Serene September WISH 2025

[ShannyMcB]

We're a group of dis-ers of all ages and geographic locations who are here to support and encourage each other in our healthier living goals. Whether you are looking to exercise more, lose weight, eat better, work on self-care or any other healthy living goal, please join us!

We have weekly volunteer hosts and typically follow a Monday-Sunday format:
MOTIVATION MONDAY - TOPIC TUESDAY - WOOHOO WEDNESDAY - THANKFUL THURSDAY - FREE FOR ALL FRIDAY - SOCIAL SATURDAY - SELF-CARE SUNDAY


September hosts
1-7 @ShannyMcB (for now)
8-14 @PollyannaMom
15-21
22-28
29-5

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'll start by volunteering for week 2 (Sept 8-14) - but I'm pretty flexible for September, so I can trade if needed.

 

[ShannyMcB]

Motivation Monday
How are you keeping up your momentum as it starts to cool down early?

 

[ShannyMcB]

Topic Tuesday

Since we haven’t done it in awhile how about a good old introduce yourself?

 

[piglet1979]

I am not able to take any of the weeks open. I will be having surgery on the 15th so I may not be on for a little bit. I am so nervous about this surgery. Much more than any others I have had. I am having a hysterectomy and I have just heard bad stories about recovery but I have also heard a lot of good ones too. I just need to stay off of Reddit.

To introduce myself -- I am Stephanie and I live in Northern Ohio. I have been married for almost 21 years (October 9th) and have 2 great now adult children who are going to make me go grey this year or have a heart attack, I am not sure which yet. DS is 19 and moved out this year to live in a house with his frat friends on campus. I am hoping the older guys in the house will keep DS motivated to do his school work. He is only about 5 minutes from us and all seems to be going well. For awhile he was still coming home to take a shower because he couldn't figure out how to get hot water, LOL.

DD just turned 18 a little over a week ago. She is doing great but may not be making great choices. They are not horrible either but would be much easier if she went away to college. After only being 18 for about 5 days, I got met with "I am now 18 and I don't have to tell you everything". Not what I expected from her when I was just asking a question having a conversation. She is still telling me where she is going and with who so I am trying to not fully pry as I don't want her to stop telling me things. It has been very stressful this last week but she is doing nothing that I didn't do at her age and I didn't do anything bad. I did make her listen to a one side conservation on Friday. I needed to say my peace and make sure she heard me. I didn't need her to respond just to listen and she did and it turned into a nice conversation. I wasn't telling her what to do or that I disapproved which really helped. Both DH and I are handling it outwardly great but internally not so much. I am really not liking this stage. It is weird. She wants to be all independent but yet she still wants me to go to her doctor's appointments. She did for the first time Friday night, go to the pharmacy and talk to them about getting one of her meds that she was out of. So little by little we are getting there but we are just in this weird middle phase.

 

[Oneanne]

I am not able to take any of the weeks open. I will be having surgery on the 15th so I may not be on for a little bit. I am so nervous about this surgery. Much more than any others I have had. I am having a hysterectomy and I have just heard bad stories about recovery but I have also heard a lot of good ones too. I just need to stay off of Reddit.

To introduce myself -- I am Stephanie and I live in Northern Ohio. I have been married for almost 21 years (October 9th) and have 2 great now adult children who are going to make me go grey this year or have a heart attack, I am not sure which yet. DS is 19 and moved out this year to live in a house with his frat friends on campus. I am hoping the older guys in the house will keep DS motivated to do his school work. He is only about 5 minutes from us and all seems to be going well. For awhile he was still coming home to take a shower because he couldn't figure out how to get hot water, LOL.

DD just turned 18 a little over a week ago. She is doing great but may not be making great choices. They are not horrible either but would be much easier if she went away to college. After only being 18 for about 5 days, I got met with "I am now 18 and I don't have to tell you everything". Not what I expected from her when I was just asking a question having a conversation. She is still telling me where she is going and with who so I am trying to not fully pry as I don't want her to stop telling me things. It has been very stressful this last week but she is doing nothing that I didn't do at her age and I didn't do anything bad. I did make her listen to a one side conservation on Friday. I needed to say my peace and make sure she heard me. I didn't need her to respond just to listen and she did and it turned into a nice conversation. I wasn't telling her what to do or that I disapproved which really helped. Both DH and I are handling it outwardly great but internally not so much. I am really not liking this stage. It is weird. She wants to be all independent but yet she still wants me to go to her doctor's appointments. She did for the first time Friday night, go to the pharmacy and talk to them about getting one of her meds that she was out of. So little by little we are getting there but we are just in this weird middle phase.

Holding positive thoughts that your surgery will go well.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Motivation Monday
How are you keeping up your momentum as it starts to cool down early?

I've been switching my treadmill time from morning to evening a lot lately, and I think the variety is helping.

Topic Tuesday
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Since we haven’t done it in awhile how about a good old introduce yourself?

I'm Nicole, 55 next month, and I live in Massachusetts. My DS is 24, and I agree with @piglet1979 that older does not mean easier.

My weight has been very slowly creeping up as I age, so my health goals are to get that in check, and to maintain strength and flexibility.

My hobbies are reading and photography, and I like doing various crafty things as well.

 

[Oneanne]

This morning I saw a graphic that showed my latitude will lose 90 minutes of sunlight in September... and that's just factoring in sunrise and sunset, we're also getting to the point where there are overcast grey days when you never actually see the sun. Fun times.

For introductions: Hi, I'm Lizanne a single almost 70 year old lady (how in the heck did that happen?) living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, just outside of Seattle. I've struggled with my weight all my life, going all the way back to girlhood. One of the most effective life hacks for neurodivergent people is called "body doubling" where you have a partner to do things with... I definitely need that with food management, and health management as well for that matter.

I was on a pretty good weight loss track, but blew that up over the holiday weekend, so my motivation this week is to get back on track with the food I'm putting into my body.

 

[ShannyMcB]

Might a suggest prepping a batch of these @piglet1979
https://happyhealthymama.com/skinny-buckeyes.html
I make them for relatives having any sort of abdominal surgery. The chickpeas take care of…regularity post-op. Plus they are super yummy. Make them into bars if you don’t feel like rolling them. Chocolate can be drizzled instead of melted and dunked.

 

[ShannyMcB]

Shannon from the lovely state of RI, early 40s busy working mom of 3. Weight has always been an issue, more pronounced by the fact I danced for over 20 years. While I am not trying to get the numbers on the scale down per se I am working on toning and getting back my abdominal strength after 3 c-sections. Also working hard on my mental/emotional health, which is a bit extra tricky given having two neuro-divergent kiddos at home. Learning as I go and appreciating the support of you fine folks here.