Hello fellow Hatters,

I totally flaked out yesterday on posting. Monday's are horrid for me. I even missed posting my diary because I fell asleep on the couch. I hope all of you have a great day and make it the best you can. As bisland says...hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. It does make a huge difference. I am through with menopause but my arthiritus is helped tremendously by the hydration. I have been able to decrease my inflamation meds by doing this.

Here's to a Terrific Tuesday to all of us! Cheers

Good Morning sweet friends,

It will be 102 degrees here in Southeastern Wisconsin. Goes great with hot flashes! If only a hot flash had a calorie burn! I would be sittin pretty! Thank you Snooozi for the website yesterday. My scale is standing still.....(.has nothing to do with the pizza and beer and fish fry this past weekend). I have a real problem on the weekends, especially if the fiance wants to go out to eat all the time. He doesnt have to watch what he eats nor does he care. He loves burgers and pizza! Me too! I need to try to focus on eating better on the weekends. And healthy food tastes soooooo good! I had the best peanut butter banana w 8 chocolate chips sandwich last night after my workout! I love being creative with food and spices. Well, have a great day , off I go to Body Flow! Thanks for all the inspiration! Linda

Good morning from North Branch Michigan We will be sweating or is it glowing? todayLOL, 105..ugh. Well good news for me I have lost 5 lbs now in week 2. Energy level coming up from counting caleriorys, amazed at how much I was consuming. I'm taking a multi vitiamin and drinking more water now I've added zero cal. flvoring. Still no where near where I need to be for excerising but baby steps. and cooler weather wouldnt hurt!. I am taking advantage of pool and doing movements in there. On a personal note I found a female doctor who has been wonderful giving me info to go over for Estrogen treatments, We will be making a plan next week. seems like things are finally falling into place! Good luck my web friends

In case anyone's wondering, the reason this 60-year-old joined the group is that she's sweating it out with the rest of you. September 2, 2012 = finito. At least I hope so.

Bis: I started to read your post and made myself get up and get a bottle of water before I finished reading it… and thank you so much for starting the day for us..had a good chuckle at the "3012"!! I hit the Snooz button on the alarm this morning so appreciate you picking up the ball.. :happy:

HSH: ABSOLUTELY loved your post.. the calorie/cash comparison was great.. really gives a visual to what we’re trying to do. .thank you so much for the info!!! Hmm I could do the fermented pineapple thing if I told myself it was really sangria! Sadly, my favourite summer drink is and always will be. .a frozen lime margarita..

Tonya: I’m not gonna lie.. woke up around midnight in my big comfy chair with that ever so attractive drool happening… and a stiff neck LOL.

Slimlinda: nah, the needle is probably just stuck on the scale.. I find it helps if you pick em up and drop em a few times… ha… its record breaking heat here today too; and so muggy and humid.. blahhhhhhhh.

Hope those under the weather and recuperating from nasty invasive tests are recovering well today!!

Huntress!! OMG that’s great!! IPOU!!! How good do you feel right now?? Congrats and well done! Will keeps fingers crossed the new doc will come thru and happy days are ahead!

Welcome Too Many! LOL @ your post.. hoping?? For sure!! It seems the general medical consensus is a full 12 months without the joy of TOM before it’s official.. my poor sister made it 8 months and whammo.. had to start all over again.. amazingly she is not in jail for homicide..

After learning I’ve been doing my diarys all wrong I am excited to trying to do it right from here on in.. I now realize I should complete my food diary for the day and see where I’m at calorie wise and decide then whether I am below 1200 and want to have a little more, or just at it. THEN I’ll enter my exercise info and see how many “burned calories” I won.. I honestly thought I was supposed to enter it first and then get the total DAY to 1200…. Jeez louise I cudda weighed another 50 pounds in a few weeks!!! :sad: :sad: :sad: LOL..

Am VERY GRATEFUL to our wonderful hatters who took the time to ‘splain it all to us; many thanks!!

Have to chow down for dinner; will be back afterwards to see who’s up to what!

Oh.. and in keeping with today’s theme… just a couple of chuckles I found on the topic of “do you burn calories during a hot flash” when I googled it…
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“Could we get energy credits when we have them? Are we to blame for global warming?
If they need more water will they send us to live on the north or south pole?”

And my personal fav:

“I'm not sure how many calories are burned with the hot flash itself, but I do know there's a lot of
concomitant aerobic activity Such as .. frantically peeling off layers of clothing, running around to open
windows, and fanning oneself with whatever's handy. “ :noway:

PS- ice packs and frozen peas are great for the night sweats and hot flashes.....

You people are cracking me up. Luckily i'm pretty much over the hot flashes. I have days that I get them and days I don't. Always have at least a couple during sleep. Beginning to think they will never fully stop. My shirt goes up during them and down when it's over. My flashes have always been my mid section. some in the head region but mostly the stomach.

I'm having a bad day. I've been wanting to eat everything I see. I've been so good for 2 weeks and for some reason I'm craving everything. I did manage to make some what decent choices, just to much.

Tomorrow should be tough. We are taking my grandson to York Animal Kingdom in Maine for his 2nd birthday. I plan on packing a lunch but you can't bring in food. Wish me luck.
I'm signing off because we are having a storm and sitting by a huge window with my laptop plugged in doesn't seem to be a very good idea.

Night all
Sleep tight and dry.

Hi hatters......its so weird reading all the comments from you all suffering in the heat while its winter where I am.....actually we've had some pretty nice weather the last few days but still chilly at night and I think we are going to have another cold spell before winter is over for us...

Re hot flashes/flushes....I was getting them badly a year or so ago when my TOM was still reasonably regular...but now that seems to have almost gone...I think I have to wait 12 months before I can say its definitely finished but I'm almost there....and now I only get mild hot flushes mostly first thing in the morning...but I don't get woken at night anymore and rarely during the day...I'm not sure if its just passed or if it might be as a result of exercising so much and losing 12 kg...I am almost at the top end of healthy weight range for my height and I do think that has helped a lot....so glad as it wasn't much fun....and not a good look...sweat on the back of my neck...yuk! I did find a funny neck scarf which was very helpful at night....it was filled with those water crystals so you wet it and wrap it around your neck and then I could sleep a lot better....not a great look either though so no other activity to make me hot, if you get my drift:laugh:

bisland - thanks for the reminder about drinking...I can't tell you how hard I find this...every day I say I'm going to drink lots and then I just forget....off to have a glass now:drinker:

hairsprayhon - wow...pineapple....never would have thought of that...but I might just give it a go...and I love the idea of eating it at the end of the day....fresh pineapple is supposed to be excellent for weight loss...I'm sure I've heard that somewhere before

snoozie....I'm with you and the frozen margaritas!! Now if I could just hydrate with those there'd be no problem:drinker: :drinker:

I've done well today....omellette, sushi and stir fry for dinner....and I'll do a run tonight when it gets dark (don't want to scare anyone:noway: