WOMEN ages 50+ FOR JULY 2016

melaniemetoyer wrote: »

Good morning ladies....well, the pot is still simmering here in Baton Rouge. Tension is palpable, and divided for the most part, right down the center of racial lines. and I just think everyone just needs to step back, PRAY, and let the justice system COMPLETE its investigation. Thanks for the prayers, please continue to think not just of Baton Rouge, but Dallas, Minnesota, and wherever else there is strife in this world.
Got on the scale this morning....LOST 4lbs yippee!!!!! I do have a question though...If you eat a multi-ingredient dish, (I made lasagna yesterday), when logging it, should one in the data be used, or should each ingredient be logged individually?

You can enter the recipe in MFP. The recipe section is under the food section. You have to tell it how many servings it makes and MFP will figure the calories and nutritional information for you. It's a terrific tool.

Janetr okc

@pitaroyal

Hi Pita Maple Valley

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Katie Yay for the clean colonoscopy! Lemon zucchini Greek yogurt? That sounds intriguing!

Barbie- great picture!

Drkatiebug - yeah! Now you can eat again!



Mary from Minnesota

morning peeps -

thanks for the happy bday wishes for Kirby, i'll let him know

ketonekaren - no cake bake for him, i'm a bad wife. i did get him a bike jersy that says "this guy needs a beer" and socks that say"i love beer" and he have a foamy beer mug on them :0)

Melanie I don't know about others but if I'm not using a recipe all ready logged I log each ingredient...like an omelet or tuna salad which I change depending on the day. If it's a dish I make frequently I log it in my recipes which saves time in the end. I say that because I tend to be very specific with brands & measurements so it takes time to log it in. Much easier if you can use an Internet address for a recipe...love how MFP uploads it.
Off to run errands, clean frig & do some gardening...
GLo on the Sunny North Shore of Ma

Heather

Debbie – Thinking of you and hoping your husband’s tests give you some answers.

Melanie – If you are making something like lasagna, you can use the recipe feature in MFP and save the recipe. Then you’ll have it for the next time you make the same dish.

OK, childhood continued… Summers were typically spent outside at the pool at our local country club. We wore SPF4 sunscreen if anything and ended the summer very tan. In high school, my friends and I would actually lather on baby oil and lay out in the sun. The stupid things we did that we would never let our kids do. When I was 10, I learned how to golf and we golfed once a week on “kids’ day”. The first time I ever golfed, I got 182 on nine holes. For those of you who may not be familiar with golf, a low score is the goal. LOL
Each winter, we took a vacation out to ski at Winter Park, Colorado. My dad’s boss owned a cabin there and would let us use it for a week each year for free. Oh how I remember those drives with seven of us in the station wagon across all of Nebraska and half of Colorado. We would play the ABC game looking for each letter of the alphabet on billboards and we would look for license plates from different states. There were no electronic games and no DVD players in the car back then.
We lived in the same house in Sioux City, IA from the time I was two until I was eighteen. Our neighbors were like family. We did not have extended family in Sioux City until my uncle and his family moved there when I was in middle school. My dad grew up in a little town about an hour and a half south of Sioux City and my mom grew up in an even littler town in central Iowa about three hours away. I had many cousins around my age, but we saw them only a few times a year. Oh but when we did get together, we had loads of fun. We would dress up in my mom’s and my aunt’s old formal dresses and put on a fashion show. (Even the boys would dress up.) And we would walk up to the general store each with a dime to buy a piece of candy.

OK, that’s enough for now. I’ve got to get some work done. Talk to you later…

Linda in IA

to all I am back, not that I really left. I have been busy with groups of adult scholars, and up and coming NGO leaders from Africa and Turkey over the last month. Lots of people to welcome, bid farewell, pack up those leaving after 6 months, drive to airport, store stuff, and host events such as Iftars (dinners to break Ramadan fasts) and meetings. At this point, groups of scholars or students pass my name and tips on to the next bunch coming to the area. My home is a comfortable spot for people of all religions, races, and countries. They even ask if they can bring friends. I am never quite sure how many will show up for any given holiday, and we celebrate them all- Easter, Passover, Thanksgiving, or Eid, etc. My basement has become a temporary storage location and for UPS and Amazon deliveries. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Thank you Heather for checking up on me. I have tried to skim, but could not completely keep up and post. Please know you are greatly loved by this community. You do so much for us. What can we do for you?

The bombing in Turkey was a real scare. I had just picked up a friend returned from Istanbul 2 days before and I do gp in and out of that airport all the time. I had a student scheduled to arrive in Istanbul at that time and was not sure of everyone else's whereabouts until the texts started arriving. The student who would have been in arrivals at that time had a ticket snafu and did not go as scheduled, Thank heavens
A final event for another group of international scholars is tomorrow so I get a breather.

I was notified last week that a grant has come through, but budget cuts. No administration included. Travel only. I will also be responsible for a study and will write a book, due to publishers one year from now. It will not be a bestseller, so don't go looking in your local bookstore 18 months from now although you might find links to it on PLOS. (A textbook I did back in 85 has never gone out of print,although never a big seller, all 660 pages of formulas, graphs and citations.) To tell you how boring these books are, I gave my mother a copy of my first book with a dedication and she immediately handed it back to me saying she would not read it so why bother keeping it. I was extremely hurt at the time, but in retrospect, I guess I see her point.
I also have a small grant for travel expenses to an international meeting this fall.

The events of the last three weeks have really thrown me. I feel as if we are living in the center of an Heironymous Bosch painting or German surrealist film from the 30s. I have been trying to analyze the extent to which immediate video or unfettered postings and commentaries on the Internet contribute to the world's collective anger borne from an overwhelming frustration to solve intractable, long-standing problems. Do you all remember, "the media is the message?" At the time, we scoffed at this. Unfortunately, today what is posted is not thoughtful distillation, but expediency.

On a happier note, my garden is flourishing. I will take a picture and post. I have not gained weight. I have been dealing with health and pain issues with Penny, it has not worked, and increased exercise and riding, which does help. Lots of tests and visits to various medical clinics. All the usual suspects have been ruled out.
I went to a July 4 party and someone I have known for 30 years did not recognize me. Others commented on weight loss.
Thank you all. Do know that my heart is with you.
CJ

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Katla~ Of all the places I have lived at, (26 places is my tally so far), I think Oregon seems to be the best fit. The fact that I grew up in a suburb of Portland, then married a sailor, well, its nice to come back to the fold so to speak. The Navy has taught me to be outspoken, and opinionated, but it has also taught me when to keep my mouth shut...
Becca
(true Oregonian at heart)

Good morning ladies. Well I was hoping to sleep in today and get somethings done at home, but my phone rang at 5am and I am working 7-3:30 today. Then my boss came in this morning and wants to meet at 3:30 so not sure what time I will get out of here. Going to be another hot and muggy day. I am so ready for Fall.

Weigh in is tomorrow and not looking forward to that as been a couple weeks since I weighed and eating was out of control. But important thing I have to remember is I am not giving up.

Barbie--Glad to hear Jake is doing well. Tell him slow and easy beats doing to much to fast and end up back down again. I know that easier said then done.

Joyce SD--Happy to see you post. One day at a time and we will do this. I know I am trying to learn this as a life changing way of life.

Linda IA--Sounds like you did very well this last weekend. You Rock!!

Rosie SC--Sending hugs. I have been feeling down lately also. Trying to look for the Blessings in each day, big and small.

Katiebug--Glad it is done and everything went well. I always feel so much better when mine is done and do not have to worry about it for another 5 years.

Well today is just flying by for the most part. Fighting a headache and just want to get home. Take care ladies.
Blessings, Vicki GRANDISLAND NE

Vicki - Have you worked out why you are feeling so low? Usually, unless we are simply grieving something, it is because we have a problem we are trying to ignore, repress, or hide from. Sometimes it is difficult to focus on what the real problem is, but I think we always know deep down. Has your arm operation badly affected you? That is perfectly understandable.
We use a lot of energy keeping our problems repressed. It took me a while to realise that I was running away from my writing. You'd think I'd know by now!!!! :ohwell:
You have done so brilliantly transforming your life by losing all that weight. I hate to see you so low. Just counting our blessings doesn't hack it, we have to dig out the junk that is blocking our flow.

Of course some problems cannot be solved, but just recognising them and hauling them out into the light can help. Do you have someone you can talk freely and honestly to?
Lots of love to you, Heather xxxxxxxx

Thanks to all of you who are sharing your childhood!

Carol