WOMEN ages 50+ FOR JULY 2016

I agree with Peach. Larisa, you look great!

Larisa - You look really healthy and fit! I think those few pounds will come off in their own sweet time. I lost all my weight on 1800 calories and I'm smaller than you, so it can be done. It was slooooooow towards the end, but I got there. Love the colour of the dress.
Heather

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

Larisa - You look really healthy and fit! I think those few pounds will come off in their own sweet time. I lost all my weight on 1800 calories and I'm smaller than you, so it can be done. It was slooooooow towards the end, but I got there. Love the colour of the dress.
Heather

Thank you! 1800 it is, then. I'll definitely at least give it the two-week shot and see what happens. My trainer really thinks that's it. I'm so, erm, robust. There are healthy women my height, whose entire bodies weigh less than my lean body mass alone. I may just not be feeding it enough. *sigh

Joyce – If you have a ‘fur baby’ … you’ll find that you also have to ‘baby-proof’ a house. We have bought some ‘canvas’ toys for Cracker; but, she still chewed off one leg, just to prove she could do it. We can’t give her any stuffed toy … it have to be made of something hard. However, for some reason he hasn’t torn up the 'cow’ which is stuffed. She loves to lay on her back to play with it … she throws it up in the air and then catches it. Our cat, outside, will eat anything and bring what is left over to present us with the evidence that he is doing his job; and, we feed him a little bit every time we come out the door; but, just a little bit (1/4th to ½”) cup each time. We don’t feed him all his food for the day because DOS’s “Luna” comes down and eats it.

Janetr – Good looking family!

As for dementia – it probably ‘runs’ in family; but, not necessarily ‘inherited’’. Bipolar Disorder ‘runs’ in family; but that doesn’t mean that ‘everybody’ in family will sooner or later have it. Some dementia is ‘age related’ and not the beginning of Alzheimer’s. I went to MD with DH when he had his physical and told him that DSs say that ‘they think he is getting it’; but, he told me that what he had was only ‘age related’; said if it was the beginning of ‘Alzheimer’s’ he would start forgetting things that he has done all his life … he’d forget what a paint brush and how to use it, as it progresses … he might forget ‘how to drive or get home’. He hasn’t done that yet; but, DOS works with him … and he always drives home. But, I see him ‘everyday’ like DOS and it is more our DYS who seems to ‘notice’ differences in him.

Becca – I Stella Artois beer a ‘light’ beer or a ‘dark’ beer. About my beer drinking, it has to be ‘cold, cold, cold’. I will drink about ½ a bottle or glass; but, I don’t like ‘dark’ beer. DYS likes ‘dark’ beer and keeps several with him in the big machinery he uses on his job as a Wildlife Biologist. He’s in Louisiana and it is ‘hot, hot, hot’ there.

DH is in Depends … I bought him some extra pads, like menstrual pads … to help with ‘accidents’. He got to where he could not urinate; then, when he did … he could not stop it. I took him to the ER several months ago and by the time the MD got around to coming in the room he had wet everything. They gave him a pair of paper 'scrub to wear home'. MD said that he could put in a ‘bag’ until he got to his regular MD; but, DH refused … he acted like he was passing a ‘huge’ kidney stone. Told him that he had an appointment w/Urologist the next week. I went with him to his Urologist and he said he could put him on a different med; and, looked at me and then said, ‘or I can do a procedure to see if you have a blockage'. I must have made a ‘face’ because he turned back to DH and said, … 'but, I think we need to do the procedure'. He had a ‘urine bag’ for a week; and, he later said that he now knows why his Dad was always in such a bad mood. I’m not sure if he could tolerate a ‘stool bag’ not even sure he could handle ‘any’ bag. Of course, he was asleep when they put it in; afterwards he said it hurt. He said the tube up his penis was a ‘huge’ one and it ‘hurt’ and would be ‘glad when they took it out’. They did find a blockage and sent it to the pathologist to make sure it was not cancerous.

Linda in IA – When my Mother made out her “Living Will” – she let each of us read it; I asked her why she did not want to be ‘fed and hydrated’, as the LW showed. She did not want that; she wanted to be ‘fed and hydrated’. Thankfully, she never got to the point that we had to do that for her. My Daddy was ‘fed and hydrated’ through a tube. A neighbor, who is a MD, but NOT his MD came into the room and ‘asked why we were feeding and hydrating him. My oldest sister pushed him out of the door and told him that we were NOT going to ‘starve him to death’. This is the same MD who told my Mother, when we chose to move him back to Macon, in a medical helicopter that we would ‘kill him if we moved him’. Other than him, there was NOT a ‘single’ MD that we could understand. Mother looked at him and said, her DH ‘died’ the day he has his first stoke … and this does NOT concern YOU.” DS went to Daddy’s MD and told him to make sure this SOB never came back into Daddy’s room (he had been moved back to the small county hospital by that time). They put up a sign that said 'strictly only family'. He never came back. The day he died, Mother was taking a nap and woke up and had to go to the hospital. When she got to his room, the nurses were cleaning him up before they were going to call her; she told them she wanted them to leave the room and give her time to be with him. Said that he had such a ‘peaceful look on his face’.

My DH needs to get his ‘hearing checked’ (or else he has ‘selective hearing’); I had some hearing aids; but, they ended up being ‘sound amplifiers’ … so anything ‘loud in the background’ was not filtered out. My insurance company would pay a certain amount on hearing aids at a ‘particular hearing aid company’ and I don’t think I made them understand much of what I wanted. I think the company was a ‘sham’ and I won’t go back. I know my ‘hearing’ is not the best; especially in a group of people (from 6 and above). DH also has to repeat things to me, and he gets as frustrated with me as I do with him. Sometimes he acts like he doesn’t ‘compute’ what I am saying to him. DOS says he has to repeat things to him. Gets stuck on a subject and won’t let it go. Like making the remarks that our DOGD is getting really heavy. He wanted me to ‘say something to her’. I did it once, and ‘hurt’ her feelings; then I got the wrath of my DDnL#1. She’s pretty heavy herself. All I said was, ‘you know, you are short like your grandmother so any weight you gain like the Freshman Fifteen is going to make you ‘look’ like you have gained more than that. In HS, she was fairly thin; but she was very active; but still thick thighs and she inherited my DOS's barrel chest.

Lillian – Beautiful Baby!

Maybe by this time, next year, I will be able to tell y’all that we have a ‘new’ baby, too. Saying my prayers and crossing myself, right down to my fingers and toes.

Lisa – That a ‘nice’ trailer … a lot bigger than I thought it would be … and a lot newer, too.

Chris in MA – Nurse the glass of wine; and, then refuse refills. My husband use to tell our boys, when you go to a party and someone hands you a beer you don’t want or need, nurse it (until it is no longer cool, then find a spot to pour it out where you can’t be seen, then keep the can or bottle in your hand.

Katla – This will be the first 4th of July that we’ll have since we got her. They are terribly close; but, close enough we can hear them; but, not see them. I sure we’ll hear Cracker barking at the sound; but, maybe keeping her in the house will make it so she doesn’t hear them.

Lenora

Yeah, I agree, you look beautiful and strong. I love the dress!

Katla, your poor dog! I used to have one that would hide in the closet around the 4th--the quietest place in the house.

KarenE

Janet ~ Thanks for sharing! You are a lovely lady (overweight and thin), but, I'm so proud of all you have accomplished.

Hello Ladies!

I hope everyone is enjoying the fabulous three day weekend.

Well, there is some stellar news on the soup front… lol. I WAY underestimated the number of servings in a pot. I thought there would be 6 of the two cup servings – however, my DH has eaten 9 cups, and I have had 6 cups (eating a bowl right now!) and there are still a good 5 cups left – so that’s ten servings to a pot… *whew* that means the calories weren’t quite as horrid as I thought. Thank goodness for that. Even if I assume that my eyeball on the remaining soup is incorrect – and call it a 9 serving pot, that brings the calories for a serving down under 500 per bowl. A much more acceptable number.

And YAY – my calorie intake for the last two days was overestimated by 230 calories a day… so that’s all to the good. And it really is very good soup… I am glad it isn’t quite as crippling to the calorie budget as I had thought. I am going to have to stop using my giant soup pot, though… my hubby is a good sport, but he will only willingly eat the same thing two days in a row. Day three is asking too much. Me? I will happily eat it every day until it’s gone… so, another couple of days of delicious soup for me.

I have to say, aside from the occasional day of wanting to eat everything within reach, this process has been fairly painless. I really started here at MFP because I wanted to get an idea of what I was eating – just to find out. I hadn’t really intended to start on a new life path when I first signed up. But, darn it – when you SEE that you are able to eat below the calorie budget with just a little restraint… how can you not? And the scale seems to be liking it – so, I am excited. This – this level of eating, this level of exercise – I can maintain. It fits into my existing life without too much trouble – and if I continue to lose as I have so far, about 3-4 pounds per month – it will take me about two years to get down to 150.

It seems like a long time – looking at it from this end – but, thinking back and realizing how quickly time flies, I know it won’t be that long. I would like it to go faster, sure…. But, I know that if I try to do anything too dramatic – anything I feel like I have to “go off of” when I am done, then, I am doomed to fail – so I just have to try and be patient. I just wish I were a bit better at that…

But, I suppose I will have all sorts of interesting and exciting NSV’s to keep me motivated… had one today. I was spooning in bed with the DH. He had his arm flung over me and he had to move his arm because my hip bone was poking it… yes, it’s official, there is a bone in there. Whoot!

I have spent the last hour plus reading and catching up - so I can't reply to each of you - but, I am sending out hugs to everyone!

Re in TX

Janetr ... Beautiful family photo! And I love your before and after!!

Larissa ... Also a great photo!

Lillian ... Precious photos of your grandchildren!

Beth near Buffalo

Okay I woke up this morning with hilarious bedhead (I'm badly in need of a haircut), so I made this...so this is what my tiny head looks like, with hair. (I do actually smile, too ...it's just weird for me, in a selfie).

Janetr - You have done brilliantly! And I agree, it's a whole new lease of life. Well said.


Heather