WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016
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Katla- I'm so sorry to hear that you broke your wrist. I hope it heals quickly. Ice under the snow can be very dangerous. (((Hugs)))
Heather - it's too bad that you can't sleep. At least a lot of us in the US are still up for a chat! I am in total agreement about having someone come into clean once DH retires I will too.
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OK, I think I am now up to speed on all the posts for the month! 10 pages already!!!! And my other Joyce is back!!! Yeah!!!! now i will have to remember to post where I am from.
We have dear friends that she is totally hearing but born to deaf parents. She is a foreign missionary along with her husband and in many countries that they have gone to the deaf are part of the trow away, ignored culture. So this couple brings such a light to them. She is a totally natural signer and her husband has learned it well from her.
So Pip, that is not Kirby's natural hair color? I would never have known. He totally rocks it. Glad he could pay it forward to some one and hook up a bike for a friend.
One thing that happened this weekend that was so cute. My grandchildren have been brought up totally different than the little ones here today. Well Saturday the oldest of the little ones, she is 4, wanted to play with Ellie exclusively. Well Ellie didn't want to, she was having fun with all the kids. So the 4 year old told her she was bad and she would never play with her again. Ellie at her wise 9 year old self tried to reason with the little girl but it didn't work. So she came and told Christina, my daughter. So Christina went over to the little girl Mara and talked to her about it. It didn't stop, Ellie was crying and finally Christina finally asked Mara if she wanted to listen to her or should she, Christina, go tell her Grandma. Well that stopped that immediately. She didn't want Grandma's wrath which is so bad that a child has to fear a grandma's wrath. So the two girls had to hug and cry some more, then hug and cry some more and Ellie wanted to eat with Mara instead of her own parents. But they were so sweet, the drama on those girls faces and how they settled it mostly themselves after a parent became involved and gave a little push.
You were talking about having to kennel a dog. When we first had our sheltie, she was a normal puppy that does what normal puppies do best. They like to chew and tear things up. We had always thought a kennel would be cruel. We would never do that to 'our' dog. But one day when not only were the heels off of ALL of my high heels but the skirt of our couch was chewed off, we decided it was time. A very wise pet store owner, not the big box pet stores like PetSmart but a locally owned, that all animals have a den which is natural to them. So we didn't use his cage as a punishment, we had to learn other ways for that. But his kennel was his bedtime place. Or if we had an arguement, he would go in his cage. At bedtime if we hadn't gone to bed yet, we would find him in his cage. So we let him be the judge of when to go in it. And he loved it.
This month is the month for quite a few doctor appointments. Hopefully we can get Charlie into the GI doc. His every 2 month infusion is this month. Both of us have our yearly physical, he sees his doctor that takes care of his irregular heart rhythm. I get my hair cut, lots of appointment. And I hope to get in with the eye specialist!
I bought Charlie a new tracfone for Christmas with the idea of giving his old one that has a lot of time on it to Christina so she could have a phone that rings and not just one that receives texts. Well i thought I got it activated on line. What I did was get it activated and all the minutes and service days from the old phone were put onto the new one. But the new one we can't even get to work yet. When I set it up, I went through all the process of syncing it to our router. But it has never recognized it, we can't use the phone part of it. It is useless except taking pictures. Plus the phone we were giving Christina is now useless. So tomorrow I call tracfone and hopefully get some one I can understand and speaks clear enough English who can straiten out both phones.
Nite nite girls from around the world. Joyce, Indiana0 -
Sue from Alaska, I live in Svalbard at 78 degrees North, but right now I'm at our holiday home outside Tromsø in northern Norway. The Northern Lights are actually better here because we're right under the maximum intensity. Svalbard is too far north
Where in Alaska are you?
/Penny not quite at the
(I've only read a couple posts. Grandkids coming in and I promised them a pancake breakfast... gotta rush!)0 -
Joyce - Grrrrrr to the phones. I have every sympathy. I still have to sort out that #÷×%%+ new phone from early December. I'm still being billed for it after I cancelled and returned it. :sad: I have written to the CEO. No reply as yet.
Kim - I will message you.
Katla - sooooooo sorry to hear about your wrist. :sad: I do hope you can carry on riding. Sending hugs.
Tea coming upstairs.
Heather UK
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Morning friends~
Both Tom and I were out like a light by 6 last night, me from all the cooking,him from working all day around the house.. he did a load of laundry,put part of the back splash up in the kitchen, that was a ball having both of us working in the kitchen, he who doesnt like messes, and boy I was making one ,anyway he swept the floor,cleaned the stovetop and cleaned the sinks ,ran both the snowblower and generator just to make sure they are running properly..
He is a huge fan of Trisha Yearwood. he said we are going to see her, I asked ,where will she be, at the casinos? he said no in Worchester with her husband Garth Brooks, that will be awesome. it is on a saterday night and the seats are behind the stage.. but im sure that we will be able to see..
Tom also said Saterday to me with tears that he is sorry that he is such a disappointment to me..
well I told him get some help,or make a decision... It is not fair to me to be in a marriage where it is only one way..0 -
Yay Allie! Woo-hoo!0
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OutSTANDing, Allie - it's hard not to crumble in the face of tears, especially from a big, ol' man. Proud of you. Keep standing your ground, woman. You deserve to be loved.0
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Katla, so sorry to hear about your wrist.
Frank Lloyd Wright - my dorm room for the first two years of college looked down on Robie House, one of his houses on the south side of Chicago. My grandmother was raised in Oak Park just a few blocks from his home, which I have toured along with taking the walking tour of his houses/ buildings in the area. There is a lovely house he designed near Independence Iowa that is great fun to tour. Everything in it down to the silverware he designed. I have read a great deal about his designs. So many of his houses are still being lived in so they cannot be toured. There are actually quite a few around Iowa. What amazes me most is that he was designing when Victorian houses, which are SO different, were the fashion. I love both styles, mostly for the craftsmanship in them, as well as the simpler "craftsman" style. You can now get Lego sets to make some of his houses, including Robie House. I have not bought them.0 -
"Love you all. Joyce, Indiana. I think I remember some one from southern Illinois! Where are you from?"
I am from Murphysboro, IL. Way down South.
I love all the sharing on this feed. Makes my heart feel good. I will be 51 in June. I was doing great on this life style change and then life kind of fell apart. My husband was scheduled to have kidney stones busted up in March of 2013 and during the phone call with the surgery nurse he was told he would have to have clearance from his heart doctor to have the surgery. My husband told them he didn't have a heart doctor and he was told that he had failed a stress test in February of 2012. We were told nothing about it. He scheduled an appointment, they did a heart cath and found 7 blockages. He had quadruple bypass in June of 2013. During the pre-op testing they did a CT scan and found something on his lungs. An MRI and additional testing showed that he has pulmonary fibrosis. Not a good thing. We were seeing a local pulmonologist and just really felt like he was not doing enough for Tom so we made an appointment with a pulmonologist in St. Louis. On our first appointment there we were told of 2 new medicines that were just made available in the US and they did a lot of different test on him to see which one would best suit him and put him no it. He is on oxygen, does pulmonary rehab and takes Esbriet plus about 21 other medications. We go up to St. Louis about ever 6 months so that they can evaluate him and see where he is at.
My mother was diagnosed with throat cancer in February of 2015, had her voice box and vocal chords removed August 10th and she passed away August 28, 2015. So very, very hard. I am one of nine children. Second to the youngest. My dad died when I was 15. My oldest sibling was 23 and my youngest brother was 11. Mom was our rock. I called her Little Willow. She was 4'11 inches tall and weighed 100 pounds. I don't know why all her children turned out so heavy.
It has been a rough road but I am determined to get back on track. I need to get this weight off. No more excuses for Mary. It's time to get up and get busy. Thank you all for all the stories. It's nice to know you do not walk this road alone. I post daily on MFP and I always end by saying, "Be blessed and be a blessing. Inspire and motivate someone today. Make good choices. Make someone smile and always, always remember...WE ARE WORTH IT!!!!" Have an amazing day.0 -
MaryGrace~ welcome and it seems you have had your fair share...with stressers in your life like that, for me I am an emotional eater, and I actually told Tom that saterday.. the reason I have gained weight is because of the stress I am under in this relationship, that and not much exercise...
I am going to try and work with a low carb diet and work myself back into exercising more..0 -
Katla, so sorry about the wrist! Hope they can cast it so you can ride...
Joyce - your family celebration sounds amazing.
So glad to be back at the ranch... and of course, the DH is going back to work today--it's one of the reasons I pushed hard for us to be back by Saturday night, so we'd have Sunday to get things together here. I knew darn well that, as soon as they knew he was back, they'd drag him into work and he wouldn't take today off, as scheduled. I was right. Go figure.
Anyway, as soon as the DH is up and I can kiss him goodbye, pretty much at first light, I'll head into town (45 minutes away, for the new ones) and work out for the first time this year at the gym. It's actually a Wellness Center at the hospital, but well worth the monthly subscription, as they have the only truly decent cardio machines in a hundred miles, plus a full range of free weights. They have all the weight machines, too, but I've found that weight machines built for a 150-pound, 5'10" man are seldom adjustable to the point where I can use them without eventually injuring myself. So I stick with the free weights and my own routine...
Boring exercise stuff, read at your own risk:
For the interested, I run ten minutes on the elliptical, run a mile on the small, cork-floored running track, then repeat twice - so I end up doing about about three miles on each. Note that "running" for me would probably be a brisk walk for someone else--maybe 4 miles per hour, if that. Each round on the elliptical increases in intensity. When I'm done, I move over to the free weight section, do a full set of upper body lifting, curls, etc., two or three sets of each movement, with light weights, done quickly in time to music, but keeping my form.
In between sets, I do super plie's, with weights in hand, in four foot positions - basically a six-movement squat, again in time to music. (skip if you're not interested--1) drop your butt down into the plie', 2) lift your heels up while you're still in the position, 3) raise your body, still with heels up, as high as you can, 4) back to the heels up plie', 5) drop the heels to the floor, 6) body back to neutral position). I have blinky knees and a damaged ankle from so many sprains when I was super heavy, so I'm not doing huge range of movements, but these keep my leg joints moving quite nicely, and holding onto the weights while I do them increases the effort without pain.)
After I've finished two plie' sets (ten reps in each of the four foot positions) in between weight lifts, I switch to crunches in between, and do two full sets of those, ten with feet flat on the floor, ten with knees bent in an L shape, feet off the floor, ten with toes pointed straight up. With five different free weight sets - ten repetitions of each movement, and enough sets to work each muscle to exhaustion - it's a pretty good full body workout. When I'm done, I jog slowly to cool down... When I can easily do three sets of ten repetitions in each weight lift position, I bump the weight up, and start from scratch doing as many reps as I can.
I do have a Fitbit, the Charge HR, and I average about 60 minutes of workout, 500 calories burnt, and am staying at an average of 85% of my heart rate for that time (140 beats, at 55 years old). It's one of the reasons why I wanted the Charge HR, so that I could level out my heart rates. My mother had her first heart attack when she was four years younger than I am now, so I keep a close eye on heart issues and keeping mine strong.
I added that rolling stair stepper before I left on vacation, and even five minutes on that blinking thing was exhausting, so I'll start adding that back in when I'm ready. Probably not today.
Back to real life:
I'll stay in town for writer's group tonight, and tomorrow will be a manager job interview at Family Dollar. Debating on whether to stay in a second night. I have to be in on Wednesday for a business profile interview with the paper... but can decide that on the fly. One more cup of coffee, and I'll be ready to boogie...
Happy Monday, new peeps and old, hope yours was great for those on the other side of the ponds... and for the North Americans, hope it will be. Welcome to the newcomers - it's an amazing group of ladies, and helped me lose and keep off 32 pounds in 2015. This year, my goal is just to be lighter, both in spirit and in physique, than the end of the month before.
Love y'all...
Lisa from West Texas - back home where I belong
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Katla, I am so sorry to hear about your wrist....I hope that you'll be able to ride while it heals...and what about knitting?????Allison, It's a step in the right direction for Tom to acknowledge some of his part.....now he needs to move forward with better behaviour....and you have to stop being the people pleaser...please take care of yourself.Mary Grace, you have walked through some huge challenges, now it's time to take care of yourself.
Now I'm off to walk the dogs. Barbie
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WTG! Vikings
Katla hope your wrist heals quickly. OUCH!
Working today. Margaret 0 -
Good morning! I love seeing all the international posts because i was hoping to plan a trip and was concerned i couldnt track 0
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After Jack and I took the dogs for a long walk yesterday, we sat outside in 72° sunshine. I'm going to "bake" this cold out of my head. unfortunately I think it is moving to my chest. Ugh. Then watched my Denver Broncos win their game yesterday afternoon.
After giving much thot to my 2016 goals, here is what I have decided.
1) focus on getting healthy, eating mostly protien and carbless veges and fruit. I seem to have had one illness after another most of the year. I may be keeping my calorie intake too low in an effort to lose more weight.
2) Maintain my 125# weight loss. I'm up about 4-5#s. My bariatric surgeon is happy with my current weight and thinks I should be too. I'd like to lose another 10-15#s. That can wait for now.
3) log my food ahead of time daily and follow it without exception.
4) continue water aerobics 4-5 times per week and ride stationary bike 30-60 minutes daily.
5) keep sugar OUT of my mouth.
Love you all, my friends.
Janetr okc (currently soaking up the desert sun)
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Katla ~ So sorry about your wrist! Hope you heal quickly.
MaryGrace ~ Sounds like you have been through so much with you DH and mom. Wishing you a better 2016.
Lisa ~ Your exercise program sounds exhausting to me.
Heather and Allison ~ You are so lucky to have a DH's who help around the house. I am sorry to say that mine is of little use in that area unless we are expecting company. He will then help sort through the messes that both of us make.
I have managed to stay on track for the last two days and have "moved" a lot more than usual. Must say that what I have eaten for these two days was very low in calories but that's what I need to get me started. It's funny that each of us knows what it takes for us to individually to succeed.
Carol
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DJ -just couldn't resist the little OU remark, huh? OSU looked even worse
Glad my Denver Broncos won. Denver is once again in love with Peyton!
Katlla - I am so sorry about your wrist. I too hope it won't interfere with your riding.
Mary/Heather - I agree, my cleaning lady is the best present I have ever given myself. She lives next door and has become like a daughter to us. Jack looks after her too and will fix her fence, lawn mower, etc.
Janetr0 -
Katla~ so sorry about your wrist~ that happened to my DMIL she wore the keds flat sneakers took the dog out for a walk and slipped on wet grass, God Bless this woman she was trying to peel potatoes with one hand..
I had an epiphany ~ not going to bring the relationship thing up until the weekend as we are just both starting back to work..
will ask him a big question next week... wouldn't it cost less to speak with someone, therapist, Dr , or whomever than go through a costly divorce? seems like an honest solution...
trying to be aware of what I eat.. trying to do low carb.. and no sugar.. sugar is my downfall.. as was my darling grandmother who died of cancer . if I am going to get healthy and stay healthy I have to lose the sugar and gain the knowledge of how to eat right and get back to exercise..0 -
Taking a break from chasing the grandkids and where do I go but HERE, to my rock, my support network, my refuge in life
Joyce - Sorry about the wrist! I hope you get a proper cast soon and get the healing underway.
MaryGrace - You've certainly been through a lot! You'll find all kinds of support here. Can we call you MaryGrace, to distinguish you from our Mary from MN?
To all the other newbies a WARM welcome! I'm guessing you're all feeling a bit overwhelmed by the number of posts and posters. But stick with us and keep reading. You'll soon find you start to recognize our voices and personalities and learn our life histories. We're so old we have a lot of history to share.
But we're also old enough to know that different people can find widely solutions to the same problem . And we're wise enough to respect other people's solutions - however boneheaded they might seem. 
... or to paraphrase Oscar Wilde: We're not young enough to know everything.
/Penny at the
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Hallo!
Did some writing this morning.
All about playing outside on the pavement (sidewalk) when I was a small kid.
Lisa - thanks for the info on your workout. How often do you do that?
My routine takes me 96 minutes, according to mfp. With gaps it actually takes me about an hour and three quarters. I do it every day, except for Tuesday, my yoga day, which only burns 236. My normal routine burns 600.
The best thing we ever did is buy exercise machines. They are upstairs in a small bedroom. We first bought an elliptical and a rower when we lived in a rented house and had them in the lean to conservatory. They were not expensive ones.
The rower is still going strong, but the elliptical was endless trouble with engineers coming out regularly. It was a pain in the #$@×. Luckily we had bought it from the most reliable supplier in the UK , so it was replaced after two years with a MUCH better one and we only had to pay the difference. This one has not given us any trouble. When we moved we bought a recumbent bike, so we now have three machines.
We do our workout together, listening to the morning radio on the BBC, switching about as necessary.
I then do 20 minutes in front of the TV in our bedroom on a yoga mat. Some yoga work, some core work, some balancing, some free weights, some strength training.
All this considerable effort has kept me at maintenance for 2 years. Sometimes it feels too much, but I remember that I was getting on for crippled with my weight and lack of mobility. I now feel 30 years younger.
By the way, I didn't start on 600 cals, I worked my way up to it. I used to think I would burst a blood vessel if I went over 200 calories. :laugh:
Just putting this down for info for the newbies.
Tonight's dinner is spicy roast duck legs on a bed of melted leeks with roasted cauliflower. Yum!
Oh, and I have lost my pesky pound I gained over the season. :drinker: So my ticker should read 57 lbs lost.
Heather UK
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Heather , good going on that pesky pound. I have got to lose my 4-5 ponds that goes up and down regularly. I wish I had the discipline to exercise as much as you do. But I have upped it considerally from not at all two years ago. I do have a problem with retaining fluid and can vary weight daily by 2-3 lbs.
Some how it did not surprise me that you are as particular as me in your home. When my niece came to visit at my birthday in November she walked in to my living room and said "oh this is just too perfect". I didn't know from her tone if that was good or bad. Lol
Janetr okc0 -
Barbie: Knitting is currently beyond me because my whole right hand is wrapped in the temporary cast, which extends above my elbow. How do you like my penmanship? (computermanship?) I can attest that it is slower than usual.
It is 6:30 am at the moment & I want to get in for a real cast asap. I want my fingers & elbow back! This temporary one goes from my upper arm to my finger tips of my right hand. Doing everything left handed is slow & awkward.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
January Goals :
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back strength.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
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Just a quick note before we leave for the art museum.
When I was driving the kids to school my DGS asked, "Grandma, did you cut your hair?" I said "yes, I did! " There was a slight pause before he said (helpfully) "maybe you should have gone to a beauty shop." It's a good thing I wasn't drinking hot coffee. I laughed till I cried.
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Good morning ladies! I started reading another book on puppy training. It has to do with rewards,first food and then intermittent praise and food then praise alone. No punishment just training the dog to do what you want it to do. Different then Cesar in that Cesar does have the shoosh and a bite. This only has training praise and puppy timeout. I'll try it because it seems like I have to shoosh and bite him too often. And he seems to be biting harder.
Margaret - go Vikings! That was a very exciting game all the way down to the last second! I am so glad that we do not have to encounter them in our very first game again!
Allison - it does sound like your DH is trying to make amends to you. I loved it when my DH and I go to marriage seminars together. Maybe couple counseling might be something that Tom would agree to. I wish you love and happiness!
Heather- yay on losing that pesky pound! You're very inspirational. I haven't weighed myself for a while. I know that I eat a lot that I shouldn't have over the holidays. Today I am back on track it hopefully I can accomplish what you did.
Janetr - I think I am in the same boat you are with having to lose in additional 4 to 5 lbs. I don't want to step on the scale yet. Although, if I did gain anything it is not showing up in tightfitting clothes. My clothes still fit like normal. I know that my exercising really helps in that department.
I am not planning on weighing myself until this weekend. That is when I am scheduled. I will be joining the BLC for January through March. Then I will begin to weigh myself weekly again. I enjoyed being a part of this challenge on MFP.
Mary from Minnesota
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Heather- yay on losing that pesky pound! You're very inspirational. I haven't weighed myself for a while. I know that I eat a lot that I shouldn't have over the holidays. Today I am back on track it hopefully I can accomplish what you did.
Mary from Minnesota
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Ditto! Ugh! Just got a tough lashing (a nice one) from my daughter who is also a MFPaller. I slipped down that slippery slope and I am now going to climb my way out!!!
Cheri in SNOWY NE Ohio0 -
mollywhippet wrote: »Just a quick note before we leave for the art museum.
When I was driving the kids to school my DGS asked, "Grandma, did you cut your hair?" I said "yes, I did! " There was a slight pause before he said (helpfully) "maybe you should have gone to a beauty shop." It's a good thing I wasn't drinking hot coffee. I laughed till I cried.
Sorry but I couldn't help but giggle a little. Out of the mouth of babes!
Cheri in Snowy NE Ohio0 -
Sylvia- that was so cute! Kids say the darndest things don't they!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
My goals for the year are to eat healthy and exercise! I was doing very well for about 2 years and then struggled this fall and through the holidays. I am feeling like I am back on track though and have done well with my eating for 2 days and have been exercising also. :-)0
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