WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2012

Wow, not to be negative but 1000 calories a day? Are you sure that's enough? Maybe it's just me but 1200 is a killer to maintain, any less would be starvation and guaranteed failure for me.

Gorgeous day here in WA. state. Looking forward to golf today, been way too long. :happy:

Lost another of my "wong direction" pounds! My wedding rings fit again today. :drinker:

Happy to see so many here and posting. I have been inspired by so many of you. Danced my heart out for a while this morning. Loving Just Dance 3 as my warm up before weights.

Have a great day. It's gorgeous in VA - 55!

Thanks for the invite! My goals for February are to exercise more, continue NOT to drink soda and lose 5 lbs.

My Feburary goals:
Lose some weight each week. I do not have a specific amount but even small weight losses add up to larger ones!
Eat more veggies
Get asthma under control so I can exercise more
Not stress over the impending move later in the month
Get some walking in when I'm not cleaning and packing the apartment

Found your challenge yesterday. Here are my current goals.

Water - 5 glasses a day - This is an improvement for me.
aerobic exercise
strength exercise - one each day
housework - 1 hour weekdays
Stop procrastination - I have a backlog of small projects that I have put off. It's just lazy, and I need to address it.
Log calories and under budget - I gained this weight by over-eating 50 to 100 calories a day. So deficit of 100 or more is my goal.

You seem like a nice group. Nicde to have friends to share the journey with. Have a good Tuesday.

Good evening ladies,

Just having a nice lazy time reading through all of the posts, it´ll be great when I am fit and well again and can contribute a bit more by telling you all what I´m up to in the way of exercising etc.

I have been doing really well despite my lovely husband being in control of the cooking and eating healthily but then a friend visits and brings me the biggest slice of victoria sponge cake to make me feel better! Ah well I had to eat it, didn´t want to offend lol!

Have a great evening or day depending on where you all are in the world.

Angie :bigsmile:

My goals for February are:
- To keep my exercise at more than 6 hrs a week
- To keep my intake of calories at 1200 a day
- To lose 5 pounds
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Hi ladies...well I was down 2.4 pounds for my first "official" Weiht Watchers weigh-in. The trouble is that I now seem to have 3 weigh-ins...My Shedding Pounds for Hounds weigh-in, my MFP weigh in and my WW Weigh-in. Guess I'll have to slide a couple around to get them all on the same day. I am considering my start date 1/3/2012, as that was the beginning of my journey with the hounds.

It was another gorgeous day here. Daffodils are out, and crocuses are peaking through the ground. It's been such a mild winter...I'm worried about what summer might bring.

Sounds like all are doing well, and thanks for the motivation!

MEG

Good evening, Dear Ladies!

Welcome to all of the new members! I will try to do better responding to you individually as I get to know you!

Virginia: Glad that you are feeling less mopey and how wonderful that you now have smaller wedding rings...and smaller you!!!

Barbie: Good for you for getting your weight-training in...that too is a goal for me. So far, I do best when I use Jillian Michaels 30 day shred, which incorporates weights and then add some additional ones to it. I need to do more though!

Meg: Congratulations on the weight loss. And I too worry about what summer will be like when we aren't having winter in winter!

I have one more day to pack and get my house here closed up so I can fly out before dawn on Thursday to MT. I will be glad to see DH who has been there a week...and our youngest son, who will be there for a few days. I hope the snow stays on the mountain for me to get some good skiing in! It's been so warm here, it's hard to think it is winter anywhere!

I am glad that I can track food on my cell phone and PLAN to do that while traveling and while away. Take care everyone!
Kackie

Hi MFP Peeps!!
Hope you are all having a good week.....tomorrow is hump day. Going for an opthamology test tomorrow at Mayo in Scottsdale. Wish me luck.

It's nice to see so many replies here. This is a great sight. Think healthy and thin!!

Bye till tomorrow. Barb

A perfect nite, my grandson who is 3 called today to see if I was home and not working because he really needed to see his grammie today. My son brought him over after work and then we all went to dinner. I love that little boy, and can't wait to meet his little sister in afew more weeks.

More water tomorrow.

I noticed a few people here talking about limiting wine to weekends. I am commiting to join you. Some days it seems I exercise my butt off in the morning, only to drink those calories and then some in the evenings. What a crazy cycle. I'm focusing on other ways to relax at the end of the day. I'm sorry, but I can't remember who posted about sitting in the kitchen with a glass of wine discussing the day with her husband. That's been my routine, too, and I don't have any suggestions for reasonable alternatives but am with you in spirit.

Eileen

That was me Eileen, and thanks for addressing the wine issue.

My husband is quick to offer me some wine when I get home from work (with full wineglass in hand I might say). Tonight I got annoyed :mad: :mad: . It's tough enough to lose weight as it is and refusing a kind offer is even harder. In addition, he had made ham and chickpeas for supper. Ham is full of sodium and while chickpeas are very healthy, they also pack a lot of starch and make me bloat. So now I seem ungrateful, but I am not. I just want him to get the message that, since he is the one who makes the food, the ingredients need to be lean with lots of veggies. And I am hungry when I get home and vulnerable to bad choices. Of course, he is a skinny ****.

Oh, I am just ranting now . Good night everyone. I will be in a better mood tomorrow.

Renny

Have a happy, healthy hump-day! I think we need definitely need to start a no-weekday-wine pact. I'm the first to commit. I am much better than I was...one glass of red wine with dinner...but I don't really need that. Renny...I understand your feelings about your hubby's loving gesture...we've changed to Cranberry juice (diet is 5/ cal / glass low-sugar is 50 I think)...and it's red! Would he be up to a walk with a glass of cranbery!

Gotta go...I get started on posting and I lose track of time. Darn work anyways...

Later Ladies!

Oh, Renny, that is SO my story! Although my husband and I work together, he usually gets home earlier than I do and plans and cooks our dinners. Although he no longer makes me a drink (at my request), out of habit I usually grab a glass of wine and sit down with him before I even change my clothes. Although he's got about the same amount of weight as I do to lose, it always comes off him much faster than it does me and with a lot less effort. I really get your frustration last night. I'm trying to lovingly convince my husband that a collards cooked up with a ton of bacon is not what I had in mind when I suggested we eat more fresh greens! I really love your comment about being more susceptible to bad choices at that time of day. You're so right. It's not just that it's under our noses -- of course we have a choice -- but it does create more of a challenge.

Realpure, I think you're right about your body treating wine as sugar. I know last night, when I did not indulge, I had an unusual craving for something sweet before I went to bed. I had a cup of herbal tea, instead, but I know that my body was looking for its evening sugar jolt.

Mega, I've never tried sugar free cranberry juice. Does it have artificial sweeteners? I have tried a small amount of unsweetened pomegranate juice with club soda. Okay, but no substitution for the real thing!

Pam, good for you for freezing the rest of that sheet cake! What a smart thing to do.

Can I tell you guys again how glad I am to have discovered this group?!

Eileen