WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2012

Welcome to the thread that includes the most friendly, encouraging, supportive women.

:bigsmile: The title says Women Ages 50+ but all women are welcome.

:bigsmile: You can join just by posting.

:bigsmile: How did you do with your goals for January?

:bigsmile: What goals have you set for February?

:bigsmile: Some of us set weight loss goals and other have goals for exercise or changes in behavior or attitude.

:bigsmile: It’s a new month, a clean page on the calendar and today can be the day that you begin the change in your life that you’ve always wanted.

Barbie from NW Washington

February goals:
*walk the dogs for an hour or more every morning no matter how cold, wet, windy, or snowy.
* Yoga three days a week
*100 squats a day
*strength training two days a week (three would be better)


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"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT."

"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."

Thank you for doing this! Have a good Feb 1!!!!

Marking my spot for now. My plan for Feb? - to get my sorry butt back on track.

Faye

Goals for February
Up my exercise by 1 hour a week.
Don't eat my extra calories, unless I'm on my 1st night of graveyard.
Weigh less then I do now.
Eat a green salad every day.
Joyce

:happy: Hello all,

I’ve been following all the posts but haven’t much news to add. It’s great to read your “slice of life” stories and share the ups and downs of your days a little bit.

Congratulations to all you “losers”! :flowerforyou:


Travelin' Jackie If you cut and paste this link http://siderealtime.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-06-21T16:12:00-07:00&max-results=7 you'll find my blog of our Travel Year, August 2009 – August 2010. It’s kind of a pain to read because each time you go to “newer posts” it puts the most recent one at the top of the page, so you have to read from the bottom up if you want to get it in chronological order. The blog tells a little about our travels in China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Sri Lanka, India, Italy and Germany. That sounds like a lot, :noway: but there’s a lot more world left and we are itching to get back out there and explore. That’s one big incentive for me to stay fit! My ticker picture is from a 2000 year old Roman mosaic in Sicily.

Happy Holidays, Sue.

How was the “wogging”, JB?

Pam3, hope you make it to the gym soon. Thanks for the recipe. What’s “stevia? :huh:

Genealace, I can’t believe :huh: you’re still wrestling with a furnace problem. I sure hope the technician really was on his way and has been to your house to take care of you.

Germany – I wish I was going there, Desiree. We have visited Berlin and Playmobile Land (near Nernberg (can’t spell it)) and spent a week in a campsite in the Black Forest. Everything made me want to go back and explore more. When are you going?

Congratulations, DeterminedinA, you’re 8 pounds lighter and 8 pounds healthier too. :flowerforyou:

My goal for January was 25 hours of aerobic exercise. That’s 1,440 minutes. I made it to 1,530 :bigsmile: Go me!

February goal: Weight training 3x a week. Aerobic 6 x a week including 3 times interval training. I've got my spreadsheet up and running to record my workouts.

Rock on, ladies, rock on.

Hasta manana,

Nancy :yawn:

Hello, thanks for inviting me.

Catching up on posts. So many are going through hard times. My heart goes out to you Jane. We are here to listen and encourage you in any way we can.

February goal for me is to loose 5 pounds. A feat, because all I seem to be doing is gaining. My husband joined me last month and has already lost 16 pounds! Inspiring and depressing at the same time.

Thank you for the tips on herbs to try for perimenopause. I will look for them at the health food store.

Whole family has a bad cold. Hoping sleep finds me soon. Good luck everyone meeting your February goals.

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Barbie from NW Washington

February goals:
*walk the dogs for an hour or more every morning no matter how cold, wet, windy, or snowy.
* Yoga three days a week
*100 squats a day
*strength training two days a week (three would be better)


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"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT."

"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."

Love this Barbie! I am going to put these quotes on my refrigerator. :flowerforyou:

Hi,
Thank you for starting this topic...
I think I posted a day or two ago...
My goals for February are to get up to 8 cups of water every day, and to get out walking and moving about more, especially once the fracture clinic on Feb 9th give me the all-clear!
Take care in the snow (if you're in the Northern hemisphere!!!)
Cheers,
Faith

Hi Barbie and all fellow ladies,

Well February is certainly a new month and the start of a whole new way of life for me following a hysterectomy on 20th January. I´ve had the added boost of a whole 7 pounds weight loss since the op due to the removal of a fibroid. This month my goals will just be to try and maintain a healthy eating routine as exercise other than gentle walking for short periods will be out of the question for a while! But I aim to keep up the water intake and reduce my sodium as I´m a bit of a saltaholic and as I tend to have a lot of water retention, or did have before the op, I know that excess salt is so bad for me!

I look forward to getting to know you all,

Angie :flowerforyou:

Good Morning...

I am new to the group and just getting started. I will post my goals a bit later. I need to be realistic. Have a great Wedensday!

Good morning everyone. Well its a new month and new goals.

My goals are as follows:

Lose 5 + pounds

Commit to at least 4 trips to the gym each week

Not eating my extra calories

Hope everyone has a great day will check back later this evening :drinker:

I'd like to join you!

My goals for February:

Lose 7 lbs, to get to 157.
Exercise 30 minutes/day.
Go to bed earlier.
Diary food and exercise daily -- yes, even on weekends.
Drink 2 caraffes of water/day.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone.

Good morning all.

:drinker: Congrats to all who achieved your January goals! And to those who didn't quite make it :grumble: - every day is a fresh start. You can achieve your February goals!

My one January goal was to lose those last 7 pounds to my overall goal: achieved. :bigsmile:

February's goals start focusing on maintance and overall health. I need to continue to build habits that will prevent me from ever going back to the 300+ me again:

:happy: Minimum of 250 minutes of purposeful aerobic exercise each week.
:happy: Log in every day.
:happy: Continue every day to follow my number one rule for success: Plan what you eat, eat what you plan.
:happy: Remain at or below my target weight at each weekly weigh-in.

I'd like to slowly lose a few more pounds to give me a cushion for normal fluctuation, but I'm not setting a specific goal on that. I've upped my calories some but am still below maintenance calories. It should come off gradually, maybe a couple of pounds a month if I do all the things above.

Happy February all!
Virginia

Marking my spot too. Lost about one pound in January. My goal is a half pound per week, but to be honest, I'm happy as a clam if I can simply keep losing at all. Slow and steady (and stubbornly persisting) wins this race! Going on vacation with Chris Friday. This one is an educational, small ship cruise with National Geographic Expeditions. We will be kayaking, swimming, hiking, and snorkeling as well as whale watching and doing lots of photography. The ship is advertized as having wifi and satellite Internet, so I hope to keep on logging while I'm away.

Hi all!
I decided that it was time to get back on here. I have been doing ok with maintaining my weight. I gained a few pounds over the holidays, but have managed to get rid of 2, so I have one more to go. My goal for February will be work on getting rid of that extra pound and ideally 2 more. I know I need to work on getting the water in.