Omega's journey

aaawww that is sweeet Margaret and Happy Anniversary!!!

Im sorry it has been sooo long...Im having a hard time knowing up from down lately, LOL!!!
 
Glad you had an enjoyable anniversary together. I also think it's fantastic that you both still enjoy each other's company. So many people after 22 yrs would rather be out with their friends than home with their spouses. :)

We do not really celebrate our anniversary of meeting each other. This is actually the first year we've been together for it since 2004, as D is normally in Aussie most of the summer. We just mentioned that it was 11yrs, and that was it. :biggrinjester:
 
Hi Omega,
You are an inspiration in more ways than one. My boyfriend and I are waiting until I finish school (Nov. 2010) to get engaged, and then married. We are so happy right now even though we are 6 hours apart, and most of our relationship is spent on the phone. I hope we will be as happy as we are now, and as you seem to be with your husband after 22 years. Belated congratulations. Did you do anything special?

Another question regarding weight loss. I seem to be really struggling lately (for the past few weeks). I'm wondering how you were able to stay motivated long term? Did you ever get discouraged? Ever take any steps backwards? If yes, how did you overcome it? If no, can you recommend anything anyway? You always have such good advice. thank you in advance.
 
Thanks for visiting. Thanks for the anniversary wishes.

Cerella
I know how busy you are. I wish that I got time to visit your diary more too. Life, exercise etc all get in the way for all of us compared to what we would like to get done.

Kimberly
Rod and I are a pair of softies. We always celebrate 26th April which was the date that we met.

Gonnagetabs
Why wait until 2010 to get engaged? If the agreement is there to marry - and you have been going out together a while - why not announce your engagement? You dont need an expensive ring to get engaged you know. It is all about agreement and commitment and has absolutely nothing to do with expensive purchases. Rod proposed to me after we had known each other for six weeks. I will admit that I thought that people might think that was a bit quick - so we didnt tell people straight away. We announced our engagement when we had known each other for three months (on my birthday).

We didnt go out anywhere fancy to celebrate our anniversary. We just spent the day together. We seem to find that we can have special days together where we dont do anything special.

I was most discouraged when I had my plateau back in September. It was when I was trying to get things moving from that I found this forum. I had tried all sorts of things. My doctor told me that if I was eating in the way that I described and doing the exercise that I described I had lost all the weight that I would ever lose. This did nothing to cheer me up! My weight was about 205 pounds when she told me that!

I did have a binge about that time when I ate a lot of bad things one day. I told people and got a lot of phone calls the next day to distract me.

Thankfully - I surfed the internet, found the forum, found some answers and was able to change things about a bit. I started eating my weetabix about that time.

On one level - I am a bit discouraged today. I know that I havent got the right to feel like this because I am luckier than so many people - to have the end of a major project firmly in my sights. I get terrible water retention that basically hits on about day 23 of my cycle and takes my weight up. It basically writes off the next 12 days of the month until after I have had my period - it takes that long to shoot up and then make its way back to where it was. It feels like I lose half of my month.

Last Tuesday was day 23. I weighed 132.2 pounds. Today I weigh 136.0 pounds. Since then I have been good with my food every day and I have walked over 11 miles every day. I was fully consistent - while many would have taken a day off for either the anniversary or day 1 of my period.

I must admit - I went to the chemist today and have bought some tablets (aqua ban) - and I will see if they improve the water retention aspect of things. I know that I have burnt as much fat as ever during the past week, and the scales are just telling me about the weight of water, but I am human and would prefer to see a nicer number. If it does work - great! If it doesnt - I suppose things should look brighter by this time next week.

Patience is a virtue and one that we would all benefit from embracing.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega said:
Thanks for the anniversary wishes Angel.

Things certainly have changed over the past year.

The funny thing is that by my last anniversary in July - I was feeling quite slim. I was down to 16st8.2 from 21st so I had lost almost four and a half stone.

This year was definitely my thinnest wedding anniversary ever. I started gaining weight just before the wedding. My weight just kept zooming up and up. I was really quite big long before my first anniversary.
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i feel the same way before my birthday. last few years i have always been a bit down about my weight at my birthday and then last year i felt good after i lost some weight accidently and this year i am even thinner so its going to be better and hopefully next year will be awsome. it is amazing how far you have come. you have been so consistent. its brilliant :hurray: you should be proud.

The weather is really nice today - and if Rod was at work I would definitely do my walking outside. I know that he would prefer me to be at home though so I will do it on the treadmill. With it being in the living room - I am still here with him. It is quite nice that we still enjoy each others company after all these years.
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aww that is sweet! whats good weather when you can spend some time together with someone whos company you enjoy. :)

hope you have a good week Marg! don't be too down and discouraged. x
 
Don't worry about the weight gain. I gain and lose 4lbs of water all too often. It'll go back down soon. It seems patience isn't a virtue of either of us. :D
 
:waving:Hi Margaret! Congratulations on your anniversary. I do believe that you and Rod married well!

I am so pleased that your beloved is making good use of your treadmill. It can only be good! And once he sees himself shrinking, I'll bet it will be hard for you to get a turn on the treadmill at all! hee hee

Thanks so much for stopping by to check out my reunion photos. My losses have been so small lately that it doesn't seem the photos reflect much of a difference, but I just felt so very pretty in that dress!

Have a wonderful day, and try not to let evil water gain because of TOM get you down. Frankly, I wish TOM (and Aunt Flow) would take a long walk off a short pier! :banghead: Aaah, well, at least it means the plumbing is working to some degree.

Warmest regards from Canada:driving:
Janice
 
Good morning! Thanks for your advice yesterday. I'm sorry to hear about your struggles with your TOM. That must be really frustrating to see a gain on the scale every month despite doing everything right. Do your measurements go up to? Don't give up (I'm sure you won't). It will come back down again. And you're getting so close to your goal. I hope the medication works though so you don't have to deal with this. Have a great day!
 
I hate the water retention too--it's so frustrating to know that your weight should be moving in one direction, but seeing it go in the other. I've used a water pill before (prescription for my PCOS), and it does make the numbers look much nicer!

Speaking of PCOS, I couldn't remember if you'd ever tried metformin. My doctor just prescribed it for me, and it seems to be helping, though of course it's too soon to tell.

Sophie
 
Thanks for visiting.

Angel
You are getting lots of great compliments about your figure and appearance. It is little wonder that you feel good about yourself. I always said that we would look great for our birthdays in July. Neither of us have finished the task - but we have both made an appreciable difference to things.

Kimberly
I am beginning to suspect that neither of us are as virtuous as we would like to be. It is annoying when water pretends to be fat and spoils our nice weight.

Janice
No wonder you are hooked on your treadmill. Earlier tonight I hopped on for a quarter of a mile just for fun while I was waiting for something. It was so convenient this morning. I knew that I had WW this morning and I prefer to get as much of my walk in before WW so I get any slight weightloss that the exercise gives me (even though my weight was sky-high). Well I was up early so I started on the treadmill at 6am. I took a break half way through to get Rod off to work. I hopped back on as he left and had completed 7 miles at 3.7 in good time to walk to WW.

Your photo was absolutely brilliant. You did look so good in at that reunion. I meant to say in your diary - when you looked as good as that - I am sure that your husband didnt mind spending time with people that he hardly knows. There would be an ego trip in it for him with the fact that he was with you. He probably basked in the envy of other men.

Gonnagetabs
My measurements do indeed go up. I dont take measurements at that time but I know that they go up. The jeans that I am wearing were feeling quite baggy a week ago. I could even fasten the next size down! Now my jeans are feeling quite tight. I couldnt be bothered to take the aqua-ban today. I gave up in disgust after my weight went up again today after I took a maximum dose yesterday. I will save the remaining tablets for next month. They might work better if I take them from when I think that I begin to retain water - which is when they anticipate me starting to take them. I suspect that I left it too late this month.

Sophie
I am intrigued to hear that you get a water pill for your PCOS. I know that we retain water due to hormonal changes. It makes sense that PCOS girls may experience more than their fair share of something hormonal.

I havent ever been put on metformin. I am pleased to hear that it seems to be helping. It is always interesting to hear of things that are being beneficial for others.

They have spent years telling me that things should get better if I could bring my weight down to the normal range. All that I can say is that my BMI is normal and I am as hairy as ever!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Aww...poor darling. I can't believe that nasty scale hasn't budged in the right direction yet. Anyday now, though, I'm sure. :)

On the treadmill at 6am? Is there nothing you won't do to bring your weight down? :D I'll bet that if drinking a cup of tea would make you instantly lose 5lbs, you still wouldn't drink it--or would you? :smilielol5:

I think about you everytime I see or use the pedometer and calculator you gave me. And when I eat or look at the WW candies, or lots of other things. I think of you often, my dear friend. :)
 
Dont worry Margaret, you look great and that's what counts. We (meaning me too) must TRY to remember this, as hard as it can be, when the scale is being nasty. No water weight can ever possibly compare to all you have lost and what you have accomplished. I mean really, its absolutely astonishing everytime I think of it. How you've changed your habits so dramatically and what an extraordinarily and unusually disciplined person that you are. Its just incredible actually!

That makes me sort of curious. Have your eating habits changed so much, or is it the walking that you think had the biggest effect. What were an average days meals for you then?
 
Thanks for visiting.

Kimberly
Once the scale decides that it is going to hate me for a fortnight - it does it in style! I really wish that scales just gave a reading for our fat without the water confusing the issue.

You are right - I still wouldnt drink tea. Now if they had something that could make you drop 50 pounds without any hard work - I would have probably managed to force it down three times instead of the fun that I have had last year and this. Quite how I would have coped with maintenance is another issue.

We often think of you too. In this life we never make enough true friends that can understand us - it is such a shame when they are in another country.

Claudia
Thanks for the compliment. It is funny - when we step on the scale - our first inclination is to compare the weight that we see to the low weight that we know that we have recently achieved - and not to our starting weight. The fact is that it is inevitable that if we have not achieved a new low we have an opportunity to feel disappointed if we do this.

I am pretty diciplined in an undiciplined way. Cereals are a total weak spot for me. I have plenty of it - and I seem to crave more. I try to channel my desires to over-eat into healthy food which saves me on a daily basis. I see people on the forum telling each other not to eat more than two servings of fruit a day - and I think "what must they think of my food???!!!" They also tell each other not to eat after 7pm and I know that I eat a whole ton of food at night (in fact I eat pretty much all the time).

My exercise levels have gone through the roof compared to the old me. I think that my stepcount was about as low as it could get.

My food was not of the dramatic quantities that many would expect for someone that weighed what I weighed. It was not however particularly healthy. I often worked longer hours than really I should have as did Rod - and ended up resorting to take-aways quite often. Take-away curry, chinese or pizzas often ended up being eaten. I also depended on convenience food more often than I should have. Pre-packaged meals that are something that you can pop into a microwave and serve often were used. We certainly paid the price with our health - and it was not a cheap way of eating either.

We did eat desserts and sweets that would not help our figures - but not vastly more than many people much smaller than us. Neither Rod or I have consumed much in the way of empty calories from alcohol for many years. We have drank very moderately or not at all for almost all the time that we have been married.

The lessons that I have to learn into the future are to maintain a level of activity, to avoid most convenience food and severely limit take-aways.

Syren
Thanks for the compliment.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Friday 11/07/08:

Weight 9st7.6 i.e. 133.6 pounds

At least 3 hours exercise walking.
Pedometer readings at end of day:
---Steps = 30,162
---Distance = 11.66 miles

My Food / Drink:
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
oatibix
2 * Shape no fat yoghurt
cottage cheese
ham, tomatoes, cucumber
1 banana
2 pears
2 apples
4 clementines
strawberries
sugar free jelly
sugar free jelly made from gelatine, blueberries, sugar free apple squash
sugar free gum
some WW sweets
 
Saturday 12/07/08 - my 22nd wedding anniversary:

weight 9st8.6 i.e. 134.6 pounds

At least 3 hours exercise walking.
Pedometer readings at end of day:
---Steps = 30,956
---Distance = 11.96 miles

My Food / Drink:
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
2 * Shape no fat yoghurt
baked potato, quark
roast pork, gravy, carrot, onion, cauliflower, parsnip, apple sauce
1 banana
2 pears
1 apple
2 clementines
sugar free jelly
sugar free gum
some WW sweets
 
Sunday 13/07/08:

weight 9st8.2 i.e. 134.2 pounds

At least 3 hours exercise walking.
Pedometer readings at end of day:
---Steps = 30,346
---Distance = 11.73 miles

My Food / Drink:
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
3 * Shape no fat yoghurt
baked potato, cottage cheese
roast chicken breast, gravy, carrot, onion, cauliflower, broccoli
1 banana
2 pears
1 apple
1 plum
sugar free jelly
sugar free jelly made from gelatine, grapes, sugar free apple squash
sugar free gum
some WW sweets
 
Monday 14/07/08:

weight 9st10.0 i.e. 136.0 pounds

At least 3 hours exercise walking.
Pedometer readings at end of day:
---Steps = 33,608
---Distance = 12.99 miles

My Food / Drink:
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
coco pops
2 * Shape no fat yoghurt
cottage cheese
dusted salmon, tin of baked beans
1 banana
2 pears
1 apple
2 plums
2 clementines
strawberries
sugar free jelly
some WW sweets
 
Tuesday 15/07/08:

Weight 9st10.2 i.e. 136.2 pounds

Drank extra water as I am sick of all the water retention I have had this week due to TOM.

At least 3 hours exercise walking.
Pedometer readings at end of day:
---Steps = 34,096
---Distance = 13.18 miles

My Food / Drink:
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
coco pops
2 * Shape no fat yoghurt
cottage cheese
dusted salmon, mange tout, fine green beans, carrots, onion, cauliflower, celery
1 banana
2 pears
1 apple
1 plum
1 peach
home made sugar free jelly made with gelatine, cherries and cherry & berry squash
some WW sweets
 
Omega said:
You are getting lots of great compliments about your figure and appearance. It is little wonder that you feel good about yourself. I always said that we would look great for our birthdays in July. Neither of us have finished the task - but we have both made an appreciable difference to things.
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yeh i think you're right. i have never felt this content with my body and the way i look and it must be because of the compliments. actually i have had compliments in life but i never believed them. i think i believe them more now because of the way i feel myself. we have come a long way. :cheers2:
hope you had a good day. x
 
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