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Mima- Glad to see you back...Blue Bunny Ice cream? Never heard of it ,but, I will look for it. Is it fat free? Yes it has been cold. I like it sometimes.
Meme- That is how I have been getting in. Everyother time I get the message that I am not logged in. What a pain. About a week ago I had to get a new password too. I couldn't find the other one. I know I printed it out but?????? I now have it taped to the monitor. :dizzy:
Happy- It has got to be really cold where you are! You are probably used to it..How is your back?
Ally..Still in love? Hope you are doing well.
Candice.. Mother-in-laws !!!!I had the one from ****. She has been gone 10 years. I hope my sil never feels about me like I did about her. I really try to keep good relations. He is a good guy and does a lot for us. There were times I wanted to kick him but I kept my mouth shut..
I guess we lost our new people... Maybe we have some lurkers who want to jump in????
Bye you all...Joanne

HI! everyone after trying to get back in and reading different groups I am tired out hope to join you guys with all my aches I think this is where I belong got good ideas from all your posts that I read I see we are all in the same boat and it really helps when you have the same problems I am up to 164 and my goal is 140 but when you hit that magical age 50+ it is so hard so maybe alittle encouragement did start to day rode the bike for 10 minutes cant believe that a few months ago I was doing 25 oh well hope to hear from ya Rita

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Welcome Rita- You didn't say if you were on a good eating plan??If not that is a good place to start. Losing weight after a certain age is hard. Gaining good health is a lifetime way to go.. Diets can be helpful along with exercise,but, if you eat to be healthy you will lose the weight.
I started with WW and now belong to TOPS. It is a really good support group. It doesn't cost as much as WW and if a person is really serious about getting healthy it really won't matter where we go..
You did good with 10 min. today,now ,go to 15 min. and increase everyday. I walk. I started with short distances and now walk 3 miles several times a week..I am 70 years young going on 71..It took me many years to get into my head that this was the only way I can live to a ripe old age. I have severe osteoarthritis and some days it is hard to get out of the house. I feel so much better when I do..I always take my cd player along. That tunes out the world and makes the hour go faster. You see ,I really don't like exercise.I guess I am lucky to live near the Gulf of Mexico so that is where I walk..From my house to the beach is 3 miles. I used to do 4 + but can't manage that now. I probably could if I talk to myself and convince myself to do it. I know that I would pay the price of the extra pain so that holds me back..You can reach your goal!!!
Hello everybody.. I had Dr.appt today. I am not so sure about this South Beach diet... My colestrol went up to 145 and my trig.148.. Not so good. I think I am going to have to watch certain kinds of protien..Ideas???????
Bye....Joanne

Hello All. I could not get on for a while. Lost my password, then kept typing it in wrong. Too much work. I should log on from work. I have more time to play there. And at home I am on AOL. Too many ads on this site. Anyway....I am low carbing it. And I have a jar of peanut butter in my cupboard calling to me. Gotta run hang up the laundry. I will be back. :lol:

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Looks like I had wishful thinking about my colesterol..It was 245 and 248 for my trig. :mad: I started to reevaluate my eating this am.
Ally- There are a lot of ads on this site . The special K one knocks me off at the begiining every day!
Between Dr. appointments and dental this week for exercise has gone down the tubes...
Hello everyone..Joanne

HI! Joanne you are such a great inspiration I am a lot younger then you (55)and have ostoarthritis also so my walking is limited as my knee just cant make it as I work 2 jobs and both are up and moving so it takes all the will power at times to just do my jobs that is why I decided to exercise on my bike as it is not as hardI am going to do 15 min today as that is my goal right now I am cutting down on everything if I just wouldnt have stopped on the way home from work this morning and had to have that roll hope you keep up tht walking besides all that beatiful scenery as I dont live near the ocean have high cholestrol als was337 went on pills hope to get my excerise in today if I dont do anything else have a great day Rita

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I used to have problems with my MIL until I finally told her AND my FIL to get lost. I stopped going to their house, too. This was many years ago. I told them I was tired of their interfering in our lives. My MIL cooked dinner for us and for my husbands brother and his family every Thursday night and I just stopped going. I have a SIL (and her daughter) that I can't stand. We all live close together and now we never see each other. We get along just fine BECAUSE we never see each other! :p My in-laws finally saw that I meant business and backed off. We've got along swell ever since. I'd do anything I could to help them now (and do) and they respect my privacy. I think when you get to the place that you've taken all you can take you don't have any anything to lose so you give up and speak your mind. Only then will the overbearing, pushy people in your life back off and leave you alone.

I wonder what happened to Mima's laptop?

Way to go Ally... you made it through the maze and found your way back in. How's Mr. Wonderful???

Hi Rita... nice to meet you. We are about the same age - I'm 56. I have Fibro, RA, Osteoarthritis and I'm severly anemic - but, like the energizer bunny ... I keep going and going and going. :dance:

Hi Rita, welcome to our little space here in cyberland. Hope you get on a program (heck, I hope I get on a program soon :^: ) soon that works for you. I did the liver cleanse, lost a couple of pounds, got rid of lots of toxins and even some pain, so that worked for me.

Rita - I am 57, have o/a in my lower back and hip and knee. Walking can be good or bad depending on how my lower back feels. I also have FM. Most other health problems, I don't have, thank goodness.

This is the year for me!! I plan on getting myself in motion, have started eating sensibly, and doing some walking. It's not that easy when my back won't bend - just wants to remain straight and stiff.

Meme - Mima was getting her phone hooked up. Hopefully she will be back with us soon. I miss her.

Joanne - I hope your cholestrol gets under control. Was it good before you started the South Beach Diet?

Ally in lust - how is it going? Still in lust or has it turned to love :D

Candice - hope the cookie monster has left you! You do so well. My daughter tells me that EVERYDAY is a fight at maintaining her weight. I just don't want to fight it everyday, once I lose it. So far, it may never happen. However, I will keep trying.

HI! everyone well it does seem like we are all in the same boat but we keep on goingLOLright now just cutting down especially swets as I love them!!!!!!!!!! only one roll yesterday and one tiny candy bar that was gone too fast but so far I have been good I am going to ride my bike today and everyday my goal is 30 minutes half way there also have fimo also was a bad anemic till I had my hyster and like Joanne have bad cholestrol but I know from eating only wish I felt like I did at 45 could keep up with the best well girls have a great day me I am just trying to stay warm Rita

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Rita-I can understand working with a bad knee. I have one knee replacement and the other knee is in sad shape.. I was working 8+hour shifts nursing when I finally gave up. After all I had been a charge nurse for 15 years and in nursing off and on for 37. It was time. But,you do need to find some exercise. I couldn't stand the bike. It hurt my knees more. Water exercise is really the best. Just walking in the water is good. They have a lot of new methods these days,in place of surgery.It is too bad that the spas won't lesson their rates to let the ones who need that type of exercise join for just that. I refuse to pay 300+ to just exercise in the water. My Dr. doesn't agree with surgery and injects my knee whenever I feel the need. I had no other choise 10 years ago.
Happy-I haven't had a colesterol check in 2 years. The Dr.says I have a lot of good colesterol and he isn't too worried about it now. I think the large amounts of protien I have been eating has something to do with it. My son wants me to try try the herbal supplements to see how they will work. That is what he has been doing. I won't/don't want to take the statens again. My arms and leg muscles hurt too bad the last time I was on them.Terrible cramps!I am going to stay on the points system(WW)but not eat the white carbs.
Meme- I am not that computer saavy so I am glad that FC got their server problems fixed for now..
You can tell some MIL's to bug off. It would have not worked in my case. She was old world greek and a master at working her sons mind as well as making her daughter unhappy. My husband has outlived them all and we have just had our 50th anniversary. I can't imagine how we did it.for nearly 40 years she was in my house by any means she could invade it...The relief my hubby and I felt when she was put in the nursing home was boundless.She passed on 10 years ago.
Hello everybody...Joanne

HI! Joanne I wonder if nursing gives you all these problems? lol been a nuse aide for 35 years have to have a total and like you my other one is bad have tried shots series didnt do anything after being on my feet for 12 hrs I cant walk distance so that is why i have started to ride my bikeas some form of exercise as for water exercise I have heard that is good but I cant afford to put out that money for a pool visit and I have phobia when it comes to getting in the water have 6 years to hang in I really dont know if I want to go thru the total bitas I take care of tooo many that arent always success so will keep on limping down them hallstaking my advil before I start and when I come home as the bextra doesnt help that much as it is emberrasing at times when you have to get in gear fromsitting LOL have a great day Rita

Bextra hurt my stomach really bad... had to stop taking it. (Everything hurts my stomach!) I've had reconstruction on one knee and arthoscopic surgery on the other. Need replacement on both but the doctors keep saying I'm too young. That's fine with Me(me)! I'll stay young! ;)

I get my Jenna tomorrow at 11. We're going to 'do lunch'! :lol: She loves that... she calls it a 'Meme Day!' She's a mess. She's going to spend the night and all day Saturday. It's a treat when I get her alone without any of the others. She's the youngest and she makes a point of telling the others that she's the baby.... they don't like that much. School was closed for 3 weeks because of the flu, Christmas and New Year and I had Ross for most of that time so he's going to stay with his other grandparents this weekend so we can have some time with Jenna. She is my miracle baby. She almost died when she was 2 days old. I went to pick them up from the hospital to take them home and instead of taking them home, there was a team from Vanderbilt flying in to take her to the children's trauma center in Nashville waiting for me when I got there. While I was driving to the hospital she had had some seizures or strokes, the doctors couldn't agree on which (and never did agree). She had tubes and IVs taped all over her little body. They took her away in a helicoptor and she didn't get to come home for nearly 2 weeks. When we did get her back she was on so much seizure medicine I slept in the room with her for a couple of months and would lie awake at night and just listen to her breathe ... just to make sure she was still alive. It was a scary time! My daughter had had a C section and was in bad shape herself so I had the whole family and 2 households to take care of the first month or so plus a fragile newborn. A time I don't much like to remember. Then I kept her for the next 2 1/2 years... 'till she started to preschool. But my beautiful blonde hair, grey eyed angel was worth it!

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Rita- Sometimes the best thing we can do for our knees and backs is get the weight off. I know that that is what has helped me. I can't take any of the drugs for oa .My stomach was wrecked years ago from them.
Meme- You are the busiest of us all. I know that I could not do what you do,although, in my 50's I was doing much the same thing. It doesn't matter how much we have to do these G/children always are there and we do find the time and energy to do for them.
Girls -I have eat more in the past 2 days than I have in a long time. I am so full I feel sick. Tomorrow back on track...Maybe I needed this pig out.
Hello everybody and have a good weekend...Joanne

WHEW... I hope none of the rest of you are BUSIER than I am. I really feel for you if you are!!!

Finally got my Barbie Doll in the bed... AFTER 11 P.M. Too much chocolate! :dizzy: She had a hot fudge cake at Shoney's after dinner and then some chocolate ice cream when we got home from getting groceries. Wound tighter than the energizer bunny! I finally read her to sleep.

I gotta go get in the shower and go to bed or she'll be up before I go to sleep! :p

HI! Everyone just wanted to pop in and say HI hope everybody is keeping warm where the tempreature are lowBrrrrrrr in OHIO well have a graet sat just got off work and going to bed if I can climb the steps as by now everything is hurtin Rita