WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2014

Happy February everyone! Page 3 already!

It's very wet and windy here - walking the dogs - their ears were flying behind them and we were just walking, battling against the wind! We only stayed out 20 mins instead of the usual hour + !! It was definitely enough!

I've had an interesting week - it started on Monday with the funeral of a friend who died suddenly earlier in the month - standing room only in the church, What a beautifully moving celebration of her life.

Then on Tuesday I went with others from my dog training centre to the TV studios in Manchester when our friend was taking part in a TV programme with her dog! It was fascinating to see a TV programme being made! A long tiring day but an experience that I won't forget in a hurry!

Also, at work the review of support staff hours has meant that I will be losing hours in the next academic year. The information came out this week. Having thought about it I am actually looking forward to being able to have more 'me' time and still keep a job I love doing! I will be able to take the dogs out in the afternoon instead of at night!'

I had a lazy morning curled up with a book! With the wind howling round the bay window, it seemed the best thing to do - and it was such a good story - I didn't guess the end right up until the last paragraph!

Let's hope that by the end of the month the weather is kinder to us all wherever we are in the world!

Rejoicing with those of you with good news and prayers for those of you who need them. I do love reading your posts! Keep drinking water, eating well and moving more and we'll all have a fabulous February!

MA in UK

Laurel, I just caught that you lost 12 pounds in January; that is wonderful and so is ONEDERLAND!!! It had been alluding me for several years and I finally saw it again. :bigsmile: Keep up the good work.

holy cow, page 3 already....

Weigh in this morning...lost 2 lbs. check it out ... 81 lbs lost woooooohoooooo :happy: :happy: :happy:

Welcome to the new women.

Pat - yay welcome back, it's so good to hear from you.

I hope to catch up with all the posts tomorrow.

Sandy from snowy ON

yannijanni, I hate it that I put someone in tears:laugh: I love thinking about my childhood. I feel very fortunate that I had such a loving supportive family, then and now. Not everyone has that.

I usually don't do this but here goes. We are planning on going to the Myrtle Beach area for summer vacation with the family. We have found that renting a house is the best way to do it. We have never done the condo thing but might be willing to try it. Because we were wanting June because it is a little cooler and would be better with my MS the prices are pretty high. So my daughter who helps me so much with travel arrangements suggested I ask my different forum buddies that I have come to trust if they might have a summer home that they rent out. The reason I would rather have a house than a condo is that with a condo you have neighbors, you can't be spontaneous in going to the beach. It has to be more planned, get everything together, get on an elevator with a wet body with who knows who. But maybe I would enjoy it.

My daughter wants to come over and watch the Super Bowl tomorrow night, plan a dinner to have and everything. So I may be going over calories tomorrow, not sure. Will have to make sure that I get my all exercise in before the game since my bike is upstairs and our big screen is in the family room downstairs, Charlie's man cave! :laugh: We really don't like football but if she wants to do it and offered it then we will.

Some one asked how we get our cute little faces etc on our posts. It is one of our new ladies. When you are making your post up in the upper right corner is 'add smiley'. Click on that and you will see them

See you later, Joyce, Indiana

Oh, Joyce.........I just got kind of misty; it was evident it was such a good memory for you!!!........and it could probably be chalked up to being more emotional with Linda's service being today, I've done more than my share of crying all day. So, don't feel bad!!!

Laurelfisher..........Don't know how I missed it, saw someone else mention it...........You lost 12 pounds in Jan.???? WOW!!! that is fantastic.........bravo for your hard work and excellent results!!!

G'nite again!
yanniejannie

Did an hour of yoga on the Wii using the My Fitness Coach. What's nice about it is that you can set the time of your workout (15min, 30, 45, 60, 90). The bad part is that when they marketed it, I don't think they did any user-testing because there are times (like in down dog) when you aren't looking at the TV and there's no way to know when you should come out of a pose. Well, it's good for something different.

Tomorrow I'm planning to do an hour of balance games on the Wii.

Susan - I guess I got home around 3:30. I remember my grandmother used to take the bacon drippings, run them thru a sieve, and use the grease for frying punchke (?sp) and crusckiki.

Linda - welcome! 20 days of logging is a good start, then you'll be doing another 20 and then another and before you know it, it'll be a habit.

Patsy - There are diaries that I would like to see opened, too. I'm always on the lookout for new and different foods to have and many many times looking at someone's diary gives me a good idea

Nancy - when is your birthday? Congrats on the loss. Great that you were able to give so much up. Baking powder/soda are in so many things, that must have been hard. I gave up white flour a few years ago, and today I don't have any sort of craving at all. I probably should give up sugar, but I've just been able to have less. I'm not crazy about sugar substitutes, that's probably the main reason. I don't think I could give up meat entirely, but I really don't care for red meats. Oh, I eat them, just not crazy about them. For the breads, what about yeast?

swat - I don't think I'd completely give up on MFP. I know myself that when I get out of the habit of measuring my food, even tho I think I'm doing fine, it is just so, so easy to over-gesstimate. Maybe you could cut down, but I wouldn't stop altogether. I totally agree with Amanda

Heather - I, too, need to follow a recipe. Bryan is good for just "throwing this and that in" and it comes out delish. My father was the same way. Not me. I need a recipe but I do have to take a little taste here and there to see if it needs more spices.

DeeDee - how very sad for your friend. I can't imagine losing one of my children, either, much less a grandchild

askewcr - welcome!

katla - I did the same thing -- dumped my aluminum cookware years ago and have replace it with stainless steel. I've even started using that green organic pots that have a non stick coating. It's not the Teflon (that can be nasty stuff, too). I forget what it's called.

Sylvia - I've done that before, gone to deep water class and forgotten my bra and/or underwear.

JoAnne - welcome

patricia - welcome to a group of women who know EXACTLY what you are going thru and are more than happy to share their thoughts

karen - welcome!

Marise - welcome! Yes, just posting here puts you in the group!

Rose - welcome back! Your puppy sounds adorable

Jill - how wonderful that you are off all your medds

Sue in SD - happy belated birthday. Hope you had a wonderful day. Have a good dinner tonight and great massage Tuesday

Fabulous Fifty - of course you can join us! We're glad to have ya

Linda - you made me smile -- the new exercise shoveling s**t

yanniejannie - so glad the service was so nice

Kay - glad those Cadbury eggs are still on the store shelf. You don't need them. You SHOULD be feeling good

Jane in CO - I wish the best for your daughter

Barbie - many times when I'm doing yoga in my exercise room, one of the cats seems to think that I make a good bridge....lol

Sandy - awesome weight loss. How long has it taken you? WTG!

Meg - I just found my "Fix It and Forget It Diabetic Cookbook". It's for the crockpot. There are some recipes in there that I'm going to try.

Michele in NC

The Rumford Brand does not contain aluminum. That is the brand I buy. It should say aluminum free on the container.

Hello all:drinker:
Laurelfisher :bigsmile: congrats! Happy dance with you
Heather you are such a charmer! Love the picture of flowers outside and your jug of flowers in the kitchen
Jill:drinker: that’s super! You get to be medicine free
Skuehn58 :drinker: :flowerforyou: Happy birthday! Your tryst with the pretermer is straight out of TV ! Super thought about our 2 hands
Linda nice to see you again
Sylvia quite amused with your story :laugh:
Yanniejannie I am always impressed with the way you care for others. Kudos

Kay :bigsmile: great choice leaving the chocs in the store.
Barbie:bigsmile: your choice of starting out with yoga once a week is great slowly you may increase it. Your roast chicken sounds great. Its your goals which kick off great response. Thanks!
Janehadji :flowerforyou: congrats to you and your daughter.I would be so proud of a daughter like her too. In fact mine is equally talented academically, she is gifted in music and dance as well and has opted to teach dance. I am happy for her.
Katla :flowerforyou: the 5:2 intermittent fast is based on the fact that the body is forced to use stored fat deposits, exercise continues as usual, it allows for excessive cals on another day like a feast. The underlying philosophy being no feeling of deprivation. As I see it, I have to follow portion control, making good choices and all other nutritional facts we have learnt on mfp, but a certain control that I need to bring over snacking and eating, personally may be inculcated in this regime.
Sandy:flowerforyou: Congratulations! 88 lbs down (Applause)!
Meg you always bring cheer! God bless you
Grandmallie great to hear about your brother
Anamika from Mumbai

Kalley: CONGRATULATIONS! 81 pounds lost is an excellent accomplishment.:drinker: :bigsmile: :drinker: :bigsmile:

Joyce: Good luck with your Florida vacation. I hope it all comes together smoothly.:flowerforyou:

Meg: Congratulations on sending off an entire chapter. Best wishes to Leonard’s cousin. “Drink that damn water!” :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I know how you feel. :flowerforyou:

Sylvia & Margaret: Thanks for the baking powder recommendations. I hope I can find one or the other in the stores here. Is the Rumford can a red and silver color? I think I may have seen it.:flowerforyou:

Michele: My mom used bacon grease to fry most things. She had a bacon grease can and put all the extra drippings from frying bacon in it. There was a screened top to filter out the bacon bits so the grease was smooth. It was very tasty, but I not so healthy. Yeast breads are fabulous, but I don’t know of any yeast biscuits. Maybe someone has a recipe.:flowerforyou:

Barbie: Enjoy your Superbowl Pizza. :flowerforyou: I am unlikely to watch. I really watched last year just to see the Budweiser commercial and never saw it during the telecast. I did find it within hours on You Tube. I’ll go to YouTube again!:flowerforyou:


Today I passed along a responsibility to a neighbor and am grateful my turn is over. :bigsmile: Tomorrow DH and I are going to a Murder Mystery dinner theater in Portland at OMSI. It was a Christmas gift from DD and I’m looking forward to it. I hope we have fun. The show starts at 6pm and we’ll probably leave here by four in order to get there with enough breathing room to avoid worry about making it on time. I expect to get home pretty late.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison


February goals:

1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Move more: cardio at least 3 days a week and strength training as soon as I am able.
3. Water: According to an article I saw on facebook, drinking water at certain times maximizes its effectiveness for the body. I’ll work toward following these guidelines:
* 2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs
* 1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
* 1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
* 1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

Drkatiebug, what happened to the Angle food ministries. I have recommended this to several people. I don't want to lead them to an organization that won't provide them with good food.

Good morning everyone! :drinker: (coffee)

Grandmallie: glad your brother has a plan. Sure hope he can turn things around! It won't be easy, but maybe he'll feel enough momentum from the friends and the meeting.
Meg: hope the improvement will become a trend (your cousin).

I'm down about a pound again, to 15 (despite the little chocolate accident last night). So happy!

Yesterday I went out to hang up a couple of suet balls and I'm enjoying sitting on the couch with my coffee and laptop, glancing at the birds.

Cynthia

Good morning ladies

DH has gone off for a full day of hiking so I am at home today. I'm sorting through all my clothes. Golly, I have too many! My local charity shop are going to get a few sacks of (mostly) unworn stuff tomorrow. I wish you lot all lived nearby - we could have a great clothes swap.

I'm trying to eat beetroot. It's one of the few veggie type things that I really dislike but my doctor told me it's good for my gallbladder, so I'm chopping it up and hiding it in with my veggies and couscous. I'm eating four small meals a day now - again, doctor's orders.

Have a good day my friends.

Love to all.
Amanda x

Sorry, my son woke up and I had to run before I could wish everyone a happy Sunday and the strength, will power, determination and grace to exceed their February goals.

xo
Gloria from cold and crusty Metro Detroit

Joyce, Angelfood Ministries has been shut down and is no longer available. The owners were using the profits for their own gain. I'm not sure if it was considered embezzlement, misappropriation or what the exact terminology was. At the least they were misrepresenting themselves as a non-profit and were profiting greatly. I think they are in prison now. Our church was a distribution point for the food and provided a great service to our community. The people miss it. My DH would never let us donate part of our tithe to it, because he said he didn't trust them. Shows how smart he was. I thought he was just being his usual pessimistic self.

Somebody posted a link to a story about it back in the January thread.