WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2017

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,356 Member
    mmmm
  • trisH_7183
    trisH_7183 Posts: 1,486 Member
    I know nothing about being Gluten free,but DD sent this info.She is always afraid I'm doing a wonky diet! :)

    http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/health/article/2017/03/13/faddish-gluten-free-diet-may-be-raising-your-diabetes-risk
  • trisH_7183
    trisH_7183 Posts: 1,486 Member
    barbiecat wrote: »
    :)Lisa, congrats on your no smoking milestone. There are many who say that quitting smoking is harder than quitting alcohol or cocaine
    <3 Barbie in NW Washington

    Another reformed smoker here.My feeling is quitting cigs is easier than losing weight.You can toss the cigs,but not so easy in a food society like ours.How many of us could quit smoking if we needed to shop & bring them home? Not me,I'm sure.

    BTW....one (maybe the only) perk of getting older is having so many aches & pains......adding cigs is a no brainer >:)
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,252 Member
    :) Listening to all the snowstorm and power outages stories, I'm grateful that all I have is a light rain and darkness to deal with this morning.

    <3 Barbie from beautiful NW Washington
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    <3
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    Thinking about all of you who having to face winter storms...my heart goes out to you all. I don't think I could survive in cold, blizzard weather. Never shoveled snow in my life.

    Carol in GA
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,293 Member
    Allie we had snow too yesterday, but nothing like you. Drove my new car to a funeral 45 miles away in the weather. It handled well. The scares I had was getting on the freeways. Once someone cut me off, but my blind spot warning light saved me. The other was when someone could not let me in. The ramps were snow packed so I couldn't slow down to get into the flow of traffic. My side vision saved me on that one. I was able to ease back and I did get in. Another friend who left the funeral later said she had to white knuckle her way home and it took her two hours. I went with another friend and we only stayed through the visitation and the first couple of songs. The distance to the funeral and weather were the reasons we didn't stay.

    Alle take many breaks as you dig your way out. We have had those kind of snows and they are awful to clear.

    :heart: Margaret
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,356 Member
    Nnnn
  • lhannon062709
    lhannon062709 Posts: 1,140 Member
    Rita, congrats on getting the RV! You're doing so well, look forward to the pics.

    Lisa in West Texas
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    edited March 2017
    Leigh in France: I think dill would be a lovely seasoning to add to dips for chicken. Do you think it would be nice added directly to the chicken? I avoid dips when possible because I'm too tempted by them to keep my consumption moderate. :embarassed:

    Heather: You and I have another thing in common, a distaste of being anywhere in the vicinity of cigarette smoking. My parents were both chain smokers. As a child, my clothes stank, our house stank, and they both smoked in the car while we drove anywhere. I was always car sick & had chronic bronchitis in the fall and winter. When I moved out & went to college, I never lived with smoking again. YAY!!! I wouldn't let anyone smoke in my house & my parents thought I was doing it just to them. In recent years laws have been passed to keep people from smoking in restaurants, bars & taverns here in Oregon. Yay! This is true in some other states, too but I don't know how many. :bigsmile:

    Patceoh: I enjoyed your article. DH went gluten free for a while. He is not a celiac. Eliminating gluten didn't help his health and added calories to otherwise healthy foods. We returned to using flour in our cooking. :star:

    Barbie: I agree with you about feeling blessed to deal with only winter darkness and rain. Snow is nice once in a while, but we've had a good portion of it already this year. One problem we have when it snows is that so many people don't know how to drive in snow. I can drive just fine due to four-wheel drive, but don't really seem to be competent at walking in snowy conditions. :embarassed: I fell on black ice once several years ago and broke a wrist, and then did it to the other wrist a few years later when the black ice was hidden under a layer of snow. :ohwell:

    Lisa: Give Corey my best regarding PT. My husband has been through a couple of rounds of it due to MS, and it has always been worth the time and discomfort. :flowerforyou:

    Rita: I'm glad you found an RV that will suit your needs. YAY! There is one less thing to worry about. :smiley:


    Yoga today--I hope. We've had some conflicts for our teachers lately and missing yoga is not a best-case scenario for me. I enjoy the classes themselves and definitely enjoy my improved strength and flexibility.


    "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Kate UK <3
  • Charleen2
    Charleen2 Posts: 223 Member
    Looking at the news and weather predictions it looks like the Nor'Easter is going to be a doosy. Been though my share of them while living on the East Coast. Stay warm, stay dry and save the batteries in your emergency lanterns for the evening.

    Charleen in Colorado (Secretly wishing we were getting the snow!)
  • Peach1948
    Peach1948 Posts: 2,473 Member
    edited March 2017
    Karen ~ You look great at your "normal" weight but I am sure you look great when not as you have a good heart and are a generous caring person.

    Olivia and Katie are beautiful!

    Had a huge salad with eggs, ham, cheese, bacon, tomatoes and lettuce. Way too many calories for lunch but only 10 carbs. For me, cutting out the carbs and upping the protein seems to be working. I don't get as hungry as I do when just doing CICO. I actually end up not taking as many calories in. My only fear is that this way of eating won't last. I have decided to have one day a week where I eat more carbs than usual and hope that helps me to stay on my new program.
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,788 Member
    edited March 2017
    Karen - Another beautiful pic. <3
    It is so great that you managed to dump some of those shifts. :flowerforyou: We often have more choices than we think we do. My own mother was a "martyr" and I have been allergic to martyrs ever since. :laugh: Don't moan about it, change it!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrr! Too many people have a "Yes, but ........." mentality.
    I know you feel it is a long haul at the moment, but every little "win" will give you fuel for the next one. It is self fuelling. :D I well remember the day I suddenly thought about myself, "I am the kind of person who keeps my commitments to myself." Believe me, this was a real surprise to me as I used to be the most chaotic and procrastinating of people. I always just squeezed by and winged it and often let myself down. It wasn't until I had lost the weight, developed a good exercise habit and edited and published my book that I realised I was actually proud of myself and didn't have to apologise for feeling proud. I really was that person. I am that person. (Most of the time :laugh: )
    Good habits are vital in this process. As Barbie says, "Strategy is stronger than willpower." :D I have zilch willpower, but I do have good strategies. :D

    By the way, you have a lovely smile. <3

    Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,788 Member
    Karen - <3 Go you!

    Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,072 Member
    :)
  • grogers511
    grogers511 Posts: 477 Member
    Accountability Post
    March Goals
    Sunday's Progress
    ✔1. Carbs 50-75g (limit 25g/meal)
    (B6, L11, D9, AS25 = 51g)
    ✔2. Fiber 30g
    ✔3. Track/complete entry daily
    ✔4. Vegetables - big salad daily
    5. Exercise - log 30 Fitbit minutes.
    ✔6. No eating after 9pm.
    ✔7. In bed by midnight.
    8. Declutter: ✔Office Supplies, Electronics, Music, Craft Supplies, Cleaning Supplies, Utility Drawer, Utility Closet

    Today is my official weekly weigh-in. I lost 3 pounds last week. I'm encouraged! I feel the breeze. My sails are filling...

    SW 290
    CW 285.4

    **Ginger in Texas
  • drkatiebug
    drkatiebug Posts: 1,980 Member
    My Fitbit is going crazy! It says that I have walked over 16,000 steps today and have earned 2300 exercise calories! First of all, I have walked nowhere near that much and even if I had, the calories shouldn't be that high. The only thing I can figure is that I hit 10,000 steps yesterday right at midnight. I'm wondering if it just didn't restart. It gave me credit for them yesterday, too. I don't know!

    The time change has thrown my body for a loop or else I'm getting sick. In my recliner in front of the fire with a lap blanket. A nap is in my very near future.
  • Annr
    Annr Posts: 2,765 Member
  • ydailey
    ydailey Posts: 516 Member
    Hello all -

    Had a busy weekend so I'm skimming through a LOT of messages today!

    Becca - Your hair looks great! I had another online friend who was doing the "curly girl" no-shampoo routine, and she was really happy with it too. She and her daughter had very tight, almost kinky hair.

    Michele - I've got "Hidden Figures" on hold at the library. Isn't it a shame how many women are never recognized for their significant contributions to STEM fields?

    Chris - Sounds like a very nice first date!

    Kelly - You and me both. We have one non-stick skillet, and I don't need a rice cooker taking up space when I can use a regular saucepan. I don't have a lot of storage space in the kitchen so I try to limit the uni-tasking gadgets although I do have a bread machine that gets a regular workout.


    Well, the Texas legislature has a bill up this year to kill daylight saving time starting this fall. That's OK with me... much as I enjoy the extra hour of sleep in the fall, it's not worth the pain and suffering of "springing forward." It'd be great to see our lege do something useful for a change.

    The spring weather has me all inspired to be outdoors. I took down the makeshift greenhouse and planted a new antique rose bush this weekend, and ordered a dwarf pomegranate tree. Looks like my ponderosa lemon is not going to come back, but the persimmon tree made it through the winter OK. Next year I'd like to put in a fig tree. We had a nice long rain Saturday that should make everything happy. Wildflowers and dandelions are already blooming.

    -Yvonne in TX
  • miakoda40
    miakoda40 Posts: 467 Member
    Hi!!!!!!

    Lost power for 4 hours on Wednesday. We were among the fortunate ones as some folks around us lost power for 4 or even 5 days. Woke up Thursday morning to no internet or phone. Finally they came back on today just as DH and I were leaving the house at 1pm for lunch.

    I took off for Indianapolis this weekend. Had a great deal of fun seeing old friends whom I haven't seen in years as well as meeting some new people. So for 2 1/2 days I didn't really miss having the internet but I sure was annoyed when I came home last night and it was still out.

    Very happy to be able to check in and get back to communicating with my internet friends.

    Hugs to all,

    Mia in MI
  • annieoldie
    annieoldie Posts: 10 Member
    Antibiotics for pneumonia now finished. I am taking it slowly but getting better. Now up to over 9000 steps (but just fell asleep for an hour this evening). This afternoon I walked around the block ( it is spring in UK, buds out, birds singing) but just walking takes my pulse rate to over 100. It is going to take time for my lungs to recover. I am also suffering from grandchildren deprivation syndrome as I usually see at least one set of grandchildren each week. It is now 3 weeks since I have seen any of them. I do not feel strong enough to drive to see them yet. I face time them each day but it is not the same. Interestingly my weight has levelled off
  • loseweightbb
    loseweightbb Posts: 36 Member
    Sarah: Thanks. Now if I can just get rid of the rest of the inner tube from that tire that's hanging around my waist. :#

    Waiting for the copier to finish with the notes/practice packet I'm making for this Thurs. lesson, so thought I'd pop on the computer nearby & read some posts. Planned on going to the Y to swim after work today, but think I'll just go home instead. Really dragging today & still here at school at 5:00, so not looking like it's gonna happen. Didn't get to bed early enough last night & had to get up at what was essentially 4 am. The few times I sat down today, felt like I could fall asleep right there in the classroom. Would never fall asleep that easily, though, but sure was wishing for a nap. :(

    Copier's done, so time to get outta here. Have a good night everyone.

    -- Becky (NY)
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