WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2012

Happy birthday Mimi!!!!

I hope you have an awesome day.

Having a great long weekend. The weather is perfect! And it's nice having my girl home with me. She has a friend who lives down the road from us who is big time into fishing so she went out kayak fishing with her friend. She didn't catch anything but did catch a huge frog. How do you post a picture in this forum?

This morning we headed out early for a run but it was hot hot already. I was sweating buckets. I'm feeling sad that I have to drive her back to Toronto tomorrow.

Hello all,

It’s a warm Sunday here & most relaxing because we have Monday off too. It’s the official town celebration “Blossom Festival” this weekend. Yesterday was the parade and the farmer’s market, today the antique car show & shine, tomorrow the airport open house. Such excitement. We’d usually go to our cabin at the lake, but I can’t do much there from a wheelchair or on crutches, so we are staying home.

I definitely jumped off the wagon yesterday. :grumble: Lunch at the pub (Greek salad & chicken donair, a pint of beer) was fun with friends and not too bad, but the wine and the peanut butter sandwiches in the evening were not a good choice! (No, I did not wash down the sandwiches with wine, it was more like the wine reduced my desire to resist the temptation to have a late night snack.) The MFP elves pointed out that I’d weigh 8 more pounds that I do now if I kept eating like that every day. No wonder I got fat! So, sprinting to catch up and hauling myself back on to the wagon today …


Faye, I definitely struggle with the snack free evening (see above!) :devil: and sometimes just go to bed to resist temptations.

Amanda, I love the ring story, and your DH sounds like a treasure.

Rachel – walking in place while watching TV – that’s creative commitment! :drinker:

Mimi, good job joining the gym. I’ll bet you find lots of interesting ways to stay fit and active.

Michelle, two websites & podcasts I get really good cooking tips are “Cooks Illustrated” (they explain the science behind the baking) and “The Splendid Table”. They might have an answer for your brownie question.

Always Nancy, I envy you having your girl home for the weekend. Mine is all the way over in Vancouver (12 hour drive) so I don’t see her often. She never was a “hang around with Mum” type, but we do have some good fun together, and I miss her.

Oh do do de do…time to wheel myself down the hallway and choose something charming to wear to the antique car show. It has to fit over the robo-boot and not get to crumpled in the chair. I’ll be at eye level with the hubcaps, so it will be a novel kind of experience this year. DH is trolling Ebay for an old car of his own and has a nibble from an owner in Illinois. That could be an interesting road trip!

Hasta pronto,

Nancy

Happy birthday Mimi xx

Did an hour of training games on the Wii today, tomorrow I'll do a little bit of yoga and then take the extremepump class.

Made the brownies in the KitchenAid. One definite advantage to this flat beater is that there isn't as much for me to "clean off" (meaning it gets cleaned by me and then in the mouth....lol). I didn't have a problem with the ingredients getting mixed enough, so it's just that I didn't use a high enough speed last time. I guess I never USED the mixers at the high school, I only got them out/put them away but when I had the other beaters, I could usually move the beaters a bit out of the way so I could add the flour, etc. Now with the KA you really can't do that. Guess it's just something that I'm going to have to get used to. "Speed 2, speed 4, speed 6" when do you know which speed to use? I made them with only one egg and instead of the walnuts I used chocolate chips. Here I am -- just getting used to this and ALREADY I'm modifying the recipes...lol

Faye - a couple of the reviews said that the fins of the side swipe either came off or severly cracked. If it had only been one reviewer, I would have chalked it up to that person having mis-used it, but not more than one. So that's one's out for sure. the flex Edge looks good. Only thing is that it says that it's for a 4.5 qt bowl (which I have) but it doesn't specify the model number(s). I might wait until tomorrow and call KA customer service to inquire if it does fit. I really don't like ordering things that I have to return

Happy birthday mimi! Hope you have a big party of veggies....lol (while you're at it, have a glass of wine to go with them) WTG girl on joining a gym! Have you ever taken a water aerobics class before? I find that when I workout in the water, I honestly don't feel like I'm doing anything at the time. But the next day......................... Sometimes I swear that those instructors are in cahoots with the people who install the bars around the toilets.....lol The good part is that you don't want to get up to go into the kitchen to get something to eat, tho. another advantage is that it's good for the keigel muscle ("I REALLY don't want to go to the bathroom, I REALLY don't want to go".) One time I had a hot flash in the pool...good place to have one if you're going to have one.

Nancy - thanks for the suggestioni of the websites. I'm going to check them out right now. Pretty soon you'll be in shorts and won't have to worry about something to wear that fits over the roboboot! When we were selling Bryan's car (we're in NC) someone from Ohio wanted to buy it, they said that they'd send a truck etc for it. It sounded like a scam so we didn't pursue it. Hope things work out for your hubby. People who sell on eBay are usually pretty decent, so he shouldn't have any problem. But Craigslist! We will be selling some fish aquariums and pumps on there, but they are light enough and small enough to fit in the back of our Outlook so we'll take them to a parking lot somewhere to let the person see them rather than have the prospective buyer come here. We couldn't do that with Bryan's car because his car was a manual and neither of us feels confident enough to drive it anywhere. I must say that whenever someone came to look at the car, Vince ALWAYS had a gun with him (he has a concealed carry permit). Just checked out Cooks Illustrated site. In order to gain access to the videos and review or equipment, it appears you had to take out a membership to the tune of $35/year. Honestly, I don't think I'd use it enough to justify that expense. However, I did sign up for a free issue of the magazine. It sure looks like one that I got a Whole Foods once and thought was really great but was unable to order it. If it's not the one I'm thinking of, I'll just write "cancel" on the invoice.

Here's hoping everyone has a great evening.

Michele

Busy weekend and have stayed on my diet and swam Sat and Sunday for my exercise. I weigh in again on Tuesday. I know my clothes are fitting better so hopefully it will be good. Going to log in my food then off to bed.:yawn:
Lynn

Just found you, hoping I will fit in! Be encouraged and be an encourager!! Obviously, I have a lot to learn and I'm believing y'all are the ones with the knowledge! Yep, you can tell by the "y'all" I'm from Texas. My name is Lynda and I'm excited to be here! :flowerforyou:

Monday is always such a good day. Start the week out well. I just wish every day was Monday. Oh well. I have been given another chance to get it right this week. Weekly shopping done, lots of fresh vege in, zumba tonight. Must learn to do well no matter what pops up in my life.

Important for me this week to get in some form of exercise daily, and plenty of rest. I'm guilty of spending to much time on the internet, if I was a teenager I would be in trouble from my parents.:blushing:

Hello everyone

I'm reading with interest all your menopause tips. The hot flushes wake me up in the night and I just try to keep calm and breathe through them but I might give a few of your remedies a go.

I've ordered my pedometer and can't wait for it to come. It's silly like I can't walk without it but when it comes there'll be no stopping me!

I had a very bad day on Saturday night when friends came to dinner, the wine and pudding being the main "baddies" of course but I think that I have managed to counteract it by being extra good yesterday. I've now got to be extra good in light of the coming weekend. We're going south to see our daughter off on her travels and then visiting a few friends. When I say weekend, it's actually going to be 6 days away.

Must get ready for work now

Cath x

Yesterday was very very frustrating. I stepped on something ( I think it was a blackberry branch burried in the grass) and my foot bled and then burned all day. It continued to be very painful all night. Needless to say I barely got in 1200 steps yesterday. My foot is also huring because I was holding my foot so tense and strange because it hurt so much. I would have gone to the doctor this morning but I have my interview so I had to come in. I hope I can keep half the pain out of my face and do well on the interview. I am just so pissed that I hurt my foot as I was really getting back into the walking. At least I didn't eat much yesterday since I was just sitting around all day.


I hope you all have a really magnificent Monday.

Robin, Bodi boy and Ritter bit.

Happy Mon!Had planned on meeting with my knitting/crotchet group.We were gonna make a fleece blanket for one of the member`s who has colon cancer and is having surgery this month.On grandma duty instead.Violet has the day planned out.
Have to go to pt today and gyn appt tonite.Busy.
Did my knee ex and hoping to get a walk in today.
Hugs

Interview is over, now I wait. While trying not to think about it. At least my foot hurts so I have something else to think aobut.
:laugh:

Happy Monday - back soon x

Lynda - welcome! We're excited to have you here. You know, the learning process never ends. Just today I was reviewing a menu and I would honestly have thought that 1/2 of a rotisserie chicken was much higher in calories than it is.

fitz - When I posted last night, I usually do my post in a Word Pad document and then just copy and paste it. Usually, it doesn't take very long at all for my post to appear, but last night it took well over half a minute. That's unusual. Good thing I didn't delete the post (in the WP document) until I saw in in MFP.

Well, I ordered the Flex Edge. I had to write to the manufacturer because on Amazon it just said that it was for a 4.5 and 5 quart model. They told me what the part number was, and it's listed on Amazon, only I didn't know that was the part number. Ordering it from them it would have been $40, from Amazon it was $17.

Did about 20 minutes of yoga today then an hour of the extremepump class. I am trying adding more weight. But on the other hand, I don't want to compromise my form. Tomorrow I'll do some HIIT and some incline intervals on the treadmill.

I just put on a pair of shorts I know that I bought when we lived in PA and we've been in NC for 4 years now. So in that time I haven't lost nor gained weight.

After the extremepump class I went food shopping, mainly because the store has triple coupons this week. Unfortunately, I totally forgot to get batteries for Denise. Well, I'll be up that way tomorrow for mahjongg so I'll stop and get them then. After shopping since I didn't get any refrigerated items, I bowled my 3 free games then went to another store to get baking goods (Aldi's has some decent prices)

Robin - hope your foot feels better real fast.

Well, I'm going to post this mainly to mark my spot. Looking forward to DWTS tonight.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Michele

Greetings ladies!:happy: It’s been a while since I’ve posted! I am so “over the top” busy with work, Graduations, 1st Communions, Weddings, Birthdays, Banquets, Softball games etc. this all before or after working an 8 hour day M-F……… I hardly have time to say hi!:noway:

However....... I have never missed a day tracking or drinking my water!:bigsmile: Besides all the above, I am now in PT 1 night a week because my hip joints are very tight. They were making exercising difficult:frown: . In fact I thought I had Sciatica, but I don’t thank God! :blushing: Every day I have to do 1 hour of stretching…over and above the treadmill! There just isn’t enough time in the day! I’m hoping once I loosen up that I won’t have to do this routine every day! It’s killing me!:laugh: At least my weight has remained the same, so I am very grateful for that!:happy:

Just had to say hi and let you all know that I am still with you guys and cheering in the background:flowerforyou: . I do hope things slow down so I can post more but for now I’m just keeping my head above the water!

Hugs to all! And One Day at a Time is still my mantra!!! :drinker:

BirdieM