WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2015

Hopeblossom - Did you let MFP set up your 1200 calories per day? For me that is a 2 pound loss per week, and much more overwhelming when I first started, so I changed my stats to lose 0.5 pounds per week, and changed it as it became less traumatic. Now, as I slowly lose, I am able to move more, so I earn some exercise calories back (sometimes I eat the extra exercise calories, sometimes I don't). Plus, a fitness guru at work told me to NOT look at the fat grams of vegetable fat, because MFP can't tell the difference but my body can (but a calorie is a calorie). I'm not the best example, but if you friend me you can look at my food diary (but if I were you I would look at success stories, not me). Be patient and kind to yourself. You are worth it ! ! !


Rosie (and everyone) – I finally had a chance to back up a few pages and read more responses about my house dilemma. I never thought that there may be a better housing option out there for us. When we chose this house, it was my Mom’s dream home (very similar on the outside to where all 3 of us girls grew-up, but functionally perfect for our family on the inside). The neighborhood has been perfect for DS; lots of kids, mostly boys, similar to his age. No through streets, so they remain fairly quiet, which is a plus, since DS tends to not pay attention to traffic while walking or riding bike, so the cars are usually going pretty slow when he hits them. Street lights, so he knows when to come home. Each ½ of the house has 2 bedrooms and 1-1/2 baths + eat in kitchen, dining room, living room, family room. Yes, more house than Dad needs, since he is alone. And likely much more house than we will need if DS goes away to College (Milwaukee has plenty of options, so who knows if he will go away to a University, or go somewhere local. In fact I don’t even know which sport he will be playing by that time). Plus, since DH has a 30 minute Interstate Hwy drive every day, maybe we can find a perfect house closer to in between our 2 places of employment. DH will be 56 by that time, so downsizing, or going into a condo where he would not have to do any actual upkeep, might even be a better option, since he does no upkeep at this time anyway. The next time there is no football or baseball on TV, I will mention this revelation to DH, and see what he thinks. Thanks to all of you, I am feeling much more relaxed about this with each passing hour. Thanks again from the bottom of my heart.

Thanks all for your comments about my Grandma and how we honored her and dibbied up her belongings. She was such a wonderful person. Grandpa had Parkinson's and back then there really wasnt a good treatment for it. They lived in Minnesota and we took a yearly week of vacation to go up to their chicken farm which was a lot of fun for us. The first thing she did every morning was to get up and help him get up. She picked him up, stood him up and gave him a huge kiss. It didn't matter he was probably 1/4 of the man he was when they married. He was the love of her life. When my grand kids were born Christina asked my Mom what she wanted to be called and without hesitation she said Grandma Pete. She loved ehr Mother in law so much and she was such a huge influence in her life she wanted to honor her.

Well when I got to Verizon and told them my phone was dead, the lady took it, turned it on and it worked fine. It still is working fine. I felt like a fool. But there is no reason a 2 week old phone should be locking up. She just said take the battery out and it will work fine again. Uh, it shouldn't be doing that.

While we were out the skies opened up. Glad I had a plastic bag in the car, don't know why it was but God does mysterious things.

Got to go fix supper, love ya, Joyce, Indiana

The surgeon released me thIs morning to full activity, including water aerobics. It will just be two weeks tomorrow since surgery. The Physical Therapist had me do 100 squats this morning (who would have thot?). He will release me Wednesday.

Janetr OKC

Barbie ... I've been thinking about your response to "don't stress." You said that instead you identify the problem and formulate a plan of action. What do you do when there is no plan of action ... When there is nothing to do? When we are literally helpless to affect change, how do we not stress? Especially when it involves people we love and care about?

Beth

janetr7476 wrote: »

The surgeon released me thIs morning to full activity, including water aerobics. It will just be two weeks tomorrow since surgery. The Physical Therapist had me do 100 squats this morning (who would have thot?). He will release me Wednesday.

Janetr OKC

Yeayyyyy!!!!!!!

When my paternal grandmother died and her land was split 9 ways; my Dad bought out his sisters' shares and a couple of uncles; we bought out a few more after Daddy died. We ended up taking out one hold-out uncle to court to make him decide where he wanted his 1/9th ownership; he'd change his mind every time we agreed that he could have what he wanted. On my mother's side there was about 200 acreas that over 3 generations the land ended up being split about 45 ways (undivided interest). For quiet a few years my parents paid the taxes; and of course, she they did another family member took over it. At mother's funeral she had had all the paperwork for those members of the family to sign over their undivided interest in the land; and then she also had to advertise it in the paper for 4 weeks for it to be sold back to her on the courthouse square; most of us never really knew where it was, other than it was just north of Andersonville, GA civil way cemetery (not far away); but, she wanted it to stay in her family and 1/45th of 200 acres is just a pittance. We did not sell it to her, we just voluntarily signed it over to her. It gets messy when 1/2 is going here, 1/4th is going there, then someone has children and their 3 shares are divided between 4 more children. It is just a mess. Thankfully, the 3 of us sold all the land that we inherited from our parents. We even cut some of the timber off it before we sold it. I think we sold the last of it about 3 years after my mother died. We leased it out to hunters for enough to pay the taxes on it and still had a little money left over.

As you get older, you might find that you wish not to have all the expenses that home ownership requires. I know my BF sold her house to her next door neighbor's parents (they had 4 children, a year apart, and needed help) so having one set of parents living next door was a huge help. He had asked her, if she ever planned on selling it would she give him first right of refusal.

I sure hope that I've not offended anybody by my strong opinions. I know I can be a little pushy sounding. I guess it is because I have seen so many people who don't seem to understand how much it costs their children if they don't have a Will. Different states have different laws and my comments were based on what GA law is. I'm not an attorney so I can give 'legal' advice; but, most attorneys will give you a 'free' consultation and tell you what needs to be done to clear things up.

Had a wonderful weekend; just ate too much. Weighed about 2 lbs more at my MD's office today; but, this week I will definitely do a lot better!

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He already had his name, Charlie. He's about 4 months old.
Maryann in Michigan

Had a mammogram today. This is the first time I have had a mammogram that did not hurt!! Think the loss of 140 lbs had something to do with that?