WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2105

funnygirl4000 wrote: »

Helio ladies! Everyone's posts are so interesting & encouraging. I had a bad day yesterday when I went shopping for bathing suits (I am going on a cruise in March with 2 of my girls). I haven't gotten new swimwear in Many Years. OH MY!! I am three sizes bigger than I Thought I was. I know I have gained some weight in the last five years, but shopping for a flattering suit when you are over weight is a Real eye opening experience. And not in a good way. And anything that covers & holds in my flab & my 38DD chest looks like I am wrapped in yards & yards of fabric. I know I am 51 and I know I will look better after I lose some weight but I am so discouraged. I would love any suggestions & help. Any body have this same issue? What do you guys do??

Carey from Edmonton AB: Welcome to a wonderful group of women.

Michele: It sounds like the president of your homeowners association is a great guy, but I don’t understand Florida law that says you have to pay for the replacement of the vanity that was damaged by a neighbor’s plumbing issue. I hope you enjoy yourself at the races. I’ll be thinking of you and my neighbors who will also be at Daytona and hope you all have a great time. How do you deal with the noise at the racetrack? It seems like it would be painfully loud and potentially deafening. I was talking to DH about it the other day and we wondered whether the noise cancelling headsets that hunters and marksmen use would be effective at the Daytona. They supposedly block the percussion from gunfire while allowing conversation. I wonder if they’d do the same for engine noise.

Sylvia: I hope your DGD loves her piano lessons and practices. I wasted mine. I didn’t like the teacher and didn’t practice. My mom refused to teach me. At the time I was unhappy about it, but now I understand her decision. My real problem was that I never practiced. If your DGD comes to your studio to practice I bet she’ll do a lot better than I did. It will be special time with Grandma.

Yanniejannie: My riding instructor has decided to become a Veterinary Technician. There is a program and a nearby community college that will result in certification, and she’ll be helping at my Vet’s office as she goes along. It seems like a great match for her interests and abilities. She is magic with animals and passionate about their welfare.

Kim from N CA: I hope you’ll share your hiking adventures with us. It sounds like a great thing to do. Your part of CA is beautiful, with lots of good opportunities. Starting with 35 miles in the first week sounds daunting. Hot soaks in the tub and yoga would be my strategies to deal with the sudden increase in activity.

Joyce: Stay safe in the freezing rain. I think it is one of the most dangerous weather situations there is. You can’t actually see the places where ice forms a good bit of the time and falls can cause real damage, as I know from first hand experience.

Sharon in AB: I will keep your son’s situation in my prayers. I hope things come out well.

Joanncummings: Welcome to a great group. Join the conversations and you’ll get lots of support. You join this group simply by participating.

Cindy in S MD: Planning and portion control are great choices for focus. Portion control has been my primary weight loss strategy. I have food sensitivities that limit my choices anyway, so I didn’t want to reduce them further. I purchased a food scale and dishers to help with the portions. I’d recommend both. The food scale was relatively inexpensive, but the dishers are more costly. Dishers look like ice cream scoops and are used for portion standardization in the restaurant business. They’re a bit easier to use when dishing up things like potatoes, rice, and cottage cheese (or ice cream) than regular measuring cups.



Last night’s riding lesson was fun. Cantering, aka loping, was the objective. I managed to catch the rhythm again and that was very nice. I didn’t have control of the horse. My teacher had him on a longe line and we changed directions and speed at her whim. I told her at the beginning that I need to work on balance, and she is making it a primary objective. Yay! It is just what I need.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon


“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison


February Goals:
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep.

Hello ladies!

Dreamwriter ... communication... seems to be a dying art form.

Funnygirl4000 ... there's a site for suits of all sizes and shapes. The best part is the beautiful attitude the models have. Swimsuitsforall.com.

SCC1958 ... perfect response to funny girl!

Wow! First time I lost half of a post ... maybe for the best ... it was long! I'll just say thanks to those who gave work advice. It was a nasty week, but I got through it without stress eating! Yay! Thanks for being a sounding board!

Beth in Western New York where 18° feels like a heat wave!

Cindy - I started yoga at my fattest, and could do only the basics, but my teacher is brilliant at adapting postures for disabilities. Many of our ladies are over 70 and have all sorts of things wrong with them. You just have to find the right teacher. It has made an enormous difference to me.

Sharon - feeling for you and your son. :flowerforyou: It will all work out I am sure. Just remember, eating won't help with the stress. (*)

Funnygirl - I well remember those days of just feeling horrible in anything I went to buy. I often came home in a deep depression. Just find a really nice sarong and brave it out! :flowerforyou: At least it's really good motivation not to est too much on your hols!

I started a new habit today, based on all the habit books I have been reading on my Kindle. The one I have at the moment suggests apportioning tasks according to their importance and the energy that you have at different times of dsy. Thus, the most important tasks at time of peak energy. I have long known that my peak time is in the morning, but my exercise regime has taken up some of that time. After my exercise I was tending to reward myself with getting on to MFP and writing my daily post. From today I have decided to use that time to type out my novel, which is my current most imprtant task. It worked well todsy. I did about 40 mins and still had the energy to do some admin and print out stuff. I hope I can make this a new habit. Prioritising and planning according to the day's energy levels seems to work for me. By the afternoon I am whacked, so less important jobs can be done then.
He also suggests planning meals and cooking them ahead to allow for the slump in energy before dinner time. I nearly always have my dinner prepped and sometimes on the hob straight after lunch or it would not get done. I couldn't face cooking a full meal at 6 o'clock. :noway: Today I had the meal done by 2 pm.
The book is called, Levelling Up Your Day.
I have always had a love/hate relationship with my writing and tend to make all sorts of excuses not to do it. As it vitally important to my sense of self I hope I can stick to this new regime and make it a good HABIT. :drinker:

LOVE to all. DH returning in a minute from football. His team lost today to their nearest rivals.

Heather in springlike and flowery Hampshire UK

Greetings to all. I have missed too much to try to catch up but I did see the chicken fajita salad recipe posted by Mary in Minnesota. Thanks so much! I will be sure to try it.

I have been really struggling right now with this knee issue. I really feel like giving up and think "what's the point" when I can't really exercise well right now. Any thing I do results in a screaming knee. I just did 30 minutes on my new recumbent cross trainer, and now the knee is up on ice and I'm full of ibuprofen. I can't seem to find appropriate foods either. Having to limit carbs is tough because I'd love to be a "fruit-atarian"!

Work has been an issue recently too. Yesterday ended with me having a melt down in my boss's office. My boss is great and so is everyone else, but the program director I work under is always demeaning me and my work and I end up feeling blamed for everything. So we ended the meeting with her agreeing to stop emailing me and come talk to me in person because she thinks her communication style is better suited to that v. sending long, personal, and insulting emails. Which she says she doesn't mean...so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and try to start over with her.

DD#1 is full of drama again as usual. Yesterday she wanted to move back in with us...um, no.....the bf never stays home. so hubby went over there and had a little intervention. Turns out the bf wants to be gone all the time because all they do is fight. He denies not wanting to care for the baby but says he doesn't want her around all the fighting all the time. They keep talking about counseling but haven't gone. Their duplex is tiny and dark, neither or them has a job, and they just stay there together all the time, until he leaves. So DH was very blunt, telling both of them to get jobs...any job...take turns taking the baby so the other one can go out, and go to counseling.....OR....give the baby up for adoption because they obviously cannot handle this situation. The bf was crying but DD#1 just sat there like a stone, so who knows what will happen. But he also made it clear, no coming back, no even for a night.

Well DH just pulled in from grocery shopping...he offered so I didn't have to do it this week to give my knee a break....so I'm heading out to put the food away. Take care all of you. Meg from sort-of-sunny Omaha.

Hello to all ladies. Congratulations to everyone for sharing your goals, feelings, heartache, struggles, and successes. My goal is to log in everyday and be accountable to food intake and exercise. I have a whole different attitude when I am connected to MyFitNessPal this time around. I love the community. My heart goes out to all you in the cold, it is supposed to be near 80 on Sunday here in Orlando.

Stephie
Orlando, FL

Checking in for Feb 2015....smh (I am so late)

Ok. There is beautiful rays of light highlighting a lovely dog.

evening ladies~
well I worked today and then we went out shopping and looking for stuff.. we did buy a dishwasher 239.00 stainless.will see if my brother can install it...looking at stainless sinks for the kitchen and I like the faucet sprayer together.. DH likes those too, but him being his anal self he wants one with a soap dispenser.. well we will still hunting for something we like.but got a bargain on the dishwasher.. we went to sears outlet and found a wall microwave oven, would fit perfectly in the spot where the wall oven is.. but it is 625.00. and he thinks thats way to much for a microwave.
here is my thinking 1- we use the microwave ALL the time...2- I could see if we werent going to buy a range with an oven already in it.. but the inside of this thing is huge,, you could cook all sorts of stuff in it..
and to get a 24" electric wall oven is over $ 2,000..
lordy this process is giving me a headache, but it will look good in the end.. we have snow,sleet and freezing rain overnight into tomorrow, oh joy and another few storms as of next week.. we are just getting hammered..
still cant go visit DFIL still under quaranteen.. he hasnt gotten sick yet though so thats good.

Hi Everyone, I'm Patty. I use to be on here all the time but have been away for awhile. Haven't had home internet. I am still working my full time job, personal training and teaching water aerobics. I haven't gained any weight but still can't seem to lose. I am really going to buckle down, log, and get away from sugar and flour again. I could sure use some support. I've missed you all.
Here in Cincinnati it has done some major snowing and I shoveled my driveway and sidewalk twice.
Good to be back, Patty

Hi girls! I have been logging on MFP for 95 days in a row but I have lost only 4 pounds!! I tried to stick to my calories goal and exercise but I have found my self sabotaging all my purposes, specially during weekends. My job is really demanding and stressful and usually I have found myself relieving my anxious with something to eat. no easy!

Hello everyone. I'm sitting in the recliner listening to Spot barking his fool head off in the back yard. Oddly, the other two don't seem curious. That is very strange.

Went to the studio this morning and hubby helped me load my kiln. It is stuffed to the gills with bowls for the kids empty bowls project. Not sure it will work though, because I had gotten a bad batch of clay that had tiny pieces of junk in it that didn't show up until it was bisque fired. Tomorrow I'll see how bad it really is, but I expect to lose quite a few. Hubby was a huge help, with lifting and bending over. Yesterday I was scraping my kiln shelves which turned out to be harder work than I thought, so I strained my incisions a little. Still a little sore from that today.

My son has the flu, on top of his lung problems, PLUS he fell and hurt his back, so he's not feeling too well today. I ran errands for him, and took the girls to and from their Girl Scout cookie sales at the mall.

Hubby and I went to dinner at the local steak house. I had a pork chop cooked with no seasoning and I had brought my own shaker of Mrs Dash Spicy table blend. It was yummy. Then we went to Home Depot. That's our date night thrill, Home Depot. Bought a mop bucket. Romantic, huh?

The dogs have been tracking in mud so I mopped the kitchen and mud room. Now I have go go wash the dishes by hand because the dishwasher was giving of kind of an electrical burning smell earlier. We need to have a repairman come take a look at it. We don't want to burn the house down.

Jan, sorry about your car not starting. I'm so glad to hear that Gemma is doing well. We have to get Martingale collars or Molly. She's a pinhead ( tiny head, big neck) so no other collar will stay on her.

Meg, so sorry about the knee and the baby issues. And the jerk at work. Such stress! Hang in there.

Rasugo, sorry to hear you are struggling. Tell us more about the stresses you are under. Maybe we can help.

Good night everyone!

Sylvia

antoinettegriseta wrote: »

Fairly new to MyFitnessPal. Have 42 consecutive log ins. My goal is to lose 65 pounds and have already lost 12 pounds. I live in Belleview which is central Florida but am originally from Brooklyn, NY.



Good luck to all!!!

Congratulations on the logins and weight loss! Sounds like your doing great!

Selena – how wonderful to re-unite a family! I can’t imagine how hard it would be if I lost my Levi.

Shower – door vs curtain… I have one of each… the curtain is on the tub/shower combo and the door on the shower only… My mom has a door on her tub/shower combo and my mom is the best house cleaner I know and it never looks 100% clean… throwing the curtain in the washer is the way to go!

Sharon – breathe!!! The best lawyer and good documentation should be the right answer.

Cindy – cooking for 1 or 2 is tough sometimes but I cook for more and put some in the freezer for another day.

Meg – the exercise you mention most is something that uses a lot of knee motion…have you considered other motions? Thinking one of the youtube videos of seated exercising or even thing like leg lifts – laying on your side… things that would not bend the knee but strengthen the mussels on the inside and outside of the leg?

Pip – your pup is so cute with the teddy bear!

Lesley – you and Stan are doing such a good job of grieving and supporting and finding joy… my thoughts are with you.

Patty – welcome home.

Yannie - a lavender soak – that is what I need!!! So will do that when I am done reading!!! Wish I had a hot tub!

Sylvia – the MS joke was spot on!

So a bit on my world… I walk with Levi (my dog) about 3 miles every day and have for months… so that is about 21 miles a week. I have joined a hiking group; this group hikes 5-10 miles of mostly hills 4-5 days a week… I will NOT be joining them much… but on Tuesday mornings is their “easy” hike 5 miles in 2 hours with a 800 foot up and 800 foot down elevation change, the time and location is convenient and they are really nice so I am doing that with them. There are dogs and cows on the hike with us so I cannot bring Levi (he is not good with other animals; but loves humans) Which means Tuesdays I do 5 miles with the group and 2-3 miles with Levi.. This week they had a flat walk planed on Friday; and it was in a location that I could bring Levi so we did 6 miles on Friday – silly dog was not even tired.

Joining this group was one of my homework assignments from my counselor - My goal is a group of local friends that are supportive and encouraging… my current group has some gems and some that are toxic, but I am social and need to have new folks to “replace” the ones I let go of. So far the hiking group has lots of potential! Time will tell, but it is good exercise.
I have finding that this quantity of exercise is making me starving..and my current eating habits are not doing it. I feel back into some old bad habits this week and don’t want to repeat that. I really need some “grab it” food items that I can use to get me over the hunger IS an emergency feeling. – something that can be carried with me in the car and eaten while driving home.. as the drive has EVERY fast food joint and donut place known to man along the way…I have to get by them without stopping… and I am a quantity gal so the 10 nut serving is just not doing it for me… I need a big baggie of something! Ideas?????



Feb. goals:
Walk every day
Log all bites everyday
Plan and do a fun thing every week

Kim from N. California