WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2105

Sylvia - I feel for you having to deal with the insurance company. They'll get it right in the end, I bet -- it may need your doctor stressing the emergency situation. In my case all I'm going through is said to be normal, but it turns out that patience in recovery is not my strong suit. It was a hysterectomy and repositioning of everything else nearby. No pain after the first day or two, just the lingering bloating and tiredness. In my mind I've moved past it, but the body hasn't caught up. (I guess after my earlier heart surgery I felt weak enough that it didn't bother me to go slowly.)

Allison - doesn't anyone else do the shoveling? I'd think the practice would hire someone. Also, doesn't that open the practice up to workers comp issues if you injured yourself shoveling? Though perhaps the outdoors is preferable to the 'climate' inside the office from your earlier descriptions....

Walked about 4 miles today. Hope tomorrow is nice so I can walk outside.

Gail

stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 12.51min, 13.7mph 3mi = 106cal

spin class- 40min, 83av. revolutions per min, 109 average watts/power, 10-15 average gear (gears are 1-240, 16.3mi = 332cal

bike ride gym 2 train station- 6.25min, 13.2amph, 1.4mi = 85cal

bike ride train station 2 hm- 18.05min 8.8amph 2.7amph = 167cal
690cal total

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
(My prayer for you today is that each of us has the courage to pursue our dreams!)


DeeDee2211: Beautiful picture! Thanks for sharing!
Beth: I’m so sorry about that you son has migraines again and that the state is so brilliant! Don’t you just love dealing with government agencies.
Sylvia: Glad you are feeling better. I’m sure that the weight will come off quickly. There is no way that you gained 20 lbs! It has to be fluid. That’s still a whole lot of fluid though. Please take care of yourself.
Pip: Sure hope you start feeling better soon.
Barbie: I am always amazed at how much you accomplish. So happy that Jake doctor is encouraging and that all she had to do was freeze a few spots. Happy that your dentist visit went well, too.

Welcome to all those who are new or returning. Hugs and prayers to all those who are having a difficult time with the weather and/or illness. Congratulations to all who are doing well dieting, exercising, and/or maintaining.

DH and I have taken tomorrow off for our 42nd Anniversary. Our DD#2 is still visiting and will be returning tomorrow to Colorado. She lives with DD#1& her family. Wish I could go back with her! Today, DH was off and he and DD#2 went to one of our favorite poboy places, then they came and had lunch with me. They asked what I wanted and I told them I was bringing my salad because tonight we were cooking Crawfish Etouffee and Baked Catfish. Despite these being some of my favorite foods, I calculated the calories and managed to say under my caloric goal for the day! Yay! I, also, managed to walk 10,000 steps today! Woo Hoo! Especially happy with that one. In order to get there, I had to walk at work and then come home and walk. DD#3 and my DGDs came along for the walk. I still didn't manage to hit 10,000 until I walked another 300 steps in my house! LOL! I was determined to get there since I wasn't feeling well enough to walk this weekend. Tomorrow we are going somewhere for lunch with DD#2, DD#3, and DSIL. All this eating out is getting old...I love it, but it takes so much effort, I find, to make sure I'm accurately logging my calories. I won't be for much longer, DD#2 leaves on Wednesday. (Sad face!!)

It is really past my bedtime, so I'll say goodnight! Praying for blessings to all. Thank you all for your wonderful support!

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

Morning dear friends~well here it is just the hubby and I, and he leaves for work super early...
at work there are usually 8 plus the Dr, he is 31-32 and really has no personality. on his down time with no patient's he plays computer games, doesnt really associate with us much..this generation I dont know. when they chivalry is dead, its true..he doesnt even offer to shovel, just sits in front of the computer.. the rest of us are women,someone else shovels if I am not there,but we do have someone that plows the parking lot. he does not shovel... so we do the ramp and around the walkway so patients will be able to get in...., we didnt have to many patients yesterday but we were all there except for one of us who lives down near the shore and she had ice down there, but she can work from home, because her computer is connected to our network.
woke up at 2 am this morning and have a 9 am appt at the dentist to get my teeth cleaned then work after that, so have to make hubbys dinner and his lunch for tomorrow. and get the dogs out and get the laundry out of the dryer and take a shower and go feed my DFIL. and make my lunch. will shovel a little bit

Just a hi for now.
I got this in my email (I have Endomondo as well).



Cynthia

Afternoon from Scotland (Tuesday) - hope everyone is well. Been to the nurse this morning for the thyroid check up. It will be a few days before I know if there is a change of meds. Anyway yesterday was a good day and was so motivated from this section I was really good with my eating. Today I am not so sure. Lunch to me looks so big but it says its only 366 cals, seems low with the weight of the packet, but anyway I have logged it in and we will see in a weeks time what changes I have made.

Heather, love hearing about your sight seeing and am looking up the foods you mention to see what they are. Grew up in the country and mom always made very simple meals that my dad liked. So never sampled many exotic foods. I enjoy cooking very much but still just make simple fare.

Cold and windy here today! I feel bad complaining because the folks up North are having terrible weather. (((Sylvia)))

Hi Sylvia, you sound good! Keep taking care of yourself!

Cynthia

Hubs got his new FitBit yesterday (the Charge) so we are racing to see who can step the most today. So far I'm winning!

I got a new scale yesterday because my old one had too many fat people standing on it for too many years and it just gave up. This one shows me a couple of pounds higher than I thought I was. But it also shows .2 pound increments so I can see even small changes. That will be encouraging.

Welcome to all the new ladies!

Diana in Northeast Indiana

Sylvia,

I am surprised you are eating meat. Meat is one of the hardest things to digest. I would think they would have given you a diet to help your gut heal and after it heals to gradually introduce foods. Meat would be one of the last to be added.

I read this is true after any kind of trouble with your gut or routine test. We get in such a hurry to get back to our normal diet our poor guts suffer for it. I am guilty too of being in too much of a hurry to get back to normal when I have had problems, and I suffered for it.

We got some freezing rain and now snow. We are only due to get one to three inches. Nothing like out east. We had that kind of winter last year. UGHHHHH! The east has my sympathy. As hard as it is do try to keep your storm drains clear. When it melts the water needs somewhere to go. Parts of our area here had trouble with flooding as a result of the snow last year. Sometimes there are preventative steps you can take if you take them early.

MNMargaret

Never going to catch up! Well, I learned how to use the snow blower because I had to, not because I wanted to! My DH has been in a wheel chair since Saturday and refuses to go to the doctor! I suspect a stress fracture in his ankle. His ankles and knees are not good anyway but this time, it really put him down!

I am so tired! Not used to all this snow removal! Alison, I don't know how you do it! I am at work and exhausted!

Have to go back to work. I skimmed up to page 14 and noticed we are on 17 right now! Oh, well, someday!

Rita from snowy CT

Words for the year:
Determination and Moderation
February Goals:
1. Pay off at least 1 bill (Paid 2!!)
2. Finish MIS (This is my last week! YAY!)
3. Exercise 20 times this month (already at 7, includes snow removal)
4. Lose 5 pounds (by eating 4 veggies, 2 fruits, and record every day)
All to get to my year end goals of Financial stability and lose 50 pounds.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT.

Good afternoon! It is cold and damp here with more cold on the way--Friday is going to be miserable for us Southern folk!

Sylvia - I'm glad you're feeling some better. The swelling (fluid) will take a while to completely leave your body--think about all of the trauma it went through! I'm sorry you're dealing with insurance crap. I had a little go round with them over the weekend (I lost...) When my daughter was in the ER one night, the patient in the next curtained off cubicle was told she needed emergency gallbladder surgery and was being admitted immediately. The poor woman was on the phone to her insurance company at 3 a.m. trying to get pre-authorization while vomiting between sentences. They evidently told her she had to call back during business hours! :wtf:

Alison - I'd be tempted to go to the doctor and charge it to Worker's Comp if the pain didn't ease up soon!

My luck with phoning in stuff (by the rules) has been abysmal lately. Starting in December when my water at the new place was shut off on Christmas Eve (after I had placed the call to the city to have it put into my name on December 19), to last Monday when I walked in after work at 7:30 p.m. to no electricity because someone at Duke Power also failed to make the transfer and allowed the previous owner to shut it off (they had the record of my call so someone got in trouble!), to Sunday when I called to find out why I hadn't gotten the meds that I had ordered two weeks ago (insurance makes me get them by mail) to find out the person took my address change but never bothered submitting the prescription refill. Everyone else had better hope that that they haven't screwed up because I have been without one of my psych meds for four days due to that last failure!

On a good topic, Spot finally went outside on Sunday and explored the backyard area. She acted so incredibly please with herself when she came back in! And, soccer season started Friday night so now I know how loud it will be in the park during soccer games. Not wonderful in my bedroom, but barely noticeable from the living room. Also, the lights were all turned off by 9:30 p.m.!

Oh! Another good thing! I went to Aldi last night to pick up some bananas and a couple of little things that I needed (being out of work the past two weeks has really hurt my income so I'm mostly eating out of the pantry and freezer) and I was thrilled to find fresh raspberries for $1.49, fresh blackberries for $.99, and fresh strawberries for $1.49. They were delicious with my Greek yogurt this morning! I'm looking forward to more of them over a serving of no-sugar-added ice cream tonight.

Okay, off to take a walk around the building before I eat my lunch (chicken and wild rice soup then grapes and cheddar cheese sticks) and get some steps in. Good luck to all!

Carol in NC

Margaret, do you mean the roast I put in the crock pot? That is for hubby's dinner tonight and for him to tak for lunches the rest of the week. I'm still on soft food, although the instructions they sent home said I could resume my regular diet. But I don't feel ready for anything too heavy yet. I was trying to remember, and I don't think I've had any meat yet, but did have some eggs and cheese. Is that meat?

Tngram2- I laughed out loud (which hurts) when I read your comment about passing gas in my own bed. I have to be VERY careful about where I pass any gas now, because what feels like gas is usually something else.

Mary, what is eelpout? Never heard of it.

Well, I'm off to bed again. Have a great day.

Sylvia

x

Did 15 minmutes of yoga yesterday, then held my plank for 2 min 40 sec and then took the extremepump class. Today I did an hour of HIIT on the elliptical. We have a Newcomer general meeting tomorrow so I'll do Kelley Coffee Meyers 30 Minutes to Fitness DVD, probably do it twice so I get an hour workout in.

Had mahjongg here last night. The one gal who had the detached retina came. She thought she had re-detached it (this would have been the third time) but it appears it's only a hematoma and it will go away. I think she was (understandable) overly-paranoid, but after she learned that it wasn't redetached, she did come over. Vince drove her vehicle home and I followed her. A neighbor of mine came over and another gal. So I didn't get home until around 11.

Tonight I'm hosting Rummikub here. I made a granola cake, made some ginger cookies so have some of those, tried making marshmallows from scratch (just cut them up, they came out quite good), and I have a basket of clementines.

Before I even get started, welcome to everyone new, you've come to a great place. And welcome back to all returning members.

After exercise today went and got the oil in my car changed. I needed new brakes on the rear. Then stopped at the Y near me, but the lady I wanted to talk to wasn't there. Well, I'll catch her another day. See, I would much rather do my HIIT there, but they only have one elliptical that gives you the step count, so I want to ask her if she can change that machine with another one, just move them around. Seems that people use the machine with the step counter and the arms much more, mainly because of where it's located. I really prefer not to go to the other branch if I can help it. They have the cardio machines so close together, to me, it's unsafe. You can't even walk between the treadmills, there just isn't enough room. I understand that they want to give access to as many members as possible, but to me safety should be paramount. But I'm sure it's not with them until someone gets seriously hurt and sues them.

CP - absolutely, the most important thing is that you stay on plan. I jot down on a piece of paper what I ate during the day and to me it's somewhat of a nusance to have to go back and put things under "lunch, dinner, etc". For the sake of brevity, I may just do it all under "snacks". Say, I wonder if you can change from "breakfast, lunch, dinner" to just one thing? I know you can add other times (like daytime snacks). I'll have to look this up.

Barb - hope you feel better fast! Congrats on staying within your calorie allotment.

Oh, stopped at the pharmacy for one of Loki's meds. This is one that has to be ground up and put in the capsule. Anyway, I know I called in the renewal a few days ago so I was surprised when I got there and they didn't have it. But the man told me (talk about shocker) that he'd have his driver DELIVER it so that I wouldn't have to go back. I thought that was very sweet of him. The driver got here around 7

The gal who had the redetached retina who came here yesterday gave me a small box of Godiva chocolates. Vince is a real chocoholic. I admit that I did have one of the small dark chocolate squares, but right now I'm not interested in any more. Just wish Vince would take that box over to the garage where he's working on his trains.

While getting ny oil changed, went to Aldi and just got two things. Then came home and made the bourbon balls to take to Jessica this weekend. I used up the last of the burbon! We had to get it a few years ago when Jessica wanted to have this bourbon glazed ham for Christmas, been using it up ever since then

Carol in GA - and you didn't invite me over for lunch????? lol Vince is the same way...everything has to be PLAIN and I love, just love, to experiment with different foods, spices, etc.

DeeDee - I sure enjoyed the warmth yesterday. You know, when I went to get my oil changed, it was chilly. I just now went to put something in my trunk and it's warmed up. It's supposed to get colder this weekend (boo). Hope you enjoyed yesterday. What did you do? Great pic

Heather - you make me feel like I'm taking the trip with you!

Beth - awesome week! Will you guys EVER get rid of the snow (and Alison and Rita, too). So sorry about your son. The wheelchair situation is abolutely amazing.

Sylvia - you'll get that weight off, just heal yourself right now. Good advice about the crowd funding. I'd never heard of it before. I hate dealing with insurance companiesl Good luck to you (I'm afraid you're going to need it!)

Barb from LA - happy anniversary! Good for you staying under calories!

Joyce - the same thing down here, even the THREAT of snow, and the place is like a ghosttown. In some ways that's good since many people don't have any clue how to drive in the snow. They'll workout the date for the musical.

Toni - yes, the eye specialist is for her. I think she has to go so far away because of her insurance (Obamacare)

Carol in NC - I find that many of Aldi's prices are pretty good. But they don't seem to be too good on eggs and milk. But baking items and veges are good.

Red - that was so nice of you to be there for your friend

Holy cow! Where did the day go? I have to get ready for Rummikub

I'm going to post this before too late. Sorry for anyone that I may have missed.

Michele in NC