WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2025

barbiecat · April 1

😀 Welcome to a new month of possibilities. Many of us see this as a clean slate for starting new habits or practices. Others use the new month to continue with what's been working.

😀 On this thread we share our solutions as we navigate through life seeking health and fitness. I hope you'll join the conversation.

😀 Please sign your post with a name or nickname and a location, specific or general.

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❤️ Barbie in NW WA

My word for 2025 is "enough".

Snowflake1968 · April 1

Thank you Barbie for a new month and all you do.

Tracey

pipcd34 · April 1

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sfdemt32 · April 1

Starting fresh in the month of April. Doctors told me I have 3 months to try and lose some weight on my own to help lower my blood pressure so I'm going to do my best. Hoping for change and success this time.

exermom · April 1

Allie – rest! Your body needs it. You won’t be any good to anyone if you don’t heal

Got the call about the purchase of supplies for the bathroom at the condo. Honestly, from the way she said it would be a “large order”, I was expecting it to be around $1,000. It was half that. Oh well.

Barbie – that link just took me to March’s thread. But I was able to find April’s by going to the community homepage. Thanks for doing this

I’ve come to the feeling that Denise has a disease which is really incapacitating her. At least, this is the way I’m looking at it. Unfortunately, her unwillingness to go away affects PJ. He’s going to be 6 and he’s only been to MD, DE, and PA. I’m just so sick and tired of her excuses why we can’t come see PJ, I’ve been disappointed too many times. She wouldn’t even go to her own sister’s graduation! She hasn’t been to see us in 6years. Why couldn’t we go up to see PJ during his spring break? That would be a change to her routine. She said that they’re looking to buy a larger home and they’ll be putting stuff in storage so we can’t come see PJ. Really? We stay at a hotel as it is, so even if she doesn’t have furniture it’s not like she has put us up in the last few years (like 5). It’s not even like she makes us dinner.

Michele

Snowflake1968 · April 1

Barbie - this made me think of you and Annie.

drkatiebug · April 1

I've been kind of quiet - lots of family stuff going on. I'll update y'all when I have more time. Meanwhile, prayers would be appreciated.

Exercise is going well. I missed this morning (see above - family stuff), but I worked out 18 times in March. That is a new record for me. I maybe lost a pound or two, but I haven't been that compliant with my eating plan, so I'll take it.

SophieRosieMom · April 1

Thank you Barbie for ushering us into April! Whoosh, there goes 2025.

Lanette😎

SW WA State

Snowflake1968 · April 1

Debbie - I have been trying new curly hair products too. My hair wasn’t curly for a lot of years. Since I hit Alberta though it has been.
A new one I am currently trying is called Monday. It’s a product from New Zealand.

Heather - Those types of visits are so nice to have at times.

Machka - We spent a week in Sylvan 3 years ago and there is still a bit of the way you remember it. They seemed to have kept part of it clear of commercialism.

Lanette - Whoosh 💨 is right!

I watched American Idol and The Voice tonight. Tomorrow night I have to clean the spare room.

Tracey in Edmonton

skuehn48 · April 1

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

cityjaneLondon · April 1

Many, many thanks, Barbie. 😃

Another gorgeous day. We've had very little rain this spring. I expect the water companies are beginning to worry. The sky is a solid blue.

I've done my morning editing, and I'm about to embark on some sprucing activities, like exfoliation of lower limbs, and nail care. I'm delighted to have discovered a nail varnish that actually looks good and seems to do my nails good. It's a transparent pink, by Nails Inc, called 'Glow Up', or something like that. I like it because you don't have to have a steady hand, as it's see-through. It seems to last for ages too, and it prevents me from biting my nails, a lifelong habit. If I go without, I just chew them.

Bea pick up today, and we will be making our own way home. That means a quick stop off at the Watchmaker's Arms, a boutique brewery. I've planned a v quick prawn and pea curry when we get back, plus asparagus. 🤩 Lunch is smoked mackerel with horseradish salad sandwiches.

Much love, Heather UK xxxxxxxx

cityjaneLondon · April 1

Update: just had a text to say Bea is not well and is off school. 😫😢 Think I'll have a bath.

Luckily for our mental health, we are seeing Max on Thursday for lunch.

Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Machka9 · April 1

New Quarter!

linder4866 · April 1

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Machka9 · April 1

March Highlights

Exercise Minutes & Strava Accomplishments

That tall bar on March 8 was my birthday bicycle ride … 59 km.

Other March Accomplishments

Lost 7 kg (15.4 lbs) since the beginning of January
Cycled 211 km with the longest ride being 59 km
Walked 74 km
Climbed 354 flights (up and down) of 20 stairs up plus landings
Worked full time
Got confirmation about new permanent position
Wrapped up 2 projects from temporary position
Transitioning into new position
Attended husband's follow-up appointments for his ruptured Achilles tendon
Bee Group
Cycling AGMs (National & Local)
Went to a local wildlife sanctuary
Pottery class - first time on wheel!
Saw our son, daughter-in-law, and grand-daughters (2 of them!)
Organised a few things in house
Read 5 books
Coloured 2 pages
Did a whole bunch of Sudokus
Continued reading Bible every night

March's Books

Of those 5, I gave The Lost Apothecary and Three Ordinary Girls 5 Stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the first quarter of the year, I have read 12 books. I'm on Goodreads and I'm doing some of their challenges so I am reading books I would not otherwise have selected with mixed, but mostly positive, results.

I've enjoyed 2 Lucy Foley books. Her books start slow and just when you might be entertaining ideas of setting the book aside, it gets good! For Barbara, who doesn't like suspense and thrillers, Linda Reilly's Escape Claws was a nice cozy mystery with cats. 😺 It gave me a break from the more intense books I read.

March just seemed to go on forever!! That wasn't a bad thing … March is a beautiful month here.

Machka in Oz

Machka9 · April 1

Shoes …

I have been going through my shoes and "getting rid of" many of them. That is, I've put the ones I want to toss into a large bag, and I've put the ones I plan to take to an OP shop in a smaller bag. They'll go out the door eventually.

Many of my shoes are simply old and worn out. In the "toss" bag, I've got runners and other shoes from about 2006!! I tend to use shoes until they disintegrate around my feet because it's so much bother to find new ones that work for me.

The shoes I'm giving away tend to be the very high heels I liked.

But I have discovered that I have children's sized feet. I wear a child's size 6 shoes (or 39). But the difference between the child's 39 and the women's 39 is width. They're both the same length, but the child's shoes are wider. I now have a few pair of child's size 6 shoes. Who knew!!

I did a little bit of reading and it turns out that people's feet, in general, are getting larger. So the foot size of a 13 year old boy now is a size or two larger than that of a 13 year old boy many years ago. Same goes for men and women. That might explain why I can suddenly wear kid's shoes in my old age!

Machka in Oz

cityjaneLondon · April 1

I'd just had a bath, and was lotioning myself, when the doorbell rang. I'd completely forgotten that the painter was coming to estimate for my bedroom and the front porch and door. I quickly threw on my bathrobe to answer the door. Luckily we know the very sweet man really well. He can chat to beat the band!!! He will send the estimates by email.

I've used the new leg makeup for tomorrow. It will be too hot for leggings. I must say, I was favourably impressed. Easy and effective. I also did my nails. It feels strange to actually have nails, as I have bitten them all my life, but the varnish has helped enormously. 😅

I'm a bit nervous about the reunion, but I know it'll be fine. There is one person I'm really looking forward to seeing again, as we used to be close. We still write newsy Christmas cards, but live some distance apart. Last time she couldn't come because her mother had just died. B is flying down from Glasgow today.

Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx

LisaInArkansas · April 1

Barbie - Thank you so much for the new month!

Kay - You honestly did a great job with the link. Thank you! So sorry about the family drama, hope it resolves for the best, and soon.

Heather - Hope the reunion's a blast.

March goals were…

✅- Be lighter at the end of the month than the beginning
✅- Be healthier by exercising more days in March than in February
✅- Stay in budget

Basically, achieved all of them. Am one pound lighter (lost from 161.1 to 160.0), exercised 30 of the 31 days, and what was spent in March was planned, but still a lot. More on that when a few things are resolved later this month, I promise.

And my goals for April are the same:

✅- Be lighter at the end of the month than the beginning
✅- Be healthier by exercising every day in April
✅- Stay in budget

May will mean going through yet another colonoscopy, but I'll think about that in May.

Welcome to everyone who's new to the thread! @sfdemt32 , if you'll let us know what you'd like to be called, and about where you are, we'll get to know you fast. This is a group of amazing women who extend support and comfort to any woman trying to make her life healthier. Please feel free to drop into any conversation that interests you, or ask questions, whatever you need or want. We do avoid politics and religion, in order to keep this ongoing thread as a safe place.

Things to do this morning, might get a bit more outside work done, much depends on whether it warms up fast enough. At 45° (7C), it is just too dang cold for my ouchy joints this morning. That's OK, many other things to accomplish inside. Want to get a pattern created from my cardigan to try to remake it in some beautiful fabrics I've thrifted, among other things. Perhaps a shift from just designing handbags to designing clothes? Maybe. I never could learn to put a sleeve in that worked in high school.

Time to get to my doings,

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

barbiecat · April 1

😀 This is great. Yesterday I had to go the lab for annual blood test. The line was long because they were short staffed. Annie was fine when I got back to the car but she kissed me over and over and seemed so happy to see me.

😍 Tracey, Thank you for thinking of me.

1948CWB · April 1

MAY IT BE A GREAT MONTH FOR ALL! 😍

Carol in Georgia!

margaretturk · April 1

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pipcd34 · April 1

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grandmallie · April 1

Morning ladies

Today was an early morning,up early and down to get the stents out,and we were on the road out of new haven by 8:45 am

It wasn't the most pleasant experience but its done.one less thing

I am going to be a slug today and just relax.

Tracy said Delia is done with work

Naptime at the OK Corral

cityjaneLondon · April 1

I've just been watching a programme on BBC iplayer, about a talented young woman and mother, who had a very serious brain bleed in 2020. She was a musician and broadcaster. It made me think about Machka and her husband. If you ever get the chance to see it somehow, I hope you do.

My Brain: After the Rupture. Clemency Burton-Hill.

Very moving, and makes you value every bit of your life.

We had an email from an old school member, who I never knew well, but recognise. She is coming tomorrow in a wheelchair, having survived pancreatic cancer, but now has brain and lung tumours. Others of us have lost husbands and children, some are suffering various difficult diseases, but we are still alive. To survive to 75/76, that is amazing in itself. I am so grateful.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

kevrit · April 1

Word of the Year: Changes—-plural noun:
the act or instance of making or becoming different.’

Mind/emotional/intellectual 54%

Read 30 books this year 13/30 100%
Yoga 13 days a month 2/13—15%
Do 12 different types of crafts this year:, hook rug, sewing, crocheting ,knitting, paint jem by number 5/12—100%
Meditation 3 days a week. 7/13–54%
Journal 3 days a week. 6/13—46%

Health/environmental/physical. 100%

Walk 5500 steps a day on average. /5500–6370–100%
30 minutes a day of exercise average month 0/12-32 min—100%
Drink no more than 8 days a month 0/8__100%
Weigh less or same at end of month than the First of the month. Start Jan 182.4, Feb. 178.8, March 183.1, April 182,-100%

Finances/occupational 100%

Build up emergency fund to $1000 by depositing money in each of my money *vaults monthly 3/12
Extra money used to pay on car, Afirm, and Freedom Debt each month no matter how small. 3/12

Relationships/Social 100%

Call or text family members at least once a month 12/12
Send cards for occasions to family 10/12

Spirituality 74%

Read a chapter in the Bible daily 15/31 —48%
Add a donation *vault for spontaneous cash donations of a minimum of $10 a month on top of current donations. 100%

*Vaults are designated budget items in my savings “group”. The bank I have now gives 4% interest and allows designated savings. I have the following vaults set up with automatic additions each month: savings, travel, emergency, house, tires/automotive, medical, Christmas, and just added donations

January Completed — sick for 3 weeks — 88%

February Completed —-anxiety very high——77.6%

March completed—— 86%

RVRita in Roswell

kevrit · April 1

I got all these veggies and fruit yesterday along with some street tacos, gallon of distilled water, 2 boxes of sugar free 7UP, and small jar of sugar free jelly for under $30! I was happy. Each bag was $1.99, the radishes were .39 the corn and the grapes were .99 each. One bag was all apples, 2 oranges and a pear/apple. The other had 2 eggplants and 2 turnips along with the apples. The apples are so-so, so will make apple ‘something’ with them.

kevrit · April 1

I broke down and got a pair of HOKA hiking sandals. I wear sandals 9/12 months so thought it was a good investment. Here is a pic. I wore them with matching socks the first time and was very pleased with how they feel when walking. I think it is a good investment.

RVRita in Roswell

kevrit · April 1

Thought for today:

Why did the chicken cross the playground?

She wanted to get to the other slide.

Couldn’t find a chicken but the ducklings were cute!

RVRita in Roswell

Kaycee199 · April 1

Hi everyone, I'm a new/old member; I lurked in the MFP community several years ago but never took the plunge of posting. I'm 57 and I live in Virginia. I am trying to combine a renewed focus on a healthy lifestyle with navigating a mobility issue that makes walking any distance a huge challenge. I've got a misbehaving ACL-repaired right knee and I need a new left hip but have to lose 40lbs first to get it done. That 40 is my first big goal, along with improving my relationship with food.

SO, that's me in a nutshell.

Thanks for reading, and Happy April!

Kaycee

dlfk202000 · April 1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48549390#Comment_48549390

his is the one I have been using lately-
Got it at Black Friday(the discount store that has Amazon returns/overages)
I only paid $4 for it.
https://www.amazon.com/DevaCurl-Defining-No-Crunch-Styler-Bright/dp/B097FCKH4H/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=323NPHUX4OWGU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SEICRoAu6d250krilPa10L09xYF8bAdiIbLN_eoB4NxlhjUFvvnEY0UEiuF4_yvMPZtFZcPhYIHKcvGgMgNjNUKh11OnjYMp2zRmQ4YnsdxX0-fEwajRjWZkEBmb8rRI51h1KT63H7BOXmgcmXg_MN9yt1whgg9ut9VayPzJdVpxWtH_Ht9KrIedmMZJZdXZttVCnhbHYaaU_3W914_mb3ZUEZ2os9MrYRRfJkLKxsVAAhRjsZEg7BgvNgtq06KGLDHJprshAbTHSusUxbXW_LI2FJJz2l5wkZdFuGUX3sw.DjDsaZftqmZpXn4dYwH0BgsrmvopFAlMoiYEXA1kT8E&dib_tag=se&keywords=deva%2Bcurl%2Bgel&qid=1743528889&sprefix=deva%2Bcu%2Caps%2C416&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1

Whidislander · April 1

Son had his last infusion. Soon to be heading stateside for more treatment.💖😥👍🏼 I told him he was the bravest young adult ever.💖

Watching the grandkids Mon & Tues. Its tiring but fun.

Photos to follow when I get home.

Rebecca Whidbey Wa