WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2016

Stronglifts

Squats-1X5X 55/65/75/85, 5X5X 90
BP-1X5X 55/65/80, 5X5X 75
BR-5X5X 80

Kettlebell Swing

Russian kettle bell swing 22X 10 X 30

Walk 10,000 Miles Challenge

5 miles

Becca- Happy Birthday! Have a great day Celebrating!



Mary from Minnesota

Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .

Good Evening Ladies,

Barbie, we will be with you both as you get through Jake’s surgery. The thing that helped me the absolute most after my spinal fusion was that we got a hospital bed for me. I wouldn’t have thought of it but DH did and the doctor said, oh yes your insurance will cover it and he had them order it for me before I left the hospital. Without it I don’t think I’d have been able to get in and out of the bed without a lot of help from DH. Like I said, I’m sure Jake is in much better shape and weight than I was when I had my surgery so his recuperation should be much easier.

Martha, welcome. It sounds like you know how this works so come here often and join right in.

CarolNC, it’s good to see you. I miss you when you aren’t here! I understand about being afraid to go the self-employed route. I’d need a little (or a LOT) more security than that. I do with you could find something other than that one church.

Becca, so sorry for all the problems for your DH. Praying the doctors can take care of it soon.

Jchappe, welcome. This is a great place for support and information. Please sign each post with the name you want to be called and a location, general or specific. Come often and join in.

MicheleNC, with the new TV provider we can set it to record in the LR or on phone or computer. Then can watch it from LR or Bed room. Cute balloons.

Joyce, trust me, if I didn’t keep a word document open and take notes I’d never answer the right person about anything. My brain is right there with yours. I hope Charlie is doing well? I think of the two of you so often. Guess you are getting more quickies than you want lately.

Beth, “Ditto” on knowing all of you.

Janetr, I know how you feel. I gained a few pounds over the holidays and my cruise and haven’t lost any of it until yesterday. I finally got the scale to move 1 ½ pounds. Woo hoo. Hang in there, my friend. You know it will happen.
Carey, a huge on being smoke free. Doesn’t it feel great. I guess I’ve only been off the e-cig for about a year and a half and I’ll admit I’m proud.

Dawn, then next time you are in No Myrtle Beach, we’ll have to meet up! I love that picture of your grandbaby!!!!! Great picture of the kids and you and DH also. Thanks for sharing.

Izabel, welcome. And listen, lady….You just forgive yourself and take one step at a time. You know better now about how to do this so forget the past and move forward. We are with you.

Kay, that is a great amount of money your DH has saved up from not smoking. Wish I had done that.

to any Newbies that I missed. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.

Some of you will remember that my dear friend from Milwaukee has a rare cancer of the blood and has been on chemo every three weeks for a few years. This is after a bone marrow transplant and radiation. At any rate, they just found out that she has a growth on her lower spine that is the same type of cancer cell. She sounds in good spirits but I am so concerned. I ask that any of you prayers please add her to your prayer list. It’s pouring down rain right now for the 2nd time today. The first one didn’t last more than about 15 minutes so we will see what this one does. I’m sending kudos for your victories and hugs and prayers where needed. I hope you all have a Happy and Healthy Day!
Words I live by:
Savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.
and
Opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC

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Carey -- Congratulations on your 2 year anniversary. Quitting is so difficult, I quit 18 years ago June 3rd and I give myself a pat on the back every year.

Becca -- Happy Birthday.

Today is a quiet day, but I did get a little cleaning done. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Martha
from Ontario, Oregon

Tommorrow is not a given, Today is a gift -- Thank you for sharing it with me

Becca happy birthday. Hope you enjoy your day and take care of yourself.

Anne from Wisconsin

DJ-we will definitely pray for your close friend. I'm so sorry to hear of her new development. (((Hugs)))



Mary from Minnesota

Becca Happy Birthday :flowerforyou:

Ooops that's not Michelle's cold that arrived here it's Miriam's - my brain is very foggy right now.

Linda I too got tears in my eyes at the end of your post. What a wonderful way to leave this earth listening to beautiful music. I am going to add that to my instructions to my daughters. Music would have made a huge difference to all of my family as we waited for my brother to pass when I had his oxygen turned off.

Penney what a beautiful picture.

Mary every time I see you on here it makes me do counter pushups! Thank you!

Dawn I just want too pick that little one up and snuggle her into my neck - normal gramma stuff

Barbie how long are you going to be in Seattle? How long is DH's surgery and which hospital?

Another box of Kleenex is calling out to me so be back later.

Smoogie moogies

Gloria in WA

Auroranae – Beautiful baby. Looks like DYS and DDnL#2 are going to have to revert to trying IVF to have a baby. Please keep them in your prayers; this goes for EVERYBODY. She is so disappointed to get the bad news that her tubes are totally blocked. Hoping and praying it works for them. A niece had to go through it and it worked the first time. Church members, one had twins, the other had triplets. That was close to 20 years ago; so I know they know more about the procedure than they did back then. Last year both my DYS and I had ‘dreams’ of them having ‘twins’ … several nights in a row; but, when he had a dream of ‘triplets’ … she said, ‘shut your mouth’!

Meg – That’s funny, running to the sound of pill bottles rattling. That is one way the “Cracker” knows I am ‘awake’. Yeah, Meg, I do have a ‘good attitude’ about ‘bipolar disorder’ and ‘seizures’. I had had a seizure since August of 2013; so I was a bit disappointed to have one and be on a ‘state-mandated’ driving restriction. My DH has not allowed me to drive on the Interstate since then.

Marcelynh – Sorry that you DH got sick while y’all were diving in the Caribbean. We used to do it years ago; haven’t done it in quite a while; but, it is so much fun to be weightless and looking at all the beautiful things that grow in the ocean. There is a man in town who has mapped a ‘lot’ of the underground springs around here; (cave diving) but won’t dive in the ocean. He had to go on a body retrieval when 2 divers went into the Springs AFTER they were told to stay out of them. I’m too claustrophobic to even want to dive in a cave. Closet thing I came to doing so was diving through a formation in the rock that felt like you were underground. The dive master had to pull me through it. I sort of ‘freaked’.

Isabel in AZ – Welcome. You’ll find a bunch of encouragement and you will learn that we all talk about just about anything here.

Drkatiebug – Smoking is an ‘expensive, bad habit’. KUDOS to your DH for ‘saving’ what he would have normal spent on it.

Carol – I cannot image what those parents are going through. DH said that he and his brother swam in so many creeks, rivers, canals, lakes, ponds, and they ‘never’ even thought about alligators and this was in Florida.

Laoighse – ‘Names’ and the spelling and pronunciation. Reminds me of a joke … Little girl goes to school and writes her name “Le-Sia”. Every time teacher tried to say it the little girl would roll her eyes. "No, it is not Leesia, it is not Lisa, it is not Lesee, it is ... La Dash sia; the Dash is NOT silent”.

Kim – My boys were ‘in scouts’ when they were younger at a ‘Catholic School’. But, they’ve closed down the “Boy Scout Camp” near here for lack of participation. I can remember going for 2 weeks to ‘Girl Scout Camp” and it seemed like it took ‘forever’. I think my parents drove around a lot so that we would not know how close it really was to ‘home’. I think the first time I went without my sister; I got pneumonia. My parents had gone to Florida to a funeral of my great-grandmother. I remember them literally packing me in ‘ice’ to bring my temperature down. My aunt came and got me. Parents too far away to come back to do so themselves.


Becca - Happy belated birthday; glad that your DH came through the surgery, been saying my prayers for y'all. Tomorrow (6/16) ... our DOS turns '40' ... talk about making you feel like time has flown by. Seems just like yesterday they were little, bitty. Oldest DGD turned 20 in March. That is really something that makes me feel my age; but, I was a young "Nana". MGD is going to go get her 'learner's license' tomorrow. She is NOT looking forward to it at all. Parents have 'made' her study to get it. Hope she passes the first go round. It would be more convenient if she was able to drive, it'd help me out a lot. But, she probably won't drive into town. She needs to have a little practice driving.

Lenora

Great Cycle Challenge:
97.3miles to go as of now!

:flowerforyou:

Hi All!

Another exotic and exciting day in North Texas… it is hot and humid, constantly threatening rain – and we have had plenty, thank you. I wish we could transplant this weather to someplace that isn’t already flooded.

I can’t recall who asked me, but, I work at a major bank in the Mortgage Division doing modifications for distressed homeowners. Big Brother blocks most of the social networking sites, so things like Facebook or my personal e-mail are not available to me during the day – however we are not strictly forbidden to do some small amount of personal use of the computers. We can’t load anything, or take anything off (can you say financial privacy?) – but we can go to google, or shop (as long as there are no pictures of women in underwear – lol) or pay our bills. I have done all those things during my lunch time or breaks, so I do appreciate it. With DH with less than stellar health/mobility, I have little enough time to do what needs doing. I love being able to get “business” things done at work.

Today we had a doctor’s appointment and I had to be into work early for a meeting, so I didn’t make it to the gym. I am finding that I kind of miss it when I don’t get it, but, I get lazy again REALLY fast, so I don’t want to miss too many days during the work week. I get to be a Slug on Sunday – all other days are supposed to be ACTIVE.

Speaking of... my company did a Get Active campaign this spring, which just finished up. They sent me a T-Shirt… uh… ok. They didn’t ask what size to send… I don’t think they asked anybody… but, it’s size XL… er… about two X’s short…. But, I guess now, that will be my next milestone… to fit into that sausage skin of a shirt.
I am starting today with the response as I read, so…

Carey – GRATZ on two years smoke free! It took me forever to really and truly quit – it was SOOO hard. Kudos to you!

Lenora – I think you may be right – a lot of the problems out there are caused by the “lost boys” in our society. Getting them back starts with stronger families – remember when your uncle or your aunt would smack your butt if you did wrong? When you were expected to do whatever ANY adult told you to do? Nobody would dare, now… and without constant supervision and input from responsible adults – kids can so easily get sucked in to whatever the “thing” of the moment is. Too many times that is a hate-based “thing” and that just leads to tragedy.

I will think good thoughts for your DS and his wife as they try the in Vitro thing. A friend’s niece went through that – and it was hard – but, she ended up with a pair of wonderful twin boys…so keep hoping.

Dawn – Kenzie is GORGEOUS! My Stepdaughter is only 8 yrs. younger than I am… so my Grandbabies are grown and heading off into adulthood. I miss that New Baby Smell… :]

Meg – Menopause… *sighs* I am so not looking forward to that. If that is the verdict, you will have to give those of us who have not yet had the pleasure a blow by blow…. I have heard stories – but not from anyone up close and personal.

Marcelyn – Jealous! I would be happy to hit the hammock for a few hours – but, I feel for you missing the Diving. Hope Hubby recovers quickly.

Heather – Chocolate tea? How have I missed this? It sounds fab…

Hi Katla – every time you talk about Oregon, it makes me a smidge nostalgic… I may live in TX, now, but I am a West Coast girl… I graduated from the UofO and my feet are properly webbed – even after 15 yrs. in TX.

Isabel – these ladies are amazing – and I feel you on the regaining the weight. I have spent my whole life yo-yoing up and down. It was only when I decided that I was going to make life changes – rather than diet – that I got it together. You have to do something that you never “go off” doing… because, otherwise, it’s yo-yo city.

Linda/IA – Music is powerful. Your DD will be affected by it for her whole life. I wish we could give all kids the experience of being part of a musical troupe – it might be one of those things that stopped some of the madness.

Glo – Kleenex with lotion… feel better, Hon.

Tshirtartist “In the last 15 years I haven't let myself get past 30lbs. Truthfully that is my cut off point.” I feel ya… we all have one of those. Mine was that I was NEVER going to weigh 300 lbs again… every time I veered over 275 – I kicked myself in the butt and stepped away from the sweets. Gratz on keeping most of that massive loss off!

Kay – wow – DH has some willpower. My DH would have frittered it all away, by now. Your Man sounds like a keeper.

Carol – sometimes, round these parts, you just don’t get on the freeway… Dallas Traffic… *shudder*

Laoighse – wish I could hear the accent… lol. Hope you will find more time, soon.

Mary – sounds like you have the cabin well in hand… Have fun with your company. And you ROCK on the exercise. I guess I am going to have to look up this “kettlebell” thing.

Becca – I hope you and hubby get a little time to relax with all this madness. My husband’s doc told us a shower secret – to keep the wounds covered – you get the Glad cling-wrap – the kind that sticks to the bowl? And wrap the wounds in that – it sticks to the skin and keeps the water off – so much more effective than the old plastic bag method. And you are so right for not being too upset about the gain. You went to the meeting, that was a start. And it’s not like you have oodles of time on your hands.

Penny – I always enjoy your notes from the Great White North.

Pip – go, go go! You exercise goddess, you!

If I didn’t reply to you specifically, my apologies. I will try to do better next time.

Everybody keep up the good work!

Re in TX

Re- look up StrongFirst on the Internet. They have great instructional videos. I love to eat and am actually really lazy so I like to burn the most calories in the shortest amount of time without sweating and weight lifting, Kettlebell swings do that. 15-20 calories burned per minute compared to the average of 8 plus the after burn! Walking is fun with my dog!



Mary from Minnesota

Barbie I had no idea there was a hotel at Swedish. Since I can't drive you maybe I can come and meet you for coffee or tea. I would walk with you but my knees don't like the hills. So going to get at least left knee done this year - just keeps getting worse and interfering with sleep.

DJ hugs and prayers for you and your friend.

Theresa welcome and sounds like you are doing great!

Some of you may remember when I posted about my niece's 1 year old who was born with a genetic heart disease and was having another open heart surgery. He came through that one with flying colors - Superman to be precise. I never shared with you that he had to have a foot amputated a couple of months ago that had something to do with this heart disease - again Superman! Then last week the doctors decided he was strong enough to do the complete open heart procedure rather than a quick fix. I don't know what happened but I was told that Little Alexander aka Superman was not going to make it. My heart mourns for my niece Carrissa and her 13yr old son Xavier. They have had to endure so much during this past year and a half and have been so brave. I am praying for peace for them and the rest of their extended family and friends as well as the doctors and nurses who fought so diligently for Alexander to live a normal pain free life. Our little Superman may no longer sore here on earth but he's probably teaching a lot of other little Angels how to use their wings.

Life is short - live it to your fullest

Gloria in WA