WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017

Hi Barbie,

I just moved from Seattle to Fort Lauderdale. This is my second time on My Fitness Pal. There is hope. I lost 42 lbs. here 7 years ago and through the process adopted a vegetarian lifestyle. Three years ago, I took the plunge to Vegan. Starting a little bit later into May but my goals for this month are:

1. To lose 2 lbs. I've maintained most of my weight loss but want to lose 5 lbs. more.
2. To get back into a regular exercise program. Gym for weights 3 days per week and treadmill for 30 minutes per day 6 days per week. Trying to work my way back into the Younger Next Year exercise plan.
3. Control the potassium in my diet. I was recently diagnosed with a kidney issue.

Best of luck to everyone. We can do this!

Lanette ~ Would the curcumin help my knee pain? I sent you a friend request to ask.

i'm pooped

Peach1948 wrote: »

Lanette ~ Would the curcumin help my knee pain? I sent you a friend request to ask.

Carol, I think other gals in this group use curcumin for knee pain. I got the "big bang" stuff - Curamed by Terry Naturally which was the anti-inflammatory. Expensive but I was at the "acute" stage and now that I'm on the mend don't have to take much so hoping this bottle lasts me all year. It worked for me.

As far as using curcurmin for chronic conditions, I'm not there yet but it sounds like a good idea.

My knee is also relatively pain-free right now!

Lanette

Happy Birthday Yvonne!

Someone (I think Kim) mentioned that Bolthouse Yogurt dressing was good. I bought the ranch and it is delicious.

PIP ~ Why are you pooped?

Gloria – I remember ‘ratting’. Take a comb and back-comb your hair; then smooth it over and it gave your hair lift. I did not do it as much as my oldest sister who wore her long auburn hair in a “French Twist”, remember that; because she was a Senior and I was only in middle school? Oh yes, Betsy McCall and paper doll cutout and clothes. She’d stand up because you put a piece of cardboard notched in the middle at a 90°; she was made of cardboard; the cut-out clothes made of paper with tabs around it to hold it on to the doll. I’d make other dresses by taking the cut out and tracing around it on Christmas Paper and magazines, too.

I think to correct the saving of a picture, you’d need to pull it up wherever it is; and, then delete the .xxxx or whatever the ‘extension’ is; and then type in .jpg or jpeg and then save it again; you should be able to open it up in another app. At least, that is how I do it.

Dana – Did you ‘make’ the ring or ‘design’ the ring?

I only weigh on every other Tuesday at my MD’s office, with no shoes on and try to dress the same every time. They have special scales which breaks down fat%, water%, torso, each arm, and each leg % (of my weight), and BMI. I could not weigh myself daily, too frustrating. I’m really close to my goal and finding it harder and harder to keep the scale moving downward. Estee writes out what I can do differently on my printed out MFP ‘food and exercise’ sheets. She is so happy that I bring her this so she can actually ‘see’ what I am eating and how much exercise I am doing. Says that she wishes all of her patients did this. Some don’t do it and then ‘get mad at her because they keep gaining weight all the time. Says it is hard for her to tell them what to do differently when they can’t even remember what they have eaten. Or how much water they have consumed or how much they have exercised.

Have to take off shoes; and, I take off anything that is not necessary, like glasses, sweater, and something even jewelry. I get laughed at when I do this at every MDs’ office I go to.

We’ve had a woodpecker who has decided that he needs to peck at our house. The other day he flew against the living room window and perched on the metal bar across the center and when I turned to look at him, he flew off. I’m thinking that maybe he is looking to get a few ‘carpenter bees’ to eat. We have carpenter bees about 2, maybe 3 months during this time of year. Bug Man sprays the outside of the house trying to kill as many as he can that are up in their holes; and spraying the empty ones so they won’t go back to them.

Lanette – In a MD’s office, I always question everything! Because of the ‘transfer’ situation I went through with one MD I had been ‘assigned’ to after I had spent 3 weeks in the ICU with “Lithium Toxicity.” Finding out the MD I had been going to who was checking my Lithium level did NOT have ‘hospital privileges’ was a bit of a shock. But, after they moved me the ‘new’ MD upped my bipolar meds from 25mg 4x a day to 800mg twice a day. He said I would have NEVER gotten stable with the ‘low dosage’. He also told me how to get in touch with the State Composite Board of Medical Examiners to report this woman who had sent me there without a complete record, just 2 pages of a ‘discharge summary’ and incorrect medical dosages, too. When I was Lithium Toxic and the only way to get it out of my system FAST was to go through having my kidneys flushed, a procedure the ‘kidney’ MD had told Louis that I might not survive. Louis told him to do the procedure anyway. If I was going to die if I did not have it done, he knew I was a fighter and would have wanted it done. He also had gotten so upset that I was seizing 24/7 and nothing they gave me stopped them. I still have problems with short-term memory loss and that can be very frustrating; but, at least I have my childhood memories intact.

Becca – As a teenager I had a lot of hair on my legs (blond) and shaved under my airs; now that I have gone through the change; it is months between having to shave either legs or under arms; don’t have much hair anywhere; and on my head it is fine which makes it seem thin. Don’t have any hair on my arms at all.
You look like a very young bride.

I agree – that ‘tree’ would make a wonderful mural to paint.

Umbrella photo was neat!

You still have a rotary phone? How neat. Nothing better to make you FEEL better than being able to ‘slam the phone down in someone’s face’. Can’t do that on a portable phone. It would be nice if they would make an app that would ‘sound’ like it on a walk about or cell phone; to use when you really needed it. Now that I have been answering some calls as “Fire Department, where is your emergency?” or “Taco Bell” or “Papa John’s Pizza, how many I help you?” My junk calls have almost stopped on most days. My grandmother had a ‘really’ old rotary phone; but, at some point the phone company ‘made’ her turn it in and get a newer once, which was a lot lighter. Do you remember ‘princess phones’? I remember a friend in HS who got a pink one for her bedroom. We never had our own phones in our rooms; but, one in the hall that had a long enough cord that we could pull in into any of the bedrooms. Oldest sister and 2 of her BFs would take it into her room, open the transom and windows and smoke. But, they did not realize that by doing that they were forcing the smoke out into the hallway and the rest of the house. I also remember my Daddy whooping her; not because of the smoking; but, because she lied to him about it. Margaret (middle sister) and I were sitting under the dining room table watching it go down. I was the only one who never smoked. Mother did not smoke.

Katla – I shared my housekeeper with my boss’s wife; she’d have her one Friday, and I would have her the next Friday … she kept my boys in a straight line. As they got older, the tried their best to not come home before 5:00 (when she was supposed to get off). I’d come home and pay her and she would sit and talk, waiting on the boys. There were times when I would stay late at work, so I did not have to sit and talk to Rosa. But, she loved our boys so much. I told the boys the last time all were home; that she really wanted to see them and meet their wives and see their children; but, they couldn’t or wouldn’t make the time to go see her on the other side of Albany. Maybe next time, if it isn’t too late. But, she isn’t that much older than I am. Waymon would enjoy seeing us, too.

Sharon – HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

When my boys were young, hawks were in great supply in GA. One of the things they did to entertain themselves on trips was to ‘count’ them. Then we went through a period they were getting killed off; then, now they seem to be making a come-back.

Yvonne – HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, TOO!

Michele and Yvonne – My mother used to call presents and other things – "Lay overs to catch meddlers." We knew that it meant something ‘special’ was inside those packages.

"Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris states: "layover to catch meddlers" is a dialect variant of a very common answer used by adults to evade a direct answer to children's questions. Instead of saying to the child. 'It's none of your business', he would be told, 'It's layover to catch meddlers'. So what's a layover? You ask. A layover is a trap for bears or other unwary animals, made of a pit covered with boughs. And a meddler, of course, is a person who interferes in other people's business. The phrase was recorded in Eastern and Southern states as long ago as 1890. It also appears as larovers for meddlers, layos to catch meddlers and even as a single word, larofamedlers."

I also use the same phrase when I am asked a question I don’t want or need to answer.

Lenora

Yvonne- Happy Birthday! Have a great day Celebrating!



Mary from Minnesota

Sharon- Happy Birthday to you and your son! Have a fantastic time celebrating!



Mary from Minnesota

And this kitchen is just gorgeous!
Becca

becca those kitchen pics are dreamy! NYKAREN

Margaret- thanks! The ticks are really bad up here too. I heard that there's something that you can put on your clothes to keep them off. I'll have to look that up again. Too nice to stay inside though right!



Mary from Minnesota

Becc, is that your home? Gorgeous!

How I met my husband. I guess we could put our stories together and make quite a book. Well I flunked out of my spring semester class in nursing school, maternity, and decided I was not going to give up and took it again for the fall semester, or summer semester whichever they call it. So I finished up in November and started work the next week. The hospital I worked at had a first day general orientation day for all new employees. Well there was this nice looking guy that started the same day and was in that class with me. We didn't really say anything to each other, I was shy, but whenever I had to go down to the pharmacy for something, we did talk and kind of flirted. Well I February I saw him in the cafeteria and he didn't have a cashiers slip with him so I asked him what he was doing in line if he didn't eat anything. He said he was getting a package of gum. I told him I had a package upstairs and why didn't he come upstairs and get a piece. There was something that needed to be delivered to the pharmacy so I gave it to him and he said he would only take it if I gave him my phone number. We went out that night, he asked me out for the next night but I told him I had another date but our first kiss that night (yes, we did kiss on our first date and I'm glad we did) was so magical that I said I was going to tell the guy I didn't want to see him anymore. My Mom met him in March and told me that she could see we were deeply in love. He aksed me to marry him in April and we were married in September. So a whirlwind romance. Has it been a walk in the park????? No way but I do not regret it. This September we will have our 45th anniversary.

Well, off to choir practice. We are finishing up our special music for Mother's day where we have the children's, youth and adult choir all sing a special song together.

Joyce, sunny Indiana. Going to Lexington tomorrow to see my youngest grand daughter in her starring role as the Genie in Alladin Kids.

Sharon and Yvonne: Happy Birthday to you!

Margaret and Mary: Sadly, my friend can’t make the trip to MN in June. She is now looking towards August. So keep fingers crossed.

Allie: Holding good thoughts for you this Friday morning. I agree with your friend. You are NOT alone.

KarenNY: No drama is the way to go, isn’t it? Yay for maintenance.

Lisa: I’ve been with Girl Scouts over 20 years and am still learning.

Machka: What a gorgeous setting for a wedding. I love the joyful look on both your faces.

Cheri: You the hubs make a darling couple.

Becca: I love how you recall the details of how you felt in the early days of your relationship with DH. Took me right back to my early ‘crush’ on my DH.

Heather: As always, you’ll be the “hostess with the Mostess.” Hope the OCD lady does a great job in your house.

Vicki: I pray you are surrounded by many warm hugs and sweet memories as you face your first Mother’s Day without her.

Sue: Bravo for the good numbers, and finding a great mechanic. I’d call that a great week!

For second day in a row I’ve had a dull headache, scratchy throat and no energy. Skipped workouts, and today cut my day short at work. Allergies? Reaction to strong storms? Start of a bug? Don't know, but have decided it just needs to move out of my body so I can get back to routine. Have dropped 2.4 pounds since coming back from SFO. Yay!

You all stay well, okay? We can do this.

Rori
Colorado Foothills

May Resolutions:
Prelog breakfast and 2 snacks every day
Add 4 miles of walking to regular fitness routine
Duolingo daily (Italian)
Call one distant friend per week
Practice Reiki daily
Word for 2017: Attune