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hi @donnawebster447672 welcome to MFP! I’ll be 63 shortly, and my husband just turned 70. Maybe it’s my newsfeed targeting me, but I’m getting a flurry of articles about scientific research proving that remaining engaged helps with health and mental status as we age, and can help fob off dementia. What’s fun in your mind?…

So happy to see you back here again. You’re one of the users I most respect, and you’re such a smart lady. If anyone can get control, you can. Pride’s not a *kitten* or a sin. We have to have pride in ourselves to reach goals, to hold ourselves accountable, to stand up to those who think we will (or want us to) fail. Pride is…

hi, @yogimandy81 Welcome to MFP! I’m going to assume you’re relatively new to calorie counting and watching macros it can make your head spin. Don’t try to make everything perfect all at once. Give yourself grace. You’re showing up, you’re trying, you’ve got time for improvement later on - same as your yoga practice. You…

my old trainer had me bench with a bamboo bar, using either plates or kettlebells, attached, dangling, by heavy rubber workout bands. The object was to do it with as little wobble as possible, in a smooth benching motion It was like benching a couple sacks full of angry wet cats. But that was my #1 favorite thing to do in…

seriously, welcome to MFP @KassandraUptegrove read these boards, learn from them, separate the TikTok fast diet believers from the lose mindfully believers, and you will be successful. “Fart around”, as my dad would have said, don’t apply yourself, and you won’t be. It’s got to be a wholehearted effort with an early eye…

The other 40% of me I left sitting on the curb would say, “Yes, calorie counting in the form of weighing accurately, logging honestly, and sticking to a reasonable goal worked very well indeed.”

if you ever read the ingredients in sprinkles, it’s enough to put you right off the things. naaahhh, everyone deserves some cake and ice cream sprinkles in their life

I’d give some thought to what changed in the past five years to make your weight increase? Was it a sedentary job? Family stress? Did you simply start eating more? Drinking more? An illness? What habits changed? What could you do to unwind some of that? Intermittent fasting is not a magic pill some people find it’s helpful…

and since I had to make espresso in the Aeropress for the granita anyway, I’m treating myself to a mid afternoon black coffee with my Nugo bar. Heaven!

our wonderful little closet sized Italian bistro, owned by “real” Italians, has introduced gelato, Nutella doughnuts and bread they slip a scooting and then toast in the pizza oven. They also got this granita machine marked “Crema da cafe” (or close enough). Raphael gave me a sample and it was divine, but then he sadly…

I’m truly surprised. I thought we females got more gorgeous the more you men drank! After a case, they should have all been supermodels! Beer goggle criteria. 🤷🏻‍♀️

death by food dye?

my list of potential honeys, I mean “friends”, keeps getting whittled down. I assume they’re getting reported. Yay, MFP for deleting these jokers.m!

The AI Photoshop Pinch an Inch app (it’s a boomer thing) the Lazy Chair Yoga Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt Here app the Developers Were too Cheap to Hire a Real Human Underweight Model app the Magical IF is Gonna Solve All Your Weight Problems app (there’s several of these): the 3-Weeks Yoga Results app: this is all the modern…

There’s so many! The Fat Burning app. The No Exercise weight loss app. The Flat Tummy app. Tons of 7-Minute Exercise apps. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole so you don’t have to: behold, the Shrinking Woman app: The App That Changes Your Avatar The I’m So Happy My Pants are Loose app the Aw, Come On Give Us a Kitten Break AI…

ohhh so this is where all those stupid cartoon surveys must take you. Again, stellar reviews- until you check them by “most recent” sort. And yes, a lot of those reviews indicate they found it through FB.

Found in the App Store. One of the exercise series is for “Bubble Butt”. It’s got a ton of 5 star ratings for its easy 7-minute workouts, which includes a series called “Lazy in Bed”. BTW, a lot of those reviews are by self-proclaimed 58 year old women who sound an awful lot like youngsters. U know what I mean? 🔥🔥🔥 I’m…

I vaguely remember getting an email while I was gone that MFP had Big News! coming soon. Have I missed something? Haven’t seen anything new. I had faint hope it would be a newsfeed replacement. As if.

a while back there was a sincerely irritating commercial for an arthritis med, with the tag line “a body in motion, stays in motion”. Annoying as heck, but true. Find some form of regular movement. For me, coming off an illness that left me with severe joint pain, it was stretching for thirty minutes every morning. At…

their website explains it far better than I can. I just got the regular gloves, ladies small. In retrospect, I probably should have gotten a medium because I have long fingers. Basically, you have a long “shoe tongue” resting in the palm of your hand, attached to the band around your wrist, that you can wrap around the bar…

strongly recommend Versagrips lifting gloves. They don’t look like much and you’d think “pah, nonsense” but they are worth every nickle. I got a pair for my trainer for Christmas and she said she just ordered a pair for her husband because she was fed up with him sneaking hers. The improved grip is crazy, and has helped me…

@corina1143 may be on to something. I very vividly remember you describing a lot of these symptoms in another post. It’s def something to consider. If you need an alternative, my daughter drinks some kind of coffee flavored roasted something or other that she started drinking while still vegan. She’s on a cruise right now…

I treated myself to an electric frother yesterday. What a complete and utter disappointment. Returning it. I get far better results with my Ninja hand pump frother. Tried making fried plantains last night, like the cooks at our hotel showed me. They were OK but clearly not ripe enough. I have a crazy idea that fried…

@SbetaK e-hugs to you. I’m not as graceful with condolences as @BCLadybug888 but so terribly sorry for your loss.

sorry, all that was unloading to say “judge you”? Who are we to judge you? you are amongst compadres here. Many of us have have lived this life you speak of. (Is anyone else having issues with this cussed new board, with punctuation and such?)

oh, honey, Puh-leeeeez. Sugar? My morning started out with two or three or four cinnamon twist donuts from the Publix bakery, a couple of quick, easily disposable candy bars from the check out for the drive to work. I also “needed” to pick up a family size bag of M&Ms, and a couple bags of chocolate pecan Geneva cookies,…

wow, I really like this idea.

ok. Honestly, I can’t hate on this one, but I did think it was funny presentation. After all, Lycra is the only thing holding in umpteen rolls of leftover waist for me lol. Everything else is just grand, but that waist….. Thanks, mom? 🥹

btw, nice new profile pic!

She does indeed mean this app, Chris. I’ve gotten fourteen requests hanging fire from obvious scammers. I haven’t replied to any of them, but they have all the earmarks we’ve discussed here a thousand time before. At least if my husband gives me any lip, I can show him the gallery of handsome older men breathlessly waiting…