WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2019
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NYKAREN Oooohhh!!! Love the sand sculptures from the Neptune Festival. It's been years since I've gone.
Kim Sounds like a worthwhile but gargantuan task to producing enough food for your program...but if anyone can pull it off, you can! Glad your embroidery business is taking off. I know you'll figure it out. Busy busy lady.
Barbie Thanks for the thread & the phone update.
Speaking of updates, there is an update on Josephine the Ballerina. The pathologists have had a second look at the tumor and believe it may be sarcoma rather than neuroblastoma, which makes more sense based on the MRI findings. They sent slides off to Sloan Kettering and began chemotherapy while they wait for a definitive answer (hopefully). The good news is, sometimes there is a dramatic response to chemotherapy in tumors of this nature in children. I choose to believe that will be the case for our friend's child. She is so adorable. Here is the most recent photo. Please keep Josephine in your hearts (and prayers if you pray).
Karen in Virginia7 -
Good morning!
I had a nice long post going, the PC decided to burp so you all are spared.
For now.
Barbie - thanks for getting us revved up for a successful October. This spoke to me: The recipe for losing weight seems so simple. Eat more broccoli and fewer candy bars. Walk more and sit less. Just say "No" to foods you didn't plan to eat. The difficult part is sticking to the plan.
Terri - I am borrowing your October goals. That list fits me perfectly.
Machka - thank you for your links on computer cleaning and the love list
I was curious about the "reaching out" v. "contacting" so did an internet search. Looks like lots of folks are puzzled by this new phrase.
My other October goal is to get going again on the Strong Women Stay Young strength training and morning stretching. My hips and knees are grumbling a little lately and that's why I started the SWSY several years ago (thank you Barbie!). Will be starting over with really light weights.
Welcome new gals!!
Will close for now before this PC goes nuts again, lol.
Make it a fabulous day, ladies!
Lanette
SW WA State where it's 31f degrees out and I see my trumpet vine wasn't put in DH's shop last night
He did place it under the lean-to however. I just went out and threw a little floating row cover over it. Crossing fingers.
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Good morning all! Happy Tuesday!
Thank you Barbie for bringing us into October!
Machka- Thanks for the links to the challenges! I joined a couple of them.
Love all of the pics of babies, furbabies, gardens and farm stand offerings!
September goals:
Exercise up
weight down (by five pounds)
water up (gurgle, gurgle)
assessments for the kids done (need to be reviewed with parents)
October goals:
100 miles walked for month of October (a completely do-able challenge for me)
24 hours of strength and resistance for October (another reasonable challenge for me)
assessments reviewed with parents
get renewal/group paperwork completed and submitted (still waiting for zoning approval)
continue with water intake and healthy food choices
Kids arriving! Have to fly! ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)5 -
Machka - thank you for your links on computer cleaning and the love list I was curious about the "reaching out" v. "contacting" so did an internet search. Looks like lots of folks are puzzled by this new phrase.
I wonder if it is an attempt at a gentler approach.
I suspect that's what "go ahead" and "today" are ... instead of "I'm going to do this", it's "I'm going to go ahead and do this" ... perhaps a softer approach??
Maybe "reaching out" is the same sort of thing.
M in Oz
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Terri ... I love your monthly goal list!
Karen NY ... cool sand sculptures ... particularly drawn to the man playing the "instrument" ...
Karen VA ... so glad to hear that Josephine's doctors are consulting with another facility ... will continue to pray.
Barbie ... thank you for the new thread and the update
Kim ... a reduction in food budget like you are facing sounds impossible ... wonder how the parents of these children would react if they knew about a "cut" like that ...
I have now been at a weight plateau for four months and do not like it as I have significant weight yet to lose. Stress and interrupted sleep have contributed I am sure. But, in honesty, my food choices have been atrocious.
October Goals: Maintain 19:5 (which is the only thing I have done consistently through the plateau), restart CICO, be consistent with exercise (treadmill and kettle bell), monitor water intake (suspect I'm dehydrated as I forget to drink while fasting as well), regain mental equilibrium.
Younger son is in a downward spiral with his migraines and anxiety/depression ... the cause of my stress and interrupted sleep and crappy eating. I am powerless to help him. Besides being 700 miles away, he needs to figure this out on his own. But I can't help but be worried about so many things ...
Beth near Buffalo10 -
Low on the "I'm having a bad day" scale, but still one of those things that had me murmuring ... "Why??"
My usual grocery store has decided not to stock a favourite single serve yogurt.
After my lecture, I stopped in at a different grocery store and found them. I bought three 6-packs.
It was warm out, so I popped my jacket into the grocery bag and continued my walk to the bus.
When I got on the bus it was completely full so I ended up standing at the front all the way home. I tossed my phone in the bag too because I needed to hang on.
We rolled into my "town/suburb" and stopped at the first stop, the door swung open and caught my bag behind it with a bit of a "slam".
When the door closed I was able to rescue it but couldn't look because the bus was plunging down a hill and I was still standing and had to hang on ... but I started to smell yogurt.
Yep ... one exploded. All over my jacket and phone.
When we get into the middle of town, I usually send a text to my husband to let him know I'm in town and will be at my bus stop soon. Great. Very carefully I managed to flick my phone cover open, and start it ... but I'm doing this, standing holding a bag full of yogurt with one of them all over the place, so it was a slippery and tricky business to get that text off. I had yogurt everywhere by the time I was done ... my pants, the pole I was hanging onto, up my arm, probably in my hair ...
Fortunately the jacket is just a lightweight one I could wash in the sink ... and my phone cover is drying now ... and I don't think anything got into my phone because it still works.
But that's one of those things we just don't need in life!!
Machka in Oz8 -
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morning ladies,
i applied at an old job of mine i got laid off from there 13 yrs go
I still have good years left in me and i would get benefits too.. it would be first shift so 7-3 and maybe overtime, so we shall see13 -
Michele-you said I could say anything here.Im so used to not saying anything,I wouldn’t know how.
Debby In Va5 -
Workoutahloic50 wrote: »Michele-you said I could say anything here.Im so used to not saying anything,I wouldn’t know how.
Debby In Va
This is a public forum so do be careful. Anyone can do searches.
But you can (without naming people or places) say I am sad because ... or I am tired because ... or whatever.
If you want. None of us will try to draw it out of you if you prefer not.
M in Oz3 -
Machka - Your yogurt mishap sounds like something that would happen to me.
My October goal is to maintain. I have surpassed my lowest weight goal, but it has taken pretty serious effort to do it and I don't want to continue this way. It's really hard and probably not healthy long-term. I want to maintain and still eat normally and work out normally too.3 -
Or talk about a highlight of your day ... or something funny that happened to you ... or your exercise ... whatever.4
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Debby In VA - I don't know your complete situation, but you can say anything here and this group will support you. I'm sure there are people who need and want you around. I can tell you from experience that's true, even if you think otherwise. Take it one day at a time. Do one thing today that makes you even a tiny bit happy, even if it's to wipe the sticky stuff off the kitchen counters. Clean kitchen counters make me a tiny bit happy.5
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Barbie ~ Wonderful welcome into October post!
Michele ~ Maybe you could volunteer to have the game at your house...just a thought!
Machka ~ What a dreadful experience on the bus with the exploding yogurt!
Karen ~ Prayers for your young friend. Hope they will find out that the tumor is more treatable.
Allie ~ Hurrah for applying for the job and prayers that you will get it!
Carol in GA
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Just skimming. Grieving today. Had to put Chewy down yesterday after he started having seizures.
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Rita - I am so sorry. Big hug to you.1
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