WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2017

Ps.. naming our RV "The CooCoo Nest"

Been out for a quick veggie shop. Otherwise quiet day.

Amazon delivered me some eardrops and an ear syringe. I researched it carefully, so I hope it is going to do the trick. I've been completely deaf in my right ear since swimming on holiday. Always had awful wax problems. So did both my parents, so I guess it's inherited. I will be so happy to hear again. Currently softening the wax with the oil and my ear is buzzing.

My group of schoolfriends want to meet up in April. I'm opting for a quick meet up in London. I don't have it in me for a long trip. Feel very unsettled with a potential move and no timetable. Also want to avoid the Easter holidays. In party pooper mood at the moment. Hope I will recover my mojo.

Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxx

Kate UK

RITA ~ Are you and your hubby planning on traveling around the country in your RV? Or, are you staying in one particular place? Maybe the post office could hold your mail and forward it to stops along the way.

Carol

Stronglift Workout A
Squats-1X5X 55/65/75/85, 5X5X 90
BP-1X5X 45/55/65, 5X5X 75
BR-1X5X 75

Kettlebell Swing
Goblet squats-3X5X 30
Russian kettle bell swing-10 X 10 X 30

40lbs loss by May 27 Challenge
Exercise daily and stay below calories!

Keto 3 Week Challenge February 5th-25th
We are over the halfway mark for this challenge! Congratulations everyone! Menu planning is still a little difficult but doable! I don't have a lot of time to cook too many new things!



Mary from Minnesota

Accountability Post Progress update of my Feb goals.
Tuesday's Results
✔1. Log/COMPLETE the entry daily.
2. No eating after 9pm.
3. Fiber 30g daily
4. Walk 30 active Fitbit min daily.
5. Declutter ✔️clothes, books, office supplies.
6. In bed by midnight.

Got no words.... Had an after-hours binge on cookies and ice cream. Don't understand why... I'll be in bed watching something on YouTube. And it calls to me from the kitchen. I feel so much better when it doesn't happen. Need to have a talk with my DH about stopping or limiting the junk he brings in this house "for my DM90".

Taking the reins now. Today IS a better day. I'm heading off to my dental hygienist/check-up appointment an hour drive away. (Good drive with my music.) Then back this way to my mammogram appointment. Think I'll do some walking at the hospital. Very pleasant there. Then home to finish up my chores. And try out the Bowflex. I tried it yesterday and realize there's going to be some time before I can do a 14 minute workout on it. It got my heart rate up pretty quickly in the 1-2 minute try out yesterday. I'll spend a little time getting to know the machine. Start logging my efforts in their app.

So - it's good I logged the binge and completed the entry. And it's good I talked about it here. And it's hood I'm posting my accountability post. Today is a better day. Tomorrow I'm posting all check-marks!

Have a great day folks!

-- Ginger in Texas

Ginger - I have found this thread so good for confessing my sins and also great for stating my intentions/promises. It really keeps me accountable, like an extra conscience! Good for you for fessing up.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

PS - I'm enjoying my "Dirty German" book my DH bought me as a Valentine's gift. :laugh:

Re – I don’t know if you have any insurance, or not; but, hospitals and MDs office will try to get as much as possible to cover those who don’t, even charging them more. Also true of someone with Medicare that is primary. If you came up with the deductible, quite often they try to get it first. IF you are on Social Security; and, if that is your only source to pay medical bills and if that entity accepts payment from them, they are ‘supposed’ to cover it as charged and write off the balance. It is amazing that a lot of people don’t know this; and, having one that accepts it is even rarer (unless you have been grandfathered in with them). It’s getting harder and harder to find MDs, especially, that will accept Medicare at all. When I need a specialist I get my referring MD to find out ‘if’ they accept it, because we could not pay it, if they don’t. I have secondary insurance and I still have to sign the form that says I will ‘pay the difference’ if Medicare and my BC/BS doesn’t pay it. Usually, it does get paid off, no problem. About the only thing that is not covered are ‘injections’ (like a vaccination). My weight-loss program is not covered, except for the first meeting with the Nutritionist. We just ‘sucked it up’ and are paying for it.

Because I have started adding real food, for at least one meal, I have a good bit of the ‘product’ so I only pay for the visit and an injection (not covered under that) myself; which is normally less than $50. I need to go by and pick up some 'vitamins' from them this week. I never 'think' about asking when I have gone 28 days; and the bottle only has 2 in it. Other than the bars, that I still eat with my evening coffee my cost to them is 45% of the total (weekly) if I had to buy all the product to last me 2-weeks. But, I have lost 40lbs and I am 10 -15lbs away from my goal. Gee, I would have been ‘pissed’ if the actually said, ‘too bad, so sad, don’t know who you talked to, that that was incorrect'. And, I thought the nurse I dealt with was 'flippant'. Whenever I call someone about anything that I might need to ‘dispute’; I ask their name and ID #. When I can rattle that off – usually they back down. Someone might get their heads ‘rocked and rolled’; but, I probably would have said, 'then I will pay it as much as I can until it is paid off, just bill me'.

That sounds like when the nurse from my Neurologist called yesterday with my ‘lab’ results; she almost gave the results of someone else’s results; then caught herself and said, ‘well I was multi-tasking and these are your results. Multi-freaking-tasking. I’m glad that I had gotten the results of the MRI and taken them to my GP and have an appointment with him about the results which I have ‘questions’ about and what the prognosis means. Believe me, when I go back to my Neurologist … I will tell him ‘what his nurse did’ when I HAD to call THEM about the results of my MRI. Not that he will do anything about it. Unfortunately there are only 2 in town; and, he is a replacement for the one I had been going to, whose partner was not taking her patients because she had too many herself. This man is only in the office 2 or 3 days a week. When he told me to come back, the receptionist gave me an appointment 8 months out (unless, of course, if I have another seizure). Which I hope to hell I don’t. The only EEG I have had was the first time I saw the Neurologist who did it back when I first started going. When I asked about the EEG, and ‘if’ I would have another – only if I have another seizure. Apparently, it will only show up them, if I am continuing having seizures that are much milder than one that would have brought me there in the first place. I don’t know; but, it would be a ‘bit better’ if I knew I had that going on. Maybe that would explain why some days I don’t feel or want to get out, or drive my car.

I woke up early this AM to have coffee that is ‘fresh’ with Louis, then went back to bed and slept until 10:30! Usually I only sleep to 8:15- or 9:30am. I must have had my sleep catch up with me because the last 3 nights I have not gone to bed until 1:30am.

I sent the Weight Chart to a friend of mine out of town. She said that she only weighed as much as a model (if that). She has lost a lot of weight due to ‘stress and purging her home’ daily. She is almost finished with that chore (only her grown daughter’s room and husband’s office). Then she is going to get ‘someone’ else to lay her kitchen floor down; she is tired of waiting for her DH to lay it down. Of course, in this case the “D” does not stand for ‘damn’.

Beth – I only weigh-in every other Tuesday, and ‘never’ on my scales at home; because they are not accurate, at all.

Karen – Holding that dear sweet Olivia had to feel good.

Michele – Now we know the ‘target’. I love using Cortana; mainly because I do not have to ‘exit’ out of what I am doing to find out what I want. I hate that I don’t have anyone to play Mexican Train with. Don’t think it is any fun without, at least 3 minimum playing. Got and question about the rules. I know each of us are supposed to play our own train as far as we can before starting the rotation. Do we only have 1 train line we can play on; or can any of us start a new train if we have a tile to play on it from the double in the middle? We were playing at the Women’s Retreat and a lady, who did NOT want to play with us, came in and watched a little and said, ‘you are supposed to only play one extra train. I could understand if there were 4 of us playing; because we’d only have one extra each to play; but, then if we had a train on it, that person who have to be able to play the next time the rotation came around (correct?). When a double is laid down, does any place able to open it, or does the one who laid it down have to do so (even ‘if’ they might be able to play on their own train and would have a train on that line because they could not play it any further. Also, if when you pull out your tiles and start laying them down; what does one do if they do not have a tile to play on? Keep drawing and run the risk of having 25 tiles before they play? We made up a ‘rule’ for that because we had it happen a couple of games. We decided that the person who had one for it to be started would give it to them and pick up a new tile to replace it; usually starting with the one to the right of us and going around the table that way until someone could do it; then, we’d continue to the left to play. We could not find anything online that answered those questions and my directions did not address it. They have to have picked 5 tiles without picking one to play. Thanks.

Barbie – In 5 years when I get my next one done, I will definitely ask about that clear prep; as drinking what they give you is not only ‘awful’; but, terribly draining. [no pun intended]

Yvonne – Our DYS brings it home from Louisiana … that and another kind that has a lot of rice in it. The biggest problem on one that he brings home is that it is packed with a lot more than we can eat. Don’t know if we can cook it and refreeze it, that way. Of course, some that he brings has been smoked, so it really does not have to be cooked first. My DOS tore up the machine I had to seal food; but, instead of buying a new seal; he went out and bought a ‘new’ machine for himself, and I still don’t have my old one back. I think I am going to ask if I can ‘use’ his. I really do not want to go out and have to buy a new one for us. Might have to because I griped so much about them ‘borrowing my vacuum cleaning, without asking, and then I’d have to go down there to get it when I needed it’. I think it was a present to my DDnL#1.
OOooo, having a Maine Coon cat … one of them families my DMnL used to ‘sit for’ had 3 of them. Damn big cats … and I thought that Tux is a big cat when he has his winter coat on.


Damn, it is already 2:00pm; where did my day go? Oh, right ... slept until 10:30am ... that does it.

Lenora

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Hello ladies -

Been getting in the water this week: 90 minutes yesterday with aerobics class and water jogging; today did 60 minute deep water workout. Sooooo good to get back to it.

Karen - glad you got to cuddle with Olivia!

Lisa - Prayers for Corey.

Meg - ditto for your hubby. Let us know how he is doing.

Rita - sounds like others are causing a little drama about your new adventure. It's your life and it sounds like you are really excited about it. Don't let them rain on your parade. Love the name for your RV!

Heather - maybe you can cook your way through the funk til your mojo returns. You are so creative! Girlfriend meetups are always nice.

Tomorrow is my monthly reunion breakfast with friends from my old YMCA. We meet at a restaurant. Looking forward to seeing them. One of the guys is a "snowbird" so he won't be back until April! He's one of my favorites, so I'll miss him. I usually just have coffee and visit. I am hoping to drop by to see my son and family afterwards because they live in the same area.

I have been forgetting to post my blood pressure and 2 hour blood sugar (telling y'all each day keeps me honest.). I am checking it daily. Have only missed one or the other 3 times. Last night they were BP 129/66 and BS 120.

TNToni

Hey Lovelies!

I don't know how it happened, but it seems that there are now 87 unread messages since I last checked in.

I send you all my love, kisses and hugs, but I am watching the episode of This is Us that I recorded on Tuesday night.

See you all tomorrow

YinxFed - I can't wait to watch "This is Us" ... I guess "Code Black" is finished for the season. Watch all the "Chicago" series and they will have a combined on this week. Looking for the new season to start, too; on all my favorite shows.

Lenora