WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR NOVEMBER 2018

Hi Barbie. Thank you for the lovely welcome. I am a carer to my husband who has multiple health problems. I had three children twins aged 49 and my
Late daughter would have been 43 but Sadly passed when she was 28. Earlier this year I broke my hip and just after I came out if hospital after surgery it was discovered I had colon cancer so another major operation. I'm struggling to get rid of the weight gained. I was off work for five months but I'm
Back at work now.

Thank you and I hope you are recovering from your surgery that must have been very painful, I use a static bike too.
Carol UK

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pipcd34 wrote: »

coastalgosgal wrote: »

Need Pips boot, really I do!😋
Rebecca
(The suspense will be agonizing)

I’ll get u after the run tomorrow

LOL Rebecca and Pip. I can see it now.... Rebecca, better you than me, at least this round. Whew!

Rebecca, so neat you can follow DS's flight! Do you think he'll be able to communicate much as to where he's staying, friends he meets, sights he sees? Tho being able to and actually doing can be 2 different things to kiddos.

Pip - love all the photos by the way. When will you and Kirby return?

OK ladies, don't forget to set those clocks back!

Lanette
Soggy SW WA State with a fawn grazing in the back yard. Wish Pip would give IT the boot. I know it's planning to keep munching on all our trees and bushes.

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

Well, I did the 5k Parkrun this morning with my son and the rest of the family cheering me on.
Unfortunately no one remembered to take a photo.
I did it in a personal best for me, of official time 46.40. I am happy with that and ten seconds of that was getting to the starting point. My son egged me on. I was 502 out of 508. But I was first in my age group.
For those who don't know me, I am 69 and started jogging on Jan 1st this year.

Congrats!!

We've got 2 or 3 Parkruns sort of in the area but still a bit of a drive away. I wish my more immediate area would get one.


Machka in Oz

Did Kathy Smith’s Great Buns and Thighs DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a 10 Minute Solution Tighten and Tone Pilates DVD.

We’re supposed to go to this service at the local synagogue for the victims of the most recent shooting. Vince doesn’t want to go but I feel we should. So he’s going with me. Fortunately, it will only last like an hour because they’re having a hazardous waste pick up today. We take batteries, etc. to this place. They only have it twice a year. This evening I’m supposed to usher at the church. I just looked at the schedule, it looks like this lady only puts three of us on the schedule, one per week. Why? That’s one I don’t know. Found a recipe for a lemon cake online yesterday so I’ll probably make that today.

Barbie – a friend of mine had chemo for breast cancer and she would get very sick. She said that one thing that really helped her was to have some fresh ginger.

Cari in TX – actually, Shadow isn’t our cat. See, our daughter is in vet school (this is where I cry) in the Caribbean. I know, I know, life is tough. But while she’s there, her cat is staying here. Her bf in VA is living with this guy who smokes and she doesn’t want her cat exposed to that. Plus, the vet is here. She knows Shadow is well taken care of. We have 4 cats of our own, so one more really isn’t that big a deal. A friend of mine who moved from Texas introduced me to a grapefruit pie. I’d never heard of one and was afraid it would be hard to get the grapefruit segments out, but surprisingly it wasn’t. I’ll probably take that recipe with me and make it for a condo pot luck when we go down there

Karen in VA – who is that dino? A kid in a dino costume came to our house this year and I seem to recall that he had to be careful on the stairs.

M – I wish only the best for you with the dental issues you’re having.

Boo…we move the clocks back an hour tonight. Boo……Boo….Boo (as you can tell, I don’t like this)

Sofia – welcome! You’ll find us a chatty and caring bunch. Don’t worry about reading each and every post. Sometimes we just have to skim. Everyone understands.

Katla – I know you watch the sodium in foods. I used to buy the original Boca burgers. But recently the store didn’t have any so I got the turkey burgers. They are almost double in sodium as the original ones! I didn’t realize this until I’d opened the package. What brand of veggie burgers do you recommend that’s low in sodium? I know the Boca original were lower than the Morningstar. At least, that’s my recollection.

Finished bringing in the Halloween decorations and started putting out the Christmas ones. Vince is getting worse and worse with his OCD about the decorations. I wanted to put out the “fence” for the lights and put the piece of PVC that goes over the stake in front of it. He got upset thinking that I’d get the sequence wrong. I just said “don’t you see the pieces on the ground. That’s how I know that I have the sequence right.” Then he was telling me over and over about how I should be careful around the lights. Honestly, I heard him the first time. But I’m just letting this roll off my shoulders.

Made a lemon cake for when Steve gets here and just put the crumb coating of icing on it. I’ll probably finish icing it tomorrow. Went to church, I was scheduled to usher. It looks like what this girl does is puts just three of us, one each week (there needs to be two). Honestly!!!! Then went to Food Lion to get juice for Steve and ice cream. I should have gotten Vince milk, but I thought he would have enough until Monday when I’ll go to Aldi after exercise, only he won’t. So I may have to go back there tomorrow.

The plan for tomorrow is that Vince wants to trim the bushes. I don’t think this is the time of year when you’re supposed to trim them. Maybe if I’m real lucky the ones I don’t want will die. But can I get that lucky?

Sofia – welcome! Read what you can, when you can.

Janetr – love your ornaments!

Dejavu…. – welcome. No way you’re overqualified!!! I’m so sorry about your daughter

Dana – whew! Glad Dolly is better

Vicki – happy anniversary

Katie – don’t you just hate it when you should have bought something? I know that I do

Iced the cake for Steve. Now it’s in the refrigerator getting the icing hardened. Running the d/w and the washing machine.

Michele in NC

Tips that have worked for me

Put your current numbers into MFP
Select sedentary as your activity level
Choose how much you'd like to lose (i.e. 1 lb/week)
... and start weighing (with food scale) and logging every bite.


A few extra things have helped me along the way:

1) Exploring my grocery stores and markets to find delicious, filling low calorie foods. It's amazing what's out there.

2) Exercising as much as possible. Exercise gives me extra calories to work with so that I can have things like pizza now and the ... but to keep my sanity and not wear myself out, my exercise quantity varies as does what I do for exercise.

3) Eating how I want to eat. This is where everyone is different ... some people prefer to employ fasting, others like high protein diets, some like vegetarian diets, some like to eat 2 or 3 meals a day, others like to graze. Go with what works for you.

Personally, if I had to define what I do, my diet is probably most similar to a Mediterranean diet with a vegetarian lean ... and I'm a grazer. I also have to adjust what I do depending on my cycling events ... they're tricky because I need the fuel without going overboard.


And stick to it for 5 weeks, then reassess how things are going.


Machka in Oz

Dana, yes I do sell my ornaments. There is a FB page Janet's Bedazzling Ornaments. You can check it out if you'd like. Hope I don't get in trouble for that.

Janetr OKC