WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2016

Margaret, I overdosed myself on water when working in the park I weed and care for. Had to lie down under a bush. Got a gatorade and felt better.

Thanks for info on water. I was confused about how many ounces in a gallon. I am not drinking too much water. I am trying to eat more protein.

Appreciating the feedback.
Debbie in TX

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Larisa - have you ever seen one of those exercise balls? Usually they're around 55cm or 65cm big. Well, this is like half of it. Bosu stand for "Both Sides Up" Here's a link so you can see exactly what it is: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=bosu It's good for core work and also balance. The one I have is this handle in front of mine. My balance isn't that great (that's an understatement!) so many times I need to hold on. But it is good for balance and core work

Oh yes, I know what a bosu is; I've been using one as well. I wanted to know more about the workout

I am not social media friendly. I think I posted in the wrong place instead of this community. So, I'll see where this lands me. Marcie

@marcianneb684 Marcie Go to the top of this page and just above the hourglass you will see a little star. Click on the star to bookmark this forum. Then next time you want to read or post, you click on Community, then on the star near the gear sign and the little bell sign. Any forums you have bookmarked will then be listed and you can click on the Women Over 50 forum to get here. And Welcome!

Heart Breaking for Victims in Orlando

Karen in Virginia

@Nana_Angie - Hi, Angie, I have lost 13 of 100lbs. Awesome job you've done! There are women here who have lost lots of weight and kept it off, some who have regained and struggling, and some who are just getting started. It's a good place to get support.

Karen in Virginia

Lillian – I’m with you if only we could add a few more hours every week or two would help!

Linda – I would like to fitbit with you, I don’t know my id… I’ll figure it out.

Lisa – what fun to have access to a neat mirror to make the warehouse bath a bit more fun. I’m sure just the fact you are willing to met with and have a discussion with the law enforcement officials will help the relationship.

Miriam – take care of that cold – and it is interesting about the fat and that it is being stored in different locations….

Dawn – a check up is a good thing, also do you eat back your exercise calories? As I find I do not fully trust MFP on the calorie burn from certain exercises, so it could be that you are not burning as many calories as you think and are therefore eating more than you should… but maybe not - my choice is to rarely eat back my exercise calories.

What a lovely post about your son and the description of his brain. Thank you for sharing.

Barbie – I LOVE your washer dryer gratitude, I have added it to my list and also added electricity and running water. Started at the basics that we often take for granted seem to make everything more special.

Karen – you and Griffin have a special bond, could you home school him? Just thinking out of the box, then your DIL could still work and Jillian could stay at school…

Debbie – glad that the water thing is ok – but I am also glad we had the discussion so many times one thing on this thread is started by one of us but affects many of us.


Miriam and Karen - Thanks for the water input; I knew there was a too high amount, but did not have the math to back it up. Interesting that it was being discussed here as I went to dinner with a friend and had 3 glasses of water with my meal (it was pretty spicy) and I love water with a meal anyway – and the friend was shocked… she has to work to drink 4-5 ounces of water a day…I told her that was way way to low…

June Goals
1 fun thing a week, graduation, visiting with Vickie, working in Eden garden,
Log everyday to the best I can, over if need be.
11,000 + steps everyday


Smiles.

Kim from N. California

Kat in Illinois – GRITSandSLUTS: Acronyms for Girls Raised In The South and Southern Ladies Under Tremendous Stress. I’m the first; but, not necessarily too much of the 2nd. Also, WINOS: Women In Need Of Support (That pertains to all of us). So we’re just a bunch of older WINOS. Don’t have any substitutes for ‘hot bread’ … I love it, too! I just have to stay away from it.

Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan – I take Synthroid after part of my thyroid gland was ablated due to Grave’s Disease. The thyroid gland is the ‘thermostat’ of our body; and, when it is not totally working correctly … it does have a lot to do with whether we are able to lose weight and so many other things; like hair, nails, skin, whether we are 'hot' or 'cold' all the time. Mine gets checks about every time I go to the MD; they have adjusted it twice since I have lost weight and the other time because one of my other meds was ‘lowered’. Now will be interested to see ‘if’ they have to readjust it now that my seizure meds were ‘upped’ (depending on what my levels turn out to be).

TerriRichards… - I have the same “Kiss Me, I’m Irish”; but, nobody pinches me – my eyes are mostly ‘green’.

Gloworm46 – Yeah, when people say that … I wonder what KARMA would ‘think’? I used to be the same way until my late 40’s; now I’m 65 … and I am learning a brand new life-style – along with a multitude of medications – that I never knew I’d be on. Now that I have been losing weight, they are getting adjusted.
I never thought about pre-posting breakfast in the event you don’t have internet service. I’ll have to try that … my breakfast does not change except on weekends.

Karen in Virginia – I know that meeting old HS friends for lunch every 3 months when I travel to go see a MD in Macon, GA (close to where I grew up); I’ve learned so much about all of them. My question is: “Where were YOU in HS?” Growing up has matured them and they don’t put on a mask like we did as teenagers when we were so insecure. I’ve learned to ‘love’ them and understand them better. My oldest sister had a reputation of being ‘aloof’; but, she is really very shy.
I’ve had 2 friends who had gastric by-pass surgery; one actually had her stomach stapled; the other did the lap band surgery. The one with the stomach stapled has gained all, then some back. I have not seen her since she moved back to the ‘other’ side of town – about 30 miles one way from where I live. The one who did the lap band; also had her arms done after she had lost weight; but, she stayed ‘sick’ all the time; and, they kept going in and changing the size of the band. She never lost much weight. The SnL of my BF had the stomach stapling and it just about ‘killed’ her. She had a myriad of health problems and it only made them worse.

Dawn – Our DYS was considered ADD; but, the real problem was that he was ‘bored’ in class; his 4th grade teacher met with the 6 parents/couples that had children that were on some sort of medication for behavior issues. Three of us were willing to not give our children their morning meds. She was able to ‘slow my son’ down from having to feel like he HAD to be the first to turn in his work … very messy; to doing it slower, with thought, and neatness to earn the right to do something else; whether it was playing with play dough or working on something above the grade level. She showed me a play dough double winged airplane that he had made … in detail! He can take on a job and his attitude has always been … if Plan A does not work, there is always Plan B.

We never put him on medication during the summers because he had to stay outside and play. Thankfully, there were not too many electronic games, etc., to make he ever want to stay inside. Before he started 5th grade, he asked if we could not put him on the Ritalin (because it made him ‘feel’ funny). We agreed; and, we never had any other problems about work, good grades, or anything else he wanted to try. He is fearless. His first kindergarten teacher labeled him; and, I asked that he be held back to repeat kindergarten again (BUT, not with this teacher). I had to fight ‘tooth and nail’ to do that; but his birthday is August 31st and that is the ‘cut off’ day. I’d rather have him be the ‘oldest’ in the class, than the youngest one in the class. It paid off. Now that I think about it, I should have probably kept my DOS back since he had a summer birthday. I did it, in kindergarten before he had made ‘lasting friends’. He and DOS shared friends who were in the class between them. DOS’s gets ‘tired’ of being introduced as DYS’s brother. But, DOS is very quiet. But, as an adult, he has surprised us with the things he has taught himself to do. Fixing the family tractor and mower. He is my ‘art critic’ whenever I paint something … I know that he is brutally honest and that is what I need for him to be.

We also took DOS out of parochial school in 7th grade; when he wanted to go to public school with the neighborhood boys; did it after the 1st 6-week period when at the ½ way mark he was making “A’s” and “B’s” and when the actual report card came out he had “D’s” and “F’s”. I was so pissed that nobody had contacted me about his grade falling (especially since we were ‘paying’ for his education). I took him out the day after report cards came out. Just went up and took him ‘out of school’ saying that I had forgotten to send in a ‘note’ for a MD appointment. Took him to the public school, and after a tour asked the Principal what needed to be done to transfer him. He told me he could ‘start’ right then; so I took him home to change out of his uniform and brought him back to school. They did all the paperwork for the transfer. Then, when the Nun/Principal of the parochial school called my DYS out of class (over the speaker) for all the students to hear. I was REALLY pissed. He did not ‘know’ why he was being called out of class, and ‘thought’ he was ‘in trouble’. I told her that we had not pulled him out of school because it would be easier for him to start a ‘new’ school in the 6th grade instead of a school in the last year of elementary school; BUT – IF she ever felt compelled to call him out of class … she had better call me first so I could go get him myself out of class. She’d better call me ‘if they ever had an issue with him as well’ … or I’d go to the Diocese and report her; I had already reported her to the Head Priest. When she asked DYS why we had taking his brother out of school. He very sheepishly said, ‘that is something between my mother and daddy and my brother … I suggest you call Mama to find out why’; and, he got up and walked out of the office. He did not wait to be ‘excused’.

I think it is important to ‘understand’ what goes on in a school before committing to it. What are the children expected to do and why? Do they have the 'resources' to provide what our children need; especially if they have some sort of disability or if they need AP classes or more. I do not believe in 'home schooling' because I don't think that one parent is qualified to cover all the different kinds of subjects they need, in order to be able to get into college; but, mostly because they don't get the 'socialization' they do when they are in a 'classroom'. My 2 oldest nieces were in a 'church school' where the mothers who taught were actually qualified to be teachers - they had degrees in the subjects that needed to be taught; but, they still had to pass certain tests required by the State in order to be able to get into the college of their choice. Much more advanced than just getting a GED. They’ve taken so many ‘extra-curricular’ classes and activities out of public schools, it is sad! Football is a ‘money-maker’ so it is a sport that they won’t lose, even at the detriment of the students who don’t conform. Some kids just don’t like ‘football’. When my children were young and they wanted to participate in (say) a ‘sport’ … they had to stay in it for however long it lasted. The ‘only’ time we allowed one of them to ‘quit’ was when our DOS wanted to play football in middle school. He was tiny; and facing football players on the other side who were as big as most Seniors. The boy next to him had his arm ripped out of his shoulder socket; he came home ‘in tears’ telling us about it … we allowed him to ‘give notice’ that he would not be back. He was never really very sports oriented, DYS was the catcher on the baseball team through his Junior year; until his coach made it miserable for him by playing ‘favorites’. That also can make kids not to want to participate.

When I was in school we had ‘shop’, ‘home economics’, ‘art’, ‘band’, [cheerleading’, ‘majorettes’], ‘golf’, ‘basketball’, ‘baseball’, ‘drama’, ‘chorus’, and (we participated in ‘district’ and ‘state’ competitions in most things), ‘mechanical drawing’, ‘typing’, ‘short-hand’, ‘French’, and ‘Latin’ (all earned a ½ credit; and you have to have a total of 2 credits for graduation. Stuff in ‘brackets’ were not considered ‘extra-curricular activities’. We were a SMALL HS, too … probably less than 500 students from 8th grade through 12th grade.

When we go ‘out to eat’; I always cut my entrée in ½ and bring it home to eat it the next day or two. It is surprising how much food is put on a plate at a restaurant. I know my eyes are bigger than my stomach and I don’t like to feel ‘stuffed’. It helps with portion control when you have no control about how much is considered a ‘serving’.

Lenora

Carey - a good guideline for women is 20-25g insoluble fiber (roughage) per day and 6-8g soluble fiber per day. I just take Fibercon for insoluble fiber and fiber gummies for soluble fiber, but there are dietary sources if you don't want to take supplements. I think 20g a day is great from food sources!