WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2018
barbiecat
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I read somewhere that "September is the new January". This is based on school starting in many parts of the world in September. Even if this isn't true for you, this is one more good time to make a fresh start on your goals and resolutions for your life.
How did you do with your goals and resolutions for August?
What goals and resolutions do you have for September?
My journey to health and fitness has been successful in large part to the support I've gotten from the women on the "Women Ages 50+" thread. Thank you to all of you who have supported and encouraged me and welcome to all who are joining us for the first time.
Don't forget to bookmark this page so you can find it again.
My word for 2018 is "tenacity".
Resolutions for August (with end of the month comments)
*Do what's necessary to deal with back pain that came on suddenly (yes)
*Act the way I want to feel (yes)
Resolutions for September
*keep following the doctor's directions
*log food and water daily
Barbie from beautiful NW Washington40
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Thanks Barbie
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Welcome September! Thanks Barbie!!
Lanette SW WA State1 -
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Thank you, Barbie, for moving us into a new month. It's hard to believe we are starting in to September.
Janetr OKC1 -
Thank you Barbie, for starting September off and being our fearless leader. You inspire us all!💗
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2018 Monthly August
Walking Distance (km): 96.0
Walking Time (min): 1148.3
Cycling Distance (km): 114.1
Cycling Time (min): 317.9
Flights of Stairs Climbed Number: 116.0 * 20 = 2320 stairs
Stairs Climbed Time (min): 92.8
Totals
Total Distance (km): 210.1
Total Distance (miles): 130.6
Total Time (min): 1558.9
Total Time (hr): 25:58:56
That's it for August!!
Oh yes ... I dropped 1.5 kg in August. Not too bad considering I haven't been tracking my food and the quantities my husband serves are larger than they used to be. I've taken up running and stair climbing again to off-set the food intake.
Machka in Oz
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Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 minReview ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of running)
Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
May -18 … 167.6 km (104.1 miles) = 29 hours 08 min
June-18 … 349.9 km (217.4 miles) = 36 hours 58 minutes
July-18 ... 324.2 km (201.5 miles) = 24 hours 26 minutes
Aug-18 ... 210.1 km (130.6 miles) = 25 hours 59 minutes
There was more walking and running in August ... hoping for a bit more cycling in September!!
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
2018 Monthly September
Walking Distance (km): 0
Walking Time (min): 0
Cycling Distance (km): 0.0
Cycling Time (min): 0.0
Stairs Climbed Number: 0
Stairs Climbed Time (min): 0
Totals
Total Distance (km): 0
Total Distance (miles): 0
Total Time (min): 0
Total Time (hr): 0:00:001 -
A brief update for August/September ...
Me:
-- working full-time (new projects!)
-- attending a Master's level course at uni (about Management)
-- still trying to catch up on all the paperwork and stuff surrounding my husband's situation
-- increasing my running for a 5K event on September 23
-- walking, running, cycling, and climbing stairs!
My husband:
-- Had bad workplace accident on March 22 ... severe brain injury + some other issues
-- Was finally discharged on July 2 & is at home with homecare during the day, and I am his carer in the evenings and on weekends + a variety of rehab throughout the week.
-- He's got issues with his left leg which prevent him from advancing very far with regaining fitness, but he rode a bicycle a short distance outside last weekend!
-- He's got issues with his right arm, as well.
-- But he's surprising people with the advancements regarding his brain injury. There are still some issues with that, but it is much better than it could have been. He seems to have a rough week or two, and then makes a small surge of improvement, then plateaus for a bit ... that sort of cycle.
It's kind of one day at a time these days.
Machka in Oz
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Thanks Barbie for getting us started on a new month again. Spent the afternoon going to movie and dinner for our anniversary which was August 23. We had planned to do this last Saturday but got a call from DH's doctor telling us to go to the emergency room. So we spent 5 hours there instead. Enjoyed the movie, Christopher Robin. Taking DD to airport early tomorrow so she can catch a plane for Denver. She and her BF are taking a trip to CA and Mexico. She will be gone for a week. They are touring haunted places in CA and staying with my cousin in Mexico.
Goals for September are to go to water exercise consistently and cut sugar in my diet.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA4 -
A very happy September to all!
I had hoped to be spending September in Hove, enjoying the seaside, but you all know that story. 
I am surprising myself with my equanimity. I know there is nothing I can do at this stage of the game, so my agitation is less than it was when I felt there was something. Serenity prayer, I guess.
I have also been doing bits of meditation here and there and reading 10% Happier and similar books. They have helped a lot. I am getting better at moving on from troubling, recycling thoughts. I am still an angry person, but can get out of the cycle quicker. I am enjoying the lovely, early autumn weather. Mist over the fields.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx7 -
I'll be joining in.. start of Spring here so hopefully motivation will be easier.
I have a goal to lose 20kg by January 2019 so planning on 1kg per week.
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Thanks Barbie for new thread 1
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September 1- WOW! This year is moving right along!
Thank you, Barbie for moving us on! Please keep doing what the doctor ordered. You need to get pain free again. Great job you have been doing!
Sue in WA Happy Anniversary!
Matchka You are doing amazing things considering all that is on your plate. Glad to hear the updates on your husband.
Welcome to the new ladies!
(((Hugs))) to all because we all need them for whatever reason.
Congratulations for all the successes!
Need to go check what my goals were for August.
Kylia
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Thanks Barbie,
I went garage saling with my youngest daughter today and she was delighted to find a gorgeous little dapple gray rocking horse at the Men's Shed. It's a place in town where old retired guys hang out in a garage and fix up things that they've rescued from the dump and then sell it to raise money for charity. I don't know who was smiling more, my daughter with her cute rocking horse for my future grandbaby, or the old guys who were beaming that someone loved and valued the work they are doing... My score of the day was a book, "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin, and I am heading to bed now to start reading it. I am pretty happy already, but there's always room for a bit more happiness! I am happy that winter is over and it's the first day of spring, and I've got a foal coming soon and I'm about to start my seasonal fun of making queens. Lots of things to be grateful for, Wendy 7 -
August
Continue to Log everything!- Done 98%
30 active minutes 5 days a week- 33%
Lose 3 pounds - Well Lost Actually did, but not really-SMH- Started at 122.8, up to 124.6, finished at 121.2. Was a definite roller coaster, but a loss all the same!
Finish deep cleaning house- 50% Can only do so much in the time and energy available
Fresh food- 30%
August was a rough month. The upside is I finished less than when I started. There was lots of eating out. Lots of exhausted nights. Did get flower beds looking pretty, so Win!
September goals are simple:
Be aware of and log as much as possible.
Be active 30 mins a day 5 days a week
Water- Will be walking and traveling lots so always a challenge.
Enjoy my time off work!
Lose 2 pounds.
Only 5 work hours until vacation! So tired of the lack of help and concern by all but one other person. Will still be spending some time working as I am not caught up, but when sitting on deck in robe, listening to wildlife, looking at mountains, working isn't so bad
I usually have plenty of activity, but also plenty of alcohol, will try to be aware of CICO.
Have a blessed day to all my Strong Ladies!
Kylia in Ohio
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Barbie- thank you for starting off September..you truly are our fearless leader.
I am hoping September is better than August3 -
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Happy September! I have mixed feeling about it--I love fall, but we all know what follows . . .
Barb I love your analogy--"September is the new January". I am a school teacher and September is definitely January for me. A new beginning!
My goals for September:- Continue walking on a daily basis
- Continue tracking
- No eating after 6 p.m.
- Weigh in October 1st at 143 (currently 145.3) I am hypothyroid and it makes me very slow.
Good luck everyone!
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Happy first day of Spring!
We've got 2 hours and 44 minutes of extra daylight than we did back on the darkest day of June 21.
Last week (and today) have been wintery, but it looks like there's a little bit of warmth on the forecast for the middle of next week.
And the daffodils are blooming!
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