WOMEN AGES 50+ for April

Good Evening, ALL!

Dee: Happy Birthday!!! Hope it's a good one.

Natalie: Hope you have a nice anniversary...congratulations!

Barbie: Good to hear from you on your trip. And way to go getting those steps in after a long day in the car. Ditto with your food choices...No wonder you have done so well!

Denise: Good to year from you again. I was gone for a couple of months too and I didn't do well this time away...Jump back in!!

Lynn: You're right...we are missing some of our regulars! Your memory was pretty good, actually! It does take more time these days, though, doesn't it???

Today was the first day in a long time I didn't get any dedicated exercise...drove to Charleston to run lots of errands...so I kept my calories to 1200...in fact after logging everything in, I came in at exactly that! So I am done for the night. I did go over on my sodium because I ate the black bean soup at Panera Bread. I love it, but had no idea it had so much sodium! Yikes!:huh:

My parents are coming tomorrow for the weekend. I am not making any special "treats" for them, like I usually do, so that I won't be tempted. :explode:

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Kackie

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Great Jeannie:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:


:flowerforyou: Barbie...it's great to hear an update on your trip..I know how that is to try to get steps in...You are amazing. Getting that 10,000 steps in. Wow!...You are the one who inspired me to get pedometer to keep up with my steps. I have gradually been pushing that number up. It motivates you to get moving.:flowerforyou: Be safe!

msh0530...there was a story on the news today about the 17 day diet...how have you liked it?

Isn't that what Vicki M is doing?

Hello my friends,

What did you think about the American Idol results? Pretty crazy, huh? Pia was not my favorite but I didn’t expect her to go home so early. (I admit to being an American Idol junkie.)

I had an over-my-calories day yesterday but felt good about logging every thing. :bigsmile: I didn’t do so well today. :grumble: When I take that first nibble without weighing it, I’m in trouble. That’s how I started out this morning. From then on, it was brakes off.

My sister was here for a visit. She’s watching her eating too but I have a harder time sticking to my goals when I have a visitor (or when I’m the visitor).

The day and weekend will be a challenge as I’ll be visiting my folks. So many times, a visit’s been my excuse for going off track…like a car headed downhill without brakes. (I’m going to fix that image in my head, particularly the end of the trip!) :noway:

Saturday, I’ll be joining friends for lunch. We worked together more than 10 years ago (on the Y2K project, if you remember that). I’m more than 100 lbs thinner than when I last saw them, although one of them has seen pics of me on Facebook. Their reactions should be fun.

We’ll be going to lunch at a Thai restaurant, where I can eat moderately. Except for that lunch, I’m committed to using my scale and logging my food throughout my visit. That means no other meals out. Instead of one day at a time, I’m going to focus on one bite at a time.

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I started skimming the posts then realized I’d better respond now to some of them cuz tomorrow and the next few days are going to get crazy. Ohmigoodness, this is a chatty group!

If I missed you, please know that I’m thinking about you.


Kackie, good for you for one week on the straight and narrow! :flowerforyou: Good luck on keeping there when DH comes back. I know you (and we) can do it with practice and determination.

Denise…it’s so good to hear from you.

Linda, you are amazing…good for you for all the walking you do. Little by little, I’m getting to be a better walker. It helps to have your good example.

Dee, a very big congratulations. You’ve done wonderfully well. Happy birthday too!! :flowerforyou:

Faye, welcome back. I missed you.

Chiclet, you are doing amazingly well. I hope you’ll let yourself feel how well you’re doing. Honestly, you’re remaining a caring daughter in a challenging situation, you’re continuing to lose weight despite the stress, you’re planning to use the new pool, and you’re signing on for physical therapy. Girlfriend, do you hear how many awesome, hopeful things you’re doing?!!! :flowerforyou:

Viv, beautiful profile pic! You look so happy.

Robin, sometimes it takes some wandering around to figure out what works and what doesn’t. I know cuz I’ve been there and done that and will again. I’m sending good thoughts to you.

Laura, hang in there. You’ve done an amazing job.

Barbie, you are making good choices. You are a wonderful role model and an incredible woman.

Natalie, happy anniversary! :flowerforyou:

Jeannie, congrats on the good colonoscopy results. They’re not much fun but it sure is reassuring to get that “See ya in 10 years” message. :happy:

Welcome to everyone new. This is a wonderful bunch of women and a good place to find encouragement.

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I took my little dog, Izzy, to get groomed a couple of days ago. She was getting pretty long and shaggy. I asked them not to cut off too much. Well, she now looks like a freshly shorn lamb! Really, really short hair. Oh well. It’ll grow. At least she’s easy to brush.

She is a smart cookie. She learned to sneeze on command today and to speak in an “indoor voice.” (She’s already very proficient at her "outdoor voice." :laugh: ) She’s getting more demanding, bringing toys to me and barking or patting my arm with her paw to ask me to play with her. It’s nice to have a friend. :happy:

Good night all.

Dee!

Hi all! I've been reading your posts and want to leti you know I'm with you all!
Just going out for my walk and to supermarket to buy ingredients for Mary's (msh0530) Mexican quiche
since it seems so healthy and I've been eating a not too healthier diet these past few days.
Mary (mimi) I have been bad too diet wise but somehow have managed to keep within my calories allowance
mostly due to my walking. I'll be back on the straight and narrow over the weekend, I hope, and may manage to lose
another pound by my weigh in on Tuesday.
On an entirely different subject, I've been wondering about all these scenic walks some of you have been doing...
Is there a limit to how many pics we can post on our home page? Would it be possible to start swapping pics?
I know we get some wonderful sunsets here on the west coast of Scotland...
What do you think?
I'm off out now, be back later!

Hi to all...I am pretty new to this site (although not new to dieting unfortunately...lol) I am loving this site as it is so much easier than manually journaling and of course I'm loving all the support & motivation from everyone on here. It looks like you all are a great bunch of ladies and I would love to join your group. So do I just watch all your posts and then reply??? Do I need to do anything else to join you? How do I keep this thread up so I don't have to keep searching for it? Thanks so much and if any of you want to friend me...that would be great, too. I hope all of you have an awesome day!!!

Hi all! Surprised myself today by walking 6 miles in sunshine! Now up to 37 miles with 8 to go and having to decide whether I need to slow down or raise my target! I think fine weather makes all the difference, though and we're supposed to have a 'fine' weekend here.
'Fine' by Scottish terms that is, though some of you wouldn't think so! :laugh:
Good luck all! :flowerforyou:

yes thanks Lynn...that makes sense and I see it under my topics now. That will make it much easier to find and to keep up with any new posts.

Hi Mary (mimi7grands) If you get a chance to read this, I hope your day's been fine? Have you managed to get back on track
yet? If not, don't be worrying! You may be temporarily losing the battle (such an awful cliche isn't it?) but the weight and fitness war goes on!
Best wishes to all of you out there!
L x

Everyone recommends this site, I'm 55 and slowly taking the weight off. I love this message board & MFP. Currently I'm doing Bikram yoga 4 days week on average, on other days walk or go to high school track and trying to run 5K or ~ a little over 3 miles then 1 or 2 days a week to rest. Somedays I'm super hungry and go over my calories but just feel better not so weak. I do better with enough sleep and not getting worked up about money, college age kids, spouse and focusing on me and what I can control and letting go of what I can't control. Bikram yoga has been good stress reliever and I feel stronger and firmer and less generalized aches/pains.

Someone mentioned with friends and social stuff harder to stay within food goal, I totally agree and think that is a big reason I've taken weight off so slowly. So challenges will be possibly a lunch out with girlfriends this weekend, Easter & daughter's college graduation in May, but I don't need to get that worked up and just need to stay in present. Also while I love logging on MFP I don't like weighing and measuring so that is a goal for me as well.

Thanks for a great message board.

Good morning ladies.

The weather in London is beautiful today. Unfortunately I'm only seeing it from my bedroom window as I've managed to get a chest infection. Let me tell you, coughing is not pleasant after having my breastbone cracked open! I've got the doctor coming in to see me as well as a nurse each day. I will be so glad when this is all behind me and I can stop feeling like an invalid and start feeling normal again.

I can't believe how much I miss exercising! Who would have thought I'd miss swimming??

Anyway my friends, enjoy the weekend and be healthy.

Love
Amanda x

Good morning ladies,
thanks for all of the nice comments about my workout yesterday. We have a big yard and while mowing I had to stop and clean up branches from the bad weather the other day. the mower is self propelled but was not working fully so had to push that is why extra calorie burn. we went to eat supper after hubby got home and I had just chicken, green beans and small piece cornbread and was totally satisfied and did not even want more. then hubby said we going to gym and I said if you want so we did and I got my weight workout in for another 400 calories. ticker said if every day were like this I would weight 184 in 5 weeks. boy if I could accomplish that it would be great.
Today I am going to go grout tile in bath so we can put finishing touches in.
Welcome to all you new ladies. This is a great site. Great work for loses and to those struggle just hang in there. I also miss a lot of you not posting. Hope you are at least lurking. Have a great day. willl try to post again later.
vicki M