WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2015

Good Afternoon,

Went to an afternoon tea and historic fashion show where the setting was in an old barn. It was fun to learn the history of the fashions and the people who wore them.

MNMargaret

ah nooooo....remember just earlier I said that my husband was my voice of reason when we shopped????? Well, I bought a chocolate shaped cup with rich mouse' in it for my son, and they had the same cups with fruit in them. I got one for me. Looks to be a huge strawberry, a couple of marionberries, raspberries, some blueberries, and all in a chocolate cup like a coffee cup. I will only eat the fruit out of it, and give the cup to son. I was so HYPER in the bakery section, I was like, "husband get me out of here, I am getting so excited but anxious at the same time!"
We bought ALOT of meals, so this month should be a grand one. I bought various items for me as well, which I tend to NOT do, and then get home and think, "wow not alot of stuff I wish to eat". Not this time.
Tonight we are heading to a retro Video Arcade that we saw earlier this week in Astoria. Lots of arcade games we grew up with. Even has a Tartis to walk in! After husband said that he would take me out to dinner. I have allocated for some smoked salmon (4 oz to be exact) and I will just box up the rest of the dinner to have another day. I had a large salad with cucumbers, mushrooms, and some cottage cheese at lunch time, so all I will have is the protein. I get a little OCD with my meals but its so wonderful to be in control, that I start logging a raspberry for example....crazy.

Hello, all! I have been away from this board (and unfortunately not focusing on good eating and exercise) for months. I'm working on the eating and exercise and plan to check in here regularly again. I've always found this group to be supportive and so inspiring - I'm happy to be back!

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

Good Evening Ladies,

Tere, glad the vacation did it’s job.

Yannie, I have a friend that is irked by wait staff asking if you want change. It doesn’t bother me actually because they usually ask before they even look to see how much was left. I do understand where you are coming from, it’s just not one of my buttons. (Thank goodness, cause there are plenty of others.)

Allison, so glad you had a fantastic visit with DGD. It sounds like fun, fun, fun!

Katla, I can’t imagine that you would prefer riding a horse to scrubbing scum off a boat?? What is wrong with you? Ya know, that really sounds like fun at our age!! Even if you are considerably younger.

Barbie, I’ll bet your poodles look marvelous.

Michele, glad there was more than the one option for Vince. I hope the increase meds does the trick. Bummer that the Y isn’t doing the yoga class any more.

Joyce, do you know what is causing the headaches? Have you had your eyes checked lately? I hope they go away pronto.

Jenandroxie, welcome. You will find this a very supportive group of ladies. Please tell us a bit about yourself and sign each post with the name you want us to call you.

Janet in NO, welcome to this great group of ladies. Come often and join right in and you will find lots of support.

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.

Well I was up a little after 5:00 this morning to prepare for the Garage Sale. I don't like getting up early now that I'm retired and especially to have to start moving early. We had lots of traffic and a successful sale. It is just a lot of work to get ready for and a long day, but we did have beautiful weather. I'm going to bed early and think I'll sleep tonight. Last night I think I woke up every 45 minutes to look at the clock. I quickly read the posts so didn't respond to all of you, but know you are in my thoughts.

I send out wishes for each of you to have a fantastic day, full of fun, love and laughter.

Thought for the day:
Always remember that your present
situation is not your final destination.
The best is yet to come.

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

Hello all.Finally got 20 minutes of rain this eve.Humidity supposed to take a dive for a couple days.
Scanned thru the posts. Funny,I like reading them,but not much good at responding.

Lesley,all good thoughts for your daughter.
Alison,glad you had nice visits with family.
DD leaves tomorrow for a long visit with her Sis & family in Fl.The sisters are close & they will enjoy every minute.They'lll spend a long wk end with her niece ( our Grdaughter ) in South Fl.

Been getting ready to box up most of what is in my sewing room. I no longer sew/quilt hours every day. Will keep my machine for now,but basically get rid of 90%.One of my faults is buying everything sold for whatever hobby I was doing. Meaning I had/have enough for a class of sewers.

Hope everyone has a nice wkend.I love Sunday & a rainy Sunday is a perfect day for reading the paper & doing whatever I want. Pat

Hello Everyone. I read the first and the 47th pages of this thread. I did not read all of the other 45 pages in between. You ladies are very prolific.

I've had a MFP account for years and have had periods of time when I have been more and less dedicated, and more and less successful with my weight goals.

Currently I weigh 174.8 and am 5'6", 54 years old. The thing that has recently changed is my husband and I both got Fitbits. They have been very motivational for us. I also like how well they interface with MFP.

I don't know if I have done a good job with this first post, I hope I have.

Lisa
Los Angeles, CA

we are riding home from having my free bday dinner and we are on the last stretch home, and i am jammin going up hill and it's a thing of beauty seeing my husband just blow my a** and fly right by me!! i love riding with him!

Awesome fanncy!

Exterminate- he has a half bro in Indiana I think his wife cheated on him so he might b separated. Even knowing that, he's not nearly as cool or as good looking as kirby

You all are such winners! I just love reading every day. And yes, sometimes it is comforting to know that I can just read and not feel pushed to respond.

Cynthia, Yes, Mr. Holland's Opus is a movie. It's about a musician who needs to make extra money but also have time to write his 'Opus' or symphony so he quits his band job and teaches music in high school. He gets a rude awakening when he finds out that high school kids have no interest in learning music theory and finds out that he has to see music on their level. So he shows them how the different classics are in the contempory music now, just at a different cadence and some filler music added in. He becomes a very beloved teacher. He and wife have a deaf son and he has to find a way to show his son the love of music. He works 30 years in this school. You'll have to find the rest yourself!! But it is a very motivational story for all teachers to learn from. You don't jsut 'teach' your students. You need to help them find their own way.

Allison, I have gained 22 pounds. I am kind of glad they no longer have the weight loss stickers here. I would feel like so much of a hypocrite posting and helping. I still show 60 pounds lost on the sticker though. I don't have the heart to change it. I feel if I changed it I would be giving up. I leave it there as a kick in the butt for me to see where I once was, remember how it made me feel inside and out.

Jenn Santa Fe, you are exactly where you need to be, you are at your starting point with us here as cheerleaders. We need you to be our cheerleaders to, sigh.

Pip, congrats on raising that much money for MS and for getting the shirts. Maybe someday they will find a cure for this awful disease. Well first they have to find out what causes it!

Pat, that Irish Open looked wicked. I don't know how many times I have bought, sold and rebought things for cross stitching. I love it, get all enthused then burned out and quit, swear I will never do it again and sell it. I have a quilt that hasn't been finished for about 6 years.

Welcome to all the newbies here, and all the ones finding their way back. JanetMMcC, that is one weird eye!

Barbie, go out there and give him some smooching and he will come in for lunch!!!

Meg, I can't stop laughing. Good old whole wheat nursing, that's what e need more of. Will it be covered under Obamacare?

Vicki, I absolutely despise those old yard sale signs, especially the ones that just say 'next Saturday'. I have been known to go to their house, ask them where the yard sale is, if the sign isn't down the next week, I will send DD#1 and the next week DD#2. They drive me crazy.

Had an interesting day today. I usually don't go to any of my husbands Karaoke gigs. But his good friend does a lot of DJ work for charities and nursing homes. So they were doing it this afternoon at a nursing home right down the street from me and I went. I always enjoy myself when I go, don't know why I do't go to all the nursing homes with him. It was a prom night with the theme of The great Gatsby. One of our local catholic high schools that does community service in their curriculum had about a dozen kids come out, did ladies hair, provided dresses, served them punch and just chatted with them. i have never been to a nursing home that had as many residents that wanted to sing. Some didn't do it well but they all enjoyed themselves. DJ guy always makes sure he has a lot of church music if I want to sing. I told him I wasn't but eventually just couldn't stand it anymore and sang The old rugged cross. I knew a lot of them would know it and sing with me. My husband always tries to make sure he sings songs of their era. Some of the other guys sang some songs I thought were inappropriate for the generation. The DJ's wife and I talked a lot. Apparently Charlie really gets mad when one of them give him a warning when he has been there a long time and is doing one of his dances. He does some clogging to one of his songs. They warn him about his heart. They have learned not to say anything if he is eating the wrong thing for his or his colon. He lets me say it but not them at all. He also got mad that the nursing home started 1/2 hour late and shut down 1/2 hour early. They started late because there was a fire in a resident's room. He also didn't like it that the residents were taking up HIS singing time and one of the residents sang Hey Jude which is a very long song and he couldn't remember it so he just kept on singing na na na na na until the song finished. The poor guy was a younger guy who had a traumatic brain injury and was in a nursing home! He wanted to sing a song from his era. He was dressed up in a tux and top hat for the prom.


Joyce, Indiana

Heather – I did a review for Windows and for Herbert, but they would not post my review for Herbert – don’t know why!

Meg – Whole wheat!!!!!!!!!!!LOL

Lilymay - My previous dog (probably 10 ish years ago) came with me to a friends ranch for Christmas, it was a dress up event, and somewhere there are pictures of me on Christmas afternoon, in heels, in a light dusting of snow, washing some kind of poop out of the dog’s coat…. And I got to do it not just once that evening; but twice! I could not believe that dog!

Barbie – Jake and his slug joke are just too much!!! I am regularly doing in the snails here!

Newbies – welcome one and all….

Tired tonight for no good reason, just am so read the posts but did not do a through job of replying…

May goals:
Walk every day
Log everyday
Eat slower
Plan and do a fun thing every week
Week 1 – had a friend visit for a couple of days – went to our big second hand store (Savers) and for $23 got 3 pair of walking shoes and a pair of hiking boots – all very gently used. Score!

Week 2 – had Mom for a 4 day visit, tried some new recipes, salmon, shrimp and clams…. Yummy. Did a new walk with the dog that had a long tough hill, and we made it!

Week 3 – reconnected with my hiking friends and hiked Brushy Peak. Also made divinity as a test run for a candy class I am teaching this summer, excellent, and even better gave most of it away.

Week 4 – finished one more portion of my front yard “re-model”, went on a walking tour of North Beach area of san Francisco

Just saying hi. Messed up my ankle at the cemetery yesterday. Spent the whole last two weeks in bed with bronchitis and I'm back in bed with the ankle. Have let a few choice words fly.

Cynthia

Barbie - I absolutely agree with your last post. It does seem to me that the really successful maintainers are those who have found an activity they can stick to that burns enough calories so they don't have to starve themselves. Today's food temptations can sabotage the best of intentions all too easily unless you have a reserve of burnt calories. You have your walking and dancing, I have my home gym, Pip has her cycling, Katla her riding, spinning and cycling. It helps if it is part of our routine and readily available. It is not a licence to eat badly, but it means you can eat "well".

Heather UK