Omega's journey

Omega said:
Thanks Kim and Stacy for your good wishes.

I am shattered after walking in the pouring rain all day - or at least that is the way that it seems.

Love
Margaret
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Shattered?? WHY? because it's dreary?? or because you don't seem to walk as many steps during the rain? Don't worry sweets, just pick right back up tomorrow and don't worry about it! I have what they call, weather depression and when it's raining for more than 2 straight days I get in a real funk, I HATE dark days, I'm a sunshine girl myself. But, I just try and plug through as I have to keep remembering two things, ONE: it won't last much longer, and TWO: we wouldn't have the gorgeous green trees and flowers if it wasn't for the rain, so I just deal with it the best I can. Chin up and keep smiling, your doing a fabulous job :rotflmao:
Kim
 
Hi Kim

Thanks for your concern.

I too am a sunshine girl and much prefer the dry weather. I do try and see it as a temporary event.

I possibly used the wrong word with shattered - possibly exhausted with a strong overtime of "at times I hate English weather when it rains and will not stop". I am about to post my diary entry - so you will see what I mean.

I forced myself to do a full stepcount - although I do admit that when someone offered me a lift home from yoga I was sorely tempted.

The fact is that the stepcount is central to my weight loss project - part of me does not really know what would happen if I didnt go out one day. Apart from 1 week in the Spring when I was ill, went to the doctors and was on antibiotics I have been out walking every day since this began in February - building things up. I have failed on calorie counting diets in the past after once going over. That is why I do not count calories.

I suppose that is why I have already set a low but achievable target for this weekend.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Tuesday 09/10/07

Setting the scene – before the day began I was told by husband that I needed to go to Tescos Tuesday as things needed to be bought and he wanted me in the house from 10 a.m. onwards Wednesday to take a delivery for him. Also continuous heavy rain was forecast. Sensible people decided not to go out!

It was torrential rain starting overnight and kept up all day. I set out about 9 a.m. – walked in the rain until my yoga class at 11.30 – did yoga from 11.30 until 1 p.m. (in wet clothes) and then had to walk to Tescos in the rain and then home about 2.30 p.m. in the rain. The road outside was one giant puddle. I wore my storm jacket but was soaked to the skin and still needed to change into dry clothes the minute I got home.

At 3.30p.m. I went out in the heavy rain again. I walked for about an hour and got soaked to the skin again. Again – I had to change when I got home.

At 5.30 p.m. husband came home so we went out walking again.

I am now having to fit in an extra load of washing / drying on Wednesday to deal with all the clothes that we went through today.

Husband had already caught cold – so we have both started taking Echinacea for a few days (I always catch these things from him – and I sneezed before the end of the day). I will also have honey in my diet too.

Oh – and on top of everything I have to monitor my toilet habits as I have become inclined to constipation – hence the excessive amounts of raisins. I don’t like taking laxatives even though my doctor has told me that it is sensible when the occasion arises – I am nervous of developing bulimia. If I was counting calories the honey and raisins would be adding up here.


General Data:

Morning walk = 7.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one lap my husband came too)
Extra exercises = yoga class
Weight = 14st 1.0lbs (i.e. 197 pounds)
Steps = 31,322
Distance = 11.61 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements – plus Echinacea - added garlic to the daily list which is now
Multivitamin
Starflower oil
Omega 3
garlic
Continued my creaming regime – missed off a bio-oil massage.


Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
1 glass (200ml) grapefruit juice – 82 calories
1 glass (200ml) orange juice – 92 calories
150g crumbed ham, half a cucumber, 5 home grown tomatoes
3 large handfuls of raisins
1 large mounded teaspoon honey (Greek – from my friend Maria’s bees)
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Hi sweetie! :hug2:

What a Tuesday you had! :eek: :eek2:

I wonder if you'd have better luck with using benefiber - fiber tablets - etc.?

Even a slice or 2 of multi-grain - whole wheat bread added to your plan?

~*Best Wishes For A Great Wed!*~ :)

*Hang in there!*

*Stacy
 
My special secret... Kiwis for breakfast! If you have 1 or 2 Kiwi fruits for breakfast you will go to the toilet like a clockwork!
Love, Cat
 
Thanks Stacy and Cat for your suggestions. I will be giving both these a try in the near future.

I never had problems in nearly 48 years with at times a less than perfect diet.

All of a sudden back in June I started getting some quite nasty abdominal pains after I had been eating a more balanced diet than I had in years and certainly plenty of fruit.

After we hit on what the most likely cause was - I started on the dry fruit and increased the water.

I hope that today is going well for you both.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega said:
Thanks Stacy and Cat for your suggestions. I will be giving both these a try in the near future.

I never had problems in nearly 48 years with at times a less than perfect diet.

All of a sudden back in June I started getting some quite nasty abdominal pains after I had been eating a more balanced diet than I had in years and certainly plenty of fruit.

After we hit on what the most likely cause was - I started on the dry fruit and increased the water.

I hope that today is going well for you both.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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Watermellon ..takes five to twenty minutes and than I am a gonner .. lol so you might want to try it .. I just eat three slices and I am yowser...

You walked in the rain ..you absorbed the water .. holy meow ..what a day for you!

You must have been wetter than wet!
I am so happy your husband is coming out with you :)
best wishes hun
love yas
always
natalie jo :hug2:
 
Hi Natalie Jo,

Thanks for visiting my diary again.

I will certainly try the watermelon suggestion soon too. Although obviously the next few days are going to be a bit unpredictable diet wise with being away.

I know on Friday my food is going to be really high because we are eating at a friends house - and I am not going to make friends suffer.

Tuesday was one of the most horrible days' walking all year. In some ways it was the worst yet - because in the past I was covering less milage and therefore out for less time.

I have to say that I am really delighted that my husband has started coming for a walk in the evening. No matter how much mileage I have already done - I will do more if he is willing to walk. He has been out for a little walk each night for about a week and a half. He weighed himself earlier in the week and he had lost a couple of pounds. Dont misunderstand - I will still love him if his weight doubles - just I worry about him with his father having died so young. He knows that I view his walking as a present to me.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Margaret
You may have covered this in an earlier post, but do you have a treadmill in your home? I use mine during our long, cold :eh: winters. Set it right in front of the telly (in the rec room downstairs) and walk off the pounds whilst watching Oprah! LOL Works like a charm.

I have a rule about watching one of my favorite shows called The Biggest Loser: I must walk/jog in place during the entire show! It is such a great way to get in some more exercise. By the end, the sweat is dripping off of me, and I've had a great time!

You are working hard and deserve to be losing lots of pounds and stones. I hope your hubby irons out his WL issues and joins you, so you can enjoy a long, happy, healthy marriage!

Cheers
Janice
 
Hi Janice,

I dont have a treadmill at home - and I cannot really think of anywhere to put one if I did. We do not have houses as spacious as you in the "new world". My house has one living room and I think that a treadmill would pretty much mean that there wasn't room for us!!!!

My husband has muttered about maybe getting one for me sometime - but the only place that we could put it would be in the garage at the bottom of the garden. This is less than ideal as it is a/ not weatherproof - a lot of repairs are definitely needed (e.g. new roof, new door) and b/ full of stuff e.g. boxes with a tarpaulin over from when we moved back here. There is no heating there even if we had the repair work done - so I cannot imagine it to be very inviting - even then.

The only real solution for a treadmill is to join a gym and they are pretty expensive - and in the past when we have joined gyms we have virtually never gone after the first month or so of enthusiasm.

I am certainly going to have to find some solution to getting my steps in during the worst of the weather. Maybe a shorter walk combined with a lengthy spell of dancing around the house!!!!!!

As far as working hard and losing weight goes - you know that this is harder for us PCOS ladies. If we just work as hard as others when they lose weight - the chances are that we will gain weight - or stand still. It is not fair - but that is just the way that it is. We have proved that we can do it - we just have to do it tough.

Thank you for your good wishes regarding my husband.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Wednesday 10/10/07

Plenty of puddles and it was a bit overcast but thankfully not raining. I set out at 7.30 because I had to be home by 10 a.m.
Took 2 parcel deliveries before I could do my afternoon walks.

The weather stayed ok all day.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one lap my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 14st 0.0lbs (i.e. 196 pounds)
Steps = 28,860
Distance = 10.7 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements – plus Echinacea
Continued my creaming regime


Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
40 black grapes
1 glass (200ml) grapefruit juice – 82 calories
1 glass (200ml) orange juice – 92 calories
120g cooked ham
150g dry weight rice, cond mushroom soup (236 cal), 375g mushrooms, half an onion, garlic, fry light
1 large handfull of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Hi Stacy

Thanks for your good wishes.

Am currently playing catch-up as we have headed north for my school reunion on Saturday.

I hope that everything is going well for you.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thursday 11/10/07

Foggy – but dry. Did my long walk before packing. Then six and a half hour journey and a late evening meal – over by 8.30 p.m. but impossible to eat earlier.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 14st 1.2lbs (i.e. 197.2 pounds)
Steps = 21,693
Distance = 8.04 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements – plus Echinacea
Continued my creaming regime – but missed night-time moisturising


Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
Quite a few red grapes
1 glass (200ml) grapefruit with orange juice
120g cooked ham
Roast chicken, boiled potatoes, carrots, parsnips, cauliflower, cabbage, gravy
2 large handfull of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
I hope you have a safe trip/great time! :hug2:

Will you be takin' pics? If so I hope you share! :D

~Happy Friday!~

*Stacy
 
Hi Stacy

Thanks

I might allow a photo - although I very rarely do. If I do I will post it.

I got a new bra today. The last one I bought was too small for me when I got it - it was a size 50G. Today I got measured for a new one. The one I bought was 42H. I decided to wear it home.

I checked out your diary a bit - liked the photos of your son and where you walk. Also Zu-zu as a baby. Time is limited so didnt get quite to the end but please accept my best wishes for a great day.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Friday 12/10/07

Managed to get out for a walk in the morning. In the evening ate at the home of friends and had no real choice of menu.

Delighted with new bra bought today. Measured at the shop – the lady believed that the best size would have been 40I – but they didn’t have one in stock and the smaller cupped 40 that I tried on was too small (although it fastened) – so the best that I could buy there today was 42H. It was a vast improvement on the 50G that I have been wearing.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.2 miles.
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 14st 0.8lbs (i.e. 196.8 pounds)
Steps = 25,009
Distance = 9.27 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements – plus Echinacea
Continued my creaming regime


Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
2 large handfuls of raisins
Chicken korma, pilau rice, chapatti
lemon tart
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Great job with the water, food, and exercise! :hug2:

*WooT!* :D

I hate bra shopping! lol

Bein' flat is no fun..:rotflmao:

It's so hard to find a 34 B I can actually fill out.. Seems like they throw a tag on that says 34 B, but I think they are bigger than that.. :confused:

Guess I should be happy I have that now! Before havin' a baby I was a
32 A /Training Bra!! :rotflmao:

****

Have A Great Weekend Sweetie!

:)

*Stacy
 
Hi Stacy,

Thanks. I have seen one old schoolfriend already and she has just gone up to virtually the same weight that I have come down to so I know that I am not going to be the only cuddly lady there.

Re bra sizes - if I could give you some of my content I really would. I have a pair of giant half empty bags out front that you have to bundle into the bra. I cannot ever imagine them looking normal without surgery.

I am envious of your 34Bs.

Hope your weekend is going well. I will look in on your diary again when I get home.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega,
I was going to talk about bosoms at my blog but I see the conversation has already started over here!
I am what my Dr. calls a bosom-wonder! Because of the dance training my puberty was delayed (I had ony had very few periods when I had my accident at 18 years old) and when I had the accident I had very small breasts. My hormones rushed in (with some fat) once I was eating a lot and not doing much sports, so I went from a 28A to a 32 D in about 6 months! I am now a 36 D.
Can you imagine the stretch marks I have on the girls?? I look like a zebra!
My boyfriend says that is the only good thing about the accident (he was there with me and he had quite a bit of trauma from it... he felt guilty for a very long time and.. oh well a different story).
I would like my "girls" to get a bit smaller, which they will if I lose weight! I think a C cup would be lovely! Or even a B cup... I liked them smaller... they didn't bump into people that much!
Well I hope you enjoy your bra, they are wonderful when they fit right!
Love, Cat
 
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