WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2015

Enjoy reading everyone's post. Have been keeping up with my daily food diary & only exceeded my set calorie limit on 1 day, which is an accomplishment for me - I am the best at setting a plan & really bad with the follow thru. So why is that 1 day I went over the one I'm remembering? I will probably be battling the "diet" mentality for awhile. So the "Skinny Terri" needs to give the "Fat Terri" a break, right?

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

Greetings to all you lovely ladies.

*Rori, Great picture. I know you all enjoyed that outing. Thanks for sharing.

*Sharon, I don’t know whether to laugh or gag, but defrosting the cat in the microwave just has my mind going in all sorts of directions. LOL

*Heather, I’m praying that your pain will minimize and you enjoy your holiday. Don’t forget that just stretching when you have the chance can help a bit with those long sitting spells. Have a wonderful time.

*Brenda, good for you on slowly cutting out the less desirable foods. I pretty much don’t eat from Fast Food places any more either. If I must, I get a fish or chicken sandwich without the dressing. I find I enjoy food at home more when it’s possible. I also know from past experience that the slower I lose, the easier it is to keep off, so I’m working on exercising Patience

*Meg, yea for your knee. And OMG, I got hungry just reading your menu for Sunday. Yum

*Michele, I’d probably try some earth tones with some blues and greens for the praying mantis. But that’s just me. I have to tell you that when I first scrolled down I saw the pic of the man at the top and it looked like he was praying, so I thought it was a joke. Use your imagination. 

*Terri, I think you are doing great. This is a new lifestyle and it doesn’t happen overnight. Or at least it didn’t for me. Give yourself a little time to adjust, not only your body, but your mind to this new way of thinking.

In keeping with some recent posts I just have to share my new sign to self:

DO NOT REWARD YOURSELF WITH FOOD,
YOU ARE NOT A DOG!

Greetings and welcome to any Newbies that I missed and I wish only the best of the best for all the ladies here.

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

Janet in Myrtle Beach, SC

Good morning! I'm not going to swim at the Y this morning with hubby because I had such a miserable time last week. So I'm going along and will do the weight machines and walk around the basketball courts if they aren't crowded, or on a treadmill. Then a couple hours at the studio, then we will go to the lake.

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from my son saying the school had just called. DGS (age 6) was being sent home with head lice. Oh joy. I picked him up at school, then he and I went to Walgreens to get the treatment (plus a candy bar for after), then took him home where he got a good scrubbing. He hates washing his hair under the best circumstances, but my son said he was really good about it once he explained that there were bugs in his hair sucking his blood. He really wanted them gone!

I made 16 more bowls yesterday, bringing the total to more than 60. 40 more to go. And I got the "classroom" all set up for the kids class that starts on Tuesday. I put posters of pottery on the walls, and put the chairs at the tables. I really like how it turned out. Might just leave it that way after the class is over.

Well, I forgot to click post again. It's now about 4pm. We are at the lake. It's COLD in here! It takes forever to warm up the downstairs so I'm sitting in my heavy coat with a dog on my lap. I took my son to get a few groceries before we left home. He's broke till about the third. Again. He tried to get hot dogs and ramen noodles. I insisted on real food, meat, pasta, vegetables, yogurt, cheese, etc. I don't think those kids get enough fruit, and the little guy really loves fruit. So we got apples and bananas.

Tonight I'm making turkey burger with baked potato, and tomato slices for me and hamburger steak for hubby. He's not a lover of ground turkey. The good thing about eating out here is that we have to plan in advance and we only have what we bring with us. We don't leave any food out here. So there's no chance of nibbling later on.

Well, my fingers are too cold to type. Have a great evening.

Sylvia

Been thinking about my goals and since I didn't add them to my posts they where not in my mind all the time. I remember I decided to take it easy on my self and go for 4,000 steps a day. That was done most of the time but the one day I was really sick I didn't get that many.
Rori- love the picture. Looks like you guys are having fun.
- Janet - ghat is so funny. Don't reward yourself with food, you are not a dog.
- Meg - maybe you can rehab your knee yourself without the going through all the pain the doctor is expecting.
Walked around the HEB grocery this morning since it's raining today. Maybe be walking around the house later to get all the steps in. One of my "excuses" is I have a form of plantar facitisis (never could spell that word).
Newbies be sure to follow Barbie's link to the new thread for February and to bookmark it with the star so you can find it easily
Have a great evening.
SueBDew in TX

Hello everyone! Busy Saturday for me, but made sure to get the cardio and core in first. Home now and just enjoyed a lovely supper including my favorite spaghetti bolognese and a really nice salad and some great clementines for dessert.

Love catching up on all your posts and am truly inspired with all your successes and goals met!

I'm a big sports fan and am looking forward to the game tomorrow. A few friends and my DS and his girlfriend will be over to watch.

Have a lovely relaxing evening~and here's to a great February for everyone!

Ok ladies, here's to a magnanimous February for everyone. Hope all had a great day.
Socialwacker hope your evening is as relaxing as you need.
Srclark89 Welcome glad you are here. You cN do this.
fatchimom Welcome back and this group of ladies are wonderful for any type of support you need.
bjkidfun I know all about the cravings. I have been getting them since April 13, 2013 when my mom died. I am getting better day by day and some days are worse than others. You got this.
Krieter1 I can agree with you more about the statement you made about your skinny Terri giving the fat Terri a break, my skinny Shanyn is the same to the fat Shanyn. We got this Terri.

Hope all has a great night. Anybody that would like to ad me as a friend, I would be honored. I tried to a few but not sure if I did it right.

Meg - I am still laughing so hard picturing your neighbors watching you dance. Good for you being so self-assured.

Terri - take care of Terri, and I hope you can cut her some slack. As others have said, this is a journey, so take baby steps with us!

Barbie - the hats are amazing. I haven't learned to knit, so I never make such beautiful designs. I am envious.

My kale chips are not very good, but serve the purpose when I wish I could munch on chips. I "shake" them with olive oil and soy sauce in a Ziploc baggie, then put them on a cookie sheet on the middle shelf. I stay in the kitchen, and flip them every few minutes until crispy most of the way through, and hopefully remove them before they burn.

I also took grapes today, and one of the other boys on my son's team was very thankful, as he ate the whole bag. That makes me happy. I found Sugar Snap Peas for $2.99 / pound, so that will be my crunch & munch tomorrow.

DS's pizza for supper is finished, DH is off to work. We are expecting 9 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow, so I need to start the day early, since the 2 bowling alleys are nowhere near each other. So, I think I will eat a grapefruit and head off to sleep soon (before 8pm on a Saturday? I am so boring !).

Hugs to Everyone ! ! ! See you all in February.

Terri in Milwaukee

Barbie - love the hats!

Terri in Milwaukee - your posts always interest me and make me a little envious. My "baby" is 38 so I like to hear what you and your young son are doing together. It seems like yesterday my boy was in HS.

Speaking of sons - I got to visit with mine and DDIL and DGS between workout and work. Nice interlude for me.

Now good night - Toni

Nite peeps, c u in February thread, gotta be hr maybe 3 hr spin class tomorrow