WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

Came down with something yesterday and have been napping the days away. At least when I am sick I am not tempted to over eat. No energy to even read the thread.

Lots happening today on this board. I feel a lot better than yesterday...just trying to get used to the antibiotic for the sinus infection. I have trouble with those...hopefully this one will be ok. I want to get back to my routine but today was better but rocky.
Barbiecat--- I am learning a lot about letting my body heal; pushing only gets me in trouble. I have not been this sick in years.

ildid59--- Hope you feel better.

Lynn--- Great that you have blooming daffoidils...I can't wait to see flowers this spring. Your sense of humor is great.

Grandee47-- Sounds like a great day today. Congrats on the weigh in...enjoy it!

Fittocycle---I loved The King's Speech...

Have a good day, all.

Checking in. Had our usual Saturday. Hubby to work early while I did a few chores. Hubby home and we left to run errands. Home again to eat lunch. I spent the afternoon walking the neighborhood getting signatures for a friend who wants to run for county judge. It was really fun because after the long winter, it was the first time in months I've seen some of my neighbors. I also met a few people who recently moved in. We live in a condo community and they're finishing up the last phase, so new people move in every few months.

Several people have asked about my cat. I own two cats I rescued. The one pictured is a 6-year old Ragdoll named Bandit. He is as sweet as he is pretty. Unfortunately, before being rescued he lived in a really hectic environment with lots of other animals and he is very skittish and ducks if you move fast around him. I've noticed that this past year he is getting less skittish. Mac, my 12-year old, is a Norwegian Forest Cat. I will post his picture as soon as I figure out how to do it. I rescued him and his identical brother, Jasper, who found a home with a teacher friend at school. Mac thinks he's a dog! What a buddy!

See you tomorrow!

Oh, I can't wait until the warm weather quits teasing and comes to stay. Once that happens, I'll walk first thing in the morning on my own, and then again in the evening with my hubby.

mrsanderson - I use parchment paper when I make an angel food cake. A friend of mine gave me a Weight Watchers recipe where instead of the water in box angelfood cake mix, you put in a 20oz can of crushed pineapple. To me, sometimes angel food cake can be very bland, but the pineapple gives it a bit of "zing". I just may double the paper and slide a dish under the cake to remove it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Lynn - I totally agree with you, oranges are so much better when they're picked right off the tree. When my in-laws were alive, the house they owned was on land that used to be an orange grove, so every morning we'd get up, go pick the oranges, and then squeeze them right there and then. Don't think I've ever had such wonderful OJ since then.

Did an hour on the Stairmaster today. Tomorrow, yoga.

I'm trying to learn to play MahJongg. I wish there was an online game like the one we play so I could play against something and learn. But that's not the case...sigh. After mahjongg we went out to lunch at Jason's Deli. I went out of my comfort zone and had the chicken chili, but only the cup. Normally, I would have avoided the chili because of the beans but I want to get myself sort-of ready for lent when I'm going to shoot for adding beans to at least two meals. Anyone have any good recipes (with the nutritionals) that maybe don't have a lot of beans in them? I'm thinking that I should start out having just a few in a recipe and build on that. Hopefully, by the time Lent is over, I'll be over my anti-beanness. Then, for dessert I had the fruit cup. Was I full when we were finished!

Lynn - what a brightener for the day. Thanks!

My due date for Jessica was April 1. You have no idea how many times when I told someone I was pregnant and the due date, they said "are you fooling me?". Fortunately, she was born March 22.

hey cardmaker! Welcome!

As for the weekend, today (Sat) I went to yoga, then did a bit of food shopping. I'll go to church later tonight. Then tomorrow I'll do an hour on the Wii doing the hula hoop. Going to try it this time without any shoes on.

McMadame - awesome!

SuzyQ - feel better fast

ldspill - the weatherman probably would do a much better job if he just look out the window!

vicki - glad you are safe. We had a tornado (you may remember) near us recently. It was quite scary.

grandee - love your cats. We are pretty sure that Loki is part Ragdoll. He is on the big side, not fat. He's a bit over 15lbs, but he's so very playful. He'll just flop down in front of you for attention. But he doesn't have the blue eyes, so that part's not Ragdoll. We also like the looks of the Norwegan Forest Cat. Can't wait until you post pics of him.

thinking of you all and hope you have a great evening.

Michele

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Wow, I blinked and this chatty bunch is pages and pages away. I did do alot of reading this evening and caught up on all the news in the neighborhood. What a productive bunch of women.

I have just been very busy with work, and I have been doing a great deal of exercising. I may not be losing weight but I sure feel better, and I know all that exercise is what allows me to put in those long days and not fall apart.

Loved the frog joke Lynn. We have a local woman who is called the walking lady because at the age of 79 she walks everywhere and I do mean everywhere. No matter what the weather she walks to town and back, or church and back. She is a local fixture. I met her because I stopped in a sleet storm and offered her a ride home which she took, and that is a rare thing but it was really nasty out.

I met her one summers day at the local Kwick mart. She was dressed in a bright sun dress and her long white hair was up in a pony tail. As we were checking out a car pulled in and a young man got out, dressed all in Navy whites.

Darlene looked out and looked him over and said " Mm Mm Mm My My My I do love a man in Navy whites." The young lady at the checkout counter had a schocked and disaproving look on her face. Darlene leaned over and patted her hand and told her, " I'm just old honey I'm not dead."

There is a promise of spring in the air, albeit a slight one. Right now all is ice under foot and given my proclivity for moving to fast and falling, I am being very careful. We cross from the house to the barn like 102 year olds.

I am at 176 ( still, sigh) , but still in the game, I dumped my weight loss ticker in favor of one where I can record minutes of weight workouts per month. It is unmotivating to look at a ticker that rarely moves and all this moving and shaking is good for me and that is my focus. The fat will have to surrender sooner or later, cause I am not stopping!

Just saw Renny on the home page, I see Suzy is back, Kackie is settling in the new house, and Barbie is hoping for the new house. Jeannie take care of yourself, life surely does throw us some curve balls, but we are responsible for how we play the game. Has Barb been around lately? RJ are you enjoying that new job? What part of Boeing do you work in?

Michelle there is a MahJongg game online, I had it downloaded on my computer. I haven't looked for it lately on line but it must be out there somewhere. Vicki thank heaven the storm missed you. Mary it sounds like you have a full and hectic life all the time.

There are so many more of you, but I am out of time, frogmomma, Mrs. Anderson, Amanda, Macmadame, and all the rest of you please know that I am thinking of you fondly and do so enjoy the neighborhood news.

Hello to all the new members this is a wonderful thread.

Time for me to do my last rounds and off to the land of nod. Alice

Goodmorning Ladies:

Haven't had time to get caught up on all the new news but HI! to all.
Went out for dinner last night for D's birthday (hubby). Did try to talk him into cupcakes for
his dessert but he wanted cheesecake (yikes), needless to day my weight was a little up this
morning.
Today we are going the twins birthday, they are "7" and yes there will be more eating and
drinking. So I will try to be careful and not indulge too much because my weight is almost
back to where it was before my daughter's wedding in November. Yes it has taken me
that long to get back.
It poured rain here yesterday (Ontario, Canada) and today we have 2-3 inches of the lovely
white stuff :sad: I am so sick of winter :sad:
We are going to Florida in April and I can't wait.
Everyone has a lovely Sunday and will try to catch up with your news. :bigsmile:

Hello All,

Vicki- glad to hear that you are safe and the tornado missed you

Alice- I truly understand how you feel about all of the exercise and the weight just not coming off. I have been at the gym every single day this week between 1-11/2 hours. I have been under my calorie goal every day, have been watching the salt, drinking water AND haven't had any hershey kisses since Wednesday and the scale hasn't budged. I'm hoping that a miracle will happen and I will lose something tomorrow on my official weekly weigh in day. But, I will say that ll of the exercise has made me feel so much better.

smwert- sorry to hear you were sick. Hope you are better soon.

Shirley- I live near Buffalo, NY and have had pretty much the same weather as you the past few days. Keep hanging in there until Florida. We are planning a trip to Myrtle Beach in mid April, and I am so looking forward to it.


To all of you who have been experiencing spring weather- I am sooooo jealous. This winter has just seemed so long. We have had cold pretty much constantly since we were dumped with over 3 feet of snow in early Dec. We have had an occasional day of 40, but not very many. Sure do hope spring time arrives soon.

DH left today for a week in Florida and DD is bringing her dog over for me to watch while she is in Denver for the week. Not planning on doing much cooking this week!

Hi all,

Thanks for the well wishes. I do appreciate them.

It is so nice to see so many of those who where here 2 years ago back in this group. It is hard to believe it has been two years and how much we have all been through. It is good to have you all both to talk to and to be part of your listening group.

Michele, I thought of you as I got back on the Wii today to do some time on the hula hoop. It was painful. I should have done a short round, but didn't. My numbers were a little lower than what I use to be able to do, but in the ballpark.

Have a great evening all.

Jeannie

Hi! Didn't have a good eating day. I gave into sugar cravings.....Samoa cookies and Mike's&Ikes. Mad at myself. :mad: Threw the rest of the M&Is away. Samoa's are in the freezer. Good thing I'll be out of the house all day tomorrow. Didn't exercise either. It's been raining hard all day, so when we got home from church, we just kind of crashed. :ohwell: Tomorrow is housekeeping day at my daughter's, so I'll be burning lots of calories and won't be near junk food. My daughter is somewhere on this site involved with c25k and other things that I can't do. It's her excitement for this site that got me here and I'm so glad she did! And I'm soooooo proud of her! She's also my best friend. :flowerforyou:

Michelle, Bandit weighs 15 pounds. He's a big boy and not at all fat. He's not a lapcat, but he's always close by. He's looking over my shoulder as I type this. I posted a photo of Mac. He's not as big as Bandit, weighing in at @13 pounds, but is a lapcat. I've always owned cats and dogs (just the two cats right now), but these two are without a doubt the prizes of all my pets.

OK everyone, have a great Monday!

For the past few days I've had absolutely NO PROBLEM staying under my calories but no energy to do any exercise either.... stomach flu will do that to you! :sick: I was fine at 11:00 am Friday but by 3:oo I was hugging the toilet. Good news is between detoxing and stomach flu, it doesn't take much to fill me up!

I slept most of yesterday but felt like going to church this morning. Now I feel back to normal and since hubby is on nights am seriously considering breaking out the ol zumba DVD and seeing if I can break a sweat!

Don't know if y'all heard about the grass fires in our part of the country last week on the national news. Last Sunday afternoon we had 45-65 mph winds which caused a power line to go down and start a wildfire that burned 5,000 acres in and around the house we just moved out of. The fire department evacuated our renters and former neighbors. Talk about the power of prayer, all we suffered was smoke damage! The fire literally licked up all the grass on our acreage but left our wooden privacy fence standing and stopped just short of the house. Four other homes in the area were completely destroyed. It cost a pretty penny to have the soot and smoke smell removed, but as of today they are back in the house. Things could have been so very much worse!

Good Evening Ladies!

Hope this finds everyone happy and health. It warmed up today, 44 degrees (heat wave?) and a little bit of that shiny thing in the sky. It's been so long since I've seen it I had to be reminded that it's called sunshine. This weather has been truly strange. We never know from one minute to the next what our weather is going to be. As I've mentioned before the weatherman can not be trusted.

I've decided to be my own weather "person", to be PC. I plan to step outside and gauge for myself, then plan my day. Here is how you can do the same. Braid some yarn and hang it on a nail outside your window.
If it's wet..........................It's raining
If it's white.......................It's snowing
If it's stiff..........................It's freezing
If it's invisible.................It's foggy
If it's dry...........................It's sunny
If it's moving...................It's windy
If it's gone.......................It's a hurricane
I wish I could take credit for this funny idea but a friend of mine brought one of these home from a trip to Boston. It is called a New England Weather Forecaster but I have a feeling it will work just as well in any part of the nation. I've found it to be very accurate.

I just had a garage sale from my storage unit. It was very liberating to get rid of a bunch of stuff that I will probably need when I move. My husband has assured me that if (and that's a big IF) I need something I gave away I can buy a new one. Hhhmmm, do you think it's premature to start making a list? You never know when you might need another lamp from the 70's that was so ugly I ended up donating it because the people at the garage sale had good taste. That rowing machine that was so rusted that it looked like something that came up with a sunken treasure. Oh, and the bellbottom hip huggers, that I wouldn't be caught dead in, that really did fetch a great price. Oh yeah...antiques and artifacts, pretty much stuff that cave dwellers painted pictures of on their walls. I have no idea where it all came from, it couldn't possibly have been mine. I really thought I was cool back then but after opening up some of these boxes.....not so much. Anybody want to buy some platform shoes?

Hope your day was as enlightening and interesting as mine.

My Best to you all!

Good morning ladies.
I am just about to give up. I have regained so much weight just by coming back to work. I am eating the same way I was before so I know that it is just because I am not burning the calories I used to. It is coming back on so fast. I thought I could stay ahead of it. The bottom line is that I am fat again. I am beginning to think this is the way I will be. I only eat about 1400-1500 calories a day and I walk 4 miles a day plus. what is the point of working so hard for a year just to have it all be reight back where I started? I think I need to take a break and regroup. Come up with a new plan. I feel like such a failure. (I haven't updated my ticker. If I do I will feel really bad so I am not going to do it.

Goodmorning Everyone:

D's birthday today he is 61 and hurt his back on the weekend. He is trying to come back from that.:ohwell:

Twins birthday party was a success, they are 7, and some of their cousins were there, only 11 showed
up, oldest was 10. Yikes, noise level was something else. My sister-in-law fell down the stairs with a
glass of wine in her hand. She's okay and wine glass broke, but she will be sore today.

I am back to work today and weighed in and felt pretty good even though weekends are my downfall. I
really watched what went in my mouth. The scale actually went down. :bigsmile:

LDSPILL: You are in rock and hard place with your hubby bringing home all that temptation. Tell him to
lock up his treats in a cupboard or a box so you can't be tempted.

DOOBIEDOO: Weekends are really tough for me too, but you just have to try and get passed it. There is really
no cure for that we just have to get our minds around that we are not going to be tempted. Easier said than done.

FROGMAMA: I work in Buffalo, NY so you know what I am talking about. This weather sucks :sad:

SUEZZZ: I hope you feel better and get over the flu. There is so much crap going around its hard to stay healthy.
We have never experienced grass fires here in Ontario, where I live, but I hope all goes well with that.

RJAdams: Please don't give up on your weight. It is a constant battle for all of us, but I was soon to give up until I went
on this site and I have lost 18 pounds so far and still at it and will be for a while. Its not a sprint its a marathon.


Take care everyone will check back tomorrow.