WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2105

cityjane - since we ride bikes everywhere, we would continue riding when we park the airstream. i also have a 1971 volkswagon bug that would be our car if we needed to drive anywhere.

drkatie - i guess my point about the walking with the walking shoes is if there was a shoe store around your area that specialized in running or walking, they could fit you for shoes that would support you, especially if you are carrying a lot of weight. we have a store around here called brooks running. they look at your gate, running and walking to see how you run. they ask what are you using them for, how long, how constant, etc.. they get you the right shoe for what you are using it for. when i used to use tennis shoes, i went to them, i told them mostly treadmill running for about 5 miles every other day. they fit me. i used them for about 2 weeks, and i noticed that one shoe was pinching me. they allowed me to swap for another pair and i paid the difference. good shoes make the world of difference. for me pretty looks don't mean anything if they are not going to give me the support i need.

today, i was doing an errand and i opened the door and it slowly swung back and hit my bone of my shoulder that was sticking up! that hurt! glad i already had a pill in me. that's the first time the bone got in the way.

Happy sun,enjoying the beautiful day.
HUGS jane

Ooooh todays lunch was a can of "Deep Sea Pink Salmon" (about 4.6 oz worth), then I cooked up some whole wheat penne pasta (I put in 2 cups dry so Im thinking 4 cups cooked), 6 oz of cherry tomatoes, 1/4 cup of sweet relish, 3 T of light mayo, and 1 T of parmesan cheese. I mixed it all up and made 4 servings of it. It came out to 288 calories per serving which is perfect :-) Two containers are in the freezer, one in frig, and one happily in my belly!

This week I am 233 lbs. I am edging closer to 200, then to onederland! I am definately feeling different this round than when I lost with Jenny Craig. I did it through the mail, so I rec'd the food, then my counselor called me every week. I remember when I made it to 179 (only because I had taken a Greyhound Bus from Oregon to California) and then my counselor transferred to another job. I got a new gal, and she sounded 12 yrs. old. I slowly started to gain the weight back, but I lied to her about what my weight was. I lied to my husband, because I was feeling so guilty about spending the $400 on food every month. It was awful, and so financially I just quit. By then I was 200 and felt so bummed. Honesty is now my best friend and feeling up front about my weight to everyone is a breath of fresh air.

This process has been quite easy to say the least. I say what I mean, and mean what I say. I eat when I am truely hungry, but not until I am full, and especially not until I am stuffed... (by the way, if you say you are stuffed in Australia it means you have just had intercourse FYI.. lol) I drink my 92 oz or more of liquids a day and that really helps. It helps with any hunger I feel, and it also helps with digestion. I used to deal with such upset stomach when I ate healthy. It was the munching on BEANOS before every meal. The problem was that I was pigging out on healthy food. There can be too much of a good thing, and it becomes a bad thing...

Becca feeling blessed.
Oregon

Heather - we too have a bumper pull trailer, so once we park we have the truck to get around in. If we get a motor home we will sell the big a truck and get a small vehicle to pull behind.

The Long, Long Trailer (1953) - Mountain Road Clip

Busy helping my oldest son move. Will be doing this the next couple of days.

MNMargaret

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Pip, I was basically trying to be funny about the shoes. Sorry!

My DH and I did go to a running store and get fitted. Once we knew which ones were a good fit for us, then we look for them on the Brooks website. When they come out with the new year's style, they'll put last year's on sale. I just ordered DH 2 pairs for $78 each, marked down from $120. I got mine for $90, marked down from $160. I had two toenails fall off from too short shoes, so I definitely learned my lesson about being professionally fitted. I also had a bout of plantar fasciitis. No more since I got good shoes. The Brooks shoes solved the problem. DH walks 1600 miles a year, and I walk around 1000, so we go through some shoes! Mine are pretty though! One pair is neon yellow and the other is electric blue. This is my second pair of the neon yellow. I wore a hike in the sole of the first.

Has anybody heard of the brand Think? Suppose to be great shoes.

Barbie - thanks for the pics, looks like you all had a great time.

Michelle - thanks for the kind words. I'm a little worried about going to bed and curling up like I always do. I don't want my knee to do the same thing again tonight. It was a little scary, cuz I just could NOT straighten it out to walk. Thankfully my surgeyr is schedule for Sept. 29th to get that knee replaced. Maybe a good thing.

Janetr OKC

Mindy - cool, I got my Fitbit a month or so ago and still love checking things. My sleep pattern is not good either. Last night I slept 3 hours, but it's usually more around 5 hours. Have fun with it and congrats on your good start and new job. I have no suggestions cuz I'm not familiar yet enough to give you tips. Nite.

Janetr OKC

Deescrafty – welcome!

Lisa – enjoy that vacation, glad you can sorta leave the restaurant behind…

Heather – oh my I take it so personally when I bungle up a meal… you do such a great job on the other 364 days…

Sharon – your own counselor is a great idea

Pip – I love the look of the Airstream, I’m a tent camper

Terri – Oh dear, I am so sorry that DH is really CH (clueless husband) Great tiara

Katiebug – Brooks shoes are really good. I love that you went shopping for Michelle.

Anne – welcome!

Katiebug – CONGRATS!!!!!!
Michele – I love Beer butt chicken, and have done it with fruit nectar that comes in a can too… very tender, juicy and good.



Ok – I read everything but wrote pitiful notes… so thinking of all…



August Goals:
Walk everyday –try to hit 180 miles, 8/16 95 miles so far
1 plank every day and log here – goal more then 19
Log everyday –
Eat mindfully-
Weekly fun things –
W1 – Visiting with niece Emily - a trip to SF
W2 – BFF came for 2 days and a dinner party
W3 –
W4 –
Kim from N. California

Thanks for the link, Mary. I bookmarked it and saved it to my journal.

Day late and a dollar short. That's me today!!! Yesterday was a lot of fun though

Katla, as far as retaining water, I don't know if it's that or just everything fatter. I know my rings fit me tighter, my sock leave an indentation on my legs. With this new weird heart thing I have I can't be on a water pill and I am supposed to keep my sodium intake to over 2000 mg.

Lori, wow you hit a gold mine of a good day in all aspects!

Dee, did you paint that blue bird? It is quite beautiful. Welcome


Sharon, sounds like things are going better with you and husband. Grand children and especially thier hugs should melt the heart of any Grandpa

Gayle, I am happy that most of the insurances today encourage a healthy life style. And it's a double good that they reward you in money. I went on disability in 1999 so I was on Charlie's insurance for many years and I had to participate in all the wellness checks. Of course with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and prediabetes I was always a risk patient. So they set me up with the wellness coach one time only to identify my goals. I only had to do 1 goal a year and we got our sizable discount on his insurance every year. Plus they gave a discount for non smokers.

DJ, Oh I hope you are right that they don't make frozen brownies. The frozen cookie dough already portioned out is bad enough. Didn't you know that jaw yapping is good exercise???? Yep, just talking. Keep telling yourself that Joyce. I mean if they have measured out how many calories a fingernail is surely some one has figured out how many calories you burn just by talking or having a good belly laugh.

Pip, I love your Airstream. I don't think those things ever get old. You need to brighten up the decorations though. They just don't look Pippy enough. Love the MS ride T-shirt. I would think that with all the riding you two do on your bikes, if you hooked both of you to that trailer, you could pull it! Love the dogs. Nothin like a good swim and getting dirty!

Miriam, I was 1 of 5 kids also. The middle child, two older sisters and 2 younger brothers. my sister and I are 18 months apart then there were 8 years and then the boys came and they are 14 months apart. When Mom and Dad were dating and talking about children, Mom said she wanted 3 girls but Dad said he wanted 2 boys. So they both got what they wanted. But there were many a day that I wasn't sure I wanted to be a big kid or be with my brothers.

Becca, that old trailer looks like it has a drive up bar on the front. I have that step stool, does that count???? Yes, I laughed with you. those old Lucy shows didn't ever need special affects or stuff shows today have on them. They just used the natural humor of the actors and of course with Lucy's eyes, that's all you need.

Penny, thank for the added visual of the map. Wow, you are really up north! I will take my rainy, hot then cold midwest.

Sylvia, they don't call those Rotweilers 'Rotties' for no reason. They are just rotten to the core. and it's a good rotten.

Michele, OK, I will try. I am putting my thinking cap as hard as I can. I presume you can tell her about the V-tach, Tachycardia, Atrial fib as well as I can. But about the ablation itself. Here goes. In situations when a Dr can't control the abnormal heart beat and it is detrimental to the patient after trying medicine and stopping the heart they have to do a procedure called an ablation. There are many different nerves built into the heart's electrical system. It is these nerves that make the heart stay in it's natural rhythm. The rhythm then allows the cardiovascular part of the heart provide blood to the body. So when that rhythm goes out of what, the doctor must try to find the exact nerve that is causing the system to go awry. They put a very thin catheter into a vein and thread it up to heart. At the tip of this catheter is a electrical zapper. So they have to test as many nerves in the heart as they need to to find the offending one. Then they do the ablation which is kind of like killing off that nerve. The usual nerve pattern can them resume it's normal pattern in causing the heart beat. It's kind of like a classroom full of kids. The teacher is trying to get order in the class and teach. But sometimes a bully or a show off in the class. That kid is completely messing her teaching up. So she send that kid to the principals office or removes him from the situation so that she can have order. That's why it may be 1 hour or 8 hours. It doesn't mean that the patient is in trouble. It just mean that they haven't found the right nerve. Just like a teenage girl trying to find a boyfriend!!! Hope this helps. I have been out of nursing close to 20 years now and haven't kept caught up with it. But I always made sure my patients knew there were 2 main systems to the heart and 1 was dependent on the other in order for each to work. Of course a lot of people don't know that the blood supply for the heart itself is outside the heart.

Wow, it seems like a lot of you girls are having some baggage today. Just kick it to the side.I know it's close to the end of the month but there is still plenty of room over there for some more.

On the matter of sleep, I have found something that is making my sleep better. I know I shouldn't but I take my Clonazepam and Melotin right before I turn the computer off for the night. I get ready for bed, straighten Melody's towel for her at the end of the bed and the get in bed. This is what is bad. I play magic puzzles on face book. So I do that while I am in bed, with the lights off. I have a sleep number bed and when it is at 100 it is HARD! So while I am playing this game on my iPad, I put the bed at 75 and then when I am actually ready to go to sleep I turn it to 55. Well one night I forgot to lower it and I didn't have as much back stiffness when I got up. So I now just leave it at 75.

Well, I made a big boo boo yesterday morning. I put together our pill keepers Friday night and put all my medicine for yesterday in an empty pill bottle. So when I got up yesterday I just emptied that pill bottle in my hand and took them. It was when we were driving that I realized how tired I was. So I put my seat down and soundly slept, even snored. When I woke up I noticed that things weren't in focus. Then when we got to Christina's house it was had to walk and I almost knocked Ellie down. I realized I had taken ALL of yesterdays medicine at one time, all four of my blood pressure, the pill I take for nerve pain I took all at a time instead of 1 in the morning and 2 at night, my sleeping pills, all of them. So I got some tea for lunch and even got a refill. of course I had to take my sleeping pill again at bedtime. But between all of that getting home so late, and church this morning, I have been really tired all day. Chose not to go to Sunday school. Tomorrow we have to go look at doors. We have a steel front door and Charlie takes his anger out on that poor door so there all all sorts of pox on it, our garage doors have never been replaced. We can't expect them to be painted along with the house if we don't have them. So that's more money going out. Our checking account has a leaking hole in it.I sure wish we would find out what these Remicade infusions are going to cost.

But we had a good time yesterday. They had been wanting to go this ''wetlands' nature preserve. When you don't have any money, you look for free entertainment. Honestly there was nothing there that excited charlie and I but I didn't get a lot of walking in. Had a veggie pizza from Papa John's for supper, just 1 piece. Then we went outside and lit the firepit and had s'more's. Yummy, sure wish IU could eat them to my hearts content. Then Ellie had one of those big fat plastic ball bats that come with a big plastic ball. She had never played any kind of ball before. Charlie had been a pitcher for most of his life in the Salvation army leagues, high school, leagues where we worked. So he pitched to her. She can play ball! Trinity of course wanted in on all that sheering and so she tried it. That girl is definetely my grand daughter. When I throw something it will go in a completely opposite direction!!! And when the ball came to her her bat would go way up in the air after it. So she ran and chased after Ellie's balls. Fun day and evening.

nite, nite Joyce, Indiana