60 yrs and up
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Hello, Silent Peeps.
Dinner tonight is a big pot of scratch Rancho Gordo beans , with a dash of sour cream and some shredded cheese. The house smells of simmering beans, rich bean perfume, dark savory umami beanalicious fragrance, absolutely wonderful.
I love their delicious “heirloom” beans so much, I’ve been promising myself “just beans for dinner” for a couple of months. Tonight’s the night.
Today is out of whack, but I don’t mind. I’ve got all the symptoms of needing to eat some more (irritability, falling asleep on the sofa mid day, low energy), so am trying to bring my daily average up. Enjoyed a bagel for early breakfast, iced coffee and a danish after a walk, and something special from the local German bakery on the way home from an appointment I went in ostensibly to see if they carried quark (they did but don’t any longer- their source just dried up with no warning 😭😭😭) but knowing full well I’d walk out with something sweet and nutty, and a couple of laugenecker for breakfast, which I’m realllllllly looking forward to
Also got a new prescription today for Celebrex. Have been tossing ibuprofen down like Skittles. The crazy weather has been playing havoc with my joints for weeks. I feel like a human barometer. Am actually looking forward to seeing if this stuff helps.
My particular make of car has a well known peculiarity that the brakes squeal when it’s fixing to rain. My joints must be sympatico with my ride, because my body feels exactly the same way as those brakes.
I wish I could share with y'all the way these beans smell. Remember the old old cartoons when the lady would put the pies on the windowsill to cool, and whichever mischievous cartoon character was starring, would sniff, and just waft his way through the air to the pies? That’s these beans.
If you know the reference, you are definitely on the right thread! 😇
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Just checking in with the team here. Sending huge vibes out to Ann for everything to turn out and resolve without further ado.
It's nice to see new faces and familiar ones popping up on the threads here and in maintenance now and again.
I am working thru an injury at the moment which is challenging me to keep myself in check. When you are used to eating up to 2k calories it's tough to accept that with less activity you might not have the same requirement. LOL. 😏 And it seems like recovery over 60 is more of a bi%*7h than it was at 39 when I spiral fractured my femur or at 44 when I dislocated my shoulder or even at 50 something when I broke my toe. I wish patience was one of my strong points. Injury definitely gives us humility.
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My scalp surgery is tomorrow afternoon, so we'll see how that goes. I'm anticipating no big deal. I'm also hopeful that the pathology analysis of what they remove will be as favorable as the biopsy - I think that's probable.
I got back the CT scan results, looking at the lung nodules we're tracking. Still stable. That's good news.
I'm doing physical therapy for my knees again, just getting rolling but good so far. Basic issue seems to be that I'm too quad dominant, and it's pulling my knees out of best situation. Working on getting my hamstrings and glutes to do some work, too. The home exercises so far are nearly all things with my feet on one of those big exercise balls, so there's some core challenge in the mix, too.
@springlering62 , I hope the Celebrex is a big improvement for you.
@SummerSkier Thanks for your kind well-wishes! I hear you on the injury recovery issues. I'm really glad I chose MFP when I started calorie counting, because its concept of logging exercise calories separately has really helped me with understanding what the concept of "in check" is, when I can't follow my normal workout routine. Doesn't make it easier to cut out what I need to cut in order to adhere to that, but at least I have a decent estimate of what I need to do.
Injury recovery is maybe even a little bit extra of a calorie-balancing act, because I want to stay very close to maintenance calories during any acute healing, so I'm fueling the healing via both calories and nutrition. During last November's post-skull-fracture period, I had a couple of weeks where - surprisingly! - I struggled to be eating enough. I was just so fatigued, struggled to get it together to cook/eat. I hope you have either energy enough, or people around you to help enough, that that's not an issue for you.
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look at you, ladies!
Inspiring, pushing and/or working through, carrying on, mostly shrugging it off.Do you attribute that to having reached goals here in the past, and that it helps you cope better with the future?
I feel like dealing with weight has transferred into so many other aspects of my life.
Those beans. By the time I had those beauties and my German vanilla crumb cake I was stuffed, and didn’t go over as much as I’d planned for. More room for tomorrow. 👍🏻
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Am I one of the ladies you're typing about "pushing and/or working through, carrying on, mostly shrugging it off." then asking "Do you attribute that to having reached goals here in the past, and that it helps you cope better with the future?"
Huh?
If you mean partly me, I really try not to waste anymore than minimum time and energy worrying about what might be, or about things I can't do a bleeping thing about. That just ruins the present by borrowing troubles from the past or future. You've seen me type "The wisest sign in the world is one we see everywhere: It says 'You are here'. Only spot from which we can take our next step." 😆
If anything had an effect that made that mindset more possible, it was the roughly two years in my mid-40s when my father in law died suddenly (in my presence), my husband died of esophageal cancer two weeks after diagnosis (ditto, and in our living room), my work life went through the madly stressful run-up to Y2K after which the non-IT members of the world decided it'd never been a problem in the first place (idiots!), my mother-in-law's dementia advanced so much she needed to go into full-time care, my fully independent 83 y/o dad fell off a workbench and blinded himself so had to move into assisted living after nursing home rehab, I got diagnosed with advanced breast cancer (and had to tell my dad his only child had the disease my mom died of, just as he was moving into that assisted living - the hardest thing I think I've ever done in my life), my basement flooded to about 6" one day when I was at work, and probably some other stuff I've forgotten about.
These days, if no one's currently or imminently dying in my vicinity, including me, I'm fine. Other stuff is is just "OK, I guess this is what's next. Let's deal with it."
Yeah, I got useful lessons from weight loss, too. But I'm now less anxiety-ridden about nearly everything, and lots happier on average, largely because of lessons learned in 1998-2000.
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Ugh, surgery rescheduled to next Wednesday. Now rearranging the logistics I had set up to cover my responsibilities at the rowing club while I was off/healing.
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Sometimes I don’t make sense. What I mean to say is, having set a weight loss goal and actually achieved it has done wonders for my head.
I’ve always done what needed to be done in life as a wife and mom and business person, but never set a goal and reached it.
It’s’ made me understand that I can do things I didn’t think were possible. I’ve since set goals to do certain yoga poses, reach swimming milestones, upsize hand weights. I did the flying trapeze class. I took a kick *kitten* police-offered self defense class that’s given me more confidence (and intelligence!) walking around before sunrise, after dark. I did a solo trip to an area I was (unreasonably, as it turned out) afraid of, and enjoyed it so much, I’m dragging Mr Spring back later this year.
Slow steps to build, but I truly believe that starting with simply logging and recording ultimately swept me there. I guess that’s why I’m so passionate about (and frustrated by) helping others stay the course here.
It’s been liberating to know I can try new things, versus hanging out at my status quo of reading, nibbling, gaining. Sorta……just existing, if you get me.
Damn, I wish I’d learned this forty years ago.
I also feel that way about my health I lost a dear friend to breast cancer, and never understood why she just gave up like she did. I feel empowered now with my own health, and prepared to research and understand, try to figure out various ways to control the aches of arthritis versus sitting down and giving up like Mom did. What can I do here, and maybe there, to make it at least a little better, and hey, let’s try this along the way. Worst case? It did nothing, move along to the next possibility It’s the “moving along towards better” as opposed to the “sitting back and accepting”.as doofy as it sounds, the weight loss journey has turned me upside down
Make more sense?
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The weight loss process did reinforce my understanding that I could still achieve big goals by chipping away persistently, yes. But keep in mind that in my mid-40s, after cancer treatment, I went from a physically depleted couch lump to competing as an athlete for the first time in my life, after an early "picked last in gym class" background. I think that experience probably helped me think I could chip away at the weight loss and get somewhere with it, too.
Also, I think there may be more of "just keep chipping away" and goal-directed activity in that 1998-2000 sequence of events than it might appear on the surface. I think it's a smaller influence by far, but my career was very much project-structured, so moving toward clear goals in steps - sometimes difficult steps - was a big part of that. Fitness and weight loss improvement were more personal, though.
Since I've been whining a lot here lately, I'm going to share something that's made me happy around my place lately, with apologies to those who don't care about this kind of thing.\
Orchid cactus, Epiphyllum sp. (probably a hybrid):
A little bit smaller bloom, but still around 3-4" across, Passion Flower, Passiflora sp.:
I was also excited that my Venus Flytrap decided to bloom, but those are visually boring flowers, so I won't bother taking up space with them here. It's just cool that they decided to bloom.
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wow! The epithelium is huge!
Surprisingly, we had wild passion fruit in the neighborhood when I was a kid, but we called them Maypops. You’d pick the small seed pod and throw it on the ground and it would make a fun POP! Like a cap gun
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Happy 4th of July! Well, I'll be 60 in November. Mom of 7 and grandmother of 12, married 34 years - to the same guy! LOL I've been pretty stable on my fitness journey for decades, but menopause has got me totally out of whack! I just signed up for personal training with WarriorBabes and they sync with MFP so here I am! My question is what has anybody found the most beneficial from MFP? What do you love about it? Looking forward to getting to know everyone, well, probably not everyone! :)
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most beneficial? Community. Any time I’ve had a question, a vent, wanted to stamp my feet, they’ve been here.
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My (dark red) orchid cactus was blooming when I left for the Alsek River. It's pretty much done now, but it seems to actually blossom a few times each year.
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Most beneficial for me from MFP is just the food logging/calorie counting. I log whether good, bad or ugly lol. And while my trajectory has been nowhere near linear, with many months of treading water, or small slides back upwards, it has trended down overall and I am down 88 lbs in 4 years. My mantra this time is FOR LIFE and I will not allow myself to fully throw in the towel ever again.
I also like that it syncs with my Fitbit.
@dfink613 Welcome! Menopause has such a hormonal component and often is accompanied by more stubborn weight gain, but it can be overcome. You've got this, and remember that while weightloss is more about food than exercise - true fitness needs exercise for optimum health.
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@AnnPT77 bloomin' lovely!
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@springlering62 I can't weight (😉) until I finally achieve this goal. I know what you mean about always rising to the occasion vs setting a personal goal and then realizing that goal. I will feel mighty victorious when I finally get there and it will no doubt spill over into other areas. It is already giving me more confidence to set expectations in all areas.
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Still here and watching the rain this weekend. I can't believe that it is over 3 in just a few days and still coming down hard. No flooding local to me but I have lived here since '91 and this is more like Memorial Day stuff than 4th of July. I don't recall is ever raining before on the 4th.
AS far as achieving things. I think we all approach it differently and have different backgrounds towards dealing with goals, stress, etc. My weight loss was not a huge factor towards my attitude in that respect.
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Happy Cherry Season!!!!!!!!!!
I do not count cherry calories when fresh cherries are on sale. I just roll with it and enjoy as many as I can, for as long as I can
While I’m at it, the new Sugar Bee apple variety are 😱😱😱. Way better even than Honeycrisp. Shop carefully though. $7.99/2lb at Publix. $3.99/2lb at Lidl.
When did fruit get more enticing than M&Ms?!
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Welcome, @dfink613 !
I joined MFP for the logging, and still would rank that as #1 in what helps me, but the Community is a close second. Now that I'm in long-term maintenance, reading and posting helps me keep my head in the game.
Early on, I learned so very much useful information from the MFP "old hands" in the Community. I can't claim to be as knowledgeable, but feel like I have to try to help new people in the way they helped me, to pay it forward.
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when your dog is a jet black, low to the ground, heat absorbing slug of a dust mop in 90 degree heat, this is the kind of walk you record before he tells you he’s ready to pack it in.
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oh well it was good for 8 calories. That’s half the cucumber I was planning to eat!4 -
LLOLOLOLOL 😆
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it just struck me what my extra remaining tummy skin looks like.
I’m going to paint my belly white and pencil in some eyes, a grim face, and breathing hole on it for Halloween.
Happy thoughts. 👍🏻
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Finally got my scalp surgery today, after two reschedules: Moved out a week, then moved earlier in the day via a phone call this morning. A chunk of skin and stuff underneath was removed at the forehead hairline, didn't hurt (local anesthetic) but boy there were sure funny noises. Also the first time I've had a bandage partly held on with (!) bobby pins.
I'm glad to get this over with . . . well, nearly over with. I can't do any vigorous exercise or swim-like things for 2 weeks, so I can't row, which is a bummer in the middle of the prime season. Oh well, got to be done. Stitches need to come out in a week. Surgeon said hair in the area should grow back, which surprised me. The aesthetics don't bother me one way or another.
Planning to eat at or even a teensy bit over maintenance for the next couple of weeks in the hopes of prioritizing healing.
Onward!
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happy to hear you got that one off your to-do list, and that it sounds like it wasn’t as awful as you feared.
Good plan, too!
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last weekends smoked brisket was an epic fail. Tasted glorious at first bite, but unchewable. Just had it in my head I wanted a nice brisket like we used to have for holiday gatherings. Won’t make that mistake again. Wasn’t worth the calories, even had it been edible. Dog has enjoyed it all week. Pricey fail, that, but at least it was only three pounds of failure.
Replicating today with a nice lean roast I know will be fine. It’s marinating in Oj right now, and will rub it down with spices before smoking this afternoon. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Just smoked beef and broccoli/apple slaw for dinner. Yum!
Today, I’ve been married to Mr S for 61% of my life. How he’s put up with it is beyond me. And vice versa.
We spent a half hour yesterday searching for a cat that seemed to be stuck in our house. Our cats were upstairs sleeping. Wasn’t them meowing frantically.
Odd thing was , he could hear it clearly and I couldn’t. He’s such a soft heart, he was anxious to free it. We searched the garage, the storage room, even forced the elevator up to make sure it wasn’t trapped in the gap underneath. I searched the exterior looking for a gaping hole, and even carefully scanned all the trees next to the house to make sure it wasn’t up a tree. Mr S was convinced it was trapped in a wall and had begun knocking on walls.
Finally I suggested, “your phone isn’t in your pocket stuck on repeat on one of those stupid cat videos you’re always watching, is it?”
He got really mad and said “of course not! How stupid do you think I am?”
A few minutes later the cat stopped mewing. It appeared it had escaped the garage he’d left open. Whew! Bursting through walls to rescue narrowly escaped.It wasn’t til this morning that Mr S sheepishly admitted it “might” have been his phone.
Here’s to another 20%. 😂
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Happy Anniversary! He sounds like a lovely man and you make a great team 😼
I did a quick calculation, and my son has now been around for 61% of my life…😁
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Another Mr S story. Full moon yesterday. We live in a three story house in the central business district, on the direct path from downtown to a popular shelter on the next block. Often much excitement hereabouts as a result.
Awoke at 5:30am to the sound of a solo cup being thrown down, and lots of muttering. Peeked out the window, and one of fellows was muttering under the window, fishing through the verge, picking up trash, looking it over, and throwing it down- or keeping it if it appealed. A real estate sign on long spiky legs was particularly appealing and he stuck it under his arm.
I tell Mr S “I’m not comfortable taking the dog out” (he’s the first order of business at 5:30am. Tiny bladder and he’s already crossing his legs in anticipation.)
Mr S looks at me and pops out, “then take him out the garage door” (also adjacent to the grassy verge).Disbelieving, I leash the dog up, open the front door and walk full face right into a giant spider web. I am terrified of spiders. I scream and trip over the old metal milkbox by the front door trying to swat it all out of my face. I step on the dogs tail and he screeches.
A voice in the dark starts yelling “what was that? What was that!?”
I’m petrified, thinking the crazy guy is nearby in the dark, possibly even on our (very tempting and cozy porch) and fixing to go nuts and the dog and I absolutely freeze in horror.
That’s when I realize it’s Mr S, on the third floor balcony watching to make sure I’m OK.
I unloaded on him when I got in the house. He’s sorry he “missed the cue” when I said I was uncomfortable taking the dog out. I’m royally pissed because “what? Are you going to jump off the third floor in your boxers to save me?!”
It’s funny now, but I’ve told him between that and Mystery Cat, he’s got two strikes.
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Is this group still active at all? Anyone still here but just not posting? I am 74, been on MFP and Noom ( now just MFP) the last decade with some success. Got a new hip last fall which set me back with 15lb gain. Got lazy but am ready to tackle getting my good habits stacked again. For me a good routine is everything, but the hardest thing to get started after life interrupts it. Could use support.
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