Omega's journey

Good Morning Margaret!
I am happy to have a moment to pop in on you.
I see that you have been very busy with lots of people stopping by to cheer you on.
And you passed another milestone!!!
Congrats!
That must have been an awesome feeling to step on the scale and see a whole new set of numbers smiling up at you.
Sorry to hear that Rod's knee is bothering him. Poor Guy.
Seems that he is willing to try a bit but his aches and pains are getting in the way.
You did really well on the challenge last week. I am hoping to post another 1-1 1/2 pound loss. And currently at this point it would appear to be on track for that. But we all know how things can change day to day. So we'll see.
Well I must get going. Even though I am of the same mind set that you are on the house my dear hubby is not.
It actually drives him crazy so I need to make an exception to MY rule so that we can all be comfy cozy. LOL
Have a great day Sweetie!
 
My H is a bit of a neat freak, and wishes I were a little tidier. Our problem is mainly clutter, as we have a very small space, and too much stuff...lol. I am pretty sure that if I had my own house, I would be more tidy. But there is no place to put things, and it isn't stuff that can be tossed. I think I feel like it's a lost cause. :biggrinjester:

Sorry to hear Rod's knee is giving him trouble again. Has he seen a doctor about it? My dad had knee trouble for years and had all sorts of treatments. Finally he had to have the partial knee replacement surgery. It is all too common these days--even among people in their 40s--at least it is here in the U.S. I'm sure Rod isn't at the point where he needs surgery, but some cortizone injections or something might help with the recurring pain.

Thanks for the cuppa. :D Once again, I enjoyed our visit. :)

I hope you had decent weather for walking today.
 
More wonderful visitors. Thanks!

My hubby has got used to my little ways over the years and he knows that once I am focused there really is no use arguing with me. I am sure that he would like the house to be tidier - but he knows realistically that it isnt going to happen. I am sorry that your hubbys are less understanding - maybe it is the understanding that comes from being together for quite as many years as we have. This year we will celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary and we lived together before that so we have had plenty time to get used to each other.

He came home from work and after taking things easy with his knee - it had got much better. He actually was willing to walk round the block with me twice in the rain. He is really sweet because he did it to please me.

Dawn

It is brilliant to get on the scale and it starts with 11! When I started it was starting with 21!

If only my weight does not go up from today I am looking at a 1.8 pounds loss on the challenge this week. Much as I would always be delighted with more I only think it fair to hope for a 1.5 pound loss in a week this far into a long term project. So many people get to a point where they struggle to get any more off - thankfully my plateaus have been short-lived. I keep thinking "if I keep going at 1.5 pounds a week for a good while - the end will be in sight".

Kimberly

The doctor knows all about hubby's knees, toes, ankles etc. I think that he will have to cope with it as it is. If he gets to the stage of needing any joint replacement surgery - the state of the NHS is such that we would probably have to pay for it ourselves. They tend to send you away and tell you to bring your BMI down to below 30 before you can start to join a waiting list. A lot of people my parent's age are spending their money on hip replacements and things.

I know that he would like his knees to be better. It is a bit of a vicious circle. I am convinced that the weight is causing a lot of his problems and want him to walk. Walking has worked so well for me. If he walks he can very easily get so that his knee hurts. Then I feel guilty for persuading him to walk.

The weather today has been horrible. I did my world famous impression of a drowned rat. It was raining heavily when hubby left for work at 7.30am and was still raining heavily when I set out on my walk at 9.20am. I walked in the rain until yoga at 11.30am. At 1.15 I had to put on wet socks, shoes, sweatshirt and coat. The jogging pants that I wore through yoga were wet with the rain (yuk) and I didnt have spare ones to change into. I decided to continue walking in the rain and got home at 2.20pm. The rain had just stopped about 10 minutes earlier. Had a break for an hour having changed into dry clothes. By 3.30pm I was out doing laps - by the third lap it was raining again. I think that it is still raining.

Thank goodness I dont have the snow that you have had. The rain is bad enough!

I started typing this message about 5 hours ago - then hubby came home and nabbed the computer as we got back from walking. He read through all visible messages and said that it was all true. Some of it seemed to amuse him.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Monday 14/01/08

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 8 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = keep fit class
Weight = 11st 12.4lbs (i.e. 166.4 pounds)
Steps = 34,636
Distance = 13.39 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

For challenge need to have 25g fibre each day

36g eaten

1 banana 3g fibre
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk 5.7g fibre
1 large handful honey Shreddies 2.8g fibre
1 large handful honey Shreddies 2.8g fibre
1/4 handful honey Shreddies 0.5g fibre
haddock fillet, tin of baked beans 18.4g fibre
1 large handfuls of raisins 2.8g fibre
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Tuesday 15/01/08

It rained. I got wet.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 8 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = yoga class
Weight = 11st 12.6lbs (i.e. 166.6 pounds)
Steps = 33,404
Distance = 12.91 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

For challenge need to have 25g fibre each day

40g eaten

1 banana 3g fibre
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk 5.7g fibre
1 large handful honey Shreddies 2.8g fibre
1 large handful honey Shreddies 2.8g fibre
1 small pear 3.1g fibre
1/2 large handful honey Shreddies 1.4g fibre
pork loin steak, tin of baked beans 18.4g fibre
1.5 large handfuls of raisins 2.8g fibre
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
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I'm so sorry the weather was so lousy! I think walking in snow would be better b/c at least you wouldn't be soaked by the time you were done. You might look like a snowman if it was a really bad storm..lol...but at least you'd be dryish..hah

That is unbelievable about the NHS and joint surgery. Although, in a way, it is incentive for people to take better care of themselves. I have little doubt that my dad would've lost the weight to get down to a 30bmi if he'd had to. Still, it's hard to lose weight when your joints are so bad it makes exercising nearly impossible--which was his case. he couldn't walk very far before his knee would kill him, and stairs were very hard for him to do.

I'm sure you'll post a nice weight loss this week. You've already done very well so far this week. :)
 
Hi Kimberly

Hubby has just gone off to work. The weather forecast is that it will be dry today then drowned rat time for the following five days. Joy upon joy! Hubby tells me to take my pleasures where I can and appreciate the dryness today.

The NHS is a total fiasco! One of my friends is married to a doctor. She tells me that a couple of years ago she needed her gallbladder out. The rules were pay privately or bring your BMI down to under 30. She didnt want to pay privately as they were spending a lot of money on educating their kids and she viewed it as paying twice because you have to pay NI (I dont know where the kids were in their education then but I know that now one is studying medicine and one is abroad studying to be a vet). She only had 20 to 30 pounds to lose and she lost it in order to get the op. She has put it all on again now. If there had been a sneaky way to get around these NHS trust rules her hubby would have used it!

My weight is too near the official obesity boundary at the minute (I suspect that as I eat food and drink all that water I probably cross over it every day) but maybe next month it will be further away. I have decided that I will then go to the doctor then and insist that she weighs me. I want to have on my records that I am not obese. Then if they introduce any stupid ideas about must have not been obese for so long I will have it officially recorded.

There are enough people below me in my team that I feel that things will be ok on the challenge this week. Poor Wulsk thought that she was in danger of elimination if she didnt lose any weight. After she lost 4 pounds last week she was so far ahead of the team it would take me or Blancita losing over 4 pounds to knock her off first spot - not the likeliest of events (or one of the others to lose more again!). Apparently until this week she has been watching her weight go down every day and thought that was the way that dieting was! Even I would have difficulty putting on enough weight to get me eliminated in the next day or two.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega-thanks very much for your support and reading my blog. I really appreciate it, I am going to take all the tips mentioned and figure out what works for me. I am a very hard on myself and it really helped to hear others point of view.

I do not work in IT though hubby does and his job is very very busy right now and hence stressful too, not fun when its both of you! I am a chemist and working under a tight deadline for a project.

thanks again
 
Hi Mom2

I know all about project deadlines and how stressful they can be. Try to take time out to get rid of the stress because it truly is counterproductive.

Do not punish yourself for craving something sweet in times of stress. Understand that you will and have plenty good stuff available. I was pleased to see that you are today going for clementines instead of ice cream. Fruit can be very sweet so can satisfy the craving. We have grapes, apples, pears, bananas and satsumas in the fridge at the moment. Sometimes I eat grapes like sweets - particularly on car journeys.

The great thing about fruit is that they are not only ok for calories but they bring vitamins and things and quickly pass through the system.

Life is tough enough without feeling guilty or punishing ourselves for perfectly understandable behaviour.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Diet soda you say? I haven't had any soda since New Years Eve when I was very drunk and got a can of coke to sober up!

It's only been water (plus a couple of beers).
 
Hi Shannon

You are a strong-willed young man. I cannot get through the day without a little diet cola. I know that I shouldnt. I know that it is bad for me. I know that it contains salts and chemicals that can only harm me and make me retain water. But that is the way that it is.

I do fill a 2 litre bottle with water and make sure that I drink that each day. I know that is less than the amount of water that you are getting through.

On the positive side I didnt get extra drunk on New Years Eve so had no headaches when I went out for my morning walk on New Year's Day. I knew that I had to win somewhere with my lifestyle.

On the other hand clearly you were doing more celebrating on New Years Eve....

"Very drunk" / "couple of beers" - something does not compute. Possibly slightly more than a couple of beers I would suggest.

Take care
Best wishes
Margaret
 
Hey Margarets!

Omega said:
Thank you for visiting my diary. I am the luckiest of people to get all this continued support. I really appreciate it so much.

Becky

I just know that you are going to have a brilliant birthday in two weeks time - and I am sure that you will lose that 1.5 pounds to get to your birthday goal. All us English girls set half stone marks as milestones and I know that you will be at the next one for your birthday. Stay focused and be good with your food and exercise and I know that the rest will follow.

Natalie Jo

Yes friendsreunited.com is one that I check out quite often. It is free to set up your profile on there and doesnt cost much if you want to contact people for a year. You can buzz people for free too. You can even be sneaky and put in your profile that you are on facebook and can be contacted for free there. I got invited to a school reunion last year because I had my details on there. I didnt know whether to go or not - but I went and did enjoy it. My double chin disappeared 5 days before the reunion - how is that for timing?

Not everyone can or should weigh every day. A lot of experts say that we should not. I have decided that I can put on too much weight in a week not to weigh every day - I need to keep my weight at the front of my attention.

The best way that I discern what is good for me to eat and what is not good is that I monitor my body in a spreadsheet. I weigh myself every day and so every day I record the date and weight in a spreadsheet. I also record just about everything that I can think of that could have any bearing on my weight - amount and what sort of exercise, main meal, whether I ate any food from a number of food categories - e.g. chocolate, cheese, ready made sauces, butter... that type of thing. Also toilet habits, period info. From the weight you can see the daily weight change. It can be very interesting to analyse that daily weight change in relation to the main meal and food categories. I use that to work out which foods work well for me and which do not.

keepitoff83

I certainly appreciate all that visit me here. I only wish that I could get round to visit everyone more often - but I try to visit so many people I just cannot possibly keep up.

Kimberly

It is always a joy to see you here - and I agree that we always have a nice chat. I have every intention to try and tidy up sometime - but little things like spending the main of the day out walking plus making meals and hanging out on forums (particularly this one) kind of get in the way. There isnt really anything that can give without compromising my weight loss project. I am focused so that is not going to happen.

We certainly keep our home warm and comfortable in a cluttered, messy sort of way. I am a big believer in comfort. I am pleased that you are no neat freak or you would not be happy. Poor Stacy would be very uncomfortable at the way we are. I suppose we have her obsession for tidiness facing up against my obsession which is currently my weight loss project. My house - my rules.

This morning (Tuesday) hubby informed me that his knee was painful (he took some naproxin) so he will probably not be able to go out walking tonight. He has gone off to work just the same. Any walking for him has to be on an ad hoc basis.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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Hey Margaret!

I think facebook is a good idea. I didn't make many friends in school. I only made one and she became a person who wasn't very well liked by me in later years. She did cocaine and what not and she is back in trouble I believe. I am worried about her, but I know that I won't be contacting anyone from school; however, facebook would be neat. I need to find a way to post my pics on here. Because I am a little thinner than before and am really happy to say I am getting my figure back ... as far as I know ..maybe be because of water weight ...but I am down to 288.0 exactly, which is think is pretty good! I know I can do this and hopefully won't falter again ..

thanks for always being there for me!

love yas always
your friend
always
natalie jo :driving:
 
That's too bad about the weather forecast--but it's England--it could change tomorrow. :D I hope you enjoyed your walking today, at any rate.

Clementines are awesome! My H says it's like eating candy..lol. I've been buying about 5lbs of them a week, lately.

Yes, I'm sure you'll do just fine in the challenge pts this week. I've no doubt you'll still be here next week.

I read what Wulsk had written in her team's thread. Plateaus happen to nearly all of us at one pt or another. It is virtually impossible to lose every single week. Nothing to get discouraged about unless it drags on and on.
 
Thanks for visiting.

Natalie Jo

Great news that your weight is down. Congratulations! :party:

I think that you cannot go wrong with those sites because they cost nothing to monitor (and really cheap or free to contact people). I think that they are also very popular. I know quite a lot of people with profiles on those sites and quite a few of my friends' young adult kids are there too which kind of indicates that it works for all age groups. You really cannot go wrong with contacting old friends and relatives as you never know where it may lead.

I am useless with photos but I seem to remember that Amber told Tyly to try using a website in Tyly's diary when Tyly was having problems. I saved the link but havent tried it yet. The link is

but if you have any problems you need to contact Amber because I have no idea about it.

Kimberly

Walking today was good. I even took my gloves off for 10 minutes around mid-day! I am now just hoping that the forecast is wrong.

I love tons of fruit. We always have some sweet little oranges in the house. I get hubby to take 4 to work each day as part of his lunch.

I agree that it is virtually impossible to lose every single week. Anyone that can manage that has a secret that many of us would love to learn. I freely admit that I do get twitchy if I do not see a loss in a two week window (of being consistently good) - but I do weigh to the tenth of a pound and a couple of ounces does not seem too much to hope for. In the past I have tended to increase my daily mileage if I felt that it was getting stuck which always seems to have worked. It also may explain why I end most days with 30,000 steps on the pedometer. I thought that it was funny in a sweet niaive sort of way that Wulsk was concerned after she lost 4 pounds last week. I thought that it was so sweet that she thought that weight went down on every day that you were good.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hey if its any consolation..
I have zero cola in my house, well one more cup lol
but I plan to get more...

I haven't had real soda for a while .. too long ..some needed caffiene lol
I always drink tea ...never ending tea lol ...

I drink water too, especially on walking ..but man this zero cola tastes good ..probably a bad habit to start, but I will just leave it for two days that I have the cola or one day .:cheers2:.won't make it all the time ..control when and how much I drink ...

So whats up Margaret?
How are you doing?

always
love yas
natalie jo
 
Howdy girl ,your doing gr8,how is weight watchers working for ya or did ya try it yet?I love alot of their foods.I use photobucket for downloading and resizing phots,one of the easiest sites yet they even have a size that says AVTAR so you know what size your getting.Have another gr8 day Tammy

PS Thnak you for your ongoing support!!
 
Glad you had a great walk today. It was sunny and beautiful here, but it's supposed to get really cold in the next few days. Today's high was around 1C.
I hope the weather forecast is wrong for both of us. :D

Oh, I was going to ask if you are anywhere near the Slough/Windsor area, or if you're closer to London.
 
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Thanks everyone for visiting. I really do love seeing you all here.

Natalie Jo

I used to be addicted to diet coke and used to spend an absolute fortune on it. When our finances changed a few years ago I went to great effort to wean myself off diet cola and change my addiction to Tesco's own make of diet cola (which is a lot cheaper). Now I am addicted to that. I even prefer it to diet coke (I dont have diet coke often as I do not want a more expensive unhealthy addiction if I can help it). Anyway - now that I realise that it is so unhealthy I am trying to wean myself off it and onto water. Every day I have some - often a mouthful at a time at the fridge door. I do it by filling my 2 litre bottle with water every night and putting it in the fridge - then I make sure that I drink it all the next day. I often decant half a litre into an old diet coke bottle and take it with me on my long walk. I need it on the days when I do keep fit (especially aerobics) half way through my walk.

Tammy (niapage) gives some good info on dealing with photos. We could both use help there!

Things are going pretty well. I must admit that the ongoing weight loss is putting me on an ongoing high. I dont know whether yours do the same - but Janice and I find that our hormones make us have "peak and trough" moods. It's really great when you have an ongoing peak. I certainly wish that I had done all this when I was young like you are. Who could have guessed that excessive walking could make all the difference? Who could have guessed that I could ever be officially overweight and not obese either? OK - I am still very near that border (I probably cross it every day when I eat and drink) - but if I can weigh myself the right side of it each day - I am counting it and it is like a dream come true.

Tammy

My plan is to join Weight Watchers when I am somewhere near 140 pounds (I know that my goal weight will be less than that). That way I can make use of them for maintenance. I am pretty sure that if I keep doing what I am doing I can get down to there as I am. What I am going to do is use them to sanity check what I think that my goal weight should be and also to help me to make a soft landing as I get to my goal weight. The thing is that they give you free membership if you get to goal weight with them - even if you only lose about 10 pounds. Then you have to go to about 5 meetings a year (no meeting fee or anything) to keep the free membership going. You have to have your weight on those meetings within about 5 pounds of goal weight or you start having to pay again. If you like you can just turn up and get weighed. I think that could be really useful to keep me remembering to keep my weight near goal weight. Experience tells me that if I do not keep an eye on my weight it will just pile on.

I think that the free membership could be really useful as a way of getting out and meeting people that costs nothing. Also you would get to hear of new weight loss products and ideas.

If you time it right you could get very good value out of the fees that you pay if you do not have too much weight to lose. I know someone who has been at goal weight for over a year and still goes every week because she enjoys it and swears that it keeps her focused.

I currently do a yoga class (until March) on a Tuesday morning which is when the local WW meeting is. I will see what my weight is when those classes finish and then decide when to start WW.

I would have spent an absolute fortune on WW meeting fees if I had joined when I was 294 pounds.

Thanks for the photo info. I really need to get a new photo taken as I have a nice black top that I like. It helps to disguise my tummy. Some people take side views and show the size of their tummy diminishing - but mine was gigantic and is still a lot bigger than I would like. I prefer to hope no-one ever sees me from the side and have a photo from the front!

Kimberly

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. I have just seen the new bonus. I think that works out as seven hours of exercise a week make points. I think that I can manage that. I did a Dawn (Bellaryna) and read it the first time as 1 point for every extra 30 minutes (max 20 points) and thought that it meant 15 hours of exercise make points and thought - I can do that!

It is just turned 8 a.m. Thursday morning as I write, hubby has gone to work and it is wet and cold here. I somehow dont think that I will be walking in my sandals today. I do hope the the forecasters are wrong for both of us.
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Rain turned to drizzle and dampness and it was dull and damp for the duration of the morning walk. Much better than heavy rain!
It is actually looking bright now (nearly 2pm) - can I be that lucky?
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Got dull and damp around 3pm so it was drizzling by the time I got out.
Drizzle turned to torrential rain and I am doing my impression of a drowned rat again. I have just popped in for a moment before heading back out to continue with lap 4. Wonderful! I must really want to lose weight to do this!

We are a little closer to London. I spent 4 years working in Slough and know that it is about 13 miles away from here. Slough and Windsor are very close to one another. When I was working we used to often go to the theatre in Winsdor. It is immediately facing the castle. Windsor and Slough are outside the M25 London orbital motorway and we are inside it. I will PM you with more precise details of where I live.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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Wednesday 16/01/08

Thankfully it was dry and comparitively bright.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 8 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 11st 12.6lbs (i.e. 166.6 pounds)
Steps = 30,813
Distance = 11.91 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

For challenge need to have 25g fibre each day

30.82g eaten

1 banana 3g fibre
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk 5.7g fibre
1 large handful honey Shreddies 2.8g fibre
1 large handful honey Shreddies 2.8g fibre
1 small pear 3.1g fibre
1 small pear 3.1g fibre
1/2 large handful honey Shreddies 1.4g fibre
salmon fillet, 3 new potatoes 2.45g fibre, sweetcorn 2.27g fibre fibre = 4.72
1 large handfuls of raisins 2.8g fibre
1/2 large handfuls of raisins 1.4g fibre
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Great food list! Same with the exercise! How many creams do you put on each day? I wish I could get into a good habit with that.

I heard there was something in diet pop (I think aspartame) that turns to formaldahyde in your body. I get some clients who are close to their goal but can never seem to make it past that last 10 pounds, and when they give up diet pop it just seems to push them over that last bump. But I still drink it every now and then, I try to get Diet Rite because there is no aspartame, but I can't justify drinking as many calories as are in a regular pop.
 
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