WOMEN AGES 50+ for MAY

Mimi and Star
thanks for your input.i think the sodium was the culprit this time.we had gone to eat and know the food had a lot of soduim in.Also it wasn`t the 1st wt of the day.I also have to talk to the endo dr regarding my thyroid test.It was on the high side of normal.
i love this group,I`m glad I stumbled on it.
have a great week-end!!
jane

I did it! I got up early enough to make it to the gym. It felt good to make up for missing yesterday. I really like to go 5 times a week. I have a heart monitor ordered a Polar FT4. Hopefully it will be what I expect it to be. I want to check and make sure I am really burning as many calories as the elliptical says I am. I do 30 minutes on the elliptical, do a round of strength machines for 20 minutes and then another 30 on the elliptical. I usually use the weight loss setting which varies between resistance 4 and 8 with cross ramp of 5 and 10. I end up burning from 300 to 350 calories for each 1/2 hour. Do any of you do something similar and use a HRM? Hopefully I haven't been entering the wrong calories burned for exercise calories. :ohwell: I usually only eat back 1/2 of them so hopefully I am safe there.

Kackie - Sorry you didn't get any rain. :grumble: We actually got about an inch today!:happy: I got stranded in Lowes after the gym. My car was parked wayyyyyy in the back of the lot and I would have about drowned if I had gone out in that. It has settled the dust some and will probably help the grass at least temporarily. Unfortunately, it won't do a darn thing for the swamp fire. I hope you get a bit of rain soon too. It makes gardening a lot more work when it just won't rain. I hear you about planning to do more in the garden than is possible. I suffer from that as well.

Dee - How did the walk go? I hope the 3 miles felt right today. If not, I bet it soon will! :bigsmile:

The sun is back out and things are drying off already so I think I will get out on the porch and get some stain on the DGS's new bed. I'm anxious to see what the stain color will look like. It seems to be quite a reddish brown to me but if that's what he wants, it's okay by me.

Hope we all have a great weekend!

Faye

I DID IT! I walked 3 miles without a break and it felt great! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: The best part was I didn't feel at all stressed (meaning muscles, knees etc) at the end. At the end of the walk I sat with one of my favorite neighbors and we chatted for 40 minutes or so uninterrupted. That doesn't happen very often. Very enjoyable.

Gotta go get DH something to eat.

Dee:flowerforyou:

Oops! Forgot this part:

One thing that I really wish MFP would do is give you a pie chart by meal of how you are doing in your carb/fat/protein ratio, that would be especially helpful at the end of the day.

Natalie - I've never had a restaurant not do a special order for me, never. There have been times when I've had to send something back to the kitchen because it wasn't prepared the way I asked for it to be, but they've always made it right. So you should have no problem.

Hello!! :flowerforyou:

I would love to join this group, I'm 48 yrs old Soon to be 49 in July :bigsmile: . Can you squeeze me in?
I started MFP.com In November 2010 just after Thanksgiving. I've done pretty well with losing the weight but still need to lose 15 pounds.
I'm married to a wonderful man ( he's 52 does that count?) We have No children, But we have 3 dogs and a Quaker Parrot.

My exercise routine is / 3 miles on the treadmill = 1 hour
30 minutes everyother day lifting weights

SallyCC... I also Love preparing my meals ahead of time. I'll cook a whole chicken & place in seperate containers & freeze for the week. Same with my speghetti sauce & ground beef.

I hope you all have a wonderful evening!
:happy: Teresa

p.s. My profile picture, I'm the one in the middle with the yellow dress

Welcome to all the new friends in the neighborhood. Welcome Teresa wo is an old friend and new to this neighborhood. She has done an amazing job.

Kackie I am so sorry to read of your Uncle's death. Prayers for you and your family.

Mimi, I can not wait for there to be truly fresh veggies here. We hope to start planting the garden after memorial day, any earlier and we risk frost.

Barbie, love the photo with DH and the Grandkids. Bet you can run cicrcles around the GKs now!

Mary and Vickie, way to go on the great weight loss.

It has been another long day at work. I work harder on the weekends than I do during the week. But I am ever mindful of this tough economy and more than happy to have the income.

Amanda I hope you are working your way back into things slowly. I know you are probably most unhappy with having to rest and recuperate. Look forward to hearing from you and seeing more pics of you and those beautiful twins.

Must do my night rounds of the farm. Warm thoughts go out to you all, Alice

Hi Teresa. Welcome to you and to everyone who's new. This is such a great site. Mary (msh0530) turned me onto it many months ago. I'm so glad. I hope you enjoy it as much.

You've done a great job on weight loss. I particularly like your ticker with both BMI and weight. I'll have to check that one out.

BTW, when (and how) did your Parrot become a Quaker? :laugh:

Jeanne3651,

You ask "why do I eat over everything, good or bad". I was an emotional eater all my life. I had to fight to keep my weight down constantly. What I learned about six years ago (better late than never) was that 1) it was a habit. 2) i gave in to it immediately
3) it never helped, it just made me heavier. While it is a hard habit to break, it can be done. I learned to think before I grabbed
that cookie. I would say STOP, am I hungry? Why do I want to eat this? Then, I would get as far away from the food I wanted as
possible. A craving lasts for no more than 15 minutes. It is so worth the effort to make yourself be aware of what you are doing
and stop before that first bite. Do something, anything to take your mind off food. Call a friend , do some computer work, e mail
someone, come to this wonderful group for help. Take a walk, a shower, do a chore. You can break that bad habit of reaching
for food for every little thing that happens in your life. Now if all fails and you do start eating, you must get it under control as fast as you can. Do not feel like because you ate some ice cream at 11am you have to eat the rest of the day and then it goes into days and weeks. Forgive yourself and get back on track by immediately writing down what you will eat the rest of the day and the next day too. Then stick to that plan. Do some thinking. Think about what motivated you to start losing weight in the first place. Picture yourself succeeding, looking and feeling so much better. Congratulate yourself for how far you have come and know that you can see this through to goal and that you can maintain the loss. You said you gained 20lbs back. That is a lot of weight. You have to set a number and refuse to go over that number. It should be no more than five pounds over the goal weight. If a slip happens before goal, just stop as fast as you can. The fact that it continues for so long and you gain 20lbs shows you how serious it is when you do take that first bite. I need structure and eat three meals and four snacks every day. I never allow myself to feel hungry. I recently have been in a lot of pain and have not exercised as much. I let myself get depressed and gained back about ten pounds. Thank heaven, I got control again and now I have lost two of the ten and want to lose a total of twenty. It is hard work to lose weight and twice as hard for emotional eaters like us. We can do it. We cannot let a cookie win. So , I hope my story and the things I have told you can help. Never give up. I was 60 when I finally had a light bulb moment. Right now I am struggling , but I have no doubt that I can win. You can too.

Amylu, I love the quote under your ticker.

Michele, thanks for the info on Food For Thought.

Mary, You helped Kackie with sew and sow and then wrote knew people instead of new people. Were you making a joke
or was that a slip? :laugh: I find myself not being able to spell the simple words lately. I will spell long hard words and then have to ask how to spell a word like "these" and that's no yoke, or is it joke. :laugh:

Dee, my heart goes out to your son and to you and your husband. Nothing hurts more than when you child, no matter what age is in pain. Glad you made the three miles. Nice going.:flowerforyou:

Star

Hi Again!


cherub.... 30 day shred, You amaze me! GREAT JOB! I bought the DVD about 5 months ago and couldn't get past the warm up. Once Jillean went to jumping jacks. I said No WAY! :noway: Congratulations!!!

star...... I look at it the same way. When I have a craving I wait a little while so the craving passes. I quit smoking cigarettes 20 years ago. And it's the same thing for me, I waited 15 minutes and the craving for the cigarette past. Same thing for eating.


Okay! Really saying goodnight now. Way past my bed time :blushing:

First, I was remiss yesterday. I haven't seen them on lately, but if you are lurking, happy belated birthday to lovediets and jberberian! I'm really sorry that I missed it!
As for the "new" and "knew" - not intentional, but my cat did keep jumping on my keyboard wanting attention when I was typing today, so I will blame it on him.
I have been busy today trying to get the yard ready for the big picnic tomorrow, but I really think that it will be too cold, and we will be at my friend's house. We will decide at church tomorrow. Anyway, I have some dear old friends coming over to grill steak on Monday (driving in all the way from Minnesota), so at least I should be ready for them. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

It is midnight here, and my alarm is going off at 6, so I'd better hit the sack. Good night!

Good morning Ladies.

I'm a little shaken at present. On Friday night DH and I were driving over to visit his mum at the nursing home. Now, this is in a lovely area, and you would think there would be no problems at all. Anyway, we got to a set of traffic lights and the driver door was yanked open by a huge guy - stereotypical thug type - who snatched the keys out of the ignition and told DH to get out of the car. I'm not sure what his actual plan was. Fortunately there were some people passing by who shouted at him and started to run towards him and he ran off - throwing our car keys away as he went.

I was absolutely terrified that he was going to hurt my DH and I haven't been able to calm down properly since, in fact I keep bursting into tears.

Not sure what the guy intended, he appeared to be out of his head, probably on drugs, but I can't swear to that. There isn't really anything that the police can do about it, although they have been patrolling the area since then.

The blessing is that nobody was hurt, but it was still a horrible incident.

It actually makes me feel better to have written it down. Sorry to unburden myself - but I know that you lovely ladies won't mind.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend and being healthy and healthful!

Love
Amanda x

I lost another pound on the 17DD... I think adding in a bit more food on Cycle2 of the 17DD as one does, did the trick. Gotta keep the old metabolic fires stoked.

We got out for our usual 14 [28 RT] mile bike ride to the beach and enjoyed breakfast with our biking buddies at our favorite cafe. I think eating out with supportive friends is important... as long as they're not going to try and sabotage our efforts to eat right.

Also important when eating out... find places that serve healthy food... no greasy burger and fries joint is going to have fresh veggies, fruit, skinless chicken breasts or whole grain choices available. Many cafes and restaurants will try to customize your selections and that's where we should eat. For example, our Sat. morning cafe even says on it's menu that all patrons need to do is ask for food prepared to our needs. So DH and I ordered 1 veggie egg white omelet, split between us [they're too big for our diet] with small sides of oatmeal and fruit. How great is that? I think we should patronize only places that have our welfare at heart.

Kackle... sorry you didn't get any rain. Here in South Florida we're enduring a terrible drought. All the ponds and lakes are way, way down. But, yesterday afternoon, the skies opened up!! I could have done without the thunder and lightening, but we got 2 inches of rain in an hour. The banks on our lake out back are still showing, but it's a start in the right direction. Hope you get some relief too.

Amanda... how scary !!! So glad you and DH weren't hurt. There's a lesson for us all... keep our car doors locked at all times, even when we're in it!

GOOD morning, dear Ladies! I hope everyone is well.

Teresa: Welcome to this wonderful group. You have done so, so well! Glad to have you with us. (Paddy/Patty too!)

lovediets & jberberian: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Sorry if we missed you on your special day.

Cherub: WTG on 30 day shred. I will say that it gets easier after the 3rd time, so keep it up. I couldn't do them every day, but aimed for 3x week. I have started adding them back in every few days again as I KNOW they helped firm up some areas really well. Let me know what you think!

Alice: Good to hear from you today. You really do work hard. You also have a great attitude about it all too!:drinker:

Star: Emotional Eating...I think we can ALL relate. And I like all of your thoughts. I think that is the key...THINK before you eat that extra thing. Or go find 17 pens....or ANYthing to distract yourself. I like to hear what works for others too!

Amanda: YIKES! :noway: That is so scary!!! I am so glad that those people walked by when they did. I am sure you were terrified. Thank goodness all turned out ok!

Mary: I hope your weather is nice there today for your picnic! Have fun!

Barbie1: I heard something last night and HOPED it was thunder. Nothing came of it. Not a drop......Your bike ride sounds so nice!

My scale has been up and down a half pound for over a week now. It could often be more than that, so that's not unusual, but I have been wanting to "claim" the whole pound down for a while now. I am doing it today and hoping the half pound will stay gone and find some friends to go along with it! I am going to get my heart rate up today with some walk/run and probably 30 Day Shred too, now that I am finally feeling like myself. I cannot drop weight just by cutting food. My body requires sweat and tears!:grumble: :grumble:

I go tomorrow to a friend's beach house with 2 other friends for a "Bridge/Beach walk" couple of days. I don't know this friend all that well but it was nice of her to include me and it will be fun to have a little get-away. They are all 3 very active, fit ladies, so I don't think there will be much junk food or temptation. I am bringing a large bowl of fresh fruit and I know we are walking to a near-by restaurant for dinner, so I can pick something healthy. I know we will get some nice walks in so that should help. Look forward to it! DH is away on fishing trip so it's a good time to go.

Have a lovely day, everyone! Kackie

Hasn't our weather been turning fickle the past few years? Not much doubt that global climate change is a reality, whatever may be causing it. I'll let the scientists and politicians argue about what can be done, as they do, but we have to live and cope the best we can with the consequences.

The floods along the Mississippi are scary and horrible... yet there's drought in areas that should be getting rain. To all facing weather challenges, my heart goes out to everyone affected.

Good Morning everyone.

Star, thanks for the pep talk and advice. I figure I can do anything for fifteen minutes so I'll give that a try. I think I will quilt or read for 15 minutes when I get a craving. I've also gone back to measuring my food because I found myself creeping in larger portions. I have to eat five times a day due to my diabetis so I really need to control my portions.

Sunday mornings are my hardest time because DH and I are in charge of coffee and treats at church as well as setting up and cleaning up the kitchen. We have helpers but being with sweet treats staring me in the face for two hours is really hard. I didn't have to do it this morning because there's a big dinner at church after the service so others are doing all the prep, serving and cleaning up. DH and I went out to our favorite cafe for breakfast. They always fix my food the way I need to have it so I can stay on my food plan.

Thanks for the support everyone. Have a great Sunday and stay safe and on target.

Jeanne