WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2016

Good evening! My eye surgery went well, I guess. I'm not a fan of the way this doctor does it, though. I'm of the opinion that if surgery doesn't have to hurt, it shouldn't. This one was painful and stressful. Tomorrow, I go back for the recheck and, as far as I know, have stitch removed from my eyeball. Not a happy camper!! Just hope it works after all of the misery.

My son started classes today. I was asleep when he got home this afternoon and now he is at an evening class. I'm not sure if I will be alert enough to hear all about it tonight or not.

Don't really have a lot to say. Kind of down--hopefully just a result of the surgery. The death of David Bowie has made me a little sad, too.

Carol in NC

It's nice if u can like your doctor, I just want good!!! I don't plan to sleep with he/she. Sorry it hurt, is it cataracts??? My hubby had them when he was 40, meds caused them. Good luck!!! Gayle Minneapolis

mollywhippet wrote: »

I just had a thought. What if we ALL reintroduce ourselves at the first of every month so the new ladies wouldn't feel so lost? They wouldn't have to feel like the nerd at a cheerleader convention. Maybe we wouldn't feel like such a clique. We all know each other so well it must be hard to jump in.

Okay, my turn!

I am Elaine, live in Lansing, Michigan (the state capital. I have been a single mom for the last 13 or so years, after having 8 children. The youngest was 3 at the time, he's now a Junior in high school! I now have 7 grandchildren, with one more coming this April.

I work for the State, we're highly involved in an ecumenical, charismatic community as well as our church.

I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2010, and went through too many years of denial and rebellion. Last year I (re)discovered MFP and discovered this lovely group of people. I currently weigh about 187 and want to lose about 50# in order to improve my health and maybe reduce the diabetes. I would love to reach a point of reducing the medicine I'm taking. I am finding that logging my food is eye opening and I'm making progress in that area. I was walking home from work until the darkness and ice hit the streets. I am leary of potential falls, as I have broken my right ankle twice when slipping on ice. I also had another fall in September 2014, leaving me with a broken wrist that time.

Elaine in Lansing

Just checking in - too tired to chat. Take care everyone

Lillian in west Central Saskatchewan

Here she is! All 4.5 pounds of her! She was at a rescue facility with her siblings. Someone dumped them at a goodwill in the bottom of a box full of clothes. We think she's part beagle and jack Russell. She's a live wire!

Donna in WV

Donna, what a CUTIE! Look at that sweet little face! I bet she's fun to cuddle. What is her name?

Did about 5 minutes of the Butt Lift DVD, held my plank for 2 min 47 seconds (one more second!), will take the extremepump class.

The plan for tomorrow is to do some stepping on the AMT at the Y. How I wish they still had that rolling stairstepper! It was so great. Instead they....oh, it's not worth discussing

I forgot to mention what caused me to lose weight. My daughter (she's 30 now, I'm not old enought for this....lol) was going to the prom and someone took a picture of the backside of me. For one thing, I was wearing these horizontal stripes on my shirt. But I was so big!!!! I couldn't get over that that's how I really looked. That's the day I decided that I didn't want to look so huge. I had been exercising 3 times a week then increased it to 5 days/week. Then we moved and I never got back into the schedule. Well, that picture of me made me go back to the gym 3 times/week to start. Then I increased it to 5 times/week. I still took the weekends off. I was so good about eating but I'd throw caution to the wind on the weekends. Eventually, it got to the point where I couldn't wait for Sundays to be over so I could go back to decent eating. Then I just threw caution to the wind on Saturdays. Eventually, I began watching what I ate even on Saturdays. Now I do it all the time. but it was baby steps all the way.

DLS - I wish someone would tell me to gain weight, too. Only problem is...I probably wouldn't have any problem at all int he world putting it on....lol

Beth - a friend of mine's son has cp. He's in a theater group. He did some work with this lady who does dance. I tell you, there was a documentary about him. You could see how at first he was walking "gangly". then he started working with this lady. Now he puts his heels down when he takes a step. As a matter of fact, I happened to be in the hallway getting ready to see this movie and he came to talk to someone else in line. I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that he had cp. Never. You have so much to deal with.

Joyce in SD - your cake that you made reminded me of the first cake I ever made. I guess I was probably around 14 or so. My mother had passed and my father and I lived in an apartment. He didn't want me to use electrical appliances (but putting the oven on was OK -- go figure!). Anyway, I beat the batter by hand and then put it into the cake pans. The cakes didn't rise practically at all. I wanted the cake to look nice so I put A LOT of frosting in the middle and on the outside. And I do mean A LOT. Actually,, when we cut into the cake and took a piece out, there was so much frosting that it oozed into the opening where the piece was that I took out. My father was the same way as your mother, he choked a piece of it down. I honestly think he threw the rest of the cake away. As to baking for dh -- it's the raw cookie dough or cake batter or brownie batter that gets to me. Once it's cooked, it really doesn't bother me to not have it. And if I do have some, I just have a little. Some people can't do that, but a small piece is enough for me. If I ever let Vince do the cooking, I know what his idea of three square meals would be -- Breakfast at Waffle House, lunch at Burger King, dinner at McDonalds. He would vary the menu by sometimes switching Burger King and McDonalds with places like Five Guys, Pizza Hut, KFC, etc.

ivk - what a wonderful plan to take a pic. But once a week might not show you results as evidentally as once a month. But so many women are so disappointed that they didn't take a "before" pic.

Welcome everyone new!

Barb from MA - Panera Bread to MFP -- how did that happen? I'm glad it did, tho

celtikgirl - Cocoa Beach half marathon. Are you in FL? Good luck in your run

Sylvia - so sorry about your puter

DJ - Vince so many times has said "I think you're turning vegetarian" (not that there's anything wrong with it). It's just that I love my vegetables. when the Newcomers had their holiday party, my dish was about 3/4 veges (no sauce) and a tiny piece of meat. My dessert (while everyone else was having cheesecake and truffles) was more veges. The one thing I've found sometimes when ordering a salad is that they put things on it that are not listed in their list of ingredients, like a cheese. When this happens, I've been known to send the salad back (much to Vince's dismay). Where will you be going on your cruise, and for how long?

klanders - check on the humidity in FL if you're planning to move there. That's about the thing that I dislike most about FL. The weather is nice, but it can feel cold because where we are is so humid.

Mia - we were lucky in that a relative of Vince's made us a placque with the date of our anniversary on it. You have no idea how many times over the years I've referred to it!

Meg - so glad you popped in

Exercised, then picked up a friend's flash drive. She got the last episode of Downton Abbey. I'm dying to find out what happens to Edith. All Dianne would say is "every thing works out". Then came home, Vince copied the flash drive onto my flash drive, then senior bowling (boy, is my handicap going up), stopped at CVS just to get soda on sale, now home. Vince says that he won't go to ceramics tonight because he doesn't want to get too far ahead of me. HUH???? Well, I guess he also wants to work on taking down the Christmas decorations.

Tonight we're having mahjongg at my house. The gal whose house we usually have it at is remodeling her bathroom.

Karen from NY - being from NJ and having gone to school in NY, I can tell you that NY'ers are NOT wimps about snow. Now come to NC!!!! Even just the slighest hint that there might just be a snowflake, and everything shuts down. Literally. Schools are closed for days on end. And we're just talking about the mere mention of snow, not that it's here.

Donna in WV - DETAILS girl, how sweet of your daughter. A few years ago my daughters gave me a cat. I kept saying over and over "I don't want a kitten". But there's no way I'd trade him. Update: what a sweetie!

NCCarol - Vince had cataract surgery and I don't remember him talking about much pain. I will say, that the next day when they took the bandage off, his first comment was "when can we do the other eye?" Good luck to you. Feel better fast

Michele in NC

Oh wow! I'm a little overwhelmed trying to keep up with you fast ladies! What an awesome group! Thanks for the advice on eating out. Good advice for sure. Another late night for me. Had a great day, stayed on plan, went to the gym and had a great workout. Of course my workout made me hungry. Guess I'll go grab an apple.

Donna, your puppy is soooo cute!

Nite peeps and new peeps

Carol NC - I'm sorry that you are going through such pain. I hope everything goes well for you tomorrow.

Betty - I can't wait to be a snow bird! We're getting close too. I'm glad you made it to the Y!

Donna - beautiful puppy! How old is she? I just got a 6 week old German Shepard at Christmas and he is a lot of fun but a lot of work too!

Sylvia - love the inspiration message.

Michele - it was nice to hear how you started exercising. I felt the same way. I couldn't believe that I looked like I did. I didn't even know how I got there.

Have a great night everyone!



Mary from Minnesota

Donna in WV - Adorable, what a heart stealer.

Janetr okc

Sylvia, enjoyed the picture, thanks for sharing. Thot of you today when visiting a pottery shop in a "ghost town". Certainly gives me a great appreciation of your talent.

Janetr okc

Oh my son got home from a long day! No his field trip wasn't to Portland, it was to SEATTLE to a museum that was doing "popular visual arts" which is the class he is taking. So 4 hrs drive up, 2-3 hrs at museum and lunch, then 4 hours home. AAAck....I would have bugged out, traveling that long without more out of the car time!
Kids are tough though!
Becca

Hi Ladies,
Cute puppy pics! Good day today. Started on the Avalanche for thirty minutes. All I did was unbury 70 folded paper bags w handles from whole foods and gather them up neatly in three bundles, move all the folded shipping boxes together clear a space for the bags by folding and piling up about thirty tablecloths that had tipped and become jumbled. Tomorrow I am going to think of Heather? Who says be ruthless when culling! And narrow down the tablecloths especially considering I already have a large drawer of them in my hutch AND have probably used three in the last five years. And do another thirty minutes. We'd Thursday fri I don't work and can do a couple sessions each day and I suspect that will find the room greatly improved. Also went for a walk around my smallest loop for the first time in about a year. It's only 1.3 miles but has some huge hills. It took me half an hour. I remember it taking as little as 15 to 20 minutes...but that was probably ten years and forty pounds ago. It's a start. I'm actually kind of proud of myself! Changed my bed linens and decided I needed to make a habit of making and clearing my bed each day. Haven't gotten to the bottom of the dishes yet and I've done to loads in two days. Just pots and pans left. But a bunch. My daughter offered to catch up on them tomorrow.
Barbie I meant to tell you your illumination of the difference between goals and resolutions gave me pause. Will think more on it.

I think Meditation might be a good thing for me to revisit. I know a few of u recently posted sights to aid in this but would u mind posting them again?

Still contemplating what to put in a bio. Love reading everyone's. Great idea Sylvia!

Going to prepare for bed. Have a restorative sleep everyone!

Love

Boston Mindy