WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2023

Anniesquats100 · March 2023

A lot of little things helped me. Like realizing I was changing a habit of large portions and nighttime snacking. I stopped going into the laundry room where the cookies are, especially after letting the dog out. I accepted there would be some craving with the transition but I could handle it. I kept thinking about what I really want - a cookie that lasts 30 seconds or months of slim.(thanks Barbie!)

And I put a lot of work into finding food that would satisfy me, so that while my mind says "hungry!" I know it just means get out of the kitchen. Now I have a good pattern of eating low calorie food and stopping in the afternoon. I used to think it wasn't worthwhile to cook a tiny 100 calorie portions of chicken or tilapia, but now I know that much keeps me from snacking.

But it's a long journey and I've just started to increase my exercise to get that calorie deficit going consistently. I'm expecting good losses this spring now that my calorie deficit averages about 300. So that's my novel, hope it's helpful!

Annie in Delaware

barbiecat · March 2023

I prepare meals that are exactly one portion for me if I am eating alone or two portions if hubby is eating with me. I preplan all my eating for the day including snacks and the time I will eat them. Thus there is no impulse eating. We don't buy foods we ought not eat. The older I get, the greater the importance of my health

drkatiebug · March 2023

Anybody remember when I broke my finger a little over two years ago and lost my splint? Well, guess where it turned up today! It actually was right where I thought it was; where I looked at least a million times, unsuccessfully. Hint: you will know immediately where it was if you remember my post from yesterday.

TikTok fail for breakfast this morning. It looked delicious, but I was not impressed. Pancakes made from rolled oats, cottage cheese and an egg. I splurged on 2 tbs of real maple syrup and some raspberries to try to redeem it. I ate it, but I will not be making it again. On the positive side, it did have 29 g of protein. I’m looking forward to my smoothie for lunch.

I have been slacking on the walking, since I’ve been super tired, but I have been pretty pleased with my eating. Results are slow, but the trend is in the right direction.

kevrit · March 2023

March, 2023 Action for happiness.org

Word of the year: Appreciate : today I appreciate spring weather.

Exercise goals added
Yoga 10 mins 3 times a week 2/15-(100%,100%)
Walk 7,000 every day 4/31– (84%,86%,)
Arm weights twice a week 2/10 (100%, 60%hurt my elbow,)
Meditation: daily. 4/31 (82%(started Feb))

1. cut back drinking and limit to 2 days a week. 4/8–(100%,100%)
2. Average 7,000 steps a week. (7,700,100%-9851,100%
3. Update budget every 2 weeks 1/2 —(100%,100%)
4. Contact close family every week (4x) 5/16 —(100%,100%)
5. Contact Donat and sibs once a month (8x)24/64–(100%,100%)
6. Weigh less last day of month compared to first until I reach 140. Start at 178.6,176,174.2—(100%,100%)
7. Develop a journaling practice by aiming to journal at least 5 days a week. 4/20– -(100%,88%)
8. Read 12 books at least this year. 7/12 (100%,100%)
9. Pay off credit card debt by January 2024 by making monthly payments to NDR——3/12—(100%.100%,100%)
10. Continue building emergency fund at SLFCU (min$25 a month)$25+$25+$71(100%,100%,100)
Decided that if I do more than stated I will not grade higher than 100% 2/5/23

January Met —100%
February met —-90%
March met met
April met
May met
June met
July met — met
August met
September met
October met —
November met—
December met—

1. Set an intention to live with awareness and kindness. I intend to live with more awareness and kindness every day.
2. Notice three things you find beautiful in the outside world. The blue water of Lea Lake, Snow on the mountains at a distance, walking a nature trail. All at Bottomless Lakes State Park.
3. Start today by appreciating your body and that you are alive. I am healthy and above ground. I can walk,talk,hear, see, taste, and smell (mostly). I appreciate that I alive and have a healthy body.
4. Notice how you speak to yourself and choose to use kind words. I will try…

5. Bring to mind people you care about and send love to them. I sent texts to my long distance friends to send them love.
6. Have a ‘no plans’ day and notice how that feels. Most days are like that for me. So much less stress!

7. Take three calm breaths at regular intervals during your day.
8. Eat mindfully. Appreciate the taste, texture and email of your food.
9. Take a full breath in and out before you reply to others.
10. Get outside and notice how the weather feels on your face.
11. Stay fully present while drinking your cup of tea or coffee.
12. Listen deeply to someone and really hear what they are saying.
13. Pause to watch the sky or clouds for a few minutes today.
14. Find ways to enjoy any chores or tasks that you do.
15. Stop. Breathe. Notice. Repeat regularly.
16. Get really absorbed with an interesting or creative activity.
17. Look around and spot three thing you find unusual or pleasant.
18. If you find yourself rushing, make an effort to slow down.
19. Appreciate nature around you wherever you are.
20. Focus on what makes you and others happy today.
21. Listen to a piece of music without doing anything else.
22. Notice something that is going well, even if today feels difficult.
23. Tune into your feelings, without judging or trying to change them.
24. Appreciate your hands and all the things they enable you to do.
25. Focus your attention on the good things you take for granted.
26. Choose too spend less times looking at screens today.
27. Cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness towards others today.
28. Notice when you are tired and take a break as soon as possible.
29. Choose a different route today and see what you notice.
30. Mentally scan your body and notice what you are feeling.
31. Discover the joy in the simple things of life.

Barbie's Happiness Commandments

Be Barbie
Lighten up
Do it now
Dance more
Choose strategy over willpower
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
Come from a place of love
Stay in the moment
Act the way you want to feel
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
Don't expect praise or recognition
It is what it is
Don't take things personally
Treat yourself like a toddler
What's fun for other people may not be fun for you, and vice versa
You can choose what you do, but you can't choose what you like
Be kind, no exceptions
Ask always, how could my life be better with less?

RVRita in Spring-like NM

pipcd34 · March 2023

Breakfast is getting ready

kevrit · March 2023

I was doing good on losing weight, but then my birthday came and I splurged. Drank too much hard seltzer and had too many sweets. Scale says 2 pound up but I know that will dissipate soon as I’m back at it. Seems so much easier to gain than lose. So disheartening. I’m still doing my 7-10,000 steps a day, yoga 3 times a week, and weights twice a week. I lowered the weight from 3 lbs to 2 due to my overdoing it and irritating my tendinitis. But still at it.

My favorite sport is walking/hiking. I used to love baseball/softball but my knees won’t allow the running anymore. In my younger days, I did aerobics, karate (Tang So Do version) and stairs. Probably why my knees are bad now. It is not arthritis, it is tendinitis. Something about my tendons being too short as opposed to my muscles. IDK.

Feeling lazy today but going to get moving. A long walk will help tremendously!

RVRita

kevrit · March 2023

pipcd34 · March 2023

I made it to 4000 logging streak!

Breakfast is served

cityjaneLondon · March 2023

DH went out in the cold and grey to get his hair cut and to buy polish sausage.

I use it in my sauerkraut and cabbage meal. On the way he spotted this cloud formation. Nice!

It was raining by the time he got home.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

margaretturk · March 2023

Katie When I have made pancakes using oatmeal I grind the oatmeal in a blender. I use it instead of flour. Did you add baking powder? tThat is what makes pancake light. My recipe is 1/2 cup ground oat meal, 1/2 tsp baking powder, salt to taste, lemon rind, cinnamon to taste, one egg, tsp and half melted better or oil, enough milk to thin the batter. Cook in teflon pan. Real maple syrup heat with blueberries and raspberries . Yum

auntiebk · March 2023

6. Have a ‘no plans’ day and notice how that feels. Sometimes liberating, sometimes lost.
5. Bring to mind people you care about and send love to them. Morning and evening and in between.

Barbie trade offs, yes! Number one on our home shopping “musts” list was BIG trees. All you listed plus how much it cost to have the 3 dead oaks and one huge, beautiful but dying Port Orford cedar removed. I’m only wistfully wishing for a sunnier spot, wouldn’t trade our Sitka spruce/Douglas fir forest to get it

Exciting news about Jake’s walking sticks and friend. With all the healthful choices you make, I’m confident you’ll pass your annual with flying colors!
Michele Miraculous indeed. Well done, Vince!
Katla

Sorry that tasty rich breakfast was too rich. Back to cottage cheese and blueberries! :laugh: Hope having some of your things brings comfort and joy.
Sandy in KY, would your Doctor order PT? Chew, chew, chew. Take time to savor. Chew some more

Ginny non-THC containing CBD oil sometimes soothes my arthritic knees and knuckles.
Love the scent of frankincense.
Heather

your watercolor window views. Really admire how you and Johnny really engage with the grands, not just feed, water, and stick in front of a screen. If I can’t be in Miss Kelly’s play group, can I be one of your grands?
Carol grateful your DH is feeling better. That was scary!
Annie that black and crumbly stuff falling from the basement ceiling, please tell me it couldn’t be mold?!?
Allie that Miles corral is brilliant! Glad Carmine went to their session, relieved counselor doesn’t find them suicidal. Your grandpa was a wit!
Rita yours about keeping lists and tracking to maintain (or re-) focus. Also the non-judging acceptance we get here. Amen, sister, amen!

the zen tips meme.
Debbie prayers continue for Destiny and her family. Also for Karen’s Josephina Ballerina and Kylia’s Aubrey. Enjoyed watching church online yesterday too (in my flannel nightshirt :> ) but missed the in person communion and fellowship. What you said about the music too. Look forward to hearing about the soup, I could never get the asparagus ends to puree enough, the fibers always defeated/choked me.
Rebecca don’t know if this will help, but read about a woman who was grieving a behavior of her son so hard she could barely function. Her spiritual advisor suggested she set aside 30 minutes a day to feel as sad as she could, think sad thoughts, listen to sad music, watch a sad movie, and cry as much as she could. Seemed to help to limit the grief and its impact on her and the rest of her family’s life. Good luck with the grief therapist!
@lih2 well done on the snowshoeing! Would you let us know what you’d like to be called and your general locale?
Margaret that ?snowy egret? Looks so balletic!

the caption too.
Rosemarie thanks for checking in. :brokenheart:

SMH and that “friend”s rudness. Sounds like internet-addiction-withdrawal to me. :devil: Safe travels and dress warm!
Lanette thanks for the spoiler warning. Not ready for fast twitch cadaver muscles before breakfast :laugh: A liter is a lot! Thanks also for the humming/nitric oxide tidbit. Might help with my BP which spiked this morning to 161/83, highest since January last year. Just put Breath (Nestor) on library hold.
Pip camping again? Where to this time?
Kay yours to all about the calories and protein. If I could just walk away from the sugar . . .
Evelyn your idea to send pip’s boot to Rebecca’s youngest, priceless! “need to remember to stop when things start going wrong and then just go back later or the next day.” Anything to reduce frustration prompted snacking. Well done!
Machka and Debbie, I remember my nose feeling “off” for a very long time, and then one day, it was fine. Your doctor’s advice to keep massaging with Vit E oil is spot on. There’s another product called “ScarGo” that would have worked better on my wrist surgery scars if I’d have been able to be as aggressive/vigorous as the Md recommended, but I just couldn’t make myself. It HURT!
Rebecca, its not opera but…
https://whidbeycommunitychorus.org/
https://whidbeyartscalendar.com/event/open-circle-community-choir-create-space-langley/2022-10-24/
Beth praying your DH’s cardiologist appointment reveals nothing serious or hard to fix.
Welcome @CheerMom715 Kim!

Favorite sport. As a lifelong couch potato/bookworm the word “Sport” makes me shudder, just like “Exercise.” Had do flip it to:
Favorite activities:
Walking, line dancing, slow gentle hiking, playing in the dirt, Zumba, swimming, aqua Zumba and baking, Alas, no warm pool here, can’t make myself go to the gym for Zumba, can’t not eat what I bake, so content myself with line dancing 2 or 3 times a week, walking dogs dailyish, dog group weekly and the occasional slow gentle hike with patient friends. Soon as we get a few dry hours in a row I’ll get back to weeding, picking up sticks, fantasizing about growing veggies . . .

03/05: Move: 3 sets PT with dumbbells, dogs to powerline, active mins:188 steps:4087
Fuel: plants running count for week so far: 10+5+6+4+5 = apple, artichoke, beans-garbanzo, cabbage, cranberries, edamame, ginger, Kashi, macadamia nuts, mint jelly, mushrooms, olive oil, onions-red, peanut butter, pecans, pepperoncini, peppers-sweet, pomelo, popcorn, potato, radish, rice-white, romaine, scallions, tangerines, tea-black, tea-lemongrass/wintergreen, tofu, walnuts, wheat-pasta/English Muffin/ginger snaps/brownie/pancake/matzoh. CI<CO=-114
Live: Joe, readings, BP, online church, filing/decluttering/cleared keyboard. Wt: 135.1
03/04: Move: 3 sets PT, dogs to powerline, Jeopardy walking. active mins:267 steps:7647
Fuel: plants running count for week so far: 10+5+6+4 = apple, artichoke, beans-garbanzo, cabbage, cranberries, edamame, ginger, Kashi, macadamia nuts, mint jelly, mushrooms, olive oil, onions-red, peanut butter, potato, radish, rice-white, romaine, scallions, tangerines, tea-black, tea-lemongrass/wintergreen, tofu, walnuts, wheat-pasta/English Muffin/ginger snaps/brownie. CI<CO=517
Live: Joe, readings, BP, hymns Wt: 135.4

Time to get up off my duff and move.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

2023: Be of good cheer. March: Move more, fuel better, live NOW.

grandmallie · March 2023

Well im home..
Got Miles down for a second nap which wasn't to hard..he has a nasty cold.
Tracy is freaking out because a friend of hers they met out in Ohio is home schooling her 3 yr old and at the age Miles is she was picking out colors and numbers..Tracy wants to home school him,I asked how is she going to do that if she is working part time.
I really dont want to get roped into schooling him also..
My cousin im going to visit had 6 kids and home schooled them all.so i will get some info and pointers from her..

barbiecat · March 2023

Allie Do your homework about home schooling. It is an art and a calling. People who home school their kids naturally and consistently make every moment a teachable moment. You can add conversations with Miles about your environment to your day as a start. 🌻😻🌞

drkatiebug · March 2023

Barbara, the funny thing about the protein is that it has killed my sugar cravings. My goal is no more than 25 g of added sugar. I don’t count naturally occurring sugar from fruit or vegetables. I meet that most days. Probably not today since I had the maple syrup.

Margaret, I do think I was supposed to blend the oatmeal into flour. I did not add baking powder. I will give it another try doing that and using a regular pan instead of my mini waffle maker. I will say this. It as been almost 5 hours, and I am not the least bit hungry.

LisaInArkansas · March 2023

Anniesquats100 · March 2023

Barbara, no it's not mold falling from the ceiling. Maybe some sort of sealant from the air ducts is crumbling.

Annie in Delaware

dlfk202000 · March 2023

Barbara-the soup was a pretty much failure- I used Silk because I had to use it up and after reducing down so much, it left the soup really sweet. I didn't try pureeing the asparagus and straining, Just tossed the ends in and let it simmer then took them out. Didn't give much flavor doing it that way. I did add some diced cooked asparagus to it. Dh said- well, it isn't terrible. Glad I didn't really waste much. Just about .50cents of Silk. I will try a little at lunch- no clue on calories beings it is only about a cup left but started with at least 4 cups of Silk. I am sure none of the calories evaporated out

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If it isn't great when I try it it will get dumped. Not eating something that is so-so.(dh tried it, I didn't as I was stuffed from a big dinner of salmon w/pesto, asparagus and a huge green salad-skipped the rice completely).

I was really skeptical about going to Zumba the first time. Now I can't wait to go most nights.
We have our class through the city Parks and Rec. dept. Just $25 a month for two nights a week.
It is a small class and great teacher.
It is something I enjoy doing for me- just an hour each class but an hour away from the house to do something just for me.
With all the rain we are getting, I haven't been out walking so this is great to be back two nights a week after five months of one night(stopped the second one when the time changed and the park was too dark to have class plus it was too cold)
Maybe see if there is something like that for you to try.

Debbie

Vickil57 · March 2023

Allie--Sounds like you were where you needed to be.
Kim--Sorry about your mom's fall. Please remember to take care of yourself also.
Tracey--good Luck with appling for a new job. Prayers it goes well.
Katla--Glad you are back to Katla, Thanks PIP for all your help and patience.
Rebecca--HUGS!!
Lisa--I am glad you explain what is going on with you. I worry and my mind can come up with all kinds of terrible things. I understand about siblings. Mine don't call unless I do first.
RVRita--Sounds like you had a good birthday.
Flea--Glad to hear from you. You have been dealing with a lot and pray you are taking care of yourself too.
Carol--Glad they found the problem and pray DH is feeling better soon.
Debbie--Sending prayes for Destiny and family.
Rosemarie--Sounds like you are putting things together very well. Sorry your friend was not better at being supporting. Come here often and let it all out. We are here for you. HUGS!!
Well I am caught up and had a nice weekend. Spent most of it at the Iron Horse Bike show. DH put his ratbike in and won 2nd place. Made his day. A lot of walking and my legs let me know they were not happy.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND, NE

KJLaMore · March 2023

minicooper452 · March 2023

Welcome newbies and returnees! (((hugs))) to those who need them.

My grandmother always said that she ate fast because grandpa was a salesman and they always ate fast, nanerkay. So, she made it a point of setting a very nice table for herself, always a placemat, all the silverware, water cup, napkin, everything, like company was coming. Then she sat down and had a conversation with herself about the day. Took very small bites, cut everything, one bite at a time, chewed very carefully, had a sip of water in between every bite. Just made the meal an event.

I can't see any time being a good time Rosemarie, but it sounds like you have everything in order. God bless you and I hope it all goes well. I'm sorry about the sad visit with your friend. Grief takes on all forms and for some people it makes them hard.

Breakfast looks delish, Pip. Wish I could share!

6. Have a ‘no plans’ day and notice how that feels... I WISH, but Mondays don't allow for that. Maybe some other day.
Love and Blessings, Carla, in MN

WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2023

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