WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2021

Katla49 · June 2021

I was able to go to yoga today. Many of my fellow students are back. I learned about one longtime yoga friend who has been put in a nursing home in another state because of alzheimers. He will be missed.

pipcd34 · June 2021

Stat for the day-

Walk w/family- 2hrs 22min 43sec, 121elev, 3.34ap, 85ahr, 105mhr, 8.12mi= 763c
Strava app = 983c

Crazy busy day today, got the spin bike, chair and two cute pillows, spent $575. Hopefully I’ll sell,y trainer and chair, pillows and loveseat, if I get what I’m asking for, then I would only have spent $40

barbiecat · June 2021

grogers511 · June 2021

✳️✳️ ACCOUNTABILITY ✳️✳️

✖️Day 10: Thursday, June 3rd 🛑 BINGE - AGAIN. 2 days in a row.🛑

Feeling better today. More rested.

➡️ I’m starting my streak count over.

PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION!
—Ginger-in-Texas

Katla49 · June 2021

Katla49 · June 2021

skuehn48 · June 2021

auntiebk · June 2021

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s

Chose well: BP, T’ai Chi, dogs to powerline,
Bonus: Freddie’s, recycling, chopped another tarpload of brush, Joe’s Interpath refund received, scheduled phone chat with C for tomorrow at 4, scheduled uphill walk with T for tomorrow at 9:30.
Get to do: take BP, dogs to powerline, USE those torture bands/do that BB&B video, board meeting minutes, call C, call S, fire district: ongoing: input 2019 call sheets into NFIRS, work with chief on equipment letter, substance abuse policy, NFIRS mutual aid and other missing details, call Credit union re: credit card, ask for boots donator contact info, appreciation letter or certificate to boots donator, index mutual aid files; watch STAS Day 20, declutter sideboard, practice new dances (Do Your Thing, Pure Movies to Wine, Beer, Whiskey, I ain’t never gonna love nobody but Cornell Crawford (Alley cat), A Little Less Broken, One Margarita, I’m so used to being broke, All Night, Nothing but You, Blame it on my beating heart, Homesick); finish mulching flowerbed, invest another 10 minutes in prepping living trust, Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine, find and configure a screen time popup, figure out where to plant the last of the naked lady bulbs, and soon as it warms up above 50 and dries out below 60% humidity I’ll tape and spray paint those rusted areas of Aunt Elsie’s stove. next BGBS ask Terry about GB’s FD firetruck tax levy – contacts, media, advocate???, Reward: inventory seeds, plan this spring’s garden, wishlist replenishments (Milena F1 orange peppers).

Joyful June:
4-Take a photo of something that brings you joy and share it:
Scooter of beloved memory with puppy Tumble:

https://youtu.be/aiZGfB2DZRE
Yearling Shadow with all grown up Tumble:

https://youtu.be/8M7n3AUZ2rU

Machka

that you and your DH have Rhody in your lives. 200 bulbs and you ran out? Wow, just wow.
Lisa “…me too” I laughed so loud I almost woke up Joe.
Kim I’m excited to see your bathroom pics, oh, wait, that doesn’t sound quite right

Rebecca HOORAY for your travel and family visiting plans!
Heather

the “Wight good time” postcard. That Max!
Beth what a smoochable face Cecil has!
Welcome @kekila Desiree in Whittier CA. Con VERY gratulations for taking those 40 lbs off!
Pip you are quite the wheeler dealer!

Tomorrow will be busy, meeting T to try walking up a trail that I’ve shied away from to start building some aerobic fitness. Then it's Tumble to dog group, squeeze in some food prep for fellowship Sunday and must must must get started on last month’s minutes, the board meeting is this coming Wednesday already. Yikes!

Lighter, lovelies!

Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

June: leaner/stronger/kinder than May.
daily: sit with Joe: 4, weigh/wii: 4/0/0; steps>6362=6458, vits=4, log=4, CI<CO=4, CI<250<CO=2, Tumble=5, Shadow=6 mfp=5, outside=6, up hill=5, clean 10=2.
wkly: Sun: Mon: Tue: LD=1 Wed: TC=1 PW=1 Thurs: PW=1 Fri: TC=1 Sat: PW=, rX x4=.
wt=1/31:141.3 2/28:142.4 3/31:145.3 4/30:141.5 5/31:142.4
mnthly: board mtg=, grant=, 21 plan=, waist=42.0
bonus: AF=2 play= sew=

2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW

shanda_jean · June 2021

I'll be 52 in July so happy to find this group! I am 5'4 and 151 lbs right now. Before the shut down I was at 143 and had always struggled with trying to hit my goal of 120. We got to work from home for the 1st few months of the shut down and I was able to change my life for the better - without the commute and getting ready time wasted of 4 hours a day, I was able to get down to 130, spending that extra time I'd gained on getting enough sleep, walking an hour a day plus doing weight videos for another 30 min to an hour and meal prepping healthy food. After I was forced to start coming back to the office though, all that went to heck - all that work for nothing was gone within months and I gained 20 lbs in only 15 months! It was because since there were so few of us in the office, our lunches were paid for by the company 4-5 days a week and I'd eat pizza, desserts, mac and cheese, bbq ribs - anything I wanted. After I noticed how much I was gaining, I tried intermittent fasting without success. I then tried just fasting period for 48 hours at a time - without success (meaning my weight wasn't coming off), I tried meal prepping healthy food to bring but truly I have zero will power to eat like that when this other free and much better tasting food was up for grabs. I tried walking at lunch and after work as well as another 2 hours on Sat and 2 hours on Sunday. Still - no success and I just kept gaining. I've now reached my highest weight ever and can only fit into 4 items of clothing that I have to cover with pregnancy looking tops - I rotate 2 long skirts with elastic waistbands and 2 pairs of leggings with elastic waistbands and I wear only those whether the climate is hot or cool and whether I'm in the office or running around on the weekends. I also refuse to buy larger sizes of clothing because I'm afraid that will somehow signal to myself that I've given in and given up! I promised myself that once the office opened back up for everyone else on June 1st, I figured the free lunches would stop and I'd truly be able to eat healthy again and sure enough, that did happen and I've been able to stick with it now for one week consistently.

kymarai · June 2021

Lagopus · June 2021

Completed my half-marathon with energy to spare! Husband supported me along the way with water and banana, and played with his new drone to keep himself amused while waiting. Pictures may become available. Watch this space...

/Penny (not currently) at the

LisaInArkansas · June 2021

@shanda_jean -
Welcome! In order to continue your current path, are you recording your calorie and effort level here on MyFitnessPal? It's been very successful for a number of women here. The simple fact of observing what you eat and drink can provide changes in how you think about calories. Good luck with your journey, and welcome to the June thread! Drop into any conversation where you're comfortable.

Pip -
Sounds like you love being able to sell things that still have lots of use but you don't want or need them anymore. I love that! I've got to get a couple things up on marketplace, but have an aversion to having people come to my house, so I've been procrastinating.

Health stuff - Whine warning:

Yesterday was bad. Made the mistake of accessing my lab results, as they post them online after 36 hours. I'm still anaemic, my thyroid levels are still off, and on top of still struggling with the SIBO, I've got a urinary tract infection. Luckily, I'm right in the middle of an antibiotic stint that includes Cipro... which is one of the antibiotics they often use for UTIs. It explains a lot of the previous week's symptoms, which I assumed were just part of the overall crap-on-a-cracker that has been my health situation for far too long.

On top of everything else, the UTI just crumpled me for some reason--and I just sat down and sobbed yesterday for longer than I care to think about. Luckily, my best friend happened to call while I was losing my sanity, and talked me out of my tree. She has amazing timing for when I'm in distress. Hopefully done with crying, as I have a telehealth doctor appointment on Monday, and I really don't want to break down on camera.

On the shinier side of things, I don't have A, B or C hepatitis and my A1C is fine, so not diabetic. Yay! They are also sending me the only thing I've found so far that has any success with SIBO - Rifaxamin has about a 70% efficacy rate. However, I don't know when it will get here, as the antispasmodic they sent out May 29 still has not arrived. I could have literally walked up to the pharmacy that is 50 miles away in the time it's taken so far. Gotta love the VA.

Light is dawning outside, another half hour and I'll be able to load the car for this week's farmer's market. Went into a bread-baking orgy yesterday, so I'll be taking cinnamon rolls and three dozen dinner rolls to sell, which could also be used as slider buns. Last week's cookies, too, which I froze the minute I got back. Need to remember to take a plate to hand out samples. Also taking ten herbs in four-inch pots to sell - from mustard greens to dill. They've been outside almost three weeks, so they're in pretty good shape. Kept a full set of my own in the raised beds, and want to try to do some dehydrating once it's time to thin them out.

And, overall, feeling better. Darkest before the dawn and all that.

Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR

grandmallie · June 2021

Morning ladies
My brother called at 6:45 and woke me up,didnt sleep well so that threw a wrench into the monkey works..will try and get a little more rest and then get up and get some cleaning done..i really have to get some stamina back so that i can get things done.
Got a call from.social security yesterday seems they havd faxed disability paperwork over twice without hearing anything.. so i called and spoke with office manager.. she said no we havent recieved it ,told her it had been sent twice,ohhhh she looked again and found it ugh.. so here is hoping they get everything over to SS in a timely matter..
All the rest of the Drs have done there part and with the hospital system i went through they have to have records sent to SS within a 5 hr time period..
Well i hope everyone enjoys there weekend.

Peach1948 · June 2021

Lisa ~ So sorry for all your medical woes and hope you get a diagnosis and workable plan soon.

Allie ~ Hoping SS gets all the paper work they need and fingers crossed you will get your disability.

Sue ~ I can't have the cataract surgery until I have nodules removed from each eye. Evidently, these interfere with the way light rays are bent as they enter the eye and cause blurriness. The dr said that the procedure will be quick but it has to be done in each eye 3 wks apart to facilitate healing. I do not look forward to it as they will have to put a lens in after they remove each nodule and it may be painful for a few days. After these have healed, I can get scheduled for cataract surgery and hopeful it will be done in September.

Welcome to all who have been visiting and please continue to stay with us as we love meeting new people and sharing our lives.

Carol in GA

KJLaMore · June 2021

Just checking in! Happy Weekend, everyone! On my way out the door to spend the day watching my nephews burn up the track at the state finals! whoot! Go Ben and Ethan! (side note: Ethan has been chosen to represent the state of Michigan in a few events at a conference with Ohio and Indiana! I might have to plan for a road trip to watch him) ttfn xoxox KJ (Kelly)

barbiecat · June 2021

margaretturk · June 2021

Flowers bring me joy and remind me of the goodness of people. Yellow iris from a friend who has since moved to Texas. It turns out it was a large glorious deep purple that got a Y last year someone giving away hoping would find a good home...

csofled · June 2021

💛👋😊

GodMomKim · June 2021

Katla49 · June 2021

Penny: Congratulations on completing a half marathon!!! Amazing achievement!

Lisa: I am sorry about your health issues and hope you will be able to access medicines that will help. You seem to be having a wonderful time with the farmer’s market. Good for you! :flowerforyou:

Carol: Good wishes for successful eye treatments.

KJ: Good luck to your nephews Ben & Ethan as they burn up the track.

Margaret: The Iris are gorgeous! :flowerforyou:

Allie: Hoping that Social Security gets the paperwork that it needs so that it can qualify you for disability.

I have two determinate tomato plants in my tiny garden. Last year’s beans were frustrating beyond words can say because local deer kept eating the plants. I am not growing beans this year, but I am growing herbs and the two tomato plants. I like to use our dehydrator for the herbs. Blueberry bushes are prospering so far. I should have pruned them in the fall and didn’t, so this year’s crop is likely to have many smaller berries.

Katla in cloudy NW Oregon

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