WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2015

Hi everyone! I am new to this community. I have put on 35lbs since losing my mom a year and a half ago. I am eating instead of crying. The problem with the weight gain is I am almost ten years out from a gastric bypass. I knew that obtaining and maintaining a size 4 was not where I would ultimately live, but climbing back up to a size 18 would not be living healthy either. I need a community of women my age that can talk to me when I am sad, help me keep my tears from turning into cookies. My husband is on the road during the week and my children are grown with work and young families. I am their strength and do not want them to worry about me, mom.

Mia - good for you trying to get in the mindset that "slow is OK"

Miriam - I did spray the duck with Rust-Oleum Painters Touch 2X Ultra Cover Gloss Clear. Another gentleman who does ceramics in the acrylics (like I needed to use where the duck had shivered) puts this on his "creations". Of course, they're in shade a good part of the day. So I'm going to put the duck by the pergola on the upper patio so it'll be in shade a lot. Where I put the ladybug was in total sunshine all day. We shall see how this works out.

Terri in Milwaukee - I have a very hard time (if not impossible) to stop eating after a certain time. I do try to have something that is easily digested (like applesauce) later in the evening.

Rummikub tonight.

Vicki - that's so frustrating how you were treated in the ER. I don't blame you for walking out. What a wonderful NSV!

Beth - happy birthday to your hubby

Sylvia - one time my phone fell out of my pocketbook. That's when I realized just how much info I have on it. Glad you found yours. Mine was on the floor on the passenger's side.

pip - what are your average revolutions per minute?

KGallen - welcome! You've come to the right place for someone to listen and kick you in the butt if necessary.

Michele in NC

Michele, love your duck. I really like the glaze you used.

Lenora, your dog sounds so precious. Your descriptions could be used by any shelter to get some one to come in and adopt

Appointments went well today. As we were going down the road Charlie said he had to go back to go to the bathroom. Well he didn't make it. He wanted me to call and cancel his appointment and just go to mine but I just called them and explained the situation and they said thanks for letting them know. So we got there about 4 minutes late. No big deal. The doctor was 40 minutes late and we knew he would be. So I got out of my appointment in plenty of time to get over to his room. The office knew what I wanted and accomodated me fine. NP said my pain in my legs is trochanteric bursitis and gave me a script for Prednisone. I really don't think it will work, Dr has had me on it before. I have been on my huge doses of prednisone for my MS and it has not affected this pain. She didn't have any answer about the arm but said that the prednisone should help it also. Charlie's was a good appointment also. Only problem he has left is the swelling in his legs and since he has been off of the Florinef for over a week he doesn't think that is the cause of the swelling but is more than likely lymph edema for the lymph nodes in his groin being pressed on by a swollen colon because of the ulcerative colitis. He said he could do a Cat scan if we wanted but wanted to wait until his next infusion which is the first week of next month. Did order some general lab work like chemistry studies and CBC. Tomorrow we see the cardiologist but I don't expect him to find anything wrong at all. He has not had any of the irregular heart rhythm since being discharged.

Really tired tonight for some reason so checking out early.

Joyce, Indiana

What a relief that he wasn't badly injured, Carol. ((((Hugs))))

Carol It must have been such a shock to see that. I'm so glad your boy was not seriously hurt. (((Hugs)))

Good morning!
Tablet playing up again. I am on my ****** laptop.

Carol - What a shock! Glad he came out ok.

On the subject of plateaux. Yesterday I discovered that I had been eating three times the amount of calories in my popcorn than I thought. I feel so stupid for not reading the packet properly (very small print). That means that I was eating at least 188 calories too much per day, not including all the other undercounts I'm sure I have been doing on alcohol, occasional portions etc. No wonder I haven't been losing. I recently have lost a pound of my extras so I feel I am on the right track again. The maths does work, it's just our human error that gets in the way. :laugh:

This morning I tried on my party dress which still looks good, fortunately, but the lace shrug I bought really cheaply on the internet had a hole in it. I've sewed it up and I just hope it will last for the few hours of the evening. Serve me right for expecting something for nothing! I am taking a back up as well.
I have clothes all over the floor of the spare room as I work out what I need for three days of partying. Got to be comfortable in the daytime.

Vicki, Joyce, - Sorry to hear about your legs etc. Hope it's nothing serious and they can get it sorted out.

Will be royal icing the cake this pm.

Must go. Steel cut oats have to be cooked. :bigsmile:

Heather UK

Joyce - NP said my pain in my legs is trochanteric bursitis and gave me a script for Prednisone. I really don't think it will work, Dr has had me on it before.

I have had the pain you are describing for a very long time. Dr. gave me cortisone shots which did nothing. After enough complaining finally switched my mobic to Etodolac. After years I am finally sleeping at night. The pain is still there occasionally but dulled. The new med even made my sciatica greatly improve so much that I cancelled an appt, to get a cortisone shot in my lower back.

morning peeps -

so far i like the duck ceramic colors the best, don't know why

fanncy - that mountain view looks like the mountain we rode up on the ms bike ride on day 2, it was pretty high

exermom - this spin bike doesn't have an rpm or watt indicator so i won't know when i'm spinning at home but typically on a flat road or what we call a "century pace" it should be about 90rpm. when you're doing a hill or steep climb you don't want to go lower than a 65rpm, if you go lower, you're wasting muscle energy.

welcome to the new peeps!

type to ya later

KGallen0829, I'm really sorry about your mom, and I feel for you... we have similar stories - gastric bypass ten years ago last month. For me, though, I'm the opposite--when I get happy, I gain weight. Married the love of my life seven years ago, and put on a little over ten pounds a year every year. Until this last April. I've lost 41 pounds since April 1. Had got up to a size 18, am back down to a size 12, and still shrinking. Got to this community of folks a few weeks after I started, and have been losing ever since. The combination of being truthful about what and how often I'm putting food in my mouth, and the support of these wonderful folks, has been what made it possible. It helps us use the tool we were given with the surgery in ways that make sense.

Carol, glad your son was only banged up! Horrible thing to see the vehicle after an accident where someone you love was involved.

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For those who've followed my "Restaurant Impossible" from the beginning--we're firing the recently-hired manager on Friday. He made a number of mistakes--but believing he could ignore all the work I've done to get that place up and running on the operations side and simply not track deposits, sales, etc., the way they're supposed to be done was one of the biggest. So not only was he dismissing the work, but was ignoring the piece that the owners wanted most--financial accountability. He was changing deposit slips, telling the crew chief not to document the tickets, blah blah.

And then, he not only hired his wife, which they decided to okay, against better judgment, but she had a steak dinner Saturday night when she was there as a server for an hour and a half. Employees do get meals on their shifts, it's one of the benefits. But it's limited to $8.99, which I built into the system. So when he couldn't change that, he decided to just void the $18.99 ticket. Bad idea. We track all voids. Which he would have known had he actually paid attention to the systems I've got in place.

That's the bad news. The good news is that the person I've wanted in that position since I got there has decided she will accept it--the crew chief that I promoted when I first arrived. More good news, we have someone to be her assistant manager that will do a great job--we've worked with him for more than a month, and he's a good guy, strong enough to back her up, and to not be threatened by working for a woman.

More bad news--I'll be on the hook for another couple weeks, so we can get back up to fully staffed, and clean up the mess the soon-to-be-fired manager created. But, working with a manager that I can finally have some confidence in, I think a couple weeks may be enough.

Fingers crossed!

Got a book sale on Saturday at one of the local festivals, and fingers crossed that goes well, too. Plus, by this weekend, the warehouse will be fully painted on the outside, and we can renovate the office in a big hurry, plus getting the fencing fixed. So, hopefully we can get a break on the danged insurance pretty quick. We'll see.

Lisa in West Texas

Hello wonderful ladies.

My goals for October is to try to figure out maintenance. I don't know if I should eat at a deficit during the week and indulge a little on the weekend. Or if I should just eat at maintenance all week long. Unknown, I will try both systems.

I am planning on dressing up for Halloween to give out candies to the kiddoes. First time in a while.

Continue to help my 83 year old mom, clean her clutter (room by room, closet by closet), and organize all her bills.

Cat from San Diego