WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

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.

On the way to the gym - it has finally reopened. Just a quick stop in here to log my breakfast and I'm off. Just have to make one quick comment.

Robin - I know how hard you exercised in the past 4 and 5 hours a day when you were off work. Maybe your body has become so accustomed to that amount of exercise that it is in temporary rebellion to the new schedule. Perhaps, if you keep your calories in check and don't give up, you body will adjust to the new exercise schedule. It would be a shame to give up now. You have worked too hard for this. I think if it was me I would keep the calories where they are, eat real clean, put the scale in the closet and check back in with the scale a few weeks.

Faye

Hello ladies;

MICHELE, How much water are you drinking? I usually get that craving when I need more water. Also try green teas, ginger teas, with mixtures if you don't like the tastes. Sometimes too it is my body saying my blood sugar is low, so I have a baked potatoe and a hamburg with lean meat and a few vegies ontop. Hope this helps a bit.

BARBIE, how did your dog come out of it.? They are put to sleep for the treatment, was your dog sick or in any pain after? I may have to have Buttons done. :frown:

Brisk walk today, snow was hard to walk in, I kept slipping and sliding some. My buttocks are sore now. My teeth are sore too, and the dentist wants me back for more things! Oh woe is me, :sad:

Catch you all tomorrow, good night sweet dreams!

Marilyn

Hi everyone - I belong in here seeing as how I am just within this category! :laugh:

Today I've been walking along the beach with Mr Slinx. The sun was shining, the wind was cold but it was so good to be out in it.

Here in UK we are starting to move out of the Winter season and onwards to Spring and it certainly felt like an early Spring day today. My goals for this month are to get the vegetables in so I will be working up a sweat digging and planting etc. Any fellow gardeners here? Also, I want to get out more and do some walking especially taking in some cliff walks and get a bit more of that bracing air in my lungs.

Anyone started any Spring cleaning yet?

Robin....I can really understand wanting to give up and I think its a brave thing to be able to write it here. I think this is the place to be able to say that because I know that many times I have felt that way. I also know that when I do let myself "have a vacation" I usually end up very disappointed a lot heavier in a very short time. I definitely need to move a lot and really monitor my intake. It can really be a drag when I hear that people in my Weigh Loss group can eat a lot more than me and then not exercise and lose bigger number than I lose. But I have been tracking and doing this for over a year. I have lost about 35 lbs (my tracker doesn't show that because I started and stopped over many months so had to get down to where I began)....and I have to talk myself through those tough times when I want to not try so hard. I think being over 50 is just another challenge but it doesn't mean that we can't get healthier.

My challenge today was meeting some old friends for lunch and we were at a sushi and hibachi restaurant. I just saw big sodium numbers on all the choices. The choices were really tough. I made the best choice I could (teriyaki chicken and plain rice) but I know I need to drink a lot of water.
My sinus infection is getting better so now I think its time to get back to the gym for me!

Again....thanks for posting...especially the hard stuff!!