WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2013

Welcome back Pat - phoo! And Robin.:flowerforyou:

We have all been there. I certainly have. This time of year is HARD. Two years running I rang the Samaritans. Just hang on and it will get better. I know what it is to have family angst, to feel it's all too much and to wonder what the point is of it all. It WILL get better. :flowerforyou: The weight is just a symptom. Hold on and in time the world rolls on and you WILL feel better. One day you will wake up and think, what was THAT all about? I speak from experience - I have been right down there.:embarassed:

We are here for you. Vent as much as you like. We understand.

Love from Heather UK

Nov 25th. Today I am thankful for all the technology in the world and what it allows us to be and go. You can celebrate mass with the Pope. You can hear first hand the inaguaration of the President, We saw the Berlin wall falling, we saw the man walk on the moon for the first time. We can video talk with our loved ones, I saw the newborn baby pictures of my grandchildren and my nephews children, just type in the name of the hospital and newborn pics. I can get medical information so I can do research on my onw. I can go shopping while in my jammies, I can have access to my own medical records. I can find my parents great great parents imagration records when they came from Denmark and Germany. I know what ship they came on, who was on it and the names of everyone they traveled with. I could go on and on, you all fill in the blanks of what you can do that has expanded your horizon.

Went to the Y today. I finally figured out how to change the gear ratio on my bike. this time last week all I had to do was push the increase or decrease buttons and it went up or down. No more! So I have been riding it in first gear for a week. So it sure was an effort riding it in 4th gear. So I started my cooling down in 1st gear at 8 miles. Bottom line, I didn't get to my 10 miles.But that's OK.

We went to the insurance agent. He proposed an idea we hadn't thought about. Instead of paying the $63/month like I am paying and my office visits being X amount, go ahead and pay the $0/month and pay the non provider but just stay with our doctor. If he gets his physical before a certain time he will get a 'welcome to Medicare' physical free. It's kind of hard to get that scheduled though. He only does physicals on one day of the week. What I may do is to give him my physical time and it will be in that time frame.

haven't done any of my house cleaning yet so better get busy., Joyce, indiana

good evening dear friends,'Pat, and Robin so glad to hear from you.. sure do miss you
I was good up until about 1/2 hr ago when i finished off the bag of gingerbread M & M's.
I am not even going to log those, because I dont want to knoiw...
Tomorrow is another day, and I will NOT be buying anymore candy that is for sure...:indifferent:
not going to weight myself tomorrow either, will wait a day or 2..

:flowerforyou: Robin and Pat - Happy you are back and posting.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a yoga DVD? It has to be a gentle yoga, due to movement and pain limitations. It seems that our TV station no longer puts on any fitness programs. And middle of the night is all infomercials.

Let me know.

Renny
Vancouver Island, BC

Renny I saw your post and wanted to reply. Michele recommended Rodney yee yoga tapes and I bought one and absolutely love it.

Robin: As the days get shorter and it gets colder, it seems like my energy goes into hiding. I think this is when we need MFP and bright lights the very most. I’m doing better so far this year. I hope you'll find ways to boost your energy and feel better.:flowerforyou:

Juanita in Sudbury: Snow is there? What is your latitude? I’m always curious about latitude, day length and weather. We are barely above the 45th parallel (45.2551.89' according to my navigation program,) and days are noticeably shorter now. I have added lights to the point you could do surgery in the kitchen, laundry room and our bathroom. Other rooms lag behind, but are brighter than they used to be. :laugh:

Joyce: I love your gratitudes. I’m also thankful to technology. Yesterday I got to talk to my son on the telephone from the other side of the earth. It was fabulous. :bigsmile:

Grandmallie: I hope you have a better day tomorrow. Getting rid of candy is a good idea.:flowerforyou:

Molly in WV: Welcome back!:flowerforyou:

Renny: I bought a yoga DVD at Costco last spring and don’t like it much. Part of the reason is my living room. Our TV is mounted above the fireplace, a LONG way from the floor. I just checked out a couple of Yoga DVD’s from the library and will see what I think. I haven’t had a chance to try them yet. Does your library have any? It might be a good place to start.:flowerforyou:

Meg: I’m glad to see you. This has been a beast of an illness for you. Sending good wishes for better health.:flowerforyou:


I cleaned out my refrigerator’s freezer today and threw out a bunch of stuff. It is now nicely organized and the garbage is outside in the trashcan waiting to be picked up tomorrow. We’re looking at refrigerators with dutch doors on top and the freezer in the bottom. Let me know if you have one and like it. I’ll want to know what kind it is. Ours is more than 15 years old and DH has had a premonition that it will have problems soon so he wants to replace it asap. I'm a tightwad and never want to spend money. :blushing: :ohwell:

I finally got DH to go to the rehab fitness center to exercise. He came back complaining that he’d hurt himself. I’ll nag him to go again day after tomorrow. I think he had on the wrong shoes. Cowboy boots are NOT suitable. Tomorrow is yoga, and is likely to be my last class until some time in December. My teacher will be out of town on a family matter. I’ll miss yoga, and will likely spend more time at the fitness center.

Take care.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

November goals:
1. Log every bite
2. Focus on fitness: cardio and strength every week
3. Drink 3 or more glasses of water daily

grandmalle - mimi hasn't been here for months. I don't know what the story is there. Hope she's OK

DeeDee - yup, her recipe called for a CUP of oil. At least it wasn't crisco or lard. But still....glad I wasn't eating it. I did put a little in another pie dish to try. However, when I went to take it out of the oven, I spilled it. Oh well....no big loss (but I wouldn't say that to Jessica). You know, I don't know what it is, but in a way it bothers me that Lynette said "is there something you can eat there". There isn't anything that I can't eat. I just prefer vegetables and not a lot of sauces or butter, stuff like that. Maybe it's because Vince says to me "you never used to eat like that." and when we go out to eat he'll ask me "is there something you'll eat there"?

Did about 20 minutes of yoga today, held my plank for 2 min 30 sec, and then took the extreme pump class for an hour. Came home and started baking. Jessica is going to see a friend of hers in TN and she's expecting me to make something for them. I made some funfetti cookies. Then, since I'm not sure if Jessica will eat them, I made some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I halved the recipe and it STILL made a lot. Well, we're invited to an open house later in December so I put half of those cookies aside in the freezer to take with me. Then I went to Aldi since tomorrow is supposed to be nasty weather (what they call nasty down here to me is relatively mild) so I'll maybe make more cookies for the open house and needed eggs and some other things.

I'm supposed to get my hair colored tomorrow, then depending on the time I'll go play mahjongg. Or else I'll come home and make some more cookies for the open house. I'll do a DVD that's for the rebounder tomorrow. Then I'm going to have an interesting breakfast, a Boca burger on a Nature's Own Round with mustard. Something different. I forget who it was, but I was checking out someone's menu and they gave me the idea.

Laura - that's so wonderful that you and Carole are on the same page as far as healthy eating is concerned. Love your attitude towards food. That's about mine, nothing is off limits, there are just some things that I'd prefer. After a while I got to the point where if there's much oil in something, it turns my stomach.

katla - I hate going to stores and listening to Christmas music. Not yet. I was watching Bobby Dean's show "Not My Mamma's Meal". Anyway, he made a chicken pot pie and instead of the heavy crust, he used phillo dough. I would never have thought of that, but it makes sense. Oh, how wonderful that your son called!!!!

Heather - your Christmas present sounds absolutely awesome!

Joyce - your doctor sounds great. Glad hubby decided to go with him.

Gail - I'm with you, people should at least acknowledge you and make an attempt (at the least) to call you back. Yesterday I put my water bottle in the car and didn't think about it. When I got to exercise class, the water had frozen. Fortunately, only a little bit of it froze so I just had very cold water. Usually I can finish the entire bottle in an exercise class, but with it being this cold, today I didn't finish it all. But that's OK, because I came home and boiled a little water to put in the bottle. It melted whatever ice was left.

Pat - welc ome back!!! Boy, you sure have a lot on your plate. I wish you all the best

Stopped at the Y today, not to exercise but to mention about the fact that I suggested having yoga there. Unfortunately, I didn't know that they had a cass scheduled at 9. Oh well....nothing will probably come of that anyway. When people make a donation to their Chidren's Fund, they'd like to send the people a "thank you". This is in addition to the "thank you" that lists the amount they donated so they can use that for tax purposes. Anyway, she asked me to help write out the notes. That I can do. Call for a donation? No way! Write a thank you? Not a problem. I also took the other 1/4 of the chocolate cheesecake there (I'd taken 1/4 to the place where I take the extremepump class and given Jessica and Kris the other half. So now it's all out of the house, which works for me)

molly - sending you virtual chicken soup

Meg - feel better fast, but glad you're back here. I was going to recommend the Rodney Yee tapes. I have one that I use "Yoga for Your Week". It's basically 5 twenty minute workouts. I also have his Yoga Burn DVD, that's a bit more intense.

Renny - before buying any DVD, I always check out the reviews. You can get a lot of good information from other's reviews

katla - our refrigerator has the French doors and the freezer on the bottom. I love it. Check out Consumer's Reports to see their recommendations. We subscribe to their magazine and get a questionnaire about which appliances we have, repair records, etc.

barbie - I hope you like the new doctor as much as the one you have now.

Michele in NC

Katla, I have a French door, freezer on the bottom refrigerator. It's a Kenmore from Sears. I love it. I was really glad when our side by side died so I could get a new frig. My choices were limited because my appliances are off-white, and they barely make any in that color. The only thing I would change is to have a taller ice and water dispenser on the front. I can't put a water bottle under mine.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! Enjoy your day.

Eileen near San Diego

Evening lovelies,
Thanks for the welcomes back and the understanding encouragement. Logged every bite, lick and sip today, and even walked up the ramp in the parking garage. Good thing too as Scottish Country Dance Class called it quits a little early (and my knees were happy it did!).

Sleep sweet all!


Barbara, the SW Idaho AHMOD of the healthier waist in 2013.

2013: Focus on the important stuff
Today: Log like Mary, every bite lick or sip
Just for now: trust, let go of anger, be a little kinder than necessary.

:flowerforyou: Bump for later

:flowerforyou: Welcome back Barb :drinker: :drinker:

Happy Tuesday

Viv ( disorganised and late as usual :ohwell: ) cold UK

morning ladies,
been up since 4:45 ,the dogs are fed, one had his meds and have been out in the backyard for there morning stuff. having my lemon water and icing my heel,my heel hurt like it used to last night,so changed out shoes and it might be time for new orthodic's
I did weigh myself this morning and it wasnt pretty:embarassed: but will be better. I dont go into work until noon today, so might get some of the stuff together for thanksgiving...
Going for a race walk first.. later tonight and tomorrow we are supposed to get torential rain,so have to get stuff up off the floor in the basement and have the sump pump ready just in case:grumble:

Good morning Ladies,

I have a day off so just relaxing and cuddling the min pin before heading out to the gym.

Katla - yes Chi is short for Chihuahua. He is all black and he is Carole's baby. Lucky is my baby and he is a Black and Tan Miniature Pincher.

Barbie - Yes, it is great to share in the healthy eating with my spouse. It makes it much easier when bad things are not in the house.

Michelle - I knew with the weight loss this time if I had a better attitude about all kinds of food I had a better chance of getting where I wanted to go. This week will be the first time in quite a while I let myself go in the red for a couple of days but I have decided I can do this and not derail myself. It is a feeling of knowing I can make good choices and that now and then I can go over my calorie goal with it being the end of what I am doing.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am going to rest up the next two days before facing the craziness that will be Thursday and Friday.

Laura

Good Morning, Ladies-

Well, I missed OA again today because I did not set the alarm. That's probably ok, because I do have a bunch & a bundle to do before I can get on that plane on Thursday.

My PeeVee is still not walking well on that leg, I think he did a lot of soft tissue damage, and I am worried about him. I just don't have another $400. to spend on him right now. I think as long as he is walking on it at all, I will just wait it out with him. Tomorrow when I move him over to the kitty-sitter's house, I will give him a dose of his pain med. Hopefully, it will relax him a little and keep him more comfortable with the ride.

Today I have to reship a box back up North. It was supposed to have been delivered to Bill's house, but they sent it here. Just one more thing for the list!

Food was ok yesterday. Because I was on a cleaning mission, I had extra calories to use, so I was OK. The hard part was out shopping when everyother store on the strip is a restaurant, cafe, or grocery! Geez! Starting all over again is hard.

For Today:

Brk: 2 sl toast w/ p.butter; lots and lots of coffee!
Lnch: flat bread w/ skinny cheese and skinny ham
Snck: yogurt and fruit
Spr: fish? and sweet taters and some veg

Have a great Tuesday!

Pat (Phoo)

Good morning! Things are cold here and getting colder today and tomorrow. The water going in to the washing machine has frozen up again, so no laundry can be done for a few days. Darn.

I stopped by my son's house yesterday and he told me he is sleeping in the living room, so their marital problems must be getting worse. Something else for me to pretend not to worry about. My son and his kids are coming to my house for thanksgiving and the DIL and her son are going to her dads.

I think I'm trying to come down with a cold. Sneezing, coughing, sniffles and a tiny bit of sore throat. So I'm trying to rest as much as I can and stay in out of the cold. I have three HUGE fever blisters on my lips, which add to the crud feeling. Oh joy.

My weight has been pretty much stuck for a few days, so instead of calling it a plateau I'm calling it short term maintenance. If I can keep it here through thanksgiving I'll be a happy camper.

Well, gotta go back to bed. Have a great day everybody!

Sylvia

Happy tues.
Have a great day!
hugs
jane