WW Clubs and Groups - Feisty & Sexy 50 & 60 Year Old #177

Good morning everyone on an overcast day here in Sydney.

We had a great weekend, went to the cooking course on Saturday which was a lot of fun and we learnt quite a bit. I have heard you all talk about tuna steaks but had never tasted them, well they were very yummy. We still don't like mussels but I didn't mind the calamari (or squid) (dh loves calamari :love: )
Sunday we went for a drive and for a walk in a National Park near the harbour and we bumped in some people we knew in Adelaide, what a small world!

Ann Your party sounded like a lot of fun. I am not familiar with the characters you dressed up in, tell me more:^:

Someone asked about a 'mini series' for WW. I don't attend WW but used to many years ago. I think it is a good idea so you can really explore the different topics. Some would only need the one meeting but others could certainly benefit from a lengthier discussion and make going to meetings a lot more interesting.

Have a great day/night all,
Cheers
Maria

Karen: I like they way they are doing the meetings now. You get more input I think.

Ann: Your party sounded so fun!

Maria: Squid, Yuck! My DH loves it also. But I just cant eat it. Think its to rubbery :)

Peggy: Platoon Leader? I dont go to ediets very often. Is it a challenge or what?

Best get busy. Have a good day!

I'm glad you guys like the idea. I think it's going to be a once in while thing. Self-esteem is so important that I'm glad this is the first on we are having to tackle.

Ann- I've always told my members that we weight fruits and vegetables the way we buy them with skins and peels. But I did e-mail my Trainer to ask her for sure. I'll get back to you on what she says.
Karen

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Hi Everybody Another weekend over. My DIL's kids were in a dance recital from the school she teaches in. DH, son, and our grandchildren all went to the concert hall to see the kids. She had 7 different classes dancing and the little kids were so cute. One of her classes is a group of 3 year old little girls, that were just adorable. Everything was just lovely. She did just an excellent job with the teaching, and choosing the the fabric and designs for the costumes. :) She is one smart little cookie....happy she is "MY" DIL. :love:
Karen I don't actually remember our WW Leaders talking about weighing fruits or vegs with skin on or off, but I remember one time our Leader told us that sometimes Kiwi and the Christmas oranges are so small that you get 2 for 1. She called them "two-ffers". She said when buying them in the Supermarket just weigh a couple and you will know which would be "two-ffers". LOL LOL I know by that, she did not mean we should peel the fruit in the Supermarket. :D
Maria the cooking class sounds like it was a lot of fun. I like almost all seafood......in fact I was trying to think if there was anything I didn't like, but I don't think so. :)
We quite often have mussels (when we can find them in the market). I just take about 2 lbs of the mussels and put them in a 5 qt. pot with 1/2 cup of white wine (or water) with 2 tbsp diced celery, and 2 tbsp diced onion. Cover, and steam over high heat until mussels open (about 5 to 8 min). You can squeeze fresh lemon juice over the mussels if you want and serve with melted butter for dipping. I don't know how you had the mussels, but these are great when steamed like this. YIKES.....I saw some at the market a couple of days ago and now that is exactly what I feel like having. I am going out to Costco with Trudy and her DH later on, maybe I'll see if we can stop and pick some up. :) I'm not doing as well with my weight loss this week, and that would be a perfect thing for me have for dinner this evening. (ok ok maybe not the melted butter) :(
Well gals, my ironing is calling me, so I better get to it. I'll stop in later. Bye now.

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Hi Everybody
Boy all Maria had to do was mention the word "Mussels" and guess what we are having for dinner this everning. They had them at Costco. LOL :) :)

G'day all,

Slavika I am glad I spurred you on to have some mussels, rather you than me!!!!! In our cooking class they were cooked on the BBQ with a butter sauce. I will bring in the recipe and post it for you, what I remember it was predominantly butter, great for loosing those unwanted pounds :dizzy:
I didn't realise that you should only use 'live' mussels and that if you find one open, a tap on the bench will tell you if they are alive or not by if the shell closes or not, I guess you all knew that but it was news to dh and I.
The concert sounded lovely, made me remember the many concerts/plays/sporting events etc we attended when our kids were little :love:

Lily I agree, squid yuck but.....I now know that cooking them very quickly they taste OK. The lecturer told us that there are three stages of cooking squid, quick = tender, too long = rubber bands, really long as in baking stuffed squid = tender again. Now I am merely passing on what I have been told;) She also said when cleaning squid to preserve the ink sack, it is used to colour risotto and it always gives it a 'wonderful' taste, again I am just passing on information I was told........

Karen I agree self-esteem, I think, is THE most important thing. I know I joke about my 'work' but this doing nothing all day does very little for the self esteem. I am pleased that I do not have to pretend to be busy and that they are more than pleased for me to bring in my own laptop. Discovering the tutorials on the net is really 'saving' me, and I now feel I am back on track again.

Talking about tutorials, I must get back to them :)
Have a great day
Cheers
Maria

Hi: Maria- Our party was based on the little town of Dogpatch, in the southern Mts, Whaat we would call hilbillys. It came from a comic strip written by Al Capp, and had lots of funny characters. He actually was quite political in some of his strips, and poked fun at the establishment a lot. If you want to read a bit more about it go to www.dogpatchusa.com and you can read all about them. It was a lot of fun, and I think everyone had a good time.

Karen: Thanks for checking. It just seems strange to me to weigh something and count points for skin that y ou don't eat.

Lily: I/m with y ou, Squid-yuck Rubbery, And even if it was cooked to be tender, it would still have that fishy taste that I don't like.

Got to go chata with my DD on line. Talk to you all tomorrow. Ann

I was home yesterday, not feeling so well, when I watched one of the last shows for Sally Jessie Raphael. She had Richard Simmons on and talked about the people he has helped on the show. I saw several of the extremely obese people. O dear! Whenever you feel that you can't lose weight or that it is so difficult, we should just feel so blessed not to have 500 pounds or so to lose. That is always such a shock and I feel so extremely sorry for them and grateful they have someone who might help them.

Maria - all your seafood sounds yucky! The idea of boiling something alive is just creepy. Some of you souls are so adventurous!

My DH had his 62nd birthday on Friday. He will work 3 more years so it wasn't "that" birthday. I took him to Tulsa and we shopped and ate out and went to a movie. Had a good time!
Glenda

at least in my honest opinion. I don't like mussels either. But Maria cooking lessons sound like a fun thing to do together. Are you taking any more? Ann are you glad your dogpatch party is over? What's your next adventure? You are always doing something fun. It is so pretty today after a nasty cold day yesterday. I am planting the flowers I bought over the weekend. Can't decide where to put all of them. Hope it is still not too early. We had to have a big maple tree cut down last week. It was in the front yard and now it looks so bare. I want to plant another tree but can't till next year when they get finished widening the street. I was thinking of a dogwood. Lily the Diet War was a challenge. I do an Olympic Challenge every three weeks. It is helping the pounds come off slowly. On the off week we do something else and this time it was a diet war. It is fun but I am more of a follower rather than a leader. I admire Karen to be able to get up in front of people and motivate them. That is hard work. Glenda and Slavika and Trudy, Hi. See you all later, I am going outside.

Better Than Sex Cake
servings 20
estimated POINTS per serving 3

1 yellow Jiffy cake mix (25)
8 oz ff cream cheese (8)
1 large box sf vanilla pudding mix (8)
2 cups skim milk (4)
20 oz can crushed pineapple, drained (4)
8 oz tub ff cool whip (8)

Prepare cake mix as directed & spread in 9 x 13 pan.
Bake about 15 min.
While cake is baking, mix pudding mix, milk, & cream cheese; and allow
to set in fridge.
Once cake has cooled, top with pudding mixture (you may
have to mix it a little when you take it out of the fridge to make it
smooth), then top with pineapple, then top with cool whip.
Store in the fridge.
Cut into 20 pieces.

Special Notes:
Total points 57 divided by 20 = 2.85pts, I rounded up to 3.

Also, if you can't find Jiffy cake mix you could probably use half of a
regular yellow cake mix (it needs to be a thin cake to allow for the
other layers) and make cupcakes out of the left over cake mix, but
you'll have to refigure the points.

G'day all,

A beautiful sunny autumn day here today. Being the first of May, May marches are planned and walking into work this morning it was noticable that there is already quite a police presence:(
The stock exchange building, a few buildings down from where I am, is one of the main targets.

Peggy thanks for the recipe, another one to file away for when I am home permanently:) It was good fun doing the cooking course but we haven't planned any more....yet! Our next thing is doing our basic 4x4 wheel drive course on 18 & 19 May and the advanced one on 1 & 2 June. Haven't planned anything after that.

Glenda I so agree with you when you see really obese people :eek:, makes the pounds I need to loose all a bit trivial.
I was horrified when I found out the mussels were alive when thrown onto a hot bbq plate :devil: but I guess crayfish, prawns, yabbies etc are all cooked alive in boiling water, I just don't want to see it!

Slavika I looked up the recipe for the sauce with the mussels, it is really only 100gr of butter, 2 cloves of garlic and chives. The people who liked the mussels, raved about the sauce which made me think it was a bit more special than what it actually was:dizzy:

have a great day all
Cheers
Maria

Hi everyone;
Interesting that so many of us think squid is like eating a rubber band.:D:

Maria: were the marches on May 1 as you expected? Your cooking classes do sound like a nice thing to do together.

Slavika: Did you enjoy your mussels? There is a restaurant near us that fixes mussels, and my dh likes them. I have tasted them, but they don't do a thing for me. I'll take shrimp any day.

Trudy: Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope all is well.

Glenda: I agree with you when I see someone who is so obese. Even just starting to want to lose weight has got to be very difficult for them. Richard Simmons has helped a lot of people. There is a young man in our church who was forced to lose weight if he wanted to live. I think he was over 400 lbs. And he has worked at it faithfully and what a difference. Much improvement in his health.

Peggy: Did you get the plants all put out? I would like to set out a few more, but it is so dry here right now that it is a losing battle.

Hope eveyone is doing well. Talk to you tomorrow.:wave: Ann

This must be a busy time of year. The postings are light. Maria must be working hard.;) Nothing too exciting is going on here either. I went to Indiana and bought a lot of plants. Then it got cold so I put them on the porch. Then it got warmer so I planted them. It seems like it rains every other day. At least it is nice and green. I am going up to Dayton today with a friend. Glenda I saw a huge woman in the grocery store the other day. She was in a riding cart. I was getting in my car when she was getting in her van. She could hardly walk. That makes me thankful that I can. She was in front of me in line and she was also cranky. See you all later. Can you beleive that it is May already? Peggy

Peggy - When you see a really morbidly obese person, you get a new perspective on weight, don't you? I think I have always been sort of a shallow person, noticing what people have on and their hair, etc. But lately (as the years roll by) I have noticed when doing the people watching how many people have trouble walking, just walking. And then (we eat out a lot) I notice how many truly overweight people eat such huge meals and have trouble walking into a restaurant. Just a different perspective on losing weight as the health part of it seems to be so much more important than the small size clothes now. I truly want to be able to walk and do things with my husband and grandchildren. It is such a blessing!

All, you will truly understand a blessing that is going on in my life right now! I have you all and another website that I have made friends on--my ovarian cancer website. I have known some people there for years and years, but never met them face to face. Well on May 13th one of my friends from Tennessee is coming through Oklahoma in a motorhome and is making a 2-hour detour to come to Stillwater to meet me! We will take them out to eat and visit. My husband thinks I am bizarre to be so excited, but I truly believe there are some people you would be friends with if you just knew them anywhere. I would be greatly excited to meet any of you too.
Glenda

Glenda that is so exciting. I am happy for you and your friend to meet. I would love to meet all of you. Especially at Slavika's at tea time.:D

Hi!!!!!! :wave: Been missing as I have been really busy.

Ann: I cant believe its May already. Time goes by so fast sometimes.

Karen: Wish I knew the reason behind weighing a bananna with the peel on. You dont eat it why weigh it? Oh well, I dont eat them to often anyways. Like them just not my choice of fruit :)

Glenda: I think its great one of your friends is coming thru and you get to meet them. When you spend alot of time chatting you like to meet the people you chat with. Im sure it will be a fun time!

Peggy: I think we should all go to Slavika's for tea time :joker:



Later !!!!

G'day all,

Nice to see a few posts this morning! Everyone must be very busy.
It was my 32nd wedding anniversary yesterday and we went out the night before, I felt decidedly ill yesterday and it took me all my time to drag myself into work! Why oh why cannot I do anything in moderation:dizzy:
I also had my haircut last night and I am really quite thrilled with it. The hairdresser I go to was recommended to me and I have never been to a hairdresser like him. It took him well over an hour to cut my hair, he is such a perfectionist. I am also pleased he doesn't chatter non-stop, especially the way I was feeling last night.

Glenda I would be just as excited and one day it will be me and dh making a little detour to Stillwater:D I think it would be just great to meet everyone. We do change as to what is important, my s-i-l (the one with lung cancer) has certainly brought that reality back home again.

Lily all this hard work is not good for a person ;), hope it will ease up soon for you.

Ann the may day marches were a bit of a fizzer, there was more police than marchers. It was interesting to see that it must have been a pre-requisite to have dreadlocks, 99% of marchers had dreadlocks, so attractive! My hair is too short for dreadlocks
now:(

Hi to everyone else, Slavika you are one of the daily posters, is everything allright, I am missing your posts :(

Garden show on this weekend, dh going to Melbourne on Sunday to go to the football with dd, our Adelaide team is playing a Melbourne team. I will look forward to just meandering around the garden show.

Cheers
Maria

Glenda: I understand what you are saying about so many people that have such walking problems, and still can't seem to stop eating. I think food can be an addiction just like other things. I continue to want to lose weight to be healthy. Cholesterol and all the other bad things that can happen when one has an unhealty weight. I've been reading about the near epedemic of diabetes that is going on in the U.S. Scary.
I would be excited about meeting a cyber friend too. I think I may have that opportunity this June when we go to Maine. One of my cyber friends from another source lives near where we are going and we are going to try to get together. I surely hope it all works out.

Where is everyone? This is a busy time of year, Spring cleaning?

I have a question I want to pose to you all. What is your opinion of a relationship between an older woman and a man 26 years younger? I know no one says much when it is the older man and younger woman. I am having a problem dealing with this situation with a close relative. I'd like some feed back from all of you. I want to handle things in a way that won't be hurtful, and won't alienate us, but it is a real problem for me. Thanks for listening.

Hi everyone. Hope all is well. :wave: Ann

Hi Ann in regards to your question........

A friend of our daughter's, her mother is 56 and her boyfriend is 33 :eek:
I got to know her quite well when dd and her daughter were in primary school. I always liked her a lot and was sad when her marriage broke up though not totally surprised. Her husband, I thought, treated her as though she did not have a brain in her head and of course after being married for 15 years ago, she believed this to be true:(
After the break up she realised she really did have a brain and after 18 months or so, got her life fairly well on track.
We lost touch a bit and one of the reasons was because she met this younger man and felt uncomfortable that we would think she was being 'silly' dating someone so much younger.
Assuring her that we did not think she was 'silly' she invited us to lunch for us to meet him. He was a very nice man, appeared a lot older than his years and just adored her, something that she never had before.
She is quite realistic about their relationship. She looks a lot younger than her years and could pass to be in her mid forties and he could pass for being in his late thirties. She said she told him very early in the piece her age and wondered if it was a good idea to progress, he was surprised at her age but did want the relationship to continue.
Her attitude is enjoy it whilst you can and if eventually the age thing becomes a barrier, so be it.
We initially felt a bit strange about meeting this person, but it was a delight to see them both so happy and as lunch progressed, we never thought of the fact he was so much younger than all of us.
I guess if the person is a nice person, whatever the age, does it really matter.

Cheers
Maria

Well Ann I agree with Maria. It wouldn't be right for me but I think a lot depends on the people involved. Some younger people are mature beyond their years. Who knows what the attraction is. I would just accept it even though it might be hard for you. Maria enjoy the garden show. We went to one here last week. It is modeled after the one in England -The Chelsea Garden Show. Fun to see all the different garden settings. I get my film back this afternoon. Hope it all took. Lily quit working so hard. I think we should all surprise Slavika and just show up some Tuesday at tea time. Time for the morning walk. Have some fun today.

Ann: I agree with Maria & Peggy. It depends on the people. And if they are happy together thats all that matters. Im sure it is hard to except, but their happiness should out weigh that. Maybe it will work out for them and then maybe it wont. Only time will tell.

Thank you for the input. This my DD and the age difference is 26years. She is 46 and he is 19. I am trying to be accepting of her choice, but am finding it very hard. She has a daughter who is 23. Can you see my dilemma. My Granddaughter is very upset, I think she is embarassed about the whole situation and I sort of feel in the middle. My Granddaughter calls this an episode of Jerry Springer. Her sister is graduating from HS in June and we need to go to that, but am finding it hard to even know what to say. I am sure we will meet the young man, but right now I really don't want to. If this was two adults of different aages, it would be easier I guess. Are you still of the same opinion, in this situation? Thanks for listening.

Hi everyone. Talk to you tomorrow after weigh-in which I hope will be better. :wave: Ann

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Hi Everybody
We were out for the evening and I wasn't ready for bed so thought I would come and visiit with you for a bit. Ann at the beginning when I read your first post then the replies of the other gals I agreed with them. Then I read your last post..........
Of course you are worried about your DD in this relationship and also the feelings of your granddaughter. You know Ann, nothing ever stays the same. When something happens that really upsets me, I know if I can just wait it out, the situation will change. I don't know what your DD relationship was like with the last man in her life, but maybe she was very unhappy and this young man made her feel young, attractive and happy again. Usually a 19 year old male is very very "young", and by the time June comes the relationship may well have come to an end. I really believe that sometimes people come into to our lives for a short time, sort of do what they were meant to do, and then they go on their way again. Your daughter "KNOWS" she is 26 years older then him, she also knows that there are lots of 19 year old girls out there that he may well become interested in....but for this time he is interested in her. Sometimes, the best thing to do is nothing at all, just wait and see. I think your DD is probably getting all kinds of advise from her friends about this relationship. She is probably finding it very difficult to go out with him in the company of other people that are in her age bracket and even more difficult if they are in his age bracket. I don't have a daughter but I think if she were mine I would try hard not to say too much, but just love her. Was I any help at all?
Glenda well aren't you the lucky one, getting to meet one of your cyberfriends. I know that will be a great experience for both of you. Maria Happy 32nd Anniversary. I bet those years have just flown by. Peggy, Lily and all of you
next Tuesday would be a great time for you to all come for tea. Boy the things we could talk about. Tea Time would last for hours. I would love it. :)
DH and I decided that my little "really old" baby car just had to go and I needed something newer. Well he had the car dealership bring over a couple of different cars but I wasn't too excited about them. I'm not really all that interested in cars (as long as they don't let me down, whatever is good enough). Well yesterday, the dealership brought over a really nice, bright, fire engine red, little two door toyota. I loved it. So DH bought it for me and the car dealership did the pre-delivery service on it and brought it out to my place this afternoon. I phoned my DIL and told her I would come over to her place for tea and she could see my new car. That all went great. What wasn't so great is when I got home I drove into the garage, being very careful not hit the lawnmower that was up near the front of the garage, and I didn't pull far enough in, clicked the auto door down and BANG it landed right on the back end of my brand new little car. The big door bounced back up again, but it did make a couple of marks on the car. Well DH got home shortly after and I showed him (I was really quite upset.......since I'd only had the car for 4 hours) :(
but he said not to worry about it. LOL......He said when he went into the Dealership tomorrow to PAY for the car he would have them buff the marks out. We went to a friends place for dinner this evening and I thought, oh brother, he is going to get a lot of mileage out of this story, but he said I didn't need to mention it. I did though......and of course they thought it was very funny. :)
Well it's really late now, so I'm off to bed. Night all. Ann try not to worry too much.

Ann: Oh I didnt know this was your DD. Im sure you are very upset as well as your Granddaughter. This has got to be very hard on all of you. I would also let it run its course and not say to much. It could make it worse if you do say things. And you dont want to alienate your DD. My quess is it makes her feel good right now and it probably wont last. But be there for her when and if it does end as she will need the support even more then. Hang in there, it has got to be very hard. Keep us posted as to how things go. And know we are there for you if you need to chat.

Slavika: Ohhhhhh wish I could be there Tuesday. It really would be fun! Lots of yapping from all of us Im sure!





Later off to enjoy the weather.

onto the next thread, see you there........
Maria