60 yrs and up

LOL - I have a "consider myself young" story 😛

So, probably close to 10 years ago, in my mid-fifties, I was attending an event with my son, daughter and their 2 half brothers. As we came within a couple of blocks of the venue, cars were already starting to park along streets and people streamed on foot towards the event. Quite innocently I declared "maybe we should just park and walk, we're young"…the silence was deafening and I could feel my son and daughter exchanging glances.. I had to replay what I'd said to figure out my gaff!! Then I said "okay, okay - you're young, and I'm okay to walk" and we all laughed 🤣

Welcome, @Rainbow2300 ! I hope you'll decide to post occasionally, let us know how you're doing . . . and if you have questions or challenges, I definitely hope you'll post. Whatever it is, probably someone here has already wrangled with it, and can suggest experiments to try.

I'm curious what creative pursuits you enjoy, since several of us are artsy or craftsy in various ways. I'm a dabbler, do lots of things a little bit, and what it is has changed over the years. These days, it's mostly jewelry making and mixed-media visual journaling.

Glad you decided to join us!

thankfully, his sense of humor has returned (abetted by the sight of me diligently scrubbing the oven for an hour and making little progress other than smearing the extinguisher dust even worse).

“What were the odds of you hitting me square in the face?”

Animals are gingerly returning to the kitchen/LR after all the commotion.

Strangely enough, the fire or phosphate or whatever is making the interior of this ten year old oven clean as new. Even the racks cleaned up bright and shiny. Now if only it will work. Gotta get that stuff up before I even attempt to turn it on.

Back at it. Sigh.

Thanks for popping in with your update @j29t ! That's exactly how to maintain - take sensible action when a few pounds return, and not let it pike on! Good for you!

@springlering62 I can relate to the panic, hysteria and laughter in your story! 😄

I have badly scorched leaves for my dining room table, after setting it on fire during an Open House on Boxing Day one year - I was thrilled to actually find & use the kitchen fire extinguisher. I thankfully avoided friends and family lol. We just put out the fire, opened the front door & shut the french doors, and continued the party in the family room/kitchen area 🥳. Clean-up the next day was a pain, but nothing like your situation.

I bought those flame extinguishing cloths, that you throw over a fire, one for me and also for my children and bothers! But I'm not sure it would've worked in your oven 🔥.

And my lovely wood table is fine without the leaves - so it's only when the leaves come out that a tablecloth becomes a necessity…😁

new friend request. Handsome fella, two little white dogs with him in his profile pic.

Joined in September-well after friends became kinda useless.

Has never ever posted on a board.

Has accumulated 211 friends.

all the earmarks of a romance or bitcoin scammer, and a darned good one from the looks of it

just a pointed reminder, these scammers will stop at nothing: kids, puppies, kitties, military uniforms, good ole boys with their truck in their photo.

It works.

Please be careful adding new friends, since the only way to engage with them now is via message. Run screaming if they try to divert you off the site.

my friend had a neighbor who was morbidly obese and whose doctor had put him on diet and exercise.

She came home and found him on a riding mower, on his astroturf lawn. She hollered “what are you doing?” He waved back and replied “exercising!”

As logged via your Apple watch? Unless you've seen it use a different description for swimming in the past, my guess - which is all it is - would be that the algorithm that syncs between MFP and Apple is programmed in a simplistic way, with only one text description used for swimming of any pace rather than trying to pick among MFP's intensity options.

As I'm sure you know, when we log exercise manually, we can override MFP's default calorie estimate if we think we have a better calorie estimate, just by overtyping the calorie field. I suspect the sync algorithm can do the equivalent, and plug in whatever calorie burn total the Apple side thinks is reasonable.

I can't test this theory, because you couldn't pay me to buy Apple products (long story, "why" mired in personal technology history during my career, nothing against people who like Apple - their products themselves are fine).

However, if you wish, you could test the theory: Go back in history to a time when you swam much more slowly, and saw the swim recorded in MFP with the same "light to moderate". Divide the total calories by the number of minutes to get calories per minute. Do the same with today's PR swim pace.

If the calories per minute are higher for today's swim, it's not shorting you on estimated calorie burn.

Oh Ann, you’re a sweety, but I don’t care that much. I’d just like an attaboy once in a while. Or at least a “congrats! you reached mediocrity today!”.

What was really frustrating was, it took me four minutes to get my finger and watch surface dry enough to even stop the timer!

Hello all. This thread is such a comfort and so very inspirational. Thanks to all who share their journey.

@alteredsteve175 - glad to see you checking in and hanging in. Care giving can take it's toll. I understand and admire your never ending love. My DH has been surviving for 10 years and is now doing well with chemo only once each month. So easy to count my blessings. Wish there were a box on my tracker for that.

@springlering62 - finding your threads so entertaining and I especially enjoy your weaving and beading projects.

@AnnPT77 - I've learned so much from your posts and am grateful for the knowledge you share.

Now that spring is here getting outside to move is such a joy. Yesterday was Farmers Market day followed by a beautiful walk along the trail. The birds singing, honeysuckle in full bloom and beautiful blue sky helped my head as much as my hips. Just wondering why the honeysuckle doesn't smell as sweet as it did when I was younger.

Have a wonderful weekend. Keep on tracking and be sure to weigh your peanut butter…..