WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2016

Janetr - so very sorry to hear about the loss of your stepdaughter. Sending {{{hugs}}} your way. Another angel who flew to heaven.

Charleen

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Janetr - so very sorry to hear about the loss of your stepdaughter. Sending {{{hugs}}} your way. Another angel who flew to heaven.

Charleen

Thanks, Charleen

Janetr

Rode the recumbant bike for an hour today. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Pilates DVD

Charleen - beautiful plants

Marcelyn - that's just great about your daughter. I never went to my prom, either

Went to dinner with the Newcomers and then to the show "Young Frankenstein". I can't believe how long it lasted. I was pretty good at dinner, had a salad of spinach, gorgonzola cheese, strawberries, I asked them to leave off the almonds but they put them on so I picked them off. Got the dressing on the side but didn't have any. Then I pretty well blew it and had a chocolate chip cookie when I got home. Just had water to drink

Picked up my dress today. When I asked her how much, at first she didn't want to take anything because whenever I go over there I usually bring some treats with me. Then after I insisted she said $10. So I gave her $20. she's such a nice lady.

Joyce - I'm with you on the pants. Everything is capris (and I can't wear them decently) or bermuda shorts (yuk). Occasionally I can find shorter shorts. I can't wait for the skinny jeans to go out of style. I can't wear them and that's what everything is, unless you go for a blue jean.

Cheri - it seem the weight comes on so very fast for me, but it takes FOREVER to come off.

Heather - Bea keeps getting more beautiful and more beautiful each time you post her pic

Penny - love your pics

Vince likes his food PLAIN. I kept telling him he can order a hamburger without this and that. Well, tonight he finally did it. And he got what he wanted, a hamburger with lettuce and tomato. That's IT.

barbie - thanks for the update about Vicki

Chris - can this BF get any better?

Joyce - I one time posted something not-favorable on a store's facebook page any they must have filtered it because it never showed up

Charleen - so sorry about your neighbor -- and so young, too. Yea for comfortable pants

DJ - LOL "horizontal conditioning" Good luck at Planet Fitness. I know you'll make lots of friends there and then it'll get to the point where you don't want to disappoint them and not go.

Went to the Hallmark store this a.m. Was talking to one of our neighbors and she was mentioning how we no longer have neighborhood get together. Maybe we'd have one next April, but I don't want there to be children here because of the pool. I can just see a kid wandering outside to go look at the pool and then falling into it.

We didn't blow up my float for the pool today, so I definitely want to do it tomorrow.

Michele in NC

Wow 6 pages to read! Everybody is busy...So am I & ive got to get back to sleep...family get together this afternoon

Talking about altitude - 2001 when I was in Peru, in Cusco, I was at 10,400 ft. Felt OK, if a little light headed when I arrived. My son (who is now a father ) wanted to go out to a bar on my first day, so I went with him and his then girlfriend. It was Happy Hour - whoops! The next day I had the worst headache ever!!! I was going on an English speaking bus tour of the surrounding area with the girlfriend that day. The English tour was cancelled so we had to take the Spanish one. Double whoops! I had to translate for the girlfriend with my inadequate Spanish, all the while with a banging headache. Dosed up on pills. Amazing I still remember where we went. It was worth it, but I hardly drank anything for the rest of the holiday.

Barbie - Thank you for contacting Vicki. :flowerforyou:

The photo of the Rockies is outstanding. Wow! What a view from the deck!
Keep hoping I'm going to get over to the US at some point. So many amazing areas to choose from. I thought of Kim when I was reading the travel pages of our newspaper yesterday. Oakland was featured. Is that near you?
A yoga lady is flying to San Fransisco on Tuesday to see her daughter and then they are going to drive up the West Coast. I thought of those of you she would be passing on her route. I would so love to do that. Will have to work on DH.

Going to put up the runner bean poles today (string beans?) and stick some beans in the ground. It'll be sink or swim with us going away. Ditto some yellow zucchini. Worth a try. I've got next door's 11 yr old daughter coming in to water our pots while we are away, but I can't ask her to do the garden. Our herbs, arugula, radishes etc are ready to pick, so I will celebrate by scattering some over my anti Alzheimers scrambled eggs.

Tomorrow I'm going on the train to Portsmouth to see my old friend. We will probably eat at the beach café. Nice salads. It's the last time I'll see her before the cruise as the old school group outing is the following week, which I have bowed out of because one of our foursome is annoying me at the moment. I'm afraid I lied as an excuse, even to my friend I'm seeing tomorrow. It's easier for her that way.
I will join them on the next outing in the autumn and try to button my lip. :ohwell:

Love Heather UK

Hello ladies, I've been on FP for a while but just started really using it. I've started a ketogenic diet and FP is great for keeping up with carbs. I definitely fall into the 50+ category and am thrilled to see other NC ladies on here. Look forward to your support and hopefully my helping some of you.

dj have fun at planet fitness. I think it is great to mix it up with the exercise! I don't have the inner discipline to workout at home like a lot of great ladies on this site do! So I make going to the gym part of my daily schedule.

We have decided to continue our annual tradition and head to DC for a long Memorial Day vacation. DD has extra days off from school so I took a personal day from work, something I never do, and we are taking the train down before DH joins us. We love it down there and with my overtime cash we can just afford it.

I have made a decision to add my new weight gain to MFP. In the past I would feel guilty about gaining the weight back and stop being honest with my tracking and then just give up. NOT GONNA DO THAT THIS TIME

Good morning every one! Happy Sunday! I have been reading every day and posting if I have the time. Many of your posts have caught my eye, so I will try to remember the ones I wanted to comment on. Sorry if I miss some one!
Heather- What's not to love about the new pic of baby Bea! She is just a doll!
Anne- It is so nice to see your posts on here! You look and sound like you are in a good/better place emotionally! Like you, I don't know what I would do with out this group of ladies!
Pip-glad you are okay from being clipped by the mirror! Oh! and I LOVE the wooden bike! The rims are nice, too. What was on it before? Maybe a wider white wall? I definitely like the black and silver with the wood.
Penny- As usual, your pictures are magical.
Meg- I am so sorry for what you are going through with your daughter. Coming from a family of six very different siblings, I have always been amazed that we all turned out differently and with different opinions about our upbringing/parents. In talking with both of my sisters, my memories of my childhood are SO different that theirs. My older sister remembers a much stricter childhood (possibly due to my mother's "born-again" conversion), my younger sister remembers a neglected childhood (not true, but her perception), I remember a harried and frazzled mama, but lots of love. Love and hugs going out to you. My own kids, now in their mid/late twenties, often go back and forth with the "mom liked you best" thing. It seems to be all in fun; but I sometimes wonder if there is some underlying resentment between them.
Lenora - Holy Crow! What a week you have had! Hope you and all those things upsetting you are on the mend. Love and hugs to you, my friend!
Miriam-Big hug for you! and a question for the garden girl...I know this sounds disgusting, but I just cleaned out my gutters and some decomposed leaves, sticks, etc. were in there. I am wondering if I can use that as compost (add it to my compost barrel)?

Well, I had my big three pound weight loss last week, this week I stayed the same. Which is okay, because I know this is what my body does. I am actually quite thrilled with it, because I didn't get my swimming in due to pool closed for "event" swimming, and due to the rain and cold temps, I didn't get my walks in three out of the five days this week. I did have success yesterday with a garage sale find/barter. I went to one of my daycare family's homes to drop off their kids jackets that were left at my house and to pick up a check; when I saw that they were selling their Burley (the child wagon type attachment for bikes). She let me take it for the money she owed, even though she had it marked for about twice the amount! Whoot! Been looking for a reasonably priced one for years! This is a very active community and finding a Burley for less than $75 is impossible. Got it in trade for $30! She laughed when I told her that I might be able to use it for the kids, if I ever have less than six (six on bikes is too many for me to feel "safe" riding with them), but I REALLY plan to use it to do my grocery shopping! Eeeeeek! So excited!

The other new thing going on in my life is that I have been chosen to participate in a pilot program to introduce learning through tablet technology to pre-schoolers. I know, I know...pre-schoolers and younger are already using this kind of technology at home. But it is a program designed and sponsored by SchoolZone Publishing company (they are one of the top companies that put out the flashcards and work books in the U.S.), it is designed to record and keep track of how fast the kids learn using apps and tablet games. I have a "no electronics" rule in my daycare; because as these things have become more prevalent in kid's lives; I have noticed that they are isolating in the fact that only one kid is able to use them at a time and they are missing out on "face time" with friends, play time, etc. Anyway, I will be taking each of my 3-5 year olds aside for 20 minutes each, and going over letter recognition, letter sounds, shapes, numbers, word building, etc.. I am thinking I can do this during rest time, because at this age, most of them are really fighting resting anyway. SchoolZone HQ is located in my town and along with the free training I also got a two free android tablets, fully loaded with the SchoolZone catalogue of materials and two sets of over the ear headphones! If this pilot program works the way they hope; they are planning to implement it in the Muskegon Head Start pre-school program first. This is an inner city school district, where a lot of the younger ones are coming in with little or no access to technology. Because it is a lower income district, the children are usually "at risk" due to lack of toddler/pre-school cognitive abilities, lack of parental involvement (not always because of neglect; many times parents working two jobs or simply lack parenting skills themselves). Anyway, I am finding it all very interesting to see how the kids learn with the gadgets. They are very excited to start using them (tomorrow, 1st day).

Well, it's 8am and I have to get started cleaning again. Family visiting next weekend. Trying to wipe all the smudges off the walls, re-attach things the kids have dismantled, spackle and paint a couple spots where the Tonkas have met the wall...

Oh, and KJ, congrats on the study! That sounds like fun!

Hi Karen. I'm Joan Really going through a learning curve here on the board. No telling how my posts will come out. lol

Hi Teresa, welcome. I'm a newbie here too.

I'm taking the time this morning to post while I await the rest of the family to rise before I resume shredding business documents.

Charleen...what a gorgeous place you live in, thanks for sharing. Like a lot of us here it is always so interesting to see where we all live. Although we are flung far and wide we can find someone who shares similar challenges. Congratulations on fitting into smaller pants.

Marcelyn....a prom as a first date is so wonderful and exciting. I hope your daughter has a wonderful time and it is the beginning of her allowing herself to seek a new and better relationship. Congrats on your 38 years of marriage.

Janetr...I am so sorry about your step daughter, I just don't know what else to say.

Penny...keep those pics coming!

Lenora...what a week you've had. Take deep breaths and hopefully the worst is behind you.

Heather...thank you for my Bea fix. I bet she has wonderful baby feet, I just love baby feet, they are so kissable.

Joyce...I hope your mouth will get better soon. I know how it feels to go for a seemingly routine medical procedure and then have an unexpected bad outcome. I went in for some foot surgery in 1999 and it took 15 years before I was able to walk normally and wear cute shoes again. Not the expected outcome at all and I certainly hope nothing like that happens to you.

Calivictoria...begin one step at a time, both with walking and with your lifestyle changes to make weight loss work. You will find help, advice and encouragement here. Do not be afraid to ask. Have you considered a fitness tracker as a motivator to increase your walking? I had terrible knees a couple of years ago and now walk at least 4 miles/day pain free.

Miriam...thank you for sharing your expertise on so many subjects. How wonderful that those jeans are too big. Perhaps you may want to check those measurement charts when you reorder next time. As we know, each manufacturer has their own sizing scale.

Annie...good job on your weight loss! I want to respond to your mother's observation that fat people look younger because they have less wrinkles...although my neck and upper arms have more wrinkles, I have been told that I look 10-15 years younger since I lost the weight. I can stretch my neck and not flap my arms if I want to conceal my wrinkles.

Meg...I can't imagine what you are going thru dealing with your daughters. Stay strong.

Larissa...congratulations on your achievement. You certainly worked hard for it and we are all here cheering for you in the Nationals.

Lisa...I am so happy that the sale was a big success. You must be so gratified that your vision, hard work and the community came out to support you. Enjoy a well deserved rest, at least for a couple of hours. And a 5 lb. loss to boot!

Anne from WI...I can relate to what you are going thru having had my heart broken also. As you know, you need to heal and it doesn't happen over night. You are doing the right thing by focusing on yourself, do something everyday that makes you happy, it can be big or small. You have experienced the death of your relationship and you have to go thru the mourning process. You will still experience things that will make you cry, but as time goes on you will find yourself smiling more than you are crying. Believe me when I tell you that exercise helps, I logged many hours sweating on my elliptical letting go of the hurt and anger. It is exactly 2 years since my last relationship ended at the absolutely lowest point of my life, he just left. Yesterday I was driving around in new boy friend's Porche and I was grinning from ear to ear and thinking how my old boy friend's jaw would just drop if he saw me. Just like losing weight, it's one day at a time.

Drkatiebug...how awesome that your knee is feeling better already. Hope it continues to improve.

CJ...I have had to cut people from my life for self preservation. It's hard but you need to do what is best for you. As you see, you have a lot of support here.

Sorry if I've missed some of you, I do share your highs and lows and send hugs and cheers.

Motivational clothes....as some of you know, I love thrift stores and I bought a pair of size 10 jeans because my goal was to fit into size 10 jeans. They hung outside my closet door and I would try them on periodically to gauge my non scale progress. When they fit I bought a pair of size 8 which is my size now. I do have a couple of size 6's that just thrill me when I wear them. I began wearing size 16 but squeezing into 14 because I just would own up to 16.

I helped a friend move yesterday and inherited about 15 new tops that she no longer wanted. A year ago I would have ever fit into them. Yeah, better than going to a thrift store.

Ready or not, the shredding must begin. I want to get it done so I can do some more Porche driving.

Chris in very windy MA

Carol – You’re probably ‘right’ about that (tax prep and strain on friendship). It just hasn’t been ‘this bad’ before. This year, for her, has been fraught with ‘problems’ that her ‘sisters’ put on her about her GS. They’ve helped, she says ‘won’t do it again’; but, they keep telling her WHY she should continue helping him. Guilt trip, big time. I’m about as pissed with them over some things that have happened in the past where ‘they also lied to me about what was going on with her … when I am as close to her as I’d be with one of my sisters’. Mmmmm. Trying NOT to ‘open mouth, insert foot’ as it is. LOL!

Heather – I will probably tell DH that I am not willing to destroy my friendship over ‘tax preparation’ next year before 4/15. I just am not so sure that I want to have to prepare the doggie spreadsheet for the preparer.
Not something I am used to doing; but, will definitely do if I have to. OMG! SALMON! DDnL#1 says ‘sal man’ … DGMD ‘corrected’ her Thursday night with ‘it is pronounce ‘sa mon’. DDnL#1 got ‘angry’ and she replied that ‘she is sorry that she doesn’t say things right’….. Then DMGD said, ‘well, I am just doing what my Nana does to me …’ I wanted to crawl under the chair. She (DDnL#1) picked up the pillow and hit DGD, then she threw it down and really started hitting at her. I wanted to tell DMGD, ‘you OWE your mother an apology’ … but; she’s right … I would have ‘maybe’ corrected her. She really was trying to be ‘discreet’ when she corrected her; but, that is still NOT something a child should do to an adult … especially NOT in front of others, especially not in front of a MnL that she already thinks does not like her. MMmmmmmmmmm. I’m NOT going to say what she did this weekend that has me ‘hot under the collar’. Typical teenager; but, ‘still’ against what MY rules would have been. Especially, when she says ‘I told you ….’. NO, YOU DID NOT TELL ME; and IF YOU HAD … you would NOT have done that. GRRRRrrrrrrrrr. Now I know why God did not give me ‘little girls’ to raise.

Anniespruce – Sometimes it is difficult for those who see us daily … to see changes (even over time). We get used to the slow loss and we don’t necessarily comment about it. Or if we do, we might discourage the person. That is the way it is with my DDnL#1 – if I saw her daily … I probably would not have been as ‘conscious’ about the weight she has been losing. Since I choose not to see her on a daily basis … it is a shock when she comes and has lost more. This is the 1st time she has stuck to a ‘diet’ this long and lost this much (maybe?). I know as long as she is willing to go to the MD and lose weight through him, that DOS will continue paying. It’s when she has not lost anything that the issue of the price to be followed comes up. I’m now to the point that I don’t have to buy the product connected to my weight loss program. One, I have a ‘supply’ built up for a month or more. I am adding ‘regular food’ to my daily diet meals. It’s making me ‘more aware’ of what I am eating and how much it is costing me as well.

Barbiecat – It hasn’t been a problem until THIS year (really); but, I am going to figure out how to approach it next year. I’m all for changing who we get to prepare it … or let DH be the @$$ about it, to her. Don’t involve me. Our friendship has suffered, also, for my disagreement over how she deals with a ‘drug-addicted GS’. I don’t really know ‘how she feels’, so I don’t understand why she cannot deal with him with some ‘tough love’. Throwing him ‘out’; then, allowing him to ‘come by and dump his stuff at HER house’ … well …. For ME, it would STOP! I’d get one of those security systems that would also ‘notify’ me … when someone was ‘in my house’ and also the Sheriff. She was 'surprised' that he came by ... I'm not; he wanted to be 'in and out' before SHE knew he was there looking for 'stuff' to hock. Then she could ‘meet’ them there. She doesn’t ‘want’ him to be ‘thrown in jail’ … but, other than finding ‘new connections’ … that IS the BEST place for him. I worry about HER safety and well-being … it is NOT that GS would do anything to her … it is ‘those who supply him’ … doing things to her. But, I can ‘talk until I am BLUE in the face’ and she will ALWAYS say, ‘but, he is my GS and I’d never be able to live with myself if something happened to him’. NO, none of us would be able to ‘live with ourselves’ if we felt that we could have done something different to prevent it. She isn’t going to be able to PREVENT anything from happening to him. He loves her; but, he loves ‘drugs’ more. That is just a fact of life. Deal with it.

Betty – I agree … what have I done to ‘agree’ to let this happen to me? Given in when I know I should have ‘stood MY ground’ and how it affect(s/ed) me. HER problem became mine because she wanted someone to help take on the load, and I did. Now to step back. She answered my text from yesterday to her; now she is ‘promising’ to bring it out to me … NOT GOING TO HAPPEN and I KNOW IT! THIS is what 'angers' me. "Don't piss on me; and, tell me 'it is raining'."

Joyce – Growing up in the 50’s and in the home of an ENGLISH GRAMMAR/LIT teacher, I ALAWYS got corrected … even ‘in public’ (but quietly). DH and I will watch news television reports and when they say something grammatically wrong, we just look at one another. Is it them, or is the person who writes the commentary? Either way … you’d think they would look it over and make a note to correct it in their reporting. Maybe they don’t have the time. I’m NOT perfect either … but I ‘try’ to ‘think’ about what I am going to say and put it out there as correctly as I can. Gee, I am the Queen of Run-on Sentences’ and the over-use of commas, etc. But, FB uses the word “DONE” on a button that should be “FINISHED”. “You are only ‘done’ if you are a steak!”

Karen in Virginia – I’d BURN every one of my bras if I did not ‘have to worry’ about some of my ‘tops’ being too revealing. I had to laugh when a sister had her reconstructive surgery done and did not have them reconstruct her nipples (the 2nd time around) … so she could go braless whenever she wanted to. Gee, if you are that self-conscious … have the nipple ‘tattooed’ on. EEEEWWWWW, the ‘thought’ of that makes my skin crawl. LOL!

Janetr – Sorry for your loss. Love and {{{{{hugs}}}}}!!!!!

DJ – “Horizontal Conditioning” – NAP – Love it! I think I will do the same today at some point.

KJLaMore – Yeah, been a ‘rough week’ … I ‘think’ the seizure just topped it off like the ‘cherry on top’. I don’t like cherries very much. Did as a kid; not so much now.

Chris in very windy MA – I’m praying that it will be better this week. But, like they say, “be careful what you pray for.” LOL! I started off at a good 16; maybe closer to an 18 – just did not want to have to buy any more of them; I have set my goals, to get to the next size lower. Easier to do than to say, “I’m going to lose “X” number of pounds.” About a 10-15lbs loss for each size down (more or less). Now in a 12; and, some of them are getting loose of me. But … I will not buy many 10s until I get to where all of them fit me consistently … like the 12’s are doing right now. I do want to set my next goal at 145-150lbs. I’m not so sure I can lose down below 145lbs without looking ‘gaunt’. I can usually tell if I have lost weight by what I try on. My husband used to own an old Porsche (before we married); but, I know what you mean about ‘riding in a Porsche’. I’d like to have my hair blowing in the breeze; but, I’m not so sure that I like riding in a convertible.

Well, 3 days into a '6-month driving restriction'. Already a 'little antsy'. DH to go to town today to pick up Rxs. Need to go now; or he will get there when they close for lunch. That won't make HIM happy and I need then TODAY. Need to go out and pick the blueberries now ... have a wonderful day!!!!!

Lenora