WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2012

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.

X marks my spot for later on. Happy February my friends x

Wow, so many new people. We are already on page 2 and it is only 6:23 am PST. Wow! Anyway did good with treadmilling an hour a day towards the end of the month and eating well again so that will be my goal for February.

Trying to get myself out of the house every morning is more and more of a challenge as Ritter continues to grow and gain a lot of confidence. He is a real pistol. I love to watch him and Bodi play, and they really play in the morning. I get distracted. Trying to get Ritter in the kennel, not get Bodi upset about it and get myself out the door while manually setting the alarm has become such a crazy dance that I am exhausted by the time I get to work. But then again I love having the puppy so I will just shut up now.

Only two more weeks until I get to put my hands on my beautiful baby granddaughter Olivia. I can't wait.

Have a great day all.

Robin, Bodi and Ritter.

I posted this as my status update this morning, but now I realize I also want to say this, in particular, to all the fabulous 50+ women here. You are so upbeat and inspiring! Good morning MFP friends! Have I told you lately how wonderful you are? Last evening, I was walking the dogs along the sidewalk by the waterfront, and I passed a group of other dog-walkers who had stopped to chat. Their conversation revolved around how all of them needed to go on diets. What went through my head as I walked on by was how good it is to have my MFP friends who don't just stand around talking about what they ought to do. Lots of love, and a great big cheer, to all of you!

Virginia, I also love the quote planning what you eat and eating what you plan. I'm going to make it my motto this month.

White rabbits!

Furnace update first - they finally called me back about 4:30 and said that the engineer was delayed on the job he was on, and if it would be after 5:30 then he would go home, or if I still wanted him to come, it would be overtime. I said that I don't expect to pay anyway, so if it is overtime that isn't my problem. But, as I needed to get to the hospital in ever worsening weather I decided I wouldn't wait for him to come yesterday. She said he could come today, but that isn't convenient for me as I was supposed to have aquafit this morning but I'm not going because of the weather, and this afternoon I always go to the mall for certain Wednesday chores. They are now coming tomorrow morning, but couldn't give me a time. Excuse me!!! with all the time I've been waiting how come I'm not first on the list and therefore you can give me a specific time.

(The weather problem for the aquafit class is that there is a steep slope down into the parking lot and therefore difficult to get out again when we have freezing rain, which we have again, and again today)

DBF called and is now getting a timetable for his life! He will sit in the chair until 9:30, then will be put back into bed for an hour to rest, then he will be got up again to do his exercise, etc. Good progress. He asked for fresh toast again this morning. Problem when all the toast is made centrally, then put on the trays and delivered it is cold and soggy by the time it gets to the patient. Yesterday he stabbed it with his knife repeatedly and then asked for a new slice because the one he had was dead!

Welcome to all the newcomers - this is a great group.

Meg - I hope you do well with WW tracking. When they changed the system last year (or was it the year before), I then found it non-intuitive any more and just couldn't get on with it. That is why I joined here.

Happy Feb 1st.
My goals are to eat the healthiest I can.
Hopefully,get this knee taken care of and do what the drs say.
Hopefully,have some kind of plan were we will be and hopefully,settled soon.
Turn negatives into positives.Do the best I can.
Have a great day!!!
HUGS
jane