WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2017

josephinebowman wrote: »

Good morning-a bit rainy here in Virginia. Can not complain about this week-of course, maybe later today I could have some disaster. Read through our new month and glad to see everyone is kicking it forward. Big plans-grocery shopping, eat leftovers, and go to Y. I read that weight loss is most effective if you combine watching calories, cardio, and strength training. Ugh. I guess I will be adding strength training. Would 1 hour a week be enough?

You and me both, Josephine. I am reading yet another book about strength training, because as I told my teenager last night, "I'm going to go read about strength training because the longer I continue to read about strength training, the more I procrastinate doing it!" He just rolled his eyes.

I know I need to do it but I really, really, really don't want to do it. Once I finish this strength training book I'm reading . . .

My Goals for September

I joined the running challenge! So my first goal is to log 40 miles.

1) Run 40 miles
2) Real strength training twice a week
3) Display grace and patience with my DH (He is exasperating me lately!)

Much love to all of you. Welcome to the newbies. I still feel like a newbie myself, but I have been around for a few months now. I appreciate all of you, even if I don't always acknowledge it.

Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon

OregonMother wrote: »

josephinebowman wrote: »

Good morning-a bit rainy here in Virginia. Can not complain about this week-of course, maybe later today I could have some disaster. Read through our new month and glad to see everyone is kicking it forward. Big plans-grocery shopping, eat leftovers, and go to Y. I read that weight loss is most effective if you combine watching calories, cardio, and strength training. Ugh. I guess I will be adding strength training. Would 1 hour a week be enough?

You and me both, Josephine. I am reading yet another book about strength training, because as I told my teenager last night, "I'm going to go read about strength training because the longer I continue to read about strength training, the more I procrastinate doing it!" He just rolled his eyes.

I know I need to do it but I really, really, really don't want to do it. Once I finish this strength training book I'm reading . . .

My Goals for September

I joined the running challenge! So my first goal is to log 40 miles.

1) Run 40 miles
2) Real strength training twice a week
3) Display grace and patience with my DH (He is exasperating me lately!)

Much love to all of you. Welcome to the newbies. I still feel like a newbie myself, but I have been around for a few months now. I appreciate all of you, even if I don't always acknowledge it.

Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon

Felicia - have you read "Strong Women Stay Young?" That's what kick started me into the strength training. Now I'm hooked, look forward to it. Thankfully DH is very supportive and babysits the puppy while I go out to my weight room - formerly potting shed. I think it would be very hard to try to do it in the house with the dogs and interruptions/distractions. Good luck!

Lanette

Evening ladies~
im home, and mostly packed, have the deviled eggs done, still in my scrubs from work..
just trying to get everything together to leave early am tomorrow,So glad to be spending some together time with people I love most, hoping it will be better than last years fiasco. will check in with you over the weekend

In case anyone is interested I make wraps with the med size tortillas, hummus, mini pepper slices, avocado slices and spinach. They are delicious and nutritious. About 300 calories.

Sue we had a pool in CA which is now almost 60 years old - as far as I know it's still in great shape. But then they didn't put tiles in the bottom. I don't get the purpose of tiles in the bottom of a pool.

The Y has a set of circuit machines that I do my strength training on - abs, arms, chest, back, bootski, legs. I also read the book Strong Women Stay Young. You don't have to use heavy barbells or lift like an Olympic champion. The more muscle you retain or gain the more fat you burn.

Off to run to the store to get a few things for tomorrow. Back later

Glo

Yvonne, I've been wondering and worrying about you. So very glad to see you back.

Janetr okc

KetoneKaren wrote: »

Thank you Barbie for the September thread!

I took the kids to a Toys from the 50's 60's and 70's exhibit at the Va Historical Society Museum today:



Karen in Virginia

Is that Chatty Cathy??? I had a doll that looked almost exactly like that except, I think, she had darker hair.

What a fun trip!

Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon

Chris in MA: I hope the perfect job turns up soon. :flowerforyou: I love the photos. You look great.

Felicia: Strength training includes more than just weight lifting. Mary and others like Kettlebells, but I discovered my form was so poor that I tended to hurt myself. I mainly focus on yoga and the weight I lift is my own body. The athletic club I go to has free weights in a weight room, and they also have weight machines. I like the machines better because I don't get into sloppy form and hurt myself. The weights I lift in everyday life are items in house cleaning and saddling Arrow. Sometimes I use the machines at the gym. I'm more fit now than ever before in my life. I hope you'll find what works best for you.


Today has been lovely. I had a great yoga class from my favorite teacher, and spent a nice hour with Arrow at the stable. I didn't ride today because of the heat. I got him out of his stall and jogged and walked with him for while, then gave him a treat and put him back in the stall. I plan to ride tomorrow--early enough to beat the heat.

I've been reading a biography of George Washington. This is relatively new and filled with lots of information and details I didn't know about in the past. I'm enjoying it, but I read a bit of the biography then read a romance, then go back to Washington's biography. :embarassed: :bigsmile:

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

"Normally I'm quite normal . . ." The Gods Must be Crazy

Chris – So sorry you didn’t get the job. Hope you find an even better one soon!

Janetr – Thanks for the thoughts! I’ve been OK, but work was overwhelming for awhile there and it was all I could do to just stay on top of it and hang on.

Karen – Oh, my gosh, I think my sister had one of those “poor pitiful” dolls. Can’t remember what they were called, but it was certainly homely. Great exhibit!

Michele – Thank you, it’s good to be back.


Just got word from my dad that the last of my people are accounted for. Dad’s cousin and his wife rode out the bad weather elsewhere, and their home is not damaged. I’ve got one friend with three feet of water in his house and a cousin whose home in Kingwood is a total loss, but everybody is OK.

-Yvonne in TX

Thank you Barbie for moving us into September!

August went by so quickly and while I did not meet all of my goals I did lose 2 pounds. Since the scale has been increasing each month for the last year I'm happy with that and hope to build on it in September.

Calories In Calories Out ... it never fails me! And the way to accurately do that is weigh/measure, log and exercise. It's so simple and so hard at the same time. As for water ... I've been negligent in that area and think that would be a good goal for September ... 64oz per day.

So ... I've come to the conclusion that I do a lousy job with the weed eater. The areas I worked on are a little shaggy looking. It's going to take some practice I think, but the yard does look better than it has in a long time as I did areas my son didn't think were important

Tonight I bought a new carpet cleaner/shampooer. I really know how to have fun! My old one finally bit the dust and I definitely need one with the black lab. That will be one of my projects next week ... cleaning carpet where the dog is known to park himself.

So glad it's the weekend and a long one at that.

Beth near Buffalo ... where it is supposed to drop to 47 degrees tonight .. Fall is definitely coming!

Yvonne – I think it is important to not look at the total you need or want to lose; as it does get overwhelming. Set smaller goals, then reward yourself with something not related to food, a pair of new earrings, maybe a top to go with a pair of slacks that fit you. Numbers can get ‘in the way’ of success when we think we need to be a certain size or lose a certain amount. Losing weight is a ‘lifestyle’ change, it isn’t a ‘diet’. A pound a two a week I think is pretty realistic if you want the weight to come off and stay off. There is no easy overnight fix. My DDnL#1 thinks she ought to be able to take a pill and wake up the next day and be thin. She doesn’t have the discipline to make that ‘lifestyle’ change. Until she is, she is going to continue to ‘yo-yo’. She hasn’t said ‘jack squat’ about my weight [loss]. I don’t say anything to her about her weight. Thankfully, our DOGD went for her first physical and the tests showed she is hypothyroid (under active) … they have started her out on a low dosage. She told me she was beginning to feel better; but, did not think the dosage they had her on was enough. I told her that she should call her MD and leave a message with her nurse. Maybe being in a small town, she will call her back, or the nurse will and maybe she will increase the dosage. She’s also gone to the GYN for the first time, too. Have not talked to her since. She’s short at 5’-nothing and has gained that “Freshman 15” every year in college (or it seems like it; I doubt she has put on a total of 60lbs.; but, her height only makes her look larger. I’m just happy that she is taking care of herself, now that the family has health insurance benefits (that will cover her until she is 26, still in school, and not married yet. I walk for my exercise, either around our property or on a treadmill (I don’t like it; but, I can burn more calories on it in less time than walking outside for an hour.

We’re happy to have you back, too. Keep on posting, that way you will get input and encouragement. Track everything that crosses your lips including anything you drink. Tracking your food ‘honestly’ will help let you see what you are doing that works and what isn’t. I am a big proponent of checking with your MD to talk to them about weight loss and how many calories you need to take in and how many you need to burn in order to lose. I do not ‘eat’ back my calories, I just let my exercise be my ‘cushion’ when counting calories. At least if I go way over, I have something to fall back on and on those occasions I do ‘factor in’ my calories burned.

We’re on vacation this week, in Louisiana, and up until today it has rained pretty hard every day since we got here.

I’ve got a weight loss comparison that is pretty funny when it lists the number of pounds compared to something you can imagine. PM me if you’d like to have a copy sent to you with your email address. It is about 2 or 3 pages long. I keep a copy attached to my refrigerator so I ‘think’ about it before I open it up to ‘graze’. LOL!!!

Lanette – I use ‘distilled’ water in my Cpap machine and never realized how badly it stains the carpet when I spill it. I guess I should have because it does sort of have a somewhat ‘greasy’ feel to it. I also think they don’t recommend drinking it. I’ve never drank it; but, the machine specifically calls for ‘distilled’ water. Louis will come ‘borrow’ it to put water in his batteries; but, thankfully, he is good about buying an extra bottle. I have put tap water in it, only for one night until I can get to the store.

Chris – You look wonderful. I’m afraid of what I will find out on Tuesday when I go for my weigh-in. A full week of eating everything in sight; with no exercise but for 2 days and not long with that at all. We took DYS and family out-to-eat and made the mistake of ordering ‘fried’ shrimp and I only ate 3 of them and felt like I was going to taste them coming up. Thankfully, I had order a cup of seafood gumbo … so I was full. They brought it home, but I am NOT going to touch it. I found that ‘not’ having eaten ‘fried’ foods has its perks; but, if you find you have to try to ‘eat’ it … Nahda! I could eat fried fish freshly caught; but, they stick it in a pile of paper towels inside a paper bag; so the grease is soaked up. Now, that kind of fried fish I can eat just not as much as I used to.
We went to Tami’s BF’s wedding. Together she and he husband have 5 children between them. I think the oldest is 9; the youngest maybe 4. They have custody of all 5 of them. It was such a sweet wedding. Tami was her only attendant. She looked wonderful in a dark blue gown, and actually looked pregnant. They are going to Jackson, MS tomorrow for another sonogram to hear the heartbeat. She has been thrilled beyond belief. Please pray that everything goes well with this pregnancy and they have a nice, bouncing healthy baby. They have decided to NOT find out what it is going to be. She has picked out a ‘girl’s name’; but, for some reason I am not thinking a girl; although Mallory would rather have a baby sister. She already has a younger half-brother who is a ‘bother’ to her.
We got Will a new laptop bag; his last one got left in the back of his truck. He was able to recover most of what his laptop had on it; but, the bag was shot. When I had talked to him earlier and asked what he wanted for his birthday … he hemmed and hawed like he always does. So I call Tami and asked her. He was surprised when he got it and said, ‘Oh, I can really use this – I needed it’. I had bought Tami a short robe; then when I saw her I thought, “OH $#*T, no way it is going to fit her … then we found out why. She likes it; but, I told her if she wanted to exchange it, there was a ‘gift receipt’ in the box. Of course, the nearest Victoria Station is across the State in Alexandria. Maybe there is one in Jackson, MS when they go up on Tuesday and she can check it out.

Michele – If I remember how to make bows; when you start making the loops, you get smaller and smaller each time; but all but the smallest loop, with a ‘V’ on either side, careful not to cut all the way through. Wrap wire tightly around the ribbon at the “V” and then start pulling out each loop opposite from the one you’ve pulled out, that should leave that little loop in place to cover the wire. You might have to do a ‘test’ run. But, that is ‘how’ I sort of remember doing them. It’s been a while since I have gone to the trouble of making a bow. You can also cut a small piece and loop in over and carefully weave a stapler into the center and staple the ends to one another. Sort of like how they attach the ‘sticky’ backing to the bow. Check them out at a store that sells them. It is easier to see the larger the bow is.

I tried to hold a plank, the way I saw it on a YouTube video. I don’t know what I did incorrectly; but, my back hurt like a ‘sum-o-beach’ for a week; like I had a pinched nerve. They x-rayed it and I am beginning to have some degeneration of the bones in my spine, so I guess that is probably ‘out of the question’ for me to do.

Yvonne – One thing they say is ‘things can be replaced’ (for the most part); but, having your family safe is the ultimate joy!

Lenora

Yvonne, glad you ok, family is oK. I can not imagine in my wildest dreams what you all have gone through. Evansville had their infamous flood of 1937 where I guess the entire city was completely flooded. We are a river town and occasionally the areas around the river do flood but we are now where near the river. Still the city is declared a flood plane so we can't get flood insurance.

Lenora, How are you spilling your distilled water. I take my water chamber out and take it to the bathroom and fill it over the bathroom sink.

That alligator is just awful. I would be totally freaked out if I was allowed to go back and check my property and see that floating around in my house, or even crawling out. I would never go back in that house. All who have done any rescue work or any kind are true heroes. My husband and I get upset of how the term hero is used so loosely these days. A football player or an Astor is not a hero, even if they give money to a charity. These guys down there are true heroes. For so many of the, it is not their job. They are just humans caring for humans. Looking back at that picture, that man is even smiling!

Well when most of you read this, Charlie and I will be having our 45thnweddimg anniversary! Wedded bliss? Nope but love, compromise and believing in our vows. And also seeing what divorce has done to each of his siblings and parents. He is one of four children and the only one never divorced. One brother divorced once, other brother on his fifth, sister also on her fifth. Well she was married to one and found out he was still married to another woman so I don't know if that counts as a marriage or not. Father divorced nice and mother divorced, well I lost count on her marriages, I'm not even sure if she knew. She was mentally ill and some of her husbands are men she met in he state hospital. Charlie did not want to be one of those statistics. We just trudge Lang and take each day at a time.

Tonight while we were eating I told him that 45 years ago I was crying you eyes out. My sister and I had gone to pick my wedding dress up and was informed that they didn't have it. Claims that when I took it out to have my pictures taken I didn't bring it back. They finally found it hung up in the K which would be my married initial instead of the P which was my maiden. Because of all that mess we didn't get to the county clerks office I time to pick up the marriage license. Called my pastor and no, he couldn't marry us without it. He called around, we found a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend that was the county clerk and running for office the next in two months that was more than glad to go down to the office and meet us there to get it! Only other thing that happened was when my parents got down here, Dad had forgot to bring his suit and had to go out and buy a new suit and shoes. I think it was on purpose. But I will never forget the fact that the Jerry Lewis telethon was on that weekend and I didn't like Charlie's attention to the tv.

Allie, I would be so worried about leaving all my stuff packed up in the house and go away while Tom was there.

Well it rained enough today that the first day of Evansville's first hydroplane races in about seven years didn't happen. Friday's is just when they warn up, get out on the water, tomorrow they have all the heats and the race Sunday. But the concert was cancelled, no one and I mean no one showed up at the food booths. It's one of our big money makers.

Night night, Joyce, Indiana

Joyce,
It will be fine..I have stuff in boxes And he will be leaving today to go to Saratoga to a horse race.our friends have a key to the house and will come down and let the boys outside.i will hide.my lock box ,but other than that if he wants to look at what is in the boxes let him.

I always wanted a Howdy Doody marionette. I had a Toni doll. She came with permanent rods so you could curl her hair like a Toni perm.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Love and hugs to all Gloria in WA soon to be on my way to the beach - with sunscreen of course