WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2014

Good morning friends,

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Welcome newcomers :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Happy Anniversary Alison

Barbie I agree with Katla and think your choices show in your picture you look great.

I believe in moderation. I try to be as active as I can and then complement it with quality rest. Like you Barbie I try to eat lots of fruits and vegetables. I must be doing something right because I recently got a compliment that I glowed. I try to remember the BMI charts and even the scale is only a measurement of where you are today. How you feel and how your clothes fit are even more important to me. I do weigh myself everyday and chart my weight weekly. I find this helps me the most in keeping myself in check. I find my weight cycles. I am up a few ponds in the fall and am down a few pounds in the spring. I try to keep it within a 2-3 pound range.

Today I will try to finish up outdoor painting before the cooler weather hits.

2014 word: contentment

MNMargaret

Howdy to all. It is an absolutely gorgeous day here today. We slept in because the football game last night didn’t end until after 1 a.m. Bleh! I Heard it was so late due to the weather in CA….over 100 at kickoff.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and researching my “quandry” and have some ideas to change things up. I do plan to meet with my dietician on the 24th when I go to the diabetes center. One issue is that a diabetic diet has 30% fat and 12-20% protein (due to the effects of diabetes on the kidneys) so I want to talk to her about that. I know the “good fat” list but I can only eat so many almonds and avocados! I can’t cut my calories too much more because I get “faint-ish” so I have to increase my exercise more.

Katla: did you see the northern lights?

Sylvia: yes it is true but sad that crappy food is cheap! I made a chicken enchilada bake the other day and couldn’t find corn tortillas….hmmmm I’ll have to look harder I guess if they are better for you. I always have been able to add cups and so forth on the recipe converter…I wonder why it is not coming up for you?....Oh wait, I just type it in.

Barbie: now that’s my kind of nap!

Lesley: can you explain what you mean by “refeeding”?

Sue: I bet you enjoyed all that riding! Especially if your weather has been as nice as ours has been!

Carol: was this a professional moving company? I can’t believe the person did not even take her calls! I’m glad you were there to help her and all is settled now.

Beth: little homework? Boy my senior is up to her rear end in homework every night! She doesn’t have a study hall though, so she can’t get any done during the day. Glad the steroids helped!

Michele: salmon burger,,,YUM!

Rori: safe travels!

Mimi I have found that planning is key especially when eating out!

Yanniejannie: I love antiques and estate sales too!

Heather; love the pic!

Alison: that salad sounds delish!

Vicki: so glad the wedding was nice and I’m hoping you have this nice weather too!

Hello and welcome to the newbies!

Hubby and I are going out for a walk…can’t let this weather go by without taking advantage of it! Take care, Meg who feels better now from Omaha

Just joined group today. I'm 63 years old and carting around too much weight. Time for a change! One of my e-mail buddies suggested this program so here goes! Going to try to get over to the pool and work out room more often and start shifting this weight! Now to invite some other friends to join me!! Eileen

Meg - glad you are feeling a bit more positive! I'm so glad I haven't got any serious diseases as I never worry about my micros, just my calorie count. As long as I'm under I don't worry. I should cut back on salt, but I tend to forget about it. I do think my tastes have changed and I need less salt than I used to, but veg without salt make me retch.:laugh: My diet is generally healthy, apart from holidays, :ohwell: , - tonight we had veg and lentil curry with a tablespoon of brown rice. We eat a lot of fish. I try to ring the changes so I hit all the nutrients. Chicken, red meat, veg day, fish. I take cod liver oil for vitamin D. My blood lipids are excellent as is my chlorestorol. Just my blood pressure needs medication, but is under good control.
I seem to remember that you are not madly keen on vegetables. I love a huge pile with my meals, or make a meal out of them. Very filling! I'm sure you will work something out.:flowerforyou: I know that working full time makes it much harder to eat healthily. Tiredness can lead you to snatch at easily available food and there is little chance to cook. Fish can be your friend as it cooks so quickly. I used to do a microwave chinese style cod with ginger, garlic, spring onions, soy and sesame oil which was ready in five minutes. A helping of broccoli and you're done. Asian food is quick and slimming. I do a soup with shiritaki noodles and prawns that is barely 200 cals and enormous. It takes ten minutes. Perhaps you coukd get your DH to cook his own food and then you are free to think only about yourself most of the time.:bigsmile: Thinking about how to suit everyone can do your head in. I used to buy superior prepared food for my boys and they only had to put it in the oven. Expensive, but they could have the calorie laden stuff that growing boys need and I could eat my veg curries!:laugh: They used to eat a 2 portion meal each. Both skinny!:laugh:
You have come so far. 32 pounds is a real achievement. :flowerforyou:
By the way I eat all my exercise calories, so I am eating over 1700 a day.:bigsmile:

Welcome new ladies!:flowerforyou: We all have to figure this business out for ourselves. It won't happen quickly, that's for sure, but time passes anyway! The good news is, the bigger you are, the more you can eat and still lose! No starvation! :happy:

My friend's visit was great and I think we will start Skyping. She lives so far away. I know she often drinks too much so I was glad she was just popping in for a cup of tea. She had been on a week long retreat to deal with her depression caused by her broken hip. It was looking at family relationships. She seemed hugely energised and ready to get a grip on life again.:bigsmile:

Love from a very replete and happy Heather in Hampshire UK

Hello Ladies,

It is a gorgeous day today. I had a nice mix of exercise today. Short walk with puppy Brian, strength training for arms and legs, then treadmill. I need it after splurging last week. All of the windows are open and the breeze is wonderful. I plan to work on my Grandmothers drawing this afternoon.

Mimi, my Hubby loves cinnamon rolls and apple pie so the caramel cinnamon roll apple pie would be a favorite for him. I may try it during the holidays. I'm glad you aren't tempted by such things.

Alison, I was tired just reading all you've already done today!

Rori, congrats on coming home lighter!

Michele, love salmon burgers!

Katia, im a readaholic too! I love fiction and non-fiction as well!

Barbie, you do look amazing!

Welcome newbies!

Hugs to all I missed,

Cindy in OK

Hi, ladies - it's been a great day overall, and the only problem I've had today is a good one to have.

Autumn must really be coming, because it was cool enough to wear a windbreaker for our walk this morning. It's beautiful out, and my husband and I were out for over an hour.

Had an NSV today! :happy: I decided to go out and try on clothes today, to see what size I am. I was able to get two tops for work in size 1X, instead of the 2X I've been buying for the past few years. (Sometimes even 3X.) They're stretchy and look perfect now, but I'm hoping they'll adjust and still look good as I continue to lose (crossing my fingers).

Now for the problem. I started getting out some of my older fall clothes to see how they fit, and I found some tailored jackets I'd bought in January. I never even wore them yet. At the time, I felt I needed to put together some job interview outfits, and was really happy to find them on clearance. As it turned out, I stayed at my existing job, and was looking forward to wearing this stuff to work in the fall. However, now they're all way too big; a full size at least. Does anyone have experience with trying to get suit jackets or blazers adjusted smaller by a tailor? I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile to try and have them altered, or would it be a waste of money? I'm afraid of them looking obviously altered, afterward.

Oh, Lordy, this makes me wonder how much I weighed back in January. My doctor was giving me grief about being 224 a couple of months ago. I must have been even heavier over the winter.

Hope to catch up on everyone else's posts after dinner!

Erica in New Jersey

Good evening,

Did not go to the gym breakfast; opted for sleep......ate a scrambled egg, a small piece of ham, and a little yogurt at home (and probably saved a bunch of calories!!). Helped with timing for a 5K earlier this afternoon. One of the other women who also is a regular volunteer asked if I would be interested in going with her when her DH doesn't want to go to the symphony/shows they have season tickets for

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heck, YES!!!! Weather has been lovely here too.


Mimi..........Sorry your cardiac symptoms have returned and you had to restart the meds.

Heather.........What a nice surprise---both the visit and your friends great frame of mind!

Michele...........That is a really gorgeous cake! How talented you are!

Vicki.......I thought of you when we were out in Staunton---saw dozens of couples on those big motorcycles, and they all looked like they were having a good time.

Meg...........Hope you had a good walk and enjoyed the wonderful weather.

Tonight is our usual PBS night; hope our favs. are on!

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." ..... Henry David Thoreau

Yanniejannie
mid-Atlantic

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bumping in again....

Work is busy as usual, saw the dentist for a 6-month check up this week, a friend came over to sew yesterday and today was church, some garage cleaning :noway: and a small fence repair. Now I need to shower off the sweat and cobwebs.

I'm with Meg in the discouraged arena - also very unmotivated these days, but I really need to get out of my funk.

Tomorrow is another day.

Making good progress on the Christmas stocking for DS#1's sweetheart - have fun, too.

Gail, metro ATL

Lesley: can you explain what you mean by “refeeding”?
Re-feeding is a body building term, it means that on one day a week I only walk the dog and allowed the higher calories to trick my body lol. Yesterday was 1905 cals, not bad. I have Sunday as re-feed day as that is the day Stan cooks Sunday Brunch and we have a roast dinner. Today I am back down to 1620 cals

Stan the dog and I drove along the coast to Ulverstione and walked along the River Road and then bought our ice cream treat. Then had a lovely drive to Gunns Plains, a beautiful valley, got out and walked by Leven River for the doggy. Drove back home and cooked dinner.

We watched Edinburgh Tattoo on TV and I had my 5 Milk tray chocs as my weekend treat.

Have decided cannot do without training so going to do Jeannette Jenkins' Cardio Kickboxing shortly, then walk the dog up our country lanes after lunch. Back to lifting weights next week.

I follow Jeannette Jenkins food allowance. If you go too low, below your BMR (mine is around 1600) then you go into starvation mode, lose muscle and gain fat. Told that by Tom Venuto who I trust. My muscles were hard won by body building

Lesley in Takone

Hello to all: Fitbit dashboard not working so don't know how many miles done on my 100 but I think I am still slightly ahead of where I need to be. DH going out of town tomorrow so will have the house to myself for most of the day. Yeah!!!

Michele - "Little Shop of Horrors" was excellent. We have some really talented people here in our community. The plant saying "feed me Seymore" reminded me of when I am on prednisone. I can eat a meal, know that I am full and still want to eat. Luckily I am currently off the drug but only since August 28.

yanniejannie - I am glad you got the china cabinet home safely. It sounds very much like the one I inherited from my DMIL who inherited it from her DMIL. There is still a shipping label on the back showing it was shipped by Sears from Chicago to Mobridge, SD.

Sylvia - Congrats on the dress in size L.

Katla - Do you go to Powell's when you are in Portland? My daughter and I will be attending a conference in Portland in October and are planning to make a stop at Powell's while there. Just recently completed a book by Alan Day, Sandra Day O'Connor's brother called The Horse Lover. It is about the ranch he bought in SD and made into a mustang sanctuary. I really enjoyed it.

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

Did an hour of Leslie Sanson's 5 Mile Walk today. Tomorrow I'm planning to do a bit of pilates, hold my plank and then take the extremepump class.

Rori - welcome back! Losing weight while on vacation -- now THAT'S something to be real proud of.

katla - again I got from Jessica the "mom didn't used to eat this way", but honestly, I really didn't want a hamburger because I remember how terrible I felt back in May when I had one.

mimi - so sorry to hear you're having fibrillation and tachacardia again. Recently, Vince told me that he'd been experiencing times of when he felt his heart was skipping a beat. We THINK it might be the bacon bits that he was putting on his salad and coleslaw. This has only been happening since he got the adenizene. I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. Good thoughts being sent your way.

yanniejannie - congrats to Barb. WTG!! Glad you got that hutch home

Heather - do you put the cake layers on the board and leave them there? See, we had to get the cat off the (well, we used) wax paper onto the bed. That's where we were having a bit of a problem. Can you slide the cake off the board? Really can't put a piece of cardboard under the cat while it's on the bed since you cut the cat and bed to eat the cake. Whatever it sits on would have to be something edible. You know what's one thing we totally forgot? Whiskers for the cat! We could have used raw spaghetti, but we just forgot to put them on! The "bed" was chocolate cake and the cat was a yellow cake.

Alison - not all restaurants will have warm lemon water. You now what I'd do? I'd buy some of those packs of True Lemon (powdered lemon, about 1/4 of a slice). Then most every place would have warm water, so I'd just ask for a cup of warm water and put my own lemon in. I've used this in things like my iced tea. Isn't it amazing how quickly things add up at the supermarket?

Anne - now that I think of it, you're right. Many members of my family lived into their 80's and 90's (I'm lucky, there isn't much if any dementia on my side of the family, even at 90) and none of them worried about the food they ate or how much exercise they got. I remember my father (who died at 83) was told when he was about 79 that he needed to go on dialysis. His feeling was "what are you going to do, give me 6 more months of pain from my arthritis". My grandfather's (who died well into his 90's) meat was, literally, white from all the salt he'd put on it. He drank (not a whole lot) and smoked (not a whole lot), and he lived to his 90's!

Sylvia - thanks for reminding me that I need to buy black beans. I want to make some of the black bean brownies for me. I seem to like things spicier now, too, but Vince still doesn't. Actually, Jessica decorated the cake. She's a very good artist. She made it for the vet because he knows that one of her cats is diabetic and is on this one insulin. We're surprised how much it had gone up in cost! Anyway, evidentally a dog who was on this insulin passed away and the owner gave them the rest of the insulin that he had to the vet. The vet gave the insulin to Jessica. In the end, this probably saved her, literally, about $500. The cake was a "thank you". The vet cut the cake, but not before taking lots of pictures. I'm very proud of her and her artistic ability. Don't know where she got it from. Certainly wasn't me. I can only draw a straight line with a ruler! I use savings catcher all the time. You know, one time I bought water at WM and I know it was on sale at another store that they supposedly use, but I didn't get the credit. Admitted, it wasn't for much...but still. I guess so far this year I've saved about $6 with them. Well, I do a lot of price matching myself, so that probably explains why I've gotten so little. But every little bit helps. Liked the joke...of COURSE he's still wrong....lol

I'm surprised at how fast it got so cool. Yup, today I relinquished my shorts in favor of pants (still have a short sleeved shirt, tho). I also popped the popcorn for the Christmas tree. I'd had pork chops and chicken breasts marinating and Vince just grilled them so we'll have them later in the week.

Eileen - welcome! Glad your email buddy recommended us

Heather - I, too, love my veggies. I can easily take 1/2 to a whole bag of frozen veggies and have that with my small piece of meat. Tell me about thinking about cooking with everyone's needs in mind! So many, many times I wind up cooking two separate meals. Glad you had such a nice time with your friend

Erica - WTG on those shirts!!! I'm sure that how much it would cost to get a suit jacket taken in depends a lot on if it is lined or not. I know that I had a jacket taken in, but it wasn't lined. That one came out fine. I'm sure any good tailor would make it look decent but then the question comes in -- is it worth it? Unless the jacket is a bold print (like a plaid), I wouldn't think it would look obviously taken in. Plaids can sometimes look like they've been taken in since the pattern doesn't match up. Would any of the jackets have a pattern that won't match up after it's been altered? The reason I had the suit altered that I had was because it's very hard to find a lightweight suit with long sleeves, especially down South. I bought it when we lived in PA

Renny - good luck on your 8K

I totally forgot that the lady whose house we play mahjongg at on Mondays, her husband's birthday is Tuesday so I made some whole wheat blueberry muffins to take to him. Good flavor, what I like is that they're not super sweet, but I didn't use muffin liners, just sprayed the muffin cups. Now I know that I should always use the liners.

Loki had another mini-seizure tonight. We were sitting having dinner, and Vince heard his cry. By the time we got to the top of the stairs, he was still jerking. Wish I knew what brought these on.

Sue in SD - so glad you enjoyed Little Shop of Horrors. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing it!

Michele in NC

Wow, chatty group here. Tomorrow I have an appointment with
a surgeon, he already told me no exercise for a week after surgery.
I hope they make the appt soon, I need to get back in a routine including
my body pump and step class. I've only done pump once in the last
6 wks. Circumstances have been keeping me away. I really miss it.
Today was a very hard day emotionally and I didn't get my walk in.
Brenda from Md

Michele... what's this ... popping popcorn for the Christmas tree??? :huh:

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