WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2017
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FELICIA lots of hugs
JANET reading your memories of your Mum brought tears to my eyes, its great to have those good memories as not everyone is so lucky
LANETTE leave for Spain on 17th, can't wait, we have Christmas meal next Saturday with DS, his step children and grandchildren. We have 2 step great granddaughters. It's funny because DS never wanted his own kids but his first wife had 1 when they married, she is very dear to us even though son and her mum divorced. His present wife has 2 kids who now each have a daughter.
My eating has got out of control, need to lose a couple of pounds before I go away.
Welcome to newbies
Kate UK0 -
Sunday -- An exceptionally rainy, cold, and windy day. Not at all good for the orchard ... and on the recreational side, it's not at all good for getting out and cycling. What a way to begin summer.
However, meanwhile ...
Gym time!
Rowing: 40 minutes - 6.25 km
Trainer: 30 min - 9.5 km commercial intervals
Plus some ab work.3 -
OregonMother wrote: »Good afternoon.
I'm so sorry for the unexpected loss of your friend, Rori.
Meg -- I hope you can have some peace and space for clear thinking during this hard time.
The meeting with the pastor went fine. He's going to say a very little bit, and then we'll share. I know the girls each want to say something, and my mom may say something. I'm still thinking about it. Right now I'm in the anger stage, about the way our country treats the mentally ill. I know that treatment contributed to my sister's death. I don't want to get all political, so I am giving myself some time to decide whether I will say anything or not.
I paid for the cremation, shipping, and death certificate yesterday. That's actually what set me off. The cremation guy called me back to say that there is a delay in issuing the death certificate because the coroner's office couldn't reconcile what the hospital records say relating to how they claim my sister died. They can't cremate her until they settle how she died. I'm better now. I can type that without hyperventilating, but I had a complete break down yesterday morning. I haven't told anyone but you all and my friend at work whom I managed to get an email to for help. She sat with me in my office for an hour while I cried and tried to breath.
I still don't have a final word, but at best, her death is due to extreme neglect. At worst, they may have just killed her. Seriously. It is heartbreaking, and I'm beginning to get upset again, so I will stop now.
Much love.
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon
Really sorry ... and it will take time to get through it. I'm glad you had a friend at work with you.
M in Oz1 -
Sending big hugs to all the hurting folks and those who are feeling discouraged. ((((HUGS))))
Our guests arrive on 20 minutes. The table is laid. I have written a timetable for the cooking as I find roast dinners the most difficult of all re timings. I am doing roast potatoes, stuffing and pigs in blankets, which all have go go in the ovens at different times, plus there are the root veggies under the chicken and an apricot crumble to go in when we sit down to eat. Plus boiling broccoli and making gravy. I rarely choose to cook roast for company for that reason, but DH 's daughter specially requested it. It's really a mini Christmas dinner! DH has been terrific with making stuffing and crumble yesterday and this morning he peeled the root veggies before I'd even asked.
Lots of love Heather UK xxxxxxx
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Felicia - I'm so sorry... I remember that feeling, of being mired in grief so deep it felt as I were drowning. Just do what you can. There are days in this life when simply taking one single step is a triumph.
I am finally feeling better from my cold, and now both other adults are beginning to make that "ahem" noise that means their throats are hurting. The hazard to living in close quarters. All I have left is the cough, and it's not a tenth as bad as it was. Hoping the kids don't get sick.
Writing in the blog every day has gotten my writing muscles stretching again, and my thought processes--in ways that they haven't in a long time. It's been really, really good for my head, though no guarantees for how good it is to read. I've also been picking up a couple bucks writing for a content corporation. It's stretching those muscles in some very different ways. Feels as if I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Pretty cool.
We're on our own with the kids for most of this week while our soldier-daughter goes to a school in Georgia. The other reason I'm hoping the kids don't get sick! But, we'll deal as we must.
Time for the third and final cup of coffee.
Love y'all,
Lisa in NC2 -
Morning Ladies~
I am up and having my tea... was awake for a few hours in the middle of the night and woke up at 6:30 am , will go down and feed DFIL as today I am feeling better, I dont want to give him a cold... the high school acapella group is coming to sing for us this afternoon ,so will watch that... and then do some cleaning..
really have to get this place, at least kitchen and my bedroom in order, having the girls a week from friday for Christmas Party Slash/ retirement party for Patty she is the RDH that has been there the longest 25 yrs,, and her husband is a dean at Weslyan University so not hurting for money..there house is paid off and kids are out of the house.. and our boss and the corp are trying to cut corners everywhere, hence my hours being reduced ,we get no benefits really especially part timers ,get no benefits, at my age I cant live like that anymore.... sent an email to the rescue org. so that I could at least go see the dog which is here in the state.. its a horse and pony show to adopt a dog now.. but I understand they want them going to the right home4 -
Tasmanian Summer ...
Our normally, relatively quiet beach ... in fact, it has been so noisy for the past couple days, it has sounded like neverending distant thunder from our place. Combined with the wind and rain, it has been quite a racket out there for the past 48-ish hours. But the rain appears to have stopped for now ... so here's hoping things dry quickly and that there isn't any more damage.
Machka in Oz7 -
Last night, I had two very disturbing dreams and am pondering what they mean, for sure, I will call the people in the dream and check on them.
Yesterday was another warm day in my neck of the woods, so I polished off some yard work, it is now truly ready for winter and boy does that feel good.
My exercise clothes are packed in the car to work off steam after my first youth orchestra rehearsal (I'm nervous and excited, kind of like "hope they like me" kind of feeling) and I also have my coupons in tow so I can grocery shop after the gym, a busy Sunday for sure. DH has asked for a date night?!! so there's that to look forward to as well.
One little microstep at a time folks!
NYKAREN
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(((Felicia)))0
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spikeyhair wrote: »FELICIA lots of hugs
JANET reading your memories of your Mum brought tears to my eyes, its great to have those good memories as not everyone is so lucky
LANETTE leave for Spain on 17th, can't wait, we have Christmas meal next Saturday with DS, his step children and grandchildren. We have 2 step great granddaughters. It's funny because DS never wanted his own kids but his first wife had 1 when they married, she is very dear to us even though son and her mum divorced. His present wife has 2 kids who now each have a daughter.
My eating has got out of control, need to lose a couple of pounds before I go away.
Welcome to newbies
Kate UK
Kate, thank you for reminding me that I have been truly blessed. I've tried to pass the same to my daughters. A couple of years ago on Facebook a questionaire was being circled that had you answer questions about yourself. One question was, Who is your hero?" My youngest daughter answered, my Mom. I have cherished that so. It made all the years of struggling as a single parent worth it. . Children do learn by example.5 -
"Welcome back bk, it's been 611 days since you've been on the Wii fit balance board"
When asked, I've been saying I weigh 160, wii says only 152.8 that sure gave me a boost.
Thanks NYKaren for micro actions. I've been daunted about hooking up the wii, but decided to take it one teensy bit at a time. First the physical connections. Then the remotes and balance board. Next will be troubleshooting the internet connection, the wii doesn't see my wifi access point. Don't need the internet connection to play on the balance board, took the body test (body age 55vs67 calendar ) and played the silly penguin slide game which never fails to get me giggling. Now that it works, won't have the "it's dark, scary, rainy outside-can't walk" excuse not to play! And soon as it's hooked up to the internet, can line dance too!
Machka, how does your DH blow dry a whole cherry orchard?
Who was it that makes jalapeno brittle? Now that's a recipe I need!
Rori, Felicia ((hugs)).
Janetr huzzah for single mom heroines.
Meg ditto what Barbie said so well.
Joyce we all want you to move with care, please no more falling.
Lenore, please come back, we miss you.
Time to prep the stirfry and dress for church.
Hugs to all,
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
Rx aim: log, cod liver oil and bp daily, yog/prob twice daily, 80% rule, line dance, Nov 4 reduce 2-300 cals daily from average.
Dec intentions:
Be grateful for who, what and where I am right now.
Hook up the wii
Learn how to scan this forum from my phone
Try BP again with larger cuff
2 days/week: Tai chi
6 days/week: Dance or walk 30 mins
Daily: Log, CLO and 1 probiotic or yog, max 1500 cals
Yesterday
no walking no dancing no BP
log, CLO, yog, <1500 cals, read forum from phone
plugged in wii controller+sensor bar, couldn't sync remotes, dead batteries4 -
I found out yesterday that I was accepted into the clinical trial. I will check in on Wednesday and released on Sunday. My grandmother and an uncle died from Alzheimer’s.
Thanksgiving was great. I spent Monday - Friday at my Mom’s. My brothers and daughter’s family came for dinner. My grandson was missing. It was his dad’s turn for the holiday.
I invited my Mom for a visit and brought her home with me. She lives in East TX and it is a 2 1/2 hour drive. She is 89 and due to a broken neck and permanent neck brace no longer drives. We had a very nice visit and stayed fairly busy. She was able to spend more time with the 2 great grand children.
Through Facebook I was able to contact the son of one of her oldest friends. She is in assisted living very close to me so I took Mom to visit her. She also went with me to my grandson’s school one afternoon. We joined my daughter’s family one evening at an event called “Enchant”. It included a light maze and a German Christmas market. It is really fun to experience such things through the eyes of a 2 and 7 year old.
My youngest brother met us in Canton on Wednesday to pick up my Mom and take her home. That is halfway.
Here is a picture of me, my daughter, granddaughter and my mom. Also included are mine and my brother’s dogs, Angel and Freckles.
Cathy, Arlington, TX
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Hi Sisters, well good news and bad: First, no queens! Three hives all said no. So I have tried again. If they don't make this week, I will "nuke" the queens and see if that makes a difference. Right now the queens are in the bottom boxes and I have put a queen excluder mat between the bottom and top boxes. The I put the cells with larvae in the top boxes. But maybe at this time of year the bees or either concentrating fully on gathering nector, or maybe the queen's pheremones are so strong that it is inhibiting the worker bees from making new queens. So I will set up a small box (Nuclear) next to the main double box hive, and move the queen to that to trigger the hive into "queenless" mode so hopefully they will start making. It is a full moon here last night. Will be interesting to see if that has any affect on the queen making...
The GOOOD news is, I have managed to get through a second day of fasting and dropped another couple pounds off to reach the 120's (my happy place) actually 129.1, which is borderline because I know that after I have eaten for a day or two, my weight goes up by two pounds with food in my system. So I will try to continue my fast today if I am able to. It is a good time for fasting now, before all the Christmas feasting starts. We always have a staff Christmas party at a nice restaurant in town, and we have a staff member retiring this year so that might mean two separate feasts, LOL. So yesterday, all I had was three chocolate turmeric Lassi, a green tea with honey, water with lime juice and four or five strong mint cough lollies. It is so hot here atm that I don't even feel like eating, I just want to drink.
I love it when my "fast switch" is flipped and I can walk past tempting food and just say NO. My youngest daughter stopped in yesterday morning on her way home from milking cows and she was RAVENOUS, and begged me to make pancakes for her. I have been craving pancakes too, previous to fasting, but I was able to cook up a whole batch and give her the leftovers to take with her without batting an eyelid. The sugar beast is caged during my fasts. LOL. Today will be a bit more dangerous as I have to go into town, into work (stress) and to the supermarket (danger place). If I can stay busy and stay out of town, I have a higher chance of sticking to my fast. I am also trying not to do anything too strenuous as I know that also can trigger me to break my fast. So I worked on getting Christmas cards written and weighing the two Christmas boxes I send to family in America. Doing the bees yesterday was a bit hard, as it was super hot and I sweated heaps, but I went and laid down for an hour afterwards then drank two cups of water and had that honey and green tea drink and I managed to carry on. It puts me in such a good mood when I am fasting and the scales are giving me friendly feedback. The longest fast I've done was 14 days but most of my fasts are less than five days. It is my weight control method of choice because it suits my impatient nature. I like Big results Fast! Will see how today goes. I would love to give myself the present of reaching my goal weight and sticking to it over Christmas... Wendy
PS. I have vicariously enjoyed Heather's roast and apricot crumble. I feel very full and satisfied. THank you Heather.6 -
I have been having photo upload problems but have managed to get photos of the puppets and blanket. I've been making this blanket for years and got the directions from LionBrand Homespun. This is the first time I've put a face on one of my blankets. Here goes:
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Mary, thank for saying that! I guess you saw my pic int that photo thread. I’m proud, but have a long way to go yet, so I’m not going to let myself be satisfied.
AllThanks for reading my memory ramblings. It helped me focus my thoughts to share them all with you. I do so miss mom at the holidays. She just loved all the x-mas hoopla!
This was party weekend, friends hosting holiday get togethers. I ate crazy ( compared to my normal lately) yet ate a lot less than I would have done last year. And a considerable amount of my eating was cherry tomatoes, pineapple and cantaloupe. Oh, yes, there was Chex mix snacking, pie and peppermint bark for desert ( and wonderful wood smoked lean white chicken meat for my main course) but all in all a very carb heavy day that certainly busted the roof off my calorie allotment- but I’m totally fine with it.
My December goal is to weigh less on the 31st than the 1st even if the difference can only be measured in ounces. And a wise woman taught me this phrase: “Never two days in a row”. So I’m allowing myself some unrestricted food time with those two caveats this December. Oh, and fasting on Tuesday and Thursdays. Hopefully this will be a successful plan.
My hot flashes are still on the extreme end of the scale - I wore a sleeveless summer cotton dress under a heavy fall sweater wrap to the party. Lol, that wrap was tightly wrapped around me one minute, and flung off my shoulders the next. The beach weight summer bathing wrap-up dresses are the only thing that lets me socialize at this time.
Oddly enough, I thought last night in bed would be constant hot-flash torture but I only had three intense episodes so I was able to get some better sleep than I have in a long time. I’ll have to pay extra attention to sleeping better with less hot flashes and the relationship to eating more carbs. While I can’t increase carbs much while I’m still dieting, maybe in maintenance it might have some effect. Heaven knows I’m trying every remedy recommended to me to little or no effect thus far.
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas... the stockings are hung, the trees have lights and garlands and the I’m slowly putting on my favourite ornaments. I’ll bake some cookies starting the week prior to Christmas so my Christmas Day guests have plenty and can take them home with them. Im also going to make a new Christmas tradition- fruit roll-ups with my dehydrator. Delicious and relatively healthy sweets. If I make them when my husband isn’t looking, I can even sneak in some spinach!
I’m afraid I have been irritating my kitties (see below) but rest assured no animals have been harmed in the portrait taking sessions. Dignity, however, may have been lost.
Cin Cin a tutti!
Rye
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ok so the lil pup I wanted was adopted but there is another im interested in, so we shall see.. would love to lie down for a nap, but have a concert to go to in an hour, maybe after that I will come home and take a snooze,
but if I do it to late then I dont sleep well at night...
I did go over to see BIL he has been in CCU for the past 5 weeks,they got him off the ventilator and onto a trach , I think I told you his appendix ruptured and they found a mass on his colon.... all the was repaired ,but once they opened him up he contracted Sepsis and has been in CCU since.. they have been keeping him sedated ,but went over for 45 min and spent time with him and talking... no answer back but I think he knew I was there... came back with directions and stopped and gave them to Tom he is over there now...Adam, my nephew gave us the code to get in to the CCU.. .. boy he has a long way to come to ever get back to normal at 53 yrs old.3 -
Wow December already. I guess the Christmas season has started. I have worked hard at keeping track of how much food goes in. Hard to do with eating out and pot luck food. I really notice how quick I can be full, so less going in.
I am down 1.6 lbs this week, so 229 lbs today, from 253 lbs . That is 24 lbs total lost since Sept. It is also 70 days of logging in my food. This feels so good. Some pants are not fitting and I have to wear a belt to keep them on. I am hoping by spring I can buy new clothes.
My dog is still on rest so not doing very much for exercise. We also have ice every where, so walking outside not possible. When she is all healed up we will have to work at getting us fit again, before too much agility jumping and classes. I do competitive agility with my dog, a Lab, Gemma.
I hope everyone has a good week ahead.
Cathy in Alberta Canada7 -
Cathy - Congratulations on the great weight loss. :drinker: That is terrific!
Our guests are gone. It all went well. A moment of minor panic when I thought the potatoes weren't roasting fast enough, but all was fine. I am going to add up the calorie damage in a moment. We all talked a lot at a greater, more honest depth than before, and her boyfriend was much more forthcoming than previously, so I guess it was a good day. We all swapped life changing stories. She seemed fine, apart from having put on a bit of weight.
Left overs for supper when I've done my calculations. I love cold roast veg. With chilli sauce.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx5
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