WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2013

Two suggestions fit me particularly...."say no to candy" and practice dance 20 minutes three times a week. I'll start here and hopefully maintain...great suggestions for me. Thanks!

Hi all,
I was reading the other threads on MFP and came across two that I thought were simple and true.

LisaGNV wrote,"When you go back to the old way of eating, you go back to the old way of looking."

Then, Mokey41 wrote,
"As we age,
we do less,
eat more,
gain weight,
and lose muscle.
Reverse all of those and you'll be fine."

Now back to reading. Have a good day tomorry and things will get better. Prayers to the people of the Philippines, such lovely gracious people going through tragic devastation. I heard that Tacloban City was surged. Oh no.

Did a little food shopping for the items on sale then went to the Y to try what they call "all about the bosu" class. What a disappointment! There was absolutely nothing doing with the bosu. The music was very very loud and I realized that it was so loud so you can't hear the instructor because she was doing such a poor job of calling the steps. That's one class that I won't be going back to. Even with my earplugs on, it was still so loud! Saw the lady who does garment alterations, gave her some coupons and this shirt that I wore when we were working outside. It's really showing it's wear so I have another shirt but I'd like her to cut it down like the one I had. It had smaller shoulder straps and was cut lower. What I like was that when I was working outside, I could get a tan it worked quite well for the clothes that I have. Honestly, I probably could have cut it down myself especially since I'm not concerned about it looking great, just wearable. But I'm afraid that I'd get lazy and put it off and put it off and put it off. It's probably worth it to have her do it. Plus....she's a nice lady, I don't mind giving her my business.

Tomorrow is yoga.

jessica is supposed to come here today. I tried this new recipe for buttermilk chocolate muffins. They are quite good. At least she'll have something she can munch on. I made some shrimp gumbo for her and I'll give her some of the beef manicotti and spinach manicotti. she may not like the spinach ones, but Kris might. I also have another chocolate cobbler for her to take back with her.

Went to Aldi, forgot to get more cukes but they aren't on sale. Butter is on sale and so are grapes (pretty soon I'll turn into a grape). Then stopped at Target for cat litter. It's on sale and if you buy 2 you get a $5 gift card, so I got 6 containers. Then took a pair of pants back to Belks. It looks like Target has discontinued the low fat brownie mix that I liked. Well, going to have to look for it in FL and maybe bring some back. Publix seems to have a lot of things that we can't get.

Sad, sad day today. Today we put the cover on the pool. Well, I guess I should look on the bright side, no more leaves can get into it! And it'll feel so good when we open it. But it was still sad to close it up.

AnneCarolOne - boy, you sure have had a scare. Please take care of youself.

Susan - you take such great care of your dad. He's so lucky to have you. You know, after reading katla's post to you, there are sweet potato fries that you buy that are frozen, the people just have to heat them up.

anamika - enjoy the wedding!

tazgirl - I love grey's Anatomy, too. I seem to recall something about Sandra Oh leaving at the end of this season. Do you remember anything like this?

katla - yes, there is an Outback Steakhouse near us. Not sure why we haven't gone because I know that Jessica likes it there. Vince isn't much for eating out and I'm not a big fan of it, mainly because so many times you don't know what it is you're getting.

barbie - are the restrictions you have (food-wise) self-imposed or for health reasons?

Welcome Donna

susan - I like that quote about going back to the old way of eating.

Michele in NC

Good morning beautiful ladies:flowerforyou:

Sylvia Hope the procedure goes smoothly for you! Glad your hubby is going to be with you! Sounds like Bruno is a chewer! I kept Noel in her crate, I called it a playpen:laugh: , until she was almost 5, now she stays out all the time. She only chewed the edge of a leather cocktail table, I call them little love bites now . Wishing you well:flowerforyou: !

Viv So nice to see your smiling face again!!!

Renny Congrats on the news of the new grandbaby !!!

Michele Your lunch sounds delish! It is sad to close the pool for the winter , especially since we had so much rain this past summer!!! Have you heard we might have a little snow this coming Wed.:noway: , way too early for me!!!

AnnCarolOne Glad your surgery is over and you`re on the road to recovery:flowerforyou: !!

Susan I really need to get a handyman and get some things taken care of in my house, you have inspired me:bigsmile: !!! You take such good care of your Dad:flowerforyou: !!!

Anamika Congrats on the .5kg !!! Hope you enjoy the wedding!!!

Tina Happy belated anniversary:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: !!!

Grandmallie What a great shopping trip !!!

Katla Hugs to your sweet fur baby !!! My little Noel gets only dog food, she has Pancreatitis , so I really have to watch her diet. It`s so nice to get closets cleaned out, especially when they`re all too big:bigsmile: !!!

Barbie Hope you`re feeling better everyday:flowerforyou: ! I`m glad you`re taking it easy and letting Jake walk the fur kids! I love all your quotes!!! I`m glad you got an adjustment and are feeling a better!!!

Jane Martin Hope you got a well deserved nap:yawn: !!!

Teral Love the profile pic of the turkey!!! Turkeys don`t have to worry about me, that`s one food I don`t eat:noway: !!! I love your quotes too!!!

Joyce What lovely stories you have, it`s so nice to read your posts!

Yanniejannie I`ve had the blahs too, think it`s because the flu made me sick, and I didn`t take the time to rest and recover and I`m still blowing my nose and coughing, it`s been 3 weeks:grumble: !!! Glad your blahs have lifted some!! Good luck to DD!!! Mango sticky rice sounds delish!!!

Katiebug It feels good to declutter, I need to do some of that myself!


Donna Hi! Welcome to best thread on MFP:flowerforyou: , great group of supportive women here! Come in often!!!

I just went back to last page so I know I`ve missed lots of people . I enjoy reading all the posts and I wish you all well!!!
Congrats to all the losers and hang in here for the ones struggling (like me)!!!
Prayers and well wishes to all!!!

Drink your water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: and log your food!!!

Hugs,
DeeDee in sunny:glasses: , yet cold NC

Good morning ladies,

So I am off for the weekend and then work at least six days straight and probably more. Today is laundry and then out to the gym. Tomorrow will be shopping in the morning and then out to the gym in the afternoon. Have to plan my exercise days for next week. When I have these long stretches of work it can be challenging to get a good workout in especially sine part of those day are an 11 - 8 shift and I still don't really like to exercise in the morning.

I am still getting to know everyone in the posts.

Sylvia - take care until you get your surgery and don't overexert yourself too much.

Grandmallie - great walk this morning!

Thanks everyone for all the welcomes.

Laura

Hi gals! I’m checking in early today since it will be busy. I actually got up at 6:30 and went to deep water aerobics. I tried very hard to talk myself into staying in bed, but got up anyway. I’m glad I did. You know I always feel like not much is going on in those classes but then I get out and my legs are concrete.

It is a beautiful fall day here. I’ll be working on the book for a while then watching the football game. Then our friends want us to go out for dinner. We are going for pizza, but I found a place that serves a good thin crust pizza, so that will help on the carbs.

Today I am grateful for the beautiful weather and for the guy who is here replacing the carpet in DD#1’s old room! Thank goodness we have lots left over from all our floods. This is an exact dye lot match so it should look good.

Barbie: you take care of that back. Sounds like you have a good attitude

Renny: good job on all that exercise. Congrats on upcoming DGchild #7!

AnnCarol: so sorry to hear of your recent health problems!

Tazgirl: I bet you are a proud mama!

Katla: oh your poor puppy! I hope he is better by now!

Sylvia: sending prayers and healing thoughts your way

Terel: nice quotation!

Joyce: sending good thoughts for your SIL’s son

Yanniejannie: it is so frustrating watching your child struggle, isn’t it?


Donna: welcome!

Drkatiebug: yay for all that cleaning!

Michele: you are always so busy!

DeeDee: always so nice to see you here! Hope you are all better now!

Yikes…need to run. The cats have all gotten loose from the room they were confined in (How did THAT happen) and I need to round them up again…never an easy task. Take care all! Meg from Omaha

Good morning! I hope everybody is doing well today.

I forgot to log in yesterday! Oh no! I logged my yesterday food this morning, but I don't know if it gives me credit or not. I may have broken my streak. I felt lousy yesterday and didn't think about it.

This morning I went to watch my granddaughter play basketball. It's so funny to watch all those tiny girls trying to play. The referee is a great big tall guy who is so sweet to the girls, helping them and reminding them which basket to go toward. They get confused sometimes.

Today we are going out to the lake, so it should be nice there. We are having really nice weather, which won't be true next week, so we should take advantage of it while we can. We're supposed to get a little snow on Thursday.

Have a great weekend!

Sylvia

Hello to all: It is a gorgeous day here today, cool but sunny. DH and I are taking my best friend who is moving to Colorado out for dinner and to the symphony. We are going to a really nice restaurant where I can make good choices if I will. Then we are going to a pops concert with the SD Symphony and Cirque de la Symphonie. Should be lots of fun and a good farewell for my friend. She is working so hard to get everything organized for moving that she needs this break.

Has anyone read A Course on Weightloss by Marianne Williamson? I found a slip of paper with the title and author on it in my purse. It is my handwriting but I do not remember where I saw this or when I copied it down. It is subtitled 21 Spiritual Lessons. I got a copy from the library and have read a little of it. It seems to be just what I need right now but wondered if anyone else had read it and what were your thoughts.

Healing angels to all who need them and congratulations to those with victories. Sue in SD

Nov 9th, what I am thankful for today. Almost 33 years ago my youngest daughter came into the world as a gift. I knew something would be different about her from the start. For one, we had a lot of trouble conceiving and had to go on fertility pills. So when I finally got that positive test back we were over the moon! Boy did she change our lives. I had been wearing contacts for many years but while I was pregnant with her my whole body chemistry changed and I couldn't wear contacts anymore. I should have known something would be different about that child!!!!1:laugh: :laugh: She came into this world real quick, not waiting for anything including the doctor. Labor very quick and fast. I had failed in breast feeding my first daughter so I didn't even try with Michelle. She could drink a bottle of formula down so quick and then scream for more. She came out with a huge hair of pitch black hair, had no idea where that came from. Probably came from my FIL 1/4 Cherokee heritage. she wanted to see the world all day long, not wanting to sleep, had days and nights all mixed up and truthfully me to!!! Nothing about child raising I had learned form my first applied to Michelle. She was a whole new ball game. Full force into anything she wanted to do. Where her sister was into everything musical and arts, Michelle was in everything drama and sports. Come middle school age she decided that it was time to start the rebellion, wanting to be herself. Although she was very bright and scored high on achievement testing she wouldn't bring home work home, if she did she wouldn't finish it. High school was worse. This child who was in enrichment classes in middle school almost didn't get her diploma because of her grades. I think she went to college just to be away from us. The first grading period her GPA was .667. Not even a D average:huh: So she came home and lived with us:grumble: That's when all the battles between parents and child really started. It was a battle of the wills. Her father comes from a family that you do it one way, Dads way or else. I was brought up that you have to let a child find their way, allow them to make mistakes but be there when they fall and show them that you still love and support them. I will never know what all she was into and I don't think I want to know. All I know was that she was smoking and she knew what we thought about that. Thankfully she didn't smoke in the house. She always had low self esteem and dated the wrong kind of guys if she dayed at all. She was pretty tall, 5;11; and a little heavy. so she just didn't like herself. One thing she always did though was that no matter how much she hated her job, she stuck to it. She got that from her Dad and I. So she met a guy there, nice looking, with charisma. She was over the moons in love with him and really so was I. He came with a train load of baggage and he loved me and called me Mom, was kind, gentle, a gentleman. They moved in together. DH didn't know what to do about that but that but I told him that we have to pick our battles. Dan was going to keep us in his life, date nights were over here, we had Michelle back in our life. So although she knew we didn't give our blessing for them to move in together, neither did we have a choice. She was an adult. Either accept it and keep us in her life or make her choose and lose her. So when he asked us for her hand in marriage we readily agreed. Like I said, Dan came with a lot of baggage and was ADD and ADHD. Very impulsive, couldn't hold a job, overspent their money. One way he could bring in a nice paycheck was to join the National Guard. So he spent two tours in Iraq. During that time Michelle learned to lean on us for support. He also learned to find other women, STDs, gambling and breaking our hearts. So now they are apart and Michelle is still here in town with us. I know we would never be able to live in the same house again just like I cold never live with my Mom. But she is here for me. And I mean really here for me. We shop, she helps me buy my elertronic toys and hooks them up for me. She helps me ou of my comfort zone and instead of painting a pretty meadow gold, a bold mulberry instead. She grew up with the man I am still married to so I occasionally cry on her shoulder. She lets me know that she can see now that she is glad that through everything that went on in our marriage that they saw she is glad we are still together. It has helped her see what compromise and commitment is. She will probably never give us grand children but we have and will always accept our grand fur babies that visit us all the time. So today, Nov 9th, i say Michelle I love you and thank God for you every day for you are truly a gift. Not only for what you have given me but for what you have helped me become.

Sue in SD, we just had that Cirque de sole (spelling) here in town last week. I didn't go because it would take something else to get my husband to go to a symphony but the reviews on the additional, Cirque de ???, was wonderful, I'm sure the two of you will enjoy it. What a wonderful gift.

I was able to face time my other daughter today. We talked for almost 2 hours. she knows that sometimes instead of talking what I enjoy the most is just hearing my grand kids in the back ground. My almost 7 year old let me know all about the amazing facts about a spiders web today and you should never try to squash a bee if it lands on you. Can't wait to see them for Thanksgiving. we will celebrate the younger ones birthday on Thanksgiving before they go home. We have done that every year. Her birthday is the same day as my colonoscopy!!!! Of course the older one had her 12th birthday the same day as I had my tol nails removed!!!!!

Joyce, Indiana

Had a great day today. Weigh in this morning and I've lost another lb so that pushes me over 70 lbs lost. Got to the Y for aquafit this morning to find a new instructor, she was great and boy can my muscles feel it :laugh:

My baby girl turn 26 in a few weeks and I've been trying to find the perfect gift. We don't put up any Christmas decorations until after her birthday in hopes that it keeps it a bit more separate for her. I just can't believe how the years have past and my baby will be 26. :noway:

I am working on scrapbooks for both the kids, I have big bins that I've kept a lot of their things growing up. I have their first pair of shoes that I've put on a string so they dangle down the spine of the book. I have all their badges from swimming, DS's boy scout badges, DD's gymnastics ribbons, school things as well. Though I think it might be more then 1 book for each of them :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I'm spending a nice quiet night with DD catching up on a few shows that we have recorded.

Enjoy your Saturday night.

Sandy from ON

First went to Food Lion to get apples for an apple dessert that I'll make for Monday. I probably should have also gotten some apples for in a basket. Maybe I'll do that after church tonight. Update: did that, also found they have Duncan Hines frosting on sale bogo, so I got two cans of chocolate. I just like to have some in the pantry "just in case"

Then went to yoga. Then to the vets to get Loki's blood checked and Jessica wanted the vet to look at Shadow to see if she's gained any weight (she lost, which is good) and Lance since Lance has some sort of discharge out of his eye. They really didn't prescribe anything since this doesn't happen all the time, just when it does it really oozes. church tonight and then tomorrow I'm going to do a Belly Dance DVD, haven't done that in a while.

DeeDee - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I hadn't heard we were going to get s**** (dirty word in my book. I'll just save MFP the time, instead of them editing that word, I'll just do it for them!). Maybe they were just joking with you????? I hope, I hope. I'm definitely NOT ready for this.

Does anyone have a good recipe for baked sweet potato fries from scratch? I've tried to make them, they usually come out "mushy". I read on one post to put cornstarch on them and then bake them, but they didn't taste right. I'd like to avoid putting oil on them if possible.

I think I told you that a friend has gotten episodes of Downtown Abbey that are being shown in England (they'll be in the US in Jan), so I'm hosting episodes 3 and 4 this Mon and she'll host 3 & 4 next Monday. So I'm making the apple cake for something to have, I'll probably also make coffee. Wish I could get Vince to put the BlueRay that is in the living room downstairs so we can watch on the big screen TV and not in the living room. We usually play mahjongg at her house on Monday nights, but she may be doing something for her mother so she asked if I could host. I told her if there's a problem, sure I can

Jessica is supposed to be back down here in two weeks since we have tickets to the TSO concert. She said at that time she wants to start getting residency in NC, or at least to show intent to get residence in the hope that she'll get into NC State vet school and the tuition will be lower. I'm so very proud of her. I've start to rationalize to myself that when Bryan came back from South Korea, in the package of the things he shipped home was a bong. I'm rationalizing that his attitude right now is due to the fact that he took some drug and it scrambled his brain cells. OK, that may not be right. But it's helping me not to be so sad everytime I look at something he gave me or did for me. Since his wedding he did call when Vince was in the hosp (probably since we were in Europe) and sent an email on our anniversary -- but that's only because Denise reminded him. Otherwise, no contact.

I made cod for us to have later in the week, I totally forgot that I need to make something to take to rummikub this Tues so I hurried up and made cheese cracklins. Then, just as I was about to sit down to read the posts, Jessica tells me that she's meeting Penn tomorrow in Nashville and if his mother is coming, she's (J) dragging Vince and I since she said that she can't take a whole lot of his mother. Of course, me being me, can't go empty handed so right now I have some pumpkin spice mini muffins in the oven. I really didn't feel like making cookies at 9:00 at night.

Jessica just told me that Penn's mother isn't going to be there so I don't have to go. My answer "you're still taking these muffins, I just made them"

Joyce - thank you so much for allowing us to learn so much about Michelle

barbie - have a great time at the pot luck

Sandy - my baby is 29 going on 30. I know, I know, I'm not old enough for this. Somehow, she doesn't totally agree....lol

Michele in NC

Hi everyone

I haven't caught up with all the posts yet, but hope everyone is doing well :flowerforyou:

Sad day at work on Thursday, our dear colleague Cindy left the business, I will miss her smiling face at work. Mind you I'll still see her socially as we have become great friends. There's a few of us that meet up regularly. We met up in town for a mini leaving do for Cindy and then had the "official do" on Thursday lunchtime. Cindy was very touched as she has recently decided on a Vegan life style and everyone took, or cooked something Vegan for lunch. We sat together eating lovely food and having a good time, before we all had to go back to work.

We've had a hard time keeping our cats inside due to the fireworks. To say it's only supposed to be on 5th November - we've had fireworks nearly every night since last weekend and there were still some going off last night! :grumble:

It's quite cold here today and was a bit slippy when we took Frankie for his walk this morning. I can fall over at the best of times so I'm always a bit worried when it's frosty and slippy. The sun is out now, so hopefully it will get rid of the frost.

Terrible news about the typhoon in the Philippine Islands, and of course it is Remembrance Sunday here in the UK, such sadness in the world.

Need to move away from the computer :bigsmile:

Chat soon xx

Viv from York UK

Good Morning Ladies. It's actually beginning to feel like fall in Florida (it won't last ) so I am very much enjoying it while I can. Friday night I made rolled cabbage (never made them before) I found a recipe on Pinterest., very time consuming to make, but they turned out very good, I used both green and purple cabbage, next time I think I will just stick to using the green. Saturday I put the fixings in for home made beef stew, cooked on low for 8 1/2 hours the veggies were still a little crunch, we ate it anyways as it was going on 6pm and we were hungry (tasted fine) so I think my crock pot is going out, but it's very old and has served it's purpose well, so after Thanksgiving I will have to buy a new one.

Grandmallie--I'm glad I found it, love it. I know when I went to WW that some of the ladies would talk about it all the time, but they had to order it. Yeah Wal- Mart.

Katla--What branch of service is your son in, mine is in the Army. I hope your little dog is feeling better now. I'm looking forward to the day when I can clean out my closet to get rid of clothes that are too big, that means I'll be healthy (and can go shopping) that's a win, win. :bigsmile:

Sylvia--Hope everything will be well with your health soon. Prayers for you.

Barbie--I understand about the PB, I used to just spoon right out of jar love it so much (one of lifes guilty pleasures) but no more. Prayers for you to continue to heal.

Tereal--Nuts in the chocolate would have only made me want to eat it more. :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

YannieJannie--Hope all goes well with your DD. Thank you for the answer on the cabbage rolls.

Donna--Welcome

drkatiebug--Yeah for cleaning up your office, I seem to clean mine often only for it to pile right back up (too much going on at one time) I need to focus on just one project finish it, then move on.

Michele--I had not heard about Sandra Oh, but maybe that's why all the fighting and breaking up in preparing for her to leave, not sure I would miss her. Buttermilk chocolate muffins sound good. I have friends that watch Downtown Abbey, I've never had a chance too, they seem to really enjoy watching. :happy:

DeeDee-- Thank you for the anniversary wishes. Glad you are feeling better. :flowerforyou:

Meg--I have never tried the water aerobics maybe that is exercise I can do with a messed up knee. I am an extremely proud Mom, I have the best kids in the world.

Sandy--Congratulations on the loss. Our children grow up so fast, I have one 32, one 31 and one 26, I just don't know where the time went.

Tammy--Welcome

Hope everyone has a Blessed & Wonderful Day. :flowerforyou:
Tina in Florida

morning ladies, had my lemon water, and will go off to the gym, everything was fine until early last night, my DH computer crapped out,he is a big computer geek and he has everything on there, he does have the financial stuff backed up, then our riding mower is on its last legs, and our box for Dish(satelite)sp? in the bedroom crapped out, so no tv at night for him, he is in a real funk, so I am staying clear.. he has never hit me or done anything to the dogs, when he gets real angry he pounds his fist on a wall or a desk and starts yelling, dont worry between the dogs and I ,we scatter and just leave him alone.

I did post my poppy in remembrance of those who have served our country. My son is active duty. My cousin was killed in Vietnam, and I still miss him. My dad served in WWII. God Bless all of the men & women who keep us safe from harm.