WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2015

Sylvia - good luck for tomorrow! It will pass in a flash!

Katla - I don't put the butternut squash in the chilli. I just do a normal chilli - beef mince and red beans - and have it over the roasted squash instead of rice. Yesterday we also had roasted cauliflower which I adore! Each portion of chilli that I make is 230 cals. Then I add the squash cals. I spray the squash and cauli with one cal olive oil spray, season and shake a bit of paprika over it and any hebs I have - I use za'atar, a Palestinian thyme mix. I serve with a spoonful of half fat creme fraiche and on my portion I add extra chilli sauce. :laugh:

I managed to water the back garden pots today and washed my hair, which made me feel better. D H attacked the troublesome bed and pulled out masses of geraniums. They are weeds in our garden. I downloaded one of my favourite magazines and read an article about self compassion which made me cry so I feel much better. :bigsmile:

Love to all. Heather UK

I am happy to report I accomplished my goal of riding my exercising bike for 30 minutes.

Sylvia: may you sleep though the whole procedure and not remember a thing.

Beth in maine

Hi all, I am 52 and just started this new lifestyle change, so my goals are pretty simple;
1. I will log in every day.
2. I will achieve 10,000 steps every day
3. I will see a nutritionist this month and try to eat my kj/cal every day and try not to be too far under.
4. I will go to the gym 6 days a week
5. I will get the ironing/sewing room sorted.

These goals are not huge but they are enough for me at the moment.

I would love it if any of you could be nice enough to add me as friend to help me lose a lot of weight and get fit.

Thankyou

Happy Tuesday! I am working on not stress eating. New supervisor has the hours so messed up. I will be working overtime and she is not working 40 hours a week. How does that work. And she has left half dozen messages and I was only off one day. The way she is going several more people are threating to quit. We are a 24\7 dept. someone has to be here. The old surpervisor and I redid the schedule and she sent it to her. So will see how that goes over. Thanks for letting me vent.
This was weigh in day and I am down 1.7. Doing a Happy Dance.

Sylvia--Sending HUGS! I understand how you feel, but know you have to take care of you. DS can figure it out. Sending positive thoughts for your test.

Margaret--Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Lesley--What a cutie Blaize is. He is so lucky to have found a home with you both.

Well ladies have a good evening and I am going to try and relax and forget about this place. Last night I could not get to sleep until after 1 am. which made 430 really early.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE

Hi, everybody. Bits of sun but mostly gray here. Rain coming.

Saw the dr. today because I felt a stitch "pop" in my neck when I turned over and stretched in bed this am. They say the outside line looks good, healing well, and it must have been an internal suture, no damage done. I am to let the bandage off and smear vaseline over the suture line. Then I have to pin the hair up or I have clumps of greasy hair.......and that just draws attention to the healing mess of bruises and sutures. I suppose time is the cure, I'm kind of enjoying this staying home and have the perfect excuse to do so. Appt. is 3/24......but think I'll be bored and breaking the "postop rules" well before then. Today I read, walked down to see a neighbor, watched Netflix, and sat in the back yard watching the dog play and kicking a ball for her.

Margaret........Lovely, lovely pics......that child is so cute.

Carol.......Hope your treated spot on your face heals quickly. I really identified with your feeling like your "feet are tied together" !!!!

Lesley........Fabulous dog!!!!! He looks a lot like Gemma, except she has ears that stand up and less white. Hope you have many great years with him!!!

Sylvia..........I'm awful for colonoscopies too.........hate them hate them hate them. Good luck to you. Great jokes! I am so sorry about the situation with your son ((((((Hugs)))))))

Lillian.........My guess is a girl named Alexandra.

Heather..... Glad your cry made you feel better. Sometimes that's just what we need.

Didn't take notes but read all and thinking of everyone and wishing you all well....... I feel I may be in a bit of a Netflix zombie-like haze.

yanniejannie
mid_Atlantic

dia_nruf wrote: »

I am happy to report I accomplished my goal of riding my exercising bike for 30 minutes.

Sylvia: may you sleep though the whole procedure and not remember a thing.

Beth in maine

yeayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Feeling inspired by others goals. Have fun everyday and no computer after 9pm are fantastic goals. Going to start small, though

1. Log food everyday
2. 120 min of weight lifting/week
3. Try out new bootcamp class. Go for 4 weeks before making a decision about it.
4. Continue to avoid added sugar where possible

Hi! I've just joined your group and My Fitness Plan. I'll be 55 on the 29th and losing weight is harder as one gets older! Thanks, Barbie for you encouraging words and ideas! I'd like to lose at least three lbs by the end of the month. My goal is to lose 16 lbs.

Shari, Bakersfield, CA

Jan, I hope you heal quickly. It doesn't sound like fun, but I'm glad you caught it and took care of it. Do they think you will need any further care for it, other than removing stitches?

Katla, how I would love to buy some Medium pants. Maybe someday. I've actually sort of put losing weight on the back burner till I get this digestive thing figured out. For now I'm just trying to maintain.

I've been through one round of prep already and dreading the second round. It's like drinking a liter of salt water. Makes me gag. I very nearly did not keep it down. You have to drink about a cup of the nasty stuff every 15 minutes for an hour. Then 16 ounces of water. Yuck!

Hubby took the kids to swim lessons tonight, which DGS must have loved. He really adores his grandpa.

Good night everyone. Sleep well.

Sylvia

stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 14.07min, 12.6mph 2.9mi WINDY - 115c
elliptical machine - 40min, , 100stridespmin, interval setting, 2-5/3-10, 4.69mi - 329c
ride gym 2 dome- 6.41min, 12.8amph, 1.4mi - 59c
ride dome 2 tan- 17.04min, 10.2amph, 2.9mi - 172c
ride tan 2 hm- 5.23min, 11.4amph, 1mi - 66c
total cal 756

Did 1 hr of HIIT on the elliptical (sprint 30 sec @ 200+ steps/min, recover 45 sec @130 steps/min). The plan is to do a step DVD tomorrow.

After exercising, took a "rinse off the sweat" shower and then went to the church to count the money from the collections (and took it to the bank), then stopped at Bi-Lo for items on sale that I had coupons for, then to ceramics where I now state that the praying mantis is DONE. I did find out that it can be fired and if there are any places where the paint is "streaky", I can put another coat of paint on that part, then put the clear coat on and it can be refired. Didn't know this. So that's what I'm going to do.

Sylvia - when I made the ladybug, after it was fired there were places where it was "streaky". One person told me that I'd have to use these stains (which don't exactly color match). I'm really not happy with this "touchup". One lady who is in charge of the ceramics place said that I could bring the ladybug back, re-stain it, then they spray it with some sort of acrylic. Now another lady told me that even tho it was clear coated, I could put a coat of the glaze on and then a coat of the clear coat. that this would be OK. What has your experience been? She told me that she has done it (re-glazed) and it came out fine. I don't know...sounds too good to be true in a sense. Can you?

After ceramics stopped at Lowes Foods to check to see if the butter is still on sale (it isn't) and get a few other things that I can only get at that store.

drkatiebug - what a great suggestion to drink the jello. I can do that. Wonder if you can add some of that miralax stuff? Nah...that'll just make the jello taste "yukky".

Janet - I'll post a pic of the tree skirt, but it may be a while. I still need to finish it, then do something about the backing. I'm really thinking that maybe my idea of cutting it like one row shy of the edge where the yarn starts, then sewing that part to the underside, then putting the rubber backing on. This will keep the stitches in place (I think)

Oh, I do hope MFP gets this "bug" cleared up. It's such a pain to have to scroll over to read an entire post

terri - I'm good for starting a project and then not finishing it. Example in point ... I have these placemats that I've been crocheting for, oh at least 10 years now. You'd think I'd just finish them up.

Joyce - I very seldom have a salad with lettuce at a buffet. Usually they only have the iceburg lettuce which is so "blah". I do fill up on the veggies, tho like tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers, etc., etc.

katla - good for you going to spin even tho your neighbor can't get to the gym. You rock, girl. woo hoo on those pants!

Page 12 doesn't seem to have the problem where you have to scroll all the way across the page just to read it. I really think it has something to do with the pictures.

Heather - you have this knack of making me drool

Beth - good for you riding your bike!

85kurz - welcome. Personally, I think you set some great goals for yourself

Shari - welcome! Great goal, you can do it!

Sylvia - when I had to do my prep, I found that I could choke down that cleansing stuff by holding my breath while I was drinking. They said that if you mixed it in Gatorade, you wouldn't taste it. Gave the Gatorade a horrible taste.

Michele in NC

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Michele, I know I should like all the other kinds of lettuce greens but I just don't. They don't seem as crisp and as easy to cut as iceberg, some look like dandelion weeds. So I stick with my iceberg and just make sure that what I add to it is good rather than detrimental. Also by chopping it up like I do I use very little salad dressing.

Sharon, I have a nephew that is continuously breaking up with his girlfriend. They now have 3 children together and live in a 2 bedroom apartment so during the time they are 'broke up', my nephew sleeps on the couch and his partner has the bedroom. I just don't see how it works.

Allison, you get well. We need you!!!!.Good for you in taking care of you for the day. And yes, you needed it! Not just because you don't feel good but you run yourself ragged.

Janet, NC, Yes, I used cinnamon sticks. I didn't want to be trying to sweep all that cinnamon off the floor. I'm not sure it worked though. I have checked all day and there have been no ants coming from the door. But the bucket (with lid) we have the food stored in was just full of ants. The bucket is an old Tidy Cats litter box that the litter comes in. For anyone who knows the Tidy Cat brand, the lid has a break in it where you just lift up part of it to scoop your litter. I guess we have used this box long enough that they found a tiny break in the hinge because that's where I saw this whole convention of ants to moving in. There were no ants in her food bowl, I guess they figured out that since there was so little food in the bowl, go right to the main source. So what food that was in there has been thrown away, box thoroughly cleaned out, re-filled and now has a spot on top of the refrigerator. We have kept the sugar canister up there for years now and have no ant problem in it. Cleaned all the surfaces so now I hope the problem is behind us. I will leave the cinnamon sticks in front of the door though. I used to be 5'6 1/4" and noticed that I looked shorter so I measured myself and it looked closer to 5'4" so I made sure they measured me at the doctors office and am now 5'4 1/4". So that put me back in the obese range as far as the BMI scale

Heather, is it time to break down and ask for help from a tech person who can help you download this book? Do you have a university nearby that has a class on it. With our universities in town they have classes that a senior can just sit in on the class and not actually take it. But seniors do get discounts if they take classes. Also a library might help.

Carol, Ga, My husband also has problems with Netflix. He connects to the internet through his Wii. It works probably 95% of the time and then just knocks him out. I can be upstairs on my laptop or my iPad so I know it isn't the router that isn't working right.

Sylvia, now you know you will continue to do things with the kids. You enjoyed it to much. Good luck on the colonoscopy. When I was much, much younger (can I add a few more muches to that) I had trouble crying. I remember when my sister died, I briefly went into my bedroom and shed a few tears. During the funeral my sister was so mad at me because I was so 'composed'. I was mad at her because she was crying. I wanted, I needed to get it out but it just wouldn't come. I tease my husband, it wasn't until I was married that I could cry. Now I cry at anything!!!! Last night on Dancing with the stars when the celebrities were telling their stories I cried!

Dr.Katie, the hardest part of that scripture is 'the way he should go'. We know the way we want them to go but each child is an individual. They all don't conform to what we think is right. My oldest nephew was quite a h**l raising child. But he finally got it all worked out and now he is the most model citizen anyone could ask for. He just had to reach adult hood in his own way.

Rained, rained, and rained some more today. A lot of areas had straight lined winds that act like a tornado. We had a couple of small limbs down but that is all. Tomorrow I get my every 2 month hair cut. My husband swears it was just cut 3 weeks ago. So I made him initial tomorrows date on the calendar and will have him initial when she gives me my next appointment. Well 37 years ago I was in the hospital in labor with Christina. You know by the time that 9th month rolls around you are just so tired of being pregnant and stretched to the limit. The doctor said I was ready to deliver at anytime so I took some castor oil, had Charlie take me for a nice long drive over the bumpiest roads so could go into labor. I had my first labor pain around midnight, left for the hospital at 2 and delivered at 4:08 AM on April 8th! With Michelle the labor was even shorter!!! I delivered her 12:10 AM on December 10th!! Don't know how I managed that. But I was in labor with her for about 90 minutes. I told Charlie that if I could emotionally be a surrogate woman I could have made a lot of money.

Have a good day everyone, Joyce, Indiana

carry on from where the computer decided I had finished when I had not!!!
Joyce - I was so scared that I did not believe I was in labour because it was not so painful it was making me scream - phew!

Well I managed my 1 mile swim and actually done it in 75 minutes which made me very happy. Still unable to walk many steps at all but am going to try to make myself do a bit more every day.

I also think that Kate and William will have another boy but have not a clue what they will name him!

Gilly, Suffolk UK