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Meme- Occording to my W/W material your husband should be eating between 26-31 pts and you should be eating between 22 and 27 pts. You can add 1pt for every 20 min. of exercise to that. I try not to use those points. Try to stay mid-range or lower. Never below your range.
Hope everyone feels better soon.
Have a good weekend...Joanne:wave:

Meme....You are tall, you can handle some extra weight. I don't know where I saw it but it was a weight chart for women over 40. It gives us 15-20 pounds over what we were supposed to weigh when we were youngsters. I am thinking that 150 is THIN for me anymore, although I was 130 for years.
I would have to starve for a year to weigh 130.
Good luck on your diet.
Mima...sorry to hear about all the ailments in your world.
It was hailing here today....have gotten wet everytime I walk outside.

Ally...the WW charts say I need to weigh between 135 and 169. But I have very small bones so I would probably need to be on the low end of that. I weighed 135 when I got married but I'm thinking about 140 or 145 now. Just have to do it one day at a time I guess...can't think about the whole thing at once or I'll just give up on myself. One problem is going to be that I can't exercise. I can't even walk because of my knees. I'm going to try doing the Oxycise some but I'll have to be careful and not hurt my ribs. I HATE THIS STUFF...it really limits what I can and can't do. I think my son and my daughter both have it, too. I feel so bad for them. (Almost guilty...even though I know it isn't my fault! Does that make sense?) At my granddaughter's BD party today I saw my daughter bending her head to the side like her neck hurt and flexing her arms, then later she was massaging my son's neck and shoulders...and they are only in their 30s. My daughter went to a new Dr. last week and I can't believe what he said to her. She told him I had FM and she thought she might have it, too, and he told her that he (with emphasis) WOULD NOT diagnose her with FM because once he did she MAY AS WELL GIVE UP! Can you believe that. He said FM was a sleep disorder and there wasn't anything that could be done for it. I thought that was soooo strange!!!

I have a migraine...need to go to bed.

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Good morning from the dancing Mima. I had fun last night-had a couple of drinks-asked men to dance-a couple asked me including a nice gentleman-who was with someone else-but was a wonderful dancer. And the women too-we do group dances especially to Shania Twains I Feel Like a Woman.It sure took my mind off of everyone. It looks like my brother's prognosis is pretty good-especially if he doesn't have hepatitis.Meme-your daughter's doc doesn't sound informed. As for exercise-is there somewhere you could do the arthritis in the water program. Do you have a YMCA or YWCA near you.?Just don't overdo it.Well-I only had 6 hrs sleep-doesn't matter when I go to bed ,I always wake up early. But I went to Mass yesterday.Have a great day everyone. Mima

Yeah...I know...that's why it wasn't used much...didn't work all that well for me, either!

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Good Monday! My body needs to adjust to the new times-I had a hard time staying awake last night but then I woke up at the old time!!!Had a boring Sunday but I read a whole book and made some kind of concotion with ground turkey, vegetables,and whole wheat pasta.I'm feeling funny not working but that won't last forever. Gotta enjoy it while I can. Have a great day everyone. Mima

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My body says it is time to get up on the old time. I guess that is o.k. I will try to get more done. My days are pretty much the same most days anyhow.
Hello to all my friends.. Joanne

Hi everyone

Well, at last all the pain has gone out of my back. I think it is what I figured. By doing those little simple exercies I inflamed the muscles in the lower right hand side of my back. That brought on an acute pain, which then triggered the FM and that went on for a good week - pain from the waist up to the shoulders on the right side and it hurt like he** to breath or do much of anything else. Like I told my hubby, if I go to the Dr., by the time he does xrays or other test, by the time the results come back, the pain will be gone. It is just a fact of life with FM.

I am off to Edmonton (2 hr dr.) My SIL's mother passed away and the funeral is tomorrow. I find it hard to sit for a 4 hr drive plus all the sitting I do up there, so I split it into 2 days.

Hope you all have a good afternoon and evening.

Anne

Hey guys. Mima...you dancin fool. I envy you. I have never ever had a man in my life who liked to dance. I would always have to go to the dance floor with the girls and then we would have to shuffle off when they played the slow dances.
When I dance in front of my kids they tell me I look like a geek so that is how I see myself now.
Meme......hope you can make it to the weight you want. I am still so happy that I didn't gain on vacation that I consider that a triumph. Next I will try for another 5 pounds, but that is as fast as I can move.
Happy.....I keep forgetting to check out that fibro site you directed me to. I will get there.
Joanne......my days all blend in together too. I have a man friend going thru a divorce and he is soooooooooo lonely. Brought his kids over to my house to watch football yesterday. I think this could turn into something else but I do NOT want to raise someone else's kids. And they are young ones. He wants to know how I keep from getting lonely. I live with teenagers. That is how.
Peace and quiet. That sounds nice.

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good morning-Getting a flu shot this am and walking in the cold with my aunt.I went to the chiro yeasterday and now I hurt. I wil have to get a different kind of adjustment when he's done with the treatments. It hurts my trigger points.I was just getting calmer when Ashecroft announced a new warning.Life as we know it is forever changed.Anyways-the cold has made my allergies better.Ally-I dance a lot with my girlfriends in a circle!!I consider it exercise. Joanne-I like your weather now-my favorite. Be good everyone. Mima

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Ally- Watch Out- Just keep him a friend for awhile. He hasn't got rid of the other one yet...Stay friends... For awhile. Your teenagers are all the trouble you need right now... Just tell me to mind my own business:lol: I have a habit of trying to mother everyone..So some tell me.
Mima- It looks like we are in for some rain.. We need it. We are living in really scary times.. I try to push it back and go on as normal. I get excited when it happens. Just me.
Meme- How are you doing with your eating plan? I am trying to change my way a little. We always had our main meal at supper.. I am trying to have it at noon and just eat light at night. Maybe I can burn off more cal. that way. I want to push myself over this hump I have been on for a couple years. I also have doubled my walking. Makes me hurt more,but what the heck, I hurt anyhow.
Hello Candice. How is the therepy going?
Hey Happy...Hope you have a good trip..
Bye for now, Got to go spend some money..Joanne
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Don't worry Joanne...it is very good advice. I just had to scream at my kids and threaten that one will have to go live with their father. Why would I ever think of bringing more chaos and conflict into my life????
You know...men remarry twice as fast as women and all us women know why.
They have it made.
This guy is very very nice and I would not mind making this a nice long term dating situation, but I can see he wants a babysitter and cook.
It has made me realize that being alone is not necessarily a bad thing.
But....I will let him flirt with me for a while.
I can't wait til Halloween so I can get this candy out of here.......