WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2024
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Tuesday
Nice long walk on the beach on a beautiful warm, sunny day! I did most of the walk (over 5 km) in bare feet ... on soft sand, on packed sand, in water and out, and on pavement.
And then a bicycle ride with my husband. The second photo is the whole photo of the strava one. Strava kind of cropped it.
Machka in Oz8 -
Julieann404 wrote: »TerriRichardson112 wrote: »Off out to craft this morning.
☘️ Terri
You're up and at 'em early this morning! Have a fun day.
It's 10 am in Ireland ... not that early.2 -
Good morning ladies!
Today is the phone call with social security. Then groceries. Then salmon for dinner.
My weight has dropped a tiny bit, but I plan to eat out again this weekend. We are going to Mission Barbeque, so we won't be tempted by appetizers and dessert. So I will just have a sandwich and lots of ice tea. Maybe I can make it work.
Meanwhile, I'm studying that medical terminology and reading my diet book. Today it says "protect your diet at all costs". I feel pushed by the absolute language. I guess it sounds better than "try". Anyway, I looked up some calorie counts for Saturday. It's tricky because the sauce is extra. It's too early to prepare much.
The next day in my book is about saying "I can do it." I think I can, maybe not all diet all the time, but I can get down into the 170s by Easter. That's eight tenths of a pound to lose in close to three weeks. I can do that.
We don't have a plan for Easter, except I was going to buy some lamb. My aunt has been ill so I don't know if she will host or not.
Well have a marvelous day ladies!
Annie in Delaware
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For the first time in ages I sent a long WhatsApp message to my elder son in Nottingham. I watch him all the time on YouTube, (AATV) but he isn't good at phone calls, or communicating at all really. I've been meaning to go up there and feeling guilty as it's been ages.
So I thought I would get in touch and we had a nice little exchange by text. He is a part time sports coach, (triathlon), and weight lifter, so was interested in hearing what the sports clinic makes of me next week. At least he knows I'm not just ignoring him.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx4 -
Rita, Vicki, and Ginny- Awesome job! Continue your One day at a time! I am proud of each of you.
Debbie Happy birthday! You share with my brother.
Cilantro Yes!
Page 16- work calling my name
Welcomes!
Hugs!
Appreciation for all of you!
Kylia in Ohio3 -
Good Morning: I am behind on the reading! I hope everyone is well. I can hear the birds chirping outside. I will be heading to the rescue this morning and then will read for a short term group book group I am. My son will be here this evening. I didn't get the house entirely clean but I think it will do!
Best,
Rosemarie from Georgia!4 -
On cycling ...
Way Back When
I started cycling when I was 6 years old and have been cycling since. My father was a cyclist with a basement full of bicycles which he rebuilt, fixed and maintained. We often rode together as a family and rarely travelled without the bicycles. Cycling was an important part of growing up.
When I got into my teens, I started focusing more on track and field (running) and less on cycling. Then when I started college and got into the workforce in my early 20s, I pretty much stopped cycling altogether. But not for long!
The rest of the story is in the spoiler ...The Beginning
On April 29, 1990, at the age of 23, I started cycling seriously. That first ride was a grand total of 2 miles long, and I had to take a break after the first mile … I was much more out of shape than I thought! For the next few years I put on about 1000 miles a season, and thought I was doing really well.
Then I started increasing my distances, and in the summer of 1994, I rode my first imperial century (100 miles in a day) –- alone. It was so difficult and painful that I said I would never do a ride that long again.
The next year I rode Jasper to Banff (the Icefield Parkway – Canada) in 3 days, which had been a goal of mine since I was 17, when my father did it. I loved it!! And that would have to be when I really started to cycle! Cycling had taken hold and had become a passion!
I did another imperial century (100 miles in a day) in 1997 -– alone again -– but this time I rode smarter and ate better, and it was not a problem. I did centuries just about every year until 2018 … usually several each year.
The Racing Years
In 1998, at the age of 31, I decided to try racing!
I figured I was pretty fast, but had no one to compare myself with because I did most of my cycling alone. I still remember my first race – a very hilly course (for Manitoba), cold, raining, on a borrowed bicycle with Time Trial (TT) gearing. I DNF’d.
For the next 3 years I struggled to train to develop speed – and I was successful to a certain extent, but it was a lot of work. I tried out road racing -– and always got dropped. I tried crits -– and did OK with them. I even won a few! But I hated them because of the high risk of accidents. And I tried TTs -– and did OK, and liked them. In my 3rd year of racing, I only rode TTs.
What’s Next
Meanwhile that year, 2000, I had been riding some longer distances on my own -– centuries and 200 km rides exploring the neighborhood, and I really enjoyed those. So I began considering devoting my time to touring instead of racing.
I looked into touring over the summer, but it just wasn’t quite what I wanted to do. Late in the year, I remembered that I had cut out an article from the newspaper about something called “Randonneuring” quite a few years earlier.
Randonneuring?
I dug the article out, reread it, and decided that was what I wanted to try. It took me a couple months to track down the club in Manitoba -– they weren’t well advertised -– and in the spring of 2001, I decided to try my first 200K (200 kilometres in 13.5 hours including all breaks) brevet. If it went well, I would do the 300K (300 kilometres of cycling in 20 hours including all breaks) … but I wasn’t committing myself to anything.
About a month before the 200K, I tore the rotator cuff in my left shoulder, and the only bicycle I could ride was my heavy Mongoose mountain bike because it didn’t require me to put weight on my left arm. So, I rode that first 200K with my mountain bike! I was very tired, but I enjoyed the ride and decided to do the 300K. I rode that on my road bicycle, was much less tired than I had been on the 200K.
After feeling so good on both the 200K and 300K, I decided to do the 400K (400 kilometres of cycling in 27 hours including all breaks), that went well too, and next thing I knew I was on the 600K (600 kilometres of cycling in 40 hours including all breaks)! I was hooked! I loved long, long, long distance cycling! I also did a few more centuries and 200K rides on my own throughout that year, just for fun!
Going Long!
I had heard about the Rocky Mountain 1200 (in 2002) and the Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 (in 2003) that year. 1200 kilometres of cycling with a time limit of 90 hours including all breaks!! I really wanted to do the PBP, so I decided to use the RM1200 as a test ride since it was in my country and close to relatives.
I had a plan all worked out for training over the winter prior to it – but that plan came to a screeching halt on November 1st when I dropped a pot of boiling water on my left foot which resulted in a bad 3rd+ degree burn.
I was off my bicycle and off my feet entirely for the next 3 months – so much for training! I couldn’t even lift upper body weights because as soon as my heart rate increased, my foot would swell and become very painful. But the first shoe I tried on when most of the dressings were removed was a cycling shoe! And at the end of February 2002, I finally got back onto my exercise bicycle, and started working diligently to get ready for the RM1200. That experience made me even more determined to do it than ever.
I completed the Rocky Mountain 1200 in 2002, the Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 in 2003, the Great Southern Randonee 1200 in 2004, and the Last Chance Randonnee 1200 in 2005. I have completed brevets of one sort or another every year since 2001, and I’ve also had the opportunity to tour parts of the Australia, Canada, the US, Europe, the UK and Asia. In 2005 and 2006, I raced 24-hour Time Trials which I also thoroughly enjoyed!
This chart shows the total number of each length of event I did up to and including part of 2018.
But cycling long distances was so much more than just turning pedals.
It was fun, adventurous and challenging. It was difficult and pushed me beyond what I thought I could do. It was rewarding, fulfilling. It was my life.
I met wonderful people, many of whom I still count as friends. Best of all, on the 2003 Paris-Brest-Paris, I met the man who would become my husband and we got to know each other on several other long events and training rides in various parts of the world. Cycling long distances was a key part of our relationship.
And Now?
In 2018, my husband had a workplace accident which resulted in a severe traumatic brain injury. Thankfully we are still cycling, but not like we did.
We are still participating in the type of cycling that was our lives by organising and volunteering.
I keep thinking that one day, maybe, I'll try my first 200K again ... my first 200K in 6 years. And I'll begin again ...
Machka in Oz4 -
Machka what an active life! I've always done a lot of reading, and my body looks like it.
I did my fifteen minutes on my bike and ten minutes walking! Yay!
Annie in Delaware5 -
Julieann404 wrote: »TerriRichardson112 wrote: »Off out to craft this morning.
☘️ Terri
You're up and at 'em early this morning! Have a fun day.
It's 10 am in Ireland ... not that early.
Ah.....I'm in the USA. "DUH" that your location never occurred to me. LOL. Still...great job!4 -
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Good morning ladies,
I've been researching A1C since mine has crept up into the pre-diabetes range despite changing my eating (cutting out added sugars) and upping exercise right after meals.
I ran across a short video by Dr. Jason Fung. He's the intermittent fasting (IF) guru who has been working for years with patients who have diabetes. In this one, he goes over the benefit of adding lemon juice or apple cider vinegar (ACV) to meals with starches and how these acids blunt the effect that "naked carbs" have on our blood sugar. Hence eventual drop in A1C and weight loss.
Dr. Matt also had a video recently about the benefits of ACV, including the impact on A1C and weight loss. I bet we'll talk about it more when I see him next week.
Dr. Fung's video. 10 minutes.
Collette will be here shortly. Need to get the house picked up.
Lanette
SW WA State5 -
Julieann404 wrote: »Julieann404 wrote: »TerriRichardson112 wrote: »Off out to craft this morning.
☘️ Terri
You're up and at 'em early this morning! Have a fun day.
It's 10 am in Ireland ... not that early.
Ah.....I'm in the USA. "DUH" that your location never occurred to me. LOL. Still...great job!
This is one of the reasons that we all like it when everyone signs with a name and a location. We have at least four time zones three continents, and both northern and southern hemispheres represented here. The other reason is so that when someone mentions great garden success, the location tell us that the writer is in a warmer climate.
Barbie4 -
The next part of my book talks about letting people around you know what kind of comments you find helpful, and what is not helpful. It doesn't apply to me so much, because I live with my father who could never remember advice like that. We are still working on him wearing pants. What kind of weight loss comments do you all find helpful?
So skipping ahead to day 11, it talks about the purpose of food. Again, not very useful. I eat a great baseline menu by habit, then supplement that with emotional eating and choices that don't align with my goals. But I've been good this week.
Annie in Delaware
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Ginny ~ What a great photo of you and the grands! I know you all will have a wonderful visit.
Rosemarie ~ Gibbs garden is a beautiful place to go in the Spring. I have not been there but have seen photos of all the flowers that are grown there.
Heather ~ John has made a great card for BiBi! She will love it. John's writing and artistic talents are outstanding. Glad you are able to move better.
Barbie ~ I agree with your thoughts on the diversity of talents that so many of the ladies here exhibit. Sometimes I feel bad that I don't have much to offer mainly because I live a very quiet life. But, I love reading about every post and learning what all is going on.
Julie ~ In what part of the US are you located. I assume somewhere in the Northeast since you mentioned the Amish custom regarding DST.
Carol in GA
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Good morning, ladies.
Machka, wonder if your plan involves house buying? Looking forward to hearing about your plan.
Ginny, beautiful pic of you and the grands.
Pip, awesome news about your cruise to Alaska. I'm sure you will enjoy. I found it absolutely stunning.
Our bit of snow is slowly going now as the weather has warmed up. I'm hoping that maybe another week and I can get out to walk with no ice patches.
Joy4 -
Good morning, ladies.
Machka, wonder if your plan involves house buying? Looking forward to hearing about your plan.
Ginny, beautiful pic of you and the grands.
Pip, awesome news about your cruise to Alaska. I'm sure you will enjoy. I found it absolutely stunning.
Our bit of snow is slowly going now as the weather has warmed up. I'm hoping that maybe another week and I can get out to walk with no ice patches.
Joy
We’ve done an Alaska cruise before, I know we’ll love it. It will be on a different cruise line this time. It’s the last of the season.
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Did a Cathe DVD then walked on the treadmill. The plan for tomorrow is to do an Extreme Cardio DVD
pip – that cruise sounds awesome. What a great time to go. How long will you be gone?
Debbie = I’d LOVE to have that tree. You paid $2 for it??? If you have a problem, I’ll buy it from you
Heather – that’s so nice that you send that message to your son
Off to lunch with my cousin and then later today (after 5) the guy is going to be here about the bathroom. I can’t wait, I think maybe Vince can. We shall see….
Michele who won’t get to lay out in the sun today4 -
Good morning, my punkins, from the dawning Arkansas River Valley, where I woke to my phone alarm going off two rooms away because I slept in,
Slept 9 hours last night, even with small trips to the littlest room in the house at 11 and 4, but I feel so well-rested... Might be three days in a row of hard physical labor... two in the yard, and then the heaviest housework yesterday. So nice to have the energy to do those things.
Today's organ recital, which is mostly a rant:Frustrated with the medicos once more 👀😈, but trying not to be. This is a rant, so skip it if you like.
So, I got an urgent note through the medical online resource that my gastroenterologist office couldn't get me by phone. They keep trying to use an Arkansas area code, but I never changed mine from Texas. I tell the nurse this every single time, but I still get the snarky note in my records that says my phone number is bad.
Anyway, the note said my final result came in from the tests more than a week ago that my calprotectin levels were high (450, when normal is a high of 50). They noted that this result shows my inflammation from the UC/Crohn's is in full swing and that I need to tell them if my signs or symptoms are showing that inflammation.
The note was annoying, because the signs and symptoms (explosive, uncontrolled and essentially continuous diarrhea) I have were why I didn't make my first appointment with them in early February because I couldn't leave my house. The signs and symptoms were why I made the appointment in the first place, why I was there for the appointment in late February, and why they did the tests. All of this is in my records.
NONE of this was a surprise or cause for an urgent communication. The test results were just proof of what I said - my UC/Crohn's symptoms are becoming debilitating again.
These same people even submitted the approval last Thursday for the Stelara biologic because of what I had told them about my signs and symptoms. I appreciate that part, I really do. So why am I getting this panicky note from them that says the tests show I have a problem? They wouldn't have sent the approval in for the biologic if I didn't have a problem! The tests simply confirmed it, they didn't show anything different or new.
Anyway - rant over. If it wouldn't mean starting over, I would just move to another gastroenterologist. At this point, though, I can't face the thought of beginning again. Once I'm on the Stelara, and we see if it either works to get all this calmed down or doesn't work, I'll think about it again and discuss it with my community care people at the VA. It's always an option; I'm just too frustrated right now to make a good decision.
I need to calm down, and somehow get myself to stop expecting professionalism and competence. Which is a little scary when you're talking about people who prescribe drugs. My heart rate is hitting 100 as I sit here just talking about it with y'all. Not worth it.
Thanks for listening. 🙃👀😊
OK, I feel better now, mentally anyway...
Of course, right after I wrote that, I accepted the Walmart order... and they forgot at least one bag, maybe two, with about six items. So I had to go online to get a refund for all those. It would have been a whole lot simpler to just call the store and ask them to have her run my items back up... but that isn't an option. That's OK, I just reordered them and will have them delivered once more this afternoon. Free with the Walmart+ membership.
Annie - if you read this far, the answer to "Which comments are helpful to me," is harder than it sounds. I am always open to new information, like Lanette's videos and Margaret's links, especially those that help me form more informed decisions about what to eat. Doesn't mean I follow them all, or even try, but I like knowing the information before I make the decision. Criticism, especially to a lifelong dieter, can feel toxic. and we can construe almost any comment as criticism, because we have a tendency to stay raw about the subject.
Regarding how we talk about food, and this is in no way meant as criticism:One of the things that worries me about other's comments about their food journey is when the words "bad," and "should" show up, whether talking about themselves or food. It's an emotional label that goes right back to our childhood. None of us here are bad, and the foods we eat aren't bad.
They're choices that do or don't fit within our plan, that's all. And we're not bad people for eating them, nor is our behavior bad. It simply doesn't fit within our pattern or plan. By saying we or the food are "bad," we dismiss ourselves as being childlike, and we demonize the food. I understand that it's shorthand for us, but when you remove that label, a lot of the emotion invested in the process can be removed as well. Choose or don't choose, but the choices aren't bad - they just are or aren't what you've chosen. The word "should," simply ratchets up the emotion.
I hope I've phrased that well enough - I'm not busting on your communication, just saying that trying to stop emotional eating when you're investing emotion in the food itself makes it hard to get what you want. Food isn't emotional - it doesn't hate you, and it doesn't love you back. Eating it just changes the way you feel right that moment.
I'm proud of you for everything you do to find the end result you want. Be kinder to yourself, my dear. You're a good person, a strong person, and the journey is up to you.
Sorry, two rants in one day.
Time to get moving! Yoga, then outside work once it's warmed up.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
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Today is: Kiss a tree today! Lol
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I learned from someone to say "this isn't my food" regarding something that's not on my plan. I also say "this isn't a time that I eat". I make a plan of what I'll eat and when I'll eat.5
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