WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE

Sally,good job on the wt loss.Glad your brother-in -law is ok.
It`s amazing when we`re stressed the 1st thing we go for is usually food.
Proud you didn`t
jane

Hi ladies, having a summer week, working only two days (so far). Good enough though; doing my exercises and feeling them work. Much better feeling than thinking I just wasted my time doing something silly. Threat of rain and storms here today however I am going to sneak outside and busy myself with something to relax and get some movement in the body. I think I have suffered shock since February, thus no weight gain or loss.

It is time to get going and make some noise, my sister has awakened from her slumber. The neighbours should be up too it is going on 8 am. Have a great successful day ladies and please e-mail me when you like, I will respond with pleasure. I just have way too much to do at my desk thus sitting on the comp does not get the work done.

Take care all...

Marilyn

Good Morning all,

I've been out in the garden this morning. things are looking good. I've got baby squash that should be ready to pick in a couple more days :happy: Jalapenos are ready to be picked and some other hot peppers.

I did the Leslie S. "Walk Strong" DVD this morning. I've been really sore since I did it on Tuesday. I'm going to try and do it every other day until the soreness goes away. I'm also going to do the "Fast Walk" DVD later today. I think I will go ahead and log it and then I will be committed to doing it!

I talked to my GF this morning. She is doing WW and is telling me I should go back to that because you can eat so much more. Fruits and veggies are free things to eat. But I'm thinking they still have calories so why aren't you keeping up with the amount.

I made an egg white omelet this morning with a little leftover beef taco meat, a small amount of cheese, fresh cilantro and salsa this morning. It was very tasty and the calories weren't bad either.

Well, off to housework and laundry.

I hope everyone has a good day and makes good choices!

Cindy

Morning lovelies!
Rain again here last night, fine with me, means don't have to water and have time to check in with you all... BUT... if the skies stay gray during the day...:noway:
:flowerforyou: Genealace Thanks so much for the lace links, its fascinating but my eyes ache just contemplating all those bobbins. Your work is beautiful, especially loved the olives...;)
Thanks Barbie for the Barb update. Didn't think to pm was hoping she was lurking and wd respond. Sure understand about not keeping up with the threads, I've been AWOL for months at a time... She IS a Google search artiste!
Cathy and SMVQ you are right Right RIGHT. The positive approach and warm support is what keeps me coming back to and helps me get back on track. We share, we don't judge, we encourage. What wonderful women we are!
:bigsmile: Cindy I am sooo jealous of your garden harvest! And I don't even LIKE squash (but I'd sure snitch some jalapenos from you if I could)
:huh: Robin you are so right about learning to love exercise (especially if I don't use the E word)... never thouht I'd be taking 3-4 dance classes a week, and actually enjoying them!

One thing about logging food, it's made me much better at fractions! I guestimate proportions of the data base serving size vs the portion size I weighed out, then confirm with the calculator... and my guesses are matching more often than not. Who'dve thunk it ... improving at math... after all these years:laugh:
Off to work , Line dance class tonight, YAY!

A very quick hello as I am at work. Last night we had a nasty storm,,,,lighting and winds etc that even uprooted trees! :noway: We are 20 miles south of Providence and that's where most of the damage happened. We lost our electricity so this morning I couldn't exercise or track my food from home. What nutty weather! So unpredictable! 2 weeks ago it was around 40 degrees and we had to turn on the heat. Yesterday it was in the 90's! I took the day off and went to the beach with my hubby.:bigsmile: We're expecting another storm tonight:ohwell:

I miss keeping up with the posts like I did a couple of weeks ago....but I guess that was "One brief shining moment". Now I just about have time to track my food.:ohwell:

Do take care, dear ladies, and I hope you all have a safe and healthy day!:flowerforyou:

BirdieM

Evening all..................

:flowerforyou: Just a little quote someone on my September Cruise has posted..............

:drinker: Enjoy your lunch out Amanda!!

:drinker: DH and and will also be dining out together to celebrate his up and coming birthday.



..................."When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you don't eat more than they do!":bigsmile:

Have a great friday and an even better weekend folks
BFN
Jackie

A busy day at work. I left dinner until late & have now eaten too much. I feel so sick but I don;t know if it's guilt or too much food. :sick: Geri

Playing with the computer - slow day at the store.
What do you think of my new picture? This was taken on the deck just an hour before tornatoes hit Minnesota.
Will pop in later for a proper chat.

Hi ladies. Well this seems like a really cool group. Nice to know there are other 50+ women on here! Do you ladies know each other personally or just through this sight?

Have a good evening!

Donna

Welcome thurberj! This is a very supportive group, so I'm sure it will help you.


auntiebk - ask and ye shall receive: They were actually quite good, only I wound up making 81 rather than the 48 that the recipe says to make.
Source: Taste of Home
Cheese Meatballs Recipe
FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=Cheese Meatball
16 Servings
Prep: 20 min. Bake: 15 min.
Ingredients
3 cups (12 ounces) finely shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup biscuit/baking mix
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
Directions
In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into 1-in. balls. Place meatballs on a greased rack in a shallow baking pan.
Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes or until the meat is no longer pink; drain. Yield: about 4 dozen.
Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (3 each) equals 148 calories, 9 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 36 mg cholesterol, 314 mg sodium, 5 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 10 g protein.


alitarose - congrats on the inches lost. That's what counts the most, not the pounds

Cindy - The only problem I have with Weight Watchers, just like you, is that they consider fruits and veges to be "free" but to me they still have calories. Like I make these wheat bran muffins. According to WW, they are 0 points, yet they have something like 53 calories in them. They are 0 points because of the high fiber, so they aren't added to WW points but to me they still have calories. Well, whatever works for some people. To me, tho, this is the best diet yet, if someone needs a "diet"

sally - I'm sure everything will be fine for you tomorrow. Still...sending good thoughts your way.

Welcome Donna! We know each other just from here. Some of us are in different countries, too, which makes it that much cooler.

Sorry I haven't been around lately. Things have been really hectic. Let's see...yesterday. Oh, yea, left the house around 7, went to yoga then deep water, stopped at one food store to pick up some fruit to take to the Newcomers meeting that night, got the fruit platter ready, went to the bowling league, came home, made dinner (really, heated it up), left about 4:45 to buy ice for the meeting then went to set up. Had the meeting, didn't get home until around 9. OK, here goes, my rant again so beware. You know, at the end of the meeting, suddenly these ladies started cleaning up. Why, that I don't know. I expected that to be part of my job. When I got home, I was pretty pi****. They had seen things that, to them, looked like garbage so they threw it out. Only I had notes on bags and things. It, literally, took me hours to recreate what they had thrown away. If we ever have another meeting at night, I'm definitely going to say "please don't do my job unless I ask you." If someone says something, I'm going to have to be careful but I'll let them know that the "help" I got really made a lot more work for me. It's my job, I set it up, I know what needs to be done in what sequence for it to be efficiently done. And people who start doing my job without my involvement really screw me up. If they want my job, let me know and I'll resign. Honestly, I think they meant well. But it was such a pain. This one lady made a cake, she brought this very sharp knife to cut it there and left the knife out. I could just see someone hurting themselves on it. Whenever I take something like a cake, I cut it up at home. I gave her a plastic serving piece, but she left her knife there. And here she was "helping" me. By the time I got home, I kept wondering "where is this" and "where is that", then I realized she'd thrown it away.

Today I did a weight DVD at home, then went to one grocery store to get pears (they're the only place that sells organic pears), went to the crochet class, then to another food store since Vince needed milk and I needed a few other things, came home and put things away, went to the Humane Society to cuddle kitties, came home & made dinner (I just had some egg whites), went to evening mah jongg, got home around 10:00.

Tomorrow I'm going to do a bosu workout DVD, then there's a cooking demonstration where they highlight fruit so to me that should be interesting, then Vince wants to meet me at the bowling alley to practice some.
Here's hoping everyone has a great evening!

Michele

Sorry I'm so late checking in. Had a busy day running lots of errands. Visited a friend in hospital (he's been there since January) so have things to do for him (finding all his papers for his income tax, health plan claim etc. Also he has given me some things from his house, so I need to sort through and find them too. I think he realises that it will be very unlikely that he'll ever go home again.

Did some shopping and couldn't find everything I wanted so have to go back. Trying to find a pair of pool shoes to wear in the fall when I go back to aquafit. When I was looking earlier in the year - it wasn't the right season. Now it is the right season they only have some sizes and none in mine. Very frustrating.

Anyway, it is time to go to bed and I have to put the sheets on because I stripped the bed to do the laundry this morning and didn't go back upstairs to make the bed.

Just popping in for a quick hello. This has been a crazy, nutso day. Started out with a nice 3 mile walk. That was a good thing! Then picked up my two DGD's. That was the unplanned part. Their dad was really sick and mom had an all-day, out-of-town meeting. I'd already planned to help my son out with some computer paperwork so I took the girls along. That was fun! :noway:

After that, we went to Costco, a couple of other stores, and the park. Except for breakfast, all my eating was unplanned. I had a quesadilla and some banana chips at my son's (but I kept track of how many!) then some tastes at Costco. (I didn't do as well as you did at Costco, Barbie.) I got the girls home about 7 pm and had a couple of bites of cupcakes my DGS had made. I asked Pete (my DD's DH) if he was up to fixing dinner for the girls. He said, "Yeah" but wasn't very convincing.

So, I fixed their dinners, got them ready for bed, and told them a couple of stories (and they each told me one. That was fun! :happy: ) It was almost 9 pm when I got home. I felt as though I'd had an out-of-control, nibbly kind of day. I figured, since the day was already shot, I might as well eat whatever.

Instead (INSTEAD!), I logged my food - I think I was pretty accurate and didn't underestimate - and my day was not nearly as bad as I'd thought. Phew!

It was a close thing. Just this morning, I finally got back to my ticker weight. Since last October, every time I've gotten to my ticker weight, I've gone on a visit or done something else that involved unstructured eating. Every time I've done that, I've gained 5-7 pounds and then slowly and painfully worked my way back to my ticker weight. Only to repeat the gain/loss cycle all over again.

Thinking about the pain of gaining/losing kept me from throwing in the towel for the day. I don't want to go there again. :noway: Lately, I've been working harder at getting on MFP, logging, reading posts, and posting myself and I think that's a lot of the reason I was able to make a more conscious and healthy decision.

Once again, thanks y'all. :happy: :happy: :happy:

Aww, Chiclet. What a crazy deal. I think your day was even crazier than mine. :laugh: Good for you for hanging in there and doing the exercises anyway. :flowerforyou:

chicle, sounds like your day was crazy. Hope everything gets taken care of for your Mom. I know how much trouble wound care can be...it is a slow process to get wounds to heal. Hope that your Mom is doing well.