WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018

Machka9 wrote: »

Katla49 wrote: »

M in OZ: I think cycling is one of the best forms of exercise, along with walking, swimming and yoga. Does your weather make it a pleasure during this season? I ride a stationary bike at the gym regularly before my yoga class. It gets my whole body tuned up for yoga & the day. :bigsmile:

No, the winter weather here isn't particularly nice. It's not like the Canadian prairie winters I'm used to ... it's like the Pacific Northwest winters: chilly, rainy, damp, windy. Nights get down to about freezing. Daytime highs hit about 10°C. It often snows at higher elevations, and will occasionally snow as far down as sea level.

Snow here is predicted by elevation. Today, there's supposed to be snow down to 800 metres ... we're at about 50 metres above sea level. Our local mountain is about 1200 metres, so it will be topped with snow.

Today is 10°C with winds gusting to 60 km/h providing us with a "feels like" temperature of about 6°C, and they're predicting that it is going to start raining here (snowing at higher elevations) within the next couple hours.

It's also very hilly here, so trying to battle all that plus haul my butt up hills is really unpleasant.

Also, since my husband had his accident and has been in hospital, it has been pitch dark by the time I get home after visiting him. I don't mind riding at night when the weather isn't too bad, but the idea of going out in the dark, cold, wind, and often rain after a long day of work and being at the hospital ... just ... nope.


So, I brought my bicycle and trainer into the lounge room, set it all up in front of the TV, and that's where I've been riding for the past month or 6 weeks or so. Bright, climate controlled, and I can do as much or as little as I want to do.

A friend at work uses Zwift, so I got some information from him about how to set that up, and now I ride the Zwift courses. Yesterday I just wanted to do about half an hour, got on the course, and discovered that there were a series of sprints. First one I wasn't paying much attention, but I went flat out for the next two ... and today my legs are feeling it a bit!

Last Saturday, I did a longer course on Zwift and ended up riding an hour and 20 minutes. That's the longest ride I've done on a trainer in quite some time! Usually I only do 30-60 minutes. But the Zwift course was motivating enough for me to keep going.


I was running outside on weekends early in the day before going into the hospital, but I might have to give my feet a break from that for a little while.

I also walk quite a bit ... averaging about 30 km/week, but this week I'm down to 21 km. Again, trying to give my feet a break.

The one thing I do need to add back into my exercise routine is weights and core work. And a bit more stretching too!


Machka in Oz

coastalgosgal wrote: »

Question. What do you ladies do when a relative doesn't make good on their word? Ok, my step sister has a bunch of pages showing her recently passed father and my mother, like when they met etc. I sent them to her for his funeral this last March. She said she'd sent it all back. Nothing. I have emailed her our new address, etc, and she has replied stating its by her door waiting to get packed up. That's as far as its gotten. I even told her a white lie stating I was making photo albums for each of the boys, and would really like those pictures back, since Grandpa Bob was really the only grandpa they knew. No response! Aack! Any suggestions? I have sent her an email that just says, I would really appreciate those pictures back.

Rebecca
Whidbey island
Washington

LisaInNCNow wrote: »

Morning, all...

Kind of off-cycle from beginning each month on the 1st, as I started this re-dedication to the proposition of getting healthier and losing weight on January 24, but pleased to say I've lost nearly four pounds this month (after only two last month). I think it was Snowflake who was asking about how much you should try to lose weekly... and the answer still remains whatever you can stick with. I know that my body will snap back if I try to lose too much too fast. For my fellow numbers junkies, the graphs are below for this five-month journey so far. The overall goal seems to recede into the distance on occasion, but I went into it as a long-term thing, knowing that it would reasonably take me at least a year. So, I just do my best to take it literally one day at a time.

Am averaging now about one pound loss over every five to six days. I'm tracking to hit my first major weight-loss goal (150) at almost exactly the one-year mark from my start date. I know loss will slow down between now and then, so pretty relaxed about the end date on that. When I get there, I'll decide whether I wish to continue down to 135, which would put me in the "normal" BMI for the first time since I was 19 years old.

For those who don't know me, I had gastric bypass done in Sept. 2005, when I weighed 303 pounds, lost 99 pounds in the first six months after the surgery, and within the following year, hit my low of 137. Got divorced, remarried, happy, and the scale started inching back upward. The 217.9 point that I hit in January of this year was my highest since the surgery.

Anyway, for now, the most immediate goal is 164, which would put me at "overweight" instead of "obese." Working on getting to that by Thanksgiving.

Feeling pretty pleased, overall, with my journey from 217.9 pounds to 190.5:







Love y'all,
Lisa in Arkansas

LisaInNCNow wrote: »

Dr. Katie Bug: Lisa, I have made egg’s home one of my favorites. I look forward to following along as you help that house reach its full potential.

Thanks, Kay! I'm just trying to keep myself busy in the next 3.7 weeks (not that I'm counting or anything) until we close. Tomorrow or the next day, I'll put up the inside pics. Lots and lots (and lots) of work, but we'll make a priority list and knock them down one at a time. Going to take some serious Kilz painting to knock down the smoke smell in a couple rooms. Will probably have to wash walls just to get the paint to stick. Evidently the older lady who's selling it kept it up beautifully, but when she moved into town, the son and girlfriend moved in and just let everything go to heck in a handbasket.

Tracy in Edmonton: That was me asking, thanks for sharing your graphs, it helps put things in perspective. I feel like I've plateaued for the last three or 4 weeks. I just need to have patience and determination I think.

Tracy - that's one of the reasons I use the graphs so extensively. If you look at them, the month by month one looks like a nice, smooth progression. The weekly one looks more jagged, and the daily one looks like a road you would drive very carefully. It's never as smooth as it looks in the long-term... it's days and sometimes a week of setbacks, and without the graphs, I'd get very discouraged.

And because I really am a numbers junkie, this one helps the most:



Every point on this graph is the difference between the weight I am on a given day and the weight I was a week prior--so Tuesday compares to the previous Tuesday. Obviously, I'd like them all to be below that center 0 line, but they're not, and they never have been. But, one noticeable pattern is that when I struggle for a week or so, I see more losing points. It looks like a heartbeat pattern on a monitor, almost, and tells me that things always swing the other way before dropping or rising again. As long as I'm continuing to stick very close to my eating plan, I can ignore the daily blows that the scale can often give, if that makes sense, as this tells me it's rhythmic and not straight line.

More than you ever wanted to know, I'm thinking!

Love y'all!
Lisa in Arkansas