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hi Kate and welcome! We're a similar age and both grandmas. As you say, love my two grandsons to bits but always glad to get the house back once they've gone home! I'm sure you'll soon feel at home here so join in and get posting!

Welcome to the sanctuary Kate! X

@grandma kate hi and welcome from me, too. Sounds as if you'll feel very much at home here!

Hello Kate & welcome! I am also aged 66 & I have certainly found that losing weight has helped my arthritic knees & climbing stairs is much easier now. Good luck with your 5:2 ing it certainly works & in addition to losing weight has the added health benefits. One of my sons is getting married this year so having grandchildren arriving in the family is a strong possibility now

Welcome Grandma Kate, very glad to see you.
Thought I'd change avatar as it's full steam ahead on the Spring front. Today I have been glorying in around 400 varieties of daffodil and cooing over five newly hatched ducklings (and spending money) at Springfields, Spalding. Made me happy!
Also working at keeping the carb count below 100g:- cals 1281, carbs 87g, protein 67g
:0)

Well done @isis The number 13 you lucky lady
Your cycling is working very well for you and such a motivation booster seeing that low number again.
I can only dream of that one for now but my turn will come.

Welcome to the SSS club @Grandma Kate You've enrolled in a good one here.

Today's ducklings

OH so cute @Azureblue Spring has definetly sprung
Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful little guys!

As a soon to be 66 year old who is pretty darned sassy, so I think this is the right place for me. About 3 years ago, I spent 5 weeks carrying a backpack around Europe with my daughter and envying all the little old ladies (like me) with their wheeled grocery bags. We took public transport exclusively, and I dragged myself up and down so many subway entrance stairs as well as top floors of hostels and tiny hotels and hills. I didn't think I would make it! But I did! Amazingly, the stairs and hills got easier. When I got back home, I kept up the fast walking paired with zumba, and I cannot believe the difference it made. We all rock!

Well done border girl x wd love to do that Europe trip! Its been a longtime wish but poor health has stopped me.Want to go to the States and Canada also x

Grrrrr no sleep again last night and the Cathedral bells are driving me nuts...
** stomps off like the cantankerous old Senior i am!**

This is interesting reading:-

http://www.dietandhealthtoday.com/2014/ ... day-apr14/

We have just come back from the caravan and oh, the angst - hub has forgotten his 'dongle' (never mind that he doesn't need it at home). We have searched high and low, with the only plus side for me is that I wasn't the 'responsible adult'!! Much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
But then, he flings open the kitchen door, whence I had beaten a hasty retreat, and announces he knows exactly which cupboard it's in.... on the caravan! Where it will stay till we return next week!

We'll be moving said caravan to our old site next weekend, as it's not flooded. Complete with said dongle!!

Hi everyone
I'm getting ready for my first fast day tomorrow, so my plan is this and I'd really appreciate your comments as to whether this looks OK: tomorrow morning as I take bp tablets I thought I'd have a ryvita with a scrape of butter for breakfast as I don't like to take them on an empty stomach, then through the day lots to drink (unfortunately not alcohol related!), then around 6.30 to 7, grilled salmon with a small helping of rice and lots of steamed veggies and possibly a low-fat yoghurt. I've got an allowance of 700 calories so that seemed OK??
Thanks Kathryn

@Grandma Kate Is 700 calories right for a fasting day?