WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY

Morning everyone,

Read the posts while drinking my coffee.

Kathy that Sparkpeople 28 day challenge looks like something I would do. My husband is on vacation this week so I think I will wait until next week to start. That plus I've restarted my exercise routine with walking (my choice of cardio), then it will be easy to do a 10 minute video after he goes off to work! I'm looking forward to it.

BBL

Cindy

Morning ladies!

Beautiful day here, with a fresh fluff of new snow, and crispy cold temperatures. I have my miles in for this morning. Four and a half so far with weights and kick boxing thrown in. I am off to the periodontist today. Just a check up from last years surgery, I am sure al is well.

I will have to move my ticker back up in weight. Would like to blame the holidays but it was up before that. Think I'll just skip the blame all together, and take the responsibilty to the source. ME.

Darlis, thank you for the HSA info, there is so little available on them. Read the IRS rules, think they were written by an alien from perhaps Pluto, and translated to english by someone from Mars. What a convoluted mess of language.

Onward and upward! Alice

Okay so I reloaded it and it showed up in my last post. So I am posting again to see if it show up again!

:drinker: Here's to all having a good Tuesday,

Cindy, sorry I can't help you...I'm tech challenged:sad: which is not a good thing in todays day and age.

Well I did okay with the eating, but got home so late that I did good to get dinner and to bed at a time that would give me 8 hrs sleep. Will try again to get in the exercise tonight. I felt good to be eating the right foods for dinner and will continue to get back in the swing of that.

Work is more stressful than ever and I spent yesterday pulling the final papers for our State Sales Tax Audit that has been going on since the beginning of December and the IRS man comes this AM for a meeting...so I'd best get going.

Some time I will have to update my goals in my signature...but for now it will just have to take a back seat.

Drink your water:drinker: , log your food and keep moving

Laura:flowerforyou:

Good morning, everyone!

I decided to redo my ticket to show the weight I need to lose to get to a healthy body-weight range instead of what I originally had (a mini-goal). I really need a kick in the pants and I hope this will do it!

Welcome to any and all newbies! :flowerforyou:

Yesterday was a good day and I plan on today being another.

Lots of stress in my life right now but I am focusing on what I can control and not on what I cannot. Prayer and meditation seems to help, too.

January goals - Keep food diary. Track my exercise. Be accountable. That is the hardest for me...being accountable. Sometime I feel like a child...but I need to be focused.

It's me again, just called my walking partner and she tried to say I can't go cause I haven't had a bath! She is one of the one's I'm going to dinner with tonight. I told her well, I haven't had a shower either cause I knew I would be taking one after we got done walking. This is what walking partner's do for one another! Make the other one go if they have flimsy excuses!

So if you don't have one please try to find one!

Cindy

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! Can I rejoin this group? I used to be here under a different name but I don't remember what it was. Anyway I really liked it here with this group of ladies. Some are new to me, but alot are still here. Hopefully, I will lose atleast 20 lb. over the next 3 or 4 mos. Ugh! I hate winter!

:flowerforyou: karlene hope you feel better we are here for you anytime debi

Hello ladies.

Well, today was exhausting. I spent the day looking after the grandtwins as DD was at the dentist. I took them for a good long walk and I really struggled with their pram for some reason, which I don't normally do. I think it was because it was cold, which set my coughing off well and truly. I also didn't eat properly as I just didn't get the time.

Anyway, this evening I am truly 'coughed out', so I'll be having an earlyish night. I have therapy tomorrow morning and had intended going to the gym afterwards for a couple of hours, but I think I'll come home and use my home gym instead.

DH has asked me not to lose any more weight! We were snuggled up together last night and he squeezed my leg and said was I sure that it wasn't my arm as it's so thin! He exaggerates - although my legs are really slim these days.

I did a bit of measuring and since last February I've lost a total of 79 inches over my body - doesn't seem possible really.

Ok, well I hope that everyone is doing well and feeling better and happier.

Catch up with you all tomorrow.

Amanda x

I slipped a little but now I am back and determined this 2011 is the year I am going to shed these extra lbs!
I just found this thread and happy I did.

I was back at it today. 10.5 miles walked 66 squats 74 crunches 45 minutes of ab videos 7 pushups and 18 glasses of water right now. healthy food and I FEEL GOOD!

Just a quick post and then it'sbedtime for me....

Karlene, hope you feel better soon....hang in there, even though mine was something quite different, it took way to long to get a diagnosis!!

Went to my first water aerobics class tonight....awesome!!! Loved it and get to go again on Thurs. WOOHOO!!!!

Hello Everyone,

Just popping in to let you know I am alive and kicking. We are forecasted to have freezing rain overnight, and then some warming. Doggies are content to stay inside and keep warm.

Bradley is officially the lone survivor of his canine family. My friend, whose late MIL was his human momma before her death, took the other two Yorkies that were Bradley's com padres in his original home. They were the litter-mates of her Yorkie, Sadie, who would have been 16 years old in another three months. Unfortunately, Sadie declined very suddenly in the last few days and yesterday my friend had to make the sad decision to have her euthanized. The other two, Butch and Buster, died within two weeks of each other this summer.

I am trying to get myself out of the holiday eating mode and back to basics. I am still using up some things that I don't usually keep in my kitchen, and upping my water consumption. I think I will need to do a veggie detox to get myself out of sugar and carb craving mode. Even though I gained a little in December, I didn't stress over it, as I know what I need to do to get back in "losing mode." Its 13 weeks until my birthday, which will be two years since I started my lifestyle change.

I would like to have my ticker show me down 100 lbs., but that may or may not be realistic. I have to get back on the exercise bandwagon, despite our lousy weather. Just don't have a lot of time right now to do anything.

BTW, for anyone whose Wi-Fi is intermittent, before you assume it is the wireless network, check and see how you have the electric power connected to your modem. A few years ago, I was in the office of the management company that used to manage our condo complex, and the property manager was lamenting their up and down connection. He said their network tech had been called several times but could never find anything wrong. While we talked, he was online, but after someone else came into the officethe connection went down. I happened to notice that the visitor had used the fax machine.

My days as an internet support tech taught me a few things, so I checked on how the modem was connected to the electricity and found it was plugged into a surge protector, along with the fax machine AND the computer. A modem is very sensitive to changes in voltage, so it is better off with its own connection, not sharing a surge protector or power strip with any other device. I suggested they change things around so the modem used another separate plug. A week later, I got a call from the property manager telling me they hadn't had any network problems in a week. Their "network problem" was actually the modem losing connectivity with the internet, which caused the wireless router to lose connectivity with the modem = no internet connection.

Another thing that can affect a wireless connection is CORDLESS landline phones. I have learned that if I am going to use my laptop, I better not talk on my cordless landline, or I will lose connectivity with the wireless network. Newer cordless handsets don't have this problem, but the one I have is about 7 years old. If you find your wireless connection drops for no apparent reason, and you have cordless phones in the vicinity, observe if your wireless woes seem to come about about the time the cordless phone(s) is/are in use.

Have a good week, everyone.

Barb

Hello All, I'm a new old member. Mom passed in August. Gained some weight back. Want it off. Back on here because I know this is the place for help and support.

Hope to see you all soon.

Kathy