WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2014

Happy Sunday to one and all. Happy dance as I am all caught up reading. :happy: We are enjoying 50 degrees plus weather. Hoping to get a walk outside done when I get off. Sounds like it will be like this most the week. It sure has been interesting weather. Hugs to those dealing with floods, snow and earth quakes.
Last evening when I got off work we went over to DS's to celebrate DGD 6th birthday. They made a nice supper and cup cakes of which I had one. Since I am off tomorrow and DGD doesn't have school she wants a play date at her house so we can play with her new Barbie things. Going to enjoy the time while she is still young and thinks spending time with Grandma is fun.

Alison--when my ex remarried his wife had 2 hard hearing children. So my son learned to sign. I think that is a neat thing to know. Hugs!!

Sylvia--Prayers for you and DH. Sounds like the doctors are getting right on top of things. Breath deep! I understand how happy you are at 205.4. I am at 223 and happy I am not 370 anymore. Enjoy your success!! Maybe there will another parent that has a boy and you could send them together or something like that. Sorry you had poor turn out for your meeting. Weather more then likely had alot to do with that.

Laura--My chiropractor also has massage at his office. I started getting them after my accident last Nov and I love it. I told DH I want to keep getting them atleast every other month and if I have to pay for them I will. She charges $15 for 15 minutes. I am surprised I enjoy them. I guess I just need to learn that trying new things is not a bad thing.

Joyce--Glad you and DH are home. I know meds anymore cost so much, and this year our insurance changed so we have to get those we take regular at the mail order. I do not like that.

Carol--Great NSV!! I never thought about it, but smaller clothes do take up less space.:drinker:

I understand about the rings getting to big. Several of mine are and have to wear them on different fingers. I wrapped tape around acouple to make them fit. I tired those plastic things from Wal-Mart and they kept falling off. DH bought me a new ring for Valentines day and it did not have to be sized. Thats a first. I keep saying when I reach goal I will have the rest resized.

yanniejannie-I understand about feeling off. I can not say why I just feel blue, its just there. I keep thinking if I stay busy it will get better. Some days are better then others.:sad:

Kathy--Welcome! The best advice I have is that this is a lifestyle change and important to take it One day at a time. Don't give up. Come back often and get to know us and us know you. This is a great group for support and friendship.

Katla--Thanks I do feel so lucky with my dad and his health. Sometimes it feels sureal and we get ready for the worst and then he gets better. I Thank God everyday for the Blessings. Glad to hear DH MRI went better.

MIchelle--Yes he does!!

jp--your gift makes me smile. I do think it is important to have fun in a marriage. Not always easy to do. Thats scary, you hear about things like that happening-but never think it could !

Sue--Congrates on the weight loss!!:drinker:

Sandy--GOOD FOR YOU!!!!:drinker:

Heather--In my family we usally celebrate milstone birthdays-40-50-60. So far I have had a party for DH 40 & 50th. My birthday is the day after his and I am 3 years younger so we celebrate together most the time. I am excited about the open house as get to see friends and family that live a distance away. DH and I both work on the day after. Going to have cake, coffee, punch, and nuts. I am trying to keep it simple.

We have been watching the Olympics in the evenings and I find it very interesting and fun to watch. Some of those things they do on snowboards and skis scare the ---- out of me. I just wounder how they practice and learn that without killing themselves.
Well enjoy your Sunday and stay safe.
Blessed! Vicki GI NE with the sun shining during the day and full moon at night!

well,
I am sitting finishing my cup of tea, then off to make dinner,
we did go buy a new toaster and countertop oven, the oven is awesome, just have to figure out how to use it, I had the DH pick which one .. it was 100.00 but we use that excusively and instead of buying a cheaper one and regretting it,we went with the better one and hope it will work out.
then we went to Sam's for a few things.had a blow up with the DH, he keeps telling me to use my brain,now he doesnt use the word dumb, but thats what I hear, and after the catastrophe this morning that just set me off.,
I wiped the whole counter down before I put everything up there, and now he is swearing in the kitchen and taking stuff apart saying that I didnt..
im making dinner feeding him,making his lunch and then staying in my room the rest of the day, I need to get away...:frown:

Good Afternoon,
Deedee:drinker:

Alison we have a Cuisart toaster oven my DH bought on amazon. We love it. In the summer it doesn’t heat the house up so much. We do use it in the winter to save energy. We do need to make sure we don’t leave anything on top of it and to be sure to turn it off we done using it. Hug to you!

Sylvia and Vicki proud of your weight loss. It shows great determination.

Sue and Sandy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yanniejannie and Sylvia I have learned that 75% of your serotonin the feel good neurotransmitter is produced in your gut. Another reason to feed your gut fruit and veggies and good quality protein. Vit D helps too. You reminded me I just took mine (Vit D) with a snack.

Kathy T. hope you can stay dry.

Joyce When I look at those supposed candy bargains. I remind myself of their true cost. For every $1.00 I multiply by 10. That is the true cost to my health when I buy that treat. I admit it does not always stop me, but it does help most of the time. You learned it is not a true bargain and next time it will be easier to resist.

Heather sorry about your friend being so upset about her friend’s suicide. She is lucky to have you to be there for her.

Jb scary about the magnify glass starting a fire. Thanks for sharing.

Rose I agree with you about the other forums. I do occasionally post on them. I try to overlook the negative posts and concentrate on the information I am trying to learn. My son would not eat veggies either. He started trying to eat them on foods he liked like pizza. He is much better than he used to be.

Deb thanks for the reminder to move. I will finish up and join you.

After church I treated myself to a Kohl’s run. I had a 30% coupon. I was able to get a cashmere sweater for$17.50. Our springs are cool in MN, so I’ll be able to wear it for a while. I’m going to a friend’s 60th birthday party tonight, so I’ll wear it there. My plan for the party is to try a suggestion from the book Eat, Move, Sleep where you eat the healthiest things on your plate first. He also suggest to drink water and have a hand full of nuts before you go.

Goals;
Eat the healthiest thing on my plate first.
Eat more slowly
Mindful of posture and breathing
“Take care of myself today, so I wake up to a healthier me tomorrow.”
Word of the year contentment

Margaret

So, tried to take it easy on the food this weekend since I'm going out for dinner tomorrow and Tuesday. When it rains, it pours!
Had some wonderful black bean soup from Laurel's Kitchen; anybody remember that cookbook? One of my all-time favorites. I should get it out more often.

Hope everyone sleeps well tonight!

Cynthia
:flowerforyou:

Hi all...only have a minute after spending all of Friday and Saturday at our grade school basketball tournament.

But...I just got a text message picture from my son of my newest grandchild! Connor Micah is his name. He is about 3 weeks early, but so were the other two boys. We're excited! Unfortunately we won't see him in person for several weeks since he's in Minnesota. Can't wait until we can make the trip!

Eileen near San Diego

Did 50 minutes of Element TaiChi DVD for Beginners. I'm a real beginner to tai chi, and I must say that this DVD is VERY good. In most DVD's they may do a move a few times and then the last few times expect you to remember which steps go next. Not this one, he leads you thru the moves all the way (did I totally confuse you?)

Tomorrow I'm planning that I'll do some yoga, then hold my plank, and then go to the extremepump class.

yaniejannie - I'm so so sorry for your daughter. You're so right, just GETTING the interview is major. My best wishes for her, a waiting list sounds like it could be promising. I never heard of a sweet potato pie, either. Never heard of livermush or shrimp and grits. Things in the south sure are different! Or persimmon pudding. Vince retired from Mars so we have to root for Kyle Bush at the races

katla - I went to a zumba class once. I am so uncoordinated, always using my right foot when I should have been using my left. I never did go back. I think it would be just awesome if the Y here was to have an aquazumba class.

Heather - I must have missed it, but I'm amazed that Joyce's state allows smoking, too. It was just a few years ago that my state banned it, and I thought for sure they were probably the last state since most of the tobacco is grown here. Good for you using the 20# weights. Whenever I do lateral raises (raises to the side), I can almost never go above 5# weights. Do you have a whole lot of different weights? I recall reading somewhere that there's some sort of weight where you can turn a dial for different poundage, but for the life of me I can't remember what it is.

Is anyone on here lactose intolerant? Does anyone need to go gluten free? What are some of the foods that you can have? I wonder if tofu is dairy or not.

DeeDee - Lowe's Foods (I don't know if you have one by you) has asparagus on sale until Tues-- $1.49/pound. Yes, yes, yes, boss those boys around

Alison (((hugs))))

Deb A from NY - which videos did you get?

Sylvia - is there any other mother/grandmother who can maybe watch your grandson just for the few minutes while you're in the locker room? A family changing room - do they have one?

Rose in AZ - welcome! You'll only find support here, no criticism at all. When it comes to my birthday or something like that, I usually ask for a "flower" arrangement from Incredible Edibles. That's fresh fruit cut up into flowers. I know one year I got a dozen "roses". what it was was strawberries (yes, they opened them and put a minimarshmallow in it). Lettuce was used for the "leaves". I thought it was pretty neat (and good). Their fruits are always good

jb - I can't believe it! Not in my widest dreams would I have thought that a fire would start. Glad you had to come in and caught it

Joyce - "devil be gone!!!"

Kathy - I know how hard it is to keep your calories in check in an Italian restaurant. I remember going to one one time and they had this shrimp marinara on angel hair pasta. I just know that if I had that angel hair in front of me, it would wind up in my stomach. So what I did was ask them for the shrimp marinara but without the pasa. It really was pretty good

Vicki - have fun playing

Jane - prayers for your friend

Sue in SD - lol setting off the fire alarm, but not lol standing out in the cold without a coat!

Eileen - welcome Connor Micah! You have one wonderful grandma there and I'm sure the other grandma is just as wonderful

barbie - good for you getting back to yoga. Is this the first time you've been able to do it?

Michele in NC

Eileen Congratulations on the birth of your new grandson Conner Micah:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: !!!

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What happened :noway: :noway: I think I have missed a few days again and here we are Part 2 already. :huh:

Just a quick post to say that hubby is ok, we still don't know what caused his problem. As he felt a bit better the morning after we'd been backwards and forwards to the walk in centre and then A&E he only spoke to the doctor instead of going in for a blood test. I'm still trying to persuade him to make an appointment. Why are some people so stubborn!!

I need to go back and catch up, but hope you are all fit and well

Chat again soon

Viv

Good Morning Beauties,

Haven't had a chance to read back at all but I did want to stop in and, first of all, thank yanniejannie Jan for the very thoughtful message yesterday and to give those who are wondering an update.

My mom is still hanging in there. It has been quite a week. When I got my step father to take her into the hospital last Saturday she wouldn't have made it through the week as she was. All the hydration, oxygen, etc. naturally perked her up a bit but is, more or less, prolonging her suffering and the inevitable. He decided very quickly to bring her home for hospice care and that added tremendously to the mountain of stress. Not sure if I mentioned but we all live together and I have GREAT concerns over her suffering, shutting down and dying in the same home as my 7 year old. My stepfather THINKS he's "just" going to move her back to the hospital when she's "closer" and doesn't get that it's not that simple. I've been though this before and no one wants that kind of memory burned into their brain.


He means well and wants her happy and comfortable but doesn't talk or think anything through before acting. He apparently thought all the furniture was just going to move itself so make room for the hospital bed and other necessary equipment. It took me, with help, most of a day. Home care aids coming and going every day, taking over what peace and routine we had left for 12 hours a day. To make things worse, my son is off on break most of this week.

On the up side, my mom's had a few good moments since she's been home but mostly just sleeps. I also picked up her yesterday who flew in from California. Have her here will hopefully help reduced some of the stress.

Not impressed with the hospice care AT ALL and most of the pain med dispensing is in my stepfather's hands and he's simply not equipped for it. Because they assessed her on a freakishly good afternoon they sent pills (I'm going to try my best to get that changed today) and she can barely swallow them.

Bottom line, it's simply awful.

I've been eating terribly compared to usual (although it could be MUCH worse), chocolate is quickly becoming my best friend (thank goodness the Valentine's candy is almost gone), and I exercised 1 time last week (while I thought about it every day). I plan to improve both this week. Am going to do my very best to log this week and get this poor old bag of bones moving.

Hope everyone is well and taking good care of yourselves. Will do my best to read back a bit and pop in a couple times a week.

xoxo,
Gloria in Metro Detroit

Good morning. It's balmy -3 this morning. I have been of and on with MFP. On WW. Go to planet fitness. Recently received for Christmas a fitbit. For my birthday hubby got me the fitbit Force. love it, I have started to move more last couple days sore from using in used muscles it's worth it. I enjoy reading everyone's ups and downs keeps us all on track. I will be back more regularly.

From. Upstate NY

Good morning!

Well, I've been cooking again for tomorrow's lunch! :laugh: Butternut and tomato soup, cold salmon and salad, and skinny raspberry sorbet. I won't be having any sorbet, but I know my friend loves it.

Eileen - many congrats on the new grandson! Wonderful!:flowerforyou:

Michele - I started with 2kg weights, then bought 5kg. Soon switched to 7kg and then went up to 9kg. I use different weights for different things. I still laugh at the memory of the postman staggering up the path with my latest ones! DH also uses the heaviest ones.

Viv - glad your hubby is over his scare. Would be good to get some diagnosis though!:noway:

Gloria - so sorry for what you are going through. I could never have had my mother with me at that time, or any time for that matter. I just don't have it in me. I hope things settle and her passing will be peaceful.

Deedee - have a great time with the grandchildren. You seem to have such fun with them. I am missing mine already, although they wore me out!

Another quiet day today, though I am getting ahead on the cooking. Have some admin jobs to do this pm and want to download some photos and print them out. I tend to put that sort of thing off. Couple of things hanging over me, so it would be good to clear the decks.
My phone is on a go slow. It is very old, but I have been resisting getting a smartphone. I hate monthly outgoings because I don't like possibly getting overdrawn. I could try to get one on PAYG but I'm not sure if that would work. But I have got to do something now. Also I have so much stuff on my old phone, music, photos etc. I feel a real techno idiot as to how to save all that stuff. Oh woe!

Love to all, especially to those who have much bigger problems than mine!

Heather in dull Hampshire UK

@Gloria: So sorry this period of time is so hard for you. I know there will be different opinions on this, but mine is: don't worry too much about your 7-year-old. It's a cliché, but...it's all part of life. I know there may be specific procedures etc. that you might not want him to see; I can imagine that. But he may even appreciate being kept "in the loop" instead of having Grandma somewhere else and just "disappearing". (He may still be very sad, but that would be normal.) I'm sure you'll be able to tell how he's doing.
Hope you don't mind me giving my view on this. Have some experience (though not with a child).

:flowerforyou:
Cynthia

:flowerforyou: On a beautiful Monday morning, HI ALL,

Will see if I find time to come back and read the posts.

Only 4.5 hrs of sleep last night, didn't get my exercise in:grumble: and my computer here at the office is not working right, it took over 30 minutes for the monitor to come on. Will have our IT guy look at it when he gets in.

I had taken work home on Friday only to find out that our small laptop doesn't have excel on it and our good one that was stolen back in December is still sitting in the evidence room at the policy dept:mad: I wish they would get their act together and return our computer to us.

Yesterday I was busy around the house doing my prep work for our meals during the week and general puttering, I just love being at home. I was washing some vests hubby brought home from work and he missed a pen in one of the pockets and I ddidn't see it either.....there was blue ink all over the inside of my dryer:sad: Hubby came and cleaned it out with goof off and got about 98% of it but boy was it a mess.Only ruined about 3 of the 8 vests, it's been years since I've washed something like that:blushing:

My logging wasn't the best this past weekend as I had no idea how many calories some of the food was, but am back on track this morning.

Hoping everyone had a good weekend, for you that have today off enjoy your day. Remember to drink your water:drinker:

Laura in Colorado

Hi again,
Just wanted to pop in and tell you all that I have booked my New York hotels ! ! ! ! ! !:drinker: :flowerforyou: :drinker:
I find it all very stressful, but I am relieved it is done.:happy: We can cancel up to the last minute, though we had to pay now by credit card, which I hate. We treated ourselves and booked a room with two beds in it. There is nothing worse, when you've got jet lag, than being kept awake by the other person tossing and turning. :laugh: Or having to lie still if it's you that is awake. Now got to sort out the visa waiver thing. DH had to get a new passport, but that has arrived.

Carol - sorry you are so worried about your children. It is the worst thing, isn't it. And all the wrangles with meds.:noway:

Sylvia- so glad my food came up to scratch! ! ! ! :laugh: Nothing would please me more than catering to you ladies!
I am still doing my face exercises and do think they are helpful.

Bye for now,
Heather, much relieved in Hampshire UK