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Hope you feel better soon. I had pneumonia a year ago, and it took me three months to get over it. It's harder when we're older. To use a laptop with a stationary bike, I bought one of these from amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M04RBK/ref=oh_o02_s00_i00_details I figured out how to assemble it, but then I…

JB, thank you for the tip about Omega 3s. I needed that information. I have a bottle of Omega 3 capsules sitting on my kitchen counter, and I never take the things, because they're hard to swallow. I will have to work on that. Laura, great NSV on the bra hook! I need to lose fat in exactly the same place. I bought a couple…

JB and Barb, cheers to you both for eating slim today! We had our family Easter get-together with the kids and granddaughter yesterday - a brunch for grown ups and an Easter egg hunt for the little ones. I had the vegetable fritata with NO fries. Today Chris and I took the poodles to a dog friendly outdoor cafe for lunch.…

Nancy, I'm sure you're right about Easter feasting having originated with the end of Lent and fasting. That didn't occur to me, because I grew up in a Baptist family, and the Baptists more or less ignored Lent. Last year I did some Internet research on the origin of eggs and bunnies at Easter. The use of eggs in springtime…

Michelle - what a good question about why meeting food is always loaded with carbs. I noticed that especially much last month when DH and I were at a reception where I wasn't able to show up late. I don't drink wine at those things until I can eat some protein, because wine has a few carbs, and I'm not supposed to have…

Amanda, I don't know who you are or what it is, but I'm sending hugs with this message. You can get through it. In my life, four times I found myself dealing with what felt like unbearable hurt, and sometimes fear, and having to keep working. When my mother died, I was in an instructor training program that I HAD to finish…

Welcome. I'm turning 66 this summer. I seem to have spent my whole life traveling, which is why my online handle is jipsyjudy. I was a corporate trainer for nearly 30 years. Now I handle the back office functions for my husband's law practice, but he goes to a half dozen conferences a year, and I tag along with my…

Waaaaaaanh! I want to take my poodles, go to northwest Washington and follow Barbie around all day (and learn line dancing). Too bad I have a job!

Thank you. The fitbit instruction manual is pretty lousy. I stopped using mine, because I walk on a path with mile markers and could see that it was way off in terms of recording how far I had walked. I tried to figure out how to adjust the length of my stride and gave up. The Fit it Users group is just what I need. Didn't…

Wowsers! April is one day old and there are already three pages of posts here. :-) I think I did fairly well in March. I don't remember the exact targets I set, but I did a lot more variety of exercise sessions every day, and I lost another pound. My new crusade is to get off my buttocks. I'm experimenting with using a…

I weigh daily. If I only weighed at intervals, I would have no idea where I was in the weight fluctuation cycles on the days when I weigh in. I weigh first thing in the morning. I record a new low here whenever I get one. I track the rest on a notepad and mark the highs in each cycle. The cycle in between the lows are…

Today was my third day of trying to work standing up. After two hours I had to sit down; just really, really tired. Standing is harder than walking! I will return to standing tomorrow morning. Barbara, hang in there with the weights! When I was in my 40s, my othopedist sent me to a ten week supervised gym program for…

Every time I've tried to lose faster than a half pound per week, I've started feeling lousy and had to drop out. But you inspire me, so I'm posting here just to get this in my "My Topics", so I can follow along and be inspired.

Thank you, Michele! Those quotes made my evening. :bigsmile:

Laura, I've become a huge fan of second hand clothing stores since joining MFP. And they usually have lots of choices in jeans. Barbie, you're a better woman than I am. I could not get up and walk for two hours before the sun comes up.

Barbie, I can't do pushups off the floor, because I have arthritis in my hands. I do mine off the kitchen counter and off the bed. We have a platform bed, which gives me a nice stable platform, and it's a good height. Last week my DIL, who was a college athlete, spotted me doing squats and told me to do them differently.…

Nancy, the first step to getting a treadmill desk seems to me to be to start by working standing up. According to the Livestrong website standing rather than sitting burns an extra 50 calories per hour. Since I work on laptops, today I converted both of my desks to standing desks by putting things on the desktops to raise…

Yesterday I was talking by phone with an old friend who told me the best unlost "lost item" story yet. She lost her Blackberry. She looked and looked and finally gave up a got a new one. About a week later, she pulled a cookbook down from a shelf in her kitchen and noticed that it had a bulge in it. There, in the middle of…

Welcome! This isn't a group, so the best way to make sure you can find it easily is to make a post (as you just did). Then it will appear whenever you click on "My Topics". When we get to the end of month (coming up) Barbie always posts a link to the new discussion she starts for the next month. Then you have to post…

Belated Happy Birthday, Barbie! I missed that yesterday, because I only looked at MFP on my iPhone, and the iPhone MFP app doesn't show discussions. You inspire us all! (Cheering!!!!!) I sit at a computer more hours per day than I like at work, and it's nice on the weekends to avoid that thing. I woke up this morning…

Kathy, I've lost 50 pounds and gained it back three times. From what I've read in the past year, the problem might simply be hormones, so don't kick yourself too hard. There's a study which I've posted here a couple of times. Some med school researchers studied people who had lost 10 pounds at the beginning of the study. A…

Today I went to my favorite running shoe store to buy shoes. The owner, who had know me for 25 years, looked at me when I walked in and said, "Wow, you look terrific! What did you do?" I thought about that for a couple of seconds and said, "I took up a new hobby - getting fit!"

Today I got the last of my raised garden salad veggies planted. I had bought a some flats of organic lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers at Whole Foods earlier this week. Since I was kind of overloaded at work this week, I put them on my deck until I had time to plant them, but some kind of critter (birds, rats?) ate all the…

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Yesterday, I bought a sundress! Yes!!! And I look good in it.

Congratulations on that NSV (reduced breast fat) which will also lower your risk for breast cancer. I didn't think about it before, but losing breast fat ought to be one of my goals too. I should start tracking my bra size!

Happy weekend, all! Everyone, get outside somewhere sometime for a bit and enjoy! It's been a overloaded work week here, and it's been cold, rainy and windy. Too much stress means less time for exercise. I wish I had healthier joints like many of you, so I could get a good burn going and expend more calories in a shorter…

My Facebook friends have been going at each other over the report of this study in the L A Times.The study looked at red meat, not all meat. As others have said here, the statistical research model behind this study was flawed, despite the prestigious Harvard School of Public Health connection. At best it shows a…

Barbie, you are always an inspiration, and I don't know how you do it so consistently. Today it's cold, rainy, and very windy here on San Francisco Bay. I did NOT manage to venture out with my two frisky poodles today, and they are quite put out with me. I've promised them that tomorrow I will make like Barbie, don rubber…

@Barbiecat - just thinking, we could start a discussion called, "Where do you squat?" Or maybe not.