WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER

Hello Everyone,
I hope you had a good day. I had planned to play golf with my friends today. We play all summer (two are working teachers and two of us are retired from teaching). Because today was a holiday we were able to play. The forecast was for showers and possibly thunderstorms all afternoon....so I planned ahead and went to the gym this morning. I did try to talk myself out of it...but I got tired of fighting with myself and just went and did my workout. I figured with the weather our game would be washed out. Well...it wasn't ...so I had a nice day of activity today and it felt great.


Pam…Great with the sleep study. Apnea can cause so many problems.

Mary….what a busy schedule you have. It’s great that you are thinking of how to get exercise in today.

TechnoSwami…. That flat tire was in line with the kind of day it was! Not having the regular scale at the Challenge was a relief for me because I think I would have posted a gain …so I lucked out (I guess). Things are better today…I have swings in my numbers and I am working at not getting crazy about that.

Natalie…great news from your Doctor. You are on the road!

Cathy…Have a great weekend with your son and his family.

Randylevy…Happy New Year…and to all Happy New Year!

Mimi….I hope the kitchen is all set when you get back. We did our kitchen a couple of years ago and I love it now. Going through the construction or the deconstruction was tough.

Kathy (plantlady)…good for you for putting one foot in front of the other! Isn’t this a great place to get support?


Have a great night,
Sally

Hi to All!

Had a massage (ache, ache) and was told that eating heavier carbs (pasta, potatoes/winter squash, etc.) separately from your protein by 3 or 4 hours helps the metabolic process. Okay, I thought. And then, in the grocery store, someone else told me the same thing - the same day.
So, I tried it. I do find myself to be more energized and crave salt so much less. Spoke again with the grocery store person and she told me the same thing - everything now tastes too salty. Interesting. Other veggies can be eaten at anytime. Works great with a pasta, quinoa, rice concept.

Did transplant some more perennials, weeded a patch and did those aerobics (did I say aching??) - an ol' Turbo Jam. ( Better than eating it! )

Down to Portland Museum of Art tomorrow where a friend of mine has an photography exhibit. Last time her photos of Uganda (black and white) were very moving. I cannot wait to see what is there now!

The apple orchards are bustling here in Maine. Northern Spy is really my fav - baked (aka zapped!) We just had an horrific thunderstorm
for the past hour, though. Kind of odd; with the outdoor smell of wood burning from the fireplaces in the neighborhood.


Happy New Year to Everyone! Each day is the beginning of a new year, and after reading all of
your posts, I am assured that it is better being on the planet with all of you on it - gravitas and guadium (allelujah!)

Now, I will try to upload a pic and find the weight loss tracker chart y'all have going on. Slow is really my best talent - perhaps the only!:bigsmile:

Kind regards,
SallyJ

Went on the bike ride yesterday (Wed). It was very nice. I just wish that it wasn't scheduled for a day when we had the Newcomers bowling because I felt rushed to be sure I was back home in time to go bowling. It was such a lovely day, but am I glad that at the last minute I decided to bring my sweater. We stopped for lunch. I had a grilled chicken salad, ate all of the chicken, had a bit of the lettuce since it was just the iceburg stuff, had some tomatoes and cukes and peppers. It's so interesting how restaurtants always seem to want to pile on the cheese, etc. Then the other people decided to stop for ice cream after the ride. Personally, I would have been just as happy not to have lunch but the chicken salad was probably good to have, then didn't care to have any ice cream. Got back around 5:45, just had time to put out the garbage, etc. and get ready for bowling. Didn't even have time to make dinner, I just had some carrots that I'd brought and Vince got something at the bowling alley. Bowled a 134, 124, and 114. I could tell by the third game I was getting tired. Came home and went right to bed.

Right now I'm making these oatmeal banana chocolate chip cookies. A friend of mine had gallbladder surgery, so I made some pork chops the other day, baked some potatoes, have mixed veges and now I'm making her some cookies. I'll take it all over to her. The rest I'll probably take to the people at the bowling alley (they are good to me, even tho I don't usually order any of their food) and to the people at the Y.

sally - hope your weigh in for MFP goes well!

barbie - who did you vote for on DWTS? That guy, I forget his name, the one who was in the military, I'm very surprised at how good he is. I don't think chaz Bono is going to last too long, he's already talking about his knees hurting. Then again, you never know. I can't get over the energy that Derrik Huff (is that how it's spelled?) has! He's such a good choreographer, too.

Amanda - have fun at the wedding! Great about the clothes getting too big

Today I'll do a Jari Love DVD Slim and Lean. Tomorrow...water aerobics. They're going to play mahjongg at 10, and there's just no way I can get there in time after water aerobics. So I'll just skip it tomorrow. Wonder how that place will work out?

techno - you sound just like Vince "it's the idiot who designed it".

Practice bowled 6 games today. I broke 100 five times, got really close the 6th. On that game, tho, there was a problem with the machine's scoring so it really could have been lower

Don't know what it was, but I couldn't sleep this a.m. I was so dead tired last night after the bike ride and then bowling, yet I couldn't sleep. So I took the chicken off the bone for the pasta salad for the neighborhood picnic Sat. then made the cookies. I took some of the cookies to the Y and some to the gals at the bowling alley.

jane - isn't it amazing how our tastes change when we give something up? Now if I have something that is high in fat, my stomach feels so "yuk" and it used to be that when I went to the store, I was tempted by all the cookies, pies, cakes, etc. Now I'm at the point where if I pass by them, I feel absolutely nothing, I don't even care for a taste. Sometimes I will have a taste if it's a sample, tho. Usually the store has samples of something else and I don't like it so I want to get that taste out of my mouth and use the cookies/cake etc to get that taste out of my mouth.

randy - Happy New Year!

sally - I tend to like Fuji apples, organic.

Here's hoping everyone has a great evening.

Michele

Good Morning Ladies

:frown: Well today is supposed to be the last sunny day for a while. After Saturday it is going to turn quite cold (so the weather forcasters tell us) and we may even have snow/ice. So I'd better make the best of today :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

:flowerforyou: Alice so sorry to hear you still are suffering. Take it easy and hopefully you will soon start to see an improvement. You made me smile with your pressure cooker story, I can just imagine you hiding from all the hissing from the safety of another room :laugh: I've never had one explode, but I did boil one dry one time, I think I must have left it too long - food was ruined and it took ages to clean! :bigsmile: That's why I prefer to shove everything in the slow cooker.

:huh: Has anyone heard from Denise lately? Must drop her a private message to see how she is doing.

:flowerforyou: Barbie I'm back to square one with not saying "no" to people when offering me treats :frown: I did start to get better at saying no thank you to cakes/biscuits etc that others brought in at work. Since my holiday though I've just gone downhill. BUT I am now back to logging my food, I know I am the only one who can change me - no body is forcing food down my throat! I have to want it enough and then I'll be able to follow through. I am trading what I want most for what I want at the moment and it has to stop!

Sending good wishes for everyone not mentioned.

Bye for now
Viv x

The YouTube clip is my grandtwins and their daddy. It makes me laugh so I thought I'd share it x

It's been a terribly busy week. Haven't had a chance to post. I have an appt this morning for an EEG followed by an appt with the doc to get the results. It will be alot of hurry up and wait kind of morning.

Michelle - The Help was wonderful. I wouldn't consider it a chick flick. My husband went and loved it. My girlfriend and her hubby went and both described it as a very moving story. You could get the book and check it out and form your qwn opinion. After seeing the movie my hubby wants to read the book.

I weighed in this morning and lost 1 lb. Giving my eating this week I consider that good.

Have to run to get ready for doc appt.

Everyone have a great day.

Will try to post more frequently but my schedule is packed full for the next couple of weeks. Will try to "pop" in.

Good Morning, Dear Ladies,

Jeanne: Good for you for your 1 pound gone! That's a great feeling, isn't it?

Viv: And good for you for saying no to friends bearing treats! I can do it for a period of time and then I struggle other times. It's practice, practice, I think, until it is a habit.

Jane: I hope you and your DH's Dr's appt went well. You reminded me that I need to make all of mine. I do them all in my birthday month of November, so I need to line them up soon. (There seem to be more and more every year too:grumble: )

Canning vegetables brings back such memories. My mother still does it and I did as a young bride ONE summer. The month of August in SC, with no AC....the memories are not all that great either!! I don't do it any more.

It was nice to wake up to nothing pressing to do and no where I had to be right away. DH left early to join his cousins on a 4 wheeler ride in the mountains nearby. They are all younger so he will be worn out upon return. He has to keep up with these young guys!

The service for my friend's brother was lovely and well attended yesterday. So sad, but so inspiring. His wife died very young so he had raised their only son alone. The son is an amazing young man and gave a lovely tribute to his father. My friend and her sister also talked. I just don't think I could do that in front of hundreds of people. But I was impressed that they could and did.

I leave this Tuesday early to head back to SC, so I plan to enjoy the rest of my mountain time. I'll take a nice walk after I get off this computer and hope to finish a painting that I started last week. Need to get some perennials out of pots and into the ground today too. I hope all of you have a good Friday and nice weekend.
Take care, Kackie

Morning all, looks like a busy posting day. See there's another PNW peep, though I guess I'm not officially PNW since I'm only in Oregon in the summer. Need my sun so Vegas works in the winter, lol.

Oh, and another golfer, finally getting back into it after a year hiatus. The only problem with golfing in Vegas, though, is it's all pretty much cart golf. I like playing in Bend (OR) where I can walk the courses, it just feels better to be out there somehow.

Boo :grumble: to the gains and yay :happy: to the losses.

Got in my time on the spin bike this morning which means I get to split a really nice porter with DH tonight and have some Coconut Bliss for dessert this evening. Yay. Meeting a friend for Thai tomorrow afternoon and should get in a good hike in the morning. I SO love Thai iced tea but it has SO many calories. And I'd rather save those for the meal. The place has amazing vegan, vegetarian, and omni options (started by Buddhists) and is family owned. It's across town so I rarely go and am excited. But must plan my day so I don't go over my calorie goal by too much (already accepted I'll go over since I don't plan to starve myself at breakfast or dinner).

Okay, should probably jump in the shower so I don't offend hubby (he telecommutes so has an office upstairs), and then get on with my studies.

good afternoon all

i had a very nice day so far....sent spinning(im in a challenge, where we keep track of our miles and for sept i end with 575miles , so happy)...had my hair done(high lights) back to blonde...and it looks very nice...had a quick lunch with two of my sons(very nice)...i wish you all a great weekend...

@jeanne...YAY on the loss

@barbie...good for you...telling your friend NO to cake....sweets are my down fall

@sally...great job on going to the gym and not talking yourself out of it

@jane...glad you are feeling better

@sallyj...we need to try everything , and see what works for us

@alice...i also remember the pressure cooker exploding in my mom kitchen, maybe thats why i dont use one

@michele...wonderful job on your bowliing

@viv...enjoy your sunny day

@amanda...i agree with everyone, you look lovey in your pic

@kackie...enjoy the rest of your stay, and safe travels back to SC

@natalie...happy you were able to sleep...sorry about the gain, the biking now that you can will help with that

@cynthia...i love to spin, its my main form of cardio,...hope you enjoyed it

@jeannie..thanks for the tip...i love soup, but dont drink as much(it too hot in sth florida):flowerforyou:

I have been so busy today that this was my first chance to pop in. The grandsons are spending the night, so just have a minute. I wanted to wish all of you a great weekend!