WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2025

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  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,786 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,771 Member
    Two walks today AND 30 flights of stairs

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    Machka in Oz
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,740 Member
    Rita - so glad you were able to get in to see the doc and get antibiotics. Hope they work quickly. Also happy to hear you got that shipping confusion with UPS and your PO box cleared up. Hope they are able to make deliveries just fine to your campground.

    Lisa - sorry this is happening to your daughter. Don't blame you for getting ticked. I'm guessing it's much harder (and costlier) to deal with this custody stuff when she's so far away. :(

    Vicki - sending positive thoughts to your DH for a successful surgery and quick recovery. I'm sure he's glad to get it out of the way. (((HUGS)))

    I'm having lunch with M today. I'll go in a little early and hit the grocery store to load up for a week so I don't have to leave home during the cold snap.

    Stay warm and safe my friends. <3

    Lanette B)
    SW WA State
  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 1,708 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,771 Member
    edited January 16
    exermom wrote: »
    something as simple as “walk to one tree, run/jog to the next tree, walk to the next tree” and so on.

    Michele NC

    This is essentially the Couch to 5K method, using run/walk intervals focusing on increasing distance, but not at a high intensity. It's about consistency and gradual progression to increase endurance until you can run the whole 5 km. But during the run phases, it's important not to let your heart rate go into the red zone ... run at a pace you can breathe through your nose and keep running fairly comfortably.

    It's more or less what I do when I start attempting running again. :) And a lot of people have had success working up to running a 5 km in 6-8 weeks (depending on the particular plan used).

    Once the 5 km endurance aspect has been accomplished, then a person may want to add HIIT to work on speed.


    Machka in Oz
  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,014 Member
    Hey, kids,

    Busy morning coming up, scheduled Zoom with my sis at 8:30 - don't know how long either one of us can handle a scheduled meeting at all. It may have to be either unscheduled or not at all. One appointment, and I've lost half a day, mostly because I'm a worrywart and a nudge about time. We'll see. Might just make it more spontaneous after this one.

    Barbie, Heather, Tracey, Vicki, Lanette, and anyone I missed, thank you all for your support on my daughter's situation. I'm trying to stay out of it as much as I can now, other than just being support for her in a tough time. I can't make the courts do what I want, and it's her decision as to what to do next. Everything I can tell her to do right now would risk her career, at best, and put her in jail at worst, as I'm not being terribly rational. As both a soldier and a mother, she has a lot of lives at stake, both literally and figuratively.

    Anyway - to y'all's lives.

    Vicki - hope your husband's surgery is swift and successful, and his recovery is pain-free and swift as well.

    Heather - Missed the note on poor Bea, I can see how this man's death would set her imagination right on edge. Mortality isn't easy to cope with at any age. Thanks, too, for the phrase "helpless rage." I was reaching for it and couldn't find it.

    Machka - Congrats on the 2nd granddaughter!

    Off to get a cup of coffee and maybe a shower...

    Later, my dears,
    Love,
    Lisa in AR

  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,851 Member
    Vicki - Hoping that your husband's op has gone well, and the recovery isn't too difficult. I think I've blotted out the pain of the early days! ;)

    Machka - A second grandchild! What a joy.

    Zooming this afternoon with my schoolfriends. I've prepped the duck legs for dinner, so John can put them in the oven while I'm on the call.

    Did 650+ words this morning. :D

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,316 Member
    edited January 16
    (((Lisa, Vicki, Annie, Debbie,Barbie, Tracey, Lanette, Mo, Allie)))

    Rita after you are finished with an antibiotic look into what you need to do to restore your gut microbiome. I am learning more and more that those good little critters in our gut have a tremendous effect on our health. There is a microbe that helps us digest oxyalates without it or if low in numbers it can increase the chances of kidney stones. This microbe numbers are reduced with antibiotics.


    There was a good post on why it is so hard to part with things we own on Facebook. I am not sharing it because it was on public domain and I share those type of videos with caution...What I added to the conversation was this....

    Nice to understand why it is hard to part with things...This happens in shopping too. If you pick up an object in the store you are more likely to buy it. When I shop and I do this I tell myself not needed and let the next person buy it. I do this to break the urge to buy it. Some have this difficulty to part with things stronger than others.

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 3,993 Member
    barbiecat wrote: »
    :)<3Vicki, Your beautiful card with the sweet note and thoughtful gift arrived today. With all that's going on in your life I am touched that you reached out to me. Thank you.

    <3Lisa, I'd like to track down that crummy guy and pound him on your behalf. What a terrible human being and how sad for the children and for you and your daughter.

    :)Carol, You are so right about the real luxuries in life. Thank you for sharing that.

    :)Rebecca, "sneaker wave" is exactly what is happening to me. Just as I have a feeling that I'm OK, the sight or sound of something drops me into an emotional pit. I know it will pass and I'll be OK.

    :) It's a sunny day so lots of people are walking with and without dogs, My dogs can see them and Annie barks and runs around in excitement.

    <3Annie, I'm sending loving thoughts your way.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA

    Awe, my friend you just hang on to something solid, and it does pass. My sister and I use that word as our code word if one of us is having an extra emotional day. Your walking friend and you should have a word. Its a word that when spoken to the other, that person drops what they're doing and connects with you, whenever. Just having that word, silly as it seems, helps.
    Hugs!
    Rebecca
    Whidbey
    Wa
  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 3,993 Member
    dlfk202000 wrote: »
    barbiecat wrote: »
    :)<3Vicki,

    :)Rebecca, "sneaker wave" is exactly what is happening to me. Just as I have a feeling that I'm OK, the sight or sound of something drops me into an emotional pit. I know it will pass and I'll be OK.

    :) It's a sunny day so lots of people are walking with and without dogs, My dogs can see them and Annie barks and runs around in excitement.

    <3Annie, I'm sending loving thoughts your way.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA

    Mom still gets those "sneaker waves" and it has been just over 4 yrs since dad passed away. This Christmas seemed to be worse than the past two for some reason. She isn't sure why. Christmas cards were almost impossible for her to do. No time limit on those feelings.

    Debbie

    Time has no bearing with sneaker waves. They can come when you least expect it. I get waves of sadness missing my sons, but if I am having a particularly hard day I can send them a message. I get them with my Mom and she's been gone for 26 years. The other day I recalled her favorite perfume "Opium" and thought I need to go to a high end counter and ask to smell it. It would be like smelling home, her, etc. Then I remembered I don't have any sense of smell. That was a rough day.😥💖
    Rebecca
    Whidbey
    Wa
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,454 Member
    Barbiecat - thinking of you, how are you doing

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    pipcd34 Posts: 17,454 Member
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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,310 Member
    <3Rita Your kind comforting card arrived today. How thoughtful of you to reach out in the midst of the troubles you are navigating in your life.

    <3 Barbie
  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 1,708 Member
    (((BARBIE)))

    Carol in GA
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,851 Member
    Thinking of you, Barbie. <3 It's a whole world out of time where everything is altered.

    Had our Zoom this afternoon. We got each other up to date on life, and all our medical matters. Both B and P have recently had brain scans, for different reasons. B's report talked of age-related vascular deterioration, but nobody seems worried. She is 76, so that's to be expected, but P's seemed to show something a bit more serious. 'Significant '. She is, understandably, p....d off, and, no doubt, fearful. I suggested she doesn't panic, but finds a good neurologist for a chat.
    Makes me not want to go near any brain scans! :o
    I know it's a privilege to grow old, but I can't say it's a breeze.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,579 Member
    After work stopped at the dollar store for the girls. Made yogurt and now have it in the IP. Went to Belk’s and with my coupon got a pizza pan for $5. It’s a nice one, too. Then to Kohl’s where I got an oven mitt and potholder for free. Went to the stores looking for brown jeans. I thought that it wouldn’t be hard to find. Was I wrong! I’ll look in FL and if I don’t find them there, I’ll have to order online

    M – forgot to say “congrats”

    After shopping, made banana blondies for Vince. Should be interesting. I’ve never made banana blondies. Wonder if he’ll want chocolate icing on them (I would think so)

    Vicki – add me to the list of people who hope your husband’s surgery goes well.

    Vince went for a stress test today. They said it would take 4 hours, it only took 2.

    Tomorrow after the soup kitchen I’ll call Vince when I leave and we can prebowl at least 3 games

    Rita – glad the meds are starting to work

    Lisa – if I were in your position, boy would I have a hard time! I’m quite an emotional person and there isn’t much that would hold me back. My heart breaks for you, your daughter and the children. Sperm donor doesn’t deserve my time.

    Michele NC
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,454 Member
    Stat for the day-

    Walk w/family- 1hr 52min 21sec, 13338steps, 231elev, 2.85ap, 87ahr, 105mhr, 5.40mi= 540c
    Strava app = 655c

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  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,786 Member
    <3
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    skuehn48 Posts: 3,103 Member
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