WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2017

I've been STARVING all afternoon today. Had various healthy snacks that didn't touch the sides! Just now had my dinner - a huge chilli! Luckily I only had it with roasted cauliflower. I'm docking 400 calories. Stuffed now!
Haven't been that hungry in ages.

I did have one unit of Campari ( 50 mls ) and soda. I have the set of measures from Amazon. Saves me just sloshing too much into the glass.

Been getting texts all day from my friend up in York as she completes on her brand new apartment. She is now in there, but she dinged her new car in the underground car park. Her sister is with her for moral support. I am excited for her. Big move from south to north at the age of 68.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

Machka – What country? Since you use terms in meters – figure it isn’t the USA.

Louise – You really shouldn’t refer to this as a ‘diet’ (most tend to set themselves up for failure by doing so); it is a ‘life-style change for the better way of eating healthy’. Tracking what you eat will give you an idea of ‘how’ you eat, and what changes you need to make. First talking to your MD or a Nutritionist to find out what # of calories taken it; and, how many # of calories to burn it off is always a good idea. MFP will give you a number; but, that might not be low enough unless you do a lot of exercise. My CI (from Nutritionist) is a lot lower than that set by MFP. But, I 2 handfuls of medications and vitamins and supplements to ‘kill a horse’. Most of the medications I take have ‘weight gain’ as a side effect; so it takes a lot lower CI; and a higher CO for me to lose weight and once I do, it still will … ergo ‘life-style change’. I haven’t given up the foods I like; but, I’ve changed the way they are prepared.

Chris in MA – Can’t wait until we have our ‘sisters’ weekend later on, probably in early Fall.

Rimmy – Great loss; and, I know how much it felt for me to get out of the ‘obese’ and now back down to ‘overweight’; 2 more points, maybe 20 more pounds I will be a ‘normal’ BMI.

Heather – Will brought us a quart jar of homemade dill pickles – I ate every single one of them, one a night. I told him that I hoped he could find someone that made them and could buy a couple of jars of them. Had the real dill weed in it. I used the juice on things that I like, tuna salad, egg salad, regular salads … nothing from that pickle jar was wasted.

I love fresh homegrown tomatoes; but, I cannot eat ketchup. I put mustard on my hashbrowns, fries, or anything that ketchup would be used.

Grandkids are precious. Bea is going to be able to ‘hold her own’ when the 2 older ones try to give her trouble.
I know when I lost my first pregnancy – It really made the ones that produced my 2 sons and they came out with no complications made me be a better mother to them. I did not want to ever lose another child; but, it was just as difficult when Louis’ daughter lost her first child when she was struck and killed by a ‘high’ teenager. Then we went through another loss when Sherry decided she no longer wanted us in her ‘life’. So out of 6 granddaughters, we’ve lost 2; both are hers.

Becca – YUMMY salad … I could eat it right now!

Tere in RVA – The man who grows enough tomatoes to supply the entire county and still sells a lot to local restaurants and 2 huge fig trees and he does not even charge us for the figs. I think the one on the front near the street has the best ones because they are smaller; but, we pick as many as we can (hopefully before the birds get to them).

Katla – My surgeon asked if I wanted to ‘keep my stones’. Not hardly! Glad for them to be ‘gone’ and did not want to have a reminder of the pain the caused. They looked like chunks of gravel (just not quite as rough).

Felicia – II think I am going to see if Mr. Vernon will let us take a couple of cutting off his tree; they root very easily. My boss’s Dad gave us 2 in pots; and, we planted them in our back yard in Albany; but, the lady would bought the house re-did the entire landscape of the yard.

Lenora

Heather your gallstones sound amazing. Almost like the star one sees if cutting an apple across the seed pods.



Mary from Minnesota

Today's lunch salad: fresh spinach, whole wheat penne pasta, 1 oz tuna, with poppyseed dressing! Tonight is some homemade lasagna. I am feeling so much better these days!
Becca

Awe get better Danaree!!

Oops Peaches!

Lenora and Katla - is there another Louise in this group? I have not referred to being on a diet.

June Accountability
Progress - Sunday, June 4th

1. Carbs 50-75g (limit 25g/meal)
(B8, L46, D18 = 72)
✔️2. Fiber 30g (35g)
✔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 12am
✔8. Zone work - 15 minutes daily
9. Monthly tasks bingo (24 tasks)
✔10. Art Challenge: Daily ICAD

• Carbs. Had a cup of Red beans and rice for lunch. High in carbs and fiber. So I went over my 25g limit. I'm okay with that once in a while.

• Challenge.. No go. I did not get up and out today. Just couldn't make myself. Got to bed earlier but woke up at 6am with twitchy legs. Drank some water and went back to bed - without my CPAP. Woke up late feeling groggy. I get twitchy legs on a rare occasion - once every couple of months. By "twitchy" I mean restless. I have an urge to move them to shake the feeling.

Thunderstorms this evening.
-- Ginger in Texas
Note to self: pp 1, 5, 8, 11, 12.