WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2015

Linda - thanks for that information about walking in the house. I really didn't think about doing that, but I could do that with no problem I will try it.

Sylvia - your jokes make me smile! That last one was really funny

Good Afternoon Friends,
Newcomers. Glad to see others are finding us. We missed you.



Sylvia

Katla that has happened to me especially when I write on our chrome book.

Rita prayers for your son. Sounds like he has identified he has a problem. First step. Prayers for you as you help him through.

Janet great job! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015 word: Strength
Quote Just because you see the hook does not mean you have to bite.

MNMargaret

Well, its hump day. Not much different for me as I don't work but for some of you it is a good day.
SSM - your post tells me you are ready to tackle this journey and you have everything you need to be successful.
Barb - south LA -Your granddaughter is beautiful as well as your grandson. I love her hat!
Cynthia - Happy Birthday.
Janet - Congrats on onederland and new clothes. Good to reward yourself.
Katia - how was the core class? That is what I need.
Sylvia - wow, 100 bowls are a lot but I know you will do a great job.
Lin - I also walk around the house to get my steps.
SueBDew in TX

never realized, i'm 100 away from 1000 day recording streak. it's been a lot longer than that, there were times where I didn't have a signal to internet so I couldn't record :0/... oh well, still kinda excited.

Hi everyone!!

Just came across this thread and thought I would chime in. I am normally a loner but find I need a swift kick in the butt to get the last few lbs off. Lol.

Just a little about myself:
44, lost 152 lbs, and have 11 lbs to get rid of. I am in the "normal" range for BMI and I'm trying to not focus on the scale, but it does seem the last 10 pounds are the hardest.
I am active 7 days per week, 5 being vigorous activity and 2 being active rest (yoga or a stroll/hike).
I sent a couple of friend requests, but my iPad keeps timing out (or the app itself) and it wouldn't allow me to send a msg with it.

Feel free to add me, I'm a great listener/encourager (I'm a hairstylist, it's what we do, lol).

Looking forward to getting to know all of you!

Yanniejannie - the diet show went well and everyone lost weight over 12 weeks. Of course, we all know that that is the easy bit and the real work lies in keeping it going long term. :ohwell: Much easier when you have got cameras checking up on you.
- One thing that came up was how normal and common plateaux are because as we lose weight we need less food. Exercise is important in the long term control of weight. Eat breakfast. Eat slowly. Get support. :bigsmile: Don't let one overeating session sabotage your whole day, or week.
- I took the test on the BBC website, (it's in the Food section) and, as I suspected I am predominately in the Constant Craving category with quite a bit of the Emotional Eater. I could definitely eat all day long if I didn't log. I also naturally eat fast so try to slow down.
- I'm sure their ideas are not the complete answer, but I hope it helps a few people. Better than just trying to starve yourself and getting into a cycle of starve - binge.
- For the record, what works for me is to keep a regular cycle of breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner with one small alcoholic drink, later dessert and a late small piece of cheese if I have calories left. I have 1800 calories to play with as I am on maintenance and I do a lot of exercise. Keeping my intake very regulated at set times seems to work for me. I never skip meals and rarely eat too much at one meal. My main meal is rarely over 400 calories. My dessert around 140. I have that later so I don't go to bed hungry! :laugh: Well, it all seems to work as I have maintained for a year now.

Hope I sleep tonight. I am going to take some co-codamol in a minute and go and read my wonderful and fascinating biography of Napoleon. :bigsmile:

Heather in incredibly windy Hampshire UK

Thursday here and had my 3.3 mile walk for 383 cals, soon to do Jeannette's circuit A (chest, tris and booty) = 564 cals
Was drizzly and overcast when I started walking at 7.30am but cleared to blue skies and sunny.
Today I am ironing clothes, cooking Jamie Oliver vegie pasties (1 for lunch tomorrow) and Dr Oz vegie muffuns (for breakasts) and walking the doggy round our tracks
Today I added 5 mil Melrose flax-seed oil to Jeannette's yogurt crunch (Brian said MORE good fats and fibre and less sugar) Also to WALK every morning and train muscles 1 hour after breakfast.
I have gone from 46.8% BF to 44% BF and 21.4% muscle to 23.3% muscle since Christmas and 101 Kg weight to 97 Kg weight since Christmas Eve. Scales DO lie unless you have body fat scales
I was doing thing all wrong until I saw Brian a Sports Nutritionist on Christmas Eve. He told me to have toast and banana BEFORE my morning walk and then eat breakfast. He said I was burning glycogen in my muscles and NOT fat by NOT eating. He told me to plan my meals around 1700 calories, today is 1830 as yesterday was 1548.
I see docto9r tomorrow for my fasting cholesterol (diagnosed as genetic 45 years ago and on Lipidil) fasting sugar and oestrogen and testosterone levlel. Then see Brian for weigh in.
Sorry I cannot reply as I restrict my computer time to 1 hour a day only
Lesley in Tasmania
My ticker is from 01 January 2015

Good grief! I thought I was here yesterday! So many new posts. I had my MRI today so I'll just wait for results. I'm not feeling too well today; too many aleve I think. I switched to Aleve for a change, and while it really was better on the pain, after three days it felt like I was eating razor blades, so out they went!

Molly: thanks for the link. DH has a similar item from when he had shoulder surgery. it's worth a try! I guess it depends on if I need surgery or not. I'll check into it. Thanks again.

OK, sorry to be brief, but I'm heading to bed. Take care, Meg

Yay! You can read and post to the forums from the mobile app now.

Good evening everyone! I had such a good day. When I took the kids to school I went inside and talked to the art teacher about a project I had in mind related to the Empty Bowls project. My idea was that I would make 45 simple bowls (enough for the two fifth grade classes) and glaze them white, then bring them to her and she would have her kids decorate them using colored sharpie markers. (Google "sharpie mug" to see what I'm talking about.). Then I would bake them to set the marker and those bowls would be donated to the Empty Bowls project. Meanwhile, the kids would get a civics lesson on poverty and helping others. Actually, the kids at that school know all about poverty, since it is 100 percent low income families that go there.

So, the teacher was very receptive to the idea. She was so excited about it that she is arranging with the district PR department to have them do a feature about it. So, I'm just thrilled. Now all I have to do is make the bowls.

Janet, I have several potter friends who have offered to help make bowls for this, so I won't have to make them all myself, but I will make all the white ones for the school project, plus some others that I want to do. My mind is teeming with ideas! I really needed something like this to get me excited again.

At lunchtime I went to the Liberal Ladies meeting which turned out to be really fun. We talked and laughed and had a good time. One of the ladies is a singer/songwriter and she had written a song called Wise Women, and they passed out the lyrics. I pulled up her youtube video on my phone and we sang along while the music played on youtube. Then, right in the middle of the song, my phone rang. Drat! It was hubby calling, so I rejected it quickly, but it really disrupted the song. I was embarrassed.

Here is a link to the song Wise Women by Joy Leeper. I hope the link works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0dbdt6ySs

Gotta go. We have to run to Walgreens. Have a great night everyone!

Sylvia

to clarify - i am 100 away from 1000. right now i have 900....
- stats for the day:
- Ride hm 2 gym- 13.50min, 12.9amph, 3mi
Spin- 35min, 83ar, 115aw, 10-15ag, 14.4mi
ride gym 2 dome- 7.21min 12amph 1.5mi
ride dome 2 hm- 17.16min, 9.2amph 2.7mi
still drugging up and coughing up a lung! ughhhh

Good evening
After I did my water workout today I did a yoga stretch class. It was a different group with a substitute instructor. I really enjoyed it.

Earlier Heather asked if we had fears that we have learned to overcome. Here I am an educated professional woman with the silliest hangup. For a long while I have had a thing about grocery stores. Guess it might be tied to my food issues. There were a few months where I could not shop in one at all unless I was with hubby. (Ridiculous, I know). Then I did get comfortable with going to two markets - no problem. Well - today I went to a Publix I hadn't been to in years. They had some good sales on things I eat every day. I am so proud of myself. I think I can do this more often!

Heather - I hope you get some help at the doctor.

Rita - I know it must be hard to want help for your son. We went through some of this with my son when he was a teen. So frustrating. Praying he finds an avenue for help and treatment.

Pip - Wow! 1,000 days - Marvelous!

Margaret - I hope your new position will be very rewarding.

Michele - It sounds like that Y was very involved with motivating its members! I think working at the Y will be a motivator for me. A friend told me this morning that I should be able to encourage others since I am on this life journey. Win-Win

Good night, now
TNToni

Enjoyed reading all the post and I like the jokes too..

Too cold to get out and walk, but I have made better food choices the last several days.

Sue from TN

Did an hour of Bob Harper's Cardio Conditioning DVD today. Tomorrow's plan is to do Jari Love's Revved to the Max DVD

pipcd - what are some of your abbreviations? What does lvl stand for? 61fl? lat5 (a resistance?)

Today the Wii said I was down a pound. Even tho I had 1/2 of a Dunkin Donut last night. Guess maybe taking the day off from exercise really did help

Sylvia - isn't it amazing what men will eat if they don't know what's in it? So glad the pie was so good

Sharon - hope you feel better

SSM - welcome. So sorry about Ruby, deepest condolences. Our furry friends sure make a big impression on our hearts, huh? Do you think that the krill oil is what caused the weight gain? I've heard a lot about krill oil but nothing about it causing weight gain. Great start on the weight loss!

Just read in the paper how Coke and Pepsi are now using smaller cans so there is less guilt. You know, I'm surprised it's taken them this long to realize that this can be a money maker for them. Look at all those 100 calorie packs. It really is cheaper to buy a big bad/whatever of something and divide it up. But some people need to have it already portioned out and they're paying for this. That's ok, whatever you need to do. I'm just surprised it took Coke and Pepsi so long to start doing this, they want to increase their profits.

Sylvia - my fingers were cracked from the cold really badly a while ago. I tried every lotion on the face of the earth -- no help. I remembered that my grandmother used to put glycerin on her hands. So I figured - why not? What do I have to lose? It cleared it up! But I do find that if I need to use the glycerine, that I put a pair of those latex gloves over my hands since the glycerine can be very greasy. Cute pic

Janet - I don't think I'll be getting a new car in the near future. Vince is funny...he'll run a car into the ground and make repairs himself if he needs to. But yet, at times he has no hesitation about buying a new car. I know FIL would never get a new car -- always used. He felt they depreciated too much just driving them off the lot. Don't you just hate it when the green beans are cooked to death? There was this one place in FL that served nothing but canned green beans. Honestly, by the time they had cooked them and I got them, they were already like mush.

jane - thinking of you today

pipcd - you know that if you even suspect that you'll be away from interent as long as you log just one item on your menu, MFP will count that day. That's one of the reasons I have that feature turned off. For me, it isn't a motivator.

Pat - what did you have that was Chinese that was so high in calories? I usually find that they have steamed items on their menu and lot of veges.

abetterme - welcome and congrats on the fantastic loss. You sound a lot like me, exercise usually 7 days/week, 5 of them vigorous and the other two "active recovery" What kind of exercise do you do usually?

yanniejannie - Vince took out some fuses and put them back in and that reset it. Also, he added water to the radiator. It wasn't that low, but a little bit more wouldn't hurt. So far, the light hasn't come back on. I went to the bowling alley near us to give this one gal some empty egg cartons that I save for her and in the time it took me to get there and home, the light didn't come on at all. You said that Heather's baking show hit the US? What's the name of it? Glad those calendars are almost gone. Did you at least make a bit of a profit?

Leslie - I love reading all about Brian and what he has to say. When you said "body fat scales" which type did you mean? The bioimpedence can be skewed.

Dorene - safe travels

Meg - hoping for the best results to the MRI

Heather - I usually eat fast, too. Sometimes I don't wait for the food to cool (like tonight) before I dig in.

Beth - I'd never even *heard* of shrimp and grits until I moved to NC! Prayers for Ashley

Sylvia - what a wonderful idea having the kids decorate those bowls. I just love it

katla - I was thinking the same thing, I would love to take that BBC test, too. Let me know if you find out about it. I'm so happy you had such a good experience at the gym!

barbie - happy anniversary!

Toni - yea for you going to Publix. I can't wait to go to one when we get to FL. Yes, I always found it especially motivating to see the people who worked at the Y not just working but also enjoying themselves by working out.

Michele in NC

Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding.

Good morning, ladies. It's 1:00am here. I went to bed at 1100 which is a little early for me but it was a busy day. I couldn't sleep and leg kept cramping so I finally got up and here I am. I took a sleeping pill so may fall asleep on my keyboard.

*Jane, I know the funeral will be hard on you but give yourself the time to grieve.

*Wow, way to go, pip!!!

*Pat, don't beat yourself up about eating too much. Just get back on the horse and hopefully no harm if you are still under calories. I've heard that misery loves company, but conger up a funny picture of you and DH hobbling around together. Feel better soon.

*abetterne42, welcome and congrats on your weight loss!!! That is fantastic. We are here for support, so *consider yourself kicked in the butt*. Come back often, there is more where that came from if you need it.

*yanniejannie, good job on selling the Calendars. I hope Ya'll made some money?

*Heather, I have always eaten fast too. That is the main reason I chose "savor" as my word for the month. To remind me to slow down. I use to live my life thinking about food all the time. DH always said I planned my life from one meal to the next, and he was right. In the short 3 months I've been on MFP, I'm happy to say that I don't think about food and eating all the time now. Congratulations on your maintenance!! Your regular eating habits make a lot of sense.
That is wonderful that the light went out in your car. Here's hoping it stays out.

*MNMargaret, good for you on the 3rd grade job. That does sound like a good fit and now you can plan your life around a regular schedule.

*Lesley, you are doing such a good job with Brian. Congrats on your BF and other numbers. I'm impressed.

*drkatie, I can't believe you didn't get a laugh with that joke. Did they get the rest of the sermon? I thought it was funny too.

*Sylvia, your project is getting so exciting. The school idea was brilliant. I wish I were closer and I'd volunteer to help in some way. I'm glad you found such a worth while cause to get involved in. Good for you.

*TNToni, I had actually forgotten about it until I read your post about grocery stores, but for years and years I would not go into a restaurant and eat alone. If I was starving I'd find a fast food with a drive through. I guess I just felt self-conscious? And stay alone in a hotel? Forget about it! I'd have rather slept in my car at a rest area. Now at my ripe old age, I don't care what anyone thinks and will go any where. lol Good for you for venturing out.

*Michele in NC, not only were the green beans cooked to mush, but they were fresh and normally served a bit al dente. That's probably why I can't sleet...that decadent dessert!!

*Barbie, Happy, happy Anniversary!

We are happy to have all the new ladies. This is a great place to get support and ideas and have questions answered. Come often and post often so we can get to know you.

I wish you all great health and much happiness.

My word for the of the month is savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.

Janet in Myrtle Beach, SC