WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER

Ladies,, after reading several of the posts, I am wondering if some "kind" of moon cycle is effecting all our health, eating, moodsetc..
There is certainly something in the air!..:ohwell:
I had a minor setback myself today. I am not going in a car tomorrow or anything that would irritate my crazy, wild nerve in my low, low back.:blushing: (bum, bootie) You know...:ohwell:
I hope the cycle moves on and soon!

Hi Lynne or Heather?? Good luck. I am realtively new on here myself. I have to tell you the 50+ years of experience these ladies have to share is awesome. I love just getting on here and reading about their lives and wishing and hoping for them in their struggles. I feel like I have known them a long time.

I feel honored that they respond to me in their posts. Sometimes, there are so many I can't get to them all. I am pushing it to sit here for this amount of time. I am "addicted" to this site. I just think that if I am on here, I am not eating.:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Barbiecat is the great lady who helped to start this thread. Birdie is always uplifting and their weight lose and excercise regimen would put a 20-year old to shame. I almost lose weight just reading about it.:bigsmile:
We have actors and singers and people who live over a portion of the world. It's interesting to hear about their way of life and family and even their weather.:bigsmile: :flowerforyou:
I feel for them in all their troubles. Some have had death, trauma, sickness...:brokenheart:

It's a great place to be included...

Thanks to you all!:flowerforyou:

My goals for the week are to log all of my food.

I invented a new muffin recipe this morning. If you don't have leftover oatmeal, just put 1/2 c. quick cooking oatmeal and 1 c. water in a bowl in the microwave for 1 minute. I put this in the food database as Mary's Oatmeal Muffins - 143 calories each.

Oatmeal Muffins
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• ½ cup Splenda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup leftover oatmeal
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions
• In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder and baking soda. In another bowl, combine oil, eggs, oatmeal, raisins and vanilla; add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened (the batter will be thin). Spoon into 12 greased muffin cups. Bake at 350° for 18 minutes or until the muffins test done. Yield: 1 dozen.

Good morning ladies.

Tonight is the Oyster New Year feast at Elliot's. Once a year bash with all you can eat oysters being shucked by the local growers and all of Elliots wonderful cooked oyster dishes. 20 local wineries and brewers sampling their beer and wine and a champagne reception beforehand. I am so looking forward to this. I will be over my calories and sodium by the thousands but who cares once a year!!!!
It is a bit frustrating since I finally got the scale moving again. this could stall it for a while but oh well. I worked out hard this morning and I will drink a ton of water.

Terri glad your back and I hope you can get thru your struggles. one day at a time is the best approach.
Mary thanks for the recipe

Welcome newbies. And to everyone please have an awesome day.

Welcome Sally!!! and Welcome Lynne, who also has "Heather" in her signature(?)

We look forward to getting to know you.

We have women from the UK: (tiarapants AKA Amanda; wizzywig AKA Viv; mdyn........(<can't recall the exact login--I always read it as "my dinasaurs" AKA Jackie.

There are also some Canadians: Rebelrenny AKA Renny; there is another from Victoria BC, who I think is traveling right now--can't remember the login--so hasn't been on here much lately.

We have women from all over the USA, and there is a contingent from Washington state also. Rjadams, AKA Robin, is north of Seattle, while pmjsmom AKA Kathy is near Olympia, and Barbiecat AKA Barbie is on the Olympic Peninsula, and I am down south in Vancouver, near Portland, OR--not to be confused with the Vancouver about 300 miles north of me in BC, Canada.

We have some Californians, mimi7grands AKA "Sister Veggie Queen"--there is a story there. and Macmadame, and chicletgirl; and lots of women from all over. I can't begin to mention everyone. In time, you will get to know us, and we will get to know you--I hope!!:flowerforyou:
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I attacked my refrigerator today to make some space in preparation for Thanksgiving, which I am planning to have here, unless I can't get my house re-arranged in time, in which case I will still make the dinner, but it will be eaten at my mom and dad's apartment instead. That might be quieter, as the "Three Little Piggies" can be left home, so they can't have a "barkfest" during our dinner, or try to "help" in the kitchen.:laugh:

The year I moved here, I had Thanksgiving, and my late Shih tzu, Dreyfus (pictured in my ticker) made such a fuss when he smelled asparagus (his favorite veggie) that I had to put him inside my SUV until it stopped cooking (the asparagus--not the SUV ), as he would NOT shut up!! :noway: :laugh: :laugh: Mai Li (my avatar) thought she was in tall clover when Dreyfus was banished to the outside, and she got to stay inside and "supervise" in the kitchen. When I brought him back inside, she sulked for a while. I think she was hoping he wasn't coming back so she could have all the leftovers for herself!!!:laugh:

BTW to Lynn, who drowned her cell phone. I hope you haven't tossed it out yet. While it is likely, since it was powered up when it hit the water, that it may be fried for good, it is also possible that with the passage of time, it could dry out and power on again. My phone took a swim in the washer, and the repair tech I dealt with from Sprint advised me of some techniques to dry it out. One is remove battery and back from it and put the phone in a plastic bag with some rice (absorbs moisture) and leave for 24 hours, or instead of placing it in the bag with the rice, you can leave the phone inside a self-defrosting refrigerator for 24 hours--the defrost cycle removes moisture from within the fridge, and thus the phone may dry out.

In my case, I replaced my phone with an identical model, and about a month after the "swimming" incident, for the heck of it, I decided to see if the old phone would power up. It did, and I was able to retrieve all my stored phone numbers. I have been using the old phone as a battery charger for my active phone, since I have 2 batteries that I rotate so I can fully discharge them each time, and I always have a charged spare.

Robin, My tastebuds are envying yours, as you prepare for that wonderful dinner. Enjoy!!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

I still have lots to do today, so BFN

Barb

Lynn - my problem seems to be that I like to "munch" while I'm on the computer. Even tho I know that crumbs fall onto the keyboard, do you think that stops me???

Viv - I know that MD is going to want to talk to me about these blood tests I just had. At that time I'm going to get my flu shot but I'm also planning to speak to him about this "nurse". I know deep inside that he probably can't do anything. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they hired her because she's probably getting a lower salary. But it'll make me feel good to get this off my chest. My hair used to be really thick but then I had children and now my hair is much thinner

The woman who is currently the vice-president of the Newcomers and her hubby were here for dinner tonight. She told me that she's not going to be president next year but that this other gal is. I honestly don't know how she will do, I have a feeling not real good. She's kind -of like "it has to be my way or no way" She's nice to your face, but I understand from Maureen that she's a bit of a control freak. What is needed for the president is a non-emotional person, someone logical. That's why I know that I wouldn't be good at the job. I honestly don't know about Kathy, from what Maureen's told me she's emotional. I am a bit surprised that Pam (the current vice president) isn't going to be president. But Vince has said to me "there may be some people who won't stand up to Kathy, but not moi", and he's going to be treasurer. Perhaps what I should do is give her the benefit of the doubt. She got this place (near her home) for our general meetings. Really, it's not at all conducive to a general meeting, it's really set up as the restaurant that it is, not for meetings. They have their customers come in (can't blame them) during our meetings, we can't hear. Pam did say that she thinks we'll be back at the place we were before for our general meetings. That'll be good. I should have asked her if they're going to be supplying coffee/tea since I'm going to be head of hospitality. Right now I'm a bit on the stressed side, eating chocolates to try to ease my feelings.

Welcome aboard Sally (so much easier than abundanceismine!)

I think I'll do some Wii balance games tomorrow a.m. Go to church, then Vince and I will probably go bowling (games on Sun from 10 to 1 are only $1). The other night he slept funny and his neck hurts him. If it still hurts him, I may just ask him to go with me to critique me. Sometimes I don't know what it is that I'm doing wrong.

Everyone, have a great evening.

Michele

Welcome Sally!!! and Welcome Lynne, who also has "Heather" in her signature(?)

We look forward to getting to know you.

We have women from the UK: (tiarapants AKA Amanda; wizzywig AKA Viv; mdyn........(<can't recall the exact login--I always read it as "my dinasaurs" AKA Jackie.

Barb

:laugh: :laugh: Barb had to laugh I always think of Jackie as my dinosaurs too :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
Just going out with the doggies now, for our not so early morning walk, Will catch you all later, but had to reply to this as I thought it was only me.

Viv xx

Good morning Ladies!
I LOVE this 'fall back' thing! My house is so quiet right now!! Peace!

So, I figured I should give you the run down on who I am and a little about my life:

I live on the South Shore of MA and have all my life. I am long time divorced with 20 year old boy/girl twins. Living with me is my daughter (Michelle),20 and her boyfriend (Ben), 22 and their son (my ADORABLE 1st grandson Jonathan) 16 months, She goes to a local small college PT, works at a 99 restaurant PT, and thenwatches her 2 yr old 1/2 sister in my home with her son 3 days a week. Ben works FT as an small airplane mechanic.

My son Scott goes to college full time in Boston and his major currently is astrophysics. He is thinking of changing to straight physics because although the universe fascinates him, he thinks he should focus on things he can do HERE to help us. He works 1 day a week just to have some spending money, the rest of his time is spent studying. On the weekends, vacations, etc, he and his longtime girlfriend Colleen live with me. She also goes to the same college as my daughter.

Rounding out the home, we have 4 cats and a hampster. Oh, and me! =D I work full time as a Sr Project Manager at a local mid-size regional company which allows me to support the homestead.

I have often battled with weight, but in the past it was always much much less than now. Funny how looking back I thought it was the end of the world that I was larger than most my age. The 2 times previously were understandable, but not everyone had the same tendancy to overeat: Puberty, when at 13yrs and 5'2" I went up to 150 lbs, and then at 31yrs right after my babies were born I didn't go down, I went up to 200lbs. Both times I successully and relatively easily lost the excess weight. 160-165 is a good weight for me at 5'9".

Then when I hit 40, I started piling on the weight. Not sure why, the 'tough' times were well behind me, going through my divorce, finishing my masters, creating a new and stable home for my kids all happened in my late 30's. But by the time I was 44 had hit 225. Since then I have logged my food, joined other fee based groups, talked and journeled A LOT, but not religiously. I bounce too easily between 225-255, and yesterday I hit my all time low/high of 260. It was NOT a good day.

But, I am a very positive person. I LOVE life, I love experiencing things and doing new things and I need to be able to do that. I need my knees and back to not hurt just getting up. I need to feel better physically and emotionally. So here I am.

This is not my typical post, but it helps to just get it all out there and then focus on what I, with your support, can do!!

Today is going to be a great day!!

I'm new to the site - but unfortuantely not new to dieting. Hopeing that online support groups like this might make a difference!
My goals for November are to stay focused despite the "turkey day" crazys and focus on changing for good.

Looks like this group has some pretty successful members!

I enjoy reading all the posts. My problem is Friday nights and usually the whole weekend. I am a legal assistant and deal mostly with family law. I do preliminary interviews - am the first one they speak to when they call in with problems, etc. I just want to tell some cients to grow up, smarten up, think of your children not yourself, get over the anger, etc. - but I understand their pain so Iisten and try to be supportive. So Friday night I am ready for a few drinks. That is how the weekend binging starts and I undo all the good I did all week. This weekend started out the same with Friday night. But I was able to stop on Saturday. So hopefully I can over indluge one night a week and still lose. Tomorrow morning will tell - if I am up after the weekend - which I usually am - 2 pounds at least. I am a little bit proud of myself - but not as much as if I hadn't gone overboard on Friday night. Why can't I stop at 2 drinks instead of 6 - I drink rye and diet coke but still that is 600 plus calories of whiskey.

Well that is enough about my problems. I have a target outfit for Chrismas parties and am soooo close to feeling comfortable in it = so I really have to be vigilent from now on.

thanks for listening .... if anyone is!!!!

susan

Hello Everyone,

I am brand new to this site (just joined today). November is my birthday month and I will be 53. I am tired of being overweight and tired all the time. I have high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia and managed cholesterol (low numbers for 5 years and recently taken off medication).With a recent health scare (spiking blod pressure), I have decided to take my life by the horns and get my weight (and health) under control. I find the eating part easier than the exercise part. The exercise is very difficult due to chronic arthritis and fibromyalgia. I walk my treadmill most days and do some free weight exercises. I know this will get easier as I lose the excess weight, so I am optimistic that I will suceed this time.
My daughter gave birth to our first grandchild in April. I love our little Reese and am saddened by the fact that I can not get down on the floor to play with her. I can get down, but you do not want to see me get back up. This is definitely going to be a positive journey to a healthier me. Thanks for listening and I hope to visit here often for the encouragement I got from the postings in this thread.



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I think I a still full from last night. I haven't eaten that much or been that uncomfortable since I started this process in February. It was sooooooo good. We had loads of oysters. Kumamotos are our fav. I had one oyster rockafellar and wonder shrimp and crab and scallops and mussels. there were 51 wineries respresented so I enjoyed sampling many of them. We dance to the jazz band they had and just had a wonderful time together. We walked to and from the hotel twice (about a mile each way) The Edgewater hotel has so much character. It is a very old hotel built right on a pier on the water. its decorated all rustic with antler chairs and log beds and years of history. I smiled when we got there because my mother stayed there once when we lived in California and she had gone to Seattle for a conference. It made me happy to be in a hotel where my mom had once stayed.

I hope you all have a great Sunday. Bodi survived his first night of being left out in the yard all night. but boy was he glad to see us home this morning. Kiera was fine as always.

Hi again ladies.

Busy day today.

Ok, I'm going to run something by you. We went to visit my FIL and his wife today. Now, I haven't seen them since I was over 100 pounds heavier than I am now. Did they mention anything? Not a word was said! Maybe I was expecting too much - but I would have thought they'd have said something!

Anyway, I'll move on from that.

Yesterday we went to a wedding reception in the evening. The bride is a friend of my DDs - she looked lovely by the way. Well, I don't think there was a person there that didn't have a tear in their eye during the first dance. The groom has muscular dystrophy and is now confined to a wheelchair. Rather than miss out on the dance, he made room for her on the arm of his chair and they 'danced' around the floor with him sitting across his lap. It was a beautiful sight.

On Friday I went to see my dietician. She really doesn't want me to lose any more weight but I want to let go of another ten pounds before I work on maintaining. Finally she suggested that I lose my final ten pounds over the next twelve months. Now I'm not sure that I am going to be able to do it that way. I think it will be a case of maintaining three weeks of the month and trying to lose for the other week of the month. Hmm, we'll see how that goes. To be honest I'd like to just get the final ten gone and then stick to maintenance.

One thing I need to get sorted, is my iron deficiency. It's not horrendous, but I have been extremely anaemic in the past and don't want to get to that point again.

As far as my hair loss goes, the dietician recommends that I up my protein and carbs (apart from veggies, I tend to avoid most carbs). I have to have more blood tests done next month. One of my main goals is to be as healthy as I can possibly be before I have my valve replacement surgery.

Hi Sally, thanks for the background info about yourself. You've definitely hit the right thread.Welcome!

Changing4good - same to you - this is a very supportive and understanding group.

TLK105 - losing weight has certainly helped with my arthritis in my knees and spine. Hopefully you will feel the benefits too.

Jeannie - Congrats on the lessening medications. That is such a positive NSV (non scale victory). Well done.

Robin - it sounds like you had a wonderful evening. Good for you! Life's too short not to have some fun!

Lynn - well done for losing. Hope the inflamed nerve eases up.

Birdie - I do hope you are feeling better soon. Don't worry about the exercise until you are up to it.

Barb - I was a little concerned initially when I read that you'd attacked your refrigerator! When I used to 'binge' I used to say I was eating the fridge, and imagined that was what you were doing. Was relieved to see you were just clearing space.

Terri - I really like your November goals. It sounds like you are hitting the problem head on. Good luck.

Mary - I forwarded your oatmeal muffin recipe to my sister as she loves baking. It sounds delicious, but I'm not risking having them in the house at the moment.

Viv - good luck with your running club. Keep at it and pretty soon you won't be able to say that you're the unfittest member of the group.

Barbiecat - what is Buddhist's delight? I presume it's a vegetarian dish. My son and his fiancée are Buddhists and I'm a vegetarian - could be a good meal to cook when we are together.

Michele - I absolutely refuse to eat at the computer these days. I had to take my laptop to get it fixed a while ago and the guy who fixed it said he couldn't believe how many crumbs there were under the keyboard. I was mortified!

I know I haven't mentioned everyone, but I have read your posts and I think of you all.

Tomorrow I have my swimming class first thing in the morning (must try harder!!) In the evening I have been asked to give a 'motivational speech' for a group that I used to belong to. I won't go into it too much now, but I'll let you know how it goes and tell you more about it.

Well, that's enough time sitting on my bottom! Must get up and on.

Here's to a good week!

Amanda x

I totally agree with you Macmadame! Some of are jealous or petty of others success. There are some people who may not know if they should comment on weight loss. That it could possibly be offensive. (benefit of the doubt) Although, it has never bothered me when someone compliments me.
Has it any of you?:noway:

Susan (smwert) Join us over in the like minded lushes thread where we attempt to deal with the alcohol calories.

Amanda, I don't know what to say about your FIL and his wife, maybe they didn't want to imply that you were big before? I can't imagine your FIL would have any reason to be jealous or petty. That is really weird. Hey, MAYBE they thought your husband had a new wife???

I told a friend with severe back pain about the horse ABJ and she was going to try and find it here. Did not know that people use it for arthritis. The things you learn on-line. (ha) I know there is a version sold in Canada that is much stronger than the US version. Anyway, hope it helps.