WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2015

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Thanks for the birthday wishes.Violet enjoyed her skating party with her classmates.I enjoyed spoiling my 2 grand daughters,Jaelyn-3 months and Kenzie almost 2 months.Leah who is 2 sang happy birthday grandma.Violet,wouldn`t eat the 1st piece of cake,wanted grandma to have it,since it was my real birthday(her`s is the 5th).Nice time,til DIL fell and broke her wrist.
One tired grandma.
hugs jane

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

Good Evening Ladies,

Katla, so happy that your DH is participating in his health and fitness. I agree that it needs to become a habit.

Pip, it does sound like a busy month for you. Early Happy Birthday, in case I forget. (Like I could. LOL) Way to go on winning your bag of goodies. I don’t care what it is, I just think it’s fun to win.

Terri, I’m just thankful that you weren’t seriously hurt in the accident. Yes, strapping in your purse is a good idea. Way to go on that increased exercise.

Lisa, I guess congratulations are in order for getting laid off? That just sounds so funny. But it is wonderful that you can now do what you want and work on your book.

Carey, I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with to do for fun. I guess dessert is out??

Carol NC, I think it’s great that you are walking a mile at a time. Just because we have some overachievers among us (hee hee) does not diminish what you are doing. I think it’s great and you should be proud.

Jane, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear J a n e. Happy Birthday to you,

Gin, Welcome and congrats on your loss. Fantastic before and now pictures. Come often and keep us posted.

Heather, I think the cake is precious. What a grandma!!!

Mary fr Tex, welcome. You will find this a very supportive group of ladies. You just can’t let what hubby or anyone else eats determine or affect what you eat. Would you rather eat or not be fat? Most of us can’t have both unfortunately. Just put your mind to it and don’t think about how hard it is. There is enough low cal food that you won’t have to be hungry. It feels great to go down size after size. Just keep your eyes on the prize. You can do this.

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.

Sorry, ladies but I just can’t respond to the rest of the posts. I did get them all read but I’m about to fall asleep at the keyboard. I love you all and offer congrats to those that have victories and hugs to those that need them. We worked outside today cleaning the screened porch and some of the siding. It was a beautiful day. But I’m wiped out and going to bed.

I wish you all a fantastic day tomorrow.


Words I live by:
Savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.
and
Opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.

Janet
Myrtle Beach, SC

I love this group

I am 54 and this happened yesterday:



I was working with my patrol partner and we decided to stop by and chat with the local Marines that had a recruiting booth setup. They had a pullup bar.

My partner and I did pullups with our 35 pounds of gear on. He did around 15. I could do 5 pullups and 10 chinups with my gear. Chin ups are like with an under hand grip and you use more of your biceps and arms. Pullups (pictured) are usually harder and use more of your back muscles.

Anyway I was proud to set the example since 7 years ago I was obese and I've spent most of my life over weight.

Not only that, but I feel my partner and I set a good example for the crowd of high school kids watching us.

I'm proud of who I have become in my 50's!

It's an ongoing lifestyle, like paying a little daily rent every day. Gotta keep it up.

Roberta in California

Hello everyone! I'm Sheila and I'm new to MFP. This looks like a fun place to be. Hope I can join you and keep up lol. I'm 53 and have over 100 pounds to lose. I've done the weight loss thing many times but I'm hoping this time I'll stick to it and keep the weight off. Really feeling it at this age.

My goals will be small to start.

May Goals:
Track my food.
Don't beat myself up for not being perfect with this.
Go up and down my stairs instead of asking my kids to do it for me.
Walk 10 minutes 3 x a week. (I want to start with more but for now this may be doable).
Get off my computer and get outside every day.

Glad to meet you!

Edited to add: I love friends so please add me if you want!

Sheila in the Chicago Suburbs

!WARNING! I went on to this site using my computer at around 1 o'clock this afternoon there was an envelope at the top of the screen on MFP that had a number one flashing. I thought I had a message from someone here. instead it was a scam virus. it locked my computer, it made a loud warning sound and the screen flash said to call this secure number for help. that was the scam. when I called my husband talked to a man and he took over our computer by remote control, we were trusting him he was the scam. he said we needed to purchase malware for security we started to get suspicious. my husband turned off the internet on that computer while talking to him and the man seemed to start to get irate my husband told him that we would have our daughters boyfriend who fixes computers look at it. we did that for the last two hours he took remote control over our computer to remove the virus. if you see an envelope at the top of the MFP screen do not click on it. that is a virus. I will report this and hopefully they will be able to take care of it. Our daughters boyfriend Paul said that this happened quite often. And people give them their credit card number over the phone. They are not really buying security they are losing money off of their credit cards.

I hope this gets to people in time so that you do not go through the same thing I just did.

Mary from Minnesota

Roberta in CA: I love the picture of you and your partner on the pull up bars. You are a heroine! I can’t pull myself up in my street clothes, much less with 35 pounds of gear on. Welcome to a great group of women. I hope we hear from you often.

Sheila: Welcome to a great group of women. Best advice for success: 1. Log every bite and swallow even if you go over on a day. 2. Move more. This takes time but it works and perfection is not required. It looks like you have the right idea already. Stop by often and participate in the conversation.



Tomorrow is Opening Day in the boating world. Our sailing club will be meeting at an Island across the channel from us, and bringing food to celebrate the start of the boating season. We’re taking fruit and veggie trays, while others will bring their favorite snacks to share and the club will be providing burgers. A few years ago everyone brought chicken. One young girl brought animal crackers and the adults were begging for some. :laugh: We’re better organized now.

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

May 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. Accomplished but here as a reminder.
6. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.

Thanks Mary for the heads up! Technology is wonderful but there is so much I don't know, it can be intimidating at times. Hope you got your computer all sorted out!

Sure do appreciate your positive attitude and example Roberta... thank you for your kind remarks, too

katla - Your sailing club sounds like a really neat hobby. You must have so much fun out on the water. I'm a Pisces and yet, I think I might be a little *cough* scared *cough* to be out there. Have fun tomorrow!

Oh, I have a lot of notes tonight!

Heather, I will go with you to France!!!! We will just let your husband stay back home, watch and tend the garden and enjoy his football. Just name the date!!! If I were struggling with icing, I would just give up and eat it all You just have to step back and think if that 4 year old cares whether it is perfect or not. Added......it's perfect. Yes, those pirate candles are small. But they aren't intimidating to a little boy. Pirates can be scary things. Love the palm tree on top that your husband made

Maryanne, I bought my last fitbit at Kohl's and got $20 Kohl's cash. Last night i got an email that I had $5 in Kohl's reward buck so I went today and bought a purse that was 40% off and used my $25 in Kolh's rewards, og the purse for $17!!!!

Lisa, I love your attitude towards life and all of it's challenges. You should be an inspirational speaker. I have asked my husband many times to help me in all the struggles I have such as diet, getting up early enough to get to Sunday School and church and the answer is a big NO. He said the motivation needs to come from within me. He loves to sabatoge my diet also. My family doctor has about 5 NP now. He sued to have just 1 who was a big help but with the emergence of Obama care he had to increase his staff. They are so respectful, are good listeners and just good people. They do pretty much anything he does, physicals, nerve injections, etc. I have never had to have anything removed as in simple office surgeries with them so I don't know if they do that or not. I do like to see him once a year though. He was a family practice resident when I was a nurse so I like to think I helped raise him. When he finished his residency, the hospital was changing their insurance plans and quite bit of the staff chose him as a doctor. That was quite a statement as to what we thought of him a a person and doctor. We can even read his writing! What kind of weekly article do you write for the newspaper?

Gin, are those two pictures really you???? Sure made a difference. Congrats. Good luck with your back

Mary in texas, welcome. Can your trainer of gym not recommend another trainer? It sounds like that if is quitting the profession that he is not happy in it anymore. I think as far as editing your post, it can only be edited within one hour of posting. I just clicked on 'post' to see what it looks like and there is a big looks like what a nut bolt at the top of your post. Click on that and you can edit. I do believe you can not completely erase it or just backspacing, or cut copy delete.you have to leave something. I leave a period or 'oops' or something.

Naomi, what in the world is wrong with a darling little pea????? LOL

Mary Minnesota, an oreo back pack, how heavenly, or is it devilish? Nice of your husband to leave it in the car.

Meg, the graduation ceremony sounds nice. It makes the students feel like they have done something that is special to have it a formal graduation like that. When I graduated from nursing school it was held in a local church that the hospital was affiliated with. We wore uniforms and I can't really remember what the teachers wore. I flunked OB so I couldn't graduate with my class. If you hadn't been able to finish a course due to surgery or an illness you could graduate with your class. You would jsut get an unsigned diploma. I was the first student form the school though that had flunked a course and continued on so they didn't know what to do with me. So I finished up after the next fall semester, even took my boards and was an RN when I graduated the next year after spring semester. Neither the class I started with or the class I actually graduated wanted to claim me as part of their class when it came to reunions. I think that hurt more than having to actually take a course over. Neither of my daughters graduated form college but my son in law did. Him and my daughter went to a small little school in Kentucky called Georgetown College. When you graduated, you all filed through the main building flanked by all the professors. They all knew you by name whether you were in their class or not. Every professor shook your hand and said your name. The President even knew everyones names and would say hi to you by name. It was a good school. My daughters went there also but didn't graduate.

Barbie, I bet your feet were moving along with those cloggers. I can just see you!!!

Sylvia, we are just all going to hop over to your studio and you help all of us make something.

Roberta, you sure don't look like you are in your 50s!!!! Congrats to all you have accomplished. Hope you can get us all looking like that.

Congrats to all the Brits here on the birth of the little Princess. A bit about the journey we are taking'. When you decide to go somewhere, you don't jsut get out of your house, get in the car and go hoping that you will get to the right destination. We plan, map out a route, if we are using a GPS it will tell us 'recalculate' all the time. anyway, there are many stops in our destination. We have to stop and refuel, recheck our map, see if we are going the right way. We even have fun sometimes at each stop. It takes a long time to get there. And there are many menacing voices saying 'are we there yet?' Some of us finally get there and while we are there, we plan on how we are going to stay there. As to the route, some take the interstate, some take the scenic route, but we don't all go the same way. We just want to get to the same place.

Joyce, Indiana, tired, really tired today. Ate so badly I didn't even bother to log it which is so not me.

!WARNING! I went on to this site using my computer at around 1 o'clock this afternoon there was an envelope at the top of the screen on MFP that had a number one flashing. I thought I had a message from someone here. instead it was a scam virus. it locked my computer, it made a loud warning sound and the screen flash said to call this secure number for help. that was the scam. when I called my husband talked to a man and he took over our computer by remote control, we were trusting him he was the scam. he said we needed to purchase malware for security we started to get suspicious. my husband turned off the internet on that computer while talking to him and the man seemed to start to get irate my husband told him that we would have our daughters boyfriend who fixes computers look at it. we did that for the last two hours he took remote control over our computer to remove the virus. if you see an envelope at the top of the MFP screen do not click on it. that is a virus. I will report this and hopefully they will be able to take care of it. Our daughters boyfriend Paul said that this happened quite often. And people give them their credit card number over the phone. They are not really buying security they are losing money off of their credit cards.

I hope this gets to people in time so that you do not go through the same thing I just did.

Mary from Minnesota

stats for the day:
rowing machine- 88aw, 3783meters or 2.35mi = 152c
walk/skip/side-step- 30min, .5-2.0 incline, 4.3-6.0speed, 13.25ap, 2.23mi = 227c
rope pull- 15.11min, 104ft per min, lvl7 midset 1606ft = 108c
walk- 4.52min, 3.7amph, .3mi = 18c
walk - 21.01min, 3.9amph, 1.3mi = 122c
ride hm 2 etta auction- 22.05min, 14.4amph, 5.2mi = 189c
ride etta auction 2 hm- 26.40min, 11.6amph, 5.1mi = 255c
total cal= 1071

Hello everyone!

Sylvia: you still had a good day and the desk and chair for your grandson will be great. Uh, how is the laptop for the trip HIS computer? And even if it is, why shouldn’t you be able to look at it in a sleeve you like?

Jane: happy birthday, late! Glad you enjoyed the grandkids. Sorry about the wrist.

Joyce: so sorry your husband does not support and even sabotages you. Not what partners are for. He doesn’t have to do what you do, but outright sabotage? :noway: P.S. I like your “journey” metaphor.

Lesley: Blaize is enjoying his life with you.

Lost a pound! Hope this is the beginning of getting back om track. At the moment I’m mostly trying to avoid the evening binges and eat nutritious stuff during the day, even if I go over.

Yesterday my guy and I had an afternoon just for ourselves. We should do that more often.

Doing odds and ends today. Glad I slept well.


Hope we all have a good day!


Cynthia :flowerforyou:

Hello everyone. I am Lisa
This is great Barbie to post goals as I have been all over the place. New to the community support & hoping it will help me keep going

Goals for May
Lose 5 lbs
Drink 8 cups water
10000 steps minimum per day
Complete the days food log in before bed every night
Walk or jog/walk every day
Enjoy each day

Well there is is
From Lisa
Nova Scotia Canada
( the snow has finally gone)

mollywhippet wrote: »

I don't know who I hate more right now, Microsoft or Google.

I hate them both too!

Cynthia, I was just pulling his leg about the floral sleeve. It really is supposed to be his computer after the trip is over. I knew that.

OK! (Obviously I'm way too serious today! )

Thank you ladies for the warm welcome. Just the feeling like you are out there watching and cheering is heartwarming. I live in a very rural area, moved here last year and don't have kids, so it's a bit slow meeting people. Thinking about looking into whether there is a weight loss support group somewhere close by. Do others find that helpful?

Re my trainer quitting, there are two other trainers at this gym but one of them is DEFINITELY not my style and even my current trainer advised me not to go with her. The other girl is a maybe. From what I've heard from other people, the town this gym is in is just not that conducive to people hiring trainers, so there aren't many of them. It's not like being in Dallas.

I know life is full of challenges and we must rise to meet them. Time to crank up the energy to reach those goals.

Re who said, do I want to eat more than I want to be thin. I won't kid you, in the moment, I would much rather eat that Dairy Queen blizzard than think about those size 8 jeans and fitting in them. But, you are right, very right, totally right. I need to get my head wrapped around that philosophy and focus on the goal. I so wish I was one of those personalities that "just says no" and that's that. Instead, my brain over analyzes EVERYTHING and ends up rationalizing somehow into saying it's ok to eat that ice cream just this once. That sounds so much nicer than, "no of course you should not have that ice cream, you don't deserve that ice cream, that ice cream will make you fat". I tell you, sometimes my own brain is my worst enemy. LOL, actually I guess it always is. No one else is driving me to Dairy Queen. Ahhh, the many internal dialogs I have with myself. Ever feel like there are two people duking it out in your head?

Well, time to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. I've got 30 acres of mesquite to spray. I've never seen something so difficult to kill. You fellow Texans know what I'm talking about. And I won't even go into the the prickly pear.

You all have a absolutely great morning!!!

Mary K from Texas.