WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY2015

Greetings! This looks like an active thread. I am 62 years old. Does that still count for this group, or is there a 60+ group?

I have lost 94 pounds since August 1 with MFP, but just recently came onto the boards. I am looking forward to getting to know you all as I travel on this journey with you. I still have a long way to go so I am in it for the long haul.

Mary - what a pain all this FHA stuff is. If you end up with a bit more money then I suppose it is worth it. :ohwell:
No one can buy my rental with a mortgage as the lease is too short - 68 years. I am looking for a cash buyer, but have had no enquiries as yet. Bit disappointing and worrying, but I have a tenant in place until 10th August.

Found some broccoli plants and ordered some fine mesh and clips from Amazon. Not that I've seen ANY butterflies yet. This is the first year I've managed to buy broccoli plants on time. These look very healthy.

Finished the very first draft of A VERY NICE MAN - memoir of an abused daughter. On a quick totting up it's about 30, 000 words, though I have a bit of infilling to do. My cancer friend, WHO HAS BOOKED HER TRAIN, (!) has also written a memoir and is trying to find a publisher. Hers is about trying to find her roots as she was a fostered, mixed race child. She is also a published children's writer, like me.

Yoga tomorrow. I will take most of the dresses she lent me back to my teacher and keep the two that are perfect for me. I'm not sure about the lace shrug, but will try on again. I think I will wear the "hydrangea" dress on Thursday when we are going to our posh hotel for one night. I will give my high heeled sandals an outing as I will only have to totter into the dining room. :laugh: It's a sheath dress, very like my own black and white one, but with big bright flowers. Very summery!
The hotel is called The Pig on the Beach in Studland, Dorset. My DH thought the price of the "Generous Room" we booked included dinner. NO! It doesnt even include breakfast! :laugh: He wanted to cancel, but we are going with it. We will get there early and make a good two days out of it with long walks along the cliffs to Studland Bay. The weather looks ok for us.

Still waiting for the restaurant to phone. DH had a go at a wine shipping company today and lost his temper. They only shipped half the order and are full of stupid excuses. He was livid!

Love to all. Heather in Hampshire UK

PS - just had an email from the restaurant. They are going to ring me tomorrow afternoon. It is Rick Stein's chain. Do you have him on your TV?

my husband was bouncing all over the floor, so I had to give him the look to tell him to concentrate, as we were learning one of the steps!! hahaha.

Hopefully it will go splendidly with husbands double-breasted suit!

Sylvia -

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Then I accidentally got a look at my droopy, naked self in the hotel mirror. I was truly surprised by the sheer magnitude of the loose skin on my rear end, my inner thighs, and my lower belly. It hangs down in sheets. So, I wasn't feeling very good about myself today. (I may have mentioned that I don't look in the mirror very often, so it was sort of a surprise. I can feel it, of course, but I could pretend it wasn't there if I didn't see it.)

I wanted that ENTIRE distance, and no little rattlesnake was going to cheat me out of it. Yesterday I didn't make my 10,000 steps, but today I'm way over.

I have quite a bit of loose skin as well so I can understand not feeling good about it. I don’t know if it will help you, but I frequently remind myself that at least it is drooping down and is not still filled with plump fat cells that make it stick out away from my body. Also, once it is covered by clothing you can barely see it.

I love the rattlesnake story. Good for you for not letting it ruin your walk.

Linda/IA – I think the color runs look like a blast. I am planning on walking my first 5K color “run” this coming Oct. Just mentioning it since many runs have a walking option for those of us who do not run.

Mia in MI

July goal:
Continue to honestly log food every day
Continue to meet PT one day a week for strength training
Start one hour a week of aerobic exercise
Stop Iced tea overload. 24 oz. iced tea daily plus 40 oz. water
Word of the month – gratitude

Annr wrote: »

Hopefully it will go splendidly with husbands double-breasted suit!

The dress is great. Send us a picture when you are wearing it.

Janetr OKC

Good Monday morning sweet ladies. Start of a new week and weigh in this morning was bad. No one to blame but myself. Have to get back on track and take care of me.No more excuses and feeling sorry for myself. Must eat more vegatables and fruit, less junk. The important thing is I am not giving up. I am working 6-5:30 today and then off tomorrow. It is to be upper 90's today, so glad I am inside. DH and I had a good talk last evening and I do feel better. I just have to remember to breath and not take on the world. Thanks for listening, sure do love you ladies.

Janetr--Your words helped. Thanks,

Rosie--My ideal day would be a day when I can sleep long as I want then just get up and do nothing, maybe read.

Barbie--I did go home and rest and went to bed early. Feel a lot better today. It doesn't hurt that I am not working or following the new supervisor.

Michelle--Did you get to talk to Bryan? Saw where you said you called him and he was on his way out. I agree with you, how bad would it of been if he would of taken 10 minutes to talk. HUGS!!

Gayle--Welcome, you have come to the right place.

I love looking thru photo books. I always take lots of pictures and I have been know to get doubles and give the person in the photo a copy. DH's uncle years ago told how he makes a list of the outside of the book about what is inside with dates and I have started to do that. I tell my DS that when I am old and in the home just make sure I have my photo books and I will be happy for months. Of course by then I may need a room just for them. But I do love the memories.

Sylvia--Glad you got home and were able to help SD. Funny about the stick shift. When I learned to drive my dad had a pickup with 3 speed on the colum. He filled the truck with gas and told me to come back when I learned to drive it, ran out of gas, or wrecked. We lived in the country.

Chris--Happy early birthday. What plans do you have to celebrate?

Katiebug--Great NSV with the clothes from CB.

Mary--Interesting, I hope it all works out and you get more then expected.

Annr--Love the dress.

Meg--Have missed you! Isn't this heat the pits??

Time to get some work done so I can get out of here at 5:30. Have a nice rest of the day.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE

FBarbie here and all is going well. I went over my daily allotment yesterday by less than 100 calories, so I'm not too freaked out about it. I missed my daily walk yesterday and obviously I needed it.
I went out this morning with a couple of neighbors as usual. It was pretty hot and sticky, so we were only out for 35 minutes. One lady said we burn more calories when it's hot and the air is heavy. I'm not so sure about that. I'm sure I sweat more, but I still wouldn't say that 35 minutes on a hot day equals 45 on a nice day.
One of my July goals:
Keep increasing time to stretch and do PT. As I get older the stretch at the end is more important than ever.

I had the most wonderful day! Took the kiddies to swim lessons and when I took them back to the apartment, hubby was there with my son and the guy who delivered the sofa. They got it off the truck but it was up to me and hubby to get it upstairs. We got it in the elevator on it's end, then rolled it down the hall to the apartment. It has casters. At the fire door and the door to their apartment we had to tip it up on end to get it through. But we did it! It is now snugly located in the living room with three little people sitting on it. They just love it. It's amazing how happy little inexpensive things make them. This thing was $40! And it's in beautiful condition too. It's a sleeper, and the mattress was still in plastic and had never been used.

So, we left and I came to the studio to work my way through a MOUNTAIN of drafting that had been waiting for me (and weighing on my mind) for four days. And I got it all done. Boy, and I relieved about that. This was 11 jobs and there are 6 more coming this week, so this will be a good month for billing. That makes hubby happy, too.

So, now I'm relaxing before going to pick up DGD#2 for gymnastics lessons at 5:30.

The kids are going to spend the weekend with their mom on Friday. I'm scared to death, and so is my son. Fingers crossed that we will get them back on Sunday. They were telling me how excited they are to show their mom their new swimming skills. So cute. I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying horrible things about her. They haven't seen her in almost 2 years.

Well, I'm off to the Y. Have a great evening!

Sylvia

pics not showing up...just putting a smile until I figure out what I am doing wrong....

Selena - Wow!! You have really been through it. Kudos to you for keeping 8 lbs off!

Yes, you all read it correctly. Today was my first regular day back at work after the surgery. I was told by the doctor that I could go back after two weeks. Now, that being said, I managed only three hours before I asked my daughter to come get me. I was so fatigued that I was nauseated and feeling a bit like fainting. I will try again tomorrow. Tomorrow should go better since I won't be leaving home at 7 am to go to physical therapy before beginning the rest of my day. My PT didn't say much, but she acted concerned that I had been given permission to go back to work so early. She also said that I had had a LOT of repair work done. It will be 8 weeks before we even begin work on the bicep other than minor stretching. I was given a strong lecture about not doing ANYTHING with my left hand and completely resting the shoulder at all times other than when I'm doing my prescribed exercises. We also adjusted my sling a bit which helped. The girls are in the way of where my slimg should be.
All in all, not the day I had hoped for, but the nap I had after work made me feel much better!

Katherine and I went to Bruegger Bagels for breakfast after my PT. I had checked the calories online and figured the treat into my day. However, I slipped up and bought some chocolate milk without checking the calories first. The milk had as many calories as my bagel and cream cheese!!!! Not sure I'll make it within calories for the day, but trying to at least make it close.

I've read in bits and pieces today and have forgotten most (all) of what I wanted to comment on. I hope everyone has a great evening!

Carol in NC

Did SelenaP63 - I can't believe what you've been through - I'd probably have ended up in the hospital. I am Bipolar and all I can suggest is to get your MD to refer you to someone that he/she would go to if they had any problems. Whenever I have needed a referral, that is how I chose to word it.

I will no longer go to any in the SW GA area - I travel over 100 miles to see the one I go to. Long story, but extremely painful - but that MD found out that being 'bipolar' does NOT make one 'stupid'. As soon as I was able to get out from 5 in-and-out hospital stays after telling the first one to 'go to Hell' if he could not refer to me as "Mrs." (or at least my 'given' name); then I ended up with the DO from HELL! After 3 weeks of asking/telling her that I wanted to go home, I made the mistake of telling her, 'courtesy dictates that when someone is talking to you, you turn around and give them full attention'. WHOOPS wrong thing to say. She transferred me to an institution that is meant to 'house criminally insane people'. Thankfully, the MD that I was assigned to listened to me and quickly realized that she had not gotten me any medications to get me stable and she had transferred me there with an indication that I was on insulin. The first time they tried giving it to me, I asked what was in it. When she said, it's a shot of insulin and I told her that I was not diabetic. She asked me if I was refusing it and I told her again, "I'm NOT diabetic - put it in your records however you want and I will talk to the MD in the morning. Another long story.

When I got out, I wrote down 'everything' I could remembered happening and not being able to get my medical records from the hospital or even from the MD's office to get them to my own treating MDs. I took her before the Composite Board of Medical Examiners and she lost her position as soon as her contract ran out with the hospital. I figured that would 'hurt' her personally, more, because it would stay 'on her records' until she gave up the practice of medicine for all times. She can't move anywhere that it does not show up that she has been taken before the CBofME. I figured it was also better (for me) than suing the hospital and/or her. I've worked for attorneys all my working life with the exception of 3 years.

Well, the complaint got to the Investigative Board and I was called by the investigator to ask if I had received my medical records or had my MD. I told her 'no' and the last time I actually went to the hospital to try to get them, signed the release and soon there was a 'supervisor' who said there was a note on my file NOT to release them to me. I told her I had NOT asked that they be send to me; all I wanted was them to be released to my MD, so he could see what was going on and find me a MD (out-of-town) who would take me on as a patient and took Medicare and BC/BS - he found one in Macon and I have been going to him something like 6 years. I gave him the 5" binder in which I kept my information and he could read it over, and if he decided that I 'might' be a 'problem' patient he could let me know and we'd start over. He said he wanted to keep it to read and I'd come back in 2 weeks to start getting my cocktail of medications along with medications that other MDs had given to me, and why. When I got back to him, he could not believe ANY MD would have done that to me. Long story. I absolutely love my 'new' MD and although he has had to admit me into the hospital because my medications needed to be 'tweaked' - at least I did not get assaulted on a daily basis. He upped my Seroquel from 25mg to 800mg. At the lower dosage, I would have probably not gotten any better and might have ended up being hospitalized for the rest of my life.

If you 'think' you have bipolar tendencies - go to a 'good' understanding MD that you are comfortable with (not just your GP or OB/GYN - if they give you medication for that, they are crossing the lines of being qualified to do so). It might take you going to 2 or 3 different MDs - like an interview to find one that you are comfortable with. Just do it before that 'other' foot falls. It will probably do just that when you need to be strong. Personally, I prefer to be just one step towards manic that being on the fence or the other direction. I know better than anybody when my medications are tweaked right for me. One reason they call it 'practicing' medicine (or law)

I'm sorry you have had so much rough things occur to you in such a short period of time. My heart goes out to you and your family.

Lenora

Selena so sorry about brother-in-law. Love the Hummingbird feeder.

Michele (((Hugs))) My DS is giving me a few more gray hairs at the moment too.

Becca love the pics.

Thanks again for all your support over DS. He is now getting the help he needs. As he heals I hope I can guide him to make healthier choices.

MNMargaret

Sometimes when life is rocky, you do get your sealegs! My son on one of his many deployments, part of the ships Air Crew.

I had asked for prayers a couple of weeks ago, today I found out that things did not go in my favor. I am extremely sad. I came home and walked/ran for 30 minutes before having dinner to relieve some stress. I think it helped. Onward...

Selena...I can't imagine what you are going thru, with such grace and dignity. You are a class act.

Chris in MA