WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2016

Connie- it would be fun to have a workout partner! Quite a few of the ladies on here are doing strength training and weightlifting. It's nice to have someone that actually teaches like you do to give us some tips if we need advice.

Heather- your grandchildren are adorable! Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures!

Kim- awesome pictures! Very beautiful garden!



Mary from Minnesota

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Marcelyn - I'm sorry but I had to laugh thru your post about you and the DGkids. When my two youngest DGDs come over I have to have time before they get here to prepare for their visit - scissors and knives away from the counter edges, medications out of reach, markers and pens put away. I've read that you should get on your hands and knees so you're at their eye level to see what needs to be safely away but if I got on my hands and knees I'd still be there! Sounds like you are doing an awesome job with them. You must have the patience of a Saint! I bet your DGkids will remember their time at Gma's for a long time.

Hi All, Happy St Patrick's Day! You are all such a fabulous group of women! I have trouble keeping up, my phone just doesn't do well trying to get through the thread but I find inspiration and joy every time I do read through a few pages. I'm doing three 30 day challenges, but modified for myself because of iinjuries/weak areas (back surgery and ruptured Achilles tendon) hoping to do them as written when I repeat them Arms, squat, and dumb Bells, lots of soreness but I believe in earning my results the old fashioned way. I joined the spring challenge/amazing race group. I love the various road blocks, nutritional, and accountability challenges - eating colors this week, eat a food from each color group each day. Fun and interesting.
Mason jar update - really enjoying the ease of getting a healthy breakfast quick. Did Irish steel cut oats, pineapple and blueberry with coconut milk, delicious! My Fitbit is pushing me to get my steps in and be active instead of just collapsing on the couch after work. Logging my food in MFP is making me more conscious of exactly what ( and how much) I put in my mouth. Reading everyone's tips, tricks, struggles and accomplishments, keeps me inspired. Thank you! I hope everyone is doing well in their own weight loss/ health journey!
~jazzypdx in Oregon

morning ladies~
a quick good morning..i didnt sleep well and fell back asleep so didnt go to the gym yet, will drop Homer at the groomers ,go out and feed DFIL and then my dad wants me up there to talk to me, dont know if it is about our trip to tn.. but talked to my DB and he said he is loosing it...
will check in later

Good morning all...newbie here...restarting mfp after a fall Happy ST Patrick's day

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

Kimses - Your good example might be catching! I can't believe it when you US ladies talk about all the junk food on offer in your offices! To me that just seems terrible! Why? Why? Is it what everyone wants? If enough people didn't want it couldn't you bring it up at a meeting? Surely these days people are much more health conscious. I have never worked in an environment ( I was a teacher of adults ) where there was constant pressure to snack on rubbish - maybe once a year at Christmas at an end of term class party. I know you can say NO, but that kind of environment must be very dispiriting and depressing. Perhaps people would be glad if someone spoke up. (Not when you've just started there, obviously.)

Good question. I think it's convenience, boredom and a distraction. After I posted yesterday, the same woman who went out for Chinese showed up with a bag of Reese's. Needless to say, she didn't need it and neither did I. When I asked if there were any walking trails around, her response was "I'll walk with you. But only in the gym on the treadmill and no more than 20 minutes because I don't want to sweat". There was also a chocolate cake in the kitchen. However, I will say the company gives you a voucher for lunch each day and there is a nice salad bar and soup and there is a grill that has veggie burgers, salmon and grilled chicken. So the options are there if one decides to choose them. The refrigerator has plenty of free seltzer too (plus soda So I was thinking about what to take in to set a healthier tone. Possibly fruit. I also like to make spritzers with blueberry seltzer, frozen blueberries and a little bit of blueberry juice.
Someone also commented on my taking the stairs instead of the elevator. We're on the second floor!!!
And while I'm complaining, the other thing that drives me nuts is when people say "Oh, you are being so good" when you opt for salad over pizza. Rather than explaining things in detail, I usually just say "I just happen to like salad".

Working from home today so I can write long posts

Kimses in MA

Good morning everyone. Hope you all have an great day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Heather so sweet.

Kim gorgeous thank you for sharing!

Beth thank you for asking.

I believe I am doing the best I can under the circumstances. DH treatment is slowly being effective for his kidney cancer. He is feeling much better and has fewer side effects. DS just got out of the hospital and is in a treatment program. The situation is so difficult now he will no longer be able to live with us when he gets out of treatment.

To keep myself healthy. I limit subbing to three days a week unless it is one classroom. One day a week I volunteer in a Kindergarten classroom for half a day. Sing in a church choir. I found a fun one that challenges me musically. I just bought some seeds to start my gardening going. I drink something called Kombucha daily, it is a fermented tea. Despite all the stress I have not had a cold or the flu this season. I did get my flu shot. My weight is another issue. Although I no longer stress eat. I do find portions and eating ice cream for dessert not helping.

I know the intense stress raised my cortisol levels. This is part of the weight gain too. I am trying to meditate and pray more to find the calm place within myself to bring this level down. Blood pressure is sometimes an issue now too because of weight gain and stress. I had a tough class on Tuesday and ended up with a hemorage in my eye as a result. I am sure it was related to my blood pressure. I am taking this warning seriously. Most of the class was great. Unfortunately there were three to four who made it difficult. I know this teacher will deal with them.

Beth hope all is well with you. I know it is not always easy for you, too.

Margaret

Hey, guys,

I'm reading, but not writing much, and loving the pictures! Barbie, the St. Pat's day cartoon actually made me chuckle. Heather - Beatrice is a beauty. Love the old names, my favorite niece is named Vivyan, after my mother.

To the new ones, welcome, hugs to those who need them, wallops for those who need a kick in the pants, congratulations to those who are meeting their goals, commiseration for those (like me) who are not.

Just busy-busy. Taking advantage of the 80-degree days and running every day. Exercise is not an issue. Food... well, yeah, I'm still an addict. Working on it, one day, one meal, one bite at a time.

Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas

morning peeps -

love the plant pics!

well, the day is supposed to be nice by the time I get off of work. if that's the case, i'll ride home.

happy green day!

I was once told I was a cardio head, I think maybe that's true. Thursdays is the day that I have intentionally set aside for mostly shoulder stretches, etc.. and it kills me to see under 100 calories for the time I was doing that, that's why I'm telling myself, 'ride home, you'll get more calories in".

kimses2- she'll walk with you ONLY if it's on a treadmill and ONLY for 20 min. because she doesn't want to sweat????? I think I'm like jill from the biggest looser, the screamer, in your face person? I don't think your friend would not like me much.. lololl

later peeps

SugarDarlin1… - I’ve heard of Lake St. John and Lake Concordia. I think Lake Concordia is north of the road that goes through Vidalia; and, if that is so – DYS has friends who live on that lake. It might be Lake St. John that feeds the slough where they have their place (if that is the one that would be South of Clayton). I’ll have to ask one of them about it. It’s a big lake; but, not as big as Concordia. I think Concordia has skiers on it; but, not so much St. John’s. The Tenses River runs alongside of the road he takes to go to work. We’ve ridden a lot up and down the lake and I can’t tell (because I get turned around) if the Tenses runs into the lake. For some reason I don’t think so; because it doesn’t seem to be bothered by the ‘crests’ of any ‘river’ like they worry about the ‘cresting’ of the MS River. They are only affected at lake place by the massive rains they’ve had these past few weeks.

Michele in NC – I know how you feel about not being able to drive. It drove me crazy the first time; then was even worse, when I had a 2nd seizure before it was up … extending the time I had to go before I could drive again. Of the 5 seizures I have had in the past 3 years; nobody was with me except for the last one; but, I knew it was a seizure I was having. Mainly because I would always end up on the floor. The last one I had (August, 2014) was by far the worst because I was out of the deck and when I went down I hit my head of the top and bottom rails of our deck and the stiles as well, knocking me out cold. When I finally came to, my DOS was trying to get me awake, DH had the most mortified look on his face, and DDnL#1 was going inside to call for an ambulance. The only thing I ever had to ask DH to take me to was early morning MD appointments; then my BF would come get me and take me to her house to stay until he could come get me. Sometimes he’d bring me home, because I did not like staying at her house with nobody to talk to. I take Dilantin 100mg twice a day; Lamictal 250mg twice a day. I take another seizure med - Geodon (that in connection with my Seroquel acts like an anti-anxiety or anti-depressant), so I have not had a seizure since August 2014 – hope I don’t jinx myself. He drives me 2 hours one way every 3 months to see my PsycheMD – I will NOT see one in Albany or any associated with the city hospital because of what one did to me during a Lithium Toxicity storm. I had been in ICU for 3 weeks prior to being transferred to the psyche ward; and, all I can say is she was the most ‘mean-spirited’ woman I have ever encountered. I ended up taking her before the State Composite Board of Medical Examiners and when her contract with the hospital expired, she was fired (because of my complaint). She would not send my own MDs my records; and when I went to the hospital to get them, was told I could not have them as she had put a note on the file that they were NOT to be released to me. I did not want them, just wanted them to be send to my own MDs.

When I filed my complaint with the SCBME; my records were released to me immediately. When I sent them to the SCBME as ‘evidence’ to her ‘lack of medical attention’ and ‘failure to release my records to my own MDs’ I pointed out all the things that had to have been done AFTER the fact. The most important things was the habeas corpus hearing filed on a Friday afternoon that none of us knew about. She was too stupid to make sure that I would have had 3 days from the filing (supposedly) of it to be able to hire an attorney to be present. The hearing was never held; because she sent me to a state-fun mental facility. She had had my ‘discharge summary’ dictated and transcribed 3 days before she sent me there. During that time my family could not get into the ward because ‘technically’ they did not show I was a patient there. Long story, short; I found it difficult to ‘trust’ any MD for a while. When I went to my ‘new’ PsycheMD in another town 2 hours away; I took the entire 5” binder full of stuff that I had sent to the SCBME’s and he kept it until my next visit. He could not believe that ‘any’ MD would have done what she had done to me. He told me that ‘if I was his patient’ there would have been a lot of other places he would have sent me to if he could not get my medications straightened out. He even agreed that I had taken the proper steps to show her that I’m NOT stupid because I am bipolar.

I also got a lot done around the house while on the restriction; but, hated that I could not go anywhere on my own.

Kristen – My butt has disappeared, too. I’d like to find an exercise that would help ‘lift’ it. My DOGD is supposed to bring some over for me to try.

Lenora