WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2022
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As I'm reading through the book below over this holiday season, one of the things that comes up quite frequently so far is the idea of providing the brain with a variety of cognitive stimulation and consciously focusing on doing things and how to do things ... mixed with the right amount of rest. It seems that the number of neurons increases in an enriched environment combined with exercise and rest.
A quote from p. 78 ...
" The general rule, we now know, is that our brains are more likely to waste away from underuse than to wear away from overuse".
So I guess, I'm encouraging myself and others to continue to learn, to continue to provide our brains with cognitive stimulation and continue to exercise.
(It's really a fascinating book.)
M in Oz
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Hello everyone from 2022. We had a lovely NYE, watching great films, eating fabulous food and treating ourselves to chocolate, cheese and wine. I chuckled all through When Harry Met Sally. Managed to catch Big Ben's bongs.
Went to bed around 1 am, but woke up for good at 5 am after a horrible, angry dream. Found I'd left the heat on all night and left the sprouting beans in the IP. Evidently, the midnight whisky addled my brain!
Will make an early start on exercise and quickly tidy the house for the possible/probable lunch with the family. I will put some AF sparkling in the fridge.
I'm looking forward to this year and the adventure of my new book. I still have no idea where it's going, but I'm enjoying finding out. I'm determined to play! Go with the flow!
Still have to decide what to do about the cruise. January 4th is the payment day.
Love to all. Enjoy the ordinary. We are only here for a short time and we only have one life. The ordinary is magical.
Heather UK xxxxxxxx6 -
Happy New Year all! Thank you Barbie for getting us here. The fireworks are crazy so although I am in bed there is no way i am asleep. I don't expect it to quiet down for some time. The dog has been up wandering around and finally came over and laid down close to the bed after getting some pats and assurance.
My word for 2022 will be hygge, a Nordic word meaning warmth, coziness, peacefulness. I think that is what I need this coming year.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA6 -
First bicycle ride of 2022!!
It was 29C (84F) when we headed out with about 25 km/h winds from the north. North winds are hot winds.
But it was overcast and we had the occasional drop of rain, so it didn't feel too hot. I think there might be a storm later!
Machka in Oz
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Accountability:Chose well: BP,
Bonus: one load laundry, 15 mins sweeping, veg prep, coffee with D
Happier January 2022
1: Find three things to look forward to this year: 1-red rhodies blooming; 2-improved connections with Joe, the dogs, B, D, M, N, Ri, Ru, & Tr; Walks with D and T. Guess this means I don’t expect to go back to in-person church or dancing any time soon
Thank you Barbie for our New Year fresh start. You are reliability itself.
Allie, Tracy works in a small Dr’s office? All the more reason for them to be supportive of her quarantine. RIP Betty White, and ditto your hopes for a better 2022.
Machka did you build the greenhouse? the new year cartoons. Yes if we just start… I’m really liking your Sweatpants and Coffee memes, better than the Actions for Happiness ones. Do they post daily or have a monthly calendar? Put that book on hold at our Library, will pick it up Monday. Thanks!
Tracey, yes the only dry cleaner in town. Nearest is now 40 mins south or 2 hrs north. Bet you can come up with something creative to do with those practice mugs…
Kylia glad to see you posting and congrats on ending the year lighter than it began. Will steal your idea to post 2022’s word/motto on my mirror, when I decide what it will be I’m leaning toward “Listen” Listen to what others mean as well as what they say. Listen to what my body and inner child need. Listen for guidance. Be still and listen.
Annie Brava for chewing the “only a little bit frozen” salad, hope enjoy that restaurant, unfrozen, one.
Suebdew your Riley’s expression! And Advent calendar
Katla thanks for letting us know Rori is safe from the wildfire.
Rori what a narrow escape! Thankful the snow is coming at last.
Lisa was wondering what prompted Levi’s shouted “Oh NO!” the pics.
Beth ((hugs)) words fail. ((hugs))
Sue was your post office open New Years Eve afternoon? Ours closed at noon.
Debbie beautiful snowy Oregon yard pic. Hope you can put it up where you can see it often.
Tracey “sweet intentions” Yes!
@linder4866 good to see you posting!
Michele I’m not sure there IS anything you can say to Jerry to calm him down. You might ask him, when he’s calm, what he’d like you to say or do when he’s obviously angry. Sounds like he has motor control as well as anger control issues, and may be stressed when he gets too many (any) inputs.
Flea thanks for the Augustine. I’ll try to remember it the next time I fear the kind of death that will put an end to my life.
Welcome @AlexandraFindsHerself1971, Alexandra in Indianapolis! Back in the day, I considered breast reduction surgery because of back and neck pain, but they lost me and “first, we slice off your nipples.” Con VERY gratulations on taking off 8 inches around the band and the fifty pounds. Very well done!
The very happiest of new years to Rebecca Okie, Betsy, Evelyn, Heather and all!
No fireworks here and only a few shots at midnight. Dogs and Joe resting peacefully.
December Summary and January PlanSteady: sit with Joe, log, Tumble, rx, board mtg.
Slipped: weight, steps, vits, Shadow, mfp, AF, outside, up hill, SWSY, dance, T’ai Chi, pack walks, review 2021 goals.
Improved: CI<CO, CI<250<CO, cleaning(!), BB&B, wii.
December details:
daily: sit with Joe: 103%/100%, steps=average: 6578 vs 7391 step days:58%/73%, vits=97%/100% log=100%/100% CI<CO= 97%/90% CI<250<CO=84%73% Tumble 5/10=87%/87% Shadow 5/10=97%/100% mfp=97%/100% AF=48%/53% outside= 77%/113%, up hill=65%/93% cleaning81%/37%
wkly: Mon: SWSY=76%/96%,Tue: dance=60%/110% Wed + Fri T’ai Chi=58% /73% Thur: BB&B=120%/93%, Wed & Sat walk with T or Joe and the dogs or pack walk x2=88%/125%, Sat: rx=100%/100% Sun: wii=108%/75%
monthly: board mtg=100%/100% grant=2/5 review progress on 21 goals: bupkes/0.
Weight: Dec 31: 142.9 Nov 31:140.9 Oct 31:145.1 Sept 30:141.3 Aug 31:140.0 July 31:140.2 June 30:141.5 May 31:142.4 Apr 30:141.5 Mar 31:145.3 Feb 28:142.4 Jan 31:141.3 Jan 1:145.3 Dec 1:143.3 Jan 1 2020: 142.3
Waist: 42.0/42.0 afraid to measure :sick:
January resolve- .
New habit tracker and chain links. (weigh, readings, activity, mat, BP, play train, self care…)
Re-commit to daily activity BEFORE solitaire.
Sun wii 15, Mon LD 30, Tue SWSY 20, Wed TC 30, Thur BB&B 20, Fri TC 30, Sat Y 5.
Add 5 mins daily mat, change to 5 mins: declutter, clean, sewing machine excavation.
Daily continue to be really present with Joe, play train dogs 10 mins, dogs down to the powerline rain or shine, rx, vits + self care.
Bonus: 1 hr pack walks, 2 sit to stands after loo, groom dogs, call or text, give back, play with plants
Encourage Joe to walk or bike.
Finally mustered courage to measure waist and… the tape measure is gone! :laugh:
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2021: choose to be leaner/stronger/kinder NOW
2022: Be still and listen.
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Very Happy New Year to one and all,
Barbie thank you again for bringing us into 2022
Woke up with some flank pain took some tylenol and will try and go back to sleep.1 -
There is this guy at work, Jerry. Now I know that he has some sort of emotional issue. He used to go to this place, Connections, that deals mostly with people over 18 who have emotional issues.
Is there anything I can say to him to get him to calm down?
You could try doing quite a bit of reading on anger management in mental health and brain issues situations.
But know that each person is unique. What works for one might not work for another.
One thing that might possibly help (no guarantees) is to give him choices and don't talk down to him. Perhaps, "Jerry, I could really use some help. I need tomatoes and cheese, would you be able to get me one of those and I'll get the other?"
If you really want to get to know Jerry and his situation, you might see about accompanying him to Connections or wherever else he goes.
But until you're armed with some training on anger management in mental health and brain issues, I'd keep my distance. Be pleasant, but stay out of it. Let the managers handle it.M – what is so special about a verification code expiring within 10 minutes? Why is that preferable to having it expire in, say, an hour or two? Newcomers used to expire in 24 hours.
Michele NC
Most verification codes expire in about 1 to 5 minutes. 10 minutes is quite long.
Temporary passwords might last 24 hours, but a 24-hour verification code kind of defeats the purpose of the verification code.
The thing is, you use a verification code immediately.
Most of the things I log into at work use 2-step verification now. I enter my user name, and my password, then the verification code shows up to my phone or through email about 10 seconds later, I enter the code and keep working. If I leave the site inactive for about 15 minutes, I go through the whole process again. There would be no point to having a long limitation on a verification code.
M in Oz1 -
Machka did you build the greenhouse? the new year cartoons. Yes if we just start… I’m really liking your Sweatpants and Coffee memes, better than the Actions for Happiness ones. Do they post daily or have a monthly calendar? Put that book on hold at our Library, will pick it up Monday. Thanks!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
No, I didn't build it. My husband did. It took him months and months, and there were lots of starts and stops and complete restarts. He got discouraged and frustrated sometimes because he knew that pre-accident, he could have whipped it up in a couple weekends. But he persisted.
The part of his brain that deals with math and things like maps/orientation/blueprints and things like procedural memory is still fairly intact. He also has reasonable long-term memory. So he knows what a greenhouse should look like. He can draw quite good pictures of what it should look like. He can measure and calculate and do the math. And he can do the building because that's a procedural thing for him. He has been building things for a long time. But there are often disconnects along the way where something in that process goes wrong because his cognition has been affected by the accident.
Nevertheless, I encouraged him to keep working on it and made many trips to Bunnings to get more materials because I figured that it was beneficial for him to use his brain, even if he made lots of mistakes, rather than just sitting around doing nothing.
This is the Sweatpants and Coffee website: https://sweatpantsandcoffee.com/ I rarely go there. Instead I follow them on Facebook. Usually, there's a once a week meme on Sunday nights for the coming week. Plus there are usually daily memes of various sorts. Usually something inspirational. Many don't connect with me, some do. I tend to like their once a week memes more than the daily ones. They also post blogs from time to time.
I like checking out Action for Happiness's calendars and seeing if the new one each month connects with me. Sometimes it does, often it doesn't. This is their website, and I follow them on Facebook too: https://www.actionforhappiness.org/ I see each of the days in the calendar on FB, and some of them make me stop and think. I'm also in an Action for Happiness private group because occasionally someone there has something interesting to say.
This is their January 2022 calendar if it is of interest.
I find both helpful in the interests of creating new, more positive neural pathways.
When I'm on holidays, I don't usually like reading anything other than fiction but I've been so fascinated by that book, I haven't picked up the mystery story I was going to read. It doesn't read like a textbook. But there are lots of references to neurologists and scientists and other work, that a person can do additional research. I'm tempted to research a couple things already, in the sense of looking up the scientist and study referred to and reading more about it.
M in Oz2 -
Snowflake1968 wrote: »Lisa - very similar, we had mice. I remember one time a gopher somehow got in the house it was between the floor upstairs and the ceiling from downstairs. There was a gap in the floorboard and when it stuck its head up Dad shot it with his .22. He didn’t remember that in later years until I told him about it.
Oh my word, Tracey, seriously, you and I had the same childhood. One of the rats that lived in our attic decided it would stroll across the upper window sills of the room each evening, so basically circling half the living room, but well out of reach, and then go back up in the attic. He did that one too many times--and my father was waiting for him with a .410 shotgun. Repairing the hole in the wall was almost as much fun as cleaning up the mess.
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Lisa4 -
Happy New Year's all! I finally caught up on all posts. Once I got behind it snowballed. I wanted to be caught up before making any comments. Seeing the ups and downs so many of you have had makes me grateful for my fairly boring life.
Still have not resumed smoking. Not happy with that weight gain. Talked with my Doctor about it at December appointment. He believes I will get rid of the weight in the next 6 months-totally normal to put some on due to metabolism changes, etc. Going back to keeping my logging thorough (got a bit loose!) Still maintaining exercise so that's good. And despite the gain, I know my wight is still in a very heathy range.
Still dealing with UTI issues. Evidently I have Group B staph, which is unusual for UTI. See doc in couple of weeks for follow up-he wants me to start a longer term maintenance dose of antibiotics. Not sure how I feel about that but I for sure am sick of being worn out from this junk.
Spent Christmas in Phoenix with kids/grandkids. Was nervous about flying, but I booked flights before Omicron hit. Ohio has a huge surge right now. I'm just trying to be cautious (I am a masker when out, try to keep distance, etc.) but still get out to do what needs to be done. Lots of staff are tested positive last two weeks of year, some have very mild cases, others not so fortunate.
Spending the day today as I do most January 1-will get all bills paid for the month, exercise, cook pork and sauerkraut and watch some football, maybe clear out a couple of drawers while watching football.
Hope everyone has a restful, peaceful start to 2022. I am not sure about a word for the year. I do think I might actually follow through with retirement-but I am still mapping out my plan and getting mentally ready. It's funny how difficult it is to follow through with something that you spend your life looking forward to.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio7 -
Here's to 2022 and congratulations to us all, we made it through 2021! I'm resolved to do three small things every day that the 'ideal person' in my head would do ... and who is that 'ideal person'? The one that I thought I'd become every single New Year when I made all those failed resolutions
There's no need to be perfect, just be kind, especially to yourselves x
Paula - Oxford (England)6 -
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Barbie, thank you for your steadfast support through establishing this thread each month. It's an enormous gift.
Barbara AHMOD, I think the "oh no!" from the two-year-old is just the words he says when he wants a rise out of his mama, because he knows she will respond every time. 🤣
Paula - Well said, and we look forward to hearing more from you.
Ginny - so good to see you post! And congratulations for staying off the smokes.
I was in bed by 8:30 last night, and when I woke up about 11:45 to go potty, I couldn't have told you what day it was. Back in bed, just relaxing back into sleep, and the stuttering sound of an automatic large gun in the distance made my eyes pop right back open at midnight. Then a pause and it went off again. Unnerving, to say the least. My daughter told me this morning she heard it too and thought it was a .50 caliber. Which, for the uninitiated, is a really, really big gun. Not exactly a recipe for a good night's sleep, but I did fall right back to sleep anyway. It was raining like stink here, and still is, so it put the stop to other fireworks I think.
Hope everyone's new year is starting off well... welcome to those who are new to us!
Regards,
Lisa in AR
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Happy New Year to my sisters!
Thanks for another month, Barbie...appreciate you!
Karen in Virginia
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Thanks BARBIE
Happy New Year everyone
Kate UK ❤️1 -
We survived New Year's Eve fireworks. Bessie was not nearly as agitated by them this year as she has been in the past. She came out to the living room about 6 PM when the fireworks started and lay next to us. All was quiet when we went to bed at 7 but at 9 she was next to the bed asking to get in with me. I put her in bed and played music and my audio book on the phone to cover the sounds of the fireworks. We both slept a bit and finally it was quiet at 12:30 when we go out for a quick potty break followed by a snack. After that, we slept straight through until morning.
Suebdew, Bessie and Sasha love the snow. They have fleece lined waterproof jackets. This year it got much colder with the snow than it has in the past and their feet got cold quickly so they asked to go back in after about 15 minutes. These cold temperatures are unusual for us so I don't see any reason to add dog boots to what they wear. Temperatures will be above freezing again in a few days.
Lisa, Jake heard what he thought he heard a big gun shooting off last night and had several guesses about what it might have been--not as big as what you heard but troubling.
Barbie in NW WA
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The fireworks weren't too bad here, probably because right about midnight the rain came, and torrentially. I was fine with that.
I slept well, and as I don't have any appointments today I let myself wake up naturally at 8:30. Nyx, my black girl cat, is very velcro this morning. She woolsucked on the fur blanket on my bed while I got dressed and is now asleep across my lap. That won't last because I have things to do today. Including getting my tea and my morning meds.
Today I have rice to premake for future Asian dishes. I put it up in 2 ounce packets so when I get it out I get exactly a serving, no more, no less. It's a bit fiddly to do, but I do like the convenience later. I also need to slice some steak and freeze it in marinade for beef with pea pods/broccoli/pepper steak type dishes. And I need to make more pico de gallo as Boyfriend ate the last of it on his tacos.
I am also going to make orange streusel sweet bread for when I am incapacitated. I had the streusel left over and want to use it up. It's pecan streusel, so I can't just use it with anything. But orange and pecan are compatible. I'll probably make it in muffin cups instead of a loaf.
Today's meals are chicken patty sandwiches, when people wake up and want food, and later on I'll make beef stroganoff. Boyfriend will have his on sliced zucchini instead of noodles.
I need to make garlic bread but not until tomorrow as I have a very good recipe that requires a cold oven start. So it needs to be its own day's work.
Otherwise, there's laundry to do and of course cats who require reassurance that they are, in fact the most silky, sweet, wonderful cat that ever was. (laugh)
This is Nyx. Yes, she's sitting on the instructions. She's helpful like that.
Alexandra in Indianapolis IN10 -
Happy New Year ... love and blessing to all of you and your families!
Alexandra and Paula ... Welcome!
Barbie ... thank you for another year of starting us off right!
Flea ... love Augustine's writings. I've been reading through the Bible for several years now ... always find comfort and peace there.
Barbara ... the word "listen" keeps coming to mind for me as well for the same reasons.
Last year I wrote this as my 2021 goals: ..."I really need to move off of my current weight and, ideally, would like to lose about 1/2 pound per week. At that rate I should be 25-26 pounds lighter at the end of 2021 ... still overweight, but going in a much better direction. Will continue IF and will most likely do so with OMAD. Exercise has been limited due to a deteriorating knee and I have been referred to an orthopedist with an appointment in January. I need to be able to at least walk for exercise. Limiting sugar helps so that will be on my list. The family wants to focus on more plant-based meals, so that will be included as well. Dealing with family dynamics when husband retires on Feb. 1st and having both sons temporarily home will be a challenge both emotionally and financially. I will continue to work part-time if for no other reason than to get out of the house!" Did I achieve any of this? No. My weight is the same. My knees didn't get better (as you know I broke a leg instead). Sugar is still in my diet. Plants based meals were almost non-existent. My husband, however, did retire. I ended up retiring too! (official date was yesterday 12/31/21). Our oldest son died. Our younger son is still at home. But we're ok with that. He's healing. He's working.
Word for the year ... 2019 year my word had been committed. 2020 the word was steadfast. I didn't choose a word for 2021 and in retrospect ...there were no words for 2021. After giving this much thought (considering and tossing out several words/phrases), my word for 2022 will be "perseverant." Perseverant/perseverance that is cheerful, endures with hope, and with patient continuance.
2022 Goals ...I continue to need to move off of my current weight. I will continue with the intermittent fasting window of 20:4 each day of the week. Ideally, I would like to be 25 pounds lighter at the end of 2022, but I will work with my body, not against it. Just because I feel like I've lost my direction this last year does not mean that God does not have a purpose for my life. Looking forward to what He will bring. I know there are battles ahead. I will be strong and courageous. And I will join all of you here to lift you up and encourage you as you search and work for your best selves too.
Beth near Buffalo
Where it's a gray rainy day but changing into a winter snow storm later tonight.4 -
Happy New Year to All You Lovely Ladies! May 2022 bring blessings, peace and joy!
Carol in GA6 -
Happy New Year; I have been a member of Fitness Pal for a while but have never really used it. (WW member but they closed in person meetings and local online meetings) so here I am. Hoping for some motivation and tips on what has worked for others.
Peterborough, ON4
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