WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2016

Mary: Sending good thoughts for your daughter's surgery. What a horrible thing to happen to her. I hope the outcome is excellent.

Heather: Congrats on WIFI! Fingers crossed that it runs like a champ for a really long time.

Freidasmith: I lost over 70 pounds counting calories and measuring my portions, but it is not a speedy process. Stick with portion control, count your calories, and be as active as you are able. That is the road to success. :flowerforyou:

Re: When I order a salad in a restaurant I have my salad dressing on the side. It is amazing how many calories you can save by dipping one little bite in after another rather than drenching the whole thing. It tastes great, too.

Joyce: (((HUGS)))

Carol: My father-in-law used to have rentals and that made my husband absolutely opposed to the idea. I suspect slovenly tenants are a common problem. I hope you are able to get some rest and feel better soon.


We've been getting ready for the Fourth of July weekend and also for our upcoming trip. We're headed to an anchorage that is away from fireworks central and plan on a quiet and pleasant few days. This will be the first time we've taken our boat out for an adventure in way too long. There is a lot to do to get ready, but we'll do a bit at a time. I am hopeful that this will be the beginning of renewed fun on the boat.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

Just looked at my calories burned so far for June, 27887 calories! holy crap, no wonder I am pooped!

Barbie, thinking of you and Jake and wishing for a good outcome.
CJ, I will be checking out the Grand River Times regularity. I enjoyed it thoroughly, thank you for sharing.

I was able to drag myself out of bed for a brief elliptical session this morning, was able to squeeze in a 25 minute walk during work and took Jake the rescue dog for a 20 minute walk when I got home from work. I'm exhausted and haven't even done any kettle bell or strong lifts. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get into a new routine to include some strength training.

Love to all,
Chris in MA

Hugs to Barbie, Joyce and Allie. Seems like you are all going through trying times...wishing for the best!
Welcome new ladies!
Next month I am seeing a DD for the first time in two and a half years. Wish me luck it goes smoothly and we can both express ourselves well to each other. It has been a hard slog.
Congrats on the move to Texas from Ohio and a long-awaited job!
Betty

Hi Gals,
Pages 64 – 71 I caught up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Heather – so here we threaten to move to Canada if we don’t like the political results, you can come live here ! If you and DH visited us all each for a week we’d have you seeing all of the states and ready to go back to live in your mixed up world instead of ours – LOL

Pip – all this riding and spinning – you are amazing.

Chris – That is absolutely crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I think illegal, at least in CA…

Becca – DH is a keeper!!!

Karen in Virgina – one time I had to log a whole container of cookies, it took a calculator to figure out… but once was enough.

Re – it wasn’t me but I’ll raise my hand for the crock pot recipes

Rita – great job on the walk and the therapist….

Cheri – congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pics of the new home???? Later – great pictures, the home looks nice…

KJ – pretty much no basements in CA – I think it is just cheaper and quicker to build one with out a basement – and we have earthquakes not wind to hide from.

Mary – Wow hope this works well for your DD

Barbie – thinking of you and Jake.

Melanie – no walking would do it, but sometimes it is nothing you can figure out, our bodies just do this in their own way.

Freida – glad this is working for you - many of the ladies use the forum to talk about their weight issues as friends and family are not interested.





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


Smiles.

Kim from N. California

Beth Geneseo was DD's first choice. Orientation showed me how right she was to select it. Very friendly, supportive place. I think she will grow a lot there. I gave up on the dorm room stay because I had no sleep and it was way too hot for me to get a decent night's sleep. So executive decision.. I booked a hotel room and slept soundly! Next day she picked all her classes and seemed very relieved. The 6 hour drive home was treacherous with heavy heavy rain but I got through it slow and steady with her asleep next to me for most of the ride! Thank goodness I had slept.

Barbie thinking of you and Jake, strength and hugs go out to you both.

I will catch my breath and regroup tomorrow cause somehow a large bag of almond M&Ms were my companion on this trip. And I didn't share a single one! NYKAREN

Did an hour of Kelly Coffee Meyers Body Shop DVD. Actually, there are two 30 minute workouts on that DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to go to the deep water class.

Got started on the seaturtle yesterday. The plan is to mow the grass (weeds, really) today. Tomorrow night we have ceramics again. Don't know what I'll do next Monday. No senior bowling and no ceramics. I suspect this one lady is going to have mahjongg but I'm not going to ask Vince to drive me into Hickory, drive home (about 20 minutes) and then come back to Hickory in a few hours to pick me up. See, it usually doesn't make that much difference since he's right in Hickory at ceramics. He can drop me off and then go back to ceramics, then pick me up. but I'm not about to ask him to make two trips for me, that's asking way too much If all goes according to plan...only 35 more days of this no driving restriction.

Am trying to get a balloon twister to come here at the pool social. I was in contact with this one gal. I thought it would be neat for her to be here since her parents are members of Newcomers. However, she thinks she has an engagement for that day. Well....those people are probably going to be paying her more than we would. On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised that she didn't contact them to see if they, in fact, needed her. What if they don't? She's given up a confirmed paying job. Well...not my business. Update: got a quote from another place. Before we could get the price approved by the Board, they were booked. Now some on the board want us to have yard games. Our yard isn't conducive for that, too hilly, not level at all, and there are drainage ditches in the backyard. We need to put something around them but there's no way I would let someone run around in the yard. And what if it rains?

Cheri - I'm so happy for you as you sound like you're so happy. big congrats to your hubby. It's wise to rent before buying. We rented before we bought this house, and am I ever so glad we did! People who moved here, didn't rent first, and then were sorry they'd bought where they did. One thing I found out was that I really wanted to be near a mall, near shopping. There were so many lights where we were that depending on the time, it could take as long as 20 minutes to get to the mall. To me, that was unacceptable. Now the mall is just 5 minutes away. The bad part is that people seem to feel that where we're located is out with the cows. We're actually closer to a lot of things than they think. Congrats on the house

Joyce - You'll get this down. I honestly don't understand how being an ostomy nurse in the hosp is that much different from being one at home. Can you explain? The only thing I can think of is that working on a loved one makes you much more sensitive, I don't know

barbie - sending only positive vibes for you and Jake (and the doctors and nurses)

KJ - I don't know about Texas and basements, but I can tell you that Florida doesn't have basements. The reason is because their soil is all sand. We have a basement here in NC

I'm trying that cake/brownie for Vince but trying using the large package of pudding. We shall see how it turns out. I used mini-chips, mainly because that's what I got at the store. Someone must have put them in the wrong spot and I picked them up. I didn't look real closely mainly because I know that Vince doesn't like to go shopping so I tried to make it as quick as possible.

Anamika - I was wondering where you were! Come in more often

Made those cake/brownies for Vince but this time I used a large box of the chocolate pudding. They did come out more brownie-like. Then since it was raining and we couldn't cut the weeds, we went to the ceramics place in South Carolina where I got my snail from. The lady passed away but her husband poured it for me. I took him a cake to say "thank you" and "sorry for your loss". Tomorrow I'll probably take the snail to ceramics, clean it, and then they can fire it to become bisq. Once it's fired, I'll bring it home. I just feel badly leaving a lot of things there, they only have so much room. Some people leave lots of things there. I am leaving the wolf only because I'll be waiting for the paint to come in, then I'll have it fired.

Did a little bit of crossstitch on the way down to SC, but not much. Just want to finish the small section that I'm working on before the ink disappears.

Was about to get a balloon twister for our social, just needed to run the cost by the Board, but in the meantime they got booked. So I'm going to try another company. They do face painting and balloon twisting. Maybe this year I'll just do the balloon twisting and next year the face painting. Can you just see some of the Newcomers with their faces painted? (remember, most of the Newcomers are senior citizens)

On the way back from SC, Vince wanted to stop at this Dairy Queen. I was good (well, really, I wasn't hungry at all) and just had water. I was expecting that they'd sell me a bottle but instead they gave me a cup. That's OK

DJ - when you said "Tom is such a jewel", I'm sure you had a smirk on your face

Frieda - if the "old geezer" doesn't want to hear you talk about weighing, come here and talk all you want about it.

Re - is the clay in TX very different from the clay in NC because we have a basement. I know that you guys have black clay whereas we have red clay. I remember when we were having the pool built talking to someone in TX (I forget about what) and they mentioned their black clay. I can't get over some of the things that are in a salad. I usually have to order mine without this and without that. Dressing on the side always and most times I don't even have any

Joyce - with everything on your plate, if I were in your shoes, I'd have more than a brownie and chocolate chip cookies

katla - have fun on YOUR trip

Vicki - I hope they got it all, too. Have fun on your trip

sfs... - welcome.

Betty - I wish you only the absolute best. How I wish I could see my son! For that matter, even talk to him! Jessica and Denise both said that he's moving, he never said a word to us so I don't know if he's planning, if he has or what. I'm so happy for you and hope everything goes well.

Michele in NC

Hi Ladies,
So sorry I've seemingly been ignoring you. I got my old job wrapped up only a week after starting the new, and I'm learning so much new stuff every day, that I come home and my brain just wants to be quiet.
I skim the messages every couple days to make sure everyone's doing okay...I probably won't participate much again, until at least next week, but I'm doing well, loving the new job, lifting weights in shorter but more frequent split workouts, and walking the mile to and from work most days. Now if I can just figure out how to get swimming back into my routine...

Keep on winning,

Larisa in Seattle