WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2105

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going to ride home.. weather is great.

stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 11.32min, 15.3amph, 2.9mi = 116c
spin- 40min, 90ar, 92aw, 9-14g, 17.8mi = 333c
ride gym 2 dome- 6.19min, 12.9amph, 1.3mi = 68c
ride wk 2 hm- 46.32min, 13amph, 10.1mi = 475c
total cal 992

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

Good Evening Ladies,

Janetr, I liked your crouton joke. Thanks for the smile.

Joyce, I sure hope Charlie beats the odds. But everyone in our generation is living longer than before, so actually the odds are with him. I think my DH thinks his time could be up at any time just because of his heart condition but he is still going strong at 72.

Gloworm, you enjoy your peace and quiet next week. You get your vacation while the DGS are having theirs.

Heather, it sounds like a great day of relaxing and then going out to dinner.

Rita, I’m no one to talk about exercise but since it can help with your depression try to force yourself to do just a little. I just hate that so many of my friends here suffer from such a debilitating condition.

Kateraevyn, welcome. It’s never too early or too late to join us. This is a great place for support and information. Please sign each post with a name you want to be called and a location, general or specific.

Rita, my favorite thing to avoid on your list is “warm environments”. For some reason that one hit me as funny.

Terri, so sorry the tooth is still bothering you. I hope it’s better soon!

NMMargaret, I also find that everything seems to go better when I’ve had a good night’s sleep.

DrKatie, all this talk of remodeling has me thinking about the future. We have never lived in our house longer than 10 years and always seemed to move before things started needing to be replaced. If we stay in this house until we move to “the home”, we might eventually have to update something. At least it should be a while since the house is only 8 years old. I can already tell what will need to be done first is the carpet replaced. It’s probably the best quality carpet we’ve ever had but it keeps wrinkling and we’ve had it stretched once already.

Pip, now that you found a pain med that doesn’t make you loopy, maybe the doctor will write you a scrip for some of your own. Feel better!

Cd, glad you survived your first colonoscopy. I’m not one of the many medical people here but I don’t think it’s that unusual to remove a polyp and they always send them for a biopsy. So you are wise not to be concerned before you have a reason to.

Barbie, have fun with your new weights and new routine.

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.

I slept really well last night, being back in my own bed. Even so, I have been extremely tired today. I laid down to try to take a nap this afternoon and couldn’t go to sleep. I had a dull headache most of the day, which I rarely get. I think it actually went away when I ate dinner. Maybe I just needed some protein? LOL I gained a pound and a half while out of town for the wedding. That’s not too bad considering what awful diets my niece and her family eat. We got more rain today, which was needed but if it doesn’t stop, I don’t know when DH will be able to mow. And it needs it now. Wow, I think I’ve caught up so I’m going to get this posted and go to bed.

I hope all of you have nothing but good health and happiness.

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.
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC

damnit - other pills didn't make me loopy, they just didn't work. doc filled a script for me, it will be mailed, i don't have time to pick it up so it has to be mailed i guess

Did an hour of deep water today. First went to Bi-Lo to get items on sale, after exercise stopped at the Salvation Army. Found one shirt that I'm not sure I like a whole lot but got it for the price. Would never have paid full price for it

The plan for tomorrow is to do a total body workout with resistance bands DVD. We shall see what that one's like.

After coming home went in the pool, then in the house to make another one of the spinach/feta quiches, prepare dinner, and made a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies for Vince. Why, oh why, didn't I have my big salad instead of some of the cookie dough? Honestly, I almost couldn't finish my veges and salad at dinner. Went to ceramics tonight where I cleaned my welcome sign. It'll be fired next week which is OK. Worked a bit more on my duck but didn't realize that I didn't have as much time as I thought I had. Then went to Lowe's foods for one item (I thought something else was BOGO but I was wrong and we didn't need it badly enough)

Mary from MN - the crustless spinach/fetza quiche is a SkinnyTaste recipe that Heather has mentioned. It's really not difficult at all to make and it has quite good flavor. Just google SkinnyTaste

DJ - I have no idea why I've been dizzy. It actually doesn't happen all the time. It mostly happens when I have my head below my heart it seems. Welcome home. Wonder if being dizzy has anything to do with the fact the lately my lower back has been hurting. I am trying to be more cognizant of using good posture. Good for you only gaining 1-1/2lb. Glad your headache went away.

I don't think you can mail scripts for narcotics here, either. The MD can call them in to the pharmacy, tho


Mindy - turkey and meatball soup -- sounds wonderful. I got dinner ready since on Wed. we leave early to get to ceramics. Anyway, I made myself a HUGE salad. Don't ask me why I didn't have some of the salad, I should have. But instead I had some of the cookie dough (I'd made cookies for Vince)

tere - you've been missed sorely. Come back lots

miriam - you are so right, cats are such an utter joy. I don't think I could ever foster, tho. They'd never go back and that would be a problem. I want to be sure that I am able to properly take care of the cats I have, we have 4

Bad Penny - good to see you coming back

Welcome everyone new

Becca - bet you'll have a ball volunteering.

terri - tell me more about this mouthpiece. There is an ad on the radio for a mouthpiece, but I can't see much on the internet about it

pip - glad the Percocet is working for you

katla - I no longer watch Dr. Oz because I, too, think he's no longer in the health business

cd - I'm sure the polyp will be begnine. But it's a good thing it was caught


Michele in NC

@jmkmomm ahhh you lucky duck! When we moved from California to Oregon we picked out a new doctor up here, and got it all squared away by our military insurance. That was Dec 2012. Then in August of 2013 for some strange reason MY doctor was listed as a doctor in San Diego. So when I was seen by the doctor I had chosen, my military insurance billed it as "going outside the area" and it wasn't covered. So I called the military insurance hellish people and they were telling my doctor was so-and-so...Im like nooooo. I had to have my husband take the phone and use his CHIEF'S VOICE on them to get them to understand.... Crazy...

Today I tried some "spelt crispbread" that is really good! I put some light mayo, spicy mustard, sweet relish, spinach leaves and some of my cherry tomatoes and it was AWESOME. A great platform for other stuff like those little light Baby Bells that are also AWESOME! My weakness...

Just had a conversation with the teenager...He is going to start riding his bike to school to figure out how long it will take to get there. A little un-easy but I know he is careful. There is alot of huge logging trucks that go down the same street he will be going down. I just need to trust that he will be careful. Plus later on down the year, I will light him up like a Christmas Tree as it will be getting darker in the mornings.

Every evening I walk to my garden. I saw my neighbor across the street (from our complex) talking wildly probably about a fish he caught. His hands were going a mile a minute signing. Two trucks there so probably his family coming to get a Chinock Salmon. Being that the boat ramp is about 5 minutes from him, I would imagine his family loves his location! Further down is the garden with a manufactured home next to it. A nice family has just moved in, with ALOT of birds. They are a foster family for endangered birds, and most nights they are outside with one of the large parrots. My tomatoes are still flowering and making more tomatoes! The plants have also decided to leave the plot I planted them in. They have taken over the path inbetween my neighbors plot and mine. Its a nice end to the day, and its quiet, except for the bald eagles talking to each other.

The last couple of days I have been eating a generous bowl of soup for lunch. The calories have been averaging 400 to 500 calories. Its nice to fix it, and it really makes my dinners just like snacks. I have also been averaging no more than 1200 calories a day. I have been doing that for awhile and it is routine for me. To think that some McDonalds meals are 1200 calories alone, makes me just nauseated. And there are adults feeding that to their children every day! When I look at my son bounding thru life, lean, and healthy I can say I have done a great thing with him. Being an overweight teen is so stressful these days. As if completing the homework isnt enough stress alone. He has a friend nearby that has some weight issues, but he isn't willing to walk with my son when he does, or like I asked my son tonight, he said he wouldn't want to bike either.

Yep I have volunteered many months ago with the community centers' Senior luncheons. There is a group of guys that ALWAYS sit together, and there are certain tables where others sit. So much routine! There is some that drink more coffee, and others that drink more water. There are some that don't want you to touch their plates until their last sip of coffee is supped, then others that wish it gone right away. So many unique personalities! We stay until the tables are cleared, and we get a couple of meals to go. Plus they have fruits and veggies to take, and breads you can have. I need a new book so I hope they have the take and read pile there.

Be well, be happy, and be you!
Becca

Sharon, every Grandma needs to make paper airplanes, whatchamacallits and doohikies. Life is so much more fun when you do those things. Semetimes it's needed even when the grand kids aren't there. the start of your day sounds awful but then the fun started happening!

Allison, you must have needed that 10 hours of sleep. The world got along OK without you while you were sleeping. Sometimes the body senses that it needs to crash every once in awhile. It just doesn't give you any warning.

Miriam, how about ordering equipment off the internet? When my son in law had his sleep study and got his CPAP, he had insurance. But then he changed jobs and didn't have it anymore. So he got it some where on line.

Bad Penny, BTW that's a terrible name, good luck but if you have that much non luck in sticking to a diet, maybe you need to make goals a little smaller. Starting 5 things at once is a pretty lofty goal. Then maybe you can change your name!!!

Miriam and Cheri, OTC generic benadryl is also one of my go to medicines for sleep but I hardly take it anymore now that I found Melatonin. Valerian Root and Wildlettuce leaf are also two natural sleep assistants that I have found.

MNMargaret, I had never heard of a fan that actually had a sleep setting. or maybe people like my husband have been using them for years for sleep and so they decided to capitalize on the idea and put a setting on the fan which was actually the same fan as before. I use a sound machine. One good thing about it is that it has a place for a battery. Charlie likes his fan noise to help him sleep but doesn't like the breeze. So I bought him a sound machine. He asked me why in the world I thought he would need it. he doesn't accept gifts very well. Every single person in our family use either a sound machine or a fan!

DrKatie, the only appliance I have left that is avocado is my stove. And it is in dire need of replacement. But since I hardly cook at my house it is used mainly used Thanksgiving and Christmas. But the sink is also avocado and it is chipped real bad. I like what other people have done to make a retro kitchen but they generally have carried that theme elsewhere in the house and I don't want that. Wow, sounds like you have had some timely bad luck in your house. Our carpet in two bedrooms is the original from 40 years. The bedroom I use as my office was Michelle's and one evening her best friend was on her water bed and experimented with how much it would take to put a hole in the water bed. I don't think teenagers logic can be explained. Well they found out and couldn't fix the leak so they just let us find out when ever we did. The ceiling in the family room finally started sagging and we followed it to her room. But that hole in the ceiling did make for interesting ways to try to put Santa Claus entering our house since we don't have a fireplace. We put red flannel and black shoes hanging out of that hole for many years. But we replaced it with an ugly blue that Michelle just could not do without. A cat we used to have used to get angry with me and would take it out by using that ugly carpet to pee on. We have tried numerous cleaners and shampoos to get that smell out. It is really bad on rainy nights like tonight. So all the carpet upstairs need to be changed. That is on our 'someday' list. Oh, we do have a fire place now. WE got one of those fake electric ones. The flame does look quite authentic and it sure does warm the room or you can just use the 'flame'. Plus it is a beautiful mantel for stockings.

Lenora, my insurance will only pay for CPAP accesories if I have had a recent (within 2 years) sleep specialist visit. I hate to go see a doctor when I don't need it. The only thing that ever goes out is the velcro elastic eventually gets stretched. GRRR My husband has a quick temper that is quickly relieved by a quick jab to the wall. EAsy for him to say. I refuse to have anything to do with that hole. The mess it may make on the floor stays there until he sweeps it up. So he does a lot of spackling. And he isn't a professional if you know what I mean. So he sands it and it never sanded flat so I won't let him paint over it. So all over the kitchen, living room and his bedroom and bath there are these 'fixed' holes in the wall. We completely redid our family room in 2008. We tore it down to the studs and had some one professionally re do it. He has never touched those walls.

Becca, although it sounds like you girls have a lot of fun when you help out at the senior center do you have to cook the meal also. That's a ton of work for just 4 people.

Pip, we have to pick up our narcotic prescriptions and take it to the pharmacy. Even my Klonopin is a controlled substance but the refills can be called in. When I was on Ritalin for my MS I could only get enough for 30 days, I personally had to pick it up at the office and take it to the pharmacy.

I felt so wonderful on Monday when the scales had finally gone down to 194. But on Tuesday and today it is 195.4. It is frustrating. I think my cat is snoring right now!! It sounds so cute. We have gotten about 3.5 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. We do not like that. Of course out west they would love it. It would help with the drought and the wildfires. I think I left my phone at church tonight. I forgot it today when I drove on the interstate a couple of towns away for my haircut. I thought the appointment was at 2 and it was at 3. I would have walked around her neighborhood but it was raining and further down her road is a lot of drug traffic. So I just enjoyed yakking with her and made a new friend that was in the chair. I had never seen anyone gets her eye brows dyed! So tomorrow I go down to the church and see if it is there. Sometimes it falls out of my pocket in the car. But when I called the phone tonight it did not ring so I know it isn't here. We started our Christmas music tonight!!!!!! Happy, happy. Friday we go pick up a free 8 foot folding table. A lady at the church died and it wasn't sold at their yard sale and am giving the rest of the things away. Then on Saturday going to drive to see Christina and spend day with her and family. It is always a long day, getting home around midnight.

Nite, nite dear ladies Joyce, Indiana

One more day... actually got a lot done that I wanted to do these last few days, but the infrastructure of the restaurant has cost thousands of dollars in these last few weeks due to past neglect. The A/C units overloaded the whole restaurant electrical system, burning out ballasts/bulbs on all the bathroom lights, and frying the controller on the hot water heater. They were heating water on the stove last night to sanitize dishes. So, have had $3,000 worth of work done to the A/C and freezers/refrigerators/walk-ins in the last two weeks. Had to replace the sprinkler control system (another 500 bucks) light bulbs/ballasts in one freezer, probably need replacing in the other soon, still need the water softener checked. The music system went down three weeks ago, and it's just been one thing after another. I've learned I can go in my office, cry for a few minutes to let all the stress wash through, and then go back out and smile and smile and smile.

And vacation starts tomorrow morning. One whole week and a day of just me and my hubby and seeing my best friend and my son... and it can't come soon enough. Off to the showers and one long day... the hubby and I are delivering the catering heat & eat for ten people, five days, this afternoon back to the ranch, so I need to get some other stuff done first. Off to the races!

Good morning Ladies! Thank you for all the suggestions. Here's how I'm trying to deal: first figure out how to stop the morning headaches that can turn into migraines if I don't take a Tylenol right away. I think once I get that under control, some of the depression will ease. I am using a night guard I got from my dentist. My chiropractor/acupuncturist prescribed some natural relaxing/sleep inducing mess which do help me relax when I sleep.

Second, I need to figure out why I get so sleepy in the afternoon to the point where I almost fall asleep while driving the 3 mile to home. I think everything is related somehow to the restless sleep I get. So I charged up my Fitbit which records sleep and restlessness to see if I can work on that with the hope of feeling better.

Off to work now. TTFN

Rita from CT