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AB@AzureBlue! OMG! What a chapter of accidents! Hope all ok now x
Sounds like a stiff drink or two might be in order for Nan& Grandad to soothe their nerves! X

@AzureBlue message for the young patients...

I seem to have resorted to a few extra carbs this week but nothing too desperate. There's also a house sale in the balance this week (not us) so my fingers just never uncross currently :0/
It's afternoon and I really should get dressed, been pottering all morning, much to OH's chagrin. Just feel on slo-mo today somehow. Day off from 'Life' due I think :0)

Sounds like you need a duvet day @azureblue and i' m not surprised
Give yrself a break,stay in yr jimjams,put yr feet up,chill,read lighthearted stuff,listen to soothing radio 4,snooze, stretch a lot.
goodies to eat and some vino.
Get a lazy day or two in before halfterm commences! X

@Azureblue, what a catalogue of disasters! I hope the injured parties are all on the mend now!
Unusually, we are not seeing our grandchildren this half term but we are flying out to Germany on a short visit in mid November. They will be with us over Christmas, with Mum and Dad, and we may go out there to look after them if Mum and Dad decide to have a skiing week without the children. The whole family is off to Bavaria in the February half term, so that will be another missed opportunity to visit them.
Never mind, their posting should be over in the summer and they will be back in England. My daughter is already worrying about whether they will be able to get places for the girls in their very good, oversubscribed, village school or whether they will have to go out of the village to find a place for them! The joys of being a parent nowadays - being a grandma is much more fun !

Just popping my head around the door to see how you all are. @azureblue sounds like you deserved to be just pottering around today - wow what a rollercoaster going on there for you. I hope things improve for you next week (well Mercury is still retrograde until Saturday, so maybe things will start to settle down later this week)

Many thanks for your kind thoughts my dears, apart from nothing positive yet on the house sale front everyone is healing nicely. Interesting about the Mercury retrograde comment as today is calm and lovely.

We've popped into a nearby church that was built from 680AD that I've been wanting to get in to for some time. The overlays of building works down the centuries is fascinating, I'm a bit geeky about these things and OH finds many interesting angles for photos so he's happy too. We have a vague plan to cover all the area churches over time, no especial aims with the results yet but who knows what may transpire :0)

I'm currently attempting daily to fast 8pm to the following noon and walk for at least half an hour before breaking the fast, just to acquire some fitness before Winter Sets In.

One day at a time, one step at a time :0)

Hi Azureblue may I join?
I've just celebrated my 60th of course I was going to be three stones lighter. Yeah right. I have dabbled with 5-2, discovered it is doable but have never stuck to it.
I'm doing a fast tomorrow and determined to stick with it as I have had it with the usual slimming clubs and if I really want to be a slim senior I must stay with it. As I read the other day, you don't see obese 80 year olds.
Will report back later on in the week

As I read the other day, you don't see obese 80 year olds.
Will report back later on in the week

This quote is quite deceptive. While you don't see many obese 80 year olds, you do see a surprising number of 80 year olds who were obese in their 50s. This was discussed by the author of a study of Centenarians, who commented that over 40% of his centenarians had been obese in middle age, which had greatly surprised him. http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/05/even-the-long-lived-smoke-drink-and-dont-exercise/

The 80 year olds are rarely obese because metabolic inefficiency often leads to wasting at that age and because older people lose their appetite as they lose their sense of smell along with other senses like hearing.

My mom made it into her 90s, and had been quite fat in her 50s. She melted away to almost nothing between 80 and 90. My dad who had always been slim turned skeletal. A case could be made that having a bit of fat on your bones in late middle age is protective, as it will give you something to live on if you get ill. The epidemiological data suggests that after age 70 weight loss for any reason, including dieting, correlates with a higher likelihood of death.

Which is why I am on my very last diet at 66.

Good on you @Elliephant and that makes perfect sense @peebles.
I've never made it down to my imagined perfect weight of 65kgs, just touched on 69kgs a few times then boinged back up to 70-72kgs, currently 72.5kgs due to Autumn Eating Syndrome, hence the determined burst of 16:8 and walking every day!
Currently size 16, I had started buying size 20 when I discovered 5:2 fasting, so I'm grateful to Dr Moseley and Horizon bringing it to our attention when they did.
Holding on to this size is my intention for the next 30 years :0)

Step right in @elliephant welcome to SSS! Good to meet you!
@peebles that is fascinating..
I assumed there were no obese old folk coz they had died with fat related illnesses.
Chilling to read that any weight loss,including dieting weight loss, after age 70,correlates to earlier death!

Shucks!Me too,peebs, am deffo losing it now in my midsixties! And not regaining it either...x

Re the not getting too thin after 70. I lost the 14 pounds you see on my tracker at age 72. I don't think I need to worry too much about this because I gained it all after age 65! I think of the loss as getting back to the stasis I had for many years of being a (US) size 12. After the weight gain, I stayed at size 14 for several years and am now back to my former size.

From what I've been reading in the media, it does seem beneficial for the elderly to have a little reserve of poundage to carry them through accidents and illness, so I definitely won't be trying to get down to the size 10 of many years ago.

Thanks for bring up this issue, peebles.

Very interesting, I have known quite a few chubby octogenarians in my lifetime but by the time they reach the 90's the weight drops away. I am trying to be sensible and not aim too low although at 68 and a size 8 many people may consider I am too low already. We can only do what we think is best.

"You are old, Father William, the young man said."
Well today I really feel it. Two grandsons, age 7 and 4, all day. Took them to visit cousins, grandsons age 10 and 8, this afternoon.
They all loved it and I'm totally exhausted!

Some of you - @Azureblue, @Nessie, are a couple I believe - might have 10 or so young 'uns, but I have 17!
Well, they aren't related to me, but they are my daughter's 10 and 11 year old students. They are very sweet, and I spend most Wednesdays in daughter's classroom helping out.
In just a couple of weeks, I'll be old ehough to officially join you doddering old ladies on this thread. That's scarier than Halloween. Of course the "doddering" includes Nessie who runs races, and @Callyanna, who was #4 on the Fitbit leaderboard last time I looked. So maybe I shouldn't be so scared....