WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER

I was thinking about Thanksgiving and how I can get through the day without totally blowing it. As I was filling in today's calories I decided to jump ahead to Thursday. I filled out the day's calories based on all the foods we are planning to eat...we have our favorite traditions as most families do. After I completed the day's calories...it was a whopping 3,000 calories!:huh: That was not even including any seconds. This is helping me rethink the day! Hope it helps you too!:blushing:

Barbie, I am a 16 now...I am aiming for a 10 or 12!:flowerforyou: Congratulations to you!

Funny how everyone's body is different. I am in a 24 now, and aiming for a 16 or 18. I am 5'10", and large boned, and I know from when I was much younger that my bones barely fit into a 14 when I was pretty thin, so don't think that I will get there. (I would tell you to send my your 16s when you were done with them to inspire me, but they are almost surely too short!) :happy:

Happy Thanksgiving Eve Day to all!!! I lost another lb!:blushing:
This is my menu for tomorrow!
As you can see, I am not sacrificing anything but picking and choosing what I am eating plus my water and 30 min of exercise (150 cal.)

This is the summary:
Breakfast- 3/4 C Honey Nut Cheerioes w/ a banana, 1/2 C 2% milk & Dannon Activia (reg not lite)

Lunch- Fuji Apple

Dinner: 3 oz of Turkey, with 1/2 cup of Bread stuffing, yams, butternut squash, Green beans. 2 T Cran Sauce, 1/8 c gravy, a sliver (taste of Apple pie and pumpkin pie)

If I want more of a treat for a snack : Jello w/ bananas & Strawberries & 2 T Cool Whip lite
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This is the day broken down:

Thursday November 26, 2009

Calories Carbs Fat Protein Calcium Sodium

Breakfast

General Millls - Honey Nut Cheerios (Gram Weight Included), 28 g (3/4 Cup)
Banana - 1 Medium Fresh Banana, 8 INCHES
Dannon - Yogurt - Activia 4 Pack Mixed Berry 4 oz. Cups, 113 g

Total
360 77 5 10 33 260


Lunch
Generic - Fugi Apple, 1.5 medium

Total
120 33 0 1 3 0



Dinner

Googzy's - White Meat Cooked Turkey, 3 oz


Ocean Spray - Jellied Cranberry Sauce, 1/8 cup


Stove Top Stuffing - Turkey Stuffing, 0.5 cup


Kroger - Yams , 1/2 Cup


Generic - Beans, Green Snap or String, Boiled, Drained, No Salt Added, 1 cup


Squash - Winter, butternut, frozen, cooked, boiled, with salt, 0.5 cup, mashed


Heinz - Homestyle Turkey Gravy, 1/4 cup


Pie - Pumpkin, 0.25 piece (1/8 of 9" dia) .25 of a piece (sliver)


Pie - Apple, 0.25 piece (1/8 of 9" dia) .25 of a piece (sliver)


Butter - Salted, 1 pat (1" sq, 1/3" high)


Total for meal:
679 103 14 7 8 1,010


Snacks

Cool Whip - Whipped Topping - Lite, 2 tbsp

Fruit - Banana - Medium 7 Inch, 0.5 whole

Strawberries - Frozen, unsweetened, 0.5 cup, thawed

Jell-O (Jello) - Sugar Free Strawberry, 0.5 container

Total Snack
117 27 1 1 3 3

Total for the day
1,276 240 20 19 47 1,273

Your Daily Goal: 1,350 185 45 50 100 2,500

Remaining: 74 -55 25 31 53 1,227
Calories Carbs Fat Protein Calcium Sodium

*You've earned 150 extra calories from exercise today

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!

BirdieM

Hello everyone,

My apologies in advance for not getting the names in my reply. My PC is really giving me a hard time with the new display functions. I will need to check the posts more often and reply quicker. lol

To all of us taking care of our parents, grandparents, in-laws - please question the doctors and make sure they are doing all they can. I've had 3 situations where if I had not questioned the doctors orders my Dad would not still be here. Medicare is great, but it can make it difficult too. I question everything. Mostly because I'm geeky and need to understand the details and because my parents gave my brother and I shared Power of Attorney. I have to be able to explain everything over the phone as my brother lives out of state. He's geeky and detailed oriented too. lol

Thanksgiving Dinner- I am concerned too about over eating. This past week has been hard as everyone is gearing up for the holidays and we've just had too much stuff around the office. I'm doing OK, but I plan to cut back on the other two meals and move the main meal earlier in the day. As many of you know, the weekends are hard for me as I have to feed the hubby and kids. Last week I had the big meal mid-day instead of evening then I just had soup for dinner. I was able to stay within my calories.

To all of us busy bees- Let's all take 30 minutes a day for ourselves. It's not that much time and we deserve it.

Gratz to all who have lost or at least stayed the same.

Well, the teenagers need me.............have to cut this off now,

Jeannie

Hi everyone,
:flowerforyou: Happy Thanksgiving! I am typing from my hospital bed on the 2nd of a 3 day stay for my hysterectomy. I have been on liquids only diet :grumble: :grumble: but even with the crackers I have been eating with my meal I am staying under my 1200 mark. (not on purpose…just don’t feel like eating much) Must be the medicine they have me on.
With luck I will go home tomorrow. My husband is cooking turkey dinner and I will probably have a little but I really don’t have much of an appetite.
Now that’s losing weight the hard way!!!!!
Best holiday wishes to all.:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
Lianne

Damn... lost my message somehow.

Anyway, I just got back from Tempe, AZ. I spent the week there volunteering at Ironman AZ. Then I SIGNED UP FOR NEXT YEAR!!

I'm so excited. Plus I'm getting a new bike from a friend and it shipped today. Not sure when it's suposed to arrive. I guess I better call my bike shop.

While out of town, I started out writing down all my food in a notebook I carry in my purse, but it soon got to crazy to do that. I brought my TRX straps to do workouts in the hotel. Only did one the first night. We were crashing and then getting up really early almost every day so I just didn't have time. I didn't do my PT exercises either except the first day.

But we walked a lot. Sunday, the day of the race, we walked a grand total of 16 miles! (One of us had a watch that tracks your mileage through GPS.) On Sat. we took some sweet high end bikes out for a test drive. My friends got the road bikes but I was brave and tried a triathlon bike. Man, was it wobbly! (They are notorious for their lack of stability... it's a price of their speed.) So I guess that's exercise (it was only about 2 miles of riding because we had to get the bikes back in half an hour).

I also had some chocolate, a Snickers ice cream bar, a glass of wine, another of champagne and 3 hot chocolates. But I lost 3 pounds! :laugh: Some of it is water weight. AZ is SO DRY. We all have chapped lips now. Some of it losing muscles and gaining fat due to not being able to work out so much due to my injury (or at least that's what my scale says). But maybe some of it is real. That would be nice.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Mary--

So glad to hear your dog sounds like she is going to be ok!! What an awful thing to witness, but I am glad you were there to take care of her!! My "babies" send her a big "WOOF" (translation--Feel better soon):flowerforyou:

Lianne-

I am sure you will be looking forward to being home.and I'll bet you are glad your procedure is OVER with, as well. Based on my own experience, I think you will soon be kicking up your heels rejoicing at the elimination of whatever problems were solved by your surgery. Depending on circumstances, you may be like me and wonder why you didn't do it sooner!!:laugh:

I took a tip from someone on this thread or another one and posted as much as I could for tomorrow, and decided I needed an hour on the hiking trail today, so I went at dusk and walked back on the well lit thoroughfare that parallels the trail. Got in about 3 miles, so I hope that will help a little tomorrow. It is supposed to rain tomorrow, so I didn't want to assume I could walk then.

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker:

Barb

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Lianne, How amazing that you have internet access in the hospital. I'm so glad to hear that you are recovering well from your surgery. It's not a great way to lose weight but every pound lost is a blessing no matter how it happens. i know your pets (and your husband) will be happy to have you home.:bigsmile:

We got up too early this morning so we're headed for bed now. it's lonely here because we boarded the dogs for two days so we wouldn't worry about them when we're gone for a long time tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.
hugs Barbie

This was in our paper this morning:

May your stuffing be tasty,
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump,
May your yams be delicious
And may your pies take the prize,
May your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your Thighs!!!!

Just thought I'd share

Cindy

Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for.


Remember that's nibble, nibble, nibble, not gobble, gobble, gobble!

Hello everyone:flowerforyou:

Just popping in to wish all American members a very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving

Thanks Jeannie for the belated wishes to us here in Canada that have already enjoyed our Thanksgiving in October:flowerforyou: No matter what month we celebrate this wonderful holiday, the most important aspect is the many things we have to be thankful for

Best wishes to all:flowerforyou:

Marie

Rosemary,

You and Cindy must subscribe to the same newspaper!!!!:laugh: :laugh: But it is a cute poem all the same.

On another thread, where they were discussing "to log or not to log" today's dinner, another poster (arewethereyet) wrote:

"No Logging
No Jogging
Food eating
Egg Nogging!!"

Cute, but I already have my food logged for today, so I could see if I had any "wiggle room" or if I need to get another walk in today, despite the rain.

Happy day to all !!:flowerforyou:

Barb

Hope you all had a fantastic American Thanksgiving Day!!! I am thankful for all of you.

I had my first day back at work for 1/2 day after the flu :sick: . Have not kept track of calories this last week. But things are looking up and getting better from here on! :bigsmile:

Renny

:flowerforyou: Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I am thankful for each and everyone of you. :flowerforyou:

Had a lovely day, dinner a home with family, small group this year, but we had a wonderful time. I did pretty well on my calories.
Had lots of veggies, but sampled two desserts. I hope you all had a day blessed with family and friends, and a long list of things to give thanks for.

Good Night All, Alice

Hello Everyone, or should I say "Gobble Gobble" which we all did to a certain degree yesterday.:laugh:

Anyway, I couldn't resist getting weighed today and I am happy to report " NO GAIN":drinker: :drinker: I had a great dinner with a friend and my parents at her house. We had pumpkin pie AND a chocolate cake with ice cream, in honor of my dad's 83rd birthday. I ate my fill, BUT, I strategically snacked on veggies during the meal prep so it didn't take as much to make me "full."

Today the rain is gone and the sun is out, so eventually, I will have to stop letting three sleeping little doggies lie and get out for a walk with them and later just me. It rained cats and dogs yesterday from about 10am on, so I didn't do my exercise walk, just 40 minutes in the morning with the doggies.

After reading other posts, sounds like everyone had a pretty good time of it, and avoided disaster. Thank goodness you noticed your keys were missing, Vicki!!! For once a car alarm going off was a positive instead of an annoying intrusion. They always seem to go off around here about 3 in the morning and then I can't go back to sleep!!:grumble: :laugh:

Barbie, your day sounded like it worked out well. Your coping strategy was successful and you had a good day, so what more can we ask for, right?:flowerforyou:

Between dinner and dessert, I got to listen to my parents reminisce about the travels they made in France and Great Britain on canal boats, a very interesting way to travel, and perfect for getting off the beaten tourist path. In one instance while in France, they were waiting to go through a navigational lock, and those in another canal boat cut in ahead of them and, thus, arrived at the moorage first. There was no point in starting a ruckus, but my dad was very annoyed. The other people took bicycles off their boat and started riding to a nearby town, ahead of my parents and the couple they were travelling with.

As they walked along the path, the female half of their traveling companions suddenly stopped and picked up a piece of paper money. :noway: As they continued to walk, they found more and more, about the equivalent of $30 US at that time,:noway: in the form of French currency. :drinker: There was no way to know for sure who it belonged to, but my mom said they took great pleasure in assuming it belonged to the "ugly Americans" that had cut in front of them in line!!!:laugh: :laugh:

My mom also told a story I hadn't heard in years about her adventure right after the end of WWII, when she got out of the Royal Canadian Air Force and she and another women hitch hiked from Vancouver BC to California--something you definitely would NOT consider doing nowadays!!

It was a good day.

I have no reason to get up in the middle of the night to shop today, so it was very amusing to see a news story that a local outlet mall about 40 miles south of me in Oregon opened up at 10 pm Thanksgiving night, and will be open continuously til 9p tonight (Friday). They actually had a traffic jam on the I-5 because of all the people waiting to get into their parking lots!!! Great for the merchants, but a bummer for anyone travelling between Salem and Portland trying to get home after too much turkey!!:laugh:

Have a good day.


Barb