WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2016

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon~Love the players that put those on! I have been to "Scrooged in Astoria" but kept thinking, "Wow those are rude people to be throwing popcorn at the players on stage!" I then found out its what ya do! Next time I shall buy popcorn and do it too!
Becca
Oregon

Di Sometimes I order a salad and an appetizer and forget the entree. Often that's a great plenty. Just a thought...you could eat the salad and ask to have the appetizer delivered at the same time as your husband's entree.

I went shopping and stopped by the sporting goods dept. and checked out the kettlebells. I picked up the 10 lb and 15 lb I think I am going to start with my 10 lb dumbell and work up from there. My DD has a set of 10 that I can use, but won't get them, till I see her next month.

I had homegrown spagetti squash, with melted pepper jack cheese , sprinkles of basamic vinegar on top with 10 of my garden *sweet 100 tomatoes for lunch, no breakfast. My *favorite I can eat them like candy and do!

Hi Di I will be 50 in November and I usually post in the a.m., but I just wanted to hop on and say hello and I am so glad you decided to order a meal, eat half and save the other half for another meal. Please enjoy your dinners always. Hard to do that when it is only salad. I love salad, but I eat at least one a day at home. Going out to eat is special. Welcome!

DJ - I just put the wedding ring set in the safe. I always knew my mother had expensive taste, I just didn't realize how expensive. It's a shame that Pete didn't give denise a good diamond necklace for their engagement and then she could have had my rings like she always has wanted. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise -- he might have done something stupid like have them engraved or something. But what's done is done. I'm now sorry that I gave Dianna my mother's other wedding ring. I bet she just threw it out. Right now I'm wearing MIL's ring. I think in some ways that makes Vince happy. Woo hoo getting rid of that grill. It always feels good to get rid of things that you don't use. I swear, Vince is getting worse and worse about not getting rid of stuff. I feel like I'm nagging him, but if he would just do it and shut me up, things would be fine. Like we have a whole lot of FIL's yearbooks. We've had them at home for 2 years. For 2 years I've been saying "why don't you write to FIL's college and see if they would like these?" Do you think it's been done? I've only been waiting 8 years for him to go thru this filing cabinet that's in the garage.

Joyce - how wonderful about your heartrate. That's not a resting heartrate , is it?

Lenora - out of the mouths of babes!

Chris - I'm so so sorry. Hopefully, he'll be back.

kyla - we are the exact same way -- Vince would eat burgers and pizza to change things up all the time. Me? Give me my veges!

Exercised, HIIT on the elliptical for 30 minutes and then went on the rowing machine for 15 minutes. The plan for tomorrow is to do Michele Olsen's Perfect Legs Glutes and Abs DVD. We shall see what that one's like.

After exercise went to WalMart, then to Office Depot (or Max whichever it is) then to AC Moore then home and powerwashed about 80% of the pool area. Will finish tomorrow and hopefully get the sidewalks done, too. Then I'm FINISHED powerwashing.

Carol/Peach - hope everything works out for you today

frankiesgirl - I worked in a fast food place when I was in high school and it was years before I'd have another french fry. To this day, they don't really appeal to me.

MissDi - I'm always amazed at the people in our senior bowling. Some are in their 90's and they bowl multiple times a week. Guess in one sense they don't have anything else to do. Happy anniversary!

Karen in VA - so glad my posting my workouts help someone. thank you for that

slimcharm - welcome! That's the way to do it, just jump right in. Glad to have you with us.

I read in Hungry Girl to freeze the small cups of applesauce, let them thaw a bit and it's like sorbet. I just tried it, and it is. I do think that I needed to let the applesauce sit out longer, tho. Love the jeans and lace too. I believe that's called "hi-low"

Cheri - sounds like you are settling in so nicely.

marion - welcome!

Diane - welcome! Yea, but those younger kids aren't 50 (or older in my case). You do what's right for YOU. Actually, many times I see younger kids doing things incorrectly and one reason is that they are trying to do it too fast

Michele in NC

Going to this restaurant is always special--especially for BDs and anniversaries
I looked up the menu and looked up the two chicken dishes that sound good. both will be about the same in calories and fats. half will come home. If I decide on the one with the side of rice noodles, I will ask them to make half a serving. other one has a baked sweet pot. I can bring that home no problem....
anyway, almond crusted goat cheese is going to happen!!!! LOL.
Di

Di - I find high end restaurants much easier than cheap joints. I just have the delicious protein bits with lovely salad or veggies, no carbs. I sometimes ask for no potatoes, extra veg. Dont eat all the sauce. No dessert, of course, but I do have a great espresso, no sugar. I do have wine, but sometimes I have a small dry white in a very large tumbler of soda water. I always enjoy my food, but I love fish and seafood, so it's not usually a problem. I do 600 calories plus of exercise every day, so I have quite a few calories to play with. I lost 57 pounds by eating my earned calories back. No cheating and rigorous logging. The maths work. Like a lot of others on here I eat a lot of veggies and protein. Just suits me.I managed to go on a two week cruise and not put on a pound following that principle. I even amazed myself!

@cityjaneLondon asking for double veggies is an idea. might do that. usually they cook them nicely. with picnics on Sat and Sunday, I will have to find time to do some exercise---another high cal weekend AAAAUUGGGG

Di - Can you take stuff to the picnic? Michele sometimes takes a crudités selection to her socials. You can take a nice low cal dip with it. Then you can sit there gnawing away at celery all day! :laugh:

Heather UK

Vicki- I have weeks like that too. Sometimes I just make myself just man up and get on the darn scales so it's a slap in the face. Other times I try to clean up my act before taking the plunge. I admit to not recording it when their headed the wrong way but I am committing to doing it any way. Right now I am trying to pre log my food as much as possible. Seems to be helping me honest. Sounds like a busy weekend for you but I know you'll get back on your track.

Di- happy anniversary! Enjoy! My DH works mostly evenings and I wok days so leftovers are popular in our house. I always immediately cut my dinner in half so I can take half home. Also as was mentioned salad and appetizer works too sometimes as long as they have something better than wings and potatoe skins on the menu!! We will be dining out as well tonight although I don't know where. I already pre logged a couple of cocktails so I have an idea of how much of what I can eat. I try to make something healthy for picnics just to help me out. Funny how much people can like heathy food if you don't tell them it's healthy!

Have a great evening All! Check in tomorrow.

Finally!! We have a cold front moving through and it has brought cooler weather (54 F) and rain storms. We needed both! Rori in the Foothills, you should get it soon, it's so very nice!

I'm taking it easy today, for some unknown reason my right knee is wacked. Lots of pain when I walk and it even pops from time to time. I finally put it in a brace beause it kept buckling out from under me. It was fine yesterday and I truly don't remember hurting it. Just woke up this way.

So I'm in the quilting room cutting fabric for a Christmas tree skirt that I have been wanting to make. Hopefully when I wake up tomorrow it will be back to normal.

Charleen in Colorado (Loving the cool temps and brisk rain)

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My DDIL used to use gold stars on a chart and nice excursions as motivators, or something else the kids really wanted. Worked for a while. I think Becca has tried something like motivating phrases pinned up etc. You could try going through magazines and cutting out some lovely clothes and pinning them up somewhere. Before I lost weight I really had lost all interest in fashion and had no idea any more what would suit me. I just used to cover myself in baggy black. I had to re-educate myself in what was out there. It was quite a shock to realise I didn't have to wear dark wrap dresses any more, but I could wear a bright sheath dress! Wow! Going to the pub this week in a sleeveless top, heels and a pencil skirt was quite a milestone!
Love Heather UK

By the way Di, in case you were wondering, I am going to be 67 in October.

Great idea! I am thinking about making a fitness motivation board- workout calendar for my work out space. You can get those dry erase- bulletin boards for next to nothing.

At 67 ...you give me hope that its not too late, when in a reality I know it never is. They say if you got it...you flaunt it!!! Enjoy your pub date!!!

Karen – I will try that; see if it works for me. Your little ‘fur babies’ are so cute. I want to post a picture of “Cracker”. I finally got one of her laying on her back. Sometimes she will fall asleep in this position. My DH wasn’t very ‘keen’ on having an inside pet; but, she has won his heart. She follows each of us anywhere we go. She sits in front of the closed bathroom door while he is taking a shower. Gracious, should either of us leave the house; she cries and goes to the door; although she does know that DH goes to work in the morning and will be gone all day. She’s going with us on vacation, so next Thursday she gets a clip and a haircut … two bucks! I WISH!

Yesterday I left my closet door open and it has a mirror on the inside; she was playing and running from one end of the house to the other and caught her reflection in the mirror. Her reaction was so funny! I thought DH was going to laugh until he cried. She'd bark at it then run to him and bark at him and run back and forth; until I finally had to just go in and close it. I told her that I 'was putting that other dog away in the closet'.


Mary from Minnesota – If I can remember to take my kettlebell … I will take mine with me. I found a site that calculates the calories; and figured out how many I would burn in 5 minutes at my weight; then I will know what I need to add for each 5 minute session. Then, somehow, I found out how to actually add it to my exercises; I've already forgotten what I did. Short time memory bank loss is 'hell' sometimes. When I least expect it, it will be like I never forgot how.


Re – I was surprised that DH has allowed “Cracker” to stay inside; but, she is ‘so entertaining’ I’m not sure he’d put her outside to stay now. In-and-out all the time!


Rosetigger – We have an ‘inside’ dog ("Cracker"); and, an 'outside' cat ("Tux") - not a very exxciting name; when you realize that a 'black & white' cat is called a "Tuxedo Cat" breed. Dog comes in-and-out with us. She’s my companion; but, when DH comes home she stays mostly on his side of his chair or follows him everywhere. If she comes up to him, like she ‘needs’ something. He’ll tell her, “go ask your mama"; and she comes right over here and puts her head in my lap. She is a peculiar eater. We put a cup of food in her dish in the morning; and, it will take her all day to eat it; and, if you see her eating, she stops. Then, we’ll put another cup in her dish at night … she won’t let you ‘see her eating’ … but, we can hear her. She’ll sit on command when you are putting in the food; but, when you tell her “OK” she just looks at you. Our JRT used to sit until we told her ‘OK’ … for the most part she’d stay even ‘if’’ we walked out of the room. Then when you said 'ok' you had better not be 'in the way'.

Cracker cannot stand the vacuum cleaner(s) – will bark and try to attack them. Yesterday I tried out my kettlebell in front of the mirror on the back of my closet door; she did not like it; and tried to grab it and I hit her on the nose. Not hard; but, hard enough to let her know, it isn’t something she wants to tackle again. I find it hard to understand why some people don’t even want any pet. My DYS had a big black lab and has a “Mountain Feist”. Jack the lab had to be ‘put down’ … old with a lot of health issues that could never be better, even with treatment. Lame - one not being able to stand up after laying down. It is a problem with most labs. He cried for 2 days, according to DDnL#2; DGD#4 cried when he told her that and why.

I don’t know what he will do when something happens to Lily. He has now had to put her in the big shed when he goes back in town; because the farmer next to them says it looks like she is trying to follow after him and then gets too tired to make it back. He's afraid with this heat ... she might get dehydrated and die from a heat stroke. He had almost run over Jack because he was laying down in the field; or near it and he did not see him until it was almost too late. He thinks that Lily is losing her sight, hearing, and, maybe has ‘doggie dementia’ due to her age. DDnL#2 has a mix Shizt Shu/Chihuahua – it’s a little dog; but, DYS loves him, too. Did not like him at first; but, was not going to tell them ‘no’.

Running is pretty ‘rough’ on your knees, ankles, and it can affect your hips; walking is a much better exercise insofar as burning calories with less stress on your body. You could work up from a slow pace to the kind of race-walking (pumping your arms, usually bent at the elbow) … really fast. I swear my middle sister must do this … we are all about the same height (5’3” – 5’4”) but when she is walking I am practically having to run to keep up with her. We're built the same; so it isn't like she has much longer legs or anything like that.


Di – So you had a ‘Saturday’ wedding!?!?! DH and I will have been married 44 years tomorrow! Would never trade him in, although he does joke around about ‘he should have traded me in on two 20-year-olds when he had a chance’. I told him that he could not even handle three 21-year-olds now! Then he will say, ‘that’s what the girl at the picnic said’. That saying is also his way of quietly saying to me, “I’m stressed!” Such a good natured man and so patient, too! We rarely go out and eat the entire entrée – always bring ½ of it home for the next lunch or supper.

Clothes and plants are my biggest motivator. Manicure and Pedicure are right up there, too.

If we are planning on going out to eat; I will track my calories from the food that I think I will eat; and, then I will know if I need to skip my middle-of-the-day meal. We usually go out about 4:30 – 5:00 in the afternoon, to beat the crowds. If the restaurant is not listed; I find one that is comparable and look at what is close to what I plan on eating that night to get my calorie count; since we go on 'date nights' a couple of times a month - I do not deny myself the wine or the dessert; but, that means I might have to exercise more the next few days.


Karen – I also do the same – order salad and appetizer. But, Olive Garden has their special eat one, take one going on. I’ll have to decide what I will take and figure out the calories. Might have to ‘freeze’ some of it; and take the other half as my meal. That’ll be 4 meals for $12.99 (excluding wine).


Slimcharm20 – I bought the 10lb; and, believe me … you will not regret starting off with the 10lb kettlebell and working up. It’s a lot ‘harder’ exercise than you can imagine.

Oh, my DDnL#1 made some spaghetti squash for us … I was surprised that my DH really ‘liked’ it a lot. She had made some venison sauce and had plenty for my lunch the next day.


Cheri – We’ve owned 3 Honda Accords. My DBnL always had one (sometimes 2) Hondas every 2 years. I bought his 2009 when I inherited money (their check was just larger than mine); so it was ‘paid’ for. Two years later I rolled it (with 2 of my granddaughters in the car with me); I had had a seizure and when my DMGD tried to ease us back up on the roadway; I reacted and then over-corrected … they were ‘scared’ more than ‘hurt’. She will NOT get in the car, if I am driving … I can’t say that I blame her. When we traded the salvage … we got more than my DBnL had charged me, in the first place. Got a ‘one owner’ used 2011 Accord. I found some paperwork that had his name on it; so I called to find out why he would have traded in a ‘new’ car; he told me that he found out his wife was pregnant with their 2nd child about a week later; and, they needed a van-like vehicle. I backed it into a fence the day before we were supposed to leave last year for Louisiana; and wasn’t sure that we’d be able to open and/or close the trunk because of it. So I went to the dealership to get an ‘oil change’ and ‘tires rotated’ and was looking at the ‘new’ 2015 Hondas. Drove one, and fell in love with it. So much quieter than my 2011 Honda and smoother riding as well. My 2011 was a 6-cylinder; but, I think the 4-cylinder has as much ‘pep and get up and go’ as it did; and, the gas mileage is better. Last year we only spent $75 in gas coming and going. But, that did not count the fill-up that the dealership put in it. Still ... that was great mileage per gallon. I wrecked it back on 5/3; pulled in front of someone from the turn only lane. I really ‘thought’ I had the ‘green arrow’. So I only injured my right ankle; other than apparently being knocked out for a while. Hit me in the front right panel then pushed me head-on into a metal light pole. I was ‘sure’ that it would be totaled; but, it wasn’t. The side airbags went off; and all I saw was a bright flash of light … I ‘thought’ … “I’m DEAD!” Everything went ‘black’ and then a second later saw another bright light when I hit the pole head-on; and all I could hear was metal crunching. It took a ‘licking’ and after being ‘fixed’ it has been ‘ticking’ just like new. Of course, it took 5 weeks to get it fixed; going back-and-forth between the body shop and the dealership. Can’t tell it was ever damaged.

We figured since there was over $16K of damage; they’d total it; but, the front bumper caved in like an accordion; but, the hood was buckled up. Only one hose had to be replaced. Nothing damaged in the engine. I’ve always felt extremely safe in my Hondas.

The synchronized swimmers have nose clips; and when they come up; they take in a breath through their mouths. Mouth breathers! Much easier than blowing out air under water.


Katla – I had a friend in elementary school whose name was “Susanna”. Biblical name. Middle and only daughter with 4 brothers. Lost contact with her when her family moved a couple of time. Dad was a college professor. Went to visit with her for 2 weeks the year we were Seniors in HS. In Norman, OK @ UofOK She was so pretty … natural blond with pretty blue eyes. What I remember when we became friends was the ‘dollhouse’ that he Daddy made out of solid wooden packing crates. It was ‘huge’. John, Timothy, Susanna, Andrew, and John Mark.


Michele – My MnL had promised her 5-diamond wedding band to me from the day she purchased it for herself; even had it written down that I was to get it and attached to her Will. Unfortunately, DH’s daughter took it instead. When we got the Will, she had struck through it and several others things, including a painting I had done for Christmas one year. I would have ‘liked’ to have been able to get the picture back; because it was the ‘only’ one I never signed. She took ALL of the pictures, so I don't have any of my MnL, except from our wedding and one of her and Granddaddy with DH as a baby. None of her, none of DFnL, and none of my DH growing up. Karma will come soon enough; if she hasn’t already been there. It just ‘hurts’ that she would be so ‘greedy’. But, like you said, it is probably a blessing in disguise. We no longer are welcomed in her home; after she got caught co-mingling DMnL’s assets with hers. The saddest thing about it is that the ‘granddaughter’ will never know her ‘real’ Papa.

As a child, I thought that a can of Vienna Sausages was a ‘treat’; but, when I got into HS Science the teacher (our football coach) talked about what goes into ‘hot dogs’ … and “Vienna Sausages”. I have not been able to eat one since. I will eat a Hebrew National hot dog; but, not others. I have to be almost ‘starving’!

Can’t help you in the pancake mix … I will eat ‘waffles’ but, not pancakes. I think it has something to do with the texture. DH buys the kind that you only have to add water to (but, not Bisquik. Then he will freeze the ones that he makes too much of, to heat up during the week. He always cooks breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays.
Almond crusted goat cheese sounds delicious! Never had it (that I know of).


Vicki – Sometimes it is just better to jump in on the page number you get taken to and go forward; then go back and read those extra pages to try to get down to the ‘start of a story’. Sometimes it is pretty easy to sort of figure out what is going on; but, if you ask; most won’t mind posting it again, so you’ll know what started the comments being posted.

It was good to see the ‘women’ and ‘some of the men’ actually singing the National Anthem this afternoon. Don’t know what team it was (unless possibly volleyball). They even acted ‘overjoyed’. Even ‘loud’ enough to actually hear them as well. GO AMERICAN OLYMPIANS!!!!!


Lenora

Hello ladies: It is hot here today, 95* and just walking outside to feed horses I was sweating like crazy. At least it has been cooling off at night. One of the reasons we moved her was for more moderate weather. this kind of feels like SD. Let the horses out in the back pasture early today since there is more shade there for them. I am so glad the YM will be open again on Monday, I have really missed water exercise.

Glo - Sorry for the loss of your father. Keep all those good memories.

Miriam - Like the hair and the color suits you.

Di - Strength to you for the weekend and happy anniversary. Our anniversary is August 23 and it will be our 47th.
Our son is taking us out to eat on Saturday to celebrate. We will also get to see his new place, he moved earlier this month.

Michele - Have you tried writing or calling the company that makes it?

I had to order hay today for the horses and he lowered the price by $1 per bale, Yippie!!!

Healing angels to all who need them and congratulations to those with victories. Sue in WA