WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH

Morning everyone,

Amanda I pray that your surgery goes well. I'll be thinking about you.

I actually had a good day yesterday and stayed within my calories. I finally got on the scale to see what the number was and I think that alone helped me. I heard it once said that before you can move forward you have to "Own the Number". So if any of you have been ignoring the scale, just get on it!

Hope you all have a good day.

Cindy

good morning ladies,
Amanda good luck on your surgery. prayers coming your way.
mama cindy I do avoid the scale like the plague. thanks for the reminder. still doing well. will check in later. thanks for all of the words of encouragement you guys send me each and every day. I need to get better at that.
vicki M

Prayers and :flowerforyou: ! You are in our thoughts!

Its an UGLY JOURNEY for me, so slow, I am keeping on task with the diary, entering all that I eat.
Taking my dog to the hospital for her pet therapy visits (she is a papillon), and then coming back and riding 30 minutes.
Nice day here, 75 and sun (AZ)...just frustrated, no signs of that darn scale moving... started March 7.
Natalie

I did well on eating again yesterday, not so well on exercise. It’s a process. But I did go to the evening church service and the singles social group at the local church last night. Another evening out for me. Heavens!

The social turned out to be an ice cream social. I wouldn’t have gone if I’d known. After I found out, I thought I’d leave early but got so busy talking, I stayed ‘til almost 10 pm. Feels good.

My weight’s bopping on down. Gotta figure fluid retention was a big part of the gain. If I see a big loss on Friday’s official weigh-in, I’ll know it’s not all (or even mostly) fat, but I’ll still take it. I’ll be celebrating when I get below my lowest of a month or so ago.

I got my tortilla press yesterday. It was a big help in getting my tortillas just the right, uniform, thickness. And, it looks cool!

This morning, I wrapped my asparagus in my yummy homemade (did I mention they’re so easy, it’s embarrassing?) corn tortillas along with some salsa, a little feta, and some scrunched up egg. Delicious! I enjoyed every bite. Thanks, Maxy, for the tip about the salsa.

Natalie, keep on truckin’. If you are eating less and/or exercising more than you were before, the law of physics (or something like that lol) says you will lose weight. If you aren’t doing it already, you might try weighing your food instead of measuring. Weighing works MUCH better for me – and it’s easier too.

…just read your post about the delish dinner at the party. Eating at parties is the hardest thing I think. Without measuring or weighing what you eat, it’s hard to estimate the calories correctly. It gets me every time!

I still haven’t replaced my little food scale (it’s the highest-rated one on Amazon and only $25) and I miss it. It works once in a while, which keeps me hoping but I’m going to have to give in pretty soon and get a new one. Be careful not to get the bottom wet. The battery contacts on mine corroded.

Shirley, you’ve done a fantastic job losing 19 pounds. I’m so jealous thinking of you on the beach (but I’m glad you get to go). It’s seriously raining here with temps in the 30’s. I’ll try to remember when I’m complaining because the temp’s over 100 this summer!

Michelle, I hope Bonnie’s feeling better by now. You are the exercise queen!

Marilyn, good job!

Robin, congrats on the drop. It was just waitin’ there. Sneaky thing.

98, congrats on a fabulous day. You did a great job.

Maxy, congrats on great progress. You’re making it work. BTW, I’m practicing that nose wrinkle. I think I about have it perfected!

Vicki, I was using oil, which helped a lot, but have cut that out for a short time to get my calories down. (Plus, I ran out of olive oil, which is my favorite!) I’ll add it back in soon. I was a big salt eater and have gone cold turkey in cutting it out. It’s an adjustment. I’ll try the garlic. I love garlic. I think using other seasonings is going to be the key.

Amanda, I just saw your post. You may be in the hospital already. You are a treasure and I’ll miss you while you’re gone. I am thinking about you and praying for good, speedy healing.

Cindy, congrats on a good day. You are right about getting on the scale and owning it. I was stuck until I owned my weight and posted it on my ticker. That pushed the “on” button for me again.

Amanda: Good luck on your surgery. Hope all goes well. :flowerforyou:

Today had lunch with an old cooworker, trying to keep in touch because she is near
to where I work. I had a vege pizza, one slice, with water. Not too bad and I enjoyed
it thoroughly. I don't eat pizza anymore , just on rare occasions.

Well we had our snow storm yesterday, I was running errands with my car and
it was very slippery. Did my exercises with Yoga and Dance 2 and sweated up a storm.
Only way to get rid of the toxins that build up.

Have a wonderful day ladies!!

Hello ladies, hope all is well here,

AMANDA, best of luck and speedy recovery!!

NATALIE, I have a papillon too, and she has thrown her back out twice now, too fast of a runner for the floors in the house. What has your dog going to therapy? I am a bigger fan of larger dogs, however Buttons' has a huge personality that hides her little body, I really don't know how that all fits into that little suit. Hope all goes well for you, hang in there on your diet, I have been yo yo for so long now I have given up on "when I get there", substituting for " when it starts to work". Just knowing I am behaving each day gives me the strength to carry on, cheating only puts me behind a week or two. Not for me no more.

Exercises started, and it felt soooo goood!! Have to work without weights for now until I can get my lower abs to work without me having to make them work. My physio says that the upper abs are talking to the lower to make them work, however the lower abs are not talking to anything. So this is going to be a long, long journey There is one example ladies that may be a hold up for some, check out the body, maybe a part or two is not talking!!!

Okay ladies I have to go, need to get to bed really early tonight, work tomorrow.


Marilyn

:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Mimi, our dog park is divided into two areas----one for large dogs and one for small dogs

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the small dog park has bichons, chihuahuas, ****zus, schnauzers, pekingese, skippekees, toy and mini poodles, and a lot of other small dogs.......there is a chain link fence between the two areas so often the large and small dogs play with each other by racing up and down on their own sides of the fence or sniffing through the fence......you and I and Izzy, Brandy, and Sasha could have a great time together except for the 800 mile distance between us :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: and Barb could drive up with Mai Li, Pepper, and Bradley:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Bodi wants to drive over and play too.

It's great to read all the posts. I can relate to so many of them. Really looking that the good carbs versus empty carbs I have in my day and getting back to really measuring the water intake are two things I see that need my attention. I did get back to the gym yesterday after being sick and it was definitely a tough workout for me. I also taught my yoga class last night and I think that helped. I would love to get my husband off the couch more too but after trying to get him to come to the gym with me for a long time, I decided that I had to go to the gym for me. I do worry because I see him getting older and stiffer.
I spent a part of yesterday and most of today getting ready to go for our income tax appointment. I get so mad at myself that I leave all the organizing to a few days before the appt instead of spending a few extra minutes every month entering things into the areas that our tax person uses. Today I thought I would be finished in a couple of hours.....five hours later....

Yesterday my friend and I had lunch and the surprise for me was my old boss showed up. We went to Panera and I had planned ahead what I would order (online nutrition is a great thing). Our whole dept just put on a big conference in Florida. We got home on Sunday and on Monday we got the call that the dept was no more. It was such a shock and my boss (who is a wonderful person) really took it hard. It was wonderful to see her but it was also very sad. Lots of emotion..... I noticed that when I got home I thought I was hungry and when I thought about it I knew it was an emotional response to the afternoon.
Between the tax prep and yesterday afternoon made me think that I need to go read/reread some of the Geneen Roth books. She has a new one out about Food and Money.....

Have a good night, all.

Amanda...prayers and good wishes for a speedy recovery!

Bad news....I caved into my old ways and because I needed a fast meal on the run, and the commercial enticed me last night, I drove through Mcdonalds and got a Big Mac Meal....sigh....it's been a REALLY long time since I'd had one. Now it's just sitting in my stomach like a lump and I've learned a good lesson.

Good news....I logged it into my diary anyway and while I went over my calories by just under 300...I'm under on my carbs!!! LOL

Morning everyone,

The day has started off well. Got my exercise in already, cut my son's hair and have had a healthy breakfast. I've got lots to do this morning. It's my weekend to go and stay with my Mother. She doesn't have internet access so I'll just have to sort of wing it while I am over there. I'll be cleaning her house while I'm there but also plan to take a Leslie Sansone DVD to exercise with. There is a treadmill too so I can do that if I want.

My daughter is planning on spending the night with us tonight. I hope I have patience with her and can love on her. She told me she is about to start her period and believe me she is hard to deal with at that tom. She started a new ICU position the end of Feb. and she is also stressed about some in-house classes she is having to take for that job. Plus she is taking 2 classes at the local university. She is really smart so I'm not really worried but she just can't stand it if she doesn't makes A's. The Statistics class she is taking she is making a C and you'd think it's the end of the world. I was always happy to pass anything I took!

I took a peek at the scale this morning and it is already going in the right direction so I don't want to blow it over the weekend.

Hope you all do well over the weekend and I'll check back in on Sunday afternoon.

Cindy

Heading out to camp for the weekend....it's raining right now in So Cal but the forecast is for clearing...hoping, hoping.....I've planned meals to suit my goals and will also be walking whenever possible to make up for indulgences.

It should be a really fun weekend...dh and I have a teardrop trailer....it is a modern build based on a design from the 40's...these were small trailers made to be pulled with the family car and built out of 4 pieces of plywood. Popular Mechanics published plans and many were built in garages. We are off to a rally of enthusiasts from the Western states...last year there were over 130 of these small adorable trailers both new and vintage....should be really fun!

I'll check in on Sunday.....until then.....be well ladies!!

HI there,
Was VERY DIZZY and had heart palpatations.. and decided NOT to exercise today... I made an appointment with doctor for Tuesday... drank 4 glasses of water and just hung out, slept a bit.. did not weigh, will only do that on Monday mornings...
Hope to have a better day tomorrow.
Nat

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