WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2019

pipcd34 · February 2019

stats for the day:

bike ride hm 2 gym- 8.17min, 12amph, 131mhr, 1.6mi= 77c
manual treadmill, walk- 47min, 97ahr, 108mhr, 2.22mi= 228c
bike ride gym to dome- 6.13min, 14.4amph, 128mhr, 1.4mi= 59c
walk sta 2 wrk- 9.46min, 105mhr, .5mi= 45c
walk wrk 2 sta- 7.47min, 99mhr, .4mi= 39c
ride dome 2 hm, sprinkles and WINDY!- 22.08min, 7.1amph, 136mhr, 2.6mi= 194c

took it easy today. Total cal - 646

Machka9 · February 2019

Katla49 wrote: »

Machka: Keeping you in my prayers and good thoughts. I hope you get a resolution that solves the problem and allows you to enjoy long-distance bike rides again. The bone density scan and MRI are both good ideas. I have had two bone density scans, several years apart. The first one showed bone loss and I was advised to take calcium and exercise. The second one was set up by my new doctor. It showed increased bone density to the point I’m out of the worry zone. I am thrilled and very happy about it. I was told by my previous doctor that it was impossible to improve bone-density after the first bone scan but she thought I might be able to slow the decline. That turned out to be less than what has happened. Weight bearing exercise plus Vitamin D3 are the things that I increased and I also started taking alondrate, a bone density medication. The combination is working beautifully for me, although it hasn’t fixed my damaged knee. Keeping my weight down is the best helper for the damaged knee, which is an over-use injury that is not related to bone density. I damaged my cartilage while posting at a trot on a lesson horse for too long. (This is not the same teacher I've had for the past few years.) Losing just a few pounds of weight makes a difference in eliminating knee pain for me. :flowerforyou:

Funny story about a bone density scan ...

In 2008, when I was 41 years old, I was in my last year of my Bachelor of Education degree in Canada. I had also been involved in ultra-long distance cycling for a decade at that point, and ultra-long distance cycling doesn't do any good for the bones at all. In fact, there's evidence it can be harmful. For reasons that have not been well researched, long distance cycling uses up a massive amount of the body's calcium (that's partly why my teeth are in such horrible shape). And I had started perimenopause.

I had also had a bad crash in 2007 which resulted in a separated shoulder which was still giving me issues almost a year later.

So knowing all that, I went to a university doctor to ask about the shoulder, and also asked about a bone density scan.

She wasn't much help regarding the shoulder, and when I got to the bone density scan she said to me, "We don't do those for people your age."

I explained about the long distance cycling ... which she dismissed entirely. I don't think she realised the distances I was talking about or thought I was exaggerating or something.

I explained about the perimenopause ... which she dismissed with "You're too young for perimenopause."

I asked at what age people can start getting bone density scans, and she replied, "The youngest they'll start doing them is when you reach 40 and you've got a way to go before that", and then gave me the "we're done here" and ushered me out.

Then it hit me ... she thought I was the age of the average student at the university!! Figured I was in my mid or maybe late 20s!!

But then I moved to a remote part of Australia for a number of years and never bothered pursuing a bone density scan. Now I will. Surely I'm old enough now!!

M in Oz

Poerava14 · February 2019

barbiecat wrote: »

The dogs and I had a nice walk together after our third nap of the day.

Here is an interesting question to ask yourself--What would I get up and do on a day when I was really sick? No need to share your answer, but I realized that walking the dogs is what I'd do even if I did nothing else on my to do list.

Barbie

Barbie: I'd make DH a substantial mid-day meal. He sometimes forgets to eat, but has a hearty appetite for any meal that is prepared for him. He struggles with microwaving, so really needs the assistance. Clearly Gretchen Rubin is a brilliant woman if she is quoting you.

No January goals were set, so for February my intentions are:
* Study and practice Reiki daily
* Exercise patience and give my healing hand rest
* Adjust calories in to compensate for less gym exercise this month
* Adjust budget and begin augmenting savings again
* SMILE with my mouth, eyes and heart. Builds compassion.

Rori
Colorado Foothills

Machka9 · February 2019

barbiecat wrote: »

Here is an interesting question to ask yourself--What would I get up and do on a day when I was really sick? No need to share your answer, but I realized that walking the dogs is what I'd do even if I did nothing else on my to do list.

Barbie

I've been really sick a few times in recent years ... measles in 2016 is one example ... and all I did was to get myself somewhat together to go to the doctor.

If I don't figure I need a doctor or doctor's certificate, then I only get up for the toilet. And even that can be a struggle.

M in Oz

bwcetc · February 2019

Kim ... good ideas! Thanks.

Graceandmiracles · February 2019

Well I did it and made it five days with no dessert. First time in probably a year. Kept it real low sugar all week, barely any. Tomorrow will be cheat day but will try and stay under calories. Might make half batch of cookies and freeze all except a few immediately. Coming to the forums made all the difference. So glad I found you all!

exermom · February 2019

Did some HIIT today. The plan for tomorrow is to do an Upper Body Bikini Burn DVD.

Pip – (((HUGS))). You are in a tough spot. Just keep remembering that retirement isn’t that far away. Treating your employees so that they don’t want to leave…that’s the way to do it. How wonderful that you are running with Kirby

Welcome everyone new!

My sinuses are acting up so I took a decongestant and, as usual, I’m really dry. Drinking a lot of water.

Went to SC today with some friends. Went to this ceramics place that they rave about. Personally, I wasn’t impressed. Then went to a store and bought some paint for ceramics that our place no longer carries. Had lunch at Fatz, just had steamed broccoli and water to drink. These decongestants make me not want to eat (which is a good thing)

Anette – sure hope we get a refund. That’s fantastic for you!

M – your story about the BDS reminded me of one of mine. I fractured my ankle and after it had healed, I went to get up and it totally gave out on me. I knew something was wrong, I just didn’t know what. I kept insisting to the MD that I wanted a BDS. She kept saying over and over “we don’t do them for people who haven’t gone thru menopause”. Well, I kept on and on and she finally ordered it. I honestly think she did it more to shut me up than anything else. Was she ever surprised when it came back that I had osteoporosis!

Going to take a shower and go to bed.

Michele in NC

Machka9 · February 2019

Getting some vitamin D!!

cityjaneLondon · February 2019

Hi all,
Slept. Like a log.

What would I do if I were really sick? Crawl to the toilet. That's all I could do. Oh, clean my teeth, still lying down. Took my blood pressure meds. I made easy food.
Didn't wash or dress for days. Didn't change my pyjamas. Still haven't washed my hair. Will do that today.

I will try a bit a bit of rowing today.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

cityjaneLondon · February 2019

Me, this morning, after my illness. Note the lovely hairstyle. I will wash it today.

Heather UK xxxxxxx

grandmallie · February 2019

Heather~ Bless your heart... hope you and hubby are on the mend...scale really hasn't moved in a week.. but not going to worry.. still eating the way im supposed to.
working 7:30-1 today..

auntiebk · February 2019

Thank you Barbie for getting us off to a fresh February start.
Just finished skimming January, will have to catch up with 4+ pages of February tomorrow.

Ah, the powers of positive, Plan B procrastination. Most important Thursday? SWSY. What did I do? Fire district minutes from Jan 23 meeting ;} It's only been on the list for 8 days. Now to start the taxes (on the list for 3 days). Stopped prepping post and got up and did SWSY. Yay me. Too bad both ate up the only sunny day this week...

Kylia fun is the important thing. Dance on! Thanks be for the Aubrey update. Good news.
Carol sorry about the stinky gift. TMI:

Scooter puked up a bit yesterday. I'd worry as he is subject to pancreatitis, but then I saw bits of the greenie dental chew in the spew. No more for him!

Grace "husband was replaced with an alien last night as he came home from work cheerful and was talkative and friendly..." love it when that happens

Barbie sad you're :sick:
Lanette "...before the really sick people arrive..." Brilliant!
Rita you're right, Bulletproof Coffee sounds REALLY gross.
Betsy Brava for keeping up with exercise and food journal. Well done.
pip running amidst 25thousand people? Yikes!
Allie and Carol thanks for the Alfie pic, cracked me up :bigsmile:
KJ Yay YOU for declining to take unscheduled kiddo. Delighted to hear you taking time for yourself.
Sharon I just love your Allan stories. Can imagine you two squirting away the summer, especially with no clothes to get wet...

Felicia, Lanette, Kylia et al what you all said about comparisons, accepting ourselves, thank you for your wise words.

results:
Jan: walk one more step 94%, 60 g protein=94% rx/vits=90% meditate 97%, knee exercises=97% SWSY up 100% SWSY low 100% core= 100% Tumble=39% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%
Dec: walk one more step 71%, 60 g protein=71% rx/vits=76% meditate 81%, knee exercises=81% SWSY up 0% SWSY low 0% core= 0% Tumble=44% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%
Nov: walk one more step 63%, 60 g protein=77% rx/vits=77% meditate 80%, knee exercises=83% SWSY up 13% SWSY low 10% core=13% Tumble=37% hang up or purge art 1, AF 77%
Oct: walk one more step 74%, 60 g protein=71% rx/vits=58% meditate 42%, knee exercises=42% SWSY 0% core=13% Tumble=19% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%

February intention, Play more with Tumble, while maintaining percentages.
Daily: walk one more step, 60 g protein, meditate, knee exercises, 10 minutes play training Tumble.
Twice weekly: core, SWSY upper, SWSY lower
Weekly: hang or purge 1 piece of art
Bonus: AF days

Lighter, lovelies!

Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
walk one more step 29/31, 60 g protein 29/31, rx/vits 28/31, meditate 30/31, knee exercises 30/31, SWSY UP 9/9, SWSY LOW 9/9, core 9/9, play with Tumble 12/31, hang up or purge art 0/4 AF 23/31.
Word for 2019: "GOOD" good attitude, good food, good times, good choices, good enough, feel good, GOOD!
01/30 LT: start taxes, CFRFPD minutes-N MT: dog group-Y ST: make 4H email group, send meeting notice/request for questions-Y
01/31 LT: SWSY-Y MT: CFRFPD minutes-Y ST: comb Scooter-N

kymarai · February 2019

Good morning from Ohio! Warming up here for a few days. Highs in the 40-50* and no more lows below freezing until next Thursday! Lots of rain forecasted, but at least not snow.

Aubrey continues to impress and delight. They are on a path to bringing her home this upcoming week! My niece shared a video of her taking a bottle and says she is latching well. My niece is finally able to stay all the time with her! Praises!

My sil has been in a bad spot since September. Lots of counseling and learning about herself and she is coming around. She gave my dh and I a gift certificate to Eddie Merlots for our birthdays. DH really wanted to go tomorrow on my birthday, but they were booked. We are going this evening. OMG! It is a dining experience! I dont get excited about food, but I loved this place! It may be our new special occasion place. Too expensive to go very often. Friends took us there for Christmas. SIL is coming with us. It will be fun.

Tomorrow my youngest daughter is fixing me chicken n dumplings for lunch. My favorite meal. Will probably end up at a super bowl party for a short while. My oldest daughter and her family are on their way to Disney as I type.

Thank you ladies for all your support! Husband hasn't been hungry after work-smh. The upside is we haven't been eating out and I haven't had to really cook. The downside is me eating something substantial and not junk. I had a high protein day yesterday which I'd not my normal. I needed something lower fat with higher protein last night. Ended up with low fat cottage cheese and tomatoes for supper. Cottage cheese is the only thing I eat that is low fat. I don't care for the high fat kind except in lasagna;) Finished the evening with popcorn and one Andes mint.

Michele- sounds like you had a good time in spite of things. Now that you have been to that ceramic shop, you can decline next time. Been there. Done that. I hope you are feeling better today.

Hugs to those who are sick, injured. Or just plain dealing with stuffs!

Congratulations to all the met goals!

Encouragement to meet our February goals.

Appreciation for all of your stories and support!

Kylia

Machka9 · February 2019

kymarai wrote: »

She gave my dh and I a gift certificate to Eddie Merlots for our birthdays. DH really wanted to go tomorrow on my birthday, but they were booked. We are going this evening. OMG! It is a dining experience! I dont get excited about food, but I loved this place! It may be our new special occasion place. Too expensive to go very often. Friends took us there for Christmas. SIL is coming with us. It will be fun.

Tomorrow my youngest daughter is fixing me chicken n dumplings for lunch. My favorite meal. Will probably end up at a super bowl party for a short while. My oldest daughter and her family are on their way to Disney as I type.

Kylia

Happy Birthday!

klanders30 · February 2019

Morning Ladies!

hugs all around.

Going to get out of the house and enjoy a little cold sunshine today. Also going to make some meals for a colleague/friend who is facing gyn surgery later in the week. Very tough situation, she's an older mom and is facing her second round of cancer, five years ago, skin cancer and now (potentially) ovarian. She is having her left fallopian tube and ovary removed.

NYKAREN

LisaInAR · February 2019

Kylia - I depend on fat-free cottage cheese as my go-to for protein, and tend to eat it with some highly spiced meat, like taco meat or spicy chicken, to keep protein levels high without adding too much to my calorie load. So pleased to hear of Aubrey's continued progress.

Heather - Bless your heart. You definitely don't look like your usual well-coiffed, smiling and poised self. Hope you're feeling better.

I am being driven crazy by my son's needy cat at the moment. Mrr has dogged (catted?) my every footstep ever since I got up this morning, which annoys both me and my cat, Egg. Me, because I've nearly tripped over him a half dozen times--he is not a small fragile cat, he's a big, hulking bear of a cat, and cannot be ignored when he's nearby. And it annoys Egg, because while she doesn't necessarily want affection right this minute, she heartily dissaproves of me petting Mrr. She's far less stressed about him overall, but hissing at him every time he gets within sight this morning. *sigh* Cats are weird.

For a change, a weekend stretches in front of us without plans or work to do... feels so luxurious! The only thing I must do today is get my daughter's painting in the mail before I go on driving restriction on Tuesday. Not exactly going to take long!

Might be a good day for a drive, just exploring the area nearby us. And speaking of "us," while I miss our son, it's been so amazing to be just the two of us for the last week... Corey will pick John up next Saturday, and we'll have him for about six more weeks before he heads off to college in Oregon.

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Machka9 · February 2019

So aside from getting extra Vit D (photo several posts above) ...

I was so tired last night that I slept for about 11 hours. That was probably good for the fatigue level, but also for my hip/leg. 11 hours of not putting any pressure on that leg meant that when I got up in the morning, it didn't ache so much.

Once awake, I finished taking down my Christmas decorations. My husband took them downstairs and put them away. He also helped by moving the dining room table into the non-Christmas location, and getting me all set up at it with my large, comfy office chair rather than a dining room chair. I've also got a footstool under the table.

I sit at the dining room table to use my laptop. If I need quiet, I'll take it to the office, but I prefer to sit at the dining room table whenever possible. My dining room table location gives me views out the big windows in three directions, and we're high up so I feel like I'm in a tree house. Looking out the window right in front of the table, I can see the water in the bay. It's nice and bright and cheerful.

I tidied things up a bit ... just a bit at a time, not too much walking. And started going through some of the heaps of paper that magically accumulate -- sorting them into categories. I would still love to get a professional organiser in to help me do it. I know how to do it ... I just want someone else to do it. But it costs so much. I could get my whole house cleaned twice for the amount a professional organiser will charge to sort paper for an hour. I don't get it.

Then I did my nails and worked on my husband's story for a bit.

I'm thinking of doing a slow cooker meal tomorrow. I haven't done that in ages. I do a fairly nice chicken-veg curry.

We were thinking about a BBQ, but there's a total fire ban on again tomorrow with the temp scheduled to hit 29C.

No walking, running, cycling, rowing, climbing stairs or lifting weights this weekend ... despite the fact that today was a gorgeous day for cycling. I'm trying to give my hip/leg a chance to start healing, whether it is bone or ligament or whatever. And I have to say that it feels better tonight than it did last night. Last night it was killing me.

M in Oz

kymarai · February 2019

Machka- rest sounds like a great idea!

pipcd34 · February 2019

auntiebk wrote: »

Thank you Barbie for getting us off to a fresh February start.
Just finished skimming January, will have to catch up with 4+ pages of February tomorrow.

Ah, the powers of positive, Plan B procrastination. Most important Thursday? SWSY. What did I do? Fire district minutes from Jan 23 meeting ;} It's only been on the list for 8 days. Now to start the taxes (on the list for 3 days). Stopped prepping post and got up and did SWSY. Yay me. Too bad both ate up the only sunny day this week...

Kylia fun is the important thing. Dance on! Thanks be for the Aubrey update. Good news.
Carol sorry about the stinky gift. TMI:
Scooter puked up a bit yesterday. I'd worry as he is subject to pancreatitis, but then I saw bits of the greenie dental chew in the spew. No more for him!
Grace "husband was replaced with an alien last night as he came home from work cheerful and was talkative and friendly..." love it when that happens
Barbie sad you're :sick:
Lanette "...before the really sick people arrive..." Brilliant!
Rita you're right, Bulletproof Coffee sounds REALLY gross.
Betsy Brava for keeping up with exercise and food journal. Well done.
pip running amidst 25thousand people? Yikes!
Allie and Carol thanks for the Alfie pic, cracked me up :bigsmile:
KJ Yay YOU for declining to take unscheduled kiddo. Delighted to hear you taking time for yourself.
Sharon I just love your Allan stories. Can imagine you two squirting away the summer, especially with no clothes to get wet...
Felicia, Lanette, Kylia et al what you all said about comparisons, accepting ourselves, thank you for your wise words.

results:
Jan: walk one more step 94%, 60 g protein=94% rx/vits=90% meditate 97%, knee exercises=97% SWSY up 100% SWSY low 100% core= 100% Tumble=39% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%
Dec: walk one more step 71%, 60 g protein=71% rx/vits=76% meditate 81%, knee exercises=81% SWSY up 0% SWSY low 0% core= 0% Tumble=44% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%
Nov: walk one more step 63%, 60 g protein=77% rx/vits=77% meditate 80%, knee exercises=83% SWSY up 13% SWSY low 10% core=13% Tumble=37% hang up or purge art 1, AF 77%
Oct: walk one more step 74%, 60 g protein=71% rx/vits=58% meditate 42%, knee exercises=42% SWSY 0% core=13% Tumble=19% hang up or purge art 0, AF 77%

February intention, Play more with Tumble, while maintaining percentages.
Daily: walk one more step, 60 g protein, meditate, knee exercises, 10 minutes play training Tumble.
Twice weekly: core, SWSY upper, SWSY lower
Weekly: hang or purge 1 piece of art
Bonus: AF days

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
walk one more step 29/31, 60 g protein 29/31, rx/vits 28/31, meditate 30/31, knee exercises 30/31, SWSY UP 9/9, SWSY LOW 9/9, core 9/9, play with Tumble 12/31, hang up or purge art 0/4 AF 23/31.
Word for 2019: "GOOD" good attitude, good food, good times, good choices, good enough, feel good, GOOD!
01/30 LT: start taxes, CFRFPD minutes-N MT: dog group-Y ST: make 4H email group, send meeting notice/request for questions-Y
01/31 LT: SWSY-Y MT: CFRFPD minutes-Y ST: comb Scooter-N

Needless to say, it will be a slow jog. They r all hoisin different sections, not all at once

WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2019

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