WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2012

Well yesterday's fix on the furnace was obviously only temporary as today I was woken up at 7:00 with a smell of burning. Turned the thermostat way down so that it wouldn't keep trying to start and rang for the engineer to come back. He has now fitted a new part and I'm hoping that now all will be well.

Only 2 students came today because of the lousy weather.

Half way through class my DBF's surgeon called to say that the operation was over and had gone well and that DBF was in recovery but by about 5:00 he could have visitors. I was hoping he wouldn't need visitors today but I'll see what the weather is like a little later - I'm certainly not going at 5:00 and get caught up in the rush-hour traffic which will probably be very slow this evening.

I'll give his son's a call to let them know all is ok and get their e-mail addresses so I don't have to keep calling.

:flowerforyou: Tuesday and the sun is shinning, but it's cold outside!

Being good in the eating, exercising (but probably need to turn it up a notch) and drinking plenty of water...weigh in NO loss :sad: this week....not discouraged...will continue to fight on...I know it takes time....mad at myself that I'm having to lose this weight again:grumble:

Barbie, I'd heard on the radio that the Pacific Northwest was getting quite a storm, your pictures are lovely.

Virginia - I'm not sure how you find receipes that you have put in so other's can see them, I'll have to play with it and see. When I put in "Six Week Muffins" what comes up is NOT my numbers...if I can't find out how others can see it I will post my receipe here.

Everyone have a good evening. :drinker: :drinker: drink your water and get up and move:happy:

Laura

Hello again !!!
I have been gone for a while and just caught up on all the post !!! WOW !!! So glad so many are doing well and Virginia, you look MARVELOUS!!!
Well, I'm hanging in there with counting my food and walking 5 miles every day AND I rejoined my yoga class and loving it !! :happy: :happy:
Had a great weekend with warm weather and was able to trim my rose bushes. I really need to mow but I'm not very energetic today.:frown: It's amazing that we already have yard work to do and I really need to clean my raised beds and get them ready !! :laugh:
Ahhhh well, there is always an other day !!!
Wishing everyone a wonderful day, :flowerforyou:
Desiree

Good Evening, All!

Lisa: Oh, reading about your son brought back memories! We have 2 sons...grown now...32 and 28, but oh that sounds too familiar! They KNOW how to get their puppy dog eyes going don't they? And I must confess that I dealt with our small conflicts in much the same way that you did! Good luck and know that sons are THE BEST and love their Moms...it is a selfish time period for them. They DO grow out of it...or at least, MOST of it! You are a good parent to welcome their friends with open arms. But I know you hate to feel taken advantage of!!!!!!!!!!!! :grumble: Take care:flowerforyou:

Barblie: Thanks for the photos! WOW...that is pretty snow and a good workout for you and your frisky poodles!

Chiclet: GOOD to hear from you and I agree that you deserve some companionship & fun!

MacMadame: Sorry you cannot exercise...I can only imagine how you feel after all of your super-athletic feats! Take care and hope things get better for you!

Desiree: Good to hear from you...5 miles every day is fantastic!

Laura: Hang in there...I am sure you'll have a good drop soon!

Gotta go start dinner! Making Turkey Taco Salad. Take care All Kackie

Thanks everyone. In some ways this is more challenging than training for an Ironman!

Seems like several of us a "in a funk" right now -- I've felt the same way the last few days.

After letting life get in my way last week (and gaining 2 lbs) I was really ready to jump right back on the wagon this week -- or thought I was. But this is 2 days so far that I've tried to start fresh in the morning and get lost somewhere during the day. The major problem is not getting back to the exercising.

I can think of a million excuses -- but I'm sitting here watching Biggest Loser and listening to them talk about "no more excuses" -- and I know that's all they are, just excuses.

Thanks to the person who posted about the Salad Sistas (sorry I didn't write the name down as I was reading, then forgot :frown: ). I've thought about joining in a couple of times. Everytime I think about having a salad for lunch, the weather changes. Yesterday, it was 72 here -- today it was 48. Soup sounded SO much better than a salad! lol

nice photos. where are you? looks like New England or Minnasota or Wisconsin or........ I have a hard time walking let alone going out in the cold and snow to walk. Kudos to you.:flowerforyou:

Furnace wars were not over when the engineer left late morning. About 4:30 it started playing up again, so I called back to the company - the 'after hours' engineer turned up and did more work on it - one of the drive belts was too tight and was stopping the motor from pulling it. It has been ok all evening.

DBF managed to borrow the phone of the person in the next bed and call me just before 6. He sounded quite chirpy and said that he'd heard that the weather wasn't very good as several of the nurses had left early to get home before it was worse, so he didn't expect me to go (thank goodness). At that point I was still waiting for the furnace to be fixed and it was after visiting hours by the time the engineer left.

I'll go and see him tomorrow. I spoke to his 2 sons and told them what I knew. I hope that one who only lives about 5 minutes away from the hospital made an effort and went to see his dad, but I'm not holding my breath and it was a really bad night. The snow that was on my front path from earlier in the day, has all gone, and the path is shining with ice from the freezing rain.

So off to bed.....

Good Morning, Dear Ladies,

Did my weigh in this morning after the first 17 days on The 17 Day Diet...lost 6 pounds total! (almost 4 were "holiday gain", but I'm thrilled as I normally lose SOSSSSSOOOOOOOOO S-L-O-W-L-Y). Today I got to add my oatmeal back for breakfast, which tasted so yummy, I could hardly believe it! Now I alternate a day with a little complex carb and a day without for 17 days. The idea is to keep the body guessing to prevent plateaus. We shall see:bigsmile: Anyway, the first 17 days were easy and I feel great!

Angela: You certainly have long days! I admire you for also making such a yummy dinner after such a long day. Salmon and greek orzo with spinach sounds wonderful:flowerforyou:

YellowRose: Sorry you are in a funk! SuzyQ has a great quote on her signature, or did, about motivation that I read when I feel like that. Something along the lines of motivation being a trap. Just DO the thing you are trying to do and the motivation will come later. Good luck and never, ever give up!

Lisa: Your Beetroot salad sounds delicious! Do you add anything to the beets, apples, carrots & corriandor like vinegar, olive oil or just plain? I would love to try it!

Deb_rn: Glad you are back. It's hard to stay on track while away, I find

genealace: Hope your furnace is finally fixed and that the weather improves enough to travel where you want to go!

Susan0816: Glad you found us again!

Pam: Good for you for roasting vegetables. You reminded me to go roast a few pans to keep during the week. I love to have them leftover for omelets and other meals!

Virginia: Good for you for cranking up "the Oldies". I have just been using exercise DVDs for the past couple of years and find them so good for days I don't want to go for my usual walk. And I am glad you asked about quinoa recipes...I have wanted some too. I just bought some but haven't made anything with it yet.

jb_2011: Congratulations on your loss. And Thanks for your link to the quinoa recipe...sounds good. Also love your "Eat less Move more" comment. It really is that simple!!!!!!! Now, to do it every day............

Just2Jean: I enjoyed reading about your walk/run experience. I have been doing the same thing for the past few months and have made it to running 20 minutes at one time. I can't do it every time I try though. I have found that I do best when I try it after a day of only walking and not pushing myself. I now use a heart rate monitor and that has helped me see that I need to work out at a lower intensity on the day before I want to "run".

SuzyQ: What are you remodeling these days? Any project like that keeps me from doing almost anything else! Good luck!

Mary: I have an image of your 6 year old GS sitting on the 3 year old's head...in church!!!!!!! BOYS!!!

Jeanne: Hope that your DS is doing better!

Cindy(luckygirl): OUCH!!!!!!! A broken knee cap sounds dreadful! Take care:flowerforyou:

Michelle: You are one busy girl! I don't know how you find the time to cook as much as you do too!

JaneMartin: Let us know about your MRI. I know you are anxious to get all of that taken care of!

OKAY: I need to go find one of my DVDs and get my exercise in. It is raining out, which we really need. I planted 3 camellias inside my newly fenced area yesterday, so I am happy for the rain! We have one couple coming in tomorrow and 2 more on Friday for the weekend, so I need to spend the afternoon making a big pot of chili and some other things like that for a large group! I ordered some desserts from our local little bakery so that I won't be tempted by making them and will serve some berries with a bit of drizzled chocolate for Friday night's meal. (The "bars" will be for Saturday evening's oyster Roast when I'll have 18 people here.)

WHERE IS MIMI??????????

Have a good day and take care Kackie

Susan 0816, I used to have problems finding this thread until I discovered the "My Topics" in the header at the top of the message board page....After you click Community at the top of the page, the message board page will appear, then click on MY TOPICS and the topics you have posted in will come up and you just click our thread.

My first time back at the gym was fun yesterday, not so much today...I am pretty sore but will do a little stretching later to see if I can work out some of the soreness. While we were at he gym I asked about Zumba and found out they now have a Friday morning class. The class is smaller than the evening classes and so think we are going to give it a try. Not sure how advanced it will be but I love how it keeps you moving all parts of your body and I really felt good when I was doing it when we were on the ship.

There are so many of us on here now it's hard to keep up and remember what is what...but I try.

I was also impressed with the "no excuses" line of thought that The Biggest Loser has embraced, I know that I will make excuses for eating the wrong things, for not exercising and yadda yadda yadda, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, it is all about what I really want and no one can do it for me. No More Excuses!

Have a great hump day ladies!:flowerforyou: xoSissy

Kackie - The last that we heard, Mimi was away taking care of her father after surgery. Wish she would come back.

I did it! I had my first detention free day yesterday since the beginning of October, and I made it to the pool to swim! Several times during the day I realized that it would be easy to make excuses (I had an appointment right after school, I was also to go to a town 25 miles away with my husband and daughter during the evening to get new phones for them, and on and on), but knew that it was actually possible to get there if I just kept moving at 100 mph. Sometimes I think that getting to that first day of working out is a lot harder than the actual workout! Anyway, I did it. The first 5 or 6 laps I thought that my legs would give out from tiredness, but pushed through, and swam just over 1/3 mile. I am not scheduled to go on Wednesdays, due to church (my workout today is leading singing with 3 to 8 year olds and directing an adult bell choir), but need to not allow any excuses and make it back to the pool tomorrow. I think I can, I think I can, I KNOW I CAN!

Happy Wednesday to all! Mary

Thank you Jane, I feel your pain. I will be saying a little prayer for your full recovery. People just take that ole knee for granted until you can't use it. It has certainly taught me perserverance!!

:flowerforyou: Glad for a hump day!

Just popping in to say Hi:flowerforyou: came in late to work, had to have hubby bring me as my Meniere's is acting up. Felt it coming on last night and was hoping I would be able to sleep it away, but after running into the wall in the middle of the night going to the restroom and then almost falling off the toilet I knew it was going to be with me this am. Because of the quarterly taxes that I have to get done and the audit I have next week I can't stay home....so will see how long I last. As long as I am still and not moving my head I'm okay, and it's a false feeling that I'm really fine, because as soon as I start to move I'm so dizzy that I look and feel drunk, to say nothing of the upset stomach it causes:sick:

Everyone have a good day, I'm hoping tomorrow will be better.

Laura

Amanda the ring sounds wonderful

Good morning all! Hope everyone is thriving today.

I did my "Sweatin' to the Oldies" again last night. I think I've finally mastered the moves on Volume 1 - I no longer zig when they're zagging - so tonight I plan to try Volume 2. I'll alternate that and Volume 1 until I've learned Volume 2, then cycle in Volume 3, then Volume 4. There is a Volume 5, I've learned, but it didn't come in my set.

I've decided to have a Glamour Shots portrait session done once I lose the last 2 lbs. None of the sexy poses (I have the skin of a sharpei at this point), just the hair and make-up and something pretty. It'll be my treat to myself to celebrate. And it gives me an excuse to go out and buy a cute outfit!

jb_2011 - Yay! for the scale heading in the right direction. Sounds like you're doing great! And thanks for the Omega 3 info. If you have any good lists of potassium rich foods I'd love to hear them, as that's where I struggle.

MacMadame - {{Hugs}} Hope the funk lifts a little. Not being able to exercise is a stinker.

Barbiecat - Oooh, pretty! I love snow, but only when I can be inside looking out at it. Out in it, not so much.

Mukamom - On replying without taking notes. Just right-click the green Reply button and choose "Open in new tab". Now you can switch back and forth between the comments in one tab and your reply in the other.

Kackie - 6 pounds in 17 days? Woohoo!!

Lisa - I think Cathy has it right: a meeting of the minds to set some ground rules might be just the thing. Either way, {hugs} and hope the situation improves.

msh0530 - so glad you're starting to be able to get your swim in. Keep it up!

Happy Wednesday all, and thanks for this group!

Virginia

I did it! I had my first detention free day yesterday since the beginning of October, and I made it to the pool to swim! Several times during the day I realized that it would be easy to make excuses (I had an appointment right after school, I was also to go to a town 25 miles away with my husband and daughter during the evening to get new phones for them, and on and on), but knew that it was actually possible to get there if I just kept moving at 100 mph. Sometimes I think that getting to that first day of working out is a lot harder than the actual workout! Anyway, I did it. The first 5 or 6 laps I thought that my legs would give out from tiredness, but pushed through, and swam just over 1/3 mile. I am not scheduled to go on Wednesdays, due to church (my workout today is leading singing with 3 to 8 year olds and directing an adult bell choir), but need to not allow any excuses and make it back to the pool tomorrow. I think I can, I think I can, I KNOW I CAN!

Happy Wednesday to all! Mary

This is my first post on this board! I'll be 60 in April and I finally got sick and tired of yo yo dieting, of being flabby and not being able to pick up my motorcycle!! So I found MFP and I'm so loving the positivie effects!

Matry, thanks for the motivation! I so agree with you, that first day is really the hardest. My resolution is to get back to the gym on a regular basis. I've committed to every Wednesday right after work (yes, today!) and I've been successful thus far. I am also adding either a Monday morning or Friday morning and eventually both, since those 3 times are when the female trainer is there. She's great, young but motivating and she's going to help me get fit again and stay on track.