WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2015

Good Evening All,

Pipcd34Thanks for the encouragement. I do have a goal of loosing 1lb. Per-week and staying below my calorie goal. That is about as far as My confidence will also.

Mikesmon1983 I'm south of Boston near the RI boarder. How about you?

Did 60 min. On the elliptical while watching a lecture from YouTube on the TV. One of my favorite speakers so I was able to keep going until he finished. ( I find this better than listening to music.)

Found out my yogurt needed more time. Now to strain out some of the whey. Read that drinking a cup of whey is very nutritious. The suggestion was to try it w/a tbs of cocoa and a little something to sweeten it.

DH just called asked if I wanted to go for a ride to our (summer) cottage. It's all of 12 miles away so it will make a nice evening's ride. I need to get out of my exercise clothes and put in my jeans & sneakers.

Naiomi2015 43F in sunny Massachusetts

Joyce: I’m so jealous that your taxes are done and filed! WTG!

Sylvia: Add DH and me to the list of people who only give our dog treats away from the table in the dog dish, or from our hands out on a walk. We only have one dog, so there wouldn’t be squabbles anyway. We do it this way because we don’t want him begging from the table. I love your goals this month, especially the first one!

Cynthia: Thanks for much for the newborn foal pictures.

Carol: Congratulations on the weight loss. I hope you get over what ever has taken your immune system to the point that you keep catching sicknesses.

Heather: I like your goals.

Dr. Katie: I’m sorry about your printer woes. How frustrating!

Janet: I love “life is like a camera."

Terri in Milwaukee: I’m not having the same problems you are with MFP. Perhaps it is in your home system.

Sassy: Awesome job with your goals. I love the quotation about consciously forming good habits.

Yanniejannie: I will be thinking about you on Friday, too.

Mynyddisamrs: Losing posts was a common problem for me in the beginning. Then I started typing my posts on a separate word document and copying and pasting the word document into MFP. It has saved me a LOT of aggravation.

Rori: I like your goals for the month. They seem well thought out and achievable.

Liz from Halifax: It is nice to see your post!


I had an unpleasant surprise at the gym this morning. My core and abs classes on Wednesdays and Fridays have been dropped. I will stop going in so early and focus on yoga for now. Thank goodness yoga has not been cut! They’re remodeling an area of the building for yoga and possible dance classes. I look forward to being able to take yoga in a room that isn’t too cold.

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


April Goals:
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back
strength.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.

Today's joke of the day:



One day an employee came in to work with both of his ears bandaged.

When his boss asked him what happened, he explained:

"Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang and I accidentally answered the iron instead of the phone!"

"Well," the boss said, "that explains one ear, but what about the other?"

"They called back!"

stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 10.17min, 17.1mph 3mi = 99c
Spin- 45min, 90ar, 99aw, 11-14g, 20mi = 366c
ride gym 2 dome- 7.23min, 11.8amph, 1.5mi = 104c
ride dome 2 hm- 17.38min, 8.9amph, 2.6mi = 241c
total cal 810

Heather YUM!

Today looked at my mom's pictures from her River boat cruise in Russia. She went from St. Petersberg to Moscow. She was quite the world traveler. She was born in India in 1918 to missionary parents who were in India from 1900-1930. Traveling must have gotten into her blood early. We are picking a couple pictures from every trip to put up in her room. One was of her posing with her friend with an actor portraying Peter the Great. Some of the Palaces are quite spectacular. The onion domes on some of the churches are distinctive. I did the same two mile walk again to get some exercise.

MNMargaret

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

Good Evening Ladies,

Pip, just so you know, you crack me up, too. Good non-goals. Go girl.

Cheryl, great picture!

New Toni, Welcome. We are glad to have you with us and hope you come often.

Chris, you should feel proud of yourself. Keep up the good work!

Carol, I went to TGIF today for lunch and I didn't even want to think about logging it, but always do even when I embarrass the hell out of myself. I did order wisely but ate everything on my plate except the slimy mushrooms that I just don’t care for. At least I didn’t order the French Dip that I really, really, really wanted.

Michele, for months I was satisfied to have just a little bite of something yummy, to satisfy my want. All of a sudden, if I have that nibble, I want another one..then another…then another. So sometimes just try to stay away from it. It’s really strange, because I can get two potato chips out of the bag and be okay with that?? Just weird.

Sylvia, are you putting me in the same category with that crazy Pip? Gosh, golly, gee, thank you..I feel honored. Tee hee hee The pie sounds like a good plan. Hope you savor every bite.

Vicki, sending good thoughts for your Mom.

Liz, we are all with you in this journey. Trust me, no one ever said it’s easy all the time. I do find some days easier than others and lots of days harder than others. If you have the commitment and take it one day at a time, you can do this. Try planning what you will eat and give yourself snacks to stave off hunger. I know you can, can , can!!!

Naiomi, wowzer, I think 60 mins on the elliptical is fantastic. You go girl!! And keep it up.

Katla, glad the yoga wasn’t cut for you.

Barbie, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about your obsession with walking. (Not really. Lol) I do think you are wise to step down so as to concentrate on other things. That is a good lesson for all of us. To be well rounded, we can’t let one thing take up all our time, even if it is more fun or gratifying than other things we need to do. I’m glad your dance instructor is okay.

Sylvia, good joke as always. Thanks for the giggle.

Olebear, welcome. Please tell us a little about yourself so we can get to know you. Join right in and come often.

Yannie, I feel the same way about the ladies here, including you. You have all become an important part of my life journey. Hope Friday is a big Piece of Cake. (the non-calorie kind.)

Margaret, how wonderful that you have those pictures from your Mom’s travels.

Michele, wasn’t it wonderful to get to page 3. If it kept up being that wide, I was even going to suggest that we all go back to March. That was a pain in the patooti.

Welcome to any Newbies that I missed. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.

I had a good day. The weather was beautiful and had a nice visit with friend over lunch then shopping. Steinmart has some great clothes, but many of them are more expensive than I want to pay. Especially since I am still changing sizes. My friend has a spare bedroom that has been made into a closet in addition to her large walk in closet in her bedroom. They are both full of clothes. I am almost down to her size so I told her I was going to come shopping in her closets.

Have a successful month, ladies.


My word #1 is savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.

#2 is opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.

Janet
Myrtle Beach, SC

Cynthia – love the pictures… if horses stayed that size I would like them better.

Heather – I love kumquats, and had a tree die in my yard and am thinking about replacing it with a kumquat tree. The cake is gorgous!

Barbie – thanks for starting up our thread this month!

Pip – I had to look up Mendota, I thought I knew CA pretty well (I am well traveled in the state) but this is a new one, 126 miles from me…

Toni – desda – welcome, I am just south of you in the east bay area

Sylvia – great idea for Austin!

Margaret – I love hearing about you working with pictures with your mom… great for both of you.

Yanniejannie – interesting way that they do this….

Those of you into muscles, lifting and body building please don’t take the following wrong, this is just about how I feel about me… I support what works for you, I just feel different about my body than some.

My exercise is 3 things, walking the dog (3 miles a day), hiking 1 day a week (4-5 miles) and gardening 3-10 hours a week. My dog pulls quite a bit and the gardening is pretty heavy on digging so I get upper body work as well as breaking a sweat. It is warming up here and I am wearing shorts and short sleeved shirts – a friend mentioned that I am showing some muscle definition; for me this is NOT an nsv - I don’t like the look, I like the smooth lines, not in and out of the definition – so what can I do about this? I have never done any lifting and am not planning on it, but want to keep off the weight I have lost and lose 20+ more, I am a bit afraid that if I lose more the lumps of muscle will show…. I thought I would like how I looked as I lost weight, but am not that happy. I know this is pretty weird… all I can think of is to wear long sleeves and long pants…or break all the mirrors LOL….

New CA challenges – cutting 25% of our water use… I am not sure how they will implement this but having already cut a ton, I don’t think I can cut 25% - one of the news commentators recommended stopping brushing our teeth… I hope that was a joke.


March goals:
Walk every day
Log all bites everyday
Eat slower
Plan and do a fun thing every week

Kim from N. California

Good morning Everyone! :flowerforyou:

Welcome to all the new ladies! You will love this thread! !
Yannie You know each of us here will be waiting with bated breath come Friday until we hear from you. Holding you up until your able to hold your own.

This goes to any and all who are struggling, or going through a hardship. Holding you up until you can hold your own.

To everyone who has met their March goals and/or exceeded them ... YaY Us!!

OMGoodness the pony is to cute!! I do hope we will get to see him grow up. Maybe he will win one of those national derby's and we can all say;" N'awwwwwwwww I knew him when!"

I have a small yet quaint list of friends that I adore! Four I know from real life and the rest I have acquired from this thread. Nine of which are such active encouragers. I would not be as happy as I am on this journey without you rooting for and allowing me the pleasure to root back. Thank you Thank you Thank you!! :flowerforyou: I may get behind in this thread but in the feed and on your pages, I will always be right there for you!!

Janit you asked me some pretty pertinent questions the other day. I saved them so I wouldn't forget but this could wordy. So some of you may want to scroll on through now. lol

I do have a question about when you regained the weight. I know you were immobile but did your diet change? I hate to think that we would gain that much just from burning fewer calories. And how long did it take you to gain it back? Inquiring minds want to know.

Back story so you know how I became a Maintainer in the first place.

I was always at a healthy weight until I was hit by a truck from the side while riding my motorcycle . Thank god the truck was not going fast. It was a 2 lane highway (freeway ??) and the truck saw a break in traffic and decided to go for it. What he didn't see was me. Remembering back it was like it was slow motion. The last thing I remember was putting my hand on the front of his truck trying to stop him/it. I woke in the middle of the highway surrounded by angels. There must of been 20-30 people all holding hands encircling me, angels each and every one of them. ( I still get teary eyed thinking about it ) I remember looking up and seeing a man who looked just like Santa Claus in a wife beater tee. While someone said to me; "Don't move I am an off duty paramedic." I knew right then I was going to be okay.

Next thing I knew I woke in the hospital and could hear my babies crying (6,4,2). I needed to calm them. So in a voice that didn't even sound like my own I rasped; "Who has the bestest babies in the world??" Instant squeals as they all turned to me and cried back; "You do!" You know how as parents you have this "thing" with your children. That was our thing. I would call out who has the bestest babies in the world and they would answer you do. then I would call out who has the bestest funniest smartest prettiest greatest mommy in the world and they always replied we do. lol Ego boost every time. Anyway a year's worth of therapy to learn to walk again and 65 pounds later... I was the bestest funniest smartest prettiest greatest fluffiest mommy in the world. Until I lost it 2008.

So in 2010 I started getting these weird pains in my feet. Weird as in explicable because I wasn't doing anything different. So I really didn't take any heed because they were few and far between. In 2012 it got to the point I couldn't ignore it any more. Doctors are conservative over here so we took the slow route. Inserts, physio massages, and pain pills to cope.

By 2013 I couldn't walk for 15 minutes without being in excruciating pain. This was when the insidious 10 appeared. Being 5'8" I always carried my weight well, so I truly didn't notice it. By this time I was too busy getting X-rays and seeing specialists all over the country from neurologists to orthopedics. It wasn't until I drank the kool-aid for an MRI that they'd seen tiny hairline fractures all over the tops of my feet. Caused they surmised by the bones rubbing against each other, which in turn allowed fluid to get inside the bone causing them to swell leading to bigger fractures.

In April of 2013 I spent a week in the hospital for marrow transfusions. I was hooked up 9 hours out of the day where they were flushing out the bad replacing with the good. ( Best I can do in translation. My German isn't that good to know all the terms and terminology. ) I left the hospital with a good 25-30 extra pounds. It was horrible! Worst week of my life. It helped for all of 2 months. Finally with no other alternative we were left with having the bones fused together.

My right foot was done in August of 2013. Metal out in July 2014. Left foot done Sept. 2014. ( Metal out hopefully June 2015 ) You know the rest 5 weeks restricted to bed. Then forearm crutches for 4 months gradually upping the weight i could put on it. along with physio, until now... Free at last! But between Aug 2013 and Dec 2014 I gained the rest.

Other then the bone marrow transfusions the reason I gained was because I never changed the way I ate. I continued to eat like a runner, a weight lifter, an active busy woman who walked 10-20 kilometers a day. By the time I wised up it was to late and I really didn't care. The damage was done. But I knew... I knew that when I was able to kick those crutches to the curb this time, there was nothing that was going to stop me from getting my fit fine self back. Because I am a Determined Loser!

I would like it noted that I never once blamed anyone but myself for this weight gain. To all those who loved me enough to bring me copious amounts of cake during the recovery processes, my family and friends... Thank you for most of it. I have a t-shirt that I used to wear that reads; I run for Cake! And I did too. lol


"If you do not consciously form good habits, you will unconsciously form bad ones."
Sincerely,
Sassy aus Austria
• If you want it, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

• Being Fat is Hard.
Losing Weight is Hard.
Maintenance is Hard.

Choose Your Hard.

Sassy. that is quite a story.. so glad you are on the road to recovery..
busy busy day for me today, going to get my hair cut, stop at walmart and lowes , then come home and do laundry and get the dogs outside ,my DB I am taking over for an intake interview for outpatient rehab.. praise the lord.. hope this works for him. also have to make a grocery list and go do that.
tomorrow getting rhe bathroom ripped up and out and the electrician coming,putting in outlets and lighting..

My name is Mo. I have 65 pounds to take off and keep off. My worst enemy is myself. Through the Power of my Savior, I have been able to start the losing process again. I know I will have slip ups, but that is ok. I am starting a 4 week exercise plan from Fitness Blender. I walk regularly and have walked competitively. Injuries have prevented that, but I am training again for a 5K in June and August. I am a pilot as is my husband. I need to stay healthy to keep my wings. MFP is helping do that. I need an accountability person too. Anyone up for the challenge? I absolutely love flying and my 6 grandsons!

Morning all!...typing quick before it all cuts off

Just trying to say.... Cleaning hours will help today but off out for tea. Than off to WI...I've decided I need to meet new folks in the village. DH and I are becoming couch potatoes! Too insular maybe. I keep badgering him to join U3A ..they have a grumpy old men's club meets once a month ...just right!
Will save and copy this !!
BFN
Jackie W

Well, Jackie ... not sure if it all came through or not! But hoping your husband joins the grumpy old men's club!

Sassy ... I ditto Heather's "Wow!" You are a survivor! No doubt in my mind you will be successful!

Mo .... welcome!

Today ... I'm just going to focus on today ...

Beth in WNY