WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY2015

Liilian our skies are hazy because of the wildfires you are experiencing. If it is this bad here it must be so much worse for you. Hope they end soon.

Grits and sluts They had a picture in the paper today of two pink flamingoes with black armbands in honor of Featherstone's death, the man who created the pink flamingo lawn ornaments. I tried to get it to copy here but was unsuccessful Thought of you.

:Heart MNMargaret

Small town Iowa, the parade goes right past my house. Many of the participants toss candy- my girls each got about three POUNDS of candy. I let them eat all they want today, then toss the rest. Not going up to the park for all those activities (barrel rides, pony rides, games) but will watch the fireworks tonight from the park.

:flowerforyou:

Not a bad 1st week of the month:




Cheri

miriamwithcats wrote: »

Small town Iowa, the parade goes right past my house. Many of the participants toss candy- my girls each got about three POUNDS of candy. I let them eat all they want today, then toss the rest. Not going up to the park for all those activities (barrel rides, pony rides, games) but will watch the fireworks tonight from the park.

Now that is a LOT of candy tossing! How wonderful that you have that Main Street USA feeling from your very own front porch. Enjoy the fireworks!

Cheri

Happy 4th of July everyone! Thanks for all the warm welcomes.
I'm still trying to catch up on posts, but making progress. I didn't take notes so I'm not able to respond to everyone but will respond to a few.

All the ladies with the jewelry trees - You have inspired me. My MIL has lots of old costume jewelry that she will never wear again and I'm going to try to make some trees for all the granddaughters.

Pip - Have fun in Vegas! Love the swimsuit. I'd love to get back into a two-piece but doubt that will ever happen.

Mary/MN - Good luck with your move.

Allison - Thinking of you. Hope you enjoy your time away and while you are away, I hope that your DH realizes just what a wonderful lady he is married to.

I love seeing all the pictures - flowers, views of outdoors, grandkids, before/after. Keep posting them!

Went to our local parade today. My youngest daughter was marching with the HS band. My oldest daughter just graduated high school so was her first time in several years just as a spectator. After the parade, we went to the pool where my daughter is a lifeguard. Planned to be there only a short time but spent the entire afternoon. Weather was great. Only bad thing is that I don't wear my fitness tracker at the pool (that whole water resistant vs. water proof thing) so my step counts are off. Will still try to hit my goal of 7500 steps today.

Hubby grilled out tonight which was great - BBQ pork skewers and corn on the cob. Neighbors are shooting off bottle rockets and scaring the poor dog. He's a 100 lb black lab, but just a little lap dog at heart. We'll go watch fireworks tonight but have to put him in his kennel in the garage so he does not get so scared.

Linda/IA

Hi, everyone:
I'm 49 with my 50th coming up next year. I am trying to exercise more and eat better. Last year I tried the C25K app to start running--gradually--and ended up with a stress fracture, 2 weeks on crutches and several more weeks in a boot. I have since gone back to the gym, but have trouble getting there regularly between having a full-time job and two non-driving teenagers at home.

Two things I've done that are positive re: meeting these goals:
1. Started packing jar salads for my lunch at work. It's a bit of a pain getting them ready Sunday nights, but then I have the base of my lunch ready for the rest of the week.
2. Just bought a FitBit Flex and hope that monitoring my steps will help me stick to getting enough exercise

Negative: I do tend to get bored while at the gym or out running, even when listening to music or trying to watch something on Netflix while on the treadmill. Does anyone else out there get bored, and what do you do about it? I love audio books and podcasts, but the spoken word pace is too slow for exercising. I may give that another go, though.

The exercise I really love is ballet. I enjoy pilates. The problem with both is the $$$ and the time to do them at dance or pilates studios. My YMCA offers pilates classes but not at convenient times.

Cheers!
Kathy

I was asked to post a picture of my son's bowling scores. Here are his scores from today. They put a different oil pattern on the 4 different lanes to force him to adjust.

Wound up doing about 50 minutes of levels 2 and 3 of Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Zumba Gold DVD

After exercising went to the farmer's market. Found these purple peppers which I've never had so decided to give them a try. Got my car taken care, went to Aldi since they're right next door, had to go to WalMart on my way home to get ground beef (and a few other things), came home and made a strawberry bread. I'm thinking that I put too many strawberries in it, made some butterscotch spice cookies for mahjongg Monday, made a meatloaf for Vince, then made another strawberry bread. Have to lector and serve at the mass tonight, so I'd better get dinner ready and then change.

pip - thanks for doing that (sending the friend request). How cool that you got everything into a backpack. Jess can do that, there is no way I could. Somehow I don't think that's CocaCola in that glass. Looks like you're having a fabulous time. Thank for letting us share it with you.

Evangelina - you go girl!!!!

DJ - I swear, the less material in a piece of clothing, the more expensive it is. Just like pip's bathing suit

Beth - happy, happy birthday

Becca - now you have some great ideas of things to put in the strawberries. I made strawberry bread today, but I think I put too many strawberries in it because it didn't rise the way I would have liked it to have. mmmmm...strawberry daquari inside a strawberry...sounds so so good. What a view, thanks for posting the pic

Mary from MN - so glad your hubby is joining you here at MFP (not necessarily on this board, he might feel out of place)

When we lived in PA they were very strict about the types of fireworks you could have, nothing much. Next door to us lived a police officer and next to him was the sheriff of the county. Guess who had the best fireworks display?

Janet OKC - sometimes it takes your body time to catch up with itself. You may not see a loss (you might even see a gain) right now, but next week....watch out! And remember that the scale only reflects the gravitational pull of your body. It doesn't measure your heart.

Everyone, have a great fourth

Sylvia - great price for that bracelet! Happy early birthday

Alison - did you tell your brother that you really do understand what he's going thru because you go thru the exact same thing with FIL?

Cheri in OH - as much as I complain about Vince, what you said about your hubby is exactly how I feel about Vince. He is very intelligent, very good with money (he'd better be, he has a CPA degree), he's funny, says that he'll never grow up. Fingers crossed for you guys

hale - can you wrap a stick of cheese inside a piece of turkey breast? What about those packs of tuna? Egg whites (hard boiled)?

katla - happy birthday to you, your son and daughter, too. Sounds like it's going to be a busy month for you

Look out Vegas --- here comes pip and Kirby!!!!

Rosie - maybe you'll meet up with pip in Vegas??

Heather - great kitchen extension and garden. You SHOULD be proud

Carol in NC - your body is probably tired because it's still healing. I don't blame you one bit for not wanting to go out in public quite yet. I'd probably be the same way

Welcome everyone new to a wonderful place

Vicki - hope you feel better

terri - hope the doc got all your sister's cancer, too. Sounds like you did well at McD's

mia - how awesome that you no longer need the chair!

Tina in MD - where in MD do you start the walk?

Kathy - I do get bored, but find that I need to vary my exercise routine in order to keep from being too bored. Like there is no way I can take a water class 3 days in the week, I'd get too bored. Once/week...that I can handle. I know one lady who has an iPod shuffle that is waterproof to listen to music when she's doing her laps. I do use my iPod to listen to fast-beat music. The biggest problem I find with audiobooks is that I get so involved sometimes that I forget to change speed/incline. DVD's for the pilates? Can you get some of them?

Had most of my calories today in that strawberry bread. You know something? Having all those carbs really made me sleepy, I had to take a nap. It's weird how your body reacts to something that it's not used to.

Michele in NC

Michele - Park at National Harbor, a large shopping/dining, etc complex and from there it's just a short walk to the bridge. Link to National Harbor - http://www.nationalharbor.com/

Beth - Happy Birthday!

Pip - for sure "THIS IS THE LIFE" enjoy!!
Janetr OKC

we will be here for 8 nights damnit

marking my spot ...need to go to bed ...exhausted.

Lillian in Smoky West Central Saskatchewan

The neighbor two doors down invited us to their Fourth of July party. I'm not good in big groups of strangers -- I talk to strangers for a living, but don't have to think about what to ask. In social situations, I'm a lump. But I spent the afternoon there, bringing a big bowl of strawberries with a choice of full-bore and lite canned whipped creams and vanilla Greek yogurt.
I also ate a brownie. And all sorts of other "bad" stuff. But I'd started the day with a lot of walking and such, and I took small portions (Oh, okay, I did have two pork ribs) and didn't try everything (not even the red velvet cake). Still, I just barely squeaked by under budget.
"And such" included a Zumba class. I decided, while walking home from the grocery across the highway (I saw they had 2-liter seltzer, which Larry likes, and told him that if he'd pick up the groceries I'd get him some) that with the temp at 86 I'd pay $10.90 to use the gym, and the class was just about to start when I walked in. I have no idea how to figure the calorie burn, but I couldn't do half the exercises and was still sweating huge drops in spite of their a/c.
Ate enough at lunch that I didn't want supper, so that worked.

Lorena - I've got my fingers crossed for your brother-in-law.
I hate it when my nose goes into faucet mode and I have to turn into a nose-walrus with twisted tissues.

Sue in WA - wow, what a productive weekend! Glad you and yours made the trip well.

ithinkicanwin - Wow. I only remember a day or two on a clear diet before a colonoscopy. Good progress on the exercise!

Joyce - I couldn't poke fun of your son for getting lost in his home town, since my first coherent memory is of getting lost in bed.

Evangelia - way to go on the 20k!

Beth - happy birthday!
Good work on the triple loss.
With all three of you working together for your son and your own bodies, it should go well.

Becca - yup. I hope you could tell the tune.
Lovely view, and what a pair of sweeties!

Penny - pretty posies!
And of course you couldn't resist.

Rosie in SoCal - yay! for the loss!

Mary from MN - cool that your husband's joining in.

Lisa - lovely pix. I hadn't realized elk had such small heads compared to the rest of their bodies.

JanetR - Your clothes are telling the truth. You're replacing fat with muscle, which takes up less space and is denser than fat. So the scale can sometimes go up while the waistline goes down.

Sylvia - what a bargain, that bracelet! And such progress!

Cheri - There ya go! And I agree that humor is major.
On the other question, could he pay more attention to you at the door if the mail wasn't right there, its there-ness demanding his attention?
YAAAAY for not using stress as an excuse to eat.
Awwww. Cute, cute wedding pic.

Hale0610 - for a quick protein lunch, what about a wrap that uses lettuce leaves instead of a wheat wrap? Greek yogurt is higher-protein than regular.

Barbiecat - I'm smiling at your tale of two husbands.

KateKyi - <<hugs>>

Chamblisk - you're nicer than I am. I would have thawed ribs and burgers, and kept the steaks for tomorrow.

Heather - that is a pretty space your son and DDIL created.

NCCarol - yeah, serious healing makes you tired. Heck, these days if I just get a bug I sleep a lot.
Funny you should mention sleep interruptions for potty breaks. I decided tonight that I'm going to try just taking sips of water for the last 2-3 hours before I go to sleep, to see if that lets me sleep through the night instead of waking up to decant.

peep - great to see y'all havin' fun.
WOW on the walking.

slcinwa - welcome!

Vicki - ow! Sorry to hear about the cut. And jumping with a sore thumb would be hard.
Oh, my lord. So sorry about your boss's son-in-law.

Terri in Milwaukee - I havae my fingers crossed for your sister.

Mia - No-Chair Victory!

Linda/IA - To get pool steps, you might try putting your tracker into a freezer zip-lock bag, sucking out all the air, and weaving that in and out of a hair-tie around your wrist. Or just hold onto it.

Hey, Kathy ToadlyFrog! I've used the Kindle app on my phone to read while treadmilling or stationary bicycling. I even read whle walking around the neighborhood or the hall at work.