WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018
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Having trouble with the pictures. But want to tell you that we received a certificate and a bottle of wine for the "Most Improved Couple" at the ballroom dancing.
We reprised all the dances and DH got to grips with the Rumba at last. Learning six new dances at the age of 72 is no mean feat.
Love Heather ☓10 -
barbicat- i haven't read a book in so long, i don't have the time, maybe when i retire, i can do the audio book thing :0)3
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Lanette thanks for the Terry update.
Lisa, when I had to travel for work, Joe gave me a little plastic snap knife to tuck into my checked baggage and put under my pillow.
https://www.amazon.com/Darice-Retractable-Razor-Knife-Assorted/dp/B002C12EHM
Not the range of a baseball bat, but comforting.
Barbie, here's another view. Stunning Alpine Scenery.
https://www.facebook.com/zellamseekaprun/videos/10155699213133129/
Rye repetition, repetition, repetition
Then most of us rely on muscle memory, that is once we get started the body just flows. It's the getting started part that's hard. One of my favorite T-shirts seen at a line dance workshop says "I LOVE that dance . . . how does it start?" When learning a new dance I try to say out loud the first few steps "5, 6 rock back with the right" just to prime the pump.
Heather, Brava for your dancing and special kudos to your husband for participating!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
60 g protein 15/17, meditate 14/17, walk one more step 14/17, knee exercises 14/17, walk Tumble 9/12 times, SWSY 0/6, hang up or purge art 0
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barbicat- i haven't read a book in so long, i don't have the time, maybe when i retire, i can do the audio book thing :0)
I made a pact with myself 22 years ago to read every day. One reason was to stave off future dementia. My mother suffered from dementia for at least three years before she passed away. One of the first things that she did was stop reading. In my mind, that was reason enough right there. For reasons that have nothing to do with dieting, I had to have a brain MRI a few years ago and it showed no signs of anything! Not even the dreaded pre dementia stuff. It eased my mind so much.
I still read a little something every day. I have a book going on my iPad all the time and have a hard copy of the Beck Diet that I read almost every day as a strengthener for my brain on weight loss and maintenance.
Oh, I also count the articles I read on MFP and internet as reading!
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Barbie: I understand the value of a good home base. I can't picture us as full time RVers due to many reasons including our love for home and DH's medical challenges. We can take trips, but he needs access to his trusted doctors. I like my yoga classes and opportunity to ride Arrow. I see us going on a series of shorter trips as time goes along.
Machka: "There is no set date for discharge yet, and there will be a number of steps between now and that point. We're starting on those steps, but our progress will depend on how my husband does with it all."
This sounds good, and honest. Sometimes we get overly optimistic or pessimistic messages from our medical systems. :flowerforyou:
AuntieBK: I loved seeing the line dances, too. They looked like a good time for everyone.
Yoga today and I'm looking forward to it. After all the hard work we did in the storage unit, I have sore muscles that will be happy for a good stretch. DH is on the sore side, too, but I can't convince him to try yoga. I feel great when I get him out on his mobility device while the dog and I walk.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
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Took my car to the neon Rte 66 sign and found this painted rock garden in the same park. I think I will leave one of my signature RV rocks.
RV Rita cruising on Rte 66 inGrants New Mexico7 -
Line Dancing Video: Loved it. But, all I could think was that I have two left feet and would never be able to remember the steps.
Carol in GA2 -
Wow, this is a hard group to keep up with! I just spent over an hour going back to read everything since Friday as I didn't have much time on the weekend to be on here.
The weddings were beautiful, I love the simple lavender bouquet. I bet the rainbow colours were amazing1
I would love to be able to travel around in a RV, but I think I would need a home base as well. I wouldn't want to be too far from my girls for extended periods of time.
I have a funny little story to share but other than that not too much!
I bought a DQ ice cream cake for Father's Day yesterday. While we were eating my 2 year old granddaughter, Michaela, was having a hard time getting hers on her spoon. My husband reaches over to help her and my daughter says "Are you struggling"? Michaela answers her and says yes. Meanwhile my 7 year old grandson pipes up around bites of his cake and says, "Are you struggling emotionally or physically"? I don't know where he gets these things, but we sure all had to laugh at it.8 -
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Cheri How is your home furnishing/settling in coming along?
Karen in Virginia1 -
ScrapStitching wrote: »barbicat- i haven't read a book in so long, i don't have the time, maybe when i retire, i can do the audio book thing :0)
I made a pact with myself 22 years ago to read every day. One reason was to stave off future dementia. My mother suffered from dementia for at least three years before she passed away. One of the first things that she did was stop reading. In my mind, that was reason enough right there. For reasons that have nothing to do with dieting, I had to have a brain MRI a few years ago and it showed no signs of anything! Not even the dreaded pre dementia stuff. It eased my mind so much.
I still read a little something every day. I have a book going on my iPad all the time and have a hard copy of the Beck Diet that I read almost every day as a strengthener for my brain on weight loss and maintenance.
Oh, I also count the articles I read on MFP and internet as reading!
i used to be a bookworm... life has taken over. i just don't have time.1 -
Don't know if this will work, but Barbie this one's for you:
https://www.facebook.com/LD.Cheesy/videos/1685822644787277/ Thanks, that looked like so much fun.
Some people are into it, and some would be like I would be -- counting and concentrating! Lol
Where are they dancing? It is beautiful!
Felicia
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Good afternoon, y'all. (Keeping with the line dancing spirit!)
Well the damage this weekend wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Not so far off track. The hours of yard work on Friday and Saturday probably mitigated a lot of the damage. I spent three-four hours weeding a large patch in the front yard -- really the city's property, but you know -- and I was exhausted. Then hubby said Friday night that for Father's Day, he would like the vegetable garden weeded. I literally almost threw up. I started to protest, and he said, "Well, you wanted to know what I wanted."
So the two younger boys and I went out Saturday at about noon. (Oldest son was working.) Of course, they each lasted about 30 minutes. But I hung in there, and did that whole square of the yard. Only the garden patch was nasty because I had been keeping up, more or less, with the rest of it. Yoga was tough on Sunday because I was really sore.
It is so hot here! 90s. I love it. I did have to put the air conditioner in the window in my office, however. The temperature in my office was 81, and that is too hot to be comfortable, and that was this morning! I have three large south facing windows, so it was only going to get worse.
Not too much going on here. I am on the search for a counselor for my two oldest boys to see. They are both needed it, and it is becoming critical because their father is visiting in a month. Come to find out, neither one of them is too keen to even see him.
My husband has been a big help there because his feelings about his own dad when he was a kid are very similar. My middle son confessed to me that his feelings about his dad are: Either be in my life or just leave me alone. It makes me really sad.
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon7 -
Air conditioner at work out. I’m melting7
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Hi Gals,
Janetr, Allie and Heather – great pictures!
Janetr – I loved that the wedding “colors” were such vibrant colors and many colors! not just a monochrome
I watched the line dancing and just smile, as not only can I not imagine remembering all the steps and the order, I can not imagine doing it all in the same timing as everyone else, now yes I know that they are doing it in time to the music, but you see I don’t hear beat in that music or for that matter in almost any music, so it is all to some weirdness in my head. I’ve been told that not hearing rhythm/beat is a form of tone deafness. I was recently told that I hear the beat on the 1 and 3 not on 2 and 4 like most folks; but honestly I just don’t do anything in time with music and don’t appreciate music as much as most people as a lot of it is just noise to me.
Sleeping alone, or in an house with just me in it is so my “normal” that I find it hard to sleep when someone is visiting, that takes a night or two before the noises they make just become part of the background.
Smiles
Kim from N. California
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We are packed and the cases are outside the door.
Lovely last evening. The waiters and chefs all did a song for us and a procession through the dining room.
DH and I had our champagne.
Then it was a last dance and a last show and a last bop till we dropped.
Back to reality tomorrow.
Much love to you all, Heather xxxxxxxx on the way to Dover.5 -
DH and the showgirls. They are the same ones who teach me line dancing.
Heather ☓
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I read message boards and blogs a lot while I'm at work, as I'm bored. Tomorrow I have someone from head office coming to teach me sales, so this might not be my normal for much longer.
I read a comment today from someone on one of the boards that when your goals are set to lose 2lbs per week it is too aggressive for people under 200 because it is less than 1% of your body weight.
What does everyone think of this, is it true or is it an individual thing?
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »I read a comment today from someone on one of the boards that when your goals are set to lose 2lbs per week it is too aggressive for people under 200 because it is less than 1% of your body weight.
What does everyone think of this, is it true or is it an individual thing?
Tracey in Edmonton
I don't know about under 200 pounds, if it is close to 200 pounds, but it sounds right to me. I am about 135 (and a shorty), and I think 1-2 pounds a month would be reasonable for someone my weight. I keep reminding myself that the goal is not just to lose it but to keep it off, and in some ways, for that goal, the slower the better.
Felicia
Willamette Valley, Oregon3 -
About line dancing. If you can hear the beat, then you can probably learn easy line dances. It's not nearly as much to remember as it seems. At first you learn some basic steps. Then you find out that the basic steps are linked together to create a dance of 32 counts--four sets of eight. After the 32 counts, the dance turns a quarter or half to a new direction and do the same pattern again and again.Kim, If you can't hear the beat, then line dancing is probably something that would be enormously difficult for you to learn. The patterns would be easy but you would't be able to keep time with the music and everyone else.Heather, I usually wear red to teach my line dance class but I don't look nearly as spectacular as the showgirls in the photo with your DH. About reading. When I was working, i read in the bathroom and for a few minutes at bedtime. Now that I'm retired, I added listening to audio books to accompany my long walks with the dogs. I usually have an e book on my phone to read if I have to wait in a waiting room. I never just sit down to read.Felicia, that was a tough answer to the what do you want for Fathers day question. You are a trouper to have been able to do it. It is hot here again so I cut the dog walk short so I could work in the yard first thing in the morning and then headed for Costco at 9:30 when it got too hot. Now we're all staying in the house and enjoying the air conditioning. Oh, no. How awful for you to not have your air conditioning. Barbie 1
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Well Bandit is now home in our front pasture but it was not a good ride in the trailer. We ran into traffic going into Tacoma on I-5 that was just flat out stopped. No accident just congestion so poor boy had to stand in the trailer with all that exhaust around him. Finally got into moving traffic after getting on I-5 for a while. No problem going through Seattle. We left Shelton on the peninsula about 5:30 and did not get home until 8:30, supposed to be a 2 hour drive. IF eating with DD is going well. It helps for both of us to be doing it.
Love the wedding pictures.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA5 -
Hello all ... first time checking in here and first time in a long time being on fitness pal. I'm finally ready to get back into shape. I lost 60 lbs 6 years ago in order to do a hike in Jasper and completed that goal. Then in 2014 after a year of being layed up due to illness I gained it all back, then discovered I had cancer and within a short time lost it all again. But, the radiation treatments caused damage to my thyroid and you guessed it back came all the weight. Now medications have levelled off my thyroid and it's time to take action again, So my goal for June is simply to get moving again, this feels like a gargantuan task at the moment, but I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired so onward and upward
Good luck to all you with your goals
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marion, you've been through a ton! keep checking in and as you know every baby step counts!
Kim in N. California3 -
yeah Barbie, I can do the steps - tap my toe, heal- turn on my right or left, do the grapevine, but putting it together and following any music --- that's just comedy! My only successful dancing is a conga line if I am in the middle somewhere!
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today has been ok, but now onto the closing, getting nervous and hope all goes well.. going to bed early..4
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Marion, we're glad you're here. I hope you keep coming back and share about how you've succeeded in getting moving. 3
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Good evening ladies. Cleaned house this morning then hosted bridge. My new glasses are here so went yo pick them up. Still trying to get use to them.
Think I will try line dancing on Our cruise. I’ve done it before so think I can do it again.
Rita- love the new ice garden on Route 66.2 -
Good evening ladies!3
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