WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY

Good morning everyone!

I need to call the doc to get my meds adjusted. One of the meds I take counteracts another one and I think that's what is happening. Didn't sleep hardly at all last night and I'm not doing very well this morning. I need prayers.

Our church is having a baseball outing today and DH is going and taking two kids that live with their grandmother Parents are out of the picture so it will be good for them to have a male figure in their life even if for a short time. I'm staying home - don't feel up to being around alot of people.

Welcome to all the newbies, I think you'll enjoy this board.

My food intake was good yesterday and my blood sugar when I took it was within normal limits. I'm still drinking tons of water which I know is good for me. When I drink the water I have no desire for soda, that surprised me.

Well have a great day everybody. God Bless.

Hi ladies, just checking in, started my exercises yesterday and was quite pleased it all went well. I will do them every other day until next weekend then start in everyday as before, should be a good go. Not feeling all that well, not sure what the trouble is, however, I will keep an eye on me. Have little tolerance to the pets today, that is the first sign I noticed.

Keep well and work at your goals gals!

Marilyn

Jeanne - I hope you get to sleeping better. It will make a big difference. Hopefully, it is the meds and when they are adjusted, you will sleep better.

Michelle, I thought of you when we watched the shuttle launch on TV. Glad you are having a great time. I am will have to look for a microwave steamer. That sounds like a good thing to have around. Did it come with any instructions on cooking time for stuff?

Barbie- You are amazing. I am glad the chiropractor was able to help you with your back. After what happened with the horse and the dog, I would go to one if I am ever in that position.

Kiowa was the dog I had that followed the chiro home. I guess he knew who could help him. Kiowa was the one who had his own accupunturist too. He was an amazing dog that had his own set of human friends. The chiro guy referred him to the accupunturist for treatment and massage. lol Luckily, these two friends of his treated him for free as they were not licenced to treat animals. ha, ha, ha I still miss that dog and his adventures.

My DD and I are off to go swimming here shortly. We are bringing a friend's daughter with us while her and hubby go to lunch and a movie. I am looking forward to having a little one around for a few hours.

Happy Birthday to all the July ladies! May this month and this year be good for you.

Welcome to all the new members I may have missed welcoming when you first joined.

Jeannie

Good morning to you all.
praying for you Jeanne.
Marilyn,hope you feel better.
Natalie,good luck with your knee an good about the wt.
Have a good day all!
jane

I am new to MFP and enjoying all the post. The site is awesome!!! I am really on my way to a new me! Have been struggling with weight all my life and feel that I don't have too many more chances to get it right. I am really motivated now( more than I ever been). I am now wearing a belt with my pants to keep them up. Before this I never wore a belt. I am really liking me for the first time in a long time. Every time I look in the mirror I get more confident. I am setting short term weight goals for myself. My first goal is to get under 200lbs, then I will go from there.

Starting Weight: 236lbs
Current Weight: 222lbs
Total Loss: 14lbs
Goal Weight: 199 lbs and beyond

:flowerforyou: Good evening everyone............

I hope your weekend has gone well.

I've been Awol for a few days .........the builders finished up Friday afternoon and so we set to and started the decorating.
DH came home from work Friday night and I was still painting!!
:happy: I said to him " I've been weight lifting all evening" ....???? he said.......
Well....the number of times I lifted my self off the floor ( I was doing the skirting boards) to alter position or get something, or answer the phone or go to the loo...every time ...:laugh: I lifted 150lbs!!

We had a break on Sat urday evening to see our DGD receive her dancing medals and then came back and finished the painitng. I started the wallpapering today and could have finished :explode: if it wasn't for the stupidity of the plasterer. He's plastered in the light socket so when I wanted to paper around it and removed the front plate a lot of the new plaster ripped off. We're waiting for the filler to dry as I post!
I can't wait to get all the furniture into the new room. Then we can decorate the bedroom that's masquerading as a dining room!!
But at least....with all this work :laugh: I'm not sitting eating!!

:flowerforyou: So folks..........I hope you're all due for a fantastic week ahead.

BFN
Jackie

:flowerforyou: Deborah, welcome back. I am so glad you made it through. That was quite a journey.



Rebel

Hi Ladies:

Sorry I have been awol for a few days but it is amazing the posts here get going so fast and furious that it is not too hard to get behind quickly.

First, Happy Birthday to all the July Ladies, hopefully you enjoy your day.

To all that have been enjoying weight losses, good for you, keep it up!!

To those new members, welcome, you will like it here.

To those who are finding their way back here, nice to see you again.

To those of you still experiencing pains and troubles, I do hope the Lord will answer your prayers and help you or at least give you strength to get through things.

To those whose lives are gooing well, good for you.

My weight is still not moving but I know it is because I am not getting enough exercise but after a super stressful day at worj and with my commute ( over 1 1/2 hours each way) by the time I get home from work and fighting traffic, I don't feel up to exercising. That is not good so I am going to have to come up with another way of getting exercise. Any one have suggestions??

Well, Ladies, I have been so very busy at work, my bosses are away and that leaves me to handle everything, that I haven't had time to post but I will try to post.

Take care.

Hugs to you All.
Cathy

Hi Deborah,

I am glad you went to the ER. With the right medications from the cardiologists, your energy level should begin returning. Glad you are feeling better.

barbiecat1 - another thing I thought of that doesn't need refrigeration -- what about those packages of tuna fish?

barb -I've always wondered, once you go to a chiropractor for a back (or whatever) adjustment, do you need to continue to go for the rest of your life so that it can be adjusted regularly or once it's adjusted, you don't need to go any more? Thanks for checking out my menus. That means a lot because it's so hard when you're away from home (as I'm sure you know). I don't use a scale, only cups and measuring spoons so it's just so hard to judge how large something like a chicken breast is when I log it. But then again, I don't add in my exercise calories so I figure if I've under-recorded something, my exercise calories will make up for it. It sure helps in that we have the refrigerator, microwave, even stove here at the condo. Even tho most of our meals are eaten out, I can still do things like hard boil eggs, steam veggies for later use, etc. Sounds like you had a lovely walk! You know, when you get up at a certain time every day, your body gets adjusted to it. Like I usually get up around 6, there are many mornings when I wake up all by myself. Like today, I totally forgot to put my alarm on, but I still woke up in time to do an hour of yoga, then go buy a newspaper and go to mass.

At one hotel we stayed at they had these boxes of .81oz of SpecialK Original cereal. Has something like 90 calories in it. I like them because I think I'll be able to leave them at the condo until we get here the next time. But...I wasn't able to get them in a food store. Yet, the WalMart down here sells something like 4 boxes. This isn't a multi-pack, it's just the SpecialK. I would prefer the SpecialK with protein, that was rated pretty highly by CSPI. However, guess I'll settle for the Original. What I've been doing is buying the bowls, but I feel that they're too much so I have half one day and half the next. Now I can have just one box. And...they sell organic strawberries here. Which reminds me...I'll probably buy more organic peaches.

Has anyone ever had a partial knee replacemtent? How'd it work out. Vince will most likely need one sometime in the future. The MD said that the partial knee replacements last longer than the full knee replacements. Don't know if that's true or not. I'd like feedback from anyone who has had one as to how long the recovery was, etc.

Glad I brought some yoga DVD's down here with me. Did one of them today. Tomorrow, there's this step cardio class at the Y here that I like so I'll take that. After that I do want to check out their Salvation Army store. I am looking for a shirt with cap sleeves with red in it. I tend to like lighter colors on my shirts since I'm so small on top. I also want to give them the pot from our old coffeemaker -- the one that had a leak in it. I threw out the coffeemaker but I've seen that pots like those are usually at the SA

Tried one of those Dove ice cream miniatures today. Dove is pretty filling. Interestingly...when I went to log it, at first MFP said the item wasn't in the database. I was all ready to add it to the database when it came back that there was a match like mine. Wonder why it didn't show up the first time?

Jeannie - that microwave steamer did come with a paper that gave you times for steaming the veggies. For the squash, I'm thinking that next time I'm going to try steaming them for less time than the directions tell you. Some of that might also be the wattage of the microwave. It's made by Handy Gourmet. It comes with two trays, one where you can put things like shrimp in and another one that can sit on top of it where you'd put your veggies in. For $7.99 it's quite handy and not real big.
I add that "true lemon" to my water, just gives it a bit of a "zing" with no artificial stuff.

Vince and I went to see the movie Super 8. It was pretty good. Of course, he liked it. Lots of things that blow up...lol But I found it interesting too. Wish it went into depth more about why the train was going thru the town and where it was headed. But I guess they like to leave some things open in case of a sequel.

I've been sitting out at the pool for a bit almost every day. Usually, I have this sleeveless thing that I put on over my bathingsuit. Today, for some reason, I didn't. I THOUGHT I'd gotten lotion all on my back, but I was wrong. Now I'm itching. Guess I'll just wear that from now on.

Deborah - I'm so glad you finally got a correct diagnosis. I remember fighting tooth and nail with my MD at the time because I wanted a bone density test. I just knew something wasn't right. She didn't want to do it because I "wasn't old enough". Finally, she ordered it. Honestly, I think she order it more to shut me up than anything else. But she was very surprised when the test came back that I had osteoporosis. I KNEW something was wrong, I didn't know what. So glad you got things worked out for you.

Welcome Cheryl and lee!

Jackie - sounds like you've been busy.

Guess I'll start another placemat (crochet). Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele

mimi - lately I've been getting comments from Vince about my eating since most places I always ask for my veggies not to have butter on them and I usually don't put butter or sour cream on my baked potato. Like tonight he commented that I had a "dry" dinner -- a grilled chicken breast, baked potato (no toppings), steamed veges (I asked that no butter be put on them) and just water to drink. He makes a point of the fact that I don't want things buttered because they usually put waaaaayyyy too much butter on the veges and I'd prefer to taste the vege. He compares that to his not liking spices on foods. But butter isn't a spice, so he's really comparing apples to oranges. Now to get him to understand that!

Michele

Good Morning My Friends:

Do you know what, I did try something different today, after my long drive in to work, I actually put on my sneakers and went for a half hour brisk walk before I went in to the office (I always am early to work anyway), so, I think that is what I am going to try, at least while the good weather is here. Thanks by the way for the suggestions. If I have to meet clients early, which I sometimes do, I will just HAVE to somehow work that walk in some other time through the day. I will see if getting that extra half hour brisk walk gets my weight moving in the right directon

Well, I do have to go. As I said my bosses are away and I am left in charge and I have closings to do and clients to meet so it will be a crazy few days and the deals I am working on have a multiitude of problems to be solved and I have no boss tohelp me :sad:

So, I hope everyone has a marvelous Monday and those that have been feeling poorly, that you start to feel better.

Love, Cathy xx

:flowerforyou: Hi Everyone,

I have not had the time to catch up on all the post. I've been away from this discussion for a few days. I am trying to get back on schedule.

I am changing my exercise goals for Jul. I started with the goal of cardio/core. I miss my Cathe strenght training and will return to those workouts. I've also decided to complete the Couch to 10K running plan. The program is 13 weeks and the goal is to run an hour at the end of the 13 weeks. I think the Couch to 10K is actually easier than the Couch to 5K; the 10K plan has more recovery time built into the interval run/walk. I don't know that this will do for weight loss, but I miss running and that is something I want to do and am willing to do so for the rest of my life.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful week.

DH's father was rushed into hospital last night. He has prostate cancer which has now spread to the bowel. They have sent him home today as there is basically nothing more to be done except keep him comfortable. There has been no timescale given, but things do not look good. Prayers are always welcome.


Love
Amanda x

Amanda, I'm so sorry to hear about your FIL and send my prayers for his care and recovery. Also prayers will be sent to the physicians and nursing staff as they try to do their best to help him.

Hugs,
Deborah :flowerforyou: