WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2018
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Bev I dislike the abbreviations because they are open to interpretation. DYS can be dear youngest son, dear younger sister, or darn/damn younger son or sister. SIL can be sister-in-law or son-in-law, etc. Almost everybody on this thread uses them, so it's good to know what they stand for.
Karen in Virginia1 -
Pip - thanks for the pics. LOVE your dogs. I will see if I am ready for another in 4 years. Taking a lot of patience (:
Rebecca - wow. Those models are so detailed. That is amazing.
Beth - best wishes with the surgery.
Cool gray day here with some rain. A nice relief from humidity, but I just want to cover up and stay in bed! But onward I will go.
Happy Tuesday all!2 -
Machka - wonderful grad photo. Again, job well done!! I think it takes a special person to go back to school in her adulthood.... and here you are going on from here.
Thank you very much.
Yes, I'm 5 weeks into my next course ... officially embarking on my Master's. But right now, I'm looking forward to spring break in a couple weeks. Not that I'll have a week off or anything (I'll be working) but no classes will be nice.
Machka in Oz
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GM! This is my first time to EVER post and praying I do it correctly! I NEED HELP and SUPPORT! My goal is to get under 200lbs. This has been my goal for about 25 years! I just seem to get further and further away! As of this morning, I weigh 254.2 lbs. My all time high is 255. I have NUMEROUS reasons to lose the weight as it has done nothing good for me except give me a barrier. I just can't understand what I am afraid of. Why won't I lose the weight. So glad I found a group over 50 years old!! SOOOO with that said, these are my goals for the time being:
1. PRAYER TIME
2. Use MFP daily and honestly
3. Drink water.
4. Move my body...even for 5 mins which is all I can handle right now.
Are these reasonable/doable/too much?
Thanks!
Leslie from Mississippi8 -
Margaraet ~ Rose Colored Glasses? Are they supposed to make you sleepy? Where do you get them. Just curious.
Alison ~ I'm sorry you are on your feet for 8 hours. I would not be able to do that even if I were 20 yrs younger.
I had to throw out my Kashi cereal this morning. Realized when I started having gastric problems that it had soy flakes in it and they totally affected my innards.
Carol in GA4 -
Welcome Leslie from Mississippi!0
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I woke up early this morning so I have some time before meeting my friend to walk the dogs at 6:40. We are watching our recording of last night's Mariner's baseball game. I know that the Mariners won but Jake doesn't.
Barbara, I wasn't actually "pulling" weeds. Just sitting in my chair digging some recently developed weeds. I am not doing anything that will hurt anything. Because of the smoke, I don't stay out too long.
Bev, It helped me to find other things to do to relieve stress so I don't go for food immediately when the going gets tough. Reading, watching TV, meditating, listening to music or podcasts are what I do now. The other thing is that I plan my food for the day and eat only what is on my plan. I decline any food that is offered to me no matter how benign it might be. It saves me from the added stress of indecision.
Machka, I saw the video of your graduation but you look even better in your still photo.
Leslie, welcome. You did exactly the right thing. We all had to start somewhere. It helps me to read this thread every day and gain encouragement and good ideas from all these exceptional women. Setting a five minute goal for exercise is a great way to start. The hardest part of exercise is the part where you get out of your chair. Once you get started, it gets easier. Also, having a spiritual component to my weight loss journey has been very helpful to me.
Our new recliner will be delivered between 10 AM and noon. I am very excited.
Barbie from beautiful smoky NW Washington5 -
machka lovely graduation photo—so much to be proud of!
Wendy so glad you got to stop and enjoy the sunset after that stressful experience. And thanks for sharing it with all of us, beautiful
Beth strength and (( )) to you and DOS with the surgery tomorrow.
Today we visited the township of Soweto and the Apartheid museum in Johannesburg. It was overwhelming and distressing, but important to try to understand. Can’t say we are comfortable here in J-burg, but we leave tomorrow for a 3 day respite at the seaside once again (capetown) before we head home.
Secrets to success I have learned about traveling for me:
-always bring my own coffee
-always bring my lower back pillow
-always bring really good books
-always write in travel journal to make notes of what we like, see and do
-keep an open mind and heart
NYKAREN8 -
Beth ~ Meant to tell you that you and son are in my thoughts and prayers.2
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Adventures in Wisconsin travel.
So the lesson is when traveling in unfamiliar cities in torrential rain, pay attention to the cell phone FLASH FLOOD warnings.
We were at dinner in Madison Wisconsin, when every cell phone in the place went crazy with the warnings. We DID figure it was time to get to our hotel (4 or so miles west of us) but didn’t take into account that Google directions don’t have a ‘avoid flash floods’ routing.
We were safe, but caught waiting in our rental car at the top of a hill for an hour or so before the power in that neighborhood went out. We cautiously made our way off the hill and out and about - around hour two. And after after a couple reroutings due to the remainder of impromptu lakes on the roads, and 7+ cars abandoned in what was obviously underwater an hour or so earlier and one road blocking wreckage of a pick up truck and sedan we finally got to our hotel.
We arrived at our hotel 4 miles away 2 and 1/2 hours later and were checking in at the same time our friends who had dinner with us checked into their hotel in Chicago. They travelled 140 miles in the same time it took us to travel 4.
I’m ready to go home. There have been some treasured moments (particularly with my father) but I want my own bed and my kitties.
Rye in Wisconsin until this afternoon.
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Oh Rye! I want you to have your own bed and your kitties, too.2
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Michele in NC-we are getting the puppy from a breeder in N. Georgia, near Rome. I have been an advocate for years for animal rescue, so I feel somewhat guilty, but I really wanted a corgi!!! This is probably the puppy we are getting
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Machka: Congratulations!!!!!
Our kids are here!!!!!!!!! Color me happy. Right now DDIL and the baby are sleeping in. We're chatting with DS in the living room.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Thanks Karen, we hit the road again in about 1/2 hour. Only one more night away in a hotel - even if our flight won’t get us home til ridiculous middle of the night on Wednesday.
Sorry to Kvetch. I was caught in a flash flood once, water pouring into the car and it floating along with me terrified up to my chest in water. The sounds last night as my husband navigated one or two feet of water logged streets in our rented SUV really brought back that trauma.
Not exactly a restful stress free vacation. I could really use a day or two to sleep late and recover from this trip! lol
Rye7 -
Rye - How frightening! We live in a flood prone area and bought a big 4 wheel drive, high off the ground car, for that reason. Once my poor DDIL had to drive to us through surging floods down by the school with pupils being handed over the flood defences. She arrived at our house with the two grandkids (then) trembling and crying. Now we are hoping to move to Brighton and Hove the car looks quite out of place. Everyone there has small cars so they can fit into the parking spaces. The tinier the better.
WELCOME NEW PEOPLE!
Today I set off for yoga in the car and found no cars in the car park. A few started to arrive from the West side of the village, so I realised that there must still be the blockage in the main road. No teacher. We waited and waited. DH had set off to collect the car from me when a pupil struggled through on foot to say the road was blocked by a trench and the teacher had gone into a pothole and wrecked her tyres. So, DH gave me a lift back home and set off a roundabout way for the cricket.
I gritted my teeth and went out for a run - did 5k. First time since Friday. Then I ate too much chorizo. So I went upstairs and did 300 calories on the rower and the recumbent bike. It was all a bit of a struggle, but I DID it.
Our friends will have to find an alternative way through to us tonight. What a pain.
I feel as if my life is on hold waiting for exchange. I am reading some very good improving books to try to get me through it. Books on meditation, minimalism and non religious spirituality. And one on Adler. Barbie - I've downloaded the 10% Happier book.
I will have to tidy up in a bit in case they come back for coffee.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx3 -
Hello, peeps! Trucker743 (Sharon) here! I'm now 13.something pounds less than my peak! I just took Before photos the other day because that's when I thought of it.
Have three happily married daughters. Corinna is 46, Alice is 44, and Helen is 37. I also have 7 grandsons and 4 granddaughters, and one precious great-granddaughter.
I'm in my first month of a four-month prep for Gastric Bypass surgery. I have been morbidly obese a good part of my adult life, and have used multiple strategies to lose. The nutritional and group support is awesome.
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Our plans today had to change. No way to get there. Heading back to Chicago early. Good news is more time with Father.
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ps. I'm Bev
Welcome Bev👍.
Aww you do have a gentle giant. My son hates spiders, and had to show me one this past weekend in the garage. We share a huge home with this active duty son, splitting the rent. It works for us, and son gets reliable roommates. We are near two military bases so being retired military it saves us money.
When I was a Lions Club exchange student during the 1980's I lived with a host family in Wollongong NSW. Their apartment looked over the rocks against the shore. It was a great 2 months! One of the sisters in my host family took me to see the band "Australian Crawl", we screamed like groupies!
My son is a tall thing too! In high school he swallowed a frog his freshman year, so he had the imposing voice to go with the height. He hung out with what I coined the invisibles. The kids wearing goth, (not the druggies though). When he had his 18th birthday /entering Navy party, I had never seen so much facial and long hair! I almost asked one of them where his son was, thought he was a parent! My son had been packing a lot of his keeper toys, but had many of his large model cars on his bookshelves. He decided as a parting gift, each kid picked out a car. So each long haired man/ child had these big grins and a car in their hands when they left. So endearing!
Up .2 lbs but I am not worried. On my path, and Onederland is far off on the horizon, not so imposing a journey!
💗Rebecca
Whidbey island
Washington
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Fyi that pic with son was last summer. I was 250. Presently I'm 233.8👍. Soon to be in the 220's then 210's...... I can see it!
Rebecca😀
Mentally swimming in my positives in
Whidbey6 -
Carol I bought the sunglasses at Target. They are to help filter the over abundance of blue light from T.V. and LED"S. I went on line to see what glasses they recommend they had a more yellow tint and were close to 100 dollars. I thought I would try these for fifteen first and see if I notice a difference. I also have been following the recommendation of getting out in the morning and getting natural sunlight to help get myself in a good circadian rhythm.
Margaret2
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