do buy Cornish Game Hens at the market. They look like little chickens and the taste is similar but not the same. They’re usually sold frozen.:flowerforyou:

Sylvia: I once ordered a comforter and pillow shams from JC Penney. One of the shams didn’t match, so I sent them back and ordered shams from the same dye lot as the quilt. The next ones matched perfectly. I love the comforter and shams. I bought another set in a different color for our guest room. I was very specific in my order that the dye lot needed to match. No problems the second time.:flowerforyou:

Sandy: I’m sorry you strained your neck and shoulder. I hope your pain eases quickly. I hurt mine back in February when I fell down the sidewalk steps. I was bringing in the garbage cans and one of them fell by rolling out from under itself and pulling me down three steps. It took its own sweet time to heal, but I’ve been back to full use for a long time. It still notice the injury is there; I can hear crunching sounds. It doesn’t hurt and I have full motion. I kept on exercising and going to yoga without missing a day but I babied it for a while. I had trouble finding a comfortable position to sleep for weeks.

Yanniejannie: Your friend is very lucky to have you as a friend. You saved her life by calling the ambulance.:flowerforyou:

Pat: Congrats on getting your flu shot. I’ve had mine but DH is still procrastinating.:ohwell:

Sue in SD: I envy your ability to sing in the choir. What a lovely gift.:flowerforyou:

Cheryl: If you’re thinking of going for movie stars, I think you should consider Redford since your guy’s a sorrel. (I do know that Robert Redford is blonde.):flowerforyou:

Heather: I love the phrase “attitude of gratitude.” What an excellent outlook.:bigsmile:



Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

October goals:
1. Log every bite
2. Move more.
3. Drink at least 4 glasses of water daily.

Good afternoon ladies! It's 1pm here, and it's chilly outside. It looks like rain. I've had no energy at all so have not done anything all day. I sat in my chair with my puppy on my lap listening to an audiobook. Then went to lunch with hubby. I took my baked chicken and carrots and we went through a drive-thru for his lunch and sat in the parking lot eating. I think that works out pretty well, since I can have my diet lunch and he can have whatever he wants and I still get to spend time with him.

Meg - I was delighted to hear about the pro-football ref when she was in the news recently. I don't really like football, but if I knew she would be working I would watch just for that. Good for her!

Barbie - we don't have a senior center here, but there is a group of older ladies (and one man) who sometimes sit in the lobby at the Y playing mahjongg. I've never asked to join though.

Suzy - I was in the AF for 6 years. I got out in 1980 so I'm older than you. I was married to a real jerk at the time, and if it had not been for him I might have stayed in for 20. I was in law enforcement and liked my job and was good at it. I outranked him (he did not do well on promotion tests) and sometimes I had to tell him what to do at work, which he did not like. He wanted a "real wife". So, he badgered me to gain weight and get out on the overweight program. I did, and then he sabotaged every attempt I made to lose the weight. When he eventually divorced me to marry his pregnant girlfriend, who also outranked him, I asked him why and he said "look at you, you're such a pig". And at the time I was about 170 pounds. He would have laughed his butt off if he had seen me at 300 lbs. I used to think of my fat as "jerk repellent". But as far as being in the Air Force, I hardly remember it at this point. It's like something I read in a book somewhere. I know it happened, but the memory has faded. I should add that his divorcing me was the best thing that could have happened. Twelve years later I met a wonderful man who loves me no matter what and would never hurt me. It was worth all I went through to get there.

Well, have a great evening everybody!

Sylvia

Katla - normally people go hunting for partridge. My cleaner is a "beater" on Mondays and had to change her cleaning day to Thursday. I just saw them when I was in my local butcher and decided to give them a go. I googled how to cook them. DH did it.

My planking is now 3 minutes, but when I began I could NOT get off the floor at all. Then I only managed a few seconds and was delighted! ! ! ! Slow but sure. Keep at it.

Grandmalie - what a wonderful NSV! I would be walking on air!

Today I booked the hotel for January, when we are going up to London for my friend's 60th. It is a medium priced one, but walking distance from the party venue. Excellent, as it may be a late finish. I also booked two gallery exhibitions. Unfortunately the restaurant we wanted is closed for kitchen refurbishment in January, so I had a rethink and decided on one my son likes. When I rang they are not taking bookings for Jan until 1st Nov at 9 am. I will be on the phone then. I emailed them to make sure there is no music. There isn't. All that organising cheered me up no end.!:laugh: DH says we can go to Sri Lanka the year after. Yeah!

My flat agents rang me up to say the window can not be repaired.:sad: I told them to ring up the freeholders to check the proposed new window was OK. She rang back to say they will do an inspection before end tomorrow as it is structural. I'm glad I insisted. If I get the window wrong I will only have to replace it or have trouble getting certificates when it comes to selling. I feel at last the agents are earning all the money I pay them to manage. Usually I think I am paying them for doing nothing! But I am very happy to hand over all the hassle.

Hope we get the car prang sorted tomorrow.

Love to all. Heather UK

Meg - Gable. I'll have to toss that one around awhile. My older blue eyed horse is named Newmann.

Oh Yannie, what a day. Glad your friend is recovering.

Skuehn - thanks, I definitely think he's a keeper. Rode my first long ride on him today. Didn't like the fast loud freight trains much but didn't do anything stupid. Lots of compliments on his look.

Michele you are such a busy woman, no wonder you forgot your popcorn stringing.

yoyo - you must take your friend up on her offer and ride a horse soon (it burns lots of calories!)

Molly, you may get tired of horse pictures

Duh, over 50 brain. I typed all of the above last night and never hit post reply.

Home from work, and sitting on the bed,felt good to get back , and then it didn't if you understand me:ohwell:
the DH put 5 bags of lawn clippings in my car to take to the dump before work tomorrow.. OY..
stayed within my calorie range sorta, but gonna keep plugging along...

AnneCarolOne.........my dd has terrible, frequent (becoming more so) migraines and she has a script for Singulair as she takes it the night before a race, esp. in the fall because she has exercise induced asthma and reacts to mold spores.......worth a try on a more regular basis!!

wessecg.......If I named anything Bingo, I wouldn't ever be able to get that kids song about Bingo out of my mind.....I do like Gable or Redford, though..........my dd would be glad to exercise your horses, bit of a drive though...

Michele........On your quest for measuring cups, etc.---I see lots of kitchen stuff at estate sales for pennies. Vitamin V, well, it's nurse-speak for Valium, an old term for it dating back to the 70's if not the 60's; I know it's an old drug, but I use it maybe 2-3 times a year, works well for me. On really stressful days we'd say we needed a Valium salt-lick in the med room for the staff.

Anamika.........My foot is still bruised a bit and swelling by night but no real pain, thanks for asking.......yay for your exercise and turning down sweets!!!

Heather........Absolutely inexcusable that the father isn't making arrangements to repair your car right!!! BTW, one of the emergency drs. hit my car the other day, he is picking up the tab, though. (fingers crossed!!!)

Meg..........Hope Benny Beagle is feeling much better and back to normal.

On the cocoa discussion.........why not use real Hershey's Cocoa---only 10 cals/Tble.? Makes excellent hot chocolate and is 100% cacao.

Sylvia...........Sorry your first marriage was so awful; you have come through wonderfully and it's his loss!!!

There was no big drama with the heart attack like in the movies........she was just very sweaty, her color was off-kind of pasty, and she had a pain (which she rated a only 3!!!) from her left shoulder to her wrist.........this is what happens with most of the women who die of MI's , we don't think it's bad enough to "bother" anyone. I did only what any one of you would have done, I'm sure. Gwen is stable, my thanks to everyone for their thoughts and good wishes and prayers. They may move her off the unit tomorrow to a regular room.

Hello to everyone I missed; take care, all,
yanniejannie

I have set new goals to the end of November. I love what BarbieCat said to me about "every day is a new beginning." Setting goals every day helps me. But if we're talking monthly, I figure I'll set some now and keep at these to the end of November:

1) Reduce to 3 structured aerobics classes per week, followed by epsom salts and arnica homeopathy after each (I realize I have been over exercising and really have to try to get the pain down -- I don't drive a car so I walk a LOT aside from exercise classes... will reassess at the end of November);
2) check out a yoga class and a massage session (ideally do something like these once per week on Friday afternoon);
3) eat 7 servings of fruit and veg per day (will I ever like them?);
4) record the water (easy to think we're getting enough when we've been at this MFP for years, but marking it down can yield surprising results!); and
5) get back on track with loyal daily tracking!

I love this 50 plus group and hope to keep checking in more often

Cheers,
Melody
in Atlantic Canada overlooking the beautiful Bay of Fundy

Hi Everyone,

Meg-So glad Benny is better, and congrats on his little ''pup'', lol!!!

Sylvia-Sorry you went through that horrible first marriage, but am happy you found your prince!

I dug out my jeans for first time in a while. I normally wear yoga style pants since I am at the gym a lot and spend my day working with animals. Well, I put them on, and they were waaay too big. I was shocked! My ticker thingy says I lost 6 pounds, but I haven't weighed myself in a bit because I hate the scale. I guess I lost some more!

Please keep your fingers crossed for my father-in-law. His arm broke very suddenly today, and now they are suspecting bone cancer. For those of you who pray, he could use a few. Trying to stay optimistic...

Hope you all have a great week. Drink that water!

Critter Sue

Suzy in DE - I'm short, too. I always buy my pants in the petite department. I usually don't have to hem them up if I get petites or sometimes pants will be "short, average, long" and I get the short. I'm another one who is blessed with large calves. I got a pair of Totes Waterproof boots years ago at Boscov's and I still have them. They don't come high up so I can wear them. Now that we're here in NC, even tho one of the pulls for a zipper broke off, I'm not going to bother to replace them unless I can get a pair on really good sale. I don't wear boots much here at all. I guess in the last 5 years I've probably worn them a handful of times, maybe even less.

Sandy - I don't know that I would say that the deep water class is more of a workout. However, there is zero impact. You can have a bit of impact in the shallow end but since you aren't touching the bottom, there isn't any impact.

Went to exercise, took the donations to the soup kitchen, then Vince and I went to the post office (I went to the ATM since it's next door), then to WalMart. Decided to stop at Sam's since we were right there. Found some lights that might work for Halloween next year. I asked Vince how he was doing on the milk and he said fine. Now I see that we really should have gotten another gallon. Looks like I'll be back there. Then I finished up stringing the popcorn. I think I have enough for the tree. Tonight I go to a friend's house and we play mahjongg. I'm going to ask if she'd like to play at my house next week since the Halloween decorations are up. One lady who comes leaves early (she lives right up the street) to watch "Bones". She can watch at my house.

Sylvia - I can't believe that jerk of a hubby -- if you can call him that. I'm so happy things worked out for you, you deserve it. Oh, I can hear the excitement in your post. Sure makes one feel good, huh? What an incentive

yanniejannie - if you use plain Hershey's cocoa, wouldn't it be on the bitter side? Glad to hear your friend is doing better. She's very lucky you were there.

meg - I'd be laughing hysterically if one of our cats had a "kitten"

suebdew - the start of a mile is taking the first step, and you're doing just that. Good for you

crittersue - prayers for your FIL. What a wonderful discovery!

Michele in NC

:flowerforyou: walked at lunch today with a coworker. And hope to go to jazzercise in the morning.

Goodnight all

Renny
Vancouver island, BC