WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2023
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Snow didn’t materialise, but it was soooo cold, (relatively for here).
Intentions for today:
♦️Latin prep ->
♦️prep car for service on Thurs ->
♦️Laundry✔️This took longer than expected as I sorted out my wardrobe, so will do them anon
♦️vacuum upstairs->
♦️declutter desk✔️
♦️look out fabric for embroidery journal
♦️solid habits✔️
My Dieting HistoryI never really dieted until after DH and I moved into our first home. I was very active as a child/teenager and could eat more or less what I wanted. I ate fairly healthy meals and often had seconds.
We were still very active after we got married as we lived with my in-laws and always had willing babysitters on hand. Dancing, skating, horse riding, cross country dog walks etc were the norm for us.
Once we had our own home, it wasn’t so easy to stay active, and I didn’t think to change my eating habits, as people thought it was acceptable to put on a little weight once you had children. Also DH worked away from home so I was tied to the house with 2 small children.
I would diet in the spring so that I could look good in my swimmers, then it would creep back on in the winter.
As the children got older, I started working out during the winter months, so weight did mostly stabilise until I started having hip problems in my 50s, and my mobility was slowly compromised, and weight ballooned. Fast forward to 2015, when I joined MFP, and one habit at a time changed my life.
Garening:Love mowing and all kinds of outdoor physical work. Mowing is one off the garden tasks that I can still do easily, thanks to our electric start petrol mower. Also a dab hand with the hedge trimmers. 🥰 my gardening toys. DH and I are gender fluid on chores. 😝
Rebecca: I lost my mother in 1969. There were good times, but we had a difficult relationship. I have learnt to think of her fondly. She didn’t have an easy time with my dad, who was selfish with his money, and I think she suffered from horrendous PMT, which meant we lived with the b***ch from Hades for half of each month. She had many good qualities the other half of the month.
Heather: 🥂🍾 Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The snow has passed us by as well. But there’s such a chill in the air.
Virtual (((hugs))) and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for all those those who need them.
🙋♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.
☘️ Terri
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Tracey-safe travels on Friday. I am glad you are going-your husband will need you. Medical systems are pretty bad right now in many respects. I feel pretty fortunate with my doctors at OSU. Going to find someone to replace my internal med doc (he is retiring this year, so I might as well too!). Dread the new doc hunt.
Heather-congrats on book! That doesn't seem like it took very long.
Kylia-not sure which two hospitals you use, but it seems everything is being taken over by the big groups. Dayton and Columbus groups are both taking us over.
Allie-tough situation. Teen years can be horrible and from my experience (and other observations), both parent and child can react poorly and it just gets a crazy dance started that takes forever to end. Take care of yourself-you can't fix any of it, you can just love them.
Barbie-good news on Jake's procedure. It is just amazing how quickly we get kicked out of hospitals.
For new people-i'm pretty boring.68 years old. DH passed away in 2015. I plan on retiring this year (haven't set the official date). Plan on moving to Columbus. Checking out possible housing right now. Struggled with weight most of adult life-highest was around 220 or so. I am 5'5 or 5'6 depending on which doctor's office measures me. 2006 out 40 pounds on Adkins-stayed there for 6 or 7 years. Was content with that since I had thyroid removed in 1996 due to thyroid cancer that is still a pain in my butt. Started using MFP in 2012 to track food for savings on employer health insurance. Lost 20 lbs doing that over the next few years. Discovered something to that CICO. Started more meal prep after husband died because I didn't want to get huge. Lost some more weight. Probably too much. Increased exercise. I like to walk at least 3 miles a day. Quit smoking in June 2021 and put some weight back on. It is currently coming off. You can learn tons from this group. Just don't give up and give time time.
Vicki-I am left speechless at your mom's comments. You had some very emotionally rough times. You can do this.
Got three ct scans today (neck, chest, abdomen)-seeing if they can see what is making cancer marker go up. Get two sets of bone density tests Friday. See eye doctor tomorrow. Pretty much part time at work this week!
Off to pack lunch for tomorrow.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
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Heather: Congrats on the book!
Tracey: I hope you get home to see your FIL
Kylia: Do you manage/own a store?
Amdaless: Glad you are recovering from your injury
ngolden: Good luck on you weight loss journey
Barbie: My treadmill is in the garage and not being used. I use to love it, but there is no room for it inside the house now.
KJLaMore: I hope the spa was great!
Lisa: Congrats on being at weight maintenance
SueBDew: My sympathy on the passing of your BIL
Debbie: Glad you will be getting back to zumba
Rebecca: Good going: Writing to your friends and being a facebook group monitor!
Terri: Glad you got the glass fixed on the green house
Machka: Great the numbness in your legs is better
Beth: Hope you can get the crown fixed
Maryann: Great on getting the pantry organized
Rori: Happy Belated Birthday!
I have been doing The Daily Burn most days now. This is discounted if you are a Prime Member. I still have to cancel my membership and join through Prime somehow. I am using 8 pound weights more! I can't keep up doing Burpies!
I do 1. Also backward lunges. I don't get down too far but I am happy with what I do! I lost 3 pounds but needed to drink a Coca Cola today because I was so tired! Still caring for my husband! I am trying to eat a little better though.
I miss the ocean and keep looking at Air Bnb's and VRBO's that are near the ocean! Someday I will get to the water again!
Best,
Rosemarie from Georgia9 -
Heather – what a blessing you are to the kids! I’m not good with “loose” arrangements, either. I like to know, say, from Jess approximately what time she’ll be here, should I have dinner, etc. But I’ve learned that I have cold cuts in the refrigerator. When she gets here, she can have a sandwich if it’s after our dinner time.
Barbie – yea for a good visit with the dermatologist.
When our old pull cord mower died, Vince asked me which one I wanted to replace it. I just told him “I don’t care about the brand but it MUST have an electric start. If it doesn’t, I don’t even want to look at it”. Then the electric start crapped out. When I asked Vince where we could get another one, he told me he didn’t know. I finally told him that I refused to cut the grass until that electric start was fixed. (For some reason and I don’t remember why he couldn’t cut the grass). Suddenly he found one on Amazon. I don’t care how I got it, I just wanted that electric start.5 -
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Spent time with DH this evening, including a visit from our daughter. It was very pleasant. 😊6
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Will respond tomorrow..time for sleep.
❤
Kylia in Ohio1 -
Thank you all for the well wishes for the trip. My FIL is still with us, he’s not well though. DH is quite upset. Friday can’t come soon enough.
I have read through but didn’t make time for notes.
Tracey in Edmonton10 -
11 Send a card/note to someone today- texted CD which led to a lovely phone call.
12 What are you looking forward to in 2023?-Celtic Fair and Highland Games with god-daughter and her kids.
13 Tell a random person they look "good" today-L and her boots.
Belated welcome back MA_B Maryann in UK!
Annie hard to have it confirmed ((hugs)).
Karen in VA “lost 40 lbs” VERY well done!
Skimmed through pg 33. Heading to Medford at oh-dark:thirty tomorrow for dermatologist to check a new spot. Hoping for dry roads and just another keratosis.
Done:01/13: Move: 4 sets PT, active mins:203 steps: 4750Lighter, lovelies!
Fuel: plants running count for week so far=11+4+1+4+2+5: almond, apple, beans-chili, beans-green, beans-kidney, broccoli stalk, broccoli-tempura, carrots, corn chips, cucumber, jicama, Kashi, mushrooms, olive oil, onions-green, onions-white, peanuts, pecans, pomelo, popcorn, radish, rice-brown, romaine, snap peas, sweet potato, tangerines, tomato sauce CI<CO=148
Live: Joe, readings, BP, Post Office, Freddie’s, lunch with T. Wt:135.4
01/12: Move: hike with Joe and the dogs, active mins: steps:
Fuel: plants running count for week so far=11+4+1+4+2: almond, apple, beans-chili, beans-kidney, broccoli stalk, carrots, corn chips, cucumber, jicama, Kashi, olive oil, onions-green, peanuts, pecans, pomelo, popcorn, radish, rice-brown, romaine, snap peas, tangerines, tomato sauce.CI<CO=346
Live: Joe, readings, BP, laundry, fire district board meeting minutes, church council meeting. Wt:134.7 !!!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2023: Be of good cheer.
January: Move more, fuel better, live NOW.
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Hello Ladies. I am new to MFP and was wondering if you all wouldn't mind if I joined you all. I am 63 and am looking for a group of women like this. I looked back at a lot of your posts, and you all seem so kind and encouraging to one another.
Mammy from MA, (Mammy is what my grandsons have called me since they were babies, more than a grandma but not their mom)9 -
Ginny - Yes it has been quick! But I was mainly just copying out the poems of a lifetime and adding some context. I did write one brand new poem the other day, which just made it in before I pushed the button!
I've got a bit of that flat feeling you get when you've achieved a long ambition. But I've still got some work to do, letting people know about the book, promoting it etc. I find all that a chore, but it's part of the process.
Lisa - The Paperwhite looks fine. So it's just the phone version. I'm happy with that. I know what I should have done, but I can live with it.
Painting day today! Then the meeting in town. Brrrrrr! It's well below freezing at night.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
1 Sit in silence for three minutes... it's harder than you think. Does silently working in the garden count? Done! I sat silently for 7 minutes and prayed.
2 List 5 things using each of your senses. Right now? I can see my Christmas decorations, I can hear Christmas songs, I can taste my coffee, I can smell my coffee, and I can feel a comfortable temperature in the room.
3 Let go of at least 5 items in your house. I'm not in a downsizing or reducing mode so I've taken some lunch things to work, I will take an item to be mailed and another to be given to the people at work.
4 What was your favorite Christmas gift? (this year or ever). I can't tell you what my favourite Christmas gift this year is yet. It's a secret.
5 Move for at least 30 minutes today. Absolutely. It's a very rare day that I don't.
6 Share a goal you achieved last year. We completed the longest bicycle ride since my husband's accident and the fastest.
7 Slow down and savor one meal today. Mmmm ... pizza!
8 Who was your favorite teacher. My father. But I've had quite a few good teachers, in addition to him, over the years.
9 Create something today. I finished creating my first work-related project plan today.
10 What is your favorite lyric from a song. Difficult one given that I like so much music. But let's go with: "A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices"
11 Send a card/note to someone today. Do emails count?
12 What are you looking forward to in 2023? Can't tell you that! It's a secret ... same secret as my favourite Christmas gift.
13 Tell a random person they look "good" today. It's a bit late in the day to read this and didn't meet too many random people today ... or people in general. But I smiled at some horses and told Rhody he's gorgeous.
14 Tell us three amazing things that happened recently (you decide what "recently" means...lol)
One is a secret ... I should be able to tell you by the end of the month.
My skin cancer surgery went better than expected and all my margins are clear.
I've been able to hold my granddaughter.
15 Call or text someone you haven't talked to in at least a week. Well, I did email a couple people yesterday.
16 What made you smile today. Do you mean like evil laughter?? Or a happy smile?
Happy would be big fresh strawberries from our plants and my colouring book. I'm colouring little rainbows right now.
17 Take a photo of something you're grateful for
Our garden
18 What material comforts are you most thankful for? You can make your list as long as you like...
House
Bed
Comfy PJs
My Chair
Food19 Write a positive review for a company for goods or services you've received recently
20 Write down five things you like about yourself
21 Pay it forward in some way
22 What do you most desire in your life right now?
23 Go an entire day without complaining
24 What about you makes you special?
25 Spend time with a loved one
26 When was the last time you felt pure joy?
27 Hold the door for a stranger... or a friend
28 What fear have you overcome?
29 Engage in a random act of kindness of your own choice
30 When was the last time you laughed so hard you almost peed?
31 Now try to "meditate" (sit in silence) for ten minutes...
Machka in Oz
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Machka - The fact that you're good at something doesn't mean you want to do it for the rest of your life. When I was in my late 30s, I co-founded a company for a while where our biggest jobs were software manuals. I hated it. Have avoided it since.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
I actually enjoy writing manuals, project plans, etc. ... I don't have to deal with adjectives and emotion.
I sent out the project plan today, at the end of the day.
Expecting flak tomorrow.Got three ct scans today (neck, chest, abdomen)-seeing if they can see what is making cancer marker go up. Get two sets of bone density tests Friday. See eye doctor tomorrow. Pretty much part time at work this week!
Ginny in Ohio
I hope you're OK.
Today was my day for bloodwork and mammogram.
Eye doctor tomorrow.Snowflake1968 wrote: »Thank you all for the well wishes for the trip. My FIL is still with us, he’s not well though. DH is quite upset. Friday can’t come soon enough.
Tracey in Edmonton
{{Hugs}}
Congrats Heather!
Gardening: I like digging, hauling bags of soil and rocks, creating a dry stream, replanting plants, etc. Never thought I would, but it has been a method of stress relief and a decent amount of exercise on the weekends. It gives me some upper body work.
Machka in Oz
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These particular threads always have a lot of posts on a variety of subjects, so feel free to jump in where you like.
Please don't feel like you have to read and reply to everything.
You can simply tell us about you and your day and your health journey.
Or you can reply to a subject or person.
Up to you!
I'm 'Machka in Oz' ...
Machka has been my nickname for about 20 years now. It's actually the Serbo-Croatian word for female cat.
Oz is where I live ... Australia. I was born in Canada and lived there for just over 40 years, then moved to Australia to live with my Australian-born husband.
Machka in Oz
My fitness story ...I was fit and active from soon after I was born until my husband had a workplace accident which resulted in a severe brain injury just after my 51st birthday in March 2018.
Well, not entirely. But I have spent the vast majority of my life in the normal weight range or underweight.
I just stepped over the line into overweight soon after I got to Australia in 2009. I had developed DVT which limited the amount of exercise I could do. Fortunately, when I could exercise again, I dropped some weight.
I got back up there again in 2012 when my husband and I were on a Round the World trip. We were cycling a lot, but all the ice cream sundaes in Germany and France were a bit too much. If you've never been, the ice cream sundaes served all over the place there in the summers are something else!! Big, with several scoops of ice cream, whipped cream, and often a cookie of some sort all topped with lots of chocolate and alcohol. It was so hot in Germany when we were there, we were eating one or two a day!
But when we got to Canada, we stayed with my parents for a month, got a gym membership and we lost some weight ... back into the normal range.
It happened again when we moved to Tasmania. Moving house isn't good for my weight situation! I suspect it's because my exercise time is spent packing.
In February 2015, I joined MFP and went on a mission to lose weight ... and I did! Right down to the lower end of my normal range.
From this in January 2015 ...
To this by December 2015 ...
My cycling increased, I started running, I walked a lot and did some hiking. I maintained my weight through to March 2018.
And then my fitness level went into the toilet and my weight went up. In January 2022, I started a job where I was glued to my desk and snacks were readily available. It was also a high stress job which exhausted me and I had no energy to exercise. I hit my highest weight ever in August 2022.
Fortunately, my weight has dropped a little since then ... but I do have more to drop.
For me, weight loss is a combination of diet and exercise. I need to eat a comfortable amount, but not too much ... and I need to exercise a lot.
So far this year, I have exercised every day.
Exercise challenges I am a part of on Strava this month:
Walking Distance
Exercise Time
Cycling Distance
Cycling Climbing
Machka in Oz4 -
Good Wednesday!
Rebecca and Vicki Thank you!
Lisa Your comments about the zero turn ring so true! I have several customers whose wives now won't let them cut the grass because they love the zero turn! My SIL uses mowing as a stress reliever. I really enjoy it, but my DH insists on paying someone to do it because of our crazy schedules.
Vicki Wow! What awful things to say to your child! Such a tender time. Words really do hurt. I am glad you are here with all of us!
Debbie The water pictures are beautiful but that is a lot of water in a short time.
Ginny- Miami Valley and Kettering Health Network. I will take KHN all day long. My GP is with a small group- Providence.
Rosemarie My husband and his sister own the lawnmower shop. I manage most of it. I really do enjoy it MOST of the time. The occasional grump *kitten* customer and lack of respect from DH and SIL make other days difficult. When I get behind on my work, I get frustrated. Would love to have someone to help with some of the paperwork, but no one else can seem to do it correctly. Would also love to have someone to help keep the front and shop area clean, but apparently no one sees the mess but me. So weird. I can still do everything I have always done but it seems to take me longer
Michele You are correct! Jerry is not your problem! Nice job standing up for yourself!
Allie, Tracey, Sue and Ginny Prayers, comfort, and ((HUGS))
Mammy Welcome! Join in conversations as desired. Lots going on, but so much support!
I was super productive again yesterday! Got parts orders in, emails taken care of, inventory in computer, DH to doctor appointment, a bunch of invoicing done, massage, and desk cleared off at home. Shredded, filed, put away, and bills ready to pay. Also read over half of Heather's book-"Me I am"
I heard two songs yesterday that just "spoke" to me. One made me laugh-"Beer or Gasoline" by Chris Young. Basically he says since a 6 pack or a gallon are the same price, he reckons he will be walking more! The other follows today's list question. Kelsea Ballerini "What I have". It is simple, pleasing, and touches home.
Machka and Pip You both definitely inspire us all to move more!
17 Take a photo of something you're grateful for-Clean surfaces!
18 What material comforts are you most thankful for? You can make your list as long as you like...
Heat
Warm bed
Sturdy house
Favorite cars for all moods
Hot water
Electronics- cell phone and lap top (grateful and hateful relationship 😉
Warm clothes
Money to get what I need or want
Need to get off here, pay bills, and get ready for work.
Hugs!
Encouragement!
Love!
Kylia in Ohio feeling Thankful for all of you!
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Has anyone managed to keep poinsettias from one Christmas to the next?Tips? I have 4 that are still going well and would like to keep. Mine usually die by Christmas.
TTFN
Kylia2 -
Good morning ladies!
I see the dentist today. Yesterday's appointment was uncomfortable but it's over. It's one or two weeks for results.
So much going on that I'm getting the details confused. Hugs to all!
So glad Jake is doing well.
The furnace person (who is actually a lady) is due anytime now. Teddy the dog will bark. Otherwise I would take my morning nap.
Annie in Delaware
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Hello Ladies. I am new to MFP and was wondering if you all wouldn't mind if I joined you all. I am 63 and am looking for a group of women like this. I looked back at a lot of your posts, and you all seem so kind and encouraging to one another.
Mammy from MA, (Mammy is what my grandsons have called me since they were babies, more than a grandma but not their mom)
Welcome. This is a very supportive community of women. It helps me to read this thread every morning while I eat breakfast. It puts my thinking on the right plane to start my day. There is research that shows that it's easier to maintain your habits in the company of others who share your ideas. It's hard to see yourself as a healthy eater and active person without the support of others who share your focus.
Barbie in NW WA2 -
Last evening our daughter stopped by. We enjoyed her visit and got some important id’s. She will be traveling for a while and caught us up on family doings.6
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