WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2014

Meg-I keep checking to see if you have posted your daughters news. I know you are at work now, and can't post, so I am filling in the blank with possible scenarios:

1. She is preggars.:sad:
2. She has joined the circus.:flowerforyou:
3. She registered to vote as a Republican (or democrat, or whatever would make you least happy).:brokenheart:
4. She put a dent in your car on the passenger side where you have not seen it yet.:noway:
4. She bought a pet lion. (In case the circus thing didn't work out).:huh:
5. She enlisted in the military. :explode:
6. She married a punk rocker. :smooched:
7. She joined a cult that believes in sacrificing virgins and she wants to volunteer. :ohwell:
8. She lost your precious string of your grandmothers pearls. :bigsmile:
9. She quit her job to pursue an acting career.
10. She got caught shoplifting Preparation H. :grumble:

Can't wait to hear which one it is.

Sylvia

Well, back from Chiro and what a difference! She did acupuncture and ordered X-rays. I always heard that acupuncture worked but did not expect it to work that fast. Feel so much better. Going to keep going there!

Back to work and must catch up on school work.

Laters!

Rita from Windy CT

Amanda I can't recall how you lost all your weight. Can you share how you lost 199 pounds? How long it took, your diet and exercise program? I think it would help a lot of us. You are quite an inspiration.

Computer seems to be fine today. I am wondering if it was a WOW problem???? It has happened before but I never could manage to log onto WOWWAY.net to see if they had a bulletin.

Charlie had his first follow up appointment with the neurologist today. He offered to add another medicine that would assist with the tremors so that he wouldn't have to increase the Senemet since that drug is the one that causes the weird movements as side effects. He hates to take medicine and he is up to 11 a day now so he opted to wait until the next appointment in 6 months. The doctor was OK with this since right now his symptoms are minimal.

Well this weekends wonderful weather is over. Kind of dreary and raining or rather misting today. But that's OK, it could be a lot worse. I can still see the flowers and green grass. Our zoyzia (spelling) grass still looks yellow but I know how think and lush it will be when it is green. When we decided to put the plugs on years ago we made sure our neighbors knew. One neighbor was really upset and he put up a concrete barrier between yards so ours wouldn't migrate into his yard. He only put it in the backyard. So now the right side of his yard has the zoyzia grass. Our neighbors to the right didn't care so now they are all still yellow on one side of the sidewalk that leads to the house and the other side is green. But I just love the feel of the grass.

Joyce, Indiana

Rita: so glad you have noticed such a great difference! :drinker:

Heather: what is a travel insurer doing with medical gegevens? Never heard of that. :noway:

Goodnight all!
Cynthia :flowerforyou:

Good evening ladies,

We picked our new barstools today for the bar area in the kitchen. It is very cold and windy here. The weather in Oklahoma changes so quickly. Thunderstorms and hail yesterday and snow today.:ohwell:

Sylvia, congratulations on your size 16's! Hope DH feels better soon.

Rita, so glad you feel better!

Mandy, he your knee is better soon. Rest, ice, elevate.

Hugs to all. Hope you sleep well.

Cindy in OK

Did about 10 minutes of a "10 Minute Solution Pilates" DVD then held my plank for 2 min 20 sec (trying to increase from 2 min 15 sec). In a bit I'll go to the extremepump class. Tomorrow I'm planning to do a step DVD at home.

Sue in TN - yesterday was gorgeous here. I actually sat out on the deck and did some of my plastic canvas while getting some sun so that my legs don't look ghostly white. Unfortunately, it's supposed to rain later today. We're thinking we may start opening the pool Wednesday and do some more on Thurs since the weather forecast so far for those days seems to be sunny.

Kim - I was just reading about fondant. Wonder if that would work?

Kim - wonderful buy on those lunch meats. Don't ja just love when things are on sale that you have a coupon for?

The lady who likes to have Mexican Train Dominoes at her house is going for surgery and will only be home for 2 weeks. Not sure if she's going to have the Mexican Train or not. Even if she does, I don't think we'll go. For one thing, all the food will be Mexican and Vince doesn't like Mexican. Not that I'm real crazy about it, either. Also, that'll be just too much for her. I wouldn't mind having it here, but I offered once before when she had to go to a wedding and it really bothered her that I did. Why, I don't know. But it did.

Amanda - what is a demi-vegetarian?

This Easter I'm supposed to lector at the Sat. night mass. Usually, on Easter Jessica and Vince will go to church with me. But it's a bi-lingual mass, it starts later (much, plus that's when they bring the new members into the church, so I know the ceremony will go on forever. What I'm thinking I'll do is go, do my lectoring, then come home and we'll go to church on Sunday at a normal mass.

Alison - yea for getting to the gym. But I don't know if I can manage to get up at 3a.m.!!! lol I hand it to you.

Patty - whenever I'm exercising, I can usually finish off a 24oz bottle of water, sometimes more

DeeDee - can you do me a favor? Ask your SIL what the best granite cleaner is. A friend of mine said that her son worked for a granite company and he told her the best cleaner was Windex, so I've been using that so far. I know not to use vinegar. The Windex seems to do a pretty good job. Maybe he has other suggestions?

Margaret - room for 16 at the table? We can fit 12 comfortably at our table. I could probably get more in if we squished, but I'd rather be comfortable. I can't imagine a table that seats 16! Wonder what size tablecloth she needs? You know, now that I think of it, if I put all three leaves in the table, I could probably fit 16. Twelve is with only 2 of the leaves.

Just made a fruit salad to take to mahjongg tonight. It's the one gals birthday this Thursday and I told her that she's going to get something so she might as well tell me what she'd like. She wanted something low in calories. So I suggested a fruit salad. This one only has 174 per serving. I'm thinking that the next time I make it I won't put the raspberries in it and that'll take the calorie count down some

Gloria - so sorry to hear about your mom's sister and that whole situation. How horrible!

katla - To be honest, I don't know how MFP handled logging when I went to Europe. I didn't log my food but at the same time I didn't keep track of days logged in and I don't know that the days logged in was noted on the homepage. I do know that when I was keeping track of days logged in, and I knew that I couldn't log in one or two days, I'd prelog just one item and so that kept my days logged in number current.

Val - maybe you have some idea how I can get that Twix to adhere to the side of the cake

Tigress - great job on the loss and keeping your blood sugars down. That's the way to go!

Rita - so sorry you aren't feeling well. I'm sure the holistic MD will help. Glad you decided to go. Interestingly enough, I felt in my feet that they were swollen from water. Sure enough, I put the compression stocking on and it was much better. Not sure why, in looking at my sodium on MFP, it wasn't outrageous. Maybe it was that vegetarian burger than I had Saturday morning. Just wish that vegetarian things weren't so high in sodium.

Vicki - that is so neat that you could be dancing this year when you couldn't last year.

yanniejannie - sounds like you had an awesome time at the concert. So glad you got to go and thanks for sharing it with us.

Sylvia - what a great cure for those blues that you found! Great list for Meg. Wonder which it is?????

Mindy - you wonder why pt's hae a different sense of "taking it easy". That's because they get a kickback from the people who install railings etc that you need after working with them.....lol

Cynthia - I was wondering what travel insurance had to do with meds, too.

Mahjongg tonight.

Michele in NC

Well DH is on days this week, so dinners will be different, I have to think of him too. I switched my fish to lunch today, and had the chicken for dinner. It was a beautiful day, but it's raining now. I really need to get out into the garden this week.

Tigress in GA

Sylvia - I loved your list for Meg, made me laugh so hard that DD gave me such a strange look

I had a nice chat with my trainer tonight at the gym. I've been a bit discouraged and she was going over my workouts. I know every step forward is a step in the right direction. I think it's that I'm still battling the depression and it doesn't help that the med that I'm on has a side affect of weight gain. Baby steps

Today started out with beautiful weather and then the wind & rain set in. The temp is supposed to drop overnight and snow for tomorrow...seriously the winter that won't end.

Sitting waiting to hear from Meg along with everyone else and hoping that it's nothing devastating

Sandy in ON.

Hello everyone,

Our beautiful 80* weather has turned to rain, storms and temp dropping to 29* by Wednesday morning. .

I've really enjoyed reading all the post today and looking at all the progress bars.

Hope everyone has a nice evening.

Sue in TN.

Hello ladies,

Been a busy weekend so didn't have much time to post and just finished reading all of the posts. It's getting late so I'll just make a couple of comments.

Barbie - My DH and I had the same song for our first dance when we married, "Can I have this dance for the rest of my life". We both like to dance and one Christmas he gave me note that showed he signed us up for dance lessons sponsored by the local college. We did Rumba, Swing and Waltz and Foxtrot. It was a lot of fun. We have tried 2-Step but haven't had a chance to practice that much lately. I used to line dance and 2-step for several years before we met. I did have the chance to do some line dancing last Wednesday night. There is a local group that offers free lessons on Wednesdays before their regular practice time.

We've had a few beautiful days so I took off from work on Thursday and we spent the day walking at a wildlife preserve. When we got home we planted a couple of butterfly bushes in large planters for the deck. These are supposed to have three different color blooms on each bush. Calling for heavy rain with thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow and freezing temps by tomorrow night with a slight chance of snow. We moved the planters into our sun room so they don't freeze.

Got a chance to take a nice walk with a friend tonight after work while DH went to a meeting so have a total of 12775 steps.

Time to wrap this up and head to bed. Was also hoping to hear from Meg tonight. :ohwell:

G'night ladies, :yawn:
Tina from MD

*heavy sigh* Don't anyone call me grandma. We tried really hard to talk her into adoption. More later. meg

Meg, I'm really sorry this is such a stressful time. I'm sorry I was joking. Let us know how things are going.

Sylvia

I think we're getting your weather on Wednesday, just not as cold! Winter just needs to move on!

Welcome to everyone new!

While we were eating dinner, I heard this rustling noise outside. At first I thought it was wind. But, no, it was raining (boo). It's supposed to get colder. And I was sitting out on the deck yesterday to get some sun so that I wouldn't have white legs. Now no one is going to see my work!....lol

Gail - Three miles in 45 minutes! Are you sure you weren't running????

Reba - how nice that you have a hairdresser in the family!

Meg - how can you do that to us?? Just give a one line and leave us wondering "is she pg" "is she thinking of getting pg" and lots of other scenarios.

Just got back from mahjongg. I only maj'd once. You know, we're going to have a pool social for the Newcomers probably in August. One gal already said she'd help us, tonight another gal said she'd help and she said that "you know that Beth will want to help too". Boy, we're going to have so much help that we're not going to know what to do with it all!

Better get to bed. Night all.

Michele in NC

Hi to all, just popped in to say I had a great day at work. 12,202 steps, 8 cups of water, ate healthy all day and night. And contacted a griefshare group. Thank you, to the beautiful ladies who encouraged me to seek a grief support group. Will keep all posted on how that goes.

I joined my first MFP "Group"; 40 Week Challenge for Exercise. I thought this would help me include some strength training into my "journey" and kick up my cardio. Today was Day 1, OMG! lets say I am so glad I can laugh at myself. And that no one else was home with their smartphone (taking Pics).

I better close for now, another long day at work tomorrow. Everyone, all together now...... THINK SPRING!

Be Healthy and Strong Women.

Kathrine from Kansas

April goals:
* to keep my food diary daily
* to lose 5lbs
* to focus on healthy breakfast recipes