WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2012

WoW~so many new people.Love the posts.
Robin,you`re daughter is so pretty.How exciting to be a grand mother.
Did good with my food choices and holding off with too much exercise til I see the dr on fri.
I think 2012 will be a good year for all of us.Trying to make better choices and getting healthier and loosing wt also.
Have a great day!!
HUGs
jane

Happy New Year Ladies!!! I really didn't have any goals for December.....that's probably why my choices, weight and motivation took a hit. With this new year I feel a fresh start.......MOTIVATION to exercise is my #1 goal for January. Like some of the replys I have read, I too start strong and then find myself fizzling out. I have found that my food choices are usually "ok" but I feel that I could do much better. Would like to also become better at the supportive side to MFP....love hearing about how the life style change and weight lost have changed peoples lives....this helps to motivate me to see those goals that I am working towards and that they are within my reach. Here's to fresh starts and new beginnings...ROCK ON LADIES AND KEEP THE FAITH!!!!

Let's make 2012 a memorable year....

How's this for willpower

Have just taken the hubby's leftover home made pizza out of the microwave to put in my celery soup to warm ... and I didnt even take a sniff!!!!!!!

LindsayRob: The vet tried the motion sickness pills right away after boxing day and she still got worse. The thought now is that her disease is likely caused by a tumour. I've been reading about vestibular disease and have seen that some dogs do recover on their own if the root cause is an inner ear malfuntion of some kind. We'll just wait and see I guess - I'm not going the MRI/CT Scan route - too much $$$$.

Thanks for this thread. I've been on MFP since September and would love to be friends with more 50+ folks. This is an amazing place for all the newcomers. Lots of good ideas. I especially like the receipe feature when calculates the micro and macro nutrition elements per serving - it's great AND you can share with MFP easily if friends ask.

While I've been on the board for awhile, I haven't made the time to get involved in the community, so to speak. I'll be 60 in 6 weeks, so this weight loss thing is such a challenge! A loss of 25 pounds would be a good thing for me. My broad goals for the year:

Love bigger
Live fuller
Pray harder

As far as weight loss. portion control is the key for me, so I need to get back to regular journaling. Hopefully, this will be a slimmer year for all of us! Looking forward to getting to know you all thru the year. I don't post daily so will see you when I can.

so frustrated with the vet. We went and picked up Kiera today and she was supposed to be in a little cedar box to match my other dog but they made a mistake and put her in an urn.:grumble: Now we have to go back so they can fix the problem but we aren't sure when we will have time. I am also getting sick. the sinus and chest thing is storming my body. :explode:

hello again - yea,....day two lol....I did 15 minutes on my Health Rider (cardio) then 3 x 10 sets lat pull down, 3 x 10 sets chest press and maybe 8 minutes on my treadmill on an incline - then while I was walking on the treadmill - started to see all the stuff that needed cleaning up down there and spent almost 2 hours moving the washer and dryer and cleaning up around the basement....that's the most exercise I've done in almost a year! :happy: I'm sure I'll pay for it tomorrow but at the time - I felt pretty good - my knees will beg to differ right now but all is good

BUT now because I tracked the exercise and and hour as light house work I still have too many calories to eat today and it's already 7pm :frown: I don't want to eat just because this system is telling me I have to eat especially when I'm not hungry.

what do you do at times like this? I've never really been a big eater - I just eat really fast and all the wrong things .... :embarassed:

I've been eating really well for the last two days and have already planned my breakfast and lunches at work for the rest of the week so hopefully the 'habits' will come back sooner rather than later. AND I'm also trying to eat slower and give my brain and stomach a chance to catch up to what I'm eating so I don't get 'over stuffed':explode:

anyway - I'm just glad I'm here and don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon....

I just realized that even tho barbie is so great about putting the year on the thread's name, someone just posted to the old thread!

Got a call from the vet today. Just as we expected, Bonnie has ovarian tissue. He wants to get it out asap, so she goes to his office tomorrow.

Did an hour of extreme pump today. Tomorrow I'll do a downloadable workout for the spin bike. Then, in the afternoon, play mahjongg.

After taking the weight class, I got the bangs on my hair cut, stopped at one food store to see if they carried my pancake mix (they don't) and found out that they discontinued Vince's yogurt so I had to go to another store to get his yogurt and buttermilk. I portion it out into one cup measurements and then freeze that since there is no way I could use up a whole container before its expiration date. Came home, then went practice bowling then stopped at some stores. Actually, I wanted to go to one store since they advertised that they had Christmas items on sale. Really, they didn't have much (and this is an expensive store) but I did get a few tops for Vince to give me. They were REALLY discounted. Probably because they were out of season....lol

Amanda - how wonderful of you to be down so many sizes in your shirts! That's awesome!

Welcome everyone new. You've joined a fantastic group of ladies so plan on staying a long long time

Pam - I really like quinoa, too.

Suz - why no white potatoes?

Barb - I don't know anything about a stationary recumbant bike. We have a recumbant bike, but Vince mainly uses it for therapy for his knee. I use the upright spinning bike at the Y.

genalace - the fact that you tracked your food is great! Even the great mimi was over the other day. It's just important to track and not go over all the days, but let that be an exception, which I know you will do.

Nancy - have you ever put cucumber slices in your water??? The first time I heard of that, I thought "yuk", but it's really quite good and refreshing.

I think Vince is going to get me one of those 52oz Bubba kegs. I figure I'll be able to take that bowling and then bring it home to finish. The bad thing is that it's just too big to put into a cup holder. But if he's driving, that shouldn't be a problem for me. Fortunately, the bowling alley doesn't mind my bringing my own tea.

Lindsay - so sorry to hear about your kidney. Do you have to monitor your protein intake? What about potassium? I remember FIL was on dialysis and after each meal he'd take a TUMS, seems the calcium would bind with something, I don't remember what, so that it could be excreted.

Tomorrow night we are going to play Mexican Train dominoes with the Newcomers. I'll take some shrimp bites that I have frozen. I'll just bake them and then take them with me. Wed. should be an interesting day. The Newcomers are having their board meeting. I don't agree at all how this one lady has run the nominating committee for next year, neither does the other gal on the committee. I intend to say something because I really feel she's wrong, that she just wants what is good for her, not for the organization. I won't say that in so many words, but I intend to tell everyone the timetable. OK, now that I've totally confused you, a few weeks ago we met. At that time she said that she'd run for vp if no one else wanted it. A week or so later I was talking to one guy who said that he'd run for vp or any other position. Honestly, I think he'd make a good vp and so does the other member of the committee. To me, there's a distinct possibility that he'll be pres. the next yr. so to me it would be to his (and the organization's) advantagae to have him work closely with the pres. The lady who is vp now doesn't want to be pres. Another lady said she wants to go because she wants to have some sort of game night, but I don't think this whole thing was thought out. So it'll take time to ask things like "who'll collect the money, who'll insure that the room is reserved, etc. etc". Then another lady just told me that she'd like to go to tell them if we're disbanding one group. And I have to be at bowling at 1!

shmogo - I hear ya about the added calories from exercise. That's why I don't add in my exercise calories. If I go over a bit one day, I figure I have that as a thing I can fall back on. I used to add in my exercise calories, and I found that I was eating junk just to get my calories up. What good did that do??? So now I don't add them in.
Hope you're not too sore tomorrow.

Here's hoping everyone has a great evening.

Michele