WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2012

KathyGSM - I'm proud of you for starting, even if it is again, that's OK.

Took the food donations to the soup kitchen today (I also gave them 1/4 of the banana spice cake and the rest of the key lime cake), stopped at one store on my way to exercise class to return cereal that Vince didn't really want and also to get more cat litter (it's on sale, and they're doubling $1 coupons so I got it), went to exercise class, then on the way home stopped at another store to get mushrooms that were on sale so I can freeze them (first I'll roast them), came home and got the rest of the banana spice cake, went to the Y and gave them 1/4, then went practice bowling and gave them the rest. So it's out of the house!!! Had to pick up the cake for the bowling party Wed. night, unfortunately I was hungry so I had 2 of the sugar cookies they had as samples, came home and am getting dinner ready.

Did 15 min of yoga today then an hour of the extreme pump class. There is this lady who always wants the fan on high, then she leaves early and leaves the fan on. I hate having wind blowing on me, especially when I'm cooling down. It's really not healthy to be sweating and then have so much cool air blowing on you. So I'm just going to try standing somewhere else. I thought where I was I was out of the way of the fan, but that wasn't the case. When we were cooling down, I just moved to the back of the room.

Tomorrow I'll do incline intervals on the treadmill. Then I'll come home. The Newcomers board meeting is being held at this one lady's house. It's just too far for me to be home in time for my class, so I'm not going to go. After the board meeting, Vince'll drop off the bowling pins with the certificates and the cake to the lady who is having the bowling party Wed. night. I have the shrimp defrosting in the refrig. I'm taking shrimp since I'm not a real big fan of burgers and also burger fixings (lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and onion).

I have trouble, too, ordering food in a restaurant when I'm away from home. At home, I can ask to be served only 1/2 of the portion and take the rest home, but in a hotel I can't really do that. I feel badly (even tho I shouldn't) paying for and not eating the whole meal. I'm sure part of this is the old "clean your plate" that was ingrained in almost all of us. Robin - I wish you the best. Let us know how you make out. Know something I do when I'm in FL and we go out to eat? Even tho I can bring things home, many times I've asked for 1/2 of the meat and double the veggies.

Laura - so sad for the pastor and his family.

Want to take a shower early tonight, then watch DWTS. Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele

Hi All

Busy day today!! But did manage to have a hearty breakfast and lunch and did my elliptical workout interval training and made it to 20 mins like that the the last did it the regular way whew!!!

rjadams and msh0530 when I know Im going out to eat I try and go on line before I go and see if the restaurant has a Nutritional Info posted (most places do) Then I pre plan what Im going to order and make sure its within my calls for my dinner. If I have a plan before I go in then I don't panic when I get there...sometimes I can even plan in a glass of wen with dinner which makes me happy

Hope that helps!

Well Im off to a Home Owners Association meeting

Happy Monday evening to you all!!!!

Love Kat

Wow I have a lot of typos!!!!!

That should be Wine not WEN!!!!!
And the first sentence I meant to say Like the trainer told me to...Oh Boy I better stop typing now!!!!!!! My fingers are not obeying :huh: Oye Vey

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What does "bump" mean???

Welcome to all the new ones. :flowerforyou:

Jane-sorry to hear about Milo. Glad to her your healing is progressing. Sorry you are struggling in other areas right now.
Nancy-good for you to have that bowll of snacks moved to where you could not get to them. Glad you are home. Looking forward to hearing about your chair aerobics.
Sally-Good news that your neck/shoulder is better. If you are ready to do something with your mom's diamond now then now is good. We are not ready until we are ready to do those kinds of things.
Kackie-Outstanding job with the run/jog of 45 min. :drinker: Hope all goes well with your husbands surgery. Is he having a discectomy?
KathyGSM-The weight goes on so much faster than it comes off. Glad you decided to continue.
MimawP-Sorry for your loss.
Laura-So thankful your son is okay. Caring thoughts and prayers to his Pastor and family.

Good night all,
Dawn

:happy:

Good morning! :flowerforyou:
It's nice to be home, had a wonderful 5 days with my fam in San Diego....they greeted me with "Hi, Skinny!" :happy: I received soooo many compliments! Gatherings centered around food, as usual, but I took it easy on portions in order to allow for partaking in the decadent desserts including coconut cream pie, chocolate eclairs, my mom's chocolate birthday cake, and butter pecan ice cream. Goodness gracious. Delicious, all of it.
I managed to get a workout in every day, long walks, treadmill, recumbent bike, and upper body strength training with 5 lb weights. On Sunday I climbed Mt. Woodson with my SIL, 1.5 miles of steep incline to the tune of about 1200 feet elevation in 40 minutes. We had to stop a couple of times to catch our breath, whew. I did great but wow is my butt ever sore lol.
Back to work today, and back to logging and reuniting with the Salad Sistas. Need to kiss goodbye the couple of pounds that have magically reappeared. :blushing:
Have a great day!
jb

:flowerforyou: Gonna be a hot Tuesday here,

Happy ANZAC day - thanks for the education, I always enjoy learning new things, especially relating to the military.

Only time to pop in with a HI, hope all are well or getting well and that you are logging, moving and drinking your way to thinness:drinker:

Laura80111

Lost track of this thread...back now...

Marking my spot too. Off to meet the bus. Working the rest of the week. I'll keep each of you in my thoughts! Keep up the hard work Ladies!!!!

Hi Jen

So sorry about your daughter's injury I have a daughter and I know that whenever she has a step back or a disappointment I take it on like its mine, so I feel your pain...:frown: the only advice I can give, besides really taking to heart wheat Barbie said which is really good advice is that she needs to heal and she needs to take this time and listen to her Dr's and rest and heal...July will come and hope fully if she rests and heals, she will be able to dance in July and make that audition...she is young, she will heal fast, she needs to keep a positive attitude (and so do you ). I always tell my daughter that a year from now this (whatever it is) will not be as big of a deal as it seems today...so focus on what you can change night now and not what you can't :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Hang in there!!!

Love Kat

PS
Last August I broke 2 bones in my ankle and was in a cast for 2 months (non weight bearing) and i thought I would never get back to my ole self!!!!! But I did and Im old!!!! LOL :laugh: :laugh: By Oct I was back to Yoga and the gym and that was a break so she will be fine before she knows it!!!!!

Hi everyone. I'm new to this site. Well I tried to use it a couple of years ago but didn't get too far. Hopeful things will be better this time. I need to lose about 60lbs. My motivation is to have better health and to be happier with myself again. Also our daughter is getting married November 3rd so of course I want to look nicer for her wedding. And I'm going on a trip to Paris in April 2013 so that's another motivator. I've had a good couple of days so far & am going to work hard at putting some sort of a streak together. Hope everyone has a wonderful evening.

Diana from Michigan

Hi ladies, happy Tuesday! And happy ANZAC Day..I loved the info and history, with a son in the military, I am paying more attention to all things military. I did not exercise yesterday...the body was tired from the weekend gardening, etc. I did. 12 miles this am on bike...don't normally have time, but woke up early with no alarm, just a hot flash:mad: oh well

I have a question...why am I more hungry on a day that I don't exercise than on a day that I do? I am trying to teach myself to listen to my body and not just eat by the clock or habit...new habits are hard, but not impossible to learn. I think if I tell myself that often enough I will believe it!!

Have a good evening everyone

Jen

katie - with all those typos, are you SURE you did't have any wen?????? lol

Got up, got dressed (had an orange while I was getting dressed), then went to exercise. Did an hour of incline intervals on the treadmill -- 3 min @ 3% incline, 6%, 9%, 12%, 3% etc. 4mph. Tomorrow I'll do some deep water then probably stop at a food store on my way home since I need to get an onion and some tomatoes to slice for the bowling party tomorrow night. Vince went to the Newcomer board meeting, it's at this one lady's house which is quite far from us, there is no way I can get back in time for my class at 1:30 so I'm not going. In case they discuss the membership, I know Vince wants to be there. One lady (who is off the board now) felt that we should have a schedule for memberships. By that I mean a single would be one price, a family would be another. Vince feels (and I agree with him) that should we do that, we would probably wind up losing money because (for example) someone like mysef would be a member and bring their spouse as a guest. Gave Vince the bowling pins (he'd made up the certificates) for the "giveaways" at the party, the cake for the party along with a cake server, and a cake to take to the woman who is having the meeting. I told him not to bring that cake home, she has her teenage nephew living with her so he can finish it. Besides, I don't want it in the house.

barbie - I was a bit disappointed with Gladys's dance last night. I truly expected more. I wonder if the show was so much like a homecoming for her that she didn't practice as much.

Diana - welcome! Is that the first time you will have been to Paris? I went for the first time last year. Their food is out of this world! Even with all that great food, I didn't gain much at all, probably from all the walking around that I did.

I just lost a filling on a tooth. So tomorrow a.m. I'm going to call the dentist, then hopefully after water exercise he can fill it.

Tomorrow is going to be a full day. Get up, get cdressed, call the dentist, go to exercise class, hopefully get filling put in, need to stop at the store to get an onion and tomato to cut up for tomorrow night, senior bowling at 1, then come home to cut up the onion and tomato j(I've already washed the lettuce and bought the pickles), have the apres-bowling party. Phew! Well, on Wed. I usually don't eat a whole lot anyway so I'll have calories to spare at their house. Oh, gotta get the shrimp ready to take, too. It's already defrosting in my refrig.

Hope everyone has a great evening. Off to watch the results of DWTS (I DVR'd it)

Michele