WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017
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had surgery thursday may 25. able to walk to the living room and back twice a day. should be up to 3 times but i'll take it. have first post surgery dr appt tomorrow. that's all for now folks.
mia in mi
slow and steady will get you there. After my surgery in September I could walk just like you described and using a walker. It got better every day. Best wishes to you. 
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Mia, glad you're doing ok!3
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Rhonda in TN: Welcome to a great group!
Rita: Are you taking Vitamin D3? I recommend it. One of its nicknames is "the sunshine vitamin." It really helps my mood during the long winters here and I take it year round, although I adjust my dose upward in the darker months. (((HUGS)))
Mia: I'm happy that your surgery is behind you. I hope the Dr. appt goes well. :flowerforyou:
We have an overcast day today and my mood seems to match it. I thought about going into the gym and trying out Tuesday Yoga, but I'm grumpy & have a bit of a headache so I decided to stay home.
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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Janet. I empathize with you on the frustration of closet eating or just plain sneaking food. Everyone has remedies on how to handle it, and I suppose all you can do is pick and choose a path that will get you thru the habit. I will say how proud I was that you expressed it to us. That alone speaks volumes of your character!
So, something that I have realized is that when I find myself thinking guilty thoughts, wishing to buy things and just inhale them in the car, it comes from a place of control. When I lack control, it is a non feeling, zoned out, numbness, that takes the word of control right out of the situation. Its effects are fleeting, and short lived. The after affects are self loathing, and guilt ridden.
So what to do? Like anything that achieves a loss of control within yourself, you have choices. Submit and throw in the towel, or stop and persevere. For me I learned that I am in the drivers seat of my own life. I control my actions. When I feel stressed I do have thoughts of self pity, and what helps me is writing down my stresses in a journal. When you put them down on paper you release the hold it had on your life. I have held onto some doozies when it comes to stresses, but I realize that all my energies cultivating that stress will have power over you. Soon you are just riding shotgun and not being the driver of your oiwn life!
I am not that same person that made decisions haphazardly. Each day is a victory and not a day to wallow in a sad disposition. So I remember and feel grateful I woke up. I woke up from living my life unfeeling, fuzzy numb. No passion in food, myself, or my life. The days of walking around my city, eating fast food meals, and buying sweet bags of garbage is over.
We are smart, intelligent ladies, with issues as most have. Its how we face them head on that is the difference. I feel powerful by being a part of you all.
Becca
Oregon4 -
Oops I forgot to hug ya all!
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Becca2 -
Oooh marinated pickled veggies!!!!
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After a particularly rainy night, with bouts of hail, I am feeling a sense of stately pride.
Becca3 -
Aww, Becca, you're last sentence says it all.
DrKatiebug - yes you are so right. I just told my husband that this morning, I can try to deceive him, myself, and everyone else but my body shows the deceit in every pound I'm lugging around.
In the worst of my food addiction and weighing just short of 300# I went to Over Eaters Anonymous. For the first time in my life I told others some of my stories such how I would drive thru fast food windows pretending to be on my cell phone and asking "who ever" (I was single) what they wanted me to order them because I didn't want the person to know all that food was for me. At other times when I was married, I'd buy a donut or candy bar or what ever at the store and eat it on the way home and get rid of the evidence before I got to the door. Not too long ago at Walmart I passed by the bakery and smelled baked goods and the same old stinkin' thinin' popped up no one will know. But I was able to stop and say oh yes you will be sick in the first place and your body will know. I went and bought a protein bar and still went home and told Jack I ate a protein bar on the way home lol
Heather, I bought the stickers and I love them. I've printed out calendar pages and put on stickers starting last week when I know for certain I was on point. I've shown it to Jack and told him I will be putting it on the fridge. I'm as excited about it as a child
Janetr OKC5 -
Mia - Glad the surgery is behind you. Take it slow and easy, one day at a time. So proud of you lady.
Janetr OKC0 -
mia sending and strength. Take it one step at a time. Don't be surprised if you feel a set back a few days from the surgery it is very typical. Take care
NYKAREN1 -
Leigh – those photos of your “back yard” are breathtaking. I could imagine Julie Andrews twirling around there singing “The Sound of Music”. This group has been so much fun – it’s a continual and enjoyable geography lesson. Thank you for sharing!
Lisa – so glad you and Corey are making the trip to Anchorage to see Pops and family. He is one very special person. That Time article is very interesting, I bookmarked it and want to re-read it.
Dana – enjoyed learning about your dad’s WWII experiences. My dad always said he was a desk jockey in Italy back then, but was transferred to the Aleutians toward the end of the war and never really talked much about it, I recall a photo of him holding an Arctic Fox kit and a picture of a dead Japanese soldier. It wasn’t until after he died that I saw a special on History Channel about the massive loss of American lives on Attu Island – there he was in the thick of it, and we kids never knew.
Penny - Sorry to hear your back is taking its time healing. The ship photos were something – I’m not a fan of heights either.
Heather – ouch on your aching muscle. It’s so aggravating getting aches and pains from doing “normal” things. Hopefully taking it easy for a day or two will fix you up just fine and you can go for a drive in that new car!
The cool weather is back. I haven’t had my morning walk for several days now but did get one this morning, managed to get in plenty of steps in the back yard planting and hauling dirt, amazingly I’m over 9000 steps so far.
Our cleaner came yesterday morning so I had the morning to head into town. Found a nice solid oak chair for the potting shed and a couple large 100% cotton “gardening shirts” on the men’s rack at a thrift store. Got the senior discount so the whole purchase was $4.30. Score!
Appreciate the comments and discussion about the secret eating and drinking. That’s me too, tho I’m not too secret about it – DH sees me consuming snacks and sometimes comments the “stash” is so much smaller that it was last time he checked it. If I can grab a small handful of nuts and tell myself if I'm still hungry later I'll get into the junk food, the feeling often passes. Almonds and walnuts are my best buddies.
By the way, yesterday we still had the grumpies at our house…I STRONGLY SUGGESTED to DH that he clean up office out in the shop, put his computer and/or a TV out there with the recliner and beer fridge and give me some time alone in the house to get things done instead of griping that I’m making too much noise cleaning out the dishwasher, running the washer/dryer, etc. when he's in front of the TV. I was NOT a happy camper and he knew it and I just about had that skillet in hand
That's the downside of retirement....too much time together and he never leaves the place! I manage to give him his space a few times a week when I head to town to do work or do volunteer activities.
So, this is for those of us who need time alone:
Later ladies!
Lanette SW WA State6 -
Lanette: I love the message that, "My alone time is sometimes for your safety." :bigsmile:
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon2 -
Katie I used to closet eat all the time. Now it is very rare. I am so glad those days are behind us. If I need to eat some crap from time to time, then I work it into my day. This gets rid of the concept of dieting and cheating; two words that for me don't belong in a healthy lifestyle.
Just made a lovely and colourful stir fry with marinated tofu. My DH will have it with rice, I will skip that and have some hot sauce on the side instead. There is a ginormous ugly bug on my window and I am hoping it leaves by the same door it came in
Did my workout early so I can just relax for the evening!
Take care everyone.
Sarah.3 -
Lanette: I love the message that, "My alone time is sometimes for your safety." :bigsmile:
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
Katla, that used to be my screensaver at work! I think we introverts find it particularly applicable, lol.
Enjoy that cool weather down there! This morning we had "Oregon mist" - it missed Oregon (did it?) and hit SW Washington.
Lanette
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Hello. Just joining in. I'm 56, married with three children -- 21 (not at home), 16, and 10. Yes. 10. Our surprise baby!
A few years ago, I was very active and fit -- triathlon and trail running -- then I started feeling very ill -- could barely get out of bed and walk down the stairs -- my joints and bones hurt. I remember complaining to my doctor about it, and he said, 'Oh, you're just running too much,' but it wasn't muscle hurt. It was bone hurt. I also had long term digestive issues that I didn't even think of as issues because I'd had them so long.
Long story, short, I had to give up almost all activity, I gained 30 pounds, and was eventually diagnosed with Celiac Disease. The digestive issues have cleared up with diet, but I'm sorry to say that the joint/bone pain seems to be here to stay. :-( I still struggle with being very active, although I hike and swim.
We recently moved, and had to live in temporary housing, so I gained another 10 pounds from eating crap.
Time to get my life under control! I'm down 20 from my high and still have 25 pounds to go.
Felicia
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drkatiebug wrote: »Re closet eating. I've been there done that, wore the 2x tee-shirt to prove it. One sentence from the TOPS pledge that always stood out for me, "even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see." And it's been probably fifteen years since I've been to TOPS.
I can remember just waiting for my DH to go somewhere so that I could hit the cabinets. He would sometimes comment on my excess snacking, which annoyed me to no end. The food boundary that works best for me is no unplanned snacking. None, nada, zilch. I don't always keep my boundaries, but I do have them and a plan in place if I break them.
Luckily drinking has never been my problem. I'd much rather eat my calories.
TOPS took that particular phrase out of their pledge! Ruffled too many feathers I guess..
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Felicia from the Willamette Valley: Welcome to a great group of supportive women! I grew up in Salem but haven't lived there since High School days. What part of the Willamette Valley are you from?
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon2 -
I spent 11 hours traveling home and I'm sick! Just slept all day.
Katla, Janet, Kelly: Thanks for the comments on my picture of my dad. Tell Jack that the men had to alternate spending the night on the deck. It was crowded and unpleasant experience down below. There were many floors. It was, after all, a cruise ship that was commissioned for troop transport.
Dana,
My picture today is Denver Intl. Airport. DIA, it was built like that to mimic the Rockies.
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My smile for the evening.
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