I'm grateful that I bounce as well as I do at 63!!

So yesterday I was biking behind the Granddaughter (20-yrs) and since she knew the path, I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been <My Bad> So this bush decides to sticks a limb into one of the rear baskets and causes me to go from 60 to 0 in about 5-feet resulting in one ripped-off basket and one smashed-up knee. And the poor bike is now making squeaky noises as well as having the basket amputated. The knee looked like a softball yesterday but the swelling did go down quite a bit during the night. Good thing we are going home today!

The meeting with my cousins was just wonderful - truly the best holiday gift I have received in a long time! My aunt surprised me by rounding up not two but FIVE cousins and their spouses, plus an uncle and his wife that I have not seen in decades. What a great surprise to go in and see them all standing there in the entryway! Just a blessing.

Kathy, what a wonderful present. I reconnected with a long-lost cousin whom I was close with until they moved to CA when we were 12. She found me on facebook a couple of years ago. It was like we never had all those years between us. Happy for you!

Grateful to almost a year with MFP and 8 months with this fine group of friends!

Grateful today - and every day - for my loving husband. Grateful for a fresh new year filled with possibilities! Happy, healthy 2015 to all of us as we continue on our path to fitness and wellness!
- Kathy

Thankful it is already in the mid 20s today, we should get over 32F today. I can't wait to get outside again for a walk. I've been doing Walk Away the Pounds dvds this week.

Hope none of us were average this holiday season, the average weight gain is 10 lbs from Halloween to New Year.

I am always grateful I get to spend my life with my wonderful, romantic, loving, inspiring husband.

I'm grateful to have arrived home safely after an uneventful 7.5 hour trip. So good to visit with family and especially all four grand kids but it sure is good to be home too. Now I'm ready to double down and get under 200 but 2-1-15!! Darrell

Hi. I am starting over on tracking my food and fitness. I dropped 63 pounds in 2012-2013 and 20 of them managed to find their way back in 2014. I need to lose those and 25 more. This is a great discussion thread to start out with.
I am grateful for:
1. Five beautiful granddaughters, ranging in age from 13 to 3 months
2. A supportive husband, who loves my body no matter the size
3. Being able to be a "snowbird" in the winter, now that we are both retired.
4. Having great places to go online to get support, such as MFP and Daily Challenge (meyouhealth).

I'm feeling particularly grateful for the peace I've been able to experience for the past few days after being in a very stressful family situation on top of the holiday season. Time to BREATHE!! Aaaahhhh.

Grateful today with the help of the winds, our temps will be in the low 50's. I can get outside and move my body! Woot,woot.

Today I'm grateful for this reminder to think about gratitude and all the blessings in my life. It's a great stress reliever.

I'm grateful this morning that I have a free rec center membership and will be attending my weight room orientation later today. My mom has made me realize just how important it is as you age to have strength training. She never did anything and is paying the price now, when she falls and that is becoming more and more frequent, she can't push nor pull herself off the floor anymore. Her muscles just don't work and she is very over weight, which doesn't help her situation either.

I guess I can be grateful to her for showing me how not to age as well.

Thanks retirehappy and strongersue for posting and reminding me that starting my day with thoughts of gratitude really helps set the tone.

Grateful to YOU and to my sister and son who yesterday supported me in making a very difficult decision.

It IS a great place, isn't it, strongersue!

Today, since it's breakfast time, I'm thinking with gratitude about the chicken farm nearby where the birds run free, perching and clucking on stacked up truck tires, ramps and buckets, all colorfully painted; and where they are farmed for eggs only and live to a ripe old age even after their egg-laying days are over.

What's more, it is run by a couple who are very, very poor, but rich in spirit and love. Driving by, always gives us a chuckle, a warm feeling, a shot of optimism, and appreciation.

Joan, she is in a nursing home. She is monitored very well. Of course she complains because she wants to go back to Texas and her apartment there. It just isn't going to happen. Does your mom has a life alert device, my mom did and that is why she was found quickly when she fell living alone. They are a great help for fallers.

That chicken farm sounds like a fun place if your a hen

Grateful the temp will get to around 60 even if there will be some wind. I am looking forward to my visit to the rec center this AM.

Make it a wonderful day, everyone.

Joan - your picture of the chicken farm is making me smile- my grandfather raised chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat. I collected eggs when I was 5&6 and some of those old hens were MEAN, but thoughts of my grandpa, his chicken house, his rooster crowing and his garden and of my grandma's cooking still make me smile, and they've been gone for years.

I am retired now but I worked with the elderly and disabled for most of my career. I know a little about what is coming and it makes me appreciate what I have now and hopefully plan for what may come. I had to laugh- I read that the Pope stated he is not afraid of dying- only dying painfully. Isn't that what everyone wants? But I have seen people be joyful to wake up everyday even when they are in pain. I have seen people in pain treat others with compassion and understanding. I have seen the staff in nursing homes give to their patients and their friends without a thought for what is left for them. I want to be those people and pray everyday for the strength. One thing I did learn is the happiest people I cared for were those that never stopped thinking of others first. They were flexible, when they couldn't walk they looked around for another way to get around. They didn't feel sorry for themselves, they asked what they could do for someone worse off then they were. I know there will come a time that I can't walk, and/or drive, when I may be incontinent, and dependent on others. My prayer is that I can live gracefully, no matter what, until I die. My biggest worry is that I may be a burden on my husband or children.

And what am I thankful for today??- that I can go shopping and make turkey soup and dream of kayaking and biking next week!! Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow.( I checked in after dinner instead of breakfast-sorry) I read once that instead of worrying about tomorrow we need to check in with ourselves each morning and see how we are- can we manage today- our we ok today???- then get on with the day and don't waste a great or even good day worrying about tomorrow.

Take care y'all!