Omega's journey

So 2007 came to an end and I finally get around to making an annual report.

At the start of the year my weight was where it had been for many years. I had long since given up on dieting and weighing myself.
My clothes were UK size 30 to 32 and I know that they had been this size for many years. My cousin got married in October 1993 and I have checked her photos and I know that the clothes that I wore were UK size 30 - I still have them!

Other weight loss attempts ended in despair - and I eventually just gave up.

Towards the end of February I suddenly started being more controlled with my food and going out of the house on little walks. I started just going round the block and putting sweets back in the drawer if my husband brought them to me. I didnt say anything but took more of a weight loss perspective when deciding what to cook for the meals.

Things built from these small beginnings. My walks got longer and I became more firm with my food.

I dont really have a start date as such - I really didnt expect anything to come of it. I didnt have a start weight either. We hadnt even unpacked the scales from when we had last moved house and when I eventually found them they needed a new battery.

I only know my start weight because my doctor later told me what I had been when she last weighed me. It is perfectly possible that I was higher than the 21 stone as she weighed me in November. It is highly likely that I will have been higher as I probably put on weight during that Christmas and the week that we spent in a hotel in Wales in February.

There are 14 pounds in a stone.

The first weighing at home that I did was
14th March 20st 7lbs

An overview of my later weights:
01st Apr 19st 11.2lbs
01st May 18st 12.6lbs
01st Jun 17st 12.6lbs
01st Jul 16st 11.0lbs
01st Aug 15st 8.6lbs
01st Sep 14st 11.8lbs
01st Oct 14st 3.8lbs
01st Nov 13st 5.6lbs
01st Dec 12st 10.2lbs
Final weight for year 12st 0.2lbs

Over the year I lost 8st 13.8lbs i.e. 125.8 pounds
This weight loss is actually a normal weight for a lady of my height (5 foot 3 inches) and I am still very overweight!!!.

I am very pleased with my loss over the year.

:party::party::party::party::party:
 

wow!! you have lost a lot of weight! well done!!

i can only imagine how good you feel about the year! only 0.2 of 9stones. i call that a 9stone drop!!a stone a month!! woohoo!!!

;-)

x
 
WOW WHAT BOG #'S YOU LOST!!!!WAY TO GO CONGRATSYpu had a wonderful successful year I wish you all the best to reaching your goal,as I know you will do it with flying colors!Have a nice day Tammy
 
RE: Challenge :smilielol5: Margaret! :smilielol5:

I'm sure Kimberly will have me eating 3 c. of veggies with no fruit.. :sifone:

She'll have you counting cals. Woe is us! ;)

Maybe you'll get lucky this time with a raisin bonus?!

:D

****

You have accomplished so much!

Way ta go!

So proud of you.

:hug2:
 
That is incredible, Margaret!! Very well done! You've lost an entire person! :hurray:

Just don't be counting on a raisin bonus this challenge. :D Very funny, btw, Stacy. :smilielol5:

I know you'll do well, regardless.
 
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Thanks for visiting. I normally like to do a report at the end of each month so I thought that I ought to do one. On top of that Phoebe (Alliephoe) did a year end report in her diary (at the end of the year she got her BMI to normal!!!) and I thought that the idea of a year end report was good too. It has kind of made me a little late in posting the first couple of diary pages - but my life is so repetitive that there will be very little in the way of surprises there.

Angel

Thanks. I am a firm believer in setting lots of milestones. Then you can see that you are really achieving things.

Kimberly

I know that you are going to make me count calories. I am so excited about the challenge I am on the forum and it is only 5.47 a.m. here.

Tyly

Thanks

Tammy

Thanks.

Stacy

We are in the same team again! I am so pleased!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega said:
Kimberly

I know that you are going to make me count calories. I am so excited about the challenge I am on the forum and it is only 5.47 a.m. here.

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No calorie counting this week. :D I thought you were on pretty early. :) I'm glad there is so much excitement about this challenge. I need to get to bed b/c I have to get up in 7hrs, but I'm excited, too. :D
 
You probably thought - Margaret's up already so I am late for bed!

7 hours.... I only went to bed at quarter to 1. I am going to be tired later!
 
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Tuesday 01/01/08

Still overweight and not obese.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 5 times (one three laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 12st 0.4lbs (i.e. 168.4 pounds)
Steps = 26,514
Distance = 10.25 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 large handful honey Shreddies
roast pork, gravy, swede, carrots, celery, onion, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, green beans, mange tout, peas
1.5 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Wednesday 02/01/08

Still overweight and not obese. Weight drifting up though slowly.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 8 times (one two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 12st 0.6lbs (i.e. 168.6 pounds)
Steps = 29,520
Distance = 11.41 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 large handful honey Shreddies
roast pork, gravy, swede, carrots, celery, onion, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, green beans, mange tout
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Hiya Margaret!

Omega said:
So 2007 came to an end and I finally get around to making an annual report.

At the start of the year my weight was where it had been for many years. I had long since given up on dieting and weighing myself.
My clothes were UK size 30 to 32 and I know that they had been this size for many years. My cousin got married in October 1993 and I have checked her photos and I know that the clothes that I wore were UK size 30 - I still have them!

Other weight loss attempts ended in despair - and I eventually just gave up.

Towards the end of February I suddenly started being more controlled with my food and going out of the house on little walks. I started just going round the block and putting sweets back in the drawer if my husband brought them to me. I didnt say anything but took more of a weight loss perspective when deciding what to cook for the meals.

Things built from these small beginnings. My walks got longer and I became more firm with my food.

I dont really have a start date as such - I really didnt expect anything to come of it. I didnt have a start weight either. We hadnt even unpacked the scales from when we had last moved house and when I eventually found them they needed a new battery.

I only know my start weight because my doctor later told me what I had been when she last weighed me. It is perfectly possible that I was higher than the 21 stone as she weighed me in November. It is highly likely that I will have been higher as I probably put on weight during that Christmas and the week that we spent in a hotel in Wales in February.

There are 14 pounds in a stone.

The first weighing at home that I did was
14th March 20st 7lbs

An overview of my later weights:
01st Apr 19st 11.2lbs
01st May 18st 12.6lbs
01st Jun 17st 12.6lbs
01st Jul 16st 11.0lbs
01st Aug 15st 8.6lbs
01st Sep 14st 11.8lbs
01st Oct 14st 3.8lbs
01st Nov 13st 5.6lbs
01st Dec 12st 10.2lbs
Final weight for year 12st 0.2lbs

Over the year I lost 8st 13.8lbs i.e. 125.8 pounds
This weight loss is actually a normal weight for a lady of my height (5 foot 3 inches) and I am still very overweight!!!.

I am very pleased with my loss over the year.

:party::party::party::party::party:
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This is Awesome Margaret!!
You kick Mega Butt!
You Rock!
I so hope I can take what you have taught me and go do what I must, and that is lose weight...

Thanks hun for being so helpful...
Your story reminds me that maybe I should keep going ...

thanks hun
love yas
Natalie jo :grouphug:
 
Hi Natalie Jo

Thanks for your supportive comments. You should definitely keep going. Now you see why I go out walking as much and why I keep nagging you to keep on doing the same. It really has worked for me and no matter how good I was with my food in the past - it didnt get me very far without the walking.

I became greedy for the weight loss - once I saw it actually happening. I still am! There are plenty of days when I think - it is really cold outside - do I really want to spend the next couple of hours walking in it. Then I think of the loss so far (and not wanting the weight to go back on) and how much nicer it would be to be a "normal" size and I wrap up warm and go out.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega said:
Hi Natalie Jo

Thanks for your supportive comments. You should definitely keep going. Now you see why I go out walking as much and why I keep nagging you to keep on doing the same. It really has worked for me and no matter how good I was with my food in the past - it didnt get me very far without the walking.

I became greedy for the weight loss - once I saw it actually happening. I still am! There are plenty of days when I think - it is really cold outside - do I really want to spend the next couple of hours walking in it. Then I think of the loss so far (and not wanting the weight to go back on) and how much nicer it would be to be a "normal" size and I wrap up warm and go out.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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I know your right hun ... :iagree:
I am going to do an aerobic dvd today however ..it works you really hard ..its supposed to be 13 degrees at 3pm ...
but tomorrow I am going walking ...

because I will be free to do so ... plus it will be 29 degrees ..and the forties this weekend ..yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ttylater hun
love yas
always
natalie jo:grouphug:
 
Hi Natalie Jo

Good decision on the dvd today and the walking tomorrow. Our bodies just need that extra bit of exercise. The weekend sounds like it will be perfect weather for walking.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Margaret, Im back at ur diary for more inspiration, and your record for 2006 sure provided lots of it!

Im wondering about the fact that people say you wont lose weight by simply walking, and the only way u'll actually lose is to work up a sweat and jog/run it off? I find myself getting out of breath very fast when I jog, seeing as I havent done it since a while, and cant go longer than 12-15 mins. However, I can walk for much longer periods of time,without getting tired, but according to what Ive heard, thats not much good apart from keeping fit.However, your walking has been the key to weight loss, hasnt it? So what do you say to the so-called gurus?
 
Hi Sam

I knew what you meant. For future reference - on postings that you do (i.e. not other people's but yours) there is an edit button at the bottom right and if you click on it you can put little things like that right. I use it a lot!!!

I certainly do not run or jog and havent for a very long time (probably at least 20 years). If an expert tells you that you need to jog or run - they do not know what they are talking about! Naturally jogging for 15 minutes will beat walking for 15 minutes - but I suspect that once you have said that you have basically said it all. The fact is that I dont think that I would be able to jog now (I would be a bit scared to risk it quite yet) but I can certainly walk.

You have that treadmill - and I would do what I said in your diary. Put a tv program or some music on and walk, walk, walk, walk. I am convinced that it would be constructive for you. And I am sure that you will quickly find that you have the stamina to walk quite a long way. I am convinced that walking for at least 3 hours every day as I currently do and being good with my food means that I get the weight loss of a "normal" person - not a PCOS lady. I am not saying that you need to walk for this amount of time - that is just the routine that I have got into. I am sure that you will see a difference in your weight loss.

Naturally if you also feel like jogging - do some of that too.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
samah75 said:
Hi Margaret, Im back at ur diary for more inspiration, and your record for 2006 sure provided lots of it!

Im wondering about the fact that people say you wont lose weight by simply walking, and the only way u'll actually lose is to work up a sweat and jog/run it off? I find myself getting out of breath very fast when I jog, seeing as I havent done it since a while, and cant go longer than 12-15 mins. However, I can walk for much longer periods of time,without getting tired, but according to what Ive heard, thats not much good apart from keeping fit.However, your walking has been the key to weight loss, hasnt it? So what do you say to the so-called gurus?
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I'm pretty sure Margaret works up a sweat and gets her heart rate going when she's out walking. The thing to exercise is that you have to take your fitness level into consideration. If you are fit and of a normal weight, walking a mile at a 3 mph pace probably isn't going to make you pant or elevate your heart rate much. But if you weigh 300lbs and rarely exercise, that is probably gonna be very hard for you to do. When I started walking a year ago, I weighed 277, and walked 3mph, and I was definitely getting a workout. As I lost weight and became fitter, I gradually increased my pace and distance. Now I walk at 4mph with some jogging intervals and can walk further at this pace.

Like Margaret said in her earlier post, she started out walking around the block a few times. Now she walks for hours and hours a day. You just should increase your intensity and/or length of exercise as your fitness increases. Push yourself in your exercising, and you'll see your fitness increase. If it's easy to do, then it's probably not doing much. I try to beat my times to make it interesting, and gives me something to work for.

If you can jog for 12-15min without stopping, that's good. I don't think I can go more than 5-10..lol. I suggest that you walk and do some jogging intervals. This is walking at a pace that's challenging, but that you can keep up for extended periods of time. Every 5 min or so, jog for a couple min. Then walk again. This really keeps your heart rate elevated, and burns the calories.

Margaret, sorry to hijack your diary!!
 
Hijack away - Kimberly.

I certainly do pace out... I certainly didnt at first...

I am keen to encourage Sam to try and add walking to her diet control as she is a newbie PCOS lady and finds losing weight difficult. She is really lucky as her weight has not shot up yet - so her other PCOS symptoms are comparibly minimal and her weight is not what we would think of as that high really.

She cannot get out on walks as she is helping her very ill father - but she has a treadmill at her disposal. I think that getting on the treadmill instead of sitting watching the tv could really kickstart her project. Janice (Abbagirl) has a list of programs that she always watches from the treadmill. I am sure that as her stamina improves Sam will a/ speed up and b/ walk further - almost by accident. Your idea of adding a burst of jogging is good as long as it doesnt exhaust her and make her stop instead of keeping on going.

I also think that the walking will help with the stresses of the situation - her looking after her ill father and the fact that she is currently living away from her new husband to do this. You have to remember that many PCOS ladies need added tranquility in our lives since we have extra hormones playing tricks on us. Janice and I are both convinced that the walking helps us be more tranquil.
 
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