WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2019
barbiecat
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A brand new month is before us with the opportunity to build new habits and solidify the good ones we already have.
It has been good for me to take the journey to health and fitness with supportive and encouraging friends.
My resolutions for May were to keep on doing the things that have been working for me:
*log food and exercise
*drink a lot of water
*seek every opportunity to be active
*check in with this thread daily
*read books and articles to learn more about health and fitness
I did well with this and will continue these practices into the month of June.
Be sure to bookmark this page so you can find it easily each day and sign your post with a name and location so we get to know each other better.
Barbie from NW WA
My word for 2019 is "pause".
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Happy First Day of Winter!!7
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Took the water class. The plan for tomorrow is to do Cathe Friedrich’s Power Hour DVD.
Katla – things went well, thanks for asking. Now I just have to wait to get more dexterity back. But I have more than I did Wed.
Soup kitchen today then into the pool Update: no pool, helped Vince instead then it rained
Tracey – I’m so sorry you didn’t get the job. Something much better will come along, I’m sure. Please stay safe
Rita – what a great picture. Shows your hard work. Thanks for sharing. Love to see pics like this one
Is anyone watching Jeopardy?
M – are you SURE you’re not the energizer bunny? I agree with Terri, so many times I’ve been told “if you want something done, ask a busy person”
Volunteered at the soup kitchen. See, when serving we have “stations”. There is one lady who has mentioned to me a few times when I get something for someone in her “station” that that’s HER “station”. Yet, she gives people in my “station” their meal. That’s not a big deal to me, as long as the people get their meal. I just find it funny. People in her “station” will ask me for something, I won’t say “oh, I can’t get it for you. That’s not my station”. This is a soup kitchen…not a restaurant. We don’t get tips! You should see some of the food they get…yuk. But I also realize that they have to do what they can with donations.
Came home and helped Vince. See, we’re going to put this flower pot over an outlet just to make it look nicer. But he had to cut out the opening. Then worked on getting the squeegee thin enough to fit on the pole for the net for the pool. The only other alternative would be to spend $20 on another pole. At least now I can wash the windows!
Tracey – I never got a kettlebell. To me, I would most likely have to keep buying new (heavier) ones. At least with the dumbbells I can just hold another weight to make it heavier
Sue – welcome
We were thinking of having a neighborhood pool party but I’m just afraid that if there are something like 60 people I wouldn’t be able to handle it. Update: looks like it'll just be for the people on our street
Just saw that there was a “thank you” in the Newcomer newsletter to Greg for his technical knowledge. Yea, he couldn’t even import the right directory. He almost lost members. Then they’re having a pontoon party on a Monday right before our pool party. Why not have it in June? Well, they’re gonna do what they want to do.
JR – welcome. Thank you for sharing. You’ll meet a lot of very caring women on this thread
Michele in NC
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I’m back7
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Found it4
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Thanks for all the nice comments on my progress!
June goals:
Keep up my new eating habits
Figure out what is causing my bowel issues
Add swimming at least 3 times a week to my routine.
Bought my first bathing suit in 30 years and my DH was impressed with how I looked! Lol! He’s not one to compliment so I took his remarks as a good thing! It felt good to go swimming with a new suit!
RV Rita still in Roswell, NM (haven’t been abducted yet! LOL!)15 -
Barbie - The link did not work to get to this page. I had to search for it. Thanks for keeping us all together!!
Rita- if you are eating Keto that is possibly why you have bowel issues. If you read up on it that does happen with a lot of people. Your body uses most of your food and you need to drink a lot of water. What was recommended to me is to take Epson salt baths or some type of magnesium supplement. When I did this I never had issues again. And I have to add, you are doing fantastic!
Michele - The last couple days I have flipped the channel on during Jeopardy! That man is amazingly smart! He reminds me of Reid on Criminal Minds!
Have a great night everyone!
Mary from Minnesota/Arizona5 -
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June Goals
Health
1. Track all
2. Lose at least a kilo (2.2 lbs)
4. Average 1100 calories net
5. At least 30 min exercise 6 days a week
6. Five minutes meditation 5 days a week
7. Write what I'm grateful for here daily
Long term writing
8a.Spend at least 2h/day on long term writing project average
8b.produce at least 2 pages per day average
8c. Send 26 pages to correctors by June 10
8d. 76 pages sent off by the post by June 17th
Home
9. Average at least 15 min/day of cleaning
Paper
11. Average at least 5 min/day of filing
11a. Take care of at least 3 short term (1 pagish) writing or administrative task/bill per week.
11b. Make a list of short term tasks, etc and prioritise them, and do them.
Art
12. do 5 min of artwork or music/day
Remaining from May to do in first week of June: Make appointment with dentist
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May productivity - was doing awesome, but had a bit of a slow down at the end. I didn’t lose weight the last week, but I didn’t gain any either. I know what the problem is so I can right this wrong.
May happy moment - the first time I tried the elliptical at the gym (about 2 weeks after I joined) I lasted about a minute and a half and was sure I was dying. I can now manage 8 minutes at a time. I put a treadmill session between my elliptical workouts.
End of May scariness - I had a serious drop in blood sugar during my workout. I didn’t take my meter because it’s never been an issue. I was quite gratefu for the bucket of Tootsie Rolls my gym has on the counter.
Connie in Ky8 -
Hi all, happy June
@barbiecat awesome that you did well with your May resolutions. I like the word "pause" thanks for starting the post
@Machka9 Wow! winter!
@exermom what was interesting about jeopardy that you asked? that's weird about the soup lady possessive about her station. seems like these situations are everywhere.what kind of food do they have that you find yucky? Is some of it good? The party sounds fun. When is it? will you change the date if the pontoon one is just before? Or maybe you've already sent out invites?
@kevrit Where do you swim? First swimsuit in 30 years? Does that mean you haven't swum in 30 years or have had the same swimsuit for 30 years or swum in clothes? What color is the new suit?
@fanncy0626 I never knew epson salts could help with digestion.
ha, ha, I benefit from the tiny number of posts to be able (for once) to write to everyone who posted.5 -
✔️1. weigh in 60.3 up
to do 2. log all
to do 3.30 min exercise
✔️ 4. five minutes meditation today
to do 5.Spend at least 2h on long term writing project
to do ] 6.produce at least 2-finished pages per day average long term
to do 7. Take care of at least 3 shorter (1 pagish) writing or administrative task/bill, (union work doesn't count) per week
to do 8. At least 15 min cleaning
to do 9. At least 15 min filing/paperwork
to do 10.average 1100 calories net
• Overall Feeling : not bad
• Log all: to do
• Exercise: to do
• 1100 calories net average: to do
• Long term writing 2h: to do
• produce at least 2 finished pages per day average long term writing project (from June 1 to June 10,): to do
•3 Short term writing/admin per week: to do
Grateful :
1. good night's sleep
2. pleasant seeing students' work yesterday and talking to them about it
3. sunny1 -
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In the week up to May 1 my average weight was 60.53
In the week up to June 1 my average weight is 59.66
So that makes about .9 loss in month, or about 1.8 lbs.
it's important to look at average. yesterday I messed up. on the way home I bought some store bought maki for the 1st time (with raw fish in it).
I thought I'd eat some yesterday and some today but saw that the expiration date for raw fish dish is same day as prep, even if packaged like store food, so I had to either eat it or toss it.
though maybe it would have been good weight-wise to toss, I didn't want to toss this treat.
so that added to fluctuation
I need to be careful though...
I had lots of chocolate calories yesterday.that is not so fulfilling.these chocolate squares are 48 calories each and I had five. a big chunk of calories.2 -
Barbie, thank you SO much for the new thread! I’m going to try hard to at least check in, if not comment, once a day except perhaps when I’m in Bellingham June 14-16 for the first wedding among my grandchildren. I’m practicing my happy tears now just thinking of the occasion!
Pip! Glad to see your boat didn’t sink or something. I imagine you’re not permitted to bike around the promenade deck, but if it’s like most cruise ships, they had a dynamite gym on board.
Machka, happy winter to you. Thanks to our weather cycles here in the Puget Sound region, it won’t truly turn to summer until about the 4th of July Independence Day celebration, or even the week after. However, my garden is overflowing onto my walkway from the car to the house.
That is my DGS Nicolas, who lives just across the park from me. The sleeping porch I mention from time to time is in the background behind him.
Rita, what a coincidence! I’ve just ordered my first bathing suit in at least 35 years. Of course where I live I don’t need one, but my mystery trip this fall promises a pool at the “Boho Beach Getaway” where I spend 3 of my 9 days. And there is also the ocean. Can’t wait until it arrives.
Julie, how on earth are you able to juggle so many goals? I’d be exhausted just tracking them! Congratulations on including everyone so far in your post.
My goals for June are to track and check this forum every day, get over 1000 (yes, you read that right!) steps a day, and do the exercises my physical therapist gave me 3-4 times per week and swim 2-3 times a week.
Sharon Near Seattle8 -
Still catching up with the May posts, but thought I'd mark my spot for June
Love to all
Viv UK4 -
Thank you, Barbie, for starting us off on our clean slate once more.
Rita - congrats on the bathing suit! Good luck with the bowel issues, hope you get 'em figured out.
Sharon, a grandchild's wedding sounds awesome! Being around for my grands was part of the reason I started really thinking about losing weight this time around. I want to be there for their weddings!
Connie in KY - A blood sugar drop sounds a little scary.
Pip - glad you're back!
Goal for May was to be lighter at the end of it, and I did, am happy with that.
Goal for June is the same.
Up far too early this morning, not sure why, but will take advantage of it to get some writing done. Yard work today, as it's supposed to rain tonight... Finished the draft of that grant that was breaking my brain, and got it off my head for the weekend, at least. More work to be done on the ancillary docs on Monday, but those are pretty cut and dried. I am beginning to finally reserve my personal time for me, and give the organization the working hours only, and very little more. I've always been an overachiever, and it's kind of odd to not be that person.
Finally started a "House Book," for all the renovations/buildings/plans that we think of for the house, but don't write down, so forget what we talked about later. Corey's having great fun with his garden, and I find it marvelous to see how fertile the soil is here, after all the years in the desert. What's funny is that I don't eat veggies. Not bragging about it, it's a habit I'd like to change. However, they all taste like green, bitter dirt to me, with a few obvious exceptions like carrots. Corey does eat vegetables, and we'll freeze or can or pickle as much we can of what he's grown. He planted a dozen fruit trees as well, and we'll have to figure out what to do with what they produce, but not for at least a year.
Heather, you mentioned being the one who points and says "put it over there," as a gardener, and that's more my style as well. Love seeing him happily caring for all these, though.
Have a lovely weekend all. Glad to be entering June feeling well, with energy again.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR4 -
Barbie: thanks for keeping us going.
May was an eventful month, to say the least. I'm hoping June will contain less 'excitement'.Update on May Goals
It's been an eventful month, but I have come through it okay.
My word for May was GRATITUDE
I am grateful that my knee problem turned out to be temporary. I need to be more mindful of not worsening this problem by making unwise exercise choices. It's chastening to know that so much pain was a result of my own foolishness.
I am grateful that I have the inner reserves to work through problems.
I am greatful that I have a supportive network to encourage my efforts.
May Goals- Be grateful for whatever comes along. 🤦🏼♀️💁🏼Staying positive and grateful was difficult at times, especially when I had a second tumble on Tuesday when I was out gardening. However, it did make me more determined than ever to enjoy life, and live in the moment. The future is never certain.
- Log food daily/stay under goal ✅
- 9000 steps a day: gradually work back up to this goal. ✅ I had to revise this to 6000, as my knee was so painful. I just checked Fitbit, and my daily average for the month was 7558! I think I can count that as a win!
- 30+ minutes intentional exercise daily ✅
- Weigh less at the end than at the beginning ✅I just checked my records and was pleased to see that I lost 0.8lbs. Every little helps!
Let's hope I can get through today, and finish the month without any more mishaps!
My word for June is PERSERVERANCE- With daily Physio for my knee and elbow. I need to be more mindful of not worsening this problem by making unwise exercise choices. It's chastening to know that so much pain was a result of my own foolishness.
- With my daily goals
- With achieving my target weight
I am grateful that I have the inner reserves to work through problems.
I am greatful that I have a supportive network to encourage my efforts
June Goals- Log food daily/stay under goal
- 6000 steps a day: (gradually work back up to 9000)
- 30+ minutes intentional exercise daily
- Weigh less at the end than at the beginning! [/b]
☘️ Irish Terri
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Julie, how on earth are you able to juggle so many goals? I’d be exhausted just tracking them! Congratulations on including everyone so far in your post.
My goals for June are to track and check this forum every day, get over 1000 (yes, you read that right!) steps a day, and do the exercises my physical therapist gave me 3-4 times per week and swim 2-3 times a week. [/quote]
Sharon Near Seattle
@sharon
My goals are not really so numerous. I just break them down. Basically the 1st 5 are like most people here : track, get movement, and lose or maintain, the next 2 are not huge. the numbers 8 are just breaking down one goal, that I have to get to. (final date, after that I have no specific deadline) numbers 9-11 I am sure many people here do naturally. I can get behind, especially when I'm working under pressure on a longer term goal.
I've been teaching in higher ed for 10+ years, in like an adjunct type position in 3 schools. the pay is like adjunct pay (very bad) but the contracts are rather solid permanent year-round ones, and health care is included in any job here and just about any situation. I got my masters in 2011 to give myself more job security and since it's free of charge here (but unpaid) : only 300-500 euros admin fees. I think it helped some. I got more classes teaching master's level students. I was encouraged to continue in Phd. I hesitated, but signed on. My director left and I had to change directors. I just don't see eye to eye with the current one. So it's super-challenging. We work in a field where there's a great deal of subjectivity as to what is considered interesting or uninteresting or valuable or not valuable work and research.
According to law we have 3 years if pursuing full-time and 6 years if working full time while pursuing. My case is the latter, but the school is off-track and requires to jump through hoops to have the 6 years authorised by law. Nonetheless I'm behind. In, addition to having had no teacher for a year and having a teacher whose approach is totally different from mine, I had some heavy work stuff to deal with particularly between 2015 and 2017 and I did some onsite research work but did not get much writing done.
My director informed me of nothing but when I asked in march what was required for June she said 100 pages. I had never heard that before. So I try to produce. I sent off 4 pages a moment ago, so I have 22 more to produce by June 10 so I get them back from corrector by June 17th to post the whole 71 required further pages needed by the post by June 20.
Otherwise there's a risk of getting booted out. I don't think that will happen at this point, but in any case if I want to complete my studies by the end of 2020 I need to produce pages at some point.
I'm not sure that a phd will be beneficial. But I wasn't sure that the masters would be either, and it was. I don't count on a university job at all, but at this point I'd just like to finish what I undertook, partly for my own professional reputation and feeling of accomplishment and also in regards to the many people (teachers, directors, instituations) who have supported me over the years.
If I had to do over again, I think I would not have undertaken this path, but now I seems like it's best to finish. In some cases it can be useful. For example, a colleague is also getting his phd imminently and if, for example, a coordination position opens up-which is talked about- I am definitely more qualified in terms of overall experience in this field, but if he has a Phd, in addition to being a man, which always seems to work in people's favour despite the discours about equality, he is likely to get the position based on that. that said they can also say - if they want to be unconsciously sexist which is a very strong possibility- that his studies are more suitable - a very subjective question -- whether they are or not...
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morning ladies~
I am up dressed and ready for work. Yesterday was horrible...glad those days are few and far between..
one person down, I assisted, and Mary was swamped up front..
Dr Pandey is unloading more and more on Mary and I and we are about ready to crack.. He is trying to hire one more person , but they will get the full time position and I will be demoted again.. I will speak up next week , I think it highly unfair , that everytime they hire someone, they cut my hours.. nobody else.. just mine...
Will see how that goes...
I am still looking for other work.. but not beating down doors. will pray about it..
I went down after work to feed DFIL and Tom was outside.. I asked what was wrong and he just said he was frustrated because his father said yes he wanted to eat, and wouldnt open his mouth..
but when I go in, I call him sweetheart and honey and he eats for me lol..
will go down tonight for dinner...
nothing in my world that is interesting ..5 -
Happy June! Can't believe May is behind us, it was such a whirlwind My word for the year is keen
May goals with a grade (sorry, as a teacher I can't resist)
1. Stretch and embrace my social self 50/50: not much stretching, lots of social
2. Handle busy work month with grace, confidence and positivity: 85%
3. No eating after 7 pm: 50%
4. Continue journaling and embrace change: 100/70%
June goals
1. Walk out in the garden early every a.m., even if it is just to observe, in other words, notice garden every day.
2. Handle busy and chaotic last month of school with thorough attention, clear out one music cabinet per week
3. No eating after 7 pm.
4. Continue journaling and embrace change, it's ok to be scared or sad about changes.
Yesterday I took a nap and woke up feeling like my old self, even DH noticed. Perhaps I am fighting a low level virus. Had the energy to make homemade applesauce and hummus last night.
Lisa I made a binder of receipts, plans, invoices and warranties when we moved into our fixer upper 6 years ago. It has tabs/sections for each project/room/appliance. Believe it or not I turned to it just last year to find a receipt for some led pot lights that were supposed to have 25 year lifetime warranty-- turned the receipt back to manufacturer and they mailed us new lights, saving us hundreds. It might seem annoying but our "Big Book of Everything" as it is affectionately called has been a great resource. Be careful though, some receipts fade with time, who knew?
Here's to a new month, a chance to reset and reaffirm the little strategies that work.
NYKAREN
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