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Post by dinkous on Jun 19, 2019 10:58:24 GMT
People over 60 have a different metabolism than those who are younger, and weight loss gets harder as one ages. This thread is for us.
Join us! Share your ideas, your successes, your frustrations. Offer support. Get advice from folks who are on a similar journey.
Our challenge is to stay on plan, exercise and keep trying to lose weight while improving our overall health -- and maintaining a positive attitude!
Think about where you were and how you felt when you made the initial decision to join The Senior WW Challenge. Close your eyes and remember when you said to yourself “Entough is enough and I’m getting in shape!” On a scale of 1 to 10, how serious are you? You really need to be an eight or higher! If not, you should probably reevaluate your thoughts and feelings about regaining great health in your life.
If the thread has not been started for a day, and you are ready to post, feel free to get us started.
Questions of the day: Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday: Sharon; Thursday: Ruth; Friday: Recipe Sharing; Saturday: Karen C; Sunday: Gail.
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Post by dinkous on Jun 19, 2019 11:01:26 GMT
Good morning friends. I need to get a fasting blood test this morning but we’re in the middle of a downpour so I’ll wait a while. No caffeine enough of any kind all day today, coffee, tea, chocolate.
This is a somewhat heavy question for so early but I came up with it last night.
THE QOTD is actually a discussion of making friends. How do you make new friends?
I don’t have any real close friends. I tell more here than with any other one person. Well, maybe my sis but I don’t get to see her often. My granddaughter recently commented that I had lots of friends. I answered no not really and what did she mean? She said you have lots of friends on Facebook. No no those are my acquaintances and family of course.
Yesterday I went for a pedi. I was seated next to a white haired lady about my age. She made eye contact, smiled and said hello. After settling in she asked if I was a snowbird. Conversation went through the pedis and we ended up exchanging names and phone numbers. I am to let her know when line dance at the rec club starts in the fall. Not a close friend, but it was a pleasant encounter.
Do you make eye contact? Do you smile or even say hello? I think those are good things especially if you’re in a group of common people.
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Post by grandmasandy2 on Jun 19, 2019 12:26:07 GMT
I discovered the blood pressure medicine I've been on causes your glucose to raise and sent my doctor an e-mail about that as it's always bothered me that my A1C being elevated has been the reason they say I have diabetes when I have no symptoms and even my eye exams have not indicated it either. So I wonder if it's a false diagnosis and asked my doctor if that is possible. She said yes that does raise blood sugar levels. Really? Why didn't you try changing the bp medicine before treating me for diabetes? So I think she is going to change that prescription to one that doesn't affect blood sugar. But I won't really know much until four months when I see the new doctor I will be having. I hope my liver ultra sound goes well but even that isn't until July 2nd. I'm really not at all happy about any of this. All the nurses say how sweet my doctor who is leaving is but my feeling is being sweet does not replace being aware of medicines you are prescribing or not really being able to answer questions I have.
Did get in a walk yesterday and had almost 3,000 steps by last night. I know that's not much to the rest of you but to me that's a giant step forward!
QOTD: Sharon I'm like you in that I don't have friends in town. I communicate with all of you and share everything with you that I don't share with others except my sister as well. But communication with her is also through messaging as she lives in California while I'm in Illinois. I used to go visit her for two weeks at a time every year but with Fred being retired and her grandson living with them I haven't seen her in years. I do smile at strangers and will strike up a conversation but that's as far as it goes. Guess that's a pretty sad state of affairs.
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Post by karen8787 on Jun 19, 2019 12:53:29 GMT
Greetings: i fell off the grid because the house we are in has very poor internet. While we'r don't expect great internet, it was a "selling" feature in renting this one.
Sharon, wanted you to know I'm thinking about you today and tomorrow.
I was doing the plank yesterday and a vertebrae popped. I thought i had fixed myself! Perhaps in a small way i did skme good. I took a walk and quickly realized i wasnt done getting my body lined up yet. Sore today but i got 5k steps in
That is huge. I've been hovering around 2k for awhile now and they were painful steps.
Yesterday was the bbq day. 6-hour drive. So glad i looked them up and saw they are only open on the weekends! No trip. We could have gone Thursday but i wanted to go to the play in Ogunquit.... for which we missed getting seats before it sold out!
Will go to the New Hampshire children's museum in Dover with the kids tomorrow. Today is for relaxing. The very happy baby isn't getting enough sleep so hopefully today she can.
Interesting question, Sharon. Be back later i hope with my answer.
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Post by vicki1953 on Jun 19, 2019 13:05:12 GMT
Good morning ladies.
My baked beans are in the oven and the cake is frosted and in the fridge. I'll take them both over to church when I go there this morning. I need to be there by 10:30. The committee always get there an hour before everyone starts arriving in case of any last minute details. Our theme this month is Father's Day and we decorated each table with a different centerpiece...farming, fireman, golf, fishing, tools, etc. I hope everyone takes a minute to go around and look at each table.
Sharon, no rain in sight for us yet....but it will be here around noon. I hope your rain lets up soon so you can go get your blood work done.
Sandy, it sure sounds like the meds are causing your problems. I hope everything gets sorted out soon.
QOTD: It took me awhile to make friends when we moved here. Thanks to social media and the telephone, I'm able to keep in touch with several of my old friends so I think that helped me be not so lonely until I started making friends here. I've always been one to get involved in church activities and that helped a lot. Since I was retired when we moved, I didn't have a job that put me in contact with people so that wasn't an option to find a friend. I always try to smile and make eye contact when I meet someone (and with strangers too). I also try to engage them in conversation and ask them questions about themselves. That has opened up lots of nice conversation.
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Post by janelinedancer on Jun 19, 2019 13:17:53 GMT
good morning
Off in just a few minutes to Bible study and then the widow's group at Olive Garden--they over lap and are several miles apart. I never got day 4 finished and not day 5 at all for this Bible study and wonder if I am the only one. Since I am up so late--2:00 last night I have a problem getting up early each morning but was up at 8 and showered and Kelcy won't eat his tooth cleaning treat today so dealing with him. It is gloomy again today.
Well friends are not something I have any more. I just have no one it seems. I try to be a nice person but everyone seems to go their own way and not invite me along. As I age I seem to have become more backward and less outgoing and have to make myself do things.
Back later
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Post by geritru on Jun 19, 2019 13:58:57 GMT
Good Morning!
No one at my chair yoga class this morning, so I am back home for a few minutes.
Sharon, Interesting question of the day.
AOTD: I have many more friends in Florida than I ever had in Ohio. There are more opportunities to meet people. I make friends fairly easily. I have a couple of close friends here and 3 very close friends in Ohio (one who is in California while her grandkids are young but may move to Florida when they are grown). I joined meetup groups when I moved to Florida. I also have friends from my yoga classes. I no longer see the friends I made when working. I feel very fortunate.
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Post by janelinedancer on Jun 19, 2019 18:38:38 GMT
I am home after being gone 5 hours. I was not the only one thinking the Bible study was a lot of work and I was there for an hour and 20 min and had to leave before the video so now I don't have any of those answers. I was almost the last 2 arrive at the Widow's group which had two big tables and the music was right over my head so I may as well have been home. I didn't like my food either . Now not to be negative but when I eat breakfast at 9 I am not hungry for lunch at 11:30 so order the soup salad and breadstick. My soup was cold but I ate half of it before the waitress got around to me so she brought me more. When the salad bowl reached me it was so empty that I took only a tiny bit because another woman was going to have it, too. I could only hear the person across from me and next to me so missed all of the going around the tables talk. When it got to me I said I apologize but did not hear any thing anyone said. They could not turn our music off--Olive Garden didn't know where the key was to do it. I was totally exhausted from straining to hear anything that was said. Not the fault of our group but it was completely a dud for me. They are going to try a different restaurant next time they said. I found out that the bible study group all got an email except me and so I don't know where mine went but I check my spam and I just didn't get it so gave her the email again and maybe I will get the next one. I do like that group and wished I had skipped the widow's and just stayed there. So now I am home and the sun is shining but there is no way I can change clothes and go to the pool. I just have no energy now.
I once had 3 best friends and could call any of them and tell them anything. They all 3 have died and no one has taken their place. I have the neighbor Judy I could call but I don't like telling her all of my life like I could the other 3. I don't have a friend in my situation now either. So I have acquaintances and a few people I talk with but no one to ever ask me to go anywhere except for the one who asked me to the movie a couple of weeks ago. She has a husband and so she isn't available for my kind of situation either. If I were still in Ohio I would probably have a person to do something with sometimes. I used to be part of a 12 group of bridge and an 8 group of euchre and did some other things with some of them.
Today I made a real effort with the people next to me and across from me at the widow's group but nothing will come of that.
Sharon Hope your day went well.
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Post by dinkous on Jun 19, 2019 18:54:45 GMT
Ruth I have those kinds of social friends too. However, the best friends have gone north now. The ladies in the neighborhood are nice and they are active but my food allergy isolates me. For instance, I didn’t attend the ice cream social last Sunday.
Don and I are having a boring day so watched “Stand By Me”. Those are one of those movies you don’t mind watching more than once. Here’s a quote from the end:
“I never had any friends later on like I did when I was twelve. Does anyone?”
from the movie Stand By Me.
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Post by dinkous on Jun 19, 2019 19:24:42 GMT
Ruth I forgot to ask how Mike is.
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Post by geritru on Jun 19, 2019 20:12:57 GMT
Happy to report that both Mike and I had good Dr. reports. He was supposed to see his heart Dr. tomorrow and when he saw that Mike was in ER yesterday and the tests they gave him showed nothing he called him in today. It turns out that he is suffering from stress. He is on medication for it but the Dr. decided to change the medication. You cannot believe how much better that has made Mike feel. I also had an appointment with the hand specialist as a follow up for my trigger thumb. It locks up on occasion but is not giving me pain. We discussed possible surgery when the arthritis gives me pain but for now he has cut me lose. Thanks for asking about Mike, Sharon.
They are replacing the roof next door, so we were both glad to be gone most of the day. They are on the other side of the house now so we can barely hear it.
Sandy, What you have mentioned is so common as we age. The PCPs don't generally speak with the specialists, so its like one hand doesn't know what the other is doing. Geriatric physicians focus on the whole person, but that specialization is now rare because it doesn't pay as well. Congrats on the good walk! Keep up the good work with focusing on your good health, one step at a time.
Karen, Wow, I didn't know you could pop a vertabrae by doing planks. I thought they improved the health of your spine. Please be careful!
I did not get a walk in today. I am hoping to get one in later.
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Post by janelinedancer on Jun 19, 2019 21:46:56 GMT
Sorry Ruth I forgot about Mike too. Too tied up in my own world so glad to hear his progress. Good about your hand, too.
Got an email from Jeff and he will be here from July 1-8 so I just canceled my Sat. line dance class and when he sends his flights I will know if I need to cancel one of the Monday ones. He says he gets here in the afternoon but not when he goes back on that Monday. I am so excited. (and crying)
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Post by grandmasandy2 on Jun 19, 2019 23:51:42 GMT
Jane I am so happy and excited for you! I know how much you miss him and to have him for 7 days will be so good for you!
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