Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 11/22

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Good Morning,

I did 30 minutes of a 40 minute I-Tread, then the chest work from STS meso 2 week 2. Yep, starting this one over since I was such a slug last week.

Where is everyone? Must be a busy weekend for all....

Gotta run, I am judging an obedience match at our dog club this morning.
 
Good morning,

No wo Saturday only house cleaning. I can't believe I used the most calories this week from that and not adding a wo. Foodball game this afternoon.

BBL with wo.

Joan
 
Hi Deb, Joan and any later posters--

This morning I did STS disk 10 (56 min.). Housemax yesterday.

Still beautiful weather here for November--sunny and the 50s both yesterday and today.

Joan, I like your typo: foodball game. Sounds like a food frenzy of some kind!

Not much to report here. I finished The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Heartbreaking ending, but I am glad I read it. A truly beautiful book and probably the best one about dogs I have ever, ever read.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!
 
Monday

Good Morning,

Yay, no work today for me! I will be doing some I-Tread and the shoulders from STS in a bit, then will be meeting a friend for breakfast and some shopping. I have a long list of "to dos" to get to this week, mostly have to be done before Thursday.

Joan, love the "foodball", it's what I do most days! LOL..

Garance, we are getting the same weather here.. hope it lasts, but I know better. I looked at that book on Amazon, not sure if I could read it.......it does sound heartbreaking...

Hi to Josie, Cathy and Valerie!
 
good morning all. I have nothing to be especially proud of for the weekend. We worked on the trees we'd had cut down a couple weeks ago, sawing and splitting. If you want a good upper body workout, splitting wood qualifies. plus you pick up each piece of wood several times by the time you split it, toss it up into the truck, drive it to the woodpile where every piece gets unloaded and stacked again. My arms and shoulders didn't get sore at all, happy for that. what did get sore is the muscles over my ribs, the muscles that get sore when you cough. Ouch. sunday I took off.

Foodball.... that's hilarious. a typo that tells a story!

Today I'm doing shopping for thursday. we're hosting ... someone asked me last week and I don't think I answered... for us plus 3. thought there might be 2 more but it didn't work for them. so not a big stressful deal with tons of people and food, but DH and I are mostly vegetarian. we eat a little chicken/fish so I guess we're flexitarian. but this is the only day of the year I roast, make gravy, bake pie etc. so I'm not on automatic pilot and it's not the kind of food I usually prepare. Still, it's always fun.

I wish we were having beautiful weather here...... envy those who are ... been extremely wet, rainy, windy which is sort of status quo for November .
 
Hi Deb, Josie, Joan, Cathy, and Valerie--

This morning I did Rhythmic Step (60 min.). I think this is Cathe's very best step choreo. When it came out, I would do it twice a week I loved it so much.

I think I may order the step DVD and the Travel Fit DVD from Shock Cardio. I can modify the step routines if need be, and the Travel Fit looks like a good routine for light days.

Sounds like everyone is gearing up for Thanksgiving.

Valerie, do you heat your home with wood? We have a wood-burning furnace, and DH sells firewood, so we don't have the home heating bills from oil. Saves a lot.

Hi to everyone!
 
We have a furnace, a heat pump that we use when we get up to warm things. I usually don't run heat during the day. in the evening we use our wood stove to heat the familyroom/kitchen. That way the upstairs bedrooms don't get too warm and it's warmer where we eat dinner and watch TV. It keeps the heating bills down and I'm pretty insistent on having a cool-cold bedroom for decent sleep.

We have a lot of big trees on our lot. we've been carefully using a few every year, some fall down some get cut down and after 20 years it looks the same as it did when we bought it. Trees grow real well here and we like having our own private forest.
 
Hi eveyone,

I think the typo must have known something I didn't. We usually go out to eat before the game and I get the same thing each time because it's only half bad with calories. This time I got the chicken strips with ff. I only drank 1/2 the long island tea (it's not my fault the football team is so bad I need a drink). They had a new dessert- 3 cupcakes with different frostings. Since dh did not have a cake for his birthday he said we should split this. I was stuffed but of course I can always eat cake. At least I scraped off most of the frosting.

"Official weigh in" 168 1/2 down 1/2lb. I was down 2 lbs on Friday but the weekend got me.

I think today I will start meso 3.

Ds will be coming in from Portland tomorrow. We will have 13-14 on Thanksgiving. I always make everything. For the last several years I've said if anyone wants anything different to bring it. No one does. It's my fault because I like my cooking better.

Joan
 
Tuesday

Good Morning all,

I had a crappy nights sleep, ended up on the couch because of DH's snoring...glad I don't have to work today. I plan on doing some cardio and STS triceps. Then of course I have 34477444 things to do on my list.

Valerie, you can definitely call WoodMax a workout! are you having turkey? you said you eat chicken/fish.....just wondering..

Garance, I may order TravelFit but not yet. If I want to really use it when I travel I would have to drag the laptop with me and that is just not happening.

Joan, I like your "foodball" menu! Especially the cupcakes. No one enters my Thanksgiving empty handed, some people bring 2 things. I couldn't do it if they didn't.

off to get more coffee....I will check in later to see who is around....
 
Hi,

Anyone have a good method for roasting chestnuts that works? I have tried a couple of different ways and they either are not done completly or just awful to peel etc. I actually have an old frying pan that has holes punched into it so you can roast them on an open fire. I am grasping at straws here, I have about 4 pounds of chestnuts and my family expects them on Thanksgiving, its a tradition. :confused:
 
Deb, I used to try to do chestnuts for some kind of soup. I ended up buying prepared ones because the ones I bought always had something wrong... I think they were moldy and peeling never worked very well? I'll look in the book I used to use.

Woodmax! yes that's a good description, and today it will be Housemax and Cookmax, after yesterday's Grocerymax. my ribs aren't sore anymore so I can work out. yesterday I did puny cardio on the bike, treadmill, and elliptical for a maybe 40 minutes. I needed to have a blood draw yesterday morning because of the anticoagulation I'm on ...probably another month. I don't do weights on that arm the same day. Tomorrow the weather doesn't look as bad as it's been so we will try to ski or snowshoe. today I'll do GS back and/or triceps. I need to get all my prep done today.

DH and I eat mostly vegetarian. I know "mostly" doesn't fit the hard core definition but it works for us. We used to be 100% vegetarian, but the last few years we've relaxed and use small amounts of chicken or fish occasionally. When my aunt got too old to cook dinner, I took over Tday. Everyone expects turkey. I don't have problem with it. I don't eat or cook red meat but somehow Tday isn't Tday without turkey. so once a year I do turkey and gravy.
 
Hi Deb, Josie, Joan, Cathy, and Valerie--

This morning I did disk 11 (52 min.), finishing meso 1 since I will replace disk 12 with Physique 57.

Wish I could help you, Deb, on chestnuts. In my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I foolishly tried to make chestnut stuffing and couldn't peel those dang things to save my soul. When I do turkey now, I use DH's "Nana's stuffing." I think I already mentioned that we are doing a standing rib roast again this year--our own grass-fed beef--so no turkey.

Any advice on a big HDTV would be welcome. We are going to treat ourselves to one this year I think, but I don't know the first thing about the brands, the installation, etc. I just want one!

Good luck, everyone, on your feast prep!
 
found my chestnut recipe. I made chestnut soup and followed these directions. it was not that difficult. But then something changed...the chestnuts my grocery carried became impossible to peel so I quit doing it. were moldy besides. I haven't seen chestnuts in years except in jars in specialty foods.

This was from anna thomas, The Vegetarian Epicure: Cut a cross in each chestnut with a knife and put in the oven about 15-20 minutes at 375 degrees. they're done when easily pierced with a skewer.Good luck, that's how I used to do it. Haven't done them in ages.

Garance, we bought a big screen maybe 2 years ago... panasonic plasma 52 inches. we ordered a larger LCD one ..56 inches.. but it was too big for the room. the LCD did not fit well in the space and stuck out into the room. the size of the room dictates how big. you need to be "back" a ways from the screen. I got motion sick trying to watch the LCD one. DH didn't like it because you needed to be facing straight on or the picture wasn't clear. plasma is better if anyone watches at any angle due to where your furniture is placed. the picture quality of plasma (at that time) was better than LCD.

we are on basic cable, no high def for regular TV. I don't give a whit about how clear the picture is. I watch the news and not much else. But places selling TVs are using the highest quality signal and you won't get the same sharpness unless you upgrade your cable/dish . when we put in a DVD the picture quality is excellent and that's what we wanted. I'd check consumer reports. TVs change as fast as cell phones and what was true 1 yr ago may not be now.
 
Valerie, thanks for the recipe....these are for eating just as is, warm out of the fire/oven or whatever is used to cook them. DH and I are going to try a test batch tonight on the grill with our vegetable cooker that has holes in it.

Garance, good luck with the TV. I have a 25 inch Sony that I love and will keep using until it dies or I do. I don;t watch enough TV to justify that big of a purchase, DH hardly ever watches.
 
hi all, gearing up for the big turkey day? we have a big family reunion in central texas at the stewart family farm. been going since our son was 5, and now we get to take the grandkids. so fun. they have a great-grandpa, and a great- great-great uncle + lots of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, cousins, or however it goes. when we started going back in teh early 80's, all my son's great-great aunts and uncles were still alive , except one that died very young. the last of the great-great-great aunts passed a couple yrs. ago. it has been sad to lose them all the last few yrs. my husbands family live very long lives. most of them were in their 90's when they passed. it is so mych fun. we used to hear all the storeies of when they grew up on the farm, (where my fil lives now), and working in the cotten fields, slaughtering hogs, the whole bit. miss seeing them now. but, they wrote severla family geneology books, so at least the stories are preserved.

can't help ya , deb. don't think i have ever even seen a chestnut.

anyway, sorry to be so long-winded, but someone asked me what i did for thanksgiving. can't remember who.
ya'll have a great and blessed THANKSGIVING.!
 
Good morning,

I did get drill max and disc 25 in on Monday. Yesterday Elliot would not take a nap and then my baby boy(32) flew in and we had to visit. Can you guess no wo.

I have to go now to brave the grocery store. Why did I wait until today?

Joan
 
Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve

Good morning,

Today I did STS Legs, disk 17, and an Abs Of Steel. Wow that is an old one, Tammy Lee Webb actually has leg warmers on...hee hee....:D

Small turkey is in the oven, big one will be done tomorrow with stuffing. Hey, what is the difference between "stuffing" and "dressing"? No, this isn't a joke, I really want to know! People call it either one or the other, not sure why..

Valerie, Your cardio didn't sount puny to me! I tried the chestnuts on the grill. They looked and smelled wonderful, but did not peel easily, which is how you know they are done right. I think this is the last year I attempt them. If someone wants them next year they can make them and bring them.

Garance, did you decide on at TV yet? I bought KickMax yesterday, because it was the weekly special...It looks like it has a section that is similar to Physique 57...do you have this one?

Cathy, your Thanksgiving sounds wonderful. You're an old tried and true Firmie, did you see my link on Anna Bensen?

Joan, visiting with your son is more important than a workout, you can workout any day,

Josie, hope you are having a great week, what are your plans for tomorrow?

Later...Have to go make the squash,
 
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Hi Deb, Josie, Joan, Cathy, and Valerie--

This morning I did KCM's horizontal premix and core on Cardio Step Kickboxing (48 min.).

Deb, as I was making my pumpkin roulade this morning (mmm--the filling is goooood!), I was half watching Regis and Kelly, and they had a little cooking segment with Kelly where she uses chestnuts. She had some technique for roasting them. You might want to check the recipe section at their site and see if it helps. I'm pretty sure we will end up with a Samsung LCD 52 inch. The reviews for Samsung seem to be uniformly enthusiastic. I have Kickmax, and yes, there is a short segment that is somewhat like Physique 57. There's also a very high impact section that I never even tried. I found the kickbox routines barely managed to get my heartrate up and were...well...kinda boring. So I haven't used it much.

I read that about Anna Benson too. I remember the early Firm routines with Susan Harris, Janet Jones Gretzky. I was totally hooked on them. She was pretty young, too.

I admire your courage, Joan. I would not want to be grocery shopping today! I drove by the Stop and Shop, and the parking lot was FULL, and that is really weird for our town, which is not exactly a metropolis. Have fun!

Cathy, it sounds like a family reunion for you. What do you bring besides yourselves? Anything particularly Texan on the menu?

Hi to Valerie!
 
Hi,

Garance, I went over to Regis & Kelly's site and the recipe was there but they didn;t print how she cooked the chestnuts, only to add peeled and skinned chestnuts to the mix.....anyone try to peel a raw chestnut? :rolleyes:
 
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