WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017

KarenVA- Olivia is beautiful! We had our twin granddaughters in the NICU for two months before they were able to go home. We also had similar dynamics as you with my husband's daughter. All is better now. Hormones played a big part in her behavior. (((Hugs and prayers)))

Stronglift Rest Day
Oops I didn't realize what day it was and I started to do the squats! I guess I just love lifting heavy!
Squat-1X5X 55/65/75/85

Kettlebell Swing
Morning workout
Goblet squats-3X5X 30
Russian kettle bell swing-25X7X 30

Move more sit less every hour ten minute challenge 5hr
Russian kettle bell swing-50×7×30

Evening work out
Goblet squats-3X5X 30
Russian kettle bell swing 25X7X 30

Keto 3 Week Challenge February 5th-25th
A lot of good recipes, questions, and support!

Calorie Goal
Definitely way below calories!



Mary from Minnesota

Tammy in Montana -- my best friend lives in Columbia Falls, and the camping trip will be late July... We camp near Glacier Park, in its Western border.

At the docs for 3 hours now with Corey. There were three fractures, not just one, and they're trying to get us in to see an orthopedic surgeon in Odessa today or tomorrow... Life is always interesting, no?

Where's my cheese? I know it was on my cracker last week...

Lisa in West Texas

Olivia is beautiful!

Lisa ~ So hoping your Corey can get the help he needs.

A quick hello
I am soaked to the bone and have to go back out in it, I hate snow... truly do, told Tom we need to go to Florida, we are both to old for this crap..
it is heavy wet blowing snow.. only good thing is I have over 12,000 steps.. just finishing a cup of tea and will suit up again and go back out to do the driveways again.. Tom leaving at 2 from work and it will probably take him at least an hour to get home.. we have blizzard conditions.
Lisa~ Hope Corey gets the right treatment and mends quickly.

Has anyone on here participated in any of the MFP challenges? I just signed up for the Biggest Loser Challenge that begins on Monday. Very curious how it will go, and what I'm in for! ha! thought maybe it would add some accountability to my life now that I'm re-committing!

Tammy in Montana

Allie so sorry about the snow. Glad you are pacing yourself. Been there. We are having more icy conditions this year then the heavy wet snow. Both are awful in there own way. I found when we had that kind of snow is where to you put it and and intersections can get bad too. Our city put poles on the fire hydrants and relies on the homeowner whose property it is to clear it. Safe travels for Tom and for you if you need to drive.

(((Karen)))

Margaret

KarenVA - I found the picture! sad, but she's beautiful and I wanted to see her!

canookie - I broke my tailbone at a 90° angle in, during cheerleading practice in PE. That summer I got pushed into the shallow end and broke it again. Both times I could not stand up. When I got pushed into the pool; thankfully, BF realized my head was under water and I was not getting up, so she came in and got me. All the lifeguards, including us, were horsing around. The tailbone break at cheerleading practice in PE, required my football coach and some of his players to slide a hard back chair under me; turn me back over and load me into the bed of a pick-up truck with all of them holding me so that I did not and could not move on the way to the small community hospital. Then went to Macon to the ER in a hearse. That was the ‘only’ form of emergency transport we had in town at the time. Thankfully, it had a 4” pad on the gurney. I’ll never understand a pad on a gurney in the back of a hearse; and, a hard board you are strapped to in an EMT bus. Sprung it during delivery of my 2 sons; and, I can tell it is going to either rain or get cold several days before it comes.

My sister’s 2nd child only weighed 3lb + ?? ounces. The only reason she was allowed to bring her home with her was because she was not a ‘first time mother’.

Marnie – The one this year in St. Simons, Ga is absolutely gorgeous; I watched a video on them remodeling it; they used a lot of ‘pecky cypress’ wood on a lot of the ceilings; our great room is paneled in the same wood. It is rare and very expensive. Ours is stained brownish; at times I wish we had gone with the gray. We have removed most of the stain on the outside of the house, also cypress, and letting it age to gray naturally. I’m not sure it will change under the porches however. Louis might have to try to get most of the stain out of the wood with a pressure washer with bleach and stain it gray to match.

patceoh – I have migraines as well; but, I cannot watch flashing lights or psychedelic patterns because they can ‘throw me into a seizure’. I get nauseous and smell strange odors that nobody else smells. I make sure I lay down because it generally means I am having an ‘aura’ and I must get still to try to get ahead of a seizure. When I have a migraine, I have to go to bed, after taking Max-Alt and 1 ½ muscle relaxants. Room has to be dark and cold (although I cover up). If I wake up with it, I usually have to go into town and get a shot that will knock me out and starts working about the time I get home. Within 30 minutes.

I used to use an Epipen to self-medicate; but, they are out of sight in price; so I take other Rx’d meds now. I was taken off the Epipen because once I shot myself more to the side of my thigh and into a blood vessel; and, went right to the floor. Supposed to give it straight down into your thigh. Could not move; but, finally was able to pull myself to the phone by the bed, pull it down off the night stand, and called my DOS to come put me back in the bed.

Heather – One of my HS classmates’ sons was oversea somewhere – maybe in China and had to have some sort of emergency surgery. They had to be paid before they would do it. His twin went and wiped out their account, one of the other workers wiped out his, they charged a lot of credit cards, and still had to come up with more money … my HS friend wired the rest; and, then went out there to be with him. He’s a MD, so as soon as he could travel he brought him home. When he went over there; his Dad and Mom got passports so if they had to go over their quickly; they already had passports.

Lanette – Swearing doesn’t both me unless someone uses God’s name in vain. I can tolerate the F-bomb; but, using God’s name in vain is a deadly sin and I don't want to be standing near them if they get 'zapped'. That reminds me of when my Mother and Daddy went to Russia on a tour. Daddy asked a Russian about something; and then did the “OK” sign which is America means, "I understand" - is putting your pointer finger and thumb together in a circle with all the other fingers straight. The tour guide ran over and explained to the Russian that Daddy did not mean anything about it and why. Daddy was just standing there looking at them – talking in Russian. Then the tour guide told my Daddy that ‘sign’ is about like the ‘single-digit-middle-finger salute' in other countries (bird finger, middle finger). My niece who is deaf said they would go to “Fuddruckers’s” and in sign language it is like shooting the finger; but holding your elbow down so you can’t move the arm (even though you are really trying to).

Karen in Virginia – Saying prayers and sending {{{{{HUGS}}}}} for Olivia and her Mother. Keep us posted. Was Olivia a preemie? I know that estrangement from a ‘child’ is very difficult. My DH has not heard word one from his daughter since his Mother passed away 10 years ago this April. Mainly because she got ‘greedy’ and did some things that bordered on Elder Abuse and Fraud; by taking things out of the estate that had been promised to others, and should have been left there so that the Probate of the Will could be done and things divided. We don’t have but about 5 pictures of my DH growing up (and his Mom took lots of them) and the only picture of his Mother that we have is one of her and his Dad and him shortly after he was born; and those taken at our wedding. It’s been hurtful because there is no reason for it; and, there is a grandchild involved. I would have loved to been a fly on the wall to hear what she had to say about our not being in their lives. I'm sure it has come up a lot especially around her mother. But, after 10 years, we are probably as much as ‘dead’ to her as she is to us. We could have taken her to court and made her put it all back into the estate; but, since she didn’t and since DH and DBnL were the Executors of her Will … it has never been through probate.

Olivia looks like a pretty big baby, not a preemie.

Karen – How is Reid doing?

Lisa and others – All this talking about cheese and crackers is making me hungry.

Michele – Love the pelicans. How big of a piece is this?

Tammy – it is not too far back up from the post where you are talking about missing the picture of Olivia – you’ll just have to ‘click’ on it for it to be big enough to see.

Carol – Have you tried ‘highlighting’ them and making them darker? Could have something to do with your settings. I know on my computer when I go to change colors, it gives me different shades of the same color. It might be from ‘how’ someone who sent it to you and how they have their settings. Glad you found a solution.

Lenora

Lenora - I found it! thank you.