Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 7/19

Good morning,

Yesterday I did one of the premixes from Flex Train. That one is harder than I remembered. I like that she uses lighter weights and different types of exercises. Not too much going on around here...lots of what I call "administrative" kinds of things, making calls, doing paperwork, etc etc. I made a Lemon Cake recipe from the Nutrition Gurus that actually turned out pretty well. It's a dense type cake that you would have with a cup of tea or coffee, no icing etc.

Lynda, I agree, family history is an important part of heart health. mmmm....coconut ice cream sound wonderful.

Valerie, you and your DH have done a great job in being prepared in case anything happens. That's all you can do and just go on living your life. Worrying about those kinds of things will not change anything anyway. That sounds like a tough bi/tri workout...:)

Lori. to go 14 years after being diagnosed and not have to go on meds is great. I bet the exercise you do helps as well.

Hi to Josie, Judy, & Dawn,

I will probably meet my cousin at the track for a workout, then stuff around here and an agility class I want to try later today.

Take care,
 
Hi Ladies,
I don't know if I posted that I was going to Vegas. We were there for 4 day and I'm now tired of vacationing :). I worked out wit Karina yesterday and today I went to the body attack class at the gym. I did come back from Vegas with $800 to add to my madd money fund.

The weather here has been strange. Thunder storms and rain and very humid
It has been hard to sleep at night due to the humidity. We don't have an are conditioning because we are close to the beach and usually don need one.

Valerie, we are also prepared in case of an earthquake and check our stuff every year.

I will be back later.
 
Hi all--

This morning I did Dancin' Abs (58:00).

Valerie, it sounds like you have done everything humanly possible to prepare if there is a catastrophic earthquake. Unlike other parts of the country (e.g., Florida with hurricanes, Oklahoma with tornadoes), the issue for you is the big IF. It may not happen in your lifetime or for hundreds of years for that matter, but IF it does, you are as ready as you an be. Hurricanes and tornadoes are an annual sure thing--and people still don't think ahead about how quickly to evacuate or they live in trailer homes in Tornado Alley, which I think is the height of folly. Maybe you have some kind of impingement in your shoulder when you do certain moves.

Lori, it sounds like you have really done well with your diabetes. I think my favorite food is lobster. My problem is that if I ask them to steam a couple for me at the supermarket, they always overcook it. When I go out, I sometimes order a steamed lobster, but I make such a mess with it I feel like I should wear a full-body bib and a dozen napkins nearby. DH just laughs at me. My lobster roll yesterday was $15 and it was pretty well-stuffed--very satisfying.

Wondered where you were, Josie! If I ever go to Vegas, I will ask you to join me. You always are so lucky. We don't have air-conditioning either. It's a log cabin style house with big cathedral ceilings, so we really can't. But it always cools down at night because we are on the side of a mountain. We just use fans.

ttfn
 
Good evening ladies!

Well I was the only one today ALL the ladies are on vacation! I chose not to workout but eat lunch outside with a few others. Was so nice. I very rarely get out at lunch or at all during the day. A few of us joked that we should take up smoking so we can have all the breaks the smokers get!! This is a huge pet peeve of mine. We also joked about getting the candy gum cigarettes and going out with everyone and just chew our gum to make a point. Came home and did RWH Upper Circuit followed by Cathe Live Standing Abs.

Deb...I must have mislead you I do take oral meds for my T2. Right now only 2,000mg of metformin. I started out with 500 mg and it slowly needed to increase to 2,000. I have stayed at 2,000 for about 8 years now so I am very happy with this. All this talk about Flex Train is making me want to pull it out. I used the workout blender a while ago and added in the firewalkers from I think great glutes and Lean legs and abs. Would you mind sharing the lemon cake recipe? I pretty much love anything lemon. Hope you had a great workout on the track.

Josie... I agree with Lynda you are coming with me if I ever go to Vegas. Good for you! Our A/C has been pretty much running ever night and morning for all of July now. I need to keep it cool to sleep and when I get ready in the morning otherwise I am a sweaty mess.

Lynda...Lol! Yes lobster is very messy. I enjoy it also but absolutely do not dip in butter. We had this conversation recently and I think Valerie feels the same about butter as I do. I can live with out it. That is a great price for a lobster roll. I think we paid over $30 dollars for ours. There was so much lobster it was ridiculous. Next time my DH and I plan to split one it is that large.

Valerie...great job with the weights. I do the same thing as my left shoulder is still not 100%. When working out I have no problem changing a set to something more comfortable. I still get a great workout and that is fine with me.

Have a great night all! Hi to Judy and Dawn!
 
Josie - It looks like you had a very productive Vegas trip. Congratulations - extra money is always nice!
Deb - I like FlexTrain, too. It really works those shoulders!
Lori - I remember when I worked that the smokers never missed their breaks. Didn't matter if it was the coldest day of winter with negative wind chills. I was a smoker a long time ago (quit in 1981), so I remember the days when I could smoke at my desk at work. We couldn't have coffee at our desks though...go figure.
Today was XTrain Chest, Back & Shoulders. I needed cardio this afternoon, so I did Power Max, too. Love that workout, but I'm a little creeped out with the thong leotards!
 
Lynda, it was so strange to see the reaction to the earthquake article! made front page on every paper here. but it really is nothing new at all...DH and I have read the same info for YEARS in multiple places. Not new... but compiled very effectively. we have made the best preparation we can... but after that, what can you do? stay in your house for the rest of your life?? No, not going to happen. After a big reminder like this I think about it more, but after a week it fades into the background. the coastal areas all have clearly marked tsunami routes..even wilderness beaches but whether many people could get to them in time is the question.

like today. we did a hike 7 or so miles 5.5 hours. and I thought about what we would do it there was a big earthquake while we were in the mountains. of course, you don't know what might happen. nature seems to survive better than man made structures, but we needed to cross a number of bridges to get where we were. we have extra water in our car and a blanket, along with the extra things in our day packs. but we could not survive for weeks. the drawback is leaving a lot of visible "stuff" in your car makes it more likely to get broken into. so we have a little extra usually but not enough to live for weeks.

Yes, I think there is an impingement thing going on but it is getting better. I didn't "activate" anything yesterday with Flex Train and was all over a bit achy today. so I will keep this going and not do anything that clearly aggravates it, but I think I can do most exercises now. Making sure I don't hike up my shoulder seems to help because I think I've done that for a while without realizing it.

I also used to be a smoker, in college and for a short time after. yes, those benefits were nice! extra time off for the smokers... Deb, you mentioned Mad Men... I actually got a sympathy headache from watching everyone smoking so much.

Lori you 're right, I don't like butter that much. I like a little on vegies like the green beans I had tonight but not a favorite for me. I remember people eating lobster dripping in it. my mothers favorite food. it tastes too sweet to me.
 
Good morning,

John and I went for a short bike ride yesterday, the weather was good, not too hot and a nice breeze.

Josie, aka, " Lucky Lady" :). I was also wondering what happened to you!

Lynda, LOL on your eating your lobster....do you like crab legs too? I used to get a lobster tail when we went out for any type of "special" dinner, but for some reason lost my taste for it and went to crab legs....they are really messy too. There was a restaurant here that we went to every year for our anniversary that had a meal called "Land & Sea" that had steak and King crab legs...they would come already cracked, no cracker necessary, all sitting kind of on top of the shell, and you could eat them with a knife and fork....I loved going there...no mess. I was sad when they closed.

Lori, at our office, there was such an uproar over the "unfairness" of the smokers getting smoke breaks, ( I silently agreed with them) that we changed it to just "breaks" and anyone could do it, just to get up and away from the work area, get fresh air etc....only it was unofficially limited to 2 times in the morning, and 2 times in the afternoon, no more than 5 minutes. This seemed to settle everyone down...I sent the recipe by e-mail. Anyone else wants it, let me know.

Dawn, I remember those days well....smoking like chimneys at the desk ( not me, but my co-workers all around me) and no food...we could have coffee though. Things are so different now in offices....we could not even have a picture or anything personal on our desks. Now you can't even see the surface of the desks and the cube walls are all decorated with junk....it's a mess. I limited it when we moved into our new office...it was not a popular thing, but it kept the office looking professional. I still can't get used to the amount of smoking that they do in Mad Men. LOL on the thong leotards.

Valerie, I would wonder how many calories you burn on one of those hikes? It has to be a lot.

Hi Judy!

A workout this morning, John is talking about another bike ride, I want to get some weight work in though...we'll see.

Take care,
 
Lori, tried to e-mail the recipe to you....it came back "undeliverable" Strange....I tried again and it came back again.... I used the same e-mail that I used for the cholesterol article.....maybe if you e-mail me something, I can reply and attach the recipe...
 
Deb, you would be happy here crab legs are very available and popular.... Dungeness crab. I don't know if it's any different than the crab you get. when I first moved here I tried everything I never saw in the Midwest .. oysters, crab, mussels, clams but not successfully. can't get used to the smell. I ended up liking halibut and salmon and that was it. Luckily DH doesn't care for seafood either and the only point of dispute is salmon. he hates it. even though I like it, I don't have it often. SIL and BIL were fishing recently and included pics of crabs and tuna from one days catch. it was about 20 of each. it's beyond me what anyone would do with 20 tuna. Me, I'm a cheap date... rather have peanut butter!

Josie that's amazing. I might as well just burn the money. never won a cent.

I worked for a company in new York for a while in the '90's. stull allowed smoking. holy crap, I could not stand the air! and even the restaurants had smoking areas that stunk up the whole place. the west coast was quicker to implement non smoking but now it's gotten to the point they don't want to allow smoking outdoors in parks. I'm starting to feel for the smokers!

funny how Mad Men brought it all back... I can smell the smoke when I watch.

Deb, we don't do hikes with the intensity of a 45 minute Cathe workout. no way you'd last 6 hours at that rate. so it's a longer, consistent burn. there are some really fit people who've upped trail mileage to ridiculous ( by my standards) lengths. not that unusual for people to cover 30 miles in a day, and some folks are pushing 40-50 miles. makes me feel like a slacker.
congrats on getting out and riding. hopefully you'll be able to
 
Hi everyone--

This morning I did Flextrain (56:36). Everyone seemed to be doing it this week, and I haven't for awhile, so I pulled it out. It just seems to fly by, which is what I like.

Dawn, I did Power Max on video many, many times. For some reason I just lost my enthusiasm for step choreo, but I used to love, love it. That was always my cardio. I really enjoyed the step routines on Cathe's cross-train express. Really how I first started doing Cathe's workouts was with her early step routines.

Deb, there was a lot of smoking at the college when I arrived--everywhere--faculty meetings, lectures, classrooms, offices. Now it's a smoke-free environment. I don't see anyone smoking around here at all, except the occasional tourist. I gave up smoking when I wanted to get pregnant. It was hard for me, because I associated it so much with the concentration I needed for writing. It's a filthy habit and it killed my sisters so I am sooo happy I managed to get that monkey off my back before it was too late. No, I think I've had crab legs only a couple times. If someone would crack them open for me, that would be great.

Lori, I like a lot of lemon and a little bit of melted butter for dipping my lobster.

Valerie, maybe other people need to be reminded of the fact that they are living on a potential natural disaster. Obviously you don't. People don't want to even think about global warming. Like that article said, we like movies about calamities (San Andreas being the most recent example), but we don't want to think about their reality.
 
Good evening ladies!

No lunchtime workout. I am still alone! Tonight I did today's Live Class High Intensity Aerobic Weight W/Step...it was high intensity but not high impact and it was great. Will certainly be a favorite.

Deb..weird your email bounced back. Perhaps it was a server issue. I did get the recipe and will try it out in a couple of weeks. Will be good to make and bring to the Cape when we go. We are going to try and eat healthy while on vacation. I used to smoke and I was one of those that smoked at my desk. Not a lot though but guilty of it. I love your break system. I do not mind the smokers needing their fix but some really take advantage of it and that bugs me and a lot of people.

Lynda...now I really need to do flex train this weekend! I feel the same way about Crab. Crack them open and yes I'll eat them.

Valerie...I am planning to go for a hike with DS and DGF on Saturday. This is our 3 hour hike we have done a few times last year Should be fun.

I have an updated Cathe Live Spreadsheet if anyone is interested. Send me your email address and I'll be glad to send it to you!

Hi to Judy, Josie and Dawn!
 
Good morning & Happy Friday!

I did KCM Trim Down yesterday and some gardening. We got the sod for the area of the garden that we are turning into lawn, less weeding to do...:). Also found some large stepping stones on a curb where someone had put them out for the trash collectors. Nice find. We were going to buy them and use them around some areas of the garden to keep the weeds down.

Valerie, The length of time and hiking areas you do are still impressive to me! I have heard of that type of crab, but not sure if they serve that here. Mostly they are described as Alaskan King crab. I am not a real big fish eater either, I like it once in a while. I too draw the line at not letting people smoke in parks etc. Really? That type of thing is scary to me.

Lynda, I admit, I use the melted butter a lot when eating crab legs or lobster. :). I don't remember Power Max at all.

Lori, if there are others besides your DH going to the cape, you may want to try that recipe out beforehand....it's not normal cake at all. We had such dissension at work with the smokers that I had to do something. At our old office I had a "no smoking or going outside for anything rule" , but Memphis (HQ) would not let me continue that at the new place. The old building only had people that reported to me so I could do what I wanted, the new building brought other departments in, and I could not put that rule in place. So we compromised. Funny, most people liked the old way better, even the smokers. They all said that they cut down on their smoking when they were in the old building. Now I really have to decide it I want to get Cathe LIve. I was thinking of trying out Chromecast with my android phone as the base. People are having issues using an iPad, even with the expensive Apple cable.

Hi to Dawn, Judy & Josie,

What is everyone doing this weekend?
 
No workout yesterday. busy errand day including a dentist appt. will need to plan for 2 crown replacements next year. old dental work that is wearing out so nothing critical, but my insurance won't cover ( the little they cover, anyway) until 2016. Hair done, Costco run, got home after 4 and realized I should have gotten a deli chicken so had to "create" dinner quickly.

We finished The Tudors... a very good series. an amazingly brutal and unforgiving time. the punishments...finally looked them up. I knew the words, had heard them used many times, but didn't understand exactly what all entailed.... the rack, drawn and quartered, the burnings. they were fairly accurately and graphically depicted in this series. Wow. the arguments about religion... disagreements over what sounded like trivial interpretations could end with people tortured and killed in the most brutal ways imaginable. and publicly with people cheering and apparently enjoying it all. it was enlightening.

we might finally get some rain. at least showers this weekend. brush fires, forest fires ...very bad year. our garden is pretty much bloomed out. crops are a month ahead of time.

that is my current problem with smoking... people tossing cigarette butts onto the highway, the cause of so many brush fires. you would think adults would have more sense. so interesting that most of us were smokers at one point. funny how it used to seem just like something all adults did. I found it a hard habit to break but didn't have any nicotine withdrawal issues. it was all about the rituals.
 
Hi everyone--

This morning I did Cardio Supersets (41:30), followed by Housemax. I wanted to get my cleaning done before my younger son comes for the weekend with his woman friend--someone we have not met.

Deb, I'm off to Jacob's Pillow tomorrow for Danil Simkin's Intensio, which I think is a full-length ballet. The dancers are all from American Ballet Theatre, so it should be good. We are going out to dinner with our son and his woman friend after I get back, and they are off to the theater. I'm not sure what they will be seeing. DH has his usual farmer's market on Saturday. The weather looks great for all of us.

Valerie, the Renaissance was my specialization in grad school, so I am familiar with the history. They call it the Early Modern period now and it's a bigger span of time. The Reformation was pretty awful and Henry 8 was brutal in multiple ways--a lot of Catholic martyrs and beheaded wives. I'm not at all convinced that things are any better now, though, especially when I look at the fanaticism in the Middle East and what carnage that has resulted in and where it seems to spread like a virus.

Lori, when are you off to the Cape? This next week looks like good weather for vacationing.

Hi to Judy, Dawn, and Josie!
 
Hi Ladies,

I worked out with Karina yesterday and I have a rest day today. I need to go grocery shopping today and stock up because I ran out of everything :). I can't put it off anymore.

Tomorrow I will be spinning and taking the body pump class at the gym. We are going to go to see KC and the Sunshine band at one of the summer series concerts in a park near us. On Thursdays the have classical music and at the Santa Monica Pier they also have free concerts.

I love that smoking is not allowed anywhere anymore in Los Angeles. Except in the casinos, but I can tell that less people are smoking there too.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Josie
 
Good evening ladies!

Today was a rest day and I am enjoying a glass of wine as I type this :).

Deb...thanks for the heads up on the lemon cake. I will still make it for the Cape as I am sure I will love it. If no one else cares for it then more for me. He he!!!! I love when I come across things that I love and need when others are discarding them. Always sweeter when they are free.

Valerie...I recently had over $5,000 worth of out of pocket dental expenses. I was in the same boat..needed a bridge replaced that was over 25 years old plus a couple other crowns. Dental work is so expensive and insurance only helps a little with major work. Poured here today along with thunder.

Lynda...sounds like a fun weekend for you. Very nice to meet the new GF. How old is your youngest? My son and only child will be 24 and as you must know I love his GF. The two of us are actually going to a coworker of mine's house party/cookout tomorrow evening. My DH is working and my DS has plans so we both are hanging together. Should be fun.

Josie...funny story about KC. Many years ago I was working for Strawberries which was a local c/d music chain here in New England. They are long gone by now. I worked for the VP and 2nd in command. One day out of the blue I answered the phone and KC was on the line to speak with him. I thought I was pretty cool for the day!

Hiking in the morning then cookout in the evening. Breakfast with the hubby and kids on Sunday along with some house max. This pretty much sums up my weekend!
 
Good morning & Happy Saturday!

It's kind of raining right now but it doesn't look like it will continue. Today is the Garden Walk in Buffalo, so I hope it clears up. These people that are in this work all year to make their gardens ready for this event. We went last year, but this year John has a kids fishing seminar that he participates in so we aren't going.

Valerie, here's keeping my fingers crossed that you do finally get some rain. At least I don't have to worry about dental plans, at least for now. :). Not sure what will happen after John retires. Don't you love those chickens? Such a time saver. I would rather have what Lynda does but not so easy to do here.

Lynda, good job on the workout....I always forget about that series with Cardio Supersets, Athletic training etc...was that X-train? Have fun at the ballet....it sounds like a really good one.

Josie, are you going to try the 21 Day Fix plan? Now is the time when your "cupboards are bare" and you need to shop for food. :).

Lori, it is so great that your and your son's GF get along so well. Any marriage plans on the horizon for them? She will be a great DIL. How is your DH doing on the eating/workout plan?

Hi to Judy & Dawn,

Agility class this morning, and if it clears up, some gardening. Pulling weeds after a light rain makes is so much easier!

Have a great weekend!
 
Finally got some rain.... I don't think the amount will be that significant. raining very lightly much of the night. ground was so hard and dry though, that light is better so it will absorb rather than run off. when I try to water plants I find I need to churn up the dirt around the bases or else water runs off.. a lot of my perennials are going dead or dormant. we are not set up to water this much. supposed to get more over the next two days. Hoping!

I love those Costco deli chickens. a steal at 4.99. I skin it, remove all the meat while it's still warm. then I'm set for at least 6 different meals. so tasty and handy.

Think I'll do Flex Train again today. it seemed to cover all the bases effectively, and I get more efficient if I repeat a workout several times.

DH seems to think there is no wait period on our dental program because it's the same one we had for years but a different "group" number. will check it next week. might go ahead and do it this year since I haven't used any benefits yet.
 
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