WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2015

Janet: DS was mad at shoddy work done by the boatyard in the first place. He was happy with my work once he got over whining about the fact he had to take the boat to the yard with my help, rather than have his “staff” handle the job. (“Staff”= DH & Me.) It is at the boatyard and he has returned to WA. I imagine he was back by noon. :flowerforyou:

Mary: Thanks for the compliment on my mothering. For a little perspective, DS will be 40 on his birthday. DD will be 36. I get to be the mother forever.

Heather: Enjoy the grandchildren! :flowerforyou:

Yanniejannie: Your suggestions helped me with my saddle sores. Thank you! They aren’t as painful as yesterday, thanks to your daughter’s expertise and your suggestion to try Baby Anti Monkey Butt Cream. Just the name of the stuff makes me smile. :bigsmile: :laugh:



We are getting ready for a roadtrip to DH’s hometown for his 50th HS reunion. I hope we have a great time, and that we handle the heat okay. It will be in the low 100’s there if the forecasts are correct. The surprise is that it will be almost as hot here. I have never seen the river levels this low before late August.

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

June 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.

Hello 'fat chatters'. Another hot day today but not as bad. Now we go back to rain for awhile.

Cynthia, thanks for the info on 'posting'. Now I feel so intelligent.

Allison, Huge hugs to you today. I am so sorry that Tom lashed out at you over something that wasn't your fault. Hope your kitchen is to your liking when it is done.

Carol Peach, We both take a senior multi-vitamin, a calcium +D and an eye health vitamin. And his heart doctor has him on extra Vitamin D3. So he takes a lot of vitamins. I am just glad he sees two different doctors Thursday and Monday. He told me today that he also has general aches in his chest muscles. I will be so glad when he gets better. I think he hasn't been able to make it to the bathroom 3 times today. He gets a gas pain and them wham. His Dad just gave up when he got cancer and he says he is about to that point and he really doesn't have a lot ot live for. I sure hope he says yes to these treatments and they act fast.

Machelle, great news about the negative biopsy. You can do this! When you move, drag me along with you. I need a lot of encouragement right now.

Tonia, what is that Karaoke app? My husband is a very avid Karaoke junkie. He will go to about any place he can find. Of course with his health he is really cutting back on that. He has about 300 songs that he has mastered. I sing in my church choir and do duets and trios. I would do a solo if the right one came along.

Sylvia, I'm like you in the swimming, I can paddle enough to get from one side of the pool to the other. I haven't been to a pool in a long time but loved just jumping off the diving board, not diving but just jumping.

Naomi, so glad to see you back. I was wondering about you the other day when you were coming back.

Mia, of my heavens, that is enough woes to last 5 years and you had them all in one day. Hope everyone stays safe.

DJ, oh no. I was hoping some one would see my suggestion of the Preparation H and be curious enough to try it and report back. I don't like the idea of using something like that around my eyes.

Yanni, the german shephard sounds like a wonderful old dog. So glad he was able to stay with his buddy. It is so interesting to watch the interactions between animals. My youngest daughter takes her 3 dogs to the dog park all the time. There is always a King, a judge, a punisher, a tattle tale and sometimes the smallest ones are the loudest and biggest personalities. She has 3 dogs, all from rescue sites. She has an old dog, he was getting real slow until she joined the dog park and he could get more exercise, then she got her favorite a boxer puppie. Now he was a character but he is about 9 years old and slowing down and then she has another Heinz 57 that was severely abused and she fostered him for a long time until she decided that no matter whether she ever got him to warm up to humans, especially men that she could never let anyone else have him. So she has a postage stamp size yard and finally gave up and grass and has the whole yard covered with these heavy duty tarps she gets from her work. Of course she has to do regular work on it to keep it clean. So she brings them over to our house about once a month to let them run in our big back yard.

Sylvia, I thought of you today. I was watching a video on face book about this master craftsman that does ceramics. His vases and other things he made looked like they were made of lace.

I am so sorry to say that I do sleep better now that I resurrected my CPAP and started using it again. And then I added Melatonin 2 mg. My fitbit says I move maybe twice a night. And I mean just move.

Am I the only one who met my husband the normal way???? Well it all had to do with me flunking the OB course in nursing school. So I had to retake it in the fall semester. That made me start work November 19th. The first day was general hospital orientation which any new employee took at the same time. My husband was in that orientation class! His eyes were on a cute pharmacist that was also starting but he soon found out she wasn't easy to get along with. He was a pharmacy technician. So we started flirting with each other in December and January. On February 18th I saw him standing in the line at the coffee shop but he didn't have a ticket. So I asked him what he was in line for. He said he was getting a package of gum. It told him I had some so he could come upstairs and get some. He did, he asked me right there in front of all the people at the nurses desk if I was free that night. I wasn't so that was our first date. I had a date with some one else the next night and told that guy that I didn't want to see him anymore. We were engaged in March and married in September of that year, basically 7 months. That was in 1972, still together, not getting along at times but still hanging together.

I get the silent treatment form my husband quite often. When we are in the car, he likes to not talk to anyone or have anyone talk to him so he can concentrate on those &&*^^^*&(&%% drivers. It drives me crazy if it's just a 30 minute drive. And his main goal in retirement was for us to travel the US! And there would be silence in the car as we are driving 800 miles in one day. Ain't happening buddy. But we never knew that he would have all the health problems he is having. I sure hope that when he has his appointment with the GI guy July 2nd that he does accept these expensive treatments and they act fast. I imagine he has about 8 - 10 BMs a day and today I know he wasn't able to make it to the bathroom in time. With what his Parkinson's does to his outside physical self, tremors, his walk and then incontinent, it is so demoralizing to him. He is barely making it emotionally.

Take care ladies, I have got to get my body back in the mind set of exercising again. I'm pushing 200 now and I do not want to do that. And I don't want to go buy a size 14 wardrobe. I have no idea how I am still wearing my size 12 clothes.

Love you all, Joyce, Indiana

Phew~ trying to keep up with y'all is a feat in itself.
Cheri- would love to know some of the tendincies for Aspergers, I am wondering if Tom has alot of that ...high functioning of course, and he would never admit anything is wrong anyway...
the kitchen is coming along and looking good but we probably wont get the countertops for at least a month, they are backed up 5 teams working 6 days a week and can't keep up, they said 2 weeks maybe...
That is an awesome Idea about bringing 28 pieces a week... very very smart.. will do that. we spent I think 12 bucks for the 52oz and i did pic out the twix for the staff to have.. but 3 weeks and it is all gone? will do that from now on..
guess what came from Fed Ex yesterday? yup it is set up and charging,,, my Ipad mini and the first app I downloaded? hmmmm? can ya guess? yup MFP..
we had a nasty quick storm come through last night we lost the top of a tree at work.. tree's down everywhere,
I have to get in the shower , im going out to see DFIL and I can't remember who asked, but I go out almost every day. to see him and the other residents they have come to love me too

Oh wow - I just found this group and I am excited! I am so stuck right now - 54 years old - menopause and finding this weight loss thing slow, slow, slow going. I am very active and just now logging my foods. Still I am not finding the right combination. Sigh......... maybe you all will have some magical words of wisdom!

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JanetMMcC wrote: »

Lenora - I forgot to mention that one summer I lifeguarded a pool at an apartment building where lots of Cuban families lived. I learned two phrases in Cuban-accented Spanish: "No corre!" and "No expectare a la piscina!" -- "Don't run!" and "Don't spit in the swimming pool!"
JanetM in NO

That is funny! But, I am sure he had to do that to get their attention. I'm sure we had a lot to spit in the water, just not too many would we noticed doing it. One day at camp we threw in a Baby Ruth to see how long it would stay in the pool until someone noticed it, thinking it was something else. We were a wild bunch of life guards. Sometimes we'd stay late just to be able to swim and play in the water without having kids to constantly watch. Night swimming with the lights on in the pool was very relaxing to say the least especially when we could watch the baseball games played by some of the adults in the town . . . we had a perfect line of view from the 1st base side.

Morning gals!

A mere 66 degrees this morning so heading out for my walk!
Have a good one will be back later

Cheri (in cool Fairlawn, Ohio)

Mia - congrats on your weight loss and on your lowering your BMI! The singing app is a blast for me and very relaxing, too. I learn so many songs I wouldn't normally listen to.

CityJane - have a great and safe trip to London being with your grandkids.

It's hard to keep up with y'all, but I'm trying to read what I can and get a picture of what everyone is going through.

I like quotes, so I may end with a Quote of the Day: "There is no substitution for hard work." Thomas Edison.

Happy Wednesday to all.
Tonia/RI

JanetMMcC wrote: »

Jen - I donno what to suggest about the silent treatment, and you''ve already gotten some good suggestions. For whatever it may be worth, Consumer Reports says stainless steel is harder to keep clean than the other surfaces.

JanetM in NO

@JanetMMcC: Oh lord; I was able to change the order for a stainless steel dishwasher last night. DH and I had a really good talk and I used all my "conversation skills" to try to get at why he was so upset. It was the price, not the color. So I went back to Sears and adjusted our order to get what we both wanted.

I'll learn to clean stainless steel carefully and make better purchase choices next time.

@drkatiebug and @michele: Thanks for the kind words of comfort. I know there's always hope! After 23 years of praying for answers about DH's weird behaviors (he's also a really great guy, responsible, kind (sometimes), and wants to please me), perhaps the answers are now coming. I am willing to do almost ANYTHING to keep my marriage intact and growing.


~Jen in (summer with sweet blooming jasmine) California

I just skimmed the last two days' of posts, since I am on the road.

Cholesterol issues- I was struggling, and did not want to take statins. My nurse practitioner prescribed NIACIN- a vitamin. She started me at 500mg and worked me up to 2000mg a day. My cholesterol and triglycerides are totally normal now. If you try it, be sure to get the sustained release type. The "flush" that you feel, while uncomfortable, actually means the niacin is working to open up the capillaries and flush out your circulatory system.; For me the flush feels like an itchy sunburn and I do turn bright red all over, but your body does adjust and it stops being a problem. It is suggested to take it at night, so you aren't aware of the flush, but for me, at first, it was so bad it woke me up. But well worth it!

Cheri, if you do have to move, remember, you may have a contact in your new city right here in this group. It seems to me that a lot of the geography is covered. And the people in this group may have friends or family in your new city as well. But I hear you about moving. AND about the difficulty getting a job at age55. I think that is why my disability application went through so quickly- the combination of my issues (depression and arthritis) and my age. I had been searching for a couple of years- used up all my savings. Scary to have no cushion and realize that social security is my only income for the rest of my life. But anyway, back to your issues, hang in there and vent here lots. Talking about it really does help. And know that we are all here for you!

The girls and I hiked on the backside of the mountain above Boulder yesterday, about five miles total. I took pics but cannot post until I get home.

:flowerforyou:

good morning again kiddo's~
well I have been up since 3, so have got alot done,,,,
went to feed my DFIL , he cracks me up....
his siblings and niece are coming to see him today.. then from there I went to my neighbor's wake,she was a sweet lady she lived to be 93... then from there came home and mowed the lawn....showered changed and now sitting, and then will go to work for 1

Mia: From 36 to 18 is an outstanding accomplishment! I started out as a 22W and am now in a comfortable 18W. My goal is to a size 12W. A regular 12 would be good but I have so much junk in my trunk and I don’t think it will ever be the same size as the rest of me. When I don’t eat on time my blood sugar levels drop and I turn into a monster – sometimes angry and sometimes a crying nut. After one episode my brother demanded that I carry a protein bar in my purse at all times. I do and have only had to eat one. I throw them out every 60 days or so cause they tend to get smashed up from all the other stuff in my purse.

Machelle: I started out at 273 with back pain, knee pain, and respiratory problems. I am down to 244.1 – no back pain and no knee pain. The respiratory problems are manageable except for an occasional flare. It has not been an easy journey and I have often fallen off the wagon but I do manage to get back up. It is difficult and sometimes painful to exercise when you are carrying excess weight but you must try even if it’s just a little bit. You might want to try water aerobics as it is not so physically stressful.

Cheri: This group has come to mean so much to me too. Not just to talk about losing weight, but just for sharing stuff about everyday life. It is wonderful that we can take each other with us no matter where we go. OMG! I love your reaction to the silent treatment. I think I might switch up because your few sentences say it all.

Joyce: Sending you hugs and healing prayers for your DH.

Allison: Congratulations on receiving your IPad mini!!!

Sylvia: Please make sure you tell us more about eating?? Antelope?

My Love Story - I met the SO 11 years ago. I had a huge oak tree come partially out the ground during a hurricane. It was hung up in other trees two yards away and never fully fell. I had several tree companies give me quotes between $4,000 and $3,500 to take it down. This was not really feasible for a single parent of two teenager so I didn’t get it done. On a Monday morning, I had some guys come back inquiring whether I would let them take it down for the reasonable amount of $700. I said absolutely! On Tuesday a gentleman walking down the street with a chain saw in hand inquired. I told him that I just had someone else coming and they were taking it down on Thursday. He inquired of the amount and I told him. He asked me if I would allow him to take it down for $500 on Wednesday. I said of course and he did. On Wednesday evening he returned to get paid and brought the SO with him. The SO was covered in sawdust, had on combat pants and boots, looked like a generally crazy person and just stared at me. The best I could do was offer him a shot of Jack Daniels because I felt like I needed one myself. He was making me nervous! Anyway, apparently he decided that I was to be his friend and would call occasionally or blow his car horn when he passed through. Then we dated for a year before deciding to consolidate our households. A few years after we met he told me his side of the story. He said the guy that cut the tree down asked him to climb the tree and get it down. The SO after looking at the tree said it would take 2 climbers to get it down so he called in another climber. It took them the better part of a day to get the job done. He then advised the guy that he was charging him $900 for climbing and cutting the tree down. Of course the guy advised him that he was only getting a total of $500 for the whole job. The SO said he had to come to see what kind of woman could get a $4,000 job done for $500 and then decided that he needed to keep me with him. We’ve been getting officially married for a while now. I’ve postponed it a couple of times now but I reckon we’ll get on with it in the next 12 months or so.

Tere in Richmond VA

Michele in NC – I am not the poster with the teriyaki tofu, but I do eat tofu so I thought I’d tell you how I use it. I usually use tofu in place of meat in a meal. Tofu by itself is rather tasteless so I use it in dishes where it has been marinated and the final dish has a sauce. When you start with a block of tofu that you are going to marinate that you press the water out of the tofu block before putting it into a marinade.

So specifically, Teriyaki Tofu has been marinated in teriyaki sauce. For that I would use cubes of tofu with a variety of vegetables in a stir fry. You could also just cut the tofu into slabs and heat them up as “cutlets” and serve a vegetable on the side. I don’t do “cutlets” these days because I have always fried my cutlets to get some texture on the outside edges. I’ve heard that baking the tofu gives them texture, but I haven’t tried that yet.

½ cup tofu = 94 cal; 10.1g protein; 5g fat
½ cup chicken (white meat) = 121 cal; 21g protein; 3.1 fat

Mia in MI

June goal - log food every day
Word of the month – persevere