WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2014

TGIF~~
Texasgirl,the baby is adorable.:flowerforyou: :drinker:
Day 3 of waiting to hear from drs office,so frustrating.:sad: :sad:
The ones who were talking about the cadbury eggs,I can relate.Last night I asked my hubby to bring some chocolate back.He brings a 2#bag of hersherys.I had 1 serving and another,but stopped.I know Im shouldn`t ate any,my way of coping with stress.
I guess the good thing is I din`t eat the whole bag.
Have a great day!
hugs
jane

Kim - the E type hire refers to hiring an E type Jaguar for 48 hrs. They have a silver one! ! ! ! ! Half board means breakfast and dinner, but not lunch. This package would be two of each meal.
We didn't use their package this time because it is VERY expensive and we only wanted the 24 hr hire. However, given our experience this time, and the convenience of having the car waiting for us at the hotel, we might go for it. They throw in free tickets for an arboretum and Blenheim Palace (Churchill's ancestral home) as well as a wine tasting. It would be a great extravagance, but could take the place of a big birthday celebration or anniversary. Cheaper than our trip to NYC in October anyway! Anyone who doesn't know of the Cotswolds - it's very oldy worldy, thatched roofs and honeyed stone, little villages with streams running through and lots of sheep!
As I get older I value great service more and more. Americans have a reputation for good service, but over here it is an exception. Going to a place with exceptional service is like falling into a warm bath and I am prepared to use my life savings to enjoy it on rare occasions. I askl myself, what am I waiting for? Do I want to wait until I am dead? DH used to have a lot of trouble getting his conscience to spend that sort of money, he says he wasn't brought up that way, but I think I have won him round. I come from a humble background also, but I know I can't take it with me.:laugh:

Deedee - your renovations sound great!

Love Heather UK

Heather
thanks for the translation I was in England in 1992, and spend a tiny little time in the Cotswolds and loved it! I think that it sounds way worth it! and 2 meals is great! you could bring health snacky things from home to cover the middle meal... It sounds great! I loved all that I saw in England; I have not done a ton of traveling but a bit; and I loved England and Scotland as while there are language issues they are minor compared to some places.

smiles Kim

PS - I was so curious so got on line and googled around, did you stay and Lords of the Manor? OMG it sounds devine!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning everyone. Denise from New Zealand. I joined in 2012 but wasn't at all serious but became real serious in February this year. This thread is a great idea. Hopefully I can contribute.

Alison - so sorry about your SIL's father. I'm keeping you and your family in my thoughts. So glad to hear Sean stood firm. An NSV for him, for sure! We don't have peepers, but the finches are singing and the male goldfinches are turning bright yellow, so I know spring must be here.

Rita in Ct - glad you're still with us, as much as you can be right now. Have missed you :flowerforyou: Long distance hugs!!

Welcome to all the newcomers too! This is a good place to be.

Heather - enjoy the trip! Cotswald sounds a lot like a small Irish village my brother and I stumbled upon a few years back. It was all thatched roofs, winding streets, lovely parks.

DH and I will be heading out next week and I may not have consistent access to wifi, so will post as I can. Looking forward to meeting with Meg from Omaha on this trip!!!

I followed the tomato-planting discussion with some interest. We generally can't put tomatoes and similar plants in the ground until the end of May, early June, so I don't think it would be too late elsewhere. :laugh:

Enjoy the weekend all

Jill in western MA

Having yummy taco salad for dinner, no shell, just salad stuff.

Texasgal - what a cutie!

Hello all!

Have been reading with interest. I've had my share of run-ins with the school system over the years ... some quite horrific ... never actually decked anyone though. Hats off to Sylvia! Never mess with a Mama Bear's cubs!!

I joined one of the challenge groups last month and here again in April. Really shouldn't have been that difficult... track everything, stay within my calorie budget and be active in some way for 20 minutes every day. Made it until March 11th last month and have already been eliminated from April's challenge! Sheesh! :huh:

Tomorrow is another day.

Hoping to get some order to my house this weekend. Always seems to help all aspects of my life when the clutter is gone!
Enjoy your weekend!
Beth in WNY

Did an hour of HIIT on the elliptical today (sprint for 30 sec, regular stride/min for one minute). Tomorrow's plan is to do Jillian Michael's Shred it With Weights DVD

Amanda - that's why I like the spiro-tein protein mix. There aren't any aritificial sweeteners. I try to avoid artificial stuff, too. I'm pretty good about that. I don't like the aftertaste that aspertame leaves in your mouth, so I absolutely avoid that stuff. If I must have an artificial sweetener, I tend to go with Truvia. And even then it's very rare that I use it. I would rather have nothing in my tea. Hope you're feeling better.

Heather - so glad you had such a great time

DeeDee - start investing in a company that makes sunscreen (one that doesn't contain coconut oil -- Coppertone is one that I know doesn't, Banana Boat is another, Hawaiian Tropic does). We'll probably open the pool in a couple of weeks and then I'll be using the sunscreen almost every day. Today I don't think I've been coughing as much as I had previously...or is it just all in my mind?

Went to mahjongg today, then stopped to get Vince his Dunkin Donuts. I'd seen this ad on the internet that they have Peeps Easter donuts, so I asked them for one with chocolate frosting with a Peep on it. They normally don't have a chocolate iced one, but they iced one for me and put a Peeps on top. Then went to the Busy Hands, then to Aldi for a few things. Now home.

Sylvia - unbelievable!!!! lol the dream

Denise - welcome!

Beth - you are so right, don't mess with mamam bear. I always said that if they wanted to find Osama BinLaden in record time, just send a bunch of mothers to find him. If you tell the mother that either he is found or their sons will go to war and possibly get killed, there's no stone OBL could hide under

jane - good luck to you Wed.

Michele in NC

Hello to all: Good day today, so far have gotten at least 8000 steps each day this month but have had to work at it. Last night we were supposed to have wintry weather but the storm passed further south and east and we only had a little snow. Glad as we had practice for our Palm Sunday Cantata and she kept us late. Five of our Methodist choirs in town get together each year and do a cantata with a guest conductor. Last night was the first rehearsal together. Great music and a good sound I think.

Really tired tonight. I think I will do a little crocheting and meditation on the prayer shawl I am making and then to bed. DH is spending most of tomorrow at a Masonic thing so I will have the house to myself. Yeah!!

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

I feel like I have been gone a week although it has been less than 2 days.:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: I walked and waled and walked some more today. We took the tour of my daughters work place, went home, had lunch and went grocery shopping. All in all I think it was equivalent to 5 flights of stairs, about 2.5 miles and over 5000 steps. Plus Thursday night, that was just last night wasn't it, when we drove down there it rained and rained and poured. Here in out city we got 6 inches. Anyway we hit a huge puddle and did something to our catalytic converter so that was on our minds all day today that we needed to get it fixed and would the car do OK on the ride home. I usually sleep mot of the way, mainly because I can't stand Charlies cussing at drivers, but I stayed awake just because I was worried about the car. Yesterday I stayed awake because of the rain. Our tour was moved from 4 PM to 9 AM so we didn't get to sleep as late this morning as we normally would have. I don't do well in just standing and many times during the tour we just stood. It makes the neuropathy in my feet really hurt and I get dizzy. I don't always get dizzy, usually don't but today I did. My daughter saw I was trying to hide something so she kind of cut the tour short, we then toured her office where I could sit down and then walked back to our car, which was about 1/2 mile so we could finish the tour back into the cave in the car. There are two companies in the cave, the Underground Storage and Hybridge spring water. I saw the actual spring and because of the rains it was flowing extremely well. We saw where the resorvior is where they pipe all to and then bottle it. A lot of the interior of the cave is used by the Underground storage where people store their RVs and big boats. There is a very highly technical dehumidifying system in the cave and a lot of people store stuff in there. There were several vaults where a lot of wine and whiskey is stored. That room smells pretty good because one of the workers broke one bottle of wine and you can see where the box was wet at one point in time although these boxes, about 500, are stored.

I dearly love my grand daughters but the youngest one is hyper.She is a super charged energizer bunny with long lasting high powered batteries in her. They don't have a working TV so toys are in the living room and she will go from one thing to another. But she is extremely intelligent. She told me her Daddy is 4 decades old. When I asked her how she figured that out she said he is 40 and a decade is ten years. So I told her that I was 64 so how old was I. I am 6 decades and 4 years. So I gave her a tougher problem to see how she would answer it. I told her that Grandpa was 65 so how old is he? I thought she would say 6 decades and 5 years. But she said he is 6 and 1/2 decades because 5 years is 1/2 of a decade. Her Mom is always giving her little life lessons. After wew ent grocery shopping she gave her the big pack of toilet paper and told her to put an equal amount in each bathroom. So she immediately separated them into 3 piles of 3 for the 9 roll pack. She will show her on the grocery shelves what she wants and to make sure she picks the cheapest so she can be reading the prices on the bar codes on the shelf. This little one is 7. She loves art, reading and math the most. She can give you almost any fact about snakes and spiders which are her favorites!

When we got home from the tour there was a garter snake in their little tiny yard. We were always big lovers of any kind of snake, bug, animal, anything. So Mom pickes up this little snake and takes it in the house so the kids and play with it and hold it so as not to be afraid and see that a snake isn't the slippery slimy thing most people think it is. (Youngest daughter had an 8 foot boa which I would play with while daughter cleaned it's cage). Anyway while they are playing with this snake it promptly throws up the worm it had just eaten! :laugh: :sick: Time for play time to be over.

So we are home. I'm sure since I am as ired as I am I will do my normal and sleep until around 5 PM tomorrow night. ONe time years ago before I got myself in better health with my MS I slept 72 hours except to get up and get a drink and go to the bathroom. My husband just looks in on me and makes sure I'm breathing. The whole family is used to it and leaves me alone.

I'm not even going to pretend to read all the pages I missed. Good job to those who have found victories in any way and for the others, well this to shall pass. You always got to remember it.

Joyce, indiana

Hello to All, I've tried to catch up on the posts but didn't make it all the way through. Tuesday my DGD (age 2) had to be taken to the hospital for an allergic reaction to amoxicilin. She has hives and swollen joints and it breaks my heart to see her suffering. Yesterday I had to work over to catch up as I left Tuesday to pick up my DGS (he is almost 4) so his parents could concentrate on my grandaughter and not worry about him. Today I have to get to the Y and get my strenght training in as I missed yesterday.


Patty from Cincinnati

How scary! Poor Baby:( how nice that you are able to step in and help out with your Grandloves! Hoping she is back to normal by now.

Kay

So it is the end of day 4 and I am down 3 lbs. This is even AFTER I went wayyyyy over my cals today. Yesterday I did go in and readjust my goals to slow the weight loss as I know it's not healthy to lose so fast. But anyhow, it IS encouraging to see such a big loss right out of the gate:bigsmile:

Today was 19 yr old sons kidney biopsy to check for rejection and it was an emotional day to say the least. He spent most of the day angry with me for overriding his decision to go home vs stay in the hospital to allow them to assist him in getting his kidney to behave. He referred to his hospital room as a "hellhole". This behavior was so upsetting because this is soooo not like him. He is a kind, gentle soft spoken, respectful kid most of the time. I think he is afraid of the outcome of the biopsy and it is coming out as anger. I had to step away this evening and let DH take over. I am thankful I have his Dad to tagteam with.

So...tomorrow is a new day. We will find out biopsy results in the evening. Then a plan will be hatched on how to proceed from here.

Kay from NW Wa

Hello ladies

Please may I go back to bed now?

Ok, that's not possible as I'm at work. Still sounds like a wonderful idea though!

Have a grand day my friends.

Love to all.
Amanda x

Hello Everyone!

Been reading this thread for a couple of hours this morning and its good to know that so many other women my age-ish have the same things going on in their heads/life that I do, it sometimes seems like its only me struggling on day after day.

I started my goals for March before I even found you all, so I'll post them anyway:

1. Find a good trainer locally - done
2. Log everything that I eat or drink, good or bad - done
3. Make the right choices 50% of the time - done
4. Up my steps on my Pulse to 5k a day at least - done

I didn't ever set goals before because I felt that I was always over-ambitious and would then never reach them, felt a failure and food was my friend because I was useless; its taken me a while to work out that goal setting for me is helpful, I may not always reach my goal but it gives me something to work towards... duh! Not rocket science but my brain finally got it!

So my goals above:

Finding a good trainer - in a moment of enthusiasm I signed up to a 6 week, 3 days a week P/T bootcamp, I've done the first 2 weeks of it (missed yesterday because the puppy was sick on and off), but I can honestly say that although it hurts when I do it, the benefits are enormous, suddenly I've found all this energy, even felt compelled to start spring clearing, not done that for years, I was far too tired just carrying my own body around.

Logging everything that I eat good or bad, together with making the right choices 50% of the time goes hand in hand with goal setting for me, I'm a binge eater, I hope one day to be able to say "I used to be a binge eater", I know I do it, I sort of know what triggers it, just haven't worked out how to stop doing it, so I'm logging it all - logging that I ate a big bag of crisps for lunch yesterday, micro popped popcorn for dinner and toast and honey for a late night snack, but I did have porridge for breakfast so it isn't all bad. :laugh:

Upping my steps to 5k a day actually wasn't that hard a one to do, I do a slow shoe shuffle first thing in the morning with both dogs - 14yo Welsh Terrier and 11 month Border Terrier; and then a brisk walk with a friend as her dog is the same age as my youngster, my old boy stays at home to sleep, but because I'm feeling better with the training, discovered that I do actually have some muscles and it isn't just my skeleton holding me up, and because of this I do more chores, move more and so on. Still not got to 10k a day, but I'm working on it, summer is just round the corner.

Anyway, back to goals, I'm going to change them slightly to:

1. Log everything that I eat, good or bad
2. Make the right choices 60% of the time
3. Up my steps to 7k a day minimum

Not too much different from March's goals and I think they're achievable, I'll still be doing the boot camp, and after the first 6 weeks is done I might cut back to twice a week, 3 days is a lot and sometimes I feel as if I'm never in.

Looking forward to getting to know you all.

Take care

Mindy in Berkshire, UK

Good Morning Dear Friends :flowerforyou: ;
I have come to the conclusion that I need to actually starve myself to lose *any* lbs :sad: :sad: :grumble: Being way over 50 is sooooo not fun when it comes to losing lbs :noway: :noway: ...my body takes the lbs and holds onto it for dear life..:grumble: ...will not give an inch :embarassed: .
I understand how a school and teachers can drive one crazy...My DD had problems with the elementary school in her district....she was a mom that gave her all to help the school she did baking for school funding projects....she made ornaments..she drove them on the school trips...and she really enjoyed it... until she asked for some help from parents and teachers..maybe 1 or 2 helped..and of course there were those who couldn't because of work or $$ issues....but she was left doing it all...so she eased off doing the baking and craft shows...then eventually told them all if she couldn't get help with this she was done...the school retaliated by the teachers giving them low grades where they always made good marks..she went to the principle and asked how they could do this and he said it was the teachers discretion as to the marking they do.....then they allowed the children to be bullied and did nothing about it.....that was it..she reported the school to the school board...when the school heard this they told MD that if *she* was having a problem with the school to take her children out..she did just that the next year..she moved and now they are at a new school...oh but the troubles she had there..this school is great so far...I was so angry with that school but my DD said to let it go..it was hard:grumble: :grumble:

Cynthia***- Sorry about your dog being malled by 2 others... poor baby...give him lots of hugs and love..and some favorite treats....my dog loved hugs....and then she blamed your dog :noway: :flowerforyou:

Kay***- Good for you down 3lbs already...fantastic!!! Will do a prayer for your son..hope it all comes out good! :flowerforyou:

Mountain song*** - So sorry about you having depression...I understand the hard work it is to live beside it...it weighs one down..but you are persevering good for you!!!!Take it one day at a time...:flowerforyou:

Joyce***- Your GD sounds like an extremely smart girl for being only 7.....you are a very very brave women to hold a python on your lap...uhh uhh no way I could do it :noway: :noway:

Sue.and Denise ***- Welcome to the group!! :flowerforyou:

Texasgirl***- Your little one is adorable!! :flowerforyou:

We are having rain here today..but they are calling for double digits this week coming..they shouldn't give a person high hopes that way :noway: ...But DG I hope they have got it right!!!!!

A great weekend to All :happy:
LizPlus fr Halifax NS (Canada)