JAQUANAH

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OLDER BUT BETTER


Over 70? Unbelievable! I can't help getting older but I can work at getting better. Part of that process is finally making myself eat what is good for me instead of what I like best.
Over 70? Unbelievable! I can't help getting older but I can work at getting better. Part of that process is finally making myself eat what is good for me instead of what I like best.

Member Since: 6/16/2010

My Goals:
SparkPeople has given me a goal of 12 pounds to lose by September 9th. I don't think I'll really make that goal. I may change the date to November or December. I think a slow weight loss is better for older people. The skin doesn't have the elasticity it used to have and takes time to tighten up.

My Program:
 My goal is to eat right and exercise so I can continue to be active in my old age. Hard to believe it's already here but where there's life there's hope and I'm hoping to lose weight and learn to exercise.


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My real name is Sharon. JAQUANAH is just my name in Cherokee. It is pronounced Juh-Kwah-nuh. A worker at Sequoyah's home in Oklahoma showed me the name using the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah invented a syllabary, which is not an alphabet but symbols to represent sounds, so the Cherokee could have a written language. The username JAQUANAH is a tribute to my Cherokee heritage.

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  • v TRESSWANN
    Thanks for the good wishes
    3236 days ago
  • v LIBBYG7
    Thank you for your kind comment about my leaving the team. I wish it were different.

    Big hugs.
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    3252 days ago
  • v MARTY19
    I must have misspelled it. It is a Greek dish.

    Marty
    3334 days ago
  • v ZANNACHAN
    Thanks for the goodie! And the well wishes.

    My grandmother is 93 and I have long said that I want to be like her when I get old(er, LOL!). She lived independently until about a year ago; now she lives in an assisted living place because the house finally got to be too much but she's still relatively active and still doing things she's long enjoyed, including detailed beading and needle work. She's pretty healthy for a woman even a decade or two younger. She did have a heart attack about 15 years ago, but she did everything that the doctor told her--exercised, changed her diet, etc. I don't want a heart attack, but I hope that I am able to live as long and healthy a life.
    3415 days ago
  • v ZANNACHAN
    Thanks for your comment on my blog!

    You know, I read an article awhile back about how we tend to do what the people around us do. Which can be hard when the people around us aren't doing healthy things--like it can be hard to say no to that cupcake when everyone else is eating one. But at the same time, if even one person makes a change, there is a chance that others will follow. You go out to eat and you order a salad, maybe the next person will too (or at least think twice before ordering the chilli cheese fries). I know that I have found in my circle of friends that seems to be what happened; when I started only one other friend was trying to make healthy choices; now most of them are. 5 years ago, none of us had any regular workouts; now, again, most of us do. We help each other, encourage each other, and inspire each other.

    I don't have kids, so that isn't a factor for me. Growing up, I was raised not to waste food, but my dad usually could finish anything we didn't--not a healthy trend. But for me now.... I'm a big believer in left overs, so I'm okay wiht serving smallish portions, eating until I'm full, and then refrigerating the left overs for later, usually lunch. Maybe that will help you balance the kids with your husband's wish to not eat food? Teach them to serve small portions, that they can have seconds if they are still hungry, but not to waste food by taking more than they can eat.

    My biggest challenge as far as meals go, but not one that they mentioned, is that I eat too fast, a hard impulse to stop because not only is it something I've been doing since I was a kid (in grade school because we wanted to go outside to play, in middle school and high school because lunches were short--only 18 minutes, less really because I had band which always cut into lunch, and in college because I rarely had more than 20 minutes to eat lunch and get to my next class. And I have had a number of jobs that gave me only 15 minutes to eat. But also because I have so much I need to do, all the time, that it's really hard to not resent taking time out to eat, let alone slow down. But if you eat quickly, it's really easy to over eat. That has nothing to do with being married, though.
    3415 days ago
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