WOMEN ages 50+ FOR JULY 2016

Did 20 minutes of yoga, did 2 min 50 sec of bicycles, then the extremepump class. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Tracy Long Step Forward DVD

Exercised then had to leave early for the food pantry. See, they had these tables where people put their donations and I think they got confused. So there were A LOT of donations. Fortunately, we used Vince's SUV and were able to take them all. Then went to bowling, we have to leave early for ceramics since we need to buy gas and I get 10 cents a gallon off. Then mahjongg

Karen in VA - happy, happy birthday

Vince is talking about cutting the grass (weeds, really) tomorrow, so I doubt I'll get any weeds cut down then going to the movies to see "All About Pets". If we go Tues it's $5. Wednesday I may be able to get a few but then we have ceramics at night. We're supposed to Skype with Bryan on Thurs, I'm thinking that before we do I'll make this dessert to have when Jess comes here this weekend. Friday I can probably get more weeds cut.

Becca - I really like doing water aerobics in the deep end of the pool. No impact but you sure can get your heartrate up! I wear webbed gloves and water shoes when I do it

Got the ceramic wolves from ceramics tonight. I was afraid to take a picture of it on the outside chance that Jess would see it. Personally, I like the way the paint on the body came out. One lady gave me the suggestion and I think it came out pretty good. There were a few spots that I needed to use acrylics on, either there were "hot spots" or I neglected to paint them (can't see how I missed them three times)

I mentioned to Vince that he should find out the times of the movies. He told me he has something to do tomorrow, that I'm welcome to come with him. When I asked what, he wouldn't tell me. Don't know what's up with that.

Becca - hope your eye gets better real fast

CSSJ - congrats!

Sue - our YMCA makes you get out of the pool. Truthfully, I think it's pretty stupid, but that's their rule

Re - congrats on the wonderful loss

Joyce - bet Charlie watched the RNC tonight. I do have to say, Donald Trumps wife IS really pretty. Just think -- if he becomes president, we'll have the hottest first lady....lol

Michele in NC

Michele- my DD and DSIL are coming up for Moondance Jam which starts on Thursday night. They are taking me to "All About Pets" on Friday! We all can hardly wait!!!



Mary from Minnesota

so just a quick comment on kettleball swings - I have been interested in the kettleball swings and the small amount of time to burn a lot of calories... so have watched the videos and with my dicey shoulder have waited and waited - well for a few weeks now I have been doing them in the Kim Modification system (LOL) so I started with 10, no weight, and with my arms crossed across my chest, when that got comfortable I did them with my arms in position but no weight, after a week or so of that I added a one pound weight, after just 5 I knew I had done too much, 3 days of icing and back to no weight - so am now up to 20 with no weight - and while it is not anything like the amazing work out that Mary does, I can feel it and am thinking I will try doing 1 with my 1 pound weight and 19 no weight for a few days, then maybe add one swing a week with weight.... I am sure if I go slow enough I can get stronger... This is NOT a race! I am related to a snail on this one...LOL

Kim in N. California

Kim - that is awesome! Your post and insight should be inspiration to everyone. Even with weight lifting women increase the weight by one chain link at a time. The key is to know your body and what it is capable of doing right now and slowly increase whether it may be steps, seconds on a plank, one more wall push up, peddling one more block...



Mary from Minnesota

Kim also thanks for sharing your experience...no weights/low weights sounds like the way to start for me...now to watch the videos

GLo

Crazy busy week, the boss is out with a truly horrible case of shingles, bless her heart, and I'm trying to be me and her both. It's on her neck, in her hair, and truly scary looking. And she's only 38. Rethinking getting that shingles vaccine..

Thinking about y'all, Lisa in West Texas

Here is something I do to stop my motion sickness on a boat, sounds silly but it works for me every time on a very choppy 2 hour ferry ride. ICE CUBES on my wrist and back of neck. Don't know why, but it worked. I will absolutely try the ginger next time.

Barbie I heard an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert about "Big Magic" and just got from the library to enjoy. I am currently reading "Valiant Ambition" about Benedict Arnold and George Washington which is so great I have only glanced at big magic but here is my quote for my pocket today:

"We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world"

Allie I know the feeling when you see a photo and can't believe what you see. I can only say, don't hurt yourself about it, motivate! take one step at a time to make better food choices, move a little more and stick with us! Who always says this at the end of her posts? Rori? Together we can do this!
NYKAREN

Good morning ladies. I felt the need to throw in a disclaimer here. I am NOT at all in the same league as Mary, Barbie and many others here. I don't do heavy weights at all. I'm doing weight resistance strength training. The heaviest weights I use at once is twenty pounds. My kettle bell is only 15#, however it does need upped at this point. Yesterday Jack decided he needed to replace the wax ring in the toilet in our master bathroom. I helped him sit the toilet in the shower and then move it back into place. He said wow you were a great help. I'm definitely stronger and feel better and that is my purpose. NSV!!

Janetr okc

It's a Simple & Sinister kind of day

Karen in Virginia

Janet, being single, I have had to move toilets around by myself when I renovated both bathrooms in my house, as well as when the wax ring needs replaced. Not much fun.

Cheri – I don’t know where in Texas you’ll be living; but, you can check the zone you’ll be living it. This you can get from most any reputable nursery. In GA, we have several zones because we go from mountains to sea shore. Day lilies are very resilient; you can ‘dig them up’, wait several days until replanting them and they’ll recover. You might not have blooms, if they are flowering now, until next blooming season. It ‘might’ be less taxing on them ‘if you remove any flower stalks; but, I have planted some that were flowering when I transplanted them. I’ve planted one fan or several fans together of the same variety. One reason they are called ‘daylilies’ because that is the ‘one day, occasionally two’ they are the prettiest. They like the full sun; NOT heavily mulched (which slugs like and will chew them up) and, they might need a little more water at first. I’m in Zone 8 in SW GA and they grow like crazy in full sun or under trees; where they get ‘mottled sun’; like pine trees. I only saw the first house y’all had a contract on; it did not look like it had any trees. Not sure about the 2nd one. All of mine get ‘full sun’ (planted on the South side of my house) or out in a flower bed that really does not get ‘any’ shade. When I have bought fans, sometimes it is several days before I plant them, they recover quickly. I tried to find my Southern Living Garden book; and, I could have told you what zones they do best in; but, if you are bringing them from Ohio and they lived through the cold winters and snow, they ‘should’ do fine in Texas. They are very drought resistant. My BF has dug up her daylilies and moved them around in her yard; and, several times she left them out nearly 2 weeks. They were pitiful looking; but, by the next year they had recovered from the shock. She had thrown them in a wheelbarrow with a little water in the bottom. They looked like they were dying. Even in Ohio, there should be a nursery that can tell you the zones they do best in.


Janet and Re – I was told by the nurse/MD that the abdomen is the last place you’ll lose; and, whether or not you’ll be able to have a ‘flat’ stomach will depend on how much weight you have lost. When I hold my muscles ‘tight’ I am thinking … I’ll get there. I did so after giving birth to my children. Since them I had a complete hysterectomy and it seems like I have a little pooch, that might not go away; but, before children I had had my appendix taken out and the muscles were cut for an incision from about ½ inch from my belly button to my pubic hair; and, I got a flat stomach. I, thankfully, have my Mother’s skin; she did not have any wrinkles until after she turned 80. Nurse/MD said there were really no exercise that will totally flatten your stomach, especially with a scar that had gone all the way down to the internal organs. I’ve known a woman (who had lap band surgery) and she had a tummy tuck and an operation to get rid of her ‘bat wings’.


Re – I need to get back to my desk to ‘purge’ it; it looks like the police have ‘tossed it’.


Debbie – I was told that when I exercise I needed to ‘up’ my protein intake (small piece of meat, peanut butter, and boiled eggs). I’ve done all 3 and it helps a lot.


Margaret – I always enjoy pictures from your garden. I want to dig up some of my bulbs this winter and put them back down a little deeper and maybe divide them. Not sure when doing this is the best. They’ve been ‘in the ground’ for going on 15 years.

Joyce – There are a lot of “Free” apps that teach ‘typing’. If she gets to take it in HS (maybe younger, if the school has a lot of computers) … she should take it. I took it one year when I dropped out of Trig; because that teacher was horrible. He was an ‘unemployable engineer’; as at the time they were a ‘dime a dozen’. His teaching was only something to do to bring in money to pay bills. My entire class remember when I walked out of the class and told him I was going to go ‘change’ class to ‘typing’. He had told us to open to page 45 in the book and do the first 15 problems and all of the 30 on that chapter was going to be ‘homework’. We had NO clue. When the ‘highest’ grade in the class was a “C-“; several students when to the principal to see if he’d make him ‘curve on a scale’. One girl, what had always made “A’s” was particularly upset. There were only 2 students in the class that ‘knew’ or could ‘figure out’ how to do it. They would ‘tutor’ the rest of the class; one became a MD; the other was the Director of Math in the school system for the entire county; she had several schools that he helped in their math departments with the teachers.

I would think that when his temperature goes ‘down’ they will do the surgery; I’ve always heard that ‘if’ you develop a temperature they won’t do surgery. But, I guess that could vary from MD to MD.
HA! HA! HA! – My Daddy would fall asleep on the sofa while watching the news or some other bring show for a young child; but, if we changed channels; he say, “I was watching that!” Maybe he was a light sleeper and was just listening to it. I thought Melania’s speech last night was very good; even though she used some of the same phrases as Michelle; there isn’t a way for them to make a big stink; since, I doubt if Michelle never had a ‘copy write’ on it. But, the Democrats will run it ‘in the ground’; just like the ‘email’ issue will be ‘run in the ground’. It’s going to get ‘nasty’ unfortunately – on both sides.


Sue – I lived in an area that had a lot of ‘thunder and lightning storms’. Was a lifeguard at the city pool; and as soon as we counted up to ten-one-thousand; and if during that time we heard thunder again; time to get OUT of the pool. Lightening can ‘strike’ 10 miles away from a storm. Some kids would NOT get out and we’d ban them from the pool for a week when they didn’t. I’d even get off the metal and wood lifeguard stand the first time I heard lightning. Of course, when the kids saw the flash of lightning; they’d hop out of the pool very quickly. Some I wanted to choke!

I’m not surprised that you were asked to get out of an ‘indoor’ pool; they tell you to not take a bath of get into the shower when it is storming because if the house/pool house takes a direct hit; and there is any metal ‘in the pool’ you ‘could’ be electrocuted. Better safe than sorry. But, the funny thing that I learned was we were safer under water if we were on a ‘dive boat’ and it was lightning; that always seemed strange because I have always heard that sea water is a conductor for lightening.


Katla – A friend of mine paid for a full body massage and facial for me as I was her Maid of Honor at her wedding. Ooooooo, when I reach my ‘goal’ I’ll be entitled to a facial. Can barely wait! Not far away now.


Kim and Mary from Minnesota – I’ve bought a 10# kettlebell; but, have only tried it once – it is a great exercise; and, it is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I’m glad I did not buy one that weighed more.


Lisa in West Texas – Both my sons have had ‘shingles’ and afterwards took the vaccination so ‘if’ they ever had another outbreak it should not be as bad. It is a terribly unpleasant thing to go through. DOS had it on his back and around his side; poor DYS had it on his neck, head, face near his eyes, and even ‘in his mouth’. At first, he thought the pain in his mouth was a bad tooth (mouth is where it started). His regular dentist checked him out; but, did not know why his mouth hurt so badly; nothing wrong with his teeth but, he had checked him before the outbreak. He sent him to a Periodontist in Shreveport (across the state from where they live). When the hygienist came in to ‘clean his teeth’ she went and got the dentist; who told him that he had ‘shingles’ and sent him to a MD to get medication for it; plus he gave him some mouthwash to use. He sent him home and told him to come back after they had gone away. They had to make several trips and he ended up having surgery in his mouth to bring the gum up and cover the roots. Poor DDnL#2; has been through that and a split in his head when he was setting up a pig trap and came up and hit the “T-shaped” post. The man helping him, knew something was wrong with that sound and turned around. DYS was covered in blood from the top of his head down to his shoes. Then he called, on his way to the ER; she was so upset that he was driving himself. She has insurance that covers all of them, in the event of an injury since he works out in the ‘boonies’ for a medic helicopter. He keeps his cellphone with him that has a tracking device on it. Thankfully, he did not bust his skull open. Just a really bad cut requiring a bunch of stiches. Thankfully, on the ‘shingles’ episode; DDnL#2 had just buzzed his head. When he got injured; he had been letting his hair grown out for the wedding; so they had to come his hair to cover the place they shaved to give him stitches.


grandmallie - My DOS and DDnL#2's wedding was 'before' I had lost any weight; I looked like a 'cow'. Not sure that I want to show the book of pictures they made of the wedding party; because I also had changed into my flats; which only made my calves look even bigger. But, the sweetest picture was one where I was looking up at him and it was only from the waist-high

Lenora

hi to all. Just a quick pop in. I can't get on the site from home, so nothing from me on the weekends. I'll let you know how this turns out but I think I conned DD#1 into bringing me dinner tonight. I'm not convinced she will show up, but it would be amazing if she did! Hang in there everyone. Take care, Meg

Hi all!
My friend has just gone home after our lunch together. She had an awful journey, so stopped to buy wine. Oooops! Previously she had told me she was not drinking, so I had soft drinks prepared, but I'm afraid I was weak willed and shared the bottle with her. Mea culpa. I am about 4 pounds up from target, so this has to STOP!
It is a rare heatwave over here, around 94 ° F. Far too hot for me. No air conditioning. It will be better tomorrow and then thunderstorms. As per usual. My DH is sweating it out at cricket and I hope he has found some shade. Luckily he has a lizard's constitution. I am more of a polar bear.
Just before my friend arrived we had a power cut for 40 minutes. I was phoning up the electricity company and eventually got a recorded message saying 3,000 homes were affected. Took a while. All is fine now.

Salmon tonight. D H is doing some shopping on the way back from cricket. We need milk, fruit and vegetables. I have just cooked some of our delicious gooseberries. It's been a great year for our fruit bushes. Tomorrow we will leave as soon as he gets back from cricket, after a snack dinner. Can't wait to see DS's new house! We will look after the kids on Thursday and , depending on how we sleep, may stay another night. I do not sleep well in their spare bed. Too bouncy.

Love Heather xxxxxxxxxx

I'm listening re: kettlebells...think I'll order 15#s as Mary mentioned as a good starting weight but begin with no weight as Kim is doing. Seems like a plan. I'm pretty sore at the moment from all my pool exercise but did my usual this AM & plan to be in the pool this afternoon...gotta use it often here in the NE while we can!

Joyce hope all goes well w/gall bladder surgery...worked well for my DH

Shingles shot not really recommended by any of our doctors which is so interesting. They point out that it's not that effective but 50% seems better than nothing. My DH had shingles while we were in grad school so 21. He's now 72 & still has twinges every so often.

GLo on a lovely day here on the North Shore of Ma