Women Ages 50+ for the month of July

Hi everyone --Happy Sunday!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

And it definitely is a "sun" day around here--The current temperature on my back patio is 92degrees F, and I think we are going for a high of about 95 today. I am happy to report that it is 70 inside my condo.

Today has been a relatively lazy one for me so far. Went to church last night. I am not sure who decided that a Catholic could go to Saturday Vigil Mass, and have it count for Sunday, but they certainly have MY blessing!! I HATE to get up early on Sunday,:yawn: and I don't like waiting 'til a late service to go because it seems like the day is half shot and you just got out of bed. :grumble:

At the same, time, I am torn because participating in my faith is one of my priorities. The Saturday night service is very handy for solving all those problems, and now a parish near mine has a Sunday night one as well, to catch all the procrastinators and people with non-traditional schedules like mine.

After my naughtiness of Friday night-splitting a brownie with ice cream and caramel and chocolate sauce dessert with a dinner companion--I figured I was going to have to walk to Seattle (about 160 miles from here) to work it off!:laugh: So Saturday, my good friend Thomy invites me to her house for a barbecue--it was SUPPOSED to be an opportunity for me to show her the finer points of propane barbecue grilling, since I just sold her my propane barbecue grill because of the fantastic deck her new place has.

I am tired of shagging a propane tank to be refilled, and since I no longer have an SUV, the grill is not easy to move around. I used to frequently take it to other places to supply the cooking equipment, but now it only gets used at home. Since entertaining is not something I can afford to do as much of these days, I decided that I could get the George Foreman model that can be used indoors or out and simplify my life. It is also very portable. It also helped that a local store was nice enough to have them on sale for about 40% off!!:drinker: :drinker:

I know the Foreman won't cook the same as a flame broiled system, but it will still enable me to grill and is a lot easier to clean and maintain.

So, I show up at Thomy's with my friend Linda, (who is doing much better now, out of the hospital over a month now, and only occasionally having to use her oxygen) and we discover that Thomy's other guest, a cousin of her Jordanian husband, has taken over the grilling and the menu. By the time he was finished, there was grilled salmon, steak, and chicken kabobs. He also made a wonderful cucumber tomato salad with fresh mint in it. That has been a favorite of mine since Thomy's husband introduced me to it about 3 years ago.

So there is all these grilled goodies flying around, and I had a little bit of everything. Came home and logged the calories for the day and found out I was still 300 under what I could have had. Got weighed this morning and actually was down a half a pound from the previous day, so it appears I didn't hurt myself too badly after all.

This morning once the doggies were walked, I decided to hit the trail again myself. I SHOULD have started earlier. It was already about 77degrees when I started at 11:30a, and I did another dumb thing. I have "racing stripes" on my ankles:noway: .:laugh: When I walk, I wear shorts and socks and athletic shoes. Since it is summer, I also wear sandals most of the other time, so my legs are tan, and my feet are tan, but over the last couple of weeks, my ankles have becoming lighter than my feet and the leg above my ankle.

Today, I figured I would "even things out" by putting some moisturizer w/sunscreen on the darker spots and wear s andals to walk. Unfortunately my most comfortable Birkenstocks gave me a blister from one of the straps. By about mile 2, I was beginniing to regret my choice of footwear. Then I remembered I had a bandaid stashed in my daypack, and it definitely saved the day!:drinker: I managed to hobble back to the starting point, and when I got home, that lukewarm bath water was very refreshing!!:happy:

So far it is too early to tell if I have reduced the contrast on my "racing stripes." I think there may be a bottle of sunless tanning lotion in my future-would certainly be easier on my feet!!:laugh:

For what it is worth, if anyone is a Mt St Helens buff, click on my name to view recent posts, as I have done some reminiscing on the Golden Sneakers thread over in the Fitness and Exercies category, that I got some positive comments about.

I am going to have to get out of my chair and go take clothes out of the dryer as I have a philisophical disagreement with the concept of "ironing.":laugh: :laugh:

Barb

Thanks for the invite. I have done good today in eatting just need to improve on exercise some.

So, school starts back a week from tomorrow. I'm nervous about trying to apply my new learning to a l..o..n..g.. workday. Somehow, I've got to do better with breakfast before leaving the house and also fixing a lunch.


Bonnie

There's a fairly recent thread under "Recipes" called "healthy packed lunches" that might have some good ideas for you.:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Morning all, Welcome newbies.
This is a great and very forgiving and supportive thread. Perhaps because of our age, we all have been done a lot of roads and learned the value of not beating yourself up at shortfalls and just getting back to it. I really appreciate that about all of you.

My best friend does Weight watchers and says how important the group is to her. I agreed and said that this thread was a real support group for me.

Still got the runs, new medication not working. Going to a GI specialist this week. Actually had to up my food intake in order to keep nutrition up. I know that sounds like a dream, but appetite is not good and I'm losing weight too fast. I'd trade this situation for the old days of bemoaning how little it seemed I could eat in a second! OK that was my whine for the day.

Be well all. Be strong and remember that love counts for more than calories.
Diane

Good Morning everyone and welcome to the newest members:flowerforyou:

We returned from our camping trip yesterday afternoon and managed to unload the perishables and dirty laundry from the trailer to the house between rain storms. Despite the rain we had everyday we had a fantastic time, but now to get back into routine until our next music festival in a couple of weeks. It is always so enjoyable to relax and visit with one another. I know that I certainly did not drop anymore lbs but I really didn't expect that I would....maintaining is ok with me and for I know that now I will concentrate on dropping a few more. All our camping friends that haven't seen me since last year gave me so many compliments on how great I looked:blushing: Talk about that being a motivator I didn't get too walk too much because my other knee is now acting up:grumble: Now I really do have a matched pair:noway: Hopefully I will soon get some answers and get back into the exercise routine that I have come to love. Who would have thought that you could miss exercising so much:laugh:

Take care everyone:flowerforyou:

Marie

Thanks, I'll check out the lunch section.
I did exercise this morning before I left and I also ate breakfast. However, I worked through lunch and didn't eat until 3:30 p.m. I'll have to try to get my afternoon exercise done this evening. Time to establish a new routine.
Bonnie

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: It is so hot today that my hands feel sticky on the keyboard so I won’t write much.

:flowerforyou: Rosemary----congratulations on your weight loss---your mom will be very pleased when she sees you

:flowerforyou: Diane

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I hope they find out what’s wrong so you can be feeling better soon.

:flowerforyou: Heather----I hope your back is better soon and stays that way----it is very cool that there are two Heathers from Ontario

:flowerforyou: Marie

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you are right that maintaining is always better than gaining. I hope your knees will be better soon. How great that your friends noticed your weight loss. That is very motivating.

:flowerforyou: Debbie----keep on doing what you’re doing and you’ll reach all your goals and have looser and looser clothes then your kids will really have something to laugh at.

:flowerforyou: Bonnie

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getting into a routine is so helpful---I hope you get there faster than I did----good luck on your healthy lunches

:flowerforyou: SuzyQ

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congratulations on the birth of your new great niece---how great that you could be a helpful part of the process

time to drink some water :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
Barbie

good morning everyone. i hope everyone weeks is starting out good. can you believe that its the end of the mth already. i am happy to say that i have been pretty close to keeping my goals. having this site has been my rock and having the wonderful freinds here just reading all our storys. someone should put it in a book . oh my grandson is here so this is a short one everyone have a good morning and i send out prayers to all love debbie and family

Good Morning all,
Not sure if I will get back to this until later today. Have a busy day today. 4 grandchildren today. Daughter has to go to 3 days of new teacher orientation classes. Also have bible study ladies coming today. Went to gym late last night. about 8 pm. first chance all day yesterday. was very busy. started on ellipitical and then planned to do treadmill after. Only needed cardio yesterday. Gym got very busy. Did 30 on ell and looked around all treadmills, bikes were taken. Kept on ell until one came available which it never did. Ended up doing 45 min on ell. I was tired. Hope it pays off. Going to have to do magic to find time to go today. Baseball tournaments start for both grandchildren. Hope you all have a good day. Have fun with new baby susie q.
vicki m

Hey SuzyQ, :laugh: Just got back from my lunchtime walk and boy is it hot:devil: as.........I am going on the netflix site as soon as I get home and order that DVD. :happy: Thanks for the 411:flowerforyou: Rosemary

:flowerforyou: Greetings from Nebraska! I haven't been on for a few days. Four of our five children who are at home have gone to camp so I only have ONE! I think in ways one takes more energy and attention than five (now 14 definately takes LOTS of energy!!). We have so many clean glasses in the cupboard that there doesn't seem to be room for even one more. The bath towels that I thought I didn't have suddenly appeared after the kids left. The milk gets ice crystals in it because the fridge isn't being opened every few minutes!:laugh: My husband and I are having fun with our youngest though. He and I do the paper route every morning on our bikes so that should be good for another pound or two loss. It's always fun to read about each of your lives and to know that we are all in this together. I need to see some movement on my ticker...I haven't been very diligent this past week. Have a good one!!:flowerforyou:

Hello all,

Just got back from 4 days on our boat in Lake Powell. It was so hot the lake water was like bath water. I used my life jacket cause of my torn shoulder muscles, but swam 1/2 to an hour everyday exploring shelves and the ends of the canyons.

Of course, I ate too much and put back a couple of pounds, but I'm not depressed about it. Afterall, it's sort of expected.

So today I'm back to the diet like nothing happened and back to using my Wii fit every night.

My only regret is that I didn't eat any ice cream while I was "off" my diet. lol It would have melted before I could get it in my mouth.

Jeannie

It may not be considered "clean eating" but I am thinking today might be the day to try my idea for a "Magarita snow cone":laugh: Hey it can't hurt!! And if it doesn't cool you off, if you have enough of the Margarita part of the recipe, you won't CARE!!!:laugh:

I'm not a margarita drinker but I was inspired by your snow cone idea and got up and added crushed ice to my iced tea---my tea was made with a combination of green, orange, peach, and lemon herb tea:bigsmile: Thanks for the idea

I walked for over an hour on the trail starting at 10AM. It was hot but the trail route before noon has lots of shady spots to keep it cooler. I could have walked farther if I hadn't already spent 35 minutes at the dog park with the girls.

I stopped at the motorhome to pick up two little fans and asked myself why we weren't staying there since it has airconditioning.....the answer was simple

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no satellite TV and no internet----I know what my priorities are:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Bernie stayed out all night last night. When I went out on the porch at midnight and brought Haifa in the house, I gave some serious thought to spending the night outside, too. :laugh: :laugh: It was 65 degrees outside and 85 degrees in the house. When I got up at 5:30 to take the dogs out, Bernie was at the back door desperate to come in.

gotta go, more later
Barbie

Hi Barbie,

I am glad I could give you a "cool" idea for your tea.

I wonder if it is a "thing" about people with our name being "walkaholics" even in this heat. Both of us out there burning calories in the heatwave, but at least you had enough sense to start a little earlier than I did yesterday.

Tonight Mai Li took off up the street lickety-split with Pepper and I bringing up the rear. I was amazed that she seemed to want to head out for a longer than usual walk, since it was still 100 out at 7:30 tonight, but she soon figured out that home was where the water and the A/C were located, so she made record time back home, and got no arguments from me or Pepper about cutting the trip short.

As far as the motorhome is concerned, maybe it is time to find a close RV park with an internet and cable hookup and relocate until about Friday, when this heatwave is supposed to dissipate a little. :glasses: I suppose you could bring it home and park it in your driveway, but I imagine your neighbors would object to a generator running, which I am thinking you might have to run for your AC.

As for the temperature differential you described between inside and outside the house, it sounds like you might benefit from a solution I learned during the 12 years I lived in an un airconditioned townhouse style condo. We had a couple of breezebox style fans. We put one in our bedroom, blowing out the window and another at the other end of the upstairs blowing in. As soon as it was cooler outside than in, we would crank up both fans and in about 20 minutes the upstairs would be cooled off.

I suppose you can't beg borrow or steal a fan right now in your area. Tonight I talked to my aunt who lives south of Seattle, and she is actually planning to be in line at a local store tomorrow morning to buy another fan, because they told her they are getting a shipment in before the store opens tomorrow. I heard that Seattle is supposed to reach 100 degrees tomorrow--an all time record high for the city itself, though the south metro area exceeded that yesterday, I am told. I am not sure what happened today, as I haven't seen any Seattle news this evening, yet.

We are in for it again tomorrow. Today it was 106, and tomorrow they are promising, or is that threatening:grumble: :laugh: us with 107 !! There is one silver lining to report. Today the AC stopped working in my office. Why is that good? Well, it obviously wasn't good for anyone stuck there trying to work, but in my case, it quit after I left at 10a, and was fixed by the time I returned at 3p. I did get there in time for a sugar free ice pop though.

Well, keep cool.

And Lianne, hang in there, you will be back on your feet soon and making up for lost time with exercise. Maintaining IS an accomplishment!!:drinker: :drinker:

Good night all. My "hot dogs" and I are going to turn in soon.


Barb

Morning to all,
Sounds like it's pretty hot for a lot of us. Here in upstate NY it's been fairly cool and rainy. Although people are bemoaning the fact that gardens aren't growing well and vacations are a little damp, I have to say I'm not minding it after the heat of Saipan.

Still pretty rung out from illness, but going to water aerobics w/ a friend this morning. It's a great group of us "mature" people so pretty much any level is OK. I can take it easy but it will still be some activity. Fortunately I'm still only working part time for a couple more weeks so I can rest some during the day.

I hate this. But then I read how patient others are w/ surgeries and illness and I take heart. This too shall pass!

I have a family reunion next weekend, so I'm really happy to go and show off my new slimmer body! I've lost some of the muscle tone I had from exercising:ohwell: (it's quite amazing how fast it goes!!!) but many people haven't seen me for some time.

Be well, be strong
Diane

Good Morning everyone:flowerforyou:

We are experiencing yet another rainy day:grumble: The temperatures are getting close to freezing at night as well. When I read about some of you that are experiencing the extreme heat I don't feel so bad. Things can always be worse

My MRI is finally booked for the middle of August:happy: It has been a long couple of months not being able to move around without pain and not being able to exercise the way I have become adjusted to. When I asked about if they could MRI both knees the person that booked my apt said that I need to get another order from my physician and it could be done at the same time. So that is my next plan of attack. All things are coming together and I am thankful for that

Sending warm wishes for a wonderful day to each and everyone. Remember to drink lots of water especially those of you enduring the heat wave:drinker:

Marie