WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2017
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Stronglift Rest Day
Kettlebell Swing
Goblet squats-6X5X 35
Russian kettle bell swing-13X7X 35
40lbs loss by May 27 Challenge
Buns, Guns and Abs challenge.
20 squats
8 push-ups
30 leg lifts
April move your @$$ Challenge
It feels like winter again! I am going to take 2-2 mile walks today. Just getting ready to go on my first walk!
Mary from Minnesota2 -
Happy Hump Day Ladies!
Lisa, I'm doing the happy dance for you - your new job sounds great. I'm sure your new employer is doing the happy dance as well since they were able to hire YOU for that position!
Barbie, sorry that Jake is still under the weather but good that he's made another appointment. Shen Yun looks marvelous.
Heather, we've seen Death in Paradise. Finished up the new Midsomer Mysteries....and now on to Father Brown! Since there are a zillion Midsomer Mysteries, we'll start over one of these days. Seeing the scenery is half the enjoyment of watching them. Has anyone seen the Agatha Raisin series and if so, how do you like it? Loved the books.
Kate in UK - when will you be able to start exercising again?
Becca, you are the queen of grocery shopping. Sounds like you did very well!! Have you ever tried putting white beans in tomato sauce? I used to make a "Tuscan Tomato-White Bean" soup...using left over spaghetti sauce. Sometimes I'd whir them all together with the blender and sometimes not. Sounds strange but I really liked it.
Ginger - your planning and lists are quite impressive! I remember when I was still working, I had to have lists to keep me on track and planning out eating/exercise was something I enjoyed, and it worked, darn it. Now that I'm retired seems I've become too relaxed in some areas. Thanks for the reminder.
Sarah - hope you don't get the flooding. Love the idea of making a list of things to do to relieve stress other than eating! Sometimes putting things down on paper helps them stick in my head.
Welcome Newbies! Bev from California! Susie on 800 calories a day -- have you done this before and if so has it worked OK for you? Kfisch340 sounds like you are doing well! Pam, all those steps are very impressive, way to go!
Anita, good luck with the MRI, let us know how it comes out. 1snowlady, you are also a step queen! Good deal! Lora from Wisconsin-thanks for your story! And others I've missed!!
A reminder to please give us a name you like to go by and a location-general is OK each time you post if you're not already doing that.
Thanks everyone who popped in on the parent discussion, both good and bad. Childhood experiences have helped make us who we are today....and here we have come together from all kinds of backgrounds.(((hugs)))
Thanks for the comments about my greenhouse/back yard. All due to DH’s hard work and scrounging ability. We bought the greenhouse frame for cheap and covered it with construction plastic. The lumber for the raised beds – basically bought for pennies on the dollar. Even the dirt he made – years of composted lawn clippings. Potting shed, mostly scrounge and sweat. This has been good therapy for him keeping up activity despite his painful joints from RA. Yesterday we finished patching the plastic with Gorilla tape – I swear I have no fingerprints left, that stuff is super sticky. We also covered it with a shade cloth – kind of an open netting to cut down sunlight inside – otherwise it cooks even with windows and doors open. Moved 3 dozen little tomato plants out there which had been living under grow lights in the house. Going to be cool and rainy over the next few days, but they should do fine.
Hey walkers-runners, anyone ever get a stone bruise? I had one last year between the big toe and foot joint which didn't resolve so got a cortisone shot which did the trick, but still often have pain on the bottom of my foot and hurts to go barefoot on the linoleum. Always switching walking shoes around because of the pain. Use padded socks a lot since I my walking shoes are way beyond the "best by" date, and that helps. Got to actually walk around barefoot in the lawn a couple days ago - grass is lush and soft. It was wonderful.
OK Supermodels, I'd better scoot. Big day ahead.
Lanette
Rainy SW WA State
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Did ya hear me celebrating from the rooftops! I've reached a new low weight this morning of 179.2 lbs! I feel that the strength training work, the dietary adjustments and mental clarity has all come together. In the past I worked on one or another but never partnered together. Also, I've obliterated the all-or-nothing attitude. Ya mess up-it's called life-it's a journey with hills and valleys and if you're consistent in the end the results will show your efforts!
A huge part of my journey has been y'all! I think of this place and all of you ladies throughout my day. You are in my heart and on my shoulder as I go along. I may not respond individually to all of you but please know how important your stories are to me and your losses, goals, ideas, recommendations, sorrows and well everything is not far from my consciousness. Love ya!
Stay the course ladies.
Cheri
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Cheri - you rock!!! Glad it's coming together for you! Lots of celebrating!!!
Lanette
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Lisa- congratulations on your new position! You definitely deserve it!
Cheri- I thought I heard some screaming going on somewhere! So happy for you and your loss! It is nice when everything is working together and you find what works best for you!
Mary from Minnesota2 -
Hi everyone ~
Happy to have found this group! I am embarking on a weight loss journey to lose 100 lbs. Yikes - how did I get here? Anyway - not to mess around in the past - it is a new day!
April Goals
[*] Post in Fitness Pal food diary every day
[*] Beef up my vegetable intake
[*] Restrict breads in my diet
[*] I am hosting Easter dinner - develop and execute a plan for a clean house, a healthy menu and a relaxing day5 -
LISA - great news about the job
LANETTE - advice seemed a bit weird nurse said no gym for 4 weeks but the booklet they give you says gym - do 50% and less reps They said walking is ok so have been taking a walk each day. I have started to do Leslie Sansone with hand weights but taking it a bit easier. So far so good, I think the bad things are lifting heavy weights and anything which involves bending down for long periods
Anything which interrupts my routine throws me off track so food not so good that's why I need to get back to normal and the exercise is part of that
BOOKWORMS - not sure if I've already mentioned this but have just read 2 books on Kindle by American author Helen Bryan War Brides and The Sisterhood wonderful couldn't put them down and only 99p on Amazon. Want more but the others are more expensive but my kids alway give me Amazon vouchers for birthdays etc and birthday next month so I will get more
Kate UK3 -
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Accountability Post
Tuesday's Progress (4/4)
✔1. Carbs 50-75g (limit 25g/meal)
(B21, L0, D20, MS6, AS20, BBS24=65)
✔2. Fiber 30g (32g)
✔3. Track/complete entry daily
✔4. Vegetables - big salad daily
✔5. Exercise - log 30 Fitbit minutes, 2 miles, 5000 steps. And the elliptical 5 days a week. (Tues)
✔6. No eating after 9pm.
✔7. In bed by midnight.
✔8. Declutter: Electronics, Craft Supplies, Pantry, ✔Fridge, Cooking and Baking, Dishes and Serving, ✔Linen Closet, Laundry Closet, ✔Medicine Cabinets, ✔Personal Care.
✔9. Digital Detox. Track daily timeouts.
• Declutter - Personal Care today. Products and equipment for: hair, face, teeth, skin/body and nails. All make-up goes in a single make-up bag, nail care in its own bag. Tossed out a few lotions.
• Exercise. Got my 2 miles, 5000 steps, 30 minutes. I ran some errands today and parked farther away... walked up and down the aisles. But... apparently none of it was sustained for a 10 minute minimum period to count toward my active minutes. That's okay. I'd rather get those minutes with intentional exercise where I get my heart rate up and keep it up. But I really must work on doing it earlier in the day.
I did the BowFlex Max Trainer elliptical for a minute or two. Geez! It's hard. I really need to work on it. I have the app. I'll have to look up my stats and start a plan for improving on it.
• Digital Detox. Not feeling near as anxious without my iPhone and iPad at hand 24/7. Fell asleep with an episode of Dateline.
Have a great day. I'm off to get a hole lasered into my left iris (Iridotomy).
-- Ginger in Texas
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Cheri - HOORAY for you !!!! So exciting
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Piranascusine: Welcome to a great group! I don't know how much you have to lose, but I had quite a bit. On the way down I bought a few clothes. Bras had to be replaced when "the girls" got smaller. I spend most of my life in jeans, and I bought a couple of pairs on the way down. I went from US size 18 to 8 over about a year and a half. Many people go to thrift shops for the transition clothes. With regard to food, are you talking 800 calories per meal or per day? On a long-term basis it is way too low per day for good health. Regarding food, I have sensitivities and allergies to some things. I gained weight because I was eating too much healthy food so my strategy was portion control. I weighed or measured everything. I still weigh & measure but not quite as rigorously because I've learned what a suitable portion sizes look like. Good luck.
Barbie: (((HUGS))) for Jake. I'm so sorry he is having such a tough time getting over this virus. :sad:
Lisa: Congratulations on the new job!
Cheri in TX: Congratulations on the loss! :bigsmile:
Tricia5715: Welcome to a great group. :flowerforyou:
I'm looking forward to yoga today. River levels are still high, but they are slowly falling. I see more of the bank today than I did yesterday. Our house has not been in danger during this flooding time on the Columbia River, but the water got high enough to keep us watchful. We discussed worst-case scenarios and decided what to save and what to sacrifice if it came to that. Luckily it is not something that has required action.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James
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Hooray Cheri!
This day is shot because it's tax time in Norway. On the other hand, I've finished nearly all of the work in just a few hours! All that remains is to look up my meagre bank balances in Sweden, convert them according to the proper exchange rate and fill in the numbers.
The weather was gosh-awful, cold, snowy, and extremely windy. Thus no jogging today. Heck, I chickened out of taking the garbage to our neighborhood trash container, even though it only would have involved walking about 200 meters. I'm waiting for a lull.
A couple days ago I borrowed a book called "Letters from the Arctic" (in Swedish) for a project I'm working on. It's a collection of letters and diaries written mainly by 19th century trappers in Svalbard. Most of the chapters ended with a description of how many years went by before the corpses were found. :noway: And here I am, comfortable in a warm house with an adequate supply of scurvy-preventing fresh vegetables in my fridge. Yeah, I'm a total wimp.
Progress on goals for April:
500 g veggies on 15 days (ø ø ø o o o o o o o o o o o o)
Jog a total of 100 km (3.7/100: o o o o o o o o o o)
Be lighter at the end of the month
/Penny, staying indoors at the North Pole2 -
yeah for Cheri You are rockin' it.
Hooray for Lisa Congrats on the new job.
NYKAREN1 -
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Lisa, Cheri - :drinker: :drinker:
Today was our postponed date day. Started the day off on the right track. :blushing: Then, after exercising went off to Selborne, to Gilbert White's house and garden. He wrote "The Natural History of Selborne" , in 1789, a very famous book that is still in print. They have the original manuscript and one or two of the rooms are pretty original, including his bedroom where he had a cupboard over the fireplace where he kept his wine warm. As he made his own and doctored it with brandy, I should think a bit of warming was all to the good!
We looked round the house and also visited the part that is dedicated to Captain Oates, a national hero in the UK. He is famous for being on Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition and nobly killing himself to help save the others. He famously said, "I'm just going outside and may be some time." None of the expedition survived in the end. You will sometimes hear British people quoting him in jest when they have to leave a room for any reason.
Then we had a light lunch in a local pub. After lunch we went back to tour the large garden which backs onto a wooded steep, long hill, called the Hangar. Gilbert White created an access path to it called the "ZigZag walk" which is still in existence. It really is zigzag.
After that we went to the tea room in the house and had a pot of tea for two and one portion of chocolate cake. I had a fork full. Docked myself 600 calories for the expedition, but have an added bank for walking.
Came back snd napped on the sofa for 35 minutes.
Michele - I have tried very hard not to be like my mother. I had to learn lots of social graces from scratch from watching other people. She would just talk at people without listening. I have a tendency to do that and have to stop myself. My dread is to be like my mother! Having said that, she was a good mother when I was young and encouraged me to believe in myself and be ambitious. She was quite vivacious and loved the theatre and film. She was always in amateur dramatics. I have a lot to be grateful for to her. I learnt to really love her when she was old and frail because she had a lot of guts.
My DOS texted me this morning asking if he could borrow money to stop his Internet being cut off and to pay for the criminal background search that has to be done for his proposed job as classroom assistant. I, of course, said yes. Got it transferred immediately. I said I didn't want it back. He rarely asks me for anything and I hate all the expectation that goes with lending. He texted me a hand drawn heart with his name in it. Aaaaaahhhhh. Glad I could help my unemployed son who is coming out of severe depression and anxiety.
Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxxxxx
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Congrats Lisa!0
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Cheri Way to Go!
In a Kindergarten class today. Love the reminder take a breath and do your best!0
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