WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2017

Chris in Salt Lake: Welcome to a great group. I hope you'll become a regular participant. Regarding self-sabotage, let the past be the past and don't dwell on it unless you discover what the trigger was that tripped you up. Let each new day become a success. Count your calories and move more. "Every day is a new day with no mistakes in it yet." Anne of Green Gables

Michele: I don't accept friend requests from anyone other than the ladies I've met here. I think there are people who troll, and I'm not interested in Trolls. :noway:

Gloria: The sun is bright orange here this morning and the air looks like brown fog. It is actually full of smoke. This seems to be the year of fires in the western half of N America. :sad:

(((Kelly))): Exhaustion is not good for anyone. It sounds like you're on the brink if not over the line. I hope you'll be able to ease back on the workload enough to get some needed rest. Can your DH take a turn at cooking now and then?

Lisa: Everyone has their own circadian rhythm. I'm a person who needs sleep. My best sex time is mid-morning after a good night's sleep & coffee. DH likes early morning when I'm still trying to sleep. I'm not very pleasant if I'm too tired, unfortunately. :embarassed:

Barbie: I hope your walk is good. Our air is brown with smoke and outdoor exercise doesn't seem like a great idea right now. This particular huge and hideous fire was started by 2 boys playing with fire in the tinder-dry woods. They started the fire in Oregon, but it his now burning on both sides of the river. :sad:

Mary: I see that your rig got an ouchie at the gas station. I hope it is easily repaired. . :flowerforyou:

Cheri: We have dear friends in Florida, too. They live in The Villages, which is pretty much in the middle. They've been fortunate in past storms. I hope this will be true for them again.

Peach: Sending prayers for your son that he is not led into unhealthy addictions. :flowerforyou:


Regarding Instant Pot: We are VERY tempted. We've used a slow cooker for years, but replaced our original after it gave us and our guests all food poisoning.

Have a safe day.

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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Felicia, Congrats on the strength training and weight loss. I did it yesterday for the first time. I a bought a book of exercises and started with the routine called "Getting your body back". Sounded about right o me. Taking it easy to start off as I'm new to exercising. Hopefully if I keep doing it I'll get in the routine. Sorry to hear about the fires. I would be upset too. ((HUGS))

Terry in VT

Terry wrote: Michele, I suggest when you go to the shower you bring along a talisman in your pocket. It can be anything. I use them to help me focus on what is important. I don't use it as a mystical item. (A talisman is an object which is believed to contain certain magical properties which would provide good luck for the possessor and possibly offer protection from evil or harm.)

I like carrying or wearing a visual reminder that I am not alone and my family surrounds me. When I did my exams to earn my university degree (at 48 yrs old) I wore earrings that my sister and I share (we mail them to each other at Christmas time as we bought them together at the Montana State Fair years ago!) and a ring my Auntie gave me, and a necklace my mother gave me. I felt surrounded by their love and encouragement while in the stressful test environment. While I know these items are not alive and have no special powers, they reminded me of LOVE which is alive and does have amazing power! So Michele, is there anything you can take to the shower to remind you to show LOVE to everyone, even the unlovable?

Felicia- well done on doing a weights workout and also dropping some weight. I was so nervous the first time I went into the MALE DOMINATED weights room. We have two large rooms at my gym, one has the weights in it, the other has treadmills, bikes, rowing machines and step machines. I stayed in the "girls" part of the gym for ages until finally the gym owner set up a weights programme for me and took me and my daughter around to various machines and showed us the proper form and gave us a written list to check off and write down how heavy and how many times to do it. Now I have been working out for a year and three months and I don't need anyone to hold my hand, I don't need a paper to check off, I know how the machines work and I am not intimidated by the Big Guns that I work out with. LOL. I actually LOVE all the testosterone hormones floating around in that room and the guys have a nickname for me: they call me Wonder Woman, because of my workout t-shirt featuring WW. LOL. I have grown in confidence by lifting weights and facing my fears! (Big fear-old woman gets laughed out of gym)

Machka, you have been through a lot of Stress! Good on you for staying so active and quite understand if you're not in the mood! Staying alive and healthy is our number one priority, which is why I study diet, longevity, herbs, alternative treatments (acupuncture, Tesla light therapy, grounding) prayer, hormones and human growth hormones. So much to learn about running our bodies, the fuel our bodies run best on, the changes they go through, things that break it down and stress it...I am going to list my top ten books on here one day, but I am always reading and learning more. Just finished Dr. Mercola's latest book Fat For Fuel. It explained the science of low carb and carb cycling. Fascinating. Has inspired me to try low carb again.

After my run yesterday, and a touch of tummy bug, I weighed in at 126.4 this morning. YAYE! I am very close to my first goal which is to weigh no more than 125lbs. I still want to be closer to 120 but good things take time. I am very tempted to fast today, so that tomorrow I will look upon the magic number on the scales. I will see how strong my will power and hormone drives are today... PS, I always wear a two piece mainly because one pieces are so darned hard to get into. LOL
Wendy

OMG I just read 177 posts and had replied to a bunch of you and then lost my whole post. AAAARRGGGHHHHHHH!

LOVE YOU ALL

Karen in Virginia

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OMG I just read 177 posts and had replied to a bunch of you and then lost my whole post. AAAARRGGGHHHHHHH!

LOVE YOU ALL

Karen in Virginia

Bummer! Are you doing keto? Just wondering because of your name...

Terry--Those are very pretty earrings.

Janet--Beautiful and very Christmas like.

Toni--Hugs

Lenora--I am so sorry about the baby. I understand how hard this can be as I lost our baby and never was able to have another one. So the children we have our 1 mine and 5 his. We have been married long enough and they were young enough that we call them ours. But I know that empty feeling from not having one of our own. Sending prayers and hugs for all of you.

Dana--Beautiful grandchildren.

Mary--Happy you made it and that pole looks like it jumped out in front of you.

Been working a lot this week and looks like most of next week some extra shifts. We are a 24\7dept and since I am supervisor when someone calls in I have to step up and one of my people is in the hospital for her back. Gotta love it everytime I think the overtime is going to go down something happens.

Spending prayers for all those in the storms and fires. So many things going on. Take care.

Blessings, Vicki Grand Island, NE

Mary glad you made it safely.

Ladies - I want to thank all of you for your kind words. I'm still subject to crying spells when I think about 'how happy they were when she got a positive pregnancy test; only to have it shot down when they did not find a heartbeat'. I wrote her an email; hopefully, that was the right thing to do. I just don't know what or how my DYS will take this. I'm guessing he spent today with her; but, he might have gone out to the lake to be alone so he could possibly 'cry' without her seeing him doing so. That would be the way he'd probably handle it. He is so 'private' and doesn't want anyone to 'know their business'. They had told maybe a handful of their friends and his bosses. It has been a long and grueling process. They have both gone through extensive genetic testing. Her fallopian tubes are almost totally blocked and the possibility of having a baby naturally are close to nil. I'm sure that before she could start back in it, her HCG levels will have to get back to Zero. She had told me, that she would do it all over again, maybe; but, the cost is way on up there. They are also getting to the age that a lot of 'specialists' don't consider them as 'good candidates'. I just hope that this does not affect their marriage. Will is so crazy 'in love with her' and I think he was a might bit 'insulted' after losing the last one and telling him she wasn't the kind of wife she should be (to be able to procreate like the Bible says). I'm not sure how well DYS will handle the 'crying' and 'depression' that I am sure will probably come along this time - since it was her last egg they had gathered.

I wasn't thinking when I asked if they 'were going to try IVF again'. Hope he doesn't think I was being selfish or insensitive. I did not mean it to sound that way. I don't understand what all she had to go through but she showed me all the shots she had to take to create extra eggs and the shot she was taking to try to keep her from miscarrying. DYS would give it to her in her butt and it made huge knots. The ones before, she had to give them to herself 5x a day. This time they went in an 'scratched' the inside of her uterus so that it would have a better chance to implant to it. She said that was the worst thing she had ever been through. The nurses told her that she did very well, unlike most women, she did not scream, cry, or curse. I'll only talk about it with you; I can't bear to think of the right words to say to either of them. They had made pictures of the start of the procedure through the implant. The OB had given them so much hope that it looked good. She could point out the head and the body on the picture of the fertilized egg.

Sorry, I can't see and my nose is running.

Michele - I hope that all goes well for you, Jess, and Denise and that Maria will get a bad case of laryngitis.

Lenora

Lenora Sad to hear of the loss of your unborn grandbaby. Thinking of you and your family.

Mary Boo about running out of gas and then the boo boo on your rig from the pump guards. Hrmph! Glad you made it safely there.

Irma Hope everyone in her path comes through safely. The TV footage is astounding already.

Beth This is the Instant Pot Duo 6 qt 7-in-1 that I have. I am making yogurt in it right now. I love my Instant Pot. I have an extra liner (I got the ceramic one) and a few other pots and gadgets that fit inside it for steaming, pot-in-pot dishes, eggs, cheesecake.

Toni (((Hugs)))

Kelly My old friend, now over 90, used to say "this one's on the house" when she didn't want to be intimate with her husband. I love her sense of humor. They have had a 70 year love affair and are an inspiration to all that know them. I am sure she "just said no" sometimes, too. I'd say jump his bones in the morning so he'll let you go to sleep at night.

Terry and Janet Talented ladies! I love the ornaments and the jewelry.

Chris I can gain 5 lbs in a week, too. My sympathies.

Dana Those grandkids are so stinkin' cute!

Gloria So glad for you school has started and you get some golden silence.

Karen in Virginia, whose 11 year old grandson says the first 2 days of school were "horrid"

I always feel that september as a month gets warmer and warmer as the month develops its a very good month to consider healthy eating and exercize ....good to see so many reaching their goals or towards their goals on this..fantastic