WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2024

cityjaneLondon · February 6

Barbara - I think Lanette was referring to Tim Spector about the fibre in coffee. It's also fermented, so an all round good thing. I have one large mug of extremely strong milky coffee every day after exercising. John makes it and brings it up to me. It is one of the highlights of our day.
The rest of the time I drink British tea. A lot of tea. That's also good for you, according to Tim. Michael Moseley says green tea is excellent. I'm sticking with my beloved black with semi-skimmed milk.
Following Michael, I have been doing planks as part of my exercise regime,. Mon, Tues, and Fri. The other days I do 30 push ups from the knee. He recommends four planks, 30 seconds, with two minutes break between them, three times a week. I am only doing two, but good is better than perfect. It's supposed to be good for blood pressure, as are wall squats for two minutes. That takes too long. I generally spend about 30 minutes a day on floor, weights, balance, PT, strength etc. The rest is 20 mins rowing and 25 mins recumbent bike.
I still ache and find walking any distance hard. But it would be worse if I didn't do them.
I'm waiting for a physio appointment at the hospital.

Today is pickup day. My son wants us to stay longer, as they have Parents Evening. He will take us home.
Weather not brilliant.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Anniesquats100 · February 6

Good morning ladies!

Hope our west coast women got through the storm.

My cousin is coming tonight to get the extra freezer out of the basement. I hope they can get it up the stairs and around through the door. I guess I should have some dinner ready. I could make chili but we just finished the last batch. Maybe something else will occur to me. Meatloaf? Ham? Hmm. I really don't like entertaining.

My muscles are feeling the short bike ride. I really lost all my fitness in my six months break. Time to start again.

Have a great day!

Annie in Delaware

kymarai · February 6

Had a post, hit wrong button!
Hugs!
Cheers!
Love!

Kylia in Ohio

grandmallie · February 6

Morning all
Woke up at 5,and its 8 now,and im still tired.. maybe will go back to sleep for an hour or so.

margaretturk · February 6

GodMomKim · February 6

Hi Gals,

Grief sucks.

The weather in N. California has been frightful. Yesterday there was a break and I cleaned branches and debris from my front yard, cut it all up and filled one of my 90 gallon “green” cans those go into city compost. I have a second green can that I hope to fill with branches and debris from the back yard, but there is so so much in the back yard that I will have leftovers for next weeks pickup. My neighbors and I often share cans but the wind and rain means everyone is inundated, so I will be surprised if anyone has extra room.

Annie – glad to hear the basement freeze is going --- with just 2 of you I bet you don’t need it. What to fix for dinner, someone suggested soup. That could be a good idea! I love tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. Or I have “cheated” and done a tomato basil soup from the deli and a bag of frozen tiny meatballs and put them together to make an Italian meatball soup with garlic bread.

Sue – sorry to hear about the Renter from hell when I rented a room out I had one of those. Luckly I had a neighborhood kid who had a bad habit of keying cars and everyone one was up in arms! But when my renter realized what was going on he wanted out of his rental agreement before it was up or his car got keyed. I was delighted to say fine.

Debbie – glad to hear you had no damage.

Lisa – the Laundry looks great – more streamlined, clean – and shelving at a reasonable height. Why would a shelf go over a window???? Just a place to need to dust on a tall ladder. LOL The blow out sounds scary glad you were close to help and going slow.

Love ya all,
Kim in N. California

kevrit · February 6

OregonMother wrote: »

Rita. We're not doing anything about my ckd. I'm trying not to let it bother me, but I had to bring up the diet. All he says is drink more water. I am doing my best to eat the DASH diet. Everyone probably should. So we are eating a lot more veggies, and I am avoiding beef. But not eliminating it entirely. The nephrologist has released me unless my GFR goes lower. It bounces around in the low 40s, with occasional dips into the high 30s. He says that's plenty of functionality. I don't know if he says that because of my mbc and I'm probably not going to die of kidney disease. I am wondering how his treatment of me compares to the treatment of others.

Flea
Willamette Valley OR

FleaMy nephrologist was upset my GP didn’t tell me or send me sooner. My GFR is 46. He wanted to put me on Farxiga b/c my sugar has been going up (even with Keto) and my BP was way up. Cardiologist has BP going down so one more thing down. I have a choice with the Farxiga. It is too expensive for me and I know my insurance pays for all the BP meds and testing stuff for the glucose. I haven’t had to take any diabetes meds so will pass on the Farxiga. Thanks so much for your response! Helps me put things in perspective. Diet is everything! No more Keto but Renal diet now. And 80 oz of water a day according to doc. (He also says coffee is ok) LOL 🤷‍♀️

Machka Thanks for the info! I’m in stage 3 where my GFR bounces between 42 and 52. Diet is the way to go I am seeing. I have been following the Renal diet (I’ll post a snippet later) after researching and with my “metabolic acidosis” which is the type of CKD I have, I need to avoid Phosporus mostly, so reading ALOT of labels! LOL

Michelle in NV I like the soup idea! My DH does all the cooking and is making Menudo today. I’ll see if I can remember to take a pic. Also my DH does the same as yours. He starts to sort out the pile he has in the front of the RV but ends up making a worse mess. Not sure how he manages b/c he DOES toss a couple things each time. 🤪

RVRita who panics with medical stuff for nothing really, in Roswell, NM. 🛸👽

pipcd34 · February 6

anmlmzdiet wrote: »

@cityjaneLondon
"It took me a long time to appreciate what she gave me. Sometimes it is so much part of who you are, you can't see it yourself."

Sadly, I know I have a lot of my mom in me. My hands look like hers. I've caught some of my dirty looks in a mirror and was shocked at what I saw. Other than physical features, though, we a very different. I'm glad for that. I work hard to be a nice person. It doesn't just come to me. I have been told my comments are insensitive, abrasive, and harsh. So, I work on it. I just naturally come off a little wicked sometime. That's one reason I like to write so much. When I write, I can word things the way I want without coming off wrong.

One good thing I can say I got from my mom is how to instill confidence that we; my family, kids, or whomever I'm dealing with, are going to get through a tough time. I remember when I was young and something would go wrong, she would tell us kids that everything was going to be fine and that we would deal with it. Since I trusted her then, it was the best thing I could hear. We would all calm down and do our part, whether it was make cheap meals or deal with the death of a loved one knowing that we would be okay. I do that for my kids, and I'm glad I know how.

@dlfk202000
What kind of stuff do you take to your shows? Do you sell? Have you posted pictures? I'm interested to see.

@kevrit
Since February 4th was Homemade Soup Day, maybe we could all make a homemade soup this week and put a picture of it up here or even just talk about it. Just an idea.

@pipcd34
Do you do the MS run for yourself or a family member? MS is just debilitating stay well and good luck on your run. Are going to do something like a GoFundMe?

@SophieRosieMom
I didn't know fast car came out in 1988; that's the year I graduates HS. I guess I really am in my 50s.

@Machka9 and @OregonMother
I'm so sorry to hear you have CKD. Kidney disease is a rough illness with which to deal. Bless you and my thoughts are with you both.

I vigorously walked for 20 minutes today back and forth through the casino. I was in a rush to get back to my game. Now this isn't a small, tiny casino by any means. It's Green Valley Ranch (a station casino) here in Henderson. In fact, I would say it's one of the few casinos around here that is built like a strip mall, lol. It has indoors and outdoors all with convenience lining the sides of the center aisle. It's overwhelming, and I just wanted to get a coffee.

I don't know how you all are doing it. I can't seem to get my husband to declutter anything. He cleans an area, throws away a few things, and makes a new pile. Argh. I try to throw stuff away, and pulls it out saying he's going to take it to Goodwill but never does. I have this new book called Nobody Wants Your S-h*t the art of decluttering. I haven't started reading it yet, but I'm a little worried that if I do, I will get all Gung-ho and he will still be in his Goodwill stage. He won't even let me hold a yard sale.

Soup anyone? (see kevrit above)

Michelle in NV

I do the MS Bike ride. When we were living in Washington we would go to the MS Deception Pass Classic in Mt Vernon WA (very scenic, hilly ride). When I met my husband, he was a year round rider and him and a friend would do these rides just for a free t-shirt. He did the ride for 27 years. When I met him in ‘99 I was too fat, out of shape to ride so I would volunteer. After about 5 years, I looked back and found my earliest ride that i could find was in 2000. When he started it was called MS 150. 75 miles on day 1 and 75 on day 2. It has evolved and they have different distances to choose from 22, 59, 80, 100 miles. Because of that they got more participants. My 1st, I did the 60 miles. This ride is the only one I raise $$ for. When you raise 1000 or more you get a jersey. As I have been trying to get $$$, I found that some former coworkers family had MS and I never knew. Since I moved to California in 2020 to retire, we drove back to do the ride. My husband.(Kirby) stopped doing the ride, that was his last time. I now ride it virtually here in California. It’s not as fun cuz I do it alone. I ram racking up the miles as of 2/1/24. When you are there you have to raise $250 or you can’t ride. Now that I’m virtual, I don’t have to. During this time of year, I ride inside because I don’t have to ride outside anymore:0). But on the day of the ride I ride outside the full 60, last year I started riding at 4am so I could get done in earlier in the day.

I have an MS Bike page that I will post on Facebook, I have a link I send to people (tax deductible). I accept checks for people who are not comfortable using the website. People mail me checks to. (made out to Nat’l MS Society, not me). Long answer, no I didn’t know anyone with MS, I don’t have it. I bike ride it, not run or walk it. No go fund me page, I have my own MS link.

I haven’t typed this much in a bit

kevrit · February 6

My current diet (Renal Diet. My BMI is 29 but according to research 25 is best for CKD, so working on that - ALWAYS working on that! 🤪)
RVRita

kevrit · February 6

Today is:k Be without my cellphone for 24 hours?????? NOT POSSIBLE! LOL!😊 Now frozen yogurt I can do! No politics, but there is a reference below.

RVRita

pipcd34 · February 6

anmlmzdiet
My link

https://events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=432873&language=en&referrer=mf:432873:you-copy

Pic of hubby before I knew him doing the ride with his friend
My dog yogi dressed up , he’s my profile pic on the MS page.

Anniesquats100 · February 6

Growl. I got a phone call that my dad stopped paying one of his credit card bills. He said it was because they stopped sending him paper bills. What a mess. I think I will close down the account. I hate this part, I'm bad enough at my own stuff.

Annie in Delaware

pipcd34 · February 6

Me leaving in the morning to do the ride.
, I think I got home at 8 or 9am.
A jersey I earned for raising the $1000.

LisaInArkansas · February 6

Morning, my chickens, from the Arkansas River Valley,

Thanks, all, for the comments on the laundry room. The next big indoor project is making the two back bedrooms and half bath into a master suite with a full bath. Won't start on that for a bit, although I would love to have it done by the time my best friend gets here in April for the eclipse. Probably won't make that, unfortunately.

But, until then, Corey's still got more than a few things to do in his sunroom kitchen. He's enjoying making those choices and making something new work for him. I'm enjoying watching him do it, so that works out just fine. I have no need to ever cook anything on a grill, so whatever he wants to do is out of my jurisdiction, so to speak.

Did get my tire fixed yesterday, after the visit to the primary care doc. His office called me at 7 and asked if I could go in early and get X-rays done, and those showed what I already knew. The left knee is bone on bone. I'm just leaning on it more again because there's so much pain in the right knee, the one that was replaced. Favoring it is causing even more pain to the already bad left knee. He's writing the referral to the specialist, which is pretty much all I was there for.

Talked to Corey for our "good morning" call at about 8 a.m., and then to my sis for the last hour... I've educated myself enough on her field of expertise (the Bible) to be able to have an intelligent conversation with her, and it helps that I can comment knowledgeably on something dear to her. I never took the time before. Now I have the time.

We are confidantes in ways no friend could ever be, as we both know and understand why the other does certain things that grow out of our childhood, and we can discuss ways that have helped us get through it. Meeting her on her intellectual home turf has been an education for me in a lot of ways. And anytime Corey and I are having an issue, there's a fair chance that in one of her four marriages (if not more than one) she's run into it!

Got a Walmart order coming in in a couple hours, that's as exciting as it's going to get today. My knees are propped up, other than the hourly steps, and they're probably going to stay that way. Will probably use some of my steps to grab the ice wraps out of the freezer.

Reading, as always... hugs to those in need, cheers to those doing well,

Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR

cityjaneLondon · February 6

Having Edie on Saturday morning for a couple of hours and lunch. Gluten free sausages.

Bea wanted to come but we have managed to divert her by offering a half term visit. Edie didn't want her to come on Saturday.
I've just ordered Bea's birthday present, which she chose herself.

It's just a cheap one from Amazon.
In my granny way I was worried about her getting cold, so I've also ordered her a bolero.

Not quite the right colour, but it'll do. The reviews say it can arrive very wrinkled, but it will have plenty of time to drop out before her birthday in March!!

Just waiting for the parents to get back from the Parents Evening.

Love Heather UK xxxxxx

cityjaneLondon · February 6

Still waiting....

Love Heather UK xxxxxx

grandmallie · February 6

Heather- any girl would love to have that beautiful dress and bolero
Well dropped off taxes and went to pick up some shoes at Target of course they gave me thr wrong size.. so had to return them,and then came home.. Trudy left this morning on her trip so im on kitty duty for the next 10+ days instead of her spending over 200.00 to have someone come.. I'll do it,and when I go away she will take care of Siri.. one hand washes the other ,so to speak .
A friend of mine needed an antenna for her dad and i had an extra one,so i took it off my t.v.,now have to get the t.v. back to working lol
Oh well..try and do something nice anyway.

exermom · February 6

Worked then stopped at Bell’s outlet to see if they had any St. Pat’s day shirts, but they don’t so went to Big Lots next door. The only shirts they had were stupid ones but did get 4 boxes of cereal for 64 cents each. Yes, they were Christmas-themed, but so what? My stomach won’t know the difference. Then went to Ollie’s since I had a 15% off coupon. I was hoping they had the chlorinating solution in for the pool but they didn’t. I did need breadcrumbs so I got them and this protein bar that’s pretty good with 12g of protein. They didn’t have a headlight that I wanted for Colby.

The guy came about taking down the tree. It’ll probably be around $1500. The tree is BIG and is leaning towards the house. If another strong wind comes up, it will come down. And I don’t want that to happen when we’re in FL. If he can’t get to the stump, that’s OK, I just want that tree gone.

We’ll have dinner early then stop at this vacuum place. They have a (used) pet hair head for our vacuum that is $5, so we’ll get it. I’m glad the motor broke when Vince was using it and not me.

Allie – so Carmen doesn’t know about the addition-to-be for the family. Wonder how she’ll take it when she does find out. Guess we’ll find out. Maybe this was an “oops” baby.

Lisa – everything is so organized. You did a wonderful job. Good luck at the MD. And good luck with the tire. I do hope they take you early

Allie – funny you mention Katla. I was just thinking about her. GMTA

Heard back from Bryan (after I sent the birthday wishes) Got a few more pics of Leo. He’s growing so fast.

Ceramics tonight. I’m going to take another piece with me to clear glaze

Heather – what a lovely present for Bea! I know she’s going to love it, I do when in March is her birthday? Jess’ is in March, too

Off to my walk, now.

Michele NC

LisaInArkansas · February 6

Rebecca - Been thinking about you for days... hope your time with your boys is absolutely wonderful.

sh0tzz99 · February 6

Well, I heard there was a tornado warning here a few days ago, but never got a notification. Today, I did. The rain is coming in buckets at the moment. Being from the Midwest, I don't see this as tornado-y conditions. Interesting weather we're having.

Today is roast all the veggies in the fridge before they go bad day. The cauliflower and broccoli will become soup soon. The haricot verts will become snack sticks. Then I will not cook for a while. We'll just pick out of the refrigerator options.

Some of you pick a word for the year for focus. I don't do that, but today I was thinking if I did, my word would be "less." Less booze, less meat, less white carbs, less food in general, less going out, less sitting down, and eventually less weight on my rear end. So far, I've been doing pretty good in every category except the last one. Though, I did lose about 1 pound over the past 2 months. The mister lost 9. *sigh*

Annie-Great job getting back on the bike.
Heather-Awesome about the local publication picking up your book story! Gorgeous dress for Bea.

Hugs to those who need them. I don't always mention you specifically, but I am sending good vibes and thinking of you.

Tina in CA (who soon will need a boat to get out of the garage)

WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2024

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