Senior Golden Sneakers Club~~~~~~~`October~~~~~~~~~

I followed you from Sept. Quick rundown. Cannot stand up anymore and walking is out Doc. said. I am 78, COPD, Heart failure and a stroke, 8 hospital stays and 1 rehab. Just got out of Hospital 13 days for blocked intestine (3rd time). On mechanical diet or full liquid. Oxygen 24/7 and bed 24/7. Working on bed exercises. Modifying some of the chair and standing exercises.

Need help telling difference in the exercises, heart and strength types. My mind goes blank! LOL do not need that part. Still able to move to side beds and few other things. I do have home care 3 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Just this time got infomation needed for calories and protein. This site hit it on the nose what the doc. said.

liz

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
Day one of our trip :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: a great success
Easy drive once we got the animals to boarding (Bernie, the young cat, hid under the bed so close to the back of the nightstand that I didn't find him until the fourth time I looked and then I found him only because of his white paws) :laugh: :laugh: , 20 minutes of walking on the ferry, and lunch at Red Lobster where I had grilled salmon, two servings of broccoli, and salad with no croutons and dressing on the side. :bigsmile: shopping at the huge mall. I found a red down vest that fits (small instead of the extra large ones I've had for the last five years). We had snacks during the day of apples and wasa crackers with hummus then we fixed our usual shakes for dinner and went to the fitness room to use the stationery bike and the treadmill and will have cereal and almond milk for a bedtime snack.

:flowerforyou: Marie, thanks for starting the new thread. It was easy to find.

:flowerforyou: Jeffrey, congratulations on your new job. You've been a great "house-husband" but I'm sure that working has awakened your brain.

:flowerforyou: Birdie, I wear Birkenstocks and love them. In the winter I wear them with wool socks. My neighbor has those shoes with the spring in the heel and she swears by them but they do look funny. Jake wears orthonics and loves them. Keep an open mind and I'm sure you'll find the best solution for yourself

:flowerforyou: Barb, you are such an amazing fountain of information. When is the new dog coming?

:flowerforyou: Sandy, congratulations on your winnings.

:flowerforyou: Gayla, I'm sorry those people were so unfriendly to Neil. Will there be another place he can try staying?

:flowerforyou: Liz, welcome to the group. It looks like you have a whole wagon load of challenges and yet you have a fabulous never give up attitude. We're thrilled to have you here with us

We're going to bed early and get rested for the busy days ahead.
hugs to all

Welcome Lizbwell, you have joined a wonderful group of people. We range in all ages but I do think that we are all over 50. You sound like Marie who is our backbone, she is also in her 70's and keeps us all going. I give you credit for trying to find some exercises to do in bed, the leg and arm that you are doing sound like they would be good. Maybe do a google search for bedridden exercises to see if you can find any to help you. So glad you are with us. :flowerforyou:

Barbie hope you and Jake are having a good time and all the animals are behaving. I know we don't have to worry about you or Jake with food and exercise. :laugh:

Birdie, I never thought of my feet causing my knee pain, I always attributed it to playing tennis when I was young. I will have to watch the kind of shoes I wear when I walk, I usually just wear regular gym shoes.
I know other people who wear Birkenstocks and love them, but I must admit I am like you and worry about style. Silly women.

Marie, hope all is well with you and thank you for changing our posts to October.

Will talk to you in the morning, sleep well.

Sandy

Trying to make up my exercises and need to delete the whole mess! I highlight my exercise, hit delete, says deleted but does not go away. I need to start over with some advice. Just saw the bit about needing just the name. Like: Bed - Heel Slide would be enough. BUT need to delete about 7 or 8 of my own????

Liz

Just checking in. I have a wedding tonight! The last time , as some of you already know,:ohwell: my food was perfect but the wine was a little too much on an...almost empty stomach:sick: Today I have had a very light breakfast and lunch, and tonight I will make sure that I have cheese with the wine and only 2 drinks all evening. I will eat what's served but only half of it and skip the dessert. If that puts me over, so be it. :ohwell: I can't exercise because of a temporary stiff back :grumble: so I will make the best choices I can, enjoy my beautiful niece's wedding:happy: and dance as much as my back will allow:laugh: :laugh: My family is huge and gatherings like this are so much fun. :laugh: :laugh: Not only do we all love to sing.....we all love to dance!!!
So here's to fun and discipline tonight and to an extra squeeky clean day of eating tomorrow:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :smooched:

:bigsmile: Barb, thanks for all the info! when I get a free moment, I'll check them out! With all the Birkies you have...I hope you also have an insurance policy on them:laugh: :laugh:

Marie glad you're feeling better. I am doing better but havent exercised yet. :ohwell: Tonight I hope to dance:happy: but I'll be careful not to overdue it!

:flowerforyou: Barbie sounds like you're right on the ball which doesn't surprise me at all. I hope to achieve your discipline!!!!

:flowerforyou: Liz: Hope you receive the help you need. Sound like you've been through a lot!!!!:noway:

:blushing: :blushing: Sandy: Yes it is silly about the shoes, but as you get older and need to adjust some of the other parts of you....you just hope you can still make a reasonable "Fashion statement":laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

BirdieM:smooched:

Rainy, depressing day here. Trying to pay some bills, but I did exercise today for 45 minutes. I am still using the pedometer but with the rain I didn't get too many steps in today. :explode:

Birdie have fun at your nieces wedding. You have been hurting and still watching so tonight just have a good time. :bigsmile:

Marie, glad you are feeling better, I think you helping Liz will be a big benefit in her life. You know not to overdue anything and you can help her think of some good exercises. :happy:

Daisy is full of energy since we have had rain for the last two days, she will be so happy to get to the dog park again. Tomorrow is her obedience class and then to the vet for her final baby shots.

Marie, I don't go to the casino until Monday, we will be spending the night so expect to have a great time.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Sandy

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
We're back in the hotel room for the dinner break. We made our shakes so even with having to wash the dishes I have more time than if we'd gone to a restaurant. We ate lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant and had Pho with tofu and vegetables. I can't find an accurate calorie count for it but I know that it has about three days' worth of sodium in it. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: We were at meetings almost all day and will be sitting again tonight so there won't be as many steps or exercise calories as I would like. Maybe I should go walk up and down the stairs for awhile to burn more calories :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: or maybe I should lie down and take a quick nap.

:flowerforyou: Liz, this morning I woke up earlier than my husband and tried doing some crunches and neck stretches in bed so I could do something useful without waking him. I was thinking of you and how you've created a series of in bed workouts. I admire your creative spirit and the way you never, never, never give up. Even though we all joke about how quickly we put on weight, I know that it is hard to do when your body is recovering. I continue to cheer your efforts to assist your body in healing.

:flowerforyou: Birdie----be careful of that wine----it's sneaky stuff:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

There is rain in Washington but it should be over by the time we get home so on Sunday afternoon I can take the dogs to the dog park
hugs
Barbie

HI Everyone,

Busy Saturday, Daisy has obedience class and after that she goes to the Vet for I hope her final shots. We always try to go to 5:00 Mass on Saturday so I think this day is gone before it even begins. :laugh:

Barbie, sounds like you are keeping busy with this trip, it must be a business trip if you are attending meetings. Hope Jake's back is better and you have a safe trip home. I am sure your dogs miss their dog park. :happy:

Marie, 2000 is great, every 2000 steps is a 100 calories ( I think) so keep up the good work..

Gayla, Neil sounds like he wants his independence but wants you to be very close by which I think is wonderful. He sounds like he loves you so much as I know you do him.

Birdie, hope the wedding was wonderful and you took it easy on yourself. :bigsmile:

My daughter is doing wonderful, she said she feels like her old self and is tired of just sitting. We insist she does though so she gets the rest needed to completely heal. Her boys will wear her out the minute her in laws leave. :mad:

Jeffrey we miss you and hope all is well.

Hope Beth is on her way home and her next post is from the United States.

Have a good day........

Sandy

Great to read everyone's posts!
Just an update on the wedding. I kept within my plan for the most part but I did go over my calories for the day. :ohwell: I made sure I had a few appetizers while we mingled with my first glass of wine. :laugh: :laugh: Had the soup (very small cup) the salad with vinigrette dressing (very little) but ate most of the chicken breast (no skin). :ohwell: The potatoes and green beans didn't taste right so I ate very little of that. Then My second glass of wine, which lasted the rest of the night:happy: You should have seen the dessert!!! It was literally a small plate with a peice of chocolate cake, a chocolate covered ice cream ball and a heap of vanilla whipped cream.:noway: :noway: I didn't even take a taste! :bigsmile: I did try to offer it to others at my table but no one wanted it because what they ate was so filling!!! The waitress came and I gave her the entire plate with nothing touched! I was so proud of myself! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Plus I danced and dance till I was dripping with sweat for the next couple of hours. My back and knees and feet all seem to cooperate:laugh: :laugh: I came home famished and not tired so I ate a small bag of mini rice cakes :frown: I went over about 500 calories for the day but I'm sure I danced a lot of that off
Today my back is a little stiff:laugh: :laugh: but it's worth the fun we had. I am now down to 473 calories for the rest of today and I think I should wait one more day to do the treadmill, I don't want to push my luck
But I'm tired and my resolve seems weak, so I will commit to not go over the rest of those calories today and tomorrow try the treadmill!

Have a great Saturday and I'll check in tomorrow
God Bless!!!
BirdieM:smooched:

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: I went over my calories today but ate healthy

---

it was a combination of very little exercise (less than 9000 steps on my step counter) and lunch in a restaurant. The place we planned to go was closed and the next one (we were on foot) was "The Rock wood fired pizza & spirits". I found a Thai chicken salad but even with only a bit of the dressing on the side and one bite of the tortilla bits (on the side) I figured it was about 500 calories. sad I could have skipped my bedtime snack but I didn't :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

At least I wasn't like the heavy woman at the next table who getting handfuls of candy out of the bowl on her table and I said no to the Twinkies and M&Ms that were offered to me. :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

And I drank more water than usual :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Barbiecat

Got curious about where you might be visiting, so I looked up the pizza restaurant you mentioned and discovered there is one in my town. I had never heard of them 'til you mentioned it. From the way they described the music in the reviews on yelp.com, I was wondering if you had to wear earplugs during dinner in order to hear yourself?:laugh:

I survived my first few days of my new schedule. I now work Saturdays and have Sunday and Monday off, instead of the weekends. I no longer am working a split shift--just got tired of feeling sleep deprived most of the time. I never was able to get myself to bed early enough to feel fully rested, so I would have my afternoon nap, which then made it more difficult to get to bed that night and so it went. A few other things,related to specific things at work, entered in to my decision to switch. The downside is that I have at least 2 nights where I work til 9p, but NOT getting up at 4 a.m.:noway: is definitely WORTH a couple of nights working.

So far I have taken the doggies for a 40 minute walk this morning, and arrive home in time to watch the NASCAR prerace program, which is just finishing. Yesterday I worked my ten hour day, ending at 5p, made it to Mass and then met friends for an Applebee's dinner. Their chicken lime salad is GREAT, and only 250 calorie according to the MFP database, so I came home with enough calories remaining to have my favorite guilty pleasure--10 pieces of Brookside dark chocolate covered pieces of pomagranate, only 90 calories. I still had enough left over for 2 organic ginger snaps.

The Brookside candy is available at Costco, and even 5 pieces is VERY satisfying. I know there are alot of people around here who can't have that sort of thing in the house without binging on it, but since I am no longer on a "DIET" and don't feel deprived, I know I CAN have a little, and find that satisfying. I even ate two onion rings off my friends' appetizer plate last night. They were good, and two was "enough."

I am trying to get myself motivated to do some serious cleaning while I am home today watching the race. I have lots do do before I can have my carpets cleaned. I haven't had them done since I moved in here six years ago, and even though we are not a dirty bunch it is time!!:laugh: I thought it would be a good idea to do this before Bradley the Yorkie becomes the newest member of our family.

BTW, if I didn't already say it, Congratulations Jeffrey on your new job.:flowerforyou: :drinker:

Marie, :flowerforyou: I always enjoy reading about what you and your family have been up to....keep on "steppin" and you will eventually wear out that new pedometer.

I am glad you found one that worked for you. I tried 3 and they would not consistently register steps, so I use my watch, and have been known to drive a route in my care to get an idea of the distance. I pretty consistently walk at a pace of 3 miles an hour ("WD"*"without doggies":laugh: ) so that helps me have a good idea of how far I have gone. Also the walking trail that I often use near my home has distance information on the maps that are posted along the way.

Have a great Sunday. I have to go and take a load of washing out and add another one in. I am scraping the bottom of the barrel in my underwear drawer so it is time do laundry!!:laugh:

Let's keep our fingers crossed for Mark Martin. It would be great to see the grand old man of NASCAR win The Chase this year. As I am signing off, the young man who did a multiple barrel roll crash last week and walked away from it just spun out in the first lap of the race. He is young and new to the Sprint cup, so maybe he is having a case of nerves.

Everyone have a great Sunday!!

Barb