Omega's journey

Hello Margaret!
I am glad to know that I am not the only one who reads the challenges wrong! At least I read them wrong to my benefit! LOL
Kimberely is right about the temps. It is suppose to get wickedly cold here on Saturday. They said here in my area we would have a high of ~gulp~ *8F. And that will be while I am still at home. It will only get colder as the day and night wear on.
That is freaking cold!!! And to top it off when it gets that cold outside it gets really really cold at work for me.
Last year we had a cold spell that lasted for nearly a week that was in the single digits. And it went from a -18*f in our ice cream room at work to a -*24f. VERY COLD!
It actually makes you hurt.
Even with all the clothes you have on.
I had my dh take a picture of me in all my gear and I plan to post it tomorrow.
It is amazing to me. 'Cuz the only part of me visible is my eyes!
And even they get cold. It is not unusal for me to have frosty eyelashes.
Sorta like mascara. Except much clumpier! hahaha
I have only one swim class today with a small group of 4-5 year olds. Hopefully all will go well with them as one little girl is extremely frightened of the water. But I am gentle with her. I am hoping that before the session is out that I can at least get her to feel comfortable sitting on the side of the pool.
Well I got to go if I am going to jump into everyone else's diaries.
Hope you have/had a wonderful day!
 
Omega said:
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?
edit again at 4.15pm
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!
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LOL @"I am doing my impression of a drowned rat again."

Your a better and more determind person than i am!
I took one look outside and thought nope im staying warm and dry but i am feeling bad about not going now

Hope you had a good week and you can relax this week knowing you have it in the bag with no extra work!

Take Care
Sarah
 
Auburn said:
... Britain's very own silicon valley - or at least it was 20 years ago! (you did say somewhere that you're in computers, didn't you?)
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Funny. I was telling Margaret via Pm that I spent a month in Slough during the summer of 1989 visiting a pen pal before my last year of high school started. I never knew Slough had that reputation.

Sorry you got caught in the rain again. :( That is no fun at all, and I give you big kudos for sticking it out.

I see the scale is going down. :party:

Actually, I need to clarify the pts for the bonus. I'll post this in the challenge section as well. You still can get a max of 24pts for exercise as usual for up to 300 minutes. In addition, if you exercise for more than 180 minutes, you'll get 5pts for every 30 min on top of the 24pts. So the max pts for the week with exercise and the bonus is 44pts. 24pts for exercise, and 20pts for the bonus. The max exercise minutes you can get pts for is still 300 minutes.
 
Thank you everyone for visiting me. It's always great to see you all over here.

I_wannaBthin

I am trying to cut out the diet cola. I am down to no more than 200ml a day most days which is pretty good for someone who used to drink it all the time. There is no choice but to have it in the house as hubby likes to drink it and I cannot prevent him from having access to things that he wants. He is an adult and makes his own choices in life. I would still want it if stressed - but I am so rarely stressed these days.

My creaming is generally as follows:
Daytime moisturiser on face and neck before setting out.
Vaseline on lips morning and night
2 bio-oil (or similar) massages to abdomen. The days are so short at this time of year that the daytime one is virtually always currently omitted.
Body lotion massage to thighs, bum, upper arms
Firming body lotion massage to boobs
Night-time moisturiser on face and neck before bed

I am convinced that it has helped me acquire less loose skin and also get rid of my double chin. I also take the following vitamins for my skin:
omega 3
starflower oil
multivitamin containing zinc
In addition I always make sure that I get my 2 litres of water which benefits the skin among other benefits.

Dawn

I am very pleased that I dont have the temperatures that you are anticipating. I dont think that I could cope. I certainly couldnt cope with your job either - I would spend ALL the time complaining - much much more than you do. I will certainly pop into your diary and see the photo soon - I have missed out on such a lot of your news I know that it will take me ages to catch up on what you have been up to.

It's great that you are back swimming again and I am sure that you will really enjoy helping the little ones learn something that could potentially save their lives (or help them save another life) some day. It should give you a definite feeling of satisfaction in addition to being enjoyable and good exercise for yourself.

Auburn

I certainly was in computers for many years. I had a great career going too before I decided to flush my career down the toilet and become a beach bunny in Greece. There are more things in life than shiny careers and polished CVs. I worked predominantly in that area and central London for many years. It wasnt just the lure of hubby that brought me to this area.

Sarah

Desperation is a great motivator. I have spent more years in obesity (indeed morbid obesity) than most others on this forum and I think that finally seeing light at the end of a long tunnel is a big factor. I am just too frightened of losing momentum.

I have to admit - I can understand anyone who chooses to stay inside and warm and dry.

This week on the challenge should be easy - apart from the weight loss. I reckon that my 5 hours should be done by about 10am Saturday morning. Then it is just a question of seeing if some weight comes off. Frankly I always eat and exercise in a very consistent manner. My weightloss is not nearly so consistent.

Kimberly

Well I am back from Friday morning's long walk now. I am sure you can guess who got wet again. Luckily my coat was up to todays shower so I will only have to change socks and shoes before the afternoon walks.

The scale indeed went down - and is down again today to a new low. Whether that has anything to do with the fact that I had a highly energetic keep fit class and the teacher boosted the aerobic session to 50 minutes promising that we would all burn a lot of calories (my boobs are not built for that kind of jumping!) Then I added a bit extra on my walk so the pedometer is up to 9.58 miles already. Then I have only just weighed myself. Only the churlish would suggest that my weight has been influenced by these factors. I have to admit that it is lower than first thing. However - I have just been on the scales 3 times and 3 times it gave the reading 11st11.4 so that is good enough for me. So that is 165.4 pounds. It might mean that I get a gain next week - but that is the way that these things sometimes happen. If I can regain the territory of a new low today - I am having it!

Thanks for clarifying the points for the bonus - not that I can say that I think that it will influence the amount of exercise I actually do - it will just mean that I fill in the result page right. I have no intention of totalling how many minutes I spend on exercise in the entire week - I just know that I tend to expect myself to do more than a challenge would ever suggest and will happily add things up until I exceed the maximum.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thursday 17/01/08

Light rain in the morning. Heavy rain in the afternoon.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 8 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 11st 12.0lbs (i.e. 166.0 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

36.99g 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
roast chicken breast, 90g celery 1.42g fibre, 110g carrots 3.26g fibre,105g parsnips 5.13g fibre, 70g broccoli 1.83g fibre, 80g swede 1.53g fibre, 60g onion 0.82g fibre, gravy = 13.99
1 glass grapefruit juice
1 large handfuls of raisins 2.8g fibre
1 large handfuls of raisins 2.8g fibre
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Nice menu as always!! how much weight did you lose this week?? it was not such a great weigh in for me, but you know old Aunt Flo showed up this morning and she just screwed me up! But, I'm fine with that, such is life.

Good job on doing so well, I'm just amazed at your loss on the ticker, look at you going from almost 300 to 165 in how long? not long from what I can tell. Just amazing!
WAY TO GO
Kim
 
Thanks for visiting and giving me all this support.

Kim

This week I have lost 2.6 pounds (and I am pretty pleased with that) - but you know how skewed my weight loss is - the previous week it was 0.6 pounds. We all get those water retention days - you will lose extra next week when that water drops off. You work consistently hard (you are always at that gym working until you are ready to drop) and you stay firm with your food - the weight loss is earned you just wait for your body to give it to you.

Today's weight is a new low and I fully expect my weight to go up a little over the next few days (not least because we are having pasta tonight and that always seems to linger as food weight for a couple of days - some things seem to pass through the body quicker than others).

The weight loss has all happened in less than a year. I know that I was at my biggest on 23rd February last year because you should have seen the food that I was putting away when hubby and I spent until that date in a hotel in Wales last year. The breakfasts were ones where you help yourself and I must have had 10 courses of food each day - I made sure that I got good value for money. Then I didnt set foot near the swimming pool. It was sometime the following week that I started to be good - but I didnt make a note of the date or tell hubby at first. I always used to get so miserable when I abandoned a diet that he would have not wanted me to start a diet for fear of me getting miserable again.

Camy

Nice to meet you. Welcome to my diary.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
:party: I so love the positive energy when visiting your diary!:party:
Gr8 meneues and kicking butt as always,you have come very far and you are a gr8 person to look up to,have a nice weekend Tammy
Congratson getting all the fiber I took the easy way out and bought the highest fiber cereal I could fine and got 26 in 1 sitting lol
 
Hi Tammy

Nice to see you here.

We have all come a long way Tammy. Every one of us is a success story. I swear that every last one of us has done tons better that the folk that they write stories about in the slimming magazines - just we dont crave the publicity.

You played smart with the fibre - because it wasnt something that you were already doing. Getting the cereal was a really good move. I always eat really similar food - and in all honesty I like it that way. I am happy with what I eat. When Kimberly announced the bonus I worked out that really I was already getting plenty of fibre with what I was eating so I just ate the same as normal and added up the fibre units to keep everything right for the challenge.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hello Margaret~
Congrats on the 2.6 pounds down!!!
You are now at my 1st major goal weight. I hope to hit that sometime before summer but if not that will be okay. It will be another 26 1/2 pounds for me to drop and I am unsure if I could do it so quickly.
I am now only 6 1/2 pounds from my mini-goal of hitting 185 by Valentine's Day. Again if it doesn't happen tis okay. I am not to caught up on a time frame as it will all come off eventually. Of course I would like for it to do so quickly as I am not as patient a person as I should be! LOL
But I know that slower is better in the long run.
I will be posting that picture of myself tonight after the kids go to bed so don't look for it right away.
We are celebrating my step-son's 17th b-day today with cake, ice cream and presents. I plan to have a very very small piece of cake with a bit of ice cream. Knowing that I will burn it off on the elliptical helps me to justify eating it.
Hope that your walks went well today. Even though the sun is shining beautifully here today, it is bitterly cold. Fifteen degrees w/o the wind. With the wind it is 4*. Brrrrrr
Catch up with you later~
 
Bella, that is cold! We've been lucky so far--it's 27F/-3C here atm. It got down into the teens here last night, though. We've got forecasted highs of 13F/-11C for the weekend. One of the nice things about being surrounded by the Great Lakes is that our temps are usually warmer than Wisconsin to the West of us, and even in your case in Northern Indiana.

I hope the rain goes away for you, Margaret. Being a drowned rat is no fun.

LOL@your boobs not being built for all that jumping around. :D

I too often feel like I need to get my money's worth at all you can eat buffets. I try to avoid them these days, as I'm sure you do as well. :D

Have a great weekend, Miss Exercise Machine. :party:
 
Hi Dawn

Thank you for your congratulations.

I know that you will achieve these goal weights soon. That elliptical seems to eat away the pounds and between that and your exercise classes - not to mention the swimming the weight has very little choice but to disappear.

These goals will come. I believe in lots of milestones and I hope that you do too. I dont really set a date for the milestone to be achieved - I just know that if I work as hard as I can - it will happen as soon as it ever could. The fact that I work as hard as I can shows that I am not very patient either.

I can honestly say that I have enjoyed every pound that has come off along the way and hope that you enjoy each pound too. Every weight that I have got to (including your start weight) has been so much healthier than my own start weight - I have felt such a success for getting there. I remember the joy of getting down to under 280 pounds and thinking that my weight was no longer over 20 stone, and the joy of getting to 273 and thinking "if I break a leg at my elderly parents house I can use the stair lift to get upstairs to the toilet". Just about every weight has given me some sort of obscure pleasure. I am still totally overjoyed at having a BMI under 30. I still actually take pleasure in being overweight and am still every now and then saying "I am overweight" and probably making strangers think that I am mad!

Enjoy the birthday food (in moderation of course). I would. These things do not happen too often.

I will look out for the photo.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Margaret~
I think that I am going to copy and paste what you have just said so that I may keep it close to where I can see it on a daily basis.
It is such a motivational thing that you have written.
Margaret you deserve every success that you receive on this journey. For there is no one that I know of, who has devoted themselves to this season of life as much as you.
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hey well done! haven't been here for a few days and you are well into the 160s and under 12 stones! what can i say about the weather. haven't been out that much this week but a lot of indoor playtimes and breaks this week!

hope you have a good weekend! keep up the good work!

;-)

x
 
I was just reading your response to Bella. What a lovely, positive way of seeing things. It's very hard for most people to appreciate small steps - I for one tend to want to achieve my ultimate goal and experience the satisfaction of being able to live the life that waiting for me down the road (in my case, it's mainly the pleasure of being able to wear the clothes I want). Because of this mentality, I miss out on the smaller, on-the-way pleasures of, for example, being under 30 BMI, getting into a pair of jeans again, or losing my double chin. I know a lot of people give themselves rewards for reaching smaller goals on their journey. Do you do this, or is your reward the purely personal satisfaction of having achieved your mini-goal?
 
Thank you for visiting me. I am so lucky because I get so many lovely visitors all saying such nice things to me. I wish that I had time to get into your diaries much much much more regularly.

Dawn

I am pleased that you liked my message to you. It is honestly how I feel. We all deserve all our successes and our tickers show how much we have all achieved.

Angel

We have had some horrible weather recently. I think that we are all counting the weeks until Spring properly arrives. Then the outdoor walking will be more of a pleasure than a chore. After that comes the Summer - and our birthdays! Need I say more. We are going to look so good in July for our birthdays.

I hope that you have a good weekend too.

Auburn

I have never given myself any rewards so far - and dont really think that I have missed out. The appreciation of the lower weight has honestly been a great reward. The best rewards will actually cost little or nothing and they will happen on huge milestones. I have decided that when I become "normal" (BMI under 25) I will admit where I live (town instead of just county) on friends reunited. At later points I will have a photo on friends reunited and facebook. They may seem minor gestures but they are a way of taking ownership of my appearance. I have long been sensitive of the fact that I gained quite as much weight in my mid twenties and am still fairly reticent with a camera. I will quite enjoy conning childhood friends that I havent seen in decades that it maybe hadnt happened.

You rob yourself of much pleasure if you do not appreciate the little changes as they happen in addition to the big ones. We need all the pleasure that we can get in this life.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Good morning! I'm here for my morning cuppa. :D

I should be in bed, but I've been watching a really good tennis match (Aussie Open), that's keeping me up. I will miss the end, however, as there is no way I can stay up another hour or two..lol.

I'm sorry your team got eliminated again. Mine did, too this time. But I think next week the Red Team will come in first. Statistically, it makes sense.

I hope Satruday brings better walking weather. We've had lots of snow and ice lately. It is currently about -11C. :ack2:

Have a great weekend!
 
Hi Kimberly

Nice to see you here - and there is always a cuppa for you.

You must be shattered - it will be really late there. You must be enjoying the tennis.

Hubby is talking of walking to the parade of shops near the motorway with me when I set off on my walk soon. He did just over 10,000 steps yesterday so that is good!

In a couple of hours I will have got my exercise in for the week for the challenge! I did 13.95 miles yesterday and had a class - so I have done 4 hours. It is a shame that people got eliminated from both our teams. I suppose that is the name of the game after all. Maybe seeing more people go will help to focus people's minds. I was surprised that Blancita got as little exercise done - maybe going away took her focus away from such matters this week. I have never visited her diary - but had somehow acquired the impression that she was a gym fiend. Blue team have a major advantage in that the Krinse put on 10 pounds over Christmas and took it all off in week 1. That has to have an impact on that team's data.

I do not envy your weather. Looking out of the window - it is dull - the ground is wet but it does not seem to be raining at the minute. Only time will tell how things will continue. More rain is forecast.

I hope that you have a great weekend too!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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