WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2012

Nancy I didn't think I would see him make 30. I don't have a problem telling you he is is a recovering drug addict.

And for him to move out of state is the best thing that has happened to him. I don't know if anyone else here has gone through

this. But has been tough road for the entire family.

Barbie thanks for suggesting that I pack my meals. I'm happy to say that after eating all my planned meals over to ND. And ate

sensible on the way back, I have lost 1/2 of pound. Driving must burn some calories.
Joyce

Just checking in so it will be in my topics feed

So much to catch up on and not much time to do it in

Amanda Yeah I am so happy for you I have been down that road of not being able to see the Grandbabies for a bit and it is not fuin especially when you dont feel you have done any thing to deserve that and how nice to be connecting with DD again

To the 2 Barbies in Pasco area my #1 son lives there what a beautiful area I love going for visits with him and his family we were just here twice in April and first of May

Kat Love love palm springs have been there several times for work retreats and it is hot hot hot and usually we are there in August those have now been moved to Vegas but coming in Nov for a womens retreat and cant wait

Back is still hit and miss some days it feels pretty good but other days it just nags at me all day so still taking it easy still plugging away

DH and #2 son busy working on hubbys classic car they started this project in 2006 but had to put in on the back burner for some time due to life and DS getting married and having a family but the pulled her out of moth balls this weekend and my DH is so excited not sure if hes more excxited to finish the car or more excited to be in the garage with our son again. Either way he's happy again and that makes me happy plus we get to watch DS's girls get right in the middle of it all they are 8 5 & 3 so thats pretty cute they want to help on the car.

Have a great night all Fitzy

Hello ladies -

It's a warm day again in London town. Busy too!

Yesterday I spent a lovely day with my darling grandtwins and my daughter. The babies are getting so grown up and chatty now. Molly came running to me as I walked through the front door, but no sign of Teddy. I walked into the living room and he suddenly spotted me and started babbling away as he ran at me and hugged my leg. They climbed all over me and I loved every second of it. We then went and bought Molly some new shoes - she chose them herself and I was delighted to see that she chose girly pink ones. Teddy has to have special shoes from the hospital at the moment, so none for him this time.

We went to see the Queen's barge which is at Richmond bridge at the moment http://www.drives.co.uk/fullstory.asp?id=3511 and then went back to my house (via Richmond deer park), where Molly got hold of a pile of my handbags and was walking about with one on her arm, saying bye-bye, bye-bye. In the meantime, Teddy found my toy monkey and the remote control for the tv and sat flicking through the channels whilst chewing on the monkey.

Yes, it was good! I adore them and hopefully this is the start of more visits - even if they have to be when SOBSIL is not around (all the better, I don't really want to see him!)

Super busy at work and I've decided that next week I'm going to spend Monday and Tuesday having a deep cleanse - body and soul. I'll do a liquid only detox and I'm booking myself in for a hammam massage and scrub; a facial; manicure; pedicure and possibly a colonic. That should set me up for a while.

Anyway my friends, I hope you are all doing well. Have a good day please.

Love to all.
Amanda x

Good Thursday morning everyone. :flowerforyou: Sure do enjoy reading what everyone's been up to, what a great group! I always find inspiration here and I thank you all for that. From foods and workouts to families, travels, wishes and woes....pounds lost and experience gained, humor, drama, ramblings and rants......daily journaling is so important in my opinion and how sweet it is that we all can share it here.

Another wet day means no gardening once again. I managed to harvest a large bag of spinach yesterday, that's about it. I'll be donning my raincoat and walking dogs this morning. Yesterday I did 2 miles of racewalk/jog on the track, suppose I could do a repeat performance this AM. I've been faithful with doing the SWSY routines twice a week, increasing hand weights to 5 lbs. Still using 2.5 lbs for ankles, just about ready to buy another set of those babies. Barbie using 10 lb ankle weights, my goodness! That's really something. I'll get there eventually. I was able to do 32 push ups on Tuesday! :noway:

Promising myself to keep my paws of the animal crackers at work since I can't eat just one. :grumble: I was doing so good up until break at work yesterday, then poof! Just like that I was munching away with reckless abandon :laugh:

Awhile back I saw an MFP member's profile pic that was a handwritten sign saying:

" Don't Eat Cookies, Your Butt Will Grow "

Oh my, look at the clock. Must get moving! Wishing everyone a wonderful day. Salad Sistas keep up the great work! xo

jb

:bigsmile: Good Morning All!

Still HOT here in Lovely La Quinta California (Palm Springs) although it is suppose to cool down to the high 80's this week then back up to 100 on Monday :explode: , summer came way to early this year, usually we don't get this heat till July, we typically have a more mild May and June then POW it hits in July, but for some reason this year we were hit in mid May :sad: owell!

DD is home and last night she tells us that her and her boyfriend are going to the bar at Applebees..."Um What?!" DH and I say..."Oh Ya" I remind DH she is 21...not sure we like this 21 thing LOL!!!!! Then I have to remind myself and DH that we were 21 once :huh:

Well Im back at my plateau again...now seem to be stuck at 137.5 or 137.7 or somewhere in between....I think I just weight myself too much...Is everyday too much?!?! I think I know the answer to that question!!! :blushing: :blushing:

Amanda I love your story about your grand babies So sweet and so nice that you were able to spend some time with them...I really hope that this is a sign of more and more to come!!!

Well today I have house cleaning to do, then office paper work then off to the Mall for a bit of shopping with DD. Then Yoga tonight :flowerforyou:

Hope you all have a wonderful day
Love
Kat

Hello Ladies :flowerforyou:

it is back to work after having yesterday off! got a little brake and thought I would check in. I didn't get much exercise in yesterday but I am making up for it today!

started a list of things to do tomorrow, so I will be sure to get in enough steps:happy: I am also getting things ready for the yough camp. the Kitchen there is pretty well stocked, but I take my own seasoning and odds and ends. Pluss I was thinking of cloths and to be honest with you , I don't know if I can ware any of my shorts from last year. I only have alittle over 2 weeks left and I may have to buy new ones :grumble: we wil see.

Amanda : so happy to hear that you had a good day with the Grandtwins and DD, and no run ins with SOBSIL
how old are they now? I was thinking they were babys.

well better get back to work , have a wonderful day!:bigsmile:

First did an hour of deep water (Wed). Actually, I got to the Y early so I just swam a few laps. Then went to the senior bowling. Brought carrots with me. I was very surprised how many people came up and had some! I know a lot of people bring those cheese & crackers things or a nutrition bar, but I was surprised how many people wanted carrots. I thought for sure most people would want some sort of dessert. Which reminds me, they're celebrating birthdays at the Y this Friday, so I'll make something. Need to find a recipe. Tomorrow I'll do a few DVD's of the Supreme 90 Day workout. It's like the P90X, only it was A LOT less expensive.

Liselyn - congrats all around for the good news you got

Laura - well, we know that Barbie's favorite won DWTS. I'm honestly torn. Everyone was so good! To some extent, I do think some of this is a popularity contest. the first season I really thought John should have won, but Kelly got the most votes because she was on General Hospital and those fans called in. A few years ago I thought Gilles Marini should have won. I was glad to see that this year they had a dance off and the judges made the final decision. they are the professionals, to me they know more of what is the correct thing. There were so many times when I thought someone nailed a dance, and the judges totally ripped them apart. Goes to show how much I know!

Barbie - did I hear that next year they're going to have previous contestants on?

Dawn - welcome back!

Last night I tried this recipe for an apple cake. It turned out terrible! Had to throw the whole thing away. Then, this morning I made a (don't say "yuk" quite yet) banana butterscotch bread to take to the Y tomorrow for the birthdays. Honestly, when I saw the recipe, I thought "yuk" but all of the reviews said that it was really good so I decided to give it a try. If you like butterscotch, it was quite good. I'm not a real big butterscotch lover, but the gal who cuts my hair's daughter likes it. It makes two loaves, so I'll cut up one, take some to the birthdays at the Y, some to the bowling alley, and some to the other branch of the Y. The other loaf I'll freeze until the next time I need to get my hair done. Really, it wasn't that bad on the calorie scale.

We're going to have lobster tails (can you tell what was on sale???) for dinner. We need to have an early dinner to take Jessica to the airport. She's flying to Tennessee to see her friend, the one whose father has Altzheimer's real bad.

Amanda -I can hear the joy in your post seeing those grandbabies. Bet it was so hard to leave them.

Did about an hour of the Supreme 90 Day DVD today. Actually, each DVD is probably about 30 minues long. It's really geared more towards people who want to work, say, upper body one day and lower body the next time. But it's something different. Tomorrow I'll use the Stairmaster.

Kat - it's scary to think of what we did when we were 21! To think that our kids could very well be doing the same thing.....

When we went to Switzerland last year, I brought home so much Swiss chocolate it wasn't even funny. But I didn't mind one bit eating it because they don't have as long an expiration date as the chocolate in the US. Life sometimes can be tough...eh?

Going to post this as we're going to have dinner, then take Jessica to the airport.

Hope everyone has a great evening.

Michele

Been in a funk this week...::yawn: for no reason...menopause, lack of hormones??? Oh well this too shall pass, so not being very disciplined but trying not to completely lose the week...every day is a fresh start. Had great news this am.. DS is coming home in 10 days and will be home for two weeks..so excited..that should pull me out of the funk!!:bigsmile:

I wish I was better at responding to all the posts..but thank you for the inspirations and support, hugs and prayers to those who need them..

jen

YAY! The scale was very nice to be this morning. It said I lost 2 lbs since my last weigh in which makes me quite happy after the long weekend.

Last night's workout was killer. It was hot but at least there was a breeze. After some running intervals and stretching, the trainer had us go over to the hill behind the farmhouse. We worked in pairs. One had to carry pails of rocks down the hill and back up, the other did 20 burpees. When you got back up the hill if your partner wasn't finished his or her burpees you got some recovery time. Then you did the burpees while they did the hills with the pails. Next round burpees were replaced by 20 pushups and after that 20 standing lunges. Then repeat were 15. Unfortunately, my husband being mister speed demon I never really got any recovery time except for the first round of burpees. I need a slower partner.

The last thing of the night is usually a team relay race. I just love how everyone puts their all into it and seeing the people finish their leg and touch down at the finish is awesome. It's a very good supportive group. Next week she retests us to see if there is any improvement from a month ago.

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Hello ladies

We have another hot and sticky day in London. It's so funny, when I weighed over 300 pounds, I really hated the warm weather - I would be a soggy mess within five minutes of dressing. Now I can stay relatively fresh all day long. That's not to say I don't perspire, believe me I do, but nowadays it's only when I exert myself rather than just sitting still.

I stopped off on the way to work and got myself an extra bottle of mineral water and a pot of melon and grapes from M&S. Much more refreshing than trying to carry a packed lunch to work. DH and I will eat late tonight as he won't be home from the antiquarian book fair at Olympia until about 8ish. To be honest, I'm not a fan of eating that late in the day, so I may just grab something when I get home, which will be 7ish and then just have a drink whilst DH eats.

On a totally unrelated note, I've got the front door to the gallery open and there was a guy standing almost on our doorstep paying for something with his credit card details over his mobile phone. I sat at my desk and I could have written down his card number, expiry date and security code! I felt obliged to go and tell him how stupid he had been (but in a very diplomatic way of course). The truth is, it's just a good job I'm honest!

Better get moving, I want to walk up and down the three flights of stair at least once every hour - just to get a bit of exercise in.

Have a great day and a wonderful weekend my friends.

Love to all.
Amanda x

:flowerforyou: You know I love Fridays especially ones that start a three day weekend!

Kat- so sorry you are back to your plateau but with your exercise that you are doing I'm sure it will move, just keep up the good job you have been doing. Enjoy having your DD home, it is such a short time that they are there and then before you know it they really have grown up and are gone on their own.

rpphillip- getting ready for camp, sounds like you have it undercontrol. I completely understand the shorts from last summer not fitting this year, except mine are the ones I wore in 2010 they are still too small...I didn't even try to wear them last year...I'm closer this year but it may be the end of summer before I actually get them on:grumble:

Mary- glad you are a survivor of the school year:flowerforyou:

Michele- that banana butterscotch bread sounds interesting:huh: not sure if I would have made it to take to someone else if I hadn't made it before...you are quite adventuress to do that:happy: It's not too surprising that people were eating the carrots, they are sweet & crunchy and make people think they are eating healthy

Alwaysnancy- hoping your workout was a success and that cooler weather was there to greet you on the way home:drinker: WOW what a workout you got:noway: I too would be hoping for a slower partner so there would be a break/resting time. Congrats on that 2lb loss:drinker:

jen- so glad to hear you are getting 2 weeks with your DS, it's always an up lift when they come home even for a short time:happy:

fitz- between grandchildren and classic cars it sounds like your house is quite busy.:drinker:

Barbara- sorry to see that you are once again up so early and working late:sad: so frustrating. But today is a new day...so you go!

Amanada- walking up three flights of stairs:noway: that is our example of how and what we all need to be doing. That's why your ticker shows such a SUCCESSFUL loss:flowerforyou: Thank you for the inspiration. it's amazing how not too smart people can be when it comes to their credit cards...yes he is quite fortunate that you are an honest person:flowerforyou:

jb- I do so totally understand your frustration about DH not having a job...as we have now passed another week and didn't hear anything from the job / people we were so hopful for..I'm hoping it's just that this process is because of the holiday weekend and thay hubby is still in the running...otherwise it's back to the drawing board:ohwell: Staying positive is sometimes just so hard when I wish he was the one with the job and I was the one staying home:grumble:

*****

Yesterday hubby got to keep the two grandsons while Son #2 & DIL went to a funeral. He had lowered the heat on the hot tub and it's like bath water now and the three of them played for over an hour in the water, that's what I want to be doing instead of working...I WANT TO PLAY WITH THE GRANDSONS:sad:

Last night I had saved some calories and I had read this receipe on the topics and it's really GREAT.

iit's called 3, 2, 1 Cake

In a large 1 galllon zip lock bag mix One Box of Any Flavor Sugar Free Cake Mix (you could use regular cake mix it will just have more sugar and more calories) and One Box of Angel Food Cake Mix. Mix both Cake Mixes together.

In a small bowl take 3 Tablespoons of the mix with 2 Tablespoons of water - Mix
Put in a small greased bowl or cup and Bake for 1 Minute in the Microwave
That's it 3 T Mix, 2 T Water, 1 min on High in the Mircorwave

I put 2 Tablespoons of Lite Cool whip on it

The little cake is only 104 calories...it was light and really good. I used Chocolate Cake Mix because it's usually chocolate that I'm craving. Hubby said it was just Okay...but because it was so light I felt like I had really had a special treat.

Well this weekend is upon us and I'm determined to make it a success...so I will have to work extra hard on not over eating and getting in plenty of exercise, it's supposed to be windy today and tomorrow so we may not get in the bike ride that I'm hoping for..will have to see.

Everyone have a great day. Let's log, drink and move so we too can be a success :drinker:

Laura80111

I went to the doctor to ask about my hips. Turns out I have bursitis. There’s not much that can be done short of pain pills or a cortisone shot (not at this point!). I told my mom and she told me she was prone to bursitis. Thanks a lot Mom!

As walking bothers my hips too much right now, I’ve started water aerobics. I took my first class day before yesterday. It felt good and, even though you use all the joints (amazing how many muscles I didn’t know I had), it didn’t bother my hips. Hurray for being able to exercise again!

Kat, thanks for the reminder to count my blessings. It’s easy to slip into focusing on the negative things. I am grateful for so much…not for the bod, but for so many other, more important, things.

BTW, I’m just finishing an intriguing and amazing book. “Intriguing” because I’ve never read anything quite like it before. It takes you into another dimension. “Amazing” because it’s a powerful story, told well.

It’s set during WWII from the point of view of a German girl. I really didn’t want to read it. I really, really didn’t. That was such a terrible and depressing time and I’ve read many book about it. I read it anyway because of my Book Club. Yep, another adventure all due to the Book Club. Anyway, I highly recommend it. It’s called the Book Thief.

What did you think of Phillip Phillip’s winning American Idol? he is SO cute! The voice doesn’t even make much difference although I do like his voice too. He’s just easy on the eyes. To me, he has the same sort of appeal as Paul Newman had…just nice, sweet and easy on the eyes.

Robin, I’m glad your foot is feeling better.

Barbie, I admire your persistence!

Amanda, I’m happy you had a good visit with your grand twins. I don’t know the backstory but I hope the rift with your SIL heals soon.

Congrats, Mary. You made it! Woo hoo.

Congrats on the weight loss, Nancy. It’s so good to see the scale moving in the right direction. As soon as I get my act together (grrr), I hope to see that too.

It's looking stormy here today. I'm actually cold, even with a sweater on. The end of May can be like this though. I hope the thunderstorms don't start too many fires.

I'm off to a movie with some friends from the Meetup group I like so much. I'm glad I joined. About time I got out and about!

xx Mimi SVQ

Hello ladies,
I am sure you all have busy weekends ahead. I sure do since it is the birthday weekend for me. I love it when it falls in the middle of the 3 day weekend.:bigsmile: I plan to see my dad a couple of times this weekend and DH has some making up to do after forgetting our wedding anniversary.:noway:

I know I will be working in the yard and enjoying my dogs and just enjoy being me and celabrating that fact I have successfully been me for 52 years!


I over slept this morning because Ritter unplugged the alarm clock. He really likes cords, he loves to dig and when he drinks he walks away from his dish with a mouthfull of water that he drops all along the floor. Remind me again why I got a puppy? Oh yeah, he is awesome and Bodi really loves him too.:ohwell:

Much love to you all!

Robin, Bodi, and the Ritter


Mimi I am glad you found a new way to exercise. You sound like such a different woman than the one that first joined this thread 2 years ago.