WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2015

Good morning; pretty nce here today, about 40 this am. BAD night: up since a little after 2. I did remember to get weighed but had already had tea and water. I'm here almost 2yrs (mid-Jan.).........the losing went well...in fact, I reached two pounds below goal in less than eight months. Then went to maint. which turned out for me to be a very depressing 50 cals. more. It has been an ongoing battle on my part of thinking I can eat more and get away with it.......fueled in part by several dramas with a 22yr.old daughter, living at home since June. Last night's was the worst by far; since she graduated college her life has not been going the way she planned it would and she now seems determined to screw it up in every way possible. Good news: I did not eat!!! Bad news: I got on that scale this am and I'm 14lbs up since Aug (that's got to be a record for me)........and I will get it off again. Seventeen pounds to goal right now. More good news: It's less to lose than before.

Hunger is not an emergency. I met my goal today of getting on the scale, I'm on a roll
So here's another one: Three pounds will be gone by Feb. Back to always weighing and measuring, logging everything, and more exercise ......been there---done that--- CAN and WILL do it again.

Katla.......Your Ducks did very well!!!

Heather.....Crumpets look lovely! I think I missed a grandchild pic. somewhere as people are mentioning a recent one; sure it was lovely...they are soooo photogenic.

Carol Ga........We are in almost the same spot; we can do it!!!

Linda........Good for getting rid of the sauce and desserts!

Welcome newbies. Going to have breakfast next.

Stay strong; hunger is not an emergency!

yanniejannie
mid-Atlantic

this is a pic of my youngest, yogi, aka yogurt the day we brought him home.... he is going to be 1 this year.... he's getting so big, thank goodness not as big as Floyd (the lighter golden in my profile pic). why am I posting this? just because he's too cute not to. have a good one all. welcome to the new peeps!

Yanniejane-I feel your pain with your daughter. No wonder you put on weight. LOL But like you said, you will lose it and know what it takes. We are all with you.

Merry (don’t)wait- Sorry, I couldn’t resist the fun with your name. Welcome to the group and to MFP. With your challenges, first I’d just put out a contract on that mean school nurse. Also you might want to take snacks that you can eat when the treats are flying around. I find that sometimes I just need to put something in my mouth, even if it’s not my favorite.

Tatiana, welcome! It sounds like you know what you are doing and this is a great place to get support.

Mollywhippet—I love your joke of the day. Thanks

Doreen- Welcome! You have come to the right place if you are willing to “do it”. A lot of times it’s just like Barbie said; sometimes we just have to say “NO thank you”. When I do this, it even makes me feel proud of myself that I am strong enough to do it. You can do this.

Michele-you can come clean my house any time. But I do agree that no one will clean it the way I would. (If only I would more often)

Flowerbaby-You are very smart to take care of yourself. I think “Me time” is important to all of us. Best of luck.

Heather- The crumpets look somewhat like our English muffins. I wonder if they are supposed to be the same things? Thanks for the picture.

Karen-Welcome to the group. I have about 50 more pounds to lose. This is a great group for encouragement and suggestions when you need it. Good luck.

Tonetta51-Welcome to the group. You can do it and this is a great start.

Justmemary=Welcome and I hope you enjoy this group as much as I do. Congrats on the wedding.

NMMargaret=what beautiful place and nice outing. I know you must have enjoyed it.

Pipcd34- He is too cute to not share. Thanks for sharing and you enjoy him. I love my dogs. No matter what is going on, they greet me with such love and excitement every time I come home, even if I’ve only been gone for 10 minutes.
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Rita- Good luck! You know with that great attitude, you can do it.

My heart goes out to all of you with pluming problems. Talk about not fun!

Welcome to any Newbies that I missed. I find that I simply need the right mindset to make this journey so much easier. Please put your name an location at the end of each post. That helps some of us with less than stellar memories, get to know you.
I wish us all the best of health and happiness in our journeys.

Janet in Myrtle Beach, SC

Happy New year! How did we get to four pages so quickly? DH and I had a wonderful time NYE...went to our usual hotel party. This one was great. It was a benefit and had hor doeurves or how ever you spell them, a five course dinner, open bar, wine at the table, champagne, dancing, raffles, photography....so much fun with dancing to my favorite band too! Unfortunatley the cyst in the back of my knee came back with a vengeance and by the end of the night I could not put any weight on it! So I have been hobbling around since!

Had a great family dinner yesterday with all our traditional foods and got to see the baby. Now we call her chunky monkey....she has put on a ton of weight and looks great. She's just over 12 pounds. DD#1 was even eating...some...She went back to work without dr approval because they ran out of money and food. Can't quite figure out why BF can't manage to get a job though... I don't think he's trying very hard, especially now that Tanya is working again.

I'm off til the 5th which is great except I can't do anything so I'm bored! What a weird situation! I always want more time off and now that I have it, I want to go back to work. Hopefully my knee will keep improving so I can get around by the end of the weekend.

I have a simple list of resolutions: 1) get here daily, 2) stop wasting so much food (I buy too much), and 3) make the bed! I think those are doable!

Well I'm going to get the ice pack and ice my knee again for a bit. Hope you all had a fabulous set of holidays and are starting 2015 hopeful and happy. Take care all, Meg

Good to see you Meg,glad the baby is doing well.. For some reason I am posting under this unknown name. Guess I'll have to contact admin about it. Plumbers are still here, important things are done, they gave Charlie permission totake a shower and then me run the dishwasher. YEAH

Joyce, indiana

Hello all,
My plan was to put on the color coat today but I am so sore from painting the primer I have decided to give my neck and arms a break. I can't wait until the remodel is done and I can share a picture with you all.

Have a good day.
Robin, Bodi and Ritter.

Kyung, tdpetunia and all newbies: Welcome to a supportive group of women. The more you participate, the more support you will receive. :flowerforyou:

Jo: I’m one of the women whose knees are thanking me for the weight loss. In fact, it was my left knee that motivated me to do something about my weight. It will never be perfect, but it is MUCH better and is no longer an obstacle to me doing the things I love to do. I am so lucky I found MFP and this group. Welcome! :flowerforyou:

Barbie: Except for the Oregon Ducks, who will compete in the national championship this year, I have no interest in football. :noway: Several of our friends are Winterhawks (hockey) supporters and I’d join them in going to a game if it wasn’t such a hassle to drive there and park. I enjoyed the old Paul Newman movie, Slapshot, and watched hockey on TV as a kid. I also watched roller-derby and wrestling. What else could I do? There were no westerns in that time slot. :devil: :flowerforyou:

Beth in WNY: I love your “to do” list. Sorry to hear about your water damage. :flowerforyou:

Robin: Love Bodi & Ritter Ying & Yang. :flowerforyou:

Terri in Milwaukie: Your son’s bowling coach is doing what he believes is right, but I think his view is shortsighted. Those mediocre bowlers know they aren’t top notch. All he’s doing is compromising his team’s win/loss record. Your son will eventually be the star of the team despite the coach if he sticks with it. :flowerforyou:

Leslie: I don’t count housework calories either. I started out with the idea that I should be counting those things I do especially for my health and weight loss. It is working out well for me. :flowerforyou:

Heather: I agree with this absolutely, “Welcome all the new people. This thread is soooooo important to me. I have lost my weight and maintained for a year with the help of these supportive women. I hope you can do the same.” This group is important to me, too, and the support is non-judgmental, wise, and always available. The crumpets look yummy. :flowerforyou:

Sylvia: I’m glad you’re feeling better and hope you continue to improve rapidly. I googled low fat no salt added cottage cheese and found that Walmart sells it. There is also a recipe to make your own, and a dairy listed. I love cottage cheese. My grandpa was a professional cottage cheese maker and had his own creamery before I was born. I love the company bulletin board joke. :flowerforyou:

luvmygolden: What worked for me was counting calories for every bite and swallow, moving more, and PATIENCE. This is a reliable process but it is not quick. Stick around for unwavering support and encouragement. :flowerforyou:

Dorene: I recommend measuring your portions using a food scale, measuring cups, or restaurant style “dishers.” Portion control has been the key to success for me and guessing doesn’t work well enough to be considered reliable. Good luck. :flowerforyou:

Gardengail: My dog wore his Thundercoat for New Year’s, too. It helped a bit, but wasn’t perfect. :flowerforyou:

Dorene: I choose not to share my food diary, but I don’t know about private journals on MFP. I do keep one on my computer. I write 99% of my posts on a word document that is saved on my computer and then paste it into MFP. I have the link to my ticker on the saved document I use for writing my posts. It shows up if I use the word document but not if I spontaneously respond to a comment. :flowerforyou:

LinC: BRRR! Stay warm. Your poor little doggies have my sympathy. DH wants to know what kind they are and how far north you are. We live close to the 45th parallel. :flowerforyou:

Yanniejannie: It turned out that maintenance for me was only 40 calories higher than losing. Then I quit alcohol and my weight started dropping to the point that DH was worried. I’m eating more & working on stabilizing. I have been building a little muscle since I started riding, and I think it is a factor in the need for a few more calories. Stress has always been my downfall and has caused weight gain because I comforted myself with food. :flowerforyou:

MNMargaret: I love the pictures! Beautiful. :flowerforyou:

Rita: Good to see you’ve set some doable goals. I hope this turns out to be a good year for you. :flowerforyou:

Meg: Nice to hear from you and see that your DGD is gaining weight. It sounds like she is doing well. :flowerforyou:

Marjorie: Welcome. :flowerforyou:

Tere: I’m so glad that you are back! :bigsmile: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:



Riding lesson today! Yay! I plan to dress WARM. We have beautiful sunshine right now and it is above freezing outside. We’ll see how the day goes. My riding lesson is not until late afternoon and it will be cooling off by then. I have a duffel bag with all sorts of warm clothing that I will put back into the car now that we’re home from our travels.

We have a new yoga instructor to meet on Tuesday. I hope she turns out to be a match and reliable. I’m also planning to join a gym though Silver Sneakers this year, and will ease into that so that I’m not overwhelmed with the “New Years Resolution” crowd that will be clogging up the facilities for a few weeks. I like people well enough, but not crowds.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon


“Tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison


January Goals:
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep.

Hi, I will be turning 50 in February 2015. I live in Orangevale CA. a few years ago i was 220 lbs. I lost 20 of it by the end of 2013 so in I was trying to lose 50 lbs in 2014 so i could be 150 when i turned 50 in feb of 2015. I only lost 35 of it so far so I dont think i will make that so i am making a new goal for this year. I would like to lose a minimum of 25lbs in 2015. that would put me at 140lbs . I could live with that weight if that is all i lose but i do want to get down to at least that. Maybe have that my maximum weight i live at so a little more wont hurt. Good luck to all of you with your goals. Happy New Year.

Yannie Jannie
Great attitude. Like hunger is not an emergency.

Margaret
Beautiful gardens that should lift the spirits.

Rita
You are so right doable 1 day at a time. We can't say oh tomorrow is another day.
For tomorrow will never come.

Meg.
We have a little one was born 5 lbs. 3 months ago he is now at 17 lbs. good old breast milk. And Mom don't weight 100 lbs i'm sure. Glad to hear yours is doing well also.
Is that cyst what they call a bakers cyst. Hope you can find relief with it.

Katla
They are miniature Dash Hounds. I live at the end of the world to go further North than were I am you need to fly or take the North train. 750 miles north of Toronto.

I know I'm being annoying being here so much. But I hate falling behind all caught up.

See you lighter
Linda

Katla, (and everyone else who has contributed regarding my hurt feelings) - thanks for the support for my DS and his H.S. coach. The junior varsity coach pulled my son to his team, and told me and DH and DS straight up that he wants DS to take them to State. So far it is looking good. DS has a great attitude, and keeps doing his best. I think he has MORE fun now, because he is bowling with the kids he hangs out with in school, not the upper-classmen (grade levels in H.S. are weird that way). The more fun he has, the better he bowls. I have to keep remembering that I can't control the way other people think and behave. It just feels personal when parent-coaches pick favorites, and mine isn't a favorite. DS actually said it himself at a tournament recently, when he was getting beat by a kid 2 years younger than him: "Is this how the older kids felt a few years ago, when I was better than them?" I smiled, said "yes, now go shake that boys hand and congratulate him on how good he bowled." It really is about me raising a good kid that will become a good adult, and everything else is secondary.

I rode the bike another 15 minutes during lunch today, so I'm doing pretty good getting in my 30 minutes per day most of the time. Plus, when I'm getting tired of sitting and need to move around, I find silly ways to do it: marching, side stepping, kicking heel backwards toward my caboose, etc. Hopefully that burns off a few extra calories, too, and makes people laugh at me.

Reading the posts from this group makes me excited to wake up and get on the computer in the morning. Thanks and Hugs to Everyone ! ! !

Terri in Milwaukee (where we are expecting bad weather to arrive this weekend, and my previously broken arm agrees with that forecast)

Happy New Year everyone and welcome newbies!

Special welcome to Tdpetunia and justmemary927! I also get to be Mother of the Bride this year. My DD is getting married July 4! Can wait to find out what kind of funky clothes I’ll have to wear for the event. I am not involved in the planning… I offered them a tall ladder.

You are all still the most amazing, supportive group I have ever had the good fortune to stumble upon. I hope all your Holiday travels/adventures were good ones and everyone is now snug back into the routine.

This year I enter the brave new world of “Maintenance”, even though my ticker still says I have 4 or 5 lbs yet to loose. I went from a 14/16 to a 4/6 in jeans and large to small in tops. I have never worn a small anything in my whole life. It is pretty amazing. I had never run more than a mile in my whole life. I finished the 9-week Couch to 5K program on New Years Eve, running just under 3 miles in the 30 minutes the program builds you up to. I also dropped 20 points on my blood pressure and knees, back, and hips no longer bother me at all!! Now I need to re-build some muscle and upper body strength!

Thanks to all of you for the random ideas I picked up on and the unbelievable support.

In order to build on my hard work, I want to walk 500K steps this month and run 30 miles. (See the tickers on the bottom.)

The other part of my life is showing my dogs. The older dog, Zedd is on his “farewell tour”. He is only going in the ring once or twice a weekend, when I love the venue and the judge. He finished last year as the #1 collie for the AKC National Obedience Invitational. He has herding titles to finish, and I am going to work hard so he can kick butt at a collie regional herding trial in the Fall. The younger dog, Talga, is just on the cusp of playing with the big dogs. His confidence is back, and he is figuring out where he is supposed to be relative to my smaller body. We are ready to test his training. He goes back in the ring next Saturday to try for the last leg for his Utility title. If he finishes, then it is spit and polish to see if he can’t qualify for the Nationals for 2016.

My mantra for the year:
Remember to breathe….

Looking for the joy in every day, just like my dogs.
Remember to breathe…

Sally W.
Oregon

afternoon ladies!
I am just saying a quick hello.. if you have read the news feed,you would know that I looked at my alarm clock and thought it was 2:15 as we were getting up at 2:30, well we were at a motel 6, had both the dogs with us,and we were on the bottom floor, and right near the outside door which opened most of the night,with people coming in, and when it opened the dogs barked. Tom finally turned the heater fan on and it drowned out some og it, well I look at my clock and told him time to get up, got the dogs and all the stuffed packed and the attendant says your leaving? HELLO it was 12:15 we woke up not 2:15, so we drove on 3 hrs sleep.. I took maybe a 1/2 nap,Tom slept for about an hour and a half.. we got home a little after 1 pm..
sorry I dont have the wear with all to welcome all our new friends, but will do so this weekend..
ta ta for now
Alison

Ladies, thank you for helping me understand how this works I think I'm all set. kayak_kutie Utah is beautiful! We are headed for Zion's Canyon next week for our anniversary, 34 years. We stay at a wonderful hotel called the Desert Pearl, because it's off season we can get great rates on the rooms. Thanks again to all who helped me figure this out.

2015 goals
1. workout and strength train 3 times a week
2. stay conscious of my eating... I'm an emotional and stress eater
3. hike "Y" mountain, it's not a long hike about 1.5 miles but it's all uphill
4. keep working on losing 1 lb per week to reach my goal by Jan 2016
I'm a hugger so hugs to you all!
Thanks Jenny

Read all to here need to keep up to you busy ladies.
Linda in Northern Ontario.

Hello to all. Wow nice to see so many newcomers. Keep coming back so we get to know you. I needed to eat something before I went to the grocery store today. I made a couple of purchases I wish I hadn't, nothing terrible but stuff I really didn't need. Got most of the Christmas things put away but decided to leave up the lighted garland on the banister for a while. I kind of like the light on the stairway on these dark afternoons.

My lungs do not like this really cold air, had to start back on the prednisone today. Hope I can just do a ten-day burst and be done with it. See the pulmonologist again the end of February.

Want to say thanks to all of you on this thread. When I am feeling down or cranky I can read your posts and I always feel better afterwards. I am always encouraged to do my best by reading about all your efforts.

Katla - Enjoy the riding lesson. If you have access to a Horse and Rider magazine they have an article this month on exercises to keep in riding shape over the winter.

Allison - Glad you made it home safely.

YannieJannie - So sorry for the drama with your DD but it makes me really grateful that my DD and I get along so well. Hope yours grows out of it soon and learns to appreciate the person you are.

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