WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2015

Janet - too bad about your dinner experience! Although you got your meal for free it sheds a bad light on the restaurant. We can start moving stuff into the garage and cabin next weekend. We close on the 2nd so will have some time to bring things over. They have a renter that is there until the 1st. We close on our house on the 29th so will have to stay in the hotel 3 houses away from our new house. That is also where my DSIL and I go swimming. The only thing that is bothering us is that the FHA hasn't even done the appraisal on our house yet!

Mary from Minnesota

Today's joke is a repeat, but I still think it's funny. Maybe some of the new ladies haven't seen it:



A student comes to a young professor's office hours.

She glances down the hall, closes his door, and kneels pleadingly.

“I would do anything to pass this exam," she says.

She leans closer to him, flips back her hair, and gazes meaningfully into his eyes.

"I mean," she whispers, "I would do anything..."

He returns her gaze, "Anything?"

"Anything."

His voice softens, "Anything?"

“Anything," she repeats again.

His voice turns to a whisper.

"Would you ... study?"

Chanagraves- welcome! Tell us about yourself, your goals, what exercise you like to do, what you want to be called, where you live... Just join in on the conversation!

Mary from Minnesota

Thanks fanncy0636....I live in New Orleans and my goal is to lose about 50 more pounds.... back in 2010 I sthatd a weight loss journey and in about a year I lost about 90 pounds ever since then I have been playing with about 20 pounds back and forth... Well now I have been diagnosed with diabetes so I have gotten really serious.... I go to water aerobics at least 4 days a week and I ride my stationary bike everyday.... I thoroughly enjoy the water aerobics.... At one point I would walk in the park 3 days a week but I had to stop because doc said it puts too much stress on my knees.. So I ride my stationary bike instead.... I just want to communicate with folks that's one the same journey that I'm on.... just call me chanagraves!!!!

Hope everyone has had a good day. Of course some of you are just waking up!!!

Cheri, many of us who haven't seen the scale move just use our own body as a judge as to how we are doing. do you keep your own body measurements? I am bad in that I didn't take them at first and I also didn't take a picture. Can be humiliating but needs to be done.

Yanni, congrats on the good night's sleep

Lisa, had to laugh about your ex. I take it he isn't rim and handsome anymore.

Janet, Myrtle beach, I didn't work for this guy. While I was working at the hospital, he was a family practice resident, a 3 year program. So when he finished and was ready to open up his own practice, the hospital was changing insurances and many would have to go to a different hospital for care if he wanted the same level of coverage. So many of the whole hospital staff left their own doctors and singed up to go to his office and have him as a doctor. I have never regreted it. My girls were at the age where they no longer needed a pediatrician, I no longer needed to go to a GYN for my annual exam. I feel like I had a part in raising him. He was one who would frequently ask the nurses things. We are the same way when we find problems when we eat out. We aren't boistrous about it. If it is truly bad we may ask for a change in our bill or something recooked. But we mainly are like you, we want to inform them and not complain. Sometimes it ends up being a fiasco as the manager comes out, his manager comes out, people are listening. Geez Louiz people, don't make a spectacle of yourselves about something that isn't warm enough. I don't like the word Clemantis for a flower either. It sounds like a venereal disease.

terris mom, the blonde fur baby of your sister does look unhappy there.

patceoh, when my MIL was in the nursing home she had a ring taken off her finger while she was asleep!. That wasn't the worst thing though. Everyone at the nursing home knew how suspicious she was. She was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic so she was suspicious. So one day her physical therapist gave her a pouch that went around her neck, long enough it went almost to her belly. It was very important for her to at least win 4 bingo games a week so that was 4 quarters she would keep safe until we came to take them home. It was always DH, myself and one son who would visit and call her. We also took care of talking to nurses about issues, doctor's, and buying her things like shampoo and bright red finger nail polish. So one year she wanted to buy us something special for Christmas . She called up one of her sisters to do some shopping, then asked the office to draw out $300 from her account that she could give to her sister to shop with. The lady in the office didn't want to do it the way MIL was doing it but she insisted so office did it. So she gets the money out and puts it in her puch. Later that day the nursing assistant takes her for her bath. They have a manual lift to lift the patient up from wheel chair and put in bath tub. It takes two to do this. So while she is in bath tub, one of them must have taken her money. Later MIL checks her pouch and sees money is gone. She talks to the lady in accounting and that starts an investigation. She has yet to tell us about it since it was a surprise. Well it was a surprise all right. they end up finding the culprit, give her back the money and firing both nurse aides as they were both in on it.

Jules, the movie was very good. Not good like movies like The green mile, Mr Holland's Opus, but a very action packed movie. The time we picked was 1 PM, I would have preferred 11 AM but Charlie was afraid he would miss taking his 12:30 medicine. So we got there at 12:20 since we thought the line would be long. Well we were the first ones in the theater! I would say it was about a 25% occupancy. But it was showing in about 6 or 7 theaters and that was just one location. Your rural health medicine sounds interesting. It reminds me of some books I have read about rural health medicine where the nurse is almost the only medical care they have. I think these books were based around the Appalachians in the coal mining area. I applied for home health nursing one time but it was only because I was a little frustrated at that time with my work and thought i needed a change. I didn't think that the pay different would be that great though. Glad I wasn't even considered for it.

I had mentioned a couple of weeks ago about wearing my CPAP mask that it wasn't giving me any marks on my face. Well it is now. And now that I am taking Melatonin at bedtime and sleeping so wonderfully, I though maybe I could drop off the CPAP. So I did two nights ago. Terrible night's sleep, just awful. So mask was back on last night and my fitbit showed another wonderful sleep.

Sorry ladies, as I read, I forgot to make notes. Did note all the newbies today.

Welcome to Deb, Aly, HulaMama, becmaness150. avs810 and changraves. You have all come to the right place. Jump in feet first and tell us a little about yourself. It's like having morning coffee with lady friends here. Very few have had the privilege to actually meet some one here but some of them here I have been friends with I value them as good friends. We share each others victories, struggles, hard times, good times and just be together.

Joyce K, Indiana

Good morning everyone!

Saturday is our newspaper reading day. I've done my exercises so I can read it with a clear conscience once I've done a bit of writing.

One of the unexpected benefits of MFP is that I have discovered self discipline for the first time of my life. I was always very good at keeping my commitments to other people, but a wash out on myself. I can now say that I am proud of myself for sticking to this thing and making it a way of life. I used to just muddle through my own commitments, but with a stronger body has come much more self respect.

With regard to using weights - I use dumbbells, not the real thing like Mary. (Kudos!) I started with 2kg ones from Amazon, looked up a couple of things to do with them online and gradually got bigger and bigger ones. The poor postman had to struggle down the path with two 9 kg ones! ! ! ! ! I bought "Strong Women Stay Young" which convinced me that using weights is the best way to keep old age at bay. It also obviously affects your mind! ! :laugh: I don't think I would have got my book out there without the confidence that reshaping my body has given me. All you need is a mat sized space. My weights all fit in my TV cupboard in the bedroom. I only spend less than 10 minutes on actual weights every day. It does give you a lovely shape.
Sylvia - like you the texture of my skin is lumpy, bumpy and wrinkled. :sad: Especially my right arm which has lymphodema and used to be huge. I still wear an elastic sleeve on that arm. Don't like the way it looks. I just cover up. No capris, my ankles are awful. No sleeveless tops. Rarely skirts, hate my knees. I just wear tight things that cover me up and get loads of compliments. Good job it's rarely too hot over here.

Janet - I will see how this gadget goes for the floppies. It was so cheap, with good reviews, it's worth giving it a try. :bigsmile:

Greeting to the new people. Just join in. Great to see you!

Heather in Hampshire UK

Selena
My deepest condolences for your loss.

New here.....Kathy from Virginia

Very informative and age-approprite thread here. Glad to have found you! I live in the DC area, have 2 teens, a husband and a yellow lab. Recently laid off and transitioning into real estate sales.

I've been using MFP daily since the beginning of March. Original goal was to drop 17 lbs. Almost there, down 16, but have pushed it to a goal of 20-25. Tracking and regular exercise have really helped.

I am an intermittent runner. Not marathons, but 5K at the most. Daily walker. In the past few months I've found a great fitness studio and have started classes in barre, TRX and Zumba. The combination is great. When my job was eliminated I finally found the time to exercise. I don't want to give that up again.

metallaxi wrote: »

jogging over 1 hour on the road by the seaside where I live, nice summer morning cool breeze

That sounds heavenly. Where are you located?

Good morning, all... yes, running yesterday did indeed shake off the post-event blahs.


Welcome to the all the newbies! We're kinda international around these parts... (sorry, Leslie! couldn't find a smiley with a Tasmanian flag, I did try... ) lots of folks from both sides of the various ponds. Join in, tell us who you are, what you'd like to be called, what your goals are for June, and join in the conversation wherever and whenever...

All the non-scale movers… I had a two-week stall, which drove me insane...EVERYone told me you must bring your calories up, you’re eating too little, and I resisted, and I resisted, and felt guilty for every extra calorie, and I did it and I’ve dropped a number of pounds in the last two weeks. While, as my beloved says, “A double-blind study would require you wear a blindfold on both sides of your head,” and this is only anecdotal, I do agree with the ones who say it’s worth changing your calorie count or your exercise up or down for a week or two to shake your body out of its groove if you’re stuck. I'm always kind of shocked when I get on the scale in the morning and it doesn't go UP.

Yanniejannie – I struggle every night to get even six hours sleep, and the Fitbit’s proving it, which is a good thing I guess? I don’t know. I was hoping regular exercise would even it out and it seemed to for a while, but I’m back to five or six hours at most. Not sure what would change it—but won’t go back to sedating myself with food, which is the only thing that seems to make me sleep more…

So many of you - I started listing the names, but there were so many! Thank you all for the compliment on the picture--My favorite six-foot-tall niece, who is drop-dead gorgeous, came on Facebook, saw that picture and told me how much I look like her grandma, my Mama. Made me tear up, as she knew it would. I appreciate the compliments from y’all so much, you know as few do how we concentrate on what is yet to go away, like the bingo wings. Sylvia - I've started wearing tank tops, as you saw in the picture, and acknowledging that the skin's just not going away... But I can't bring myself to wear shorts, and I'm thinking I never will. Tight jeans are the best girdle known to womankind, as far as I'm concerned.

Jules – The book is This Little Pig, A Flak Anders Mystery… and I know I’ve sworn off beating y’all about the head and shoulders with my books, but I just approved the proof of “She’s Thinking Out Loud,” so the print will be available on Amazon in 24-72 hours, and in e-book form as soon as I can get it reformatted… It’s NOT a mystery book, but a collection of my op/eds, which range from funny to inflammatory. You can always check my author page at Amazon anytime to see what’s available. Do a search for “Lisa C Hannon.” May the good Lord bless and keep him, my husband married two women named Lisa, and so I use the middle initial religiously! My personal website is www.lisachannon.com, as well, and announcements of new and upcoming books can be found there, too.

Heather in the UK – your personal story gives me so much hope that I will eventually be to the point where one single pound lost makes me so happy—and will not looking at a huge wall of 40-something left to lose, which sometimes feels insurmountable. Congratulations on that pound, and so hope your floppy disk drive can rescue your history! I’ve got stuff going back decades as well… but have converted as I went. Benefits of geeky grrrldom.

Barbie – I LOVE that phrase “Don’t count them, tend to them.” Love the fuzzy furbabies, too...

Mary from MN – I’ve moved 30 times in my adult life, as an ex-Air Force wife, and hoping the next ten years keeps us right here… I have so much sympathy for what you’re going through. And yes, your belongings do have relations behind your back and spawn things you have never seen before. Mine always did. I still find stuff I’ve never seen before in my jewelry box. I’d say I’m prematurely senile, but I’m no longer sure it’s premature!

Joyce from IN – No, the ex is no longer slim and trim. When I married him, he was 5’10, weighed about 125. Seriously. Skinny as a rail. But then, so was I—we were both Air Force. He’s Czech descent, and had high cheekbones and a chiseled jaw. He was always very pale, and had an overbite, but was overall a nice-looking man. In the recent picture, he was wearing white pants, shirt and jacket had a gut that was out to yonder, had completely lost all his hair. It was as if… well, to be completely uncharitable, as if the Michelin Man had illicit relations with an albino beaver. I will go to hell in every possible religion for laughing at that picture, I know, but it genuinely caught me by surprise.

Pip/Poop – I get what you’re saying about exercise I think. It’s what I’ve been trying to do, and you’ve already done. Even on the days we whine (and there have been a few of mine, but I’ve really only been back on this horse for the last 80 days or so) if we’ve gotten to the point we need to be, we actually feel guilty when we don’t exercise. I know I do. I have to give my knees a break one day a week or they start breaking down, and I know it. And I STILL feel guilty when I don’t run. Now, mood, or no mood, rain or no rain, sun or no sun, I put the headphones on, and I run.

Another person said something about “all the gear.” That’s part of it too… I’ve trimmed everything I could OUT of the exercise equation. Everything I looked at and said “I can’t run without…” I quit using. No weights, no gloves, nothing except music. The music keeps me from thinking about how much it hurts and how hard it is to breathe and how hot it is (or cold or wet or dry or whatever). I just keep matching my feet to the rhythm until I can’t anymore…

I’m not saying I’m all that and a bag of chips—but I am saying I was the master, and I can't emphasize this enough--much as I want to blame my ex--every single one of us are the masters of self-sabotage. That’s why we’re here. However, we can swap that around if we choose and groove that the other direction. We are the only ones who can. ‘Cause the last time I looked, the only voice inside my head is my own.

So far. Check back tomorrow. Could be anybody in here!

Lisa H in West Texas

Good morning ladies! Today I am going to mow the lawn for three hours. I love doing that it is so relaxing! Then of course I will be packing!

Joyce - my DH where's a CPAP mask as well because of it I have to wear earplugs. It does leave marks on his face but they go away.

Allison - very encouraging! You choose your life and happiness. That is why you are here. You are choosing to make a change, together we will!

Heather-weights to make your body transform. Any type of strength training really is beneficial isn't it!

Barbie- you have such cute puppies!

MNMargaret- have a safe trip home!

Kathy - glad you're here! There are a couple of ladies that do the 5K.

Janetr- congratulations on your loss! Recording and exercising really works.

Lisa - congratulations on your loss! Sometimes your body tries to hold on if you eat too little.

Have a great day everyone!

Mary from Minnesota

Keeping a friend's pup this week. She's a Springer Spaniel. With my Pom they look like Mutt and Jeff. They enjoy looking out the front glassed in door and bark at anyone walking down the street. Her bark sounds like a bugle.

morning peepsters and welcome new peep-stees !

another busy day. at least kirby is off and we'll be able to go workout together.

lhannonm- well.... i AM sayin i am all that and a bag of chips. i may not b the flavor other people like, just my kind of chips (if i ate them) :0/ u r right, for music, i am very beat oriented. i run to the pace that i run at so it keeps me on beat, so my playlist (when i run) is called beat jogging. when i first started the beat was slower, as i got faster, then i would have to drop that song and add one that is more to the pace that i'm now running at. lately, i have been running only on an incline and i HATE hills, but you do what you gotta do right? kirby just told me he wants to run 10 miles. ughhh.... i'll decide if i am gonna do the 10 with him or if i will change it up and do other stuff while he does his 10... i will decide when i get there. later peeps