WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2012

Good Morning everyone. Thank goodness its Friday its been a long week. Just heard on the news that we are going to
get a little snow tonight .

For everyone that has a hard time to find time to workout I think that you have to find the time that works best for you. I go at 5)) each morning but thats because I dont have to be at work till 8 and I have enough time to come home to shower and dress.

Welcome to Mary and Deternined glad you are here

Reapure: My gym is 19.95 monthly and no added fees it includes all classes and everything. They do have a 10.00 monthly but it doesnt include the classes.

barbie How do you manage to do 23000 steps in one day?? I have to struggle to reach 10,000. Great Job

chiclet I really feel for you with your mom. my mom lives with me she is legally blind and doesnt hear very much. Yes it can be trying and i do get angry and agravated but i know that im blessed to still have her with me. I take it a day at a time with her and just do the best i can ( which in her mind is never enough :laugh: ) Hang in there im sure you will make it through these tough times.

Michelle thanks for letting me know im not alone..my d too lives about 1 1/2 hour away so i dont see her or hear from her very much....after the other day i really dont exect to hear from her at all until someting else happens to her. Even then she may not call because she is stubbourn. All we can really do is pray for them and hope everything will work out. Hang in there

Hope everyone has a wonderful need to get breakfast and off to work TGIF :happy:
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What I did was exercise on my lunch hour.
I have a 30 to 45 mn drive, and only half hour lunch, Somehow I need to either get up earlier or walk in the door, and just do it. Even if it is starting out in small increments, but need to get the heart rate up there, having a sit down job, I don't get much walking in except to the bathroom. This has been a difficutl week food wise, with potlucks, and birthdays at work. Tomorrow is a new day. Thanks everyone and keep up the good work

Happy, happy Friday! :laugh: This has been a long week, don't know why. DH doesn't work Fridays and J'boy has the day off for high school term end so I am going out the door alone. I am also breakfasting alone and enjoying the novelty of not having to roust anyone else out of bed.

Time for exercise? :huh: If I stop after school I'm done, not happening. The gym is on my way home from work so I either go straight there or I come home, change and leave without stopping except to say hello to the house and the dog. On the day I don't go to the gym I walk, and I go right after supper. I don't even do the dishes, I just get up and go. Again, if I hesitate I'm down for the night. :yawn:

Motivation? I need some instant feedback for sure. I've been using the Nike ap on my iPod to count "runs" on the treadmill (not that I do much running ) and when I plug the iPod in to update it I get a little hit of fun because it takes me to the Nike website and I get a graph of my runs, times, calories burned, etc. The vertically challenged group (sorry tall girls) had a January challenge to do 24 hours of exercise in the month, so I've been logging my time on the move there every day. Finally, the new HRM keeps ten days of files on my activity. Like Robin I'm a bit of a spreadsheet geek (she said it first!) so I think I'll make up a spreadsheet for my HRM data and keep track there. The fitness numbers come up before the pounds come off, so I can see the results sooner and it keeps me interested.

All that said, and one more thing. Be gentle with yourselves, you fine and wonderful women.

Nancy

Just a quick pop-in before I go off to visit DBH. Spoke to his nurse, and she said he slept fairly well. He had porridge and a drink for breakfast. They'd had him up and doing his exercises.

It is probable that he will be moved up to the 3rd floor this morning out of Critical Care Unit which is the step between ICU and the ordinary ward.

This morning he is only complaining about the pain (big improvement from last night when he was fixed on complaint that he hadn’t be given any supper).

I’ve had a chance to go shopping and get him a bottle of sparkling water, but lt is a dreadful day here again with snow, freezing rain, and now snow again, so it is very, very slippery. I have my ice spikes for my boots, and I'm using his cane with ice-pick on the end.

Hello ladies

I actually had the chance to stay in bed a little later this morning and made the most of it. I've been getting up at 5:00 am most mornings, but today I didn't get up until 7:45 and I can't tell you how much I felt for that extra time. I am a poor sleeper and rarely get more than four hours a night, but from now on I'm going to try to have at least one day a week when I don't get up before 7:30. I think my body will thank me for it.

Got to feed DH now - have a good weekend everyone.

Love
Amanda x

Bump x

place keeping

Just wanted to say HAPPY FRIDAY! and to announce an important decision: when my husband gets home from work, I am going to announce that he has a choice for dinner. Yes, indeed, a choice: leftover barbecue pork or leftover pineapple chicken, as this kitchen will serve no food that doesn't start with the letter "L" tonight! :laugh:

Have a great weekend! Mary

TGIF I am with everyone else. this seemed like a long week! at least it is almost February.
Smwert

Quick "Hi" everyone!

DH bought me a Polar FT 7 HRM for an early birthday present (my birthday isn't until March 7 at which point I can call myself legit here as I will actually BE 50 instead of "close enough"). Anyway, the purchase came with an NSV: We went into the store, looked at it, bought it, walked out and not once until I was already back in the car did it even occur to me...I never wondered whether the strap would fit around my chest, I just knew it would. Before, I'd have never bought something in a package like that unless I could see a strap and know it would go around me.

And I never even thought about it. How amazing is that?

Also measured myself this evening. I've lost:

2.5" off my neck
3.5" off my bicep
15.5" off my chest
19" off my waist
12.5" off my hips
5" off my thigh

A total of 58" lost!!!

Chiclet - {{hugs}} I'm sorry your Mom seems to have given up. Please remember to take care of yourself as well!

Have a great weekend all. About to test out my HRM, then we'll give it the big test tomorrow if the weather holds.

Virginia

PS: What's the best way to find the new thread in February?

I am definitely in TGIF mode. I have always felt that September is the new year, and that's even when I wasn't teaching but now, the end of a semester is like a mini new year.

At the beginning of the week I was in a funk and normally, that might have lasted a few days or months. I believe that talking on here and making myself accountable to all you strangers is making me accountable, not only to you, but also myself. That is a very good thing. I know I will slip but I also know that registering those slips publicly will make me take ownership and pick myself up.

Chiklet: Your mother is so clearly depressed and you are carrying the burden and I so feel for you. A couple of years ago, my aunt ended up in hospital and I had to deal with all that, a six hour drive away. I had to pack up her apartment, handle all her affairs, and deal with all her anger and confusion which was all directed at me. I live in Canada and we are lucky that GOOD nursing homes are covered by our health care system but even with that, she was incredibly angry at me because she couldn't live like she wanted to, like at home and independently. I don't really know your situation or what resources are available to you but it sounds to me that she needs a psychological assessment and therapy to get her to realize that you are not the enemy. With all the resources I had, including my very supportive daughters, I spent ,any hours in tears. You need to find support wherever you can, what is being put on you is too much and your mum needs to be made aware of that....tough love or outside help is needed, and soon. If she is delusional, she may not get that you are done. If she is aware, she may be being manipulative and controlling and you may have to confront that. Sometimes our loved ones are more angry than loving and they control what they can....if not their health then their loved ones. Just remember, if your health goes, so does hers and she is not likely to thank you.

As to exercise, I go right to the gym before going home or get on the bike as soon as I walk in, or nine times out of ten, I won't .
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Zumba and yoga tomorrow......yippee!!

Regards

Sarah

Not much to post. Olivia and my DD are doing fine. typical first time mommy struggles but doing well. wish I was there. In due time. had a good week. I was on the dreadmill and hour every day and that has improved my mood tenfold. :bigsmile:

Knee better going get busy and do the Wii just dance. Move the arms and the body and just shuffle my feet

Ok well that doesn't seem to have worked...back to the drawing board...any tips??:huh:

Oh sorry I got it but its HUGE...sorry!! Not sure how to fix that yet:blushing: