WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2105

I haven't been here for a few days. Been so badly depressed. I am having a hard time financially, and it is hard to eat correctly. I am not binge eating with the exception of this afternoon. I also probably haven't been eating correctly, might say a few days I starved myswlf. I did eat a cupcake and it made me nauseated. I will get past this eventually. This month is my Mimi birthday amd she died 7 years ago this year. She was my grandma realistically but she raised me so I consider her my mom. I miss her so much and seems like yesterday I got that dreadful phone call. She was my life and gave up so much to rise me. I will always love and miss her,

Hi everyone!
I tried a couple of times to post, but I managed to lose it. I do put it on Word and copy it over, but I tried to put the ticker and lost everything. I finally gave up and went to bed. So, I'm trying again tonight. My grandchildren were rough housing and hit my arm, tossed my mouse around, and I lost it again. Fortunately, I could paste it back! Ugh!

Welcome to all those who are new are returning. Great to have you join us.

Sue in SD: Prayers for your friend’s DGD. That’s a really serious situation. I pray that all will go well. Keep us updated.

Sylvia: How are you feeling? Thank God you went to the ER instead of just tolerating the pain.

Heather: Sounds like you are really enjoying your trip! What fun! Cool picture of the elephant!

Toni: Isn’t it amazing that your student has grown up to be such a fine young woman!

Alison: Sending hugs! I can’t imagine having so much snow! I know we rarely have snow where I live, but I see how people struggle in Colorado as well. I hope spring comes soon!

Sharon in Alberta: Congrats on the weight loss! I can’t wait until I get under 200 lbs, but I have a LONG way to go! So happy for you!

Cynthia: Sending big hugs. It’s not easy when your job ends and it’s not your choice! Wishing you well.

Cherie-Wisconsin: Good luck! I hope your weekend goes well. Logging everything I eat is the only way I can keep on track.

Peachstategal: Sorry to hear about your mom. It’s so hard to see our parents so sad. By the way, they now have light weight wheel chairs that aren’t so hard to pack up into the car. Some of them are so difficult! Good luck!

Beltoniana: Congratulations on making the choice to be healthier and Happy Birthday! I can’t think of a better birthday gift you can give yourself! It certainly isn’t easy, but you are worth the effort. Good luck and remember that we are all in this together…we’re here for you! 

Twhitehead7: I’m so sorry you are in such a funk! I think that most of us have been where you are at one time or another…down on ourselves for overeating or eating the wrong foods. Take a deep breath, forgive yourself. Tomorrow is a new day. Sending hugs!

Donna from Illinois: Welcome! So glad you joined us. Visit often. So awesome that your daughter can help you. What a blessing!

Terri in Milwaukee: You are so sweet to offer to get the Fitbit for you DD when you don’t have one yourself. What an unselfish thing to do.

Diana in NW Indiana: So glad your knee is somewhat better! Congrats on doing 10,000 steps!

Mary from Minnesota: Boy can I relate to evening binging. Lately, I am doing well, but oh when it hit! Ugh! I agree thought, I simply write every single thing down!

Pipcd34: I’ll bet some of these ladies would love to send you some snow! LOL!

Katla: Isn’t it great when someone cuts your hair in a way that you really like! Congrats on finding your new hair stylist!

Noexcuses118: Congratulations on the weight loss! Great job! As for the number of posts you are behind … oh, can I related! We are a very active group lately!

Stephanie in Central OR: Happy Birthday to you DH! Good luck on eating out! Whatever you eat…just log it!

Lillian: Stay safe and warm.

Debbi in So. Calif: Welcome!

Rita in CT: Good luck with the snow blower! Wow! Tractor sized!

Tina: Congratulations on both eating right and exercising! WTG!

Terri: Isn’t it amazing how the “healthy” stuff sometimes has so many calories! Ugh!

Barbie: You are so right about people with allergies and restaurant foods. Some of my grandchildren are allergic to dairy products and it is so difficult to go out to eat with them. It’s tough, too, to find something that is healthy and doesn’t have so many calories!

Bumblebeejec: I hope you start feeling better! I’ve given Carbamazepine to patients in the past, but it’s seriously been such a long time since I practiced bedside medicine that I can’t remember anything about it. Have you googled the side effects?

Janet in Myrtle Beach, SC: Congrats on the weight loss! Isn’t it awesome when someone notices that you’ve lost weight. So happy for you. Have a wonderful cruise! We’ll be thinking of you and waiting for pictures!

Vicki GI NE: Sounds like you have a busy weekend! Have fun!

Yanniejannie: Woo Hoo! So happy for your daughter! How AWESOME! Congrats, too, on your wonderful time in your friend’s time share!

Starrhae130: Welcome! I’m so glad that you have your daughter to help you. I hope that you find this site as wonderful as I do. There are so many wonderful ladies on here.

I've been doing very well with sticking to my calorie count for over a month without overeating. Tonight, we went out to eat boiled crawfish because one of my daughters from Colorado just flew in to attend a friend's wedding. I managed to stay within my set calories nonetheless! Yay! The grandchildren who live here (7 years, 6 years, and 22 months) asked to come home with us. I stopped and got frozen yogurt for them. I got myself some that was "no added sugar". I'm finally beginning to see a little progress. This week I've had five people comment that they can tell I'm losing weight. Unfortunately, when I look at pictures of myself, all I see is the fat! I'm trying to consistently walk more, but I'm finding it hard to get to 10,000 steps. It's just really hard to find to time to walk that much, but I'm doing what I can. I'm usually hitting 5,000 to 7,500. That's at least an improvement over the 1,000 to 1,500 that I would do as my "normal activity." My job is very sedentary except for when I have to go and help someone. When we were up in Colorado, I managed to walk much more. One of my DD's took me on the route they used when she did a 5K. I took her walking around the neighborhood so I could reach my 10,000 steps when we finished! LOL! Barbie, I don't know how you manage to walk so many steps and do line dancing as well. My hat is off to you!

Well, I'm off to bed before I manage to lose this post as well. Hugs and prayers for all. Take care, stay safe, and come on Spring!

Barb from South Louisiana

Goals for 2015:
* Continue to drink at least 8 glasses of water per day
* Do something nice for someone every day, even if it's just to give a compliment
* Exercise at least 3x/week. Start out slowly and work up gradually
* Focus on eating healthy one meal at a time/one day at a time

It's been a while since I posted- lost 7 labs last month, hitnthe gym four times per week, and logged every day. Even though work has been busy, I've been taking the time to take care of myself. What a difference that makes. Hang in there ladies!
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DORENE in New Mexico

Did an hour workout on the treadmill. This really involves changing speeds and inclines. The plan for tomorrow is to do a lower body pilates DVD

After exercise went to Aldi and got a few things that I needed. Later today I'm supposed to go for my recertification for my CPR

Toni - what type of work are you doing?

Sharon in Alberta - Ij do hope you find the Arctic Zero. Congrats on the loss! Sorry your metformin is doubled but glad you're feeling better.

Heather - love, love, love, reading all about your adventures. Hope things work out for you driver's son

beltonlana - welcome back and happy birthday!

donamari - welcome! It's good that you're doing both cardio and weight training.

katla - I remember you telling us that your barber moved away. So glad things are working out with this woman

Joyce (I think it was) - here's what I found out about MFP being sold:

February 04, 2015: 04:15 PM ET BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Under Armour (NYSE:UA), a global leader in sports performance and innovation, announced the acquisition of Endomondo and MyFitnessPal, establishing ownership of the world's largest digital health and fitness community. These acquisitions, which supplement UA's existing MapMyFitness and UA RECORD™ suite of applications, will further enable the brand to provide unparalleled health and fitness data and insight, in support of its universal mission to make all athletes better.

Powered by more than 80 million registered users, MyFitnessPal is the leading free resource for achieving and maintaining health and fitness goals, providing nutritional information for over five million foods and offering caloric data associated with hundreds of exercises, empowering its community to make better, more informed healthy-living decisions. MyFitnessPal will expand the current offerings from UA Connected Fitness™ to include comprehensive nutrition tools, allowing users to track calories, nutrition and exercise. Source: CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NE24218.htm)

Who knows? Maybe they'll continue with "upgrades". Only time will tell......

CP - yea for that loss. What a wonderful goal!

Stephanie in OR - happy birthday to your hubby

Rita - can Alison come over and snowblow for you???? (like she needs more ....) I must have missed it...what is MIS?

Just went to be recertified in CPR. I didn't know this (probably because I'm not am employee of the Y) but there was a online video that I was supposed to have watched and an online test I was supposed to have taken. Frustrating....there were questions on the test that I'm SURE were referrenced to in the video, but I had no idea at all about it. There was something on there "chain of survival for a child"...what in the world was this? I just had to guess. Well, the good thing is that they did let me retake the test. But I may not have had to had I known that there was this video and test to be taken.

yanniejannie - doing a happy dance for your daughter

starrrhae - we're so excited to have you here. Come in often

Meg - that's horrible about your roof and even more horrible that the copper pipes were missing. The latest pic that I posted is of the ladybug that I painted to put on the outside by the pool. Prior to that I posted a pic of a (oh, how I want to say firefly) praying mantis and was asking for ideas for colors for it.

Syliva - ((((HUGS))))) What a wonderful hubby you have there!

bedfordd - welcome!

wildfiremoons - so sorry you are having such troubles. I feel, too, that it was my grandmother who raised me.

Dorene in NM - congrats on that loss.

Welcome to anyone new that I may have missed

Michele in NC

Sorry got cut off again!

I guess it's just like MFP is for helping with the lifestyle changes. Everyone needs help and support from God and others.

Have a great day!

Mary from Minnesota

Hope I can keep this short. I made a lot of notes
Allison so sorry about the greyhound. It had wonderful loving years which is what is important
Heather I hope you can send us a picture of the view from your hotel. We are traveling through you to Sri Lanka so don't leave anything out
Peach So sorry about your Mom in the nursing home but am glad she was finally up to getting out. We did that every Monday when my MIL was alive but I had a husband who could easily lift the wheel chair into the car
Terri in Milwaukee I very fondly remember the drug rep lunches. My husband was a pharmacy tech and most of the time they would just bring tings into the pharmacy but about 4 times a year they would host a meal out and families were invited. I had some might fine meals. And being and RN they were quite educational to me.
Cute527 just leave your name the same and just sign off with Tina
Judy I am on Carbamazepine. Have been for many a year. But when I was first put on it and with every dose increase I was drowsy, cotton mouthed, felt awful. But it all passes
Janet a doctor told you to limit yourself to 1 fruit a day for diabetes????? Crazy
Yanni Congratulations to your daughter. 1 out of 50!!! How close is this school to you?
Meg so sorry that some people have to be such thugs and go around and steal copper and cause such damage to homes. I very fondly remember working the mall blood pressure check, colorectal info booth, cardiac info booth. Whatever unit I was on, the hospital would have some kind of info booth at the mall. And part of our 'pay for performance' markers was community service hours. But it was always fun
CP that's quite an innovative way to raise money for yourself some dancing lessons. Good luck in it
Sylvia so sorry the hospital is so short staffed you had to wait all that time. At some point hospitals will realize that it is quite dangerous to have a patient nurse ratio like that
farmwifenmom do you have your fit bit synced with MFP? Your fit bit should just transfer those calories burnt over to MFP
TNtoni I was wondering the same thing about CMA. To some one in the medical field CMA means Certified medical assistant. Or the M could stand for medicine
Barb although others were seeing weight loss on me it took me a long time to see it in myself. Even a longer time for me to feel comfortable looking at myself in the mirror
Michele thanks so much for the info on the sale of MFP. I'm glad it is another health related company.

Iam the same way with evening grazing. I am fine with my meals. I log all of them in in the morning. But the evening is awful. I started working on Jig saw puzzles on my iPad and that does help some. Take care everyone. Have fun on cruises, be safe in the snow

Joyce, Indiana

Like a few others, I am going through some hard times at the moment, walked out of work yesterday lunchtime (someone upset me) and now found out that son is having relationship problems with his live in partner - I think it may have something to do with losing his dad plus they have found out their son has epilepsy - but I could be wrong.

It never rains but it pours.

Viv York UK

Good morning! I feel some improvement this morning. Still not running marathons, but moving my legs didn't cause too much belly pain. Sleeping is my main job right now. When hubby gets here I plan to walk a lot. I had him bring me some of my larger sweat pants so I would have something to cover my butt. Ooh! I just passed some gas! Yippee! Must have done some in my sleep too, because I'm not as bloated this morning.

My son brought the kids up to visit yesterday evening. That was nice. My sister came over from Wichita, and one of my potter friends came by. That was more than enough visiting. I tried to eat some jello last night, but it didn't go down well. This morning I will try a Popsicle. Oh, how low my expectations have gotten.

I'm worn out again now, so it's back to sleep for me. I hope you are all having a rest day.

YannieJannie, I'm sorry but I just skimmed the posts and I see that people are congratulating your daughter. I sure hope that means she got into vet school!. When I'm up to reading more I'll go back and find it. But I'm so happy for both of you!

Sylvia

I'm on my way out the door to Charleston to hop on the ship. Just had to check in one last time. Sylvia, only the best thoughts for you!!
All you other lovely ladies, I hope you have a wonderful week. May your pains be few and your victories be plentiful.
I love you all,
Janet in the Bahamas soon.

Hello group –
I’m new a week of so ago. You all are amazing - thank you so much. Much wisdom, humor and tons of goo tips from an “experienced” group!

My short-term weight goal for Feb is to get down to 280 (I was 295 my highest wt ever in mid Jan), part of a long but committed journey to a healthy weight. I’m 5’10”, and 56. I plan to be here with you all for the long haul. So far I am on track, 6 pounds the last week of Jan, another 2 lbs gone this week. YAY! To get there, I am doing about 1800 cal, moderate to low carbs, and exercise bike/weights, and sharing positive vibes and ideas with YOU ALL. I haven’t done “social” weight loss before, I never found a group that resonated, but you ladies really do.

I’ve already had one knee replaced and the other is in bad shape, plus a very sore heel (plantar fascitis, no doubt all related to decaying knee). I can’t wait to get back to walking for exercise, but for now I’m looking for ideas that don’t involve being on my feet much. I’m starting to do some leg lifts, arm weights, work with bands. Any ideas for video workouts would be appreciated).

So many of you have lost some much weight – Barbie, Katla, Caddi - big congrats and what an inspiration.

Karen from Maine –
I’m new this month too. My sister in law in Bangor has been posting pictures of feet of snow – is it the same where you live?

Beth- LOL. You are probably dealing with plenty of snow too?

Judy – hope the meds work and you can get back to harp lessons!

Sylvia – wow! Glad you went to the ER and didn’t just assume it was another stone. As my old boss used to say, “assumption is the mother of all screw-ups”

Congrats to all who lost weight this week !

Cindy
Southern Maryland