Omega's journey

Haven't commented in here for awhile, Margaret. I have an urge for raisins now after reading what you ate, I might buy some. And as for your roast, that sounds so good. What diet cola do you drink? I was reading the nutrients for Coke Zero, Diet Coke and Pepsi Max, and the former two have a high amount of sodium (to replace the sugar) in contrast to Pepsi Max's 8mg and 1 calorie, 0 sugar. Doesn't seem that bad, considering it's cola.

How long does your morning walk go for? 6.3 miles is a fantastic achievement and you should be very proud! :)

What vitamins do you take?

Thanks Margaret,
Shannon
 
Hi Shannon

Nice to see you over here again.

The roast is really good and you could sort that out too. The next time that your Dad is going to roast some meat - ask him to do an extra large bit of meat. Have a good portion - lots of boiled veg (I dont have potatoes though) and some gravy (I use bisto) that is made without the meat juices. Then get the meat that is left over and slice it up and put into little individual serving freezer bags and into the freezer.

Then when he wants something that you think might be fattening - all you do is get a bag out the freezer and defrost. I peel a good portion of veg (tons of it - and it only takes a couple of minutes to peel). Put it to boil. After a little while take some boiling water out of the pan and make up some gravy and cover the meat in a bowl. Then put the meat/gravy in the microwave for 10 minutes. Serve up with the veg. You would not believe the amount of food you can have!

The diet cola is a "naughty". I used to love diet coke. Then I went to great care to wean myself off it and drink Tescos (supermarket) own make which tasted similar and was a lot cheaper. I got addicted to that instead. Hubby likes it too so we always have it in the fridge. Well I know that it is bad for me - but I am only human. I have a mouthful of it at the fridge door every now and again. It never adds up to more than 200ml in a day - but I do have it so I always own up to it! I wont change my addiction to another cola - I am trying to stop drinking it altogether.

My morning walk is actually more than 6.3 miles - but that gives me the basic route - the thing is that I have added things in and not measured with the car since so 6.3 miles is what I know that I did. Today for instance - I set off at 8.20 and went along the general route - but called in at one shop, then I continued along the route and got to where I have my keep fit class. I did an hour of keep fit (9am to 10am) and sat for about 25 minutes chatting. Then I continued - but did two extra bits and called in at two shops for bits of groceries. It was about 10 to 1pm by the time I got home. Since then I have sat but am going out again soon to walk some laps. My pedometer is now up to 9.45 miles, 24,455 steps. I will admit that I was going a bit slower than normal - my left ankle has been a bit painful for the past week and some would say that I would be sensible to not walk so much or do aerobics - but I never pretended that I was as sensible as all that.

The vitamins that I take are a multivitamin, starflower oil, omega 3 fishoil, garlic. Starflower oil and omega 3 are good for the skin. We want our skin to deal with us changing shape and it only seems fair to give it every bit of help.

Take care
Best wishes
Margaret
 
Omega said:
Just think - my ancestors were probably happily attacking your Scottish ancestors a few centuries ago. I would have to try very hard to get my ancestors to turn over in their graves in shock - they were a pretty lawless lot until about 400 years ago.
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"For 300 years Scottish and English borderers endured violence and treachery, murder and arson, raiding and theft, living in constant
fear and misery."
GEEZ! And they called the Native Americans savages! Eh, it was cause it was Enlightenment thinking at the time, I suppose. ;)

Omega said:
a Little kidnapped a McPherson and took her as wife. Such "marriages" didnt seem to be very well documented in the normal sense. Such things certainly make you proud. It kind of makes you think that the courting rituals of the late 1970s and early 1980s (i.e. when I was young) were rather romantic and a bit twee!
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What's twee? Hee hee hee! I've never heard that expression, sorry :)

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It's a shame that you have a black thumb because it can be so nice and cost effective. Hubby and I do like our food (you wouldnt have guessed!) so we basically took out the flowers and turned it just about all over to veg growing. I must admit that I didnt water them as often this past summer as I would normally because I was out walking quite a lot and that did reduce our crop levels.
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Ah, dry-farming, eh? Makes the crop more potent! :) I have an idea to remedy my black thumb problem (with the exception of perennial flowers); there is a cute buy I know from the brewery who is a farmer. I suspect he thinks I'm cute as well. I'm going to get his number and hang out with him for his vegetables, and in exchange, I'll drink him out with wine. That works! :D
 
Take care of that ankle!!!!

I always have to roll my ankles (in the air) both clockwise and counter, everyday. It REALLY helps, when I run, that tiny movement.
 
Hi Valerie

Thanks for the tip for my ankles. I will start doing that every day starting now.

In my opinion - a girl needs a plentiful supply of good quality very fresh vegetables. It sounds like you have formulated an excellent solution.

In am quite sure that it would not be my ancestors that ever called Native Americans savages. My ancestors were probably too busy breaking every law ever written.

Sorry to use a word that you didnt understand. I forget the whole "separated by a common language" thing. From on-line dictionary:

Obscure Words: twee

Brit. affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute or quaint

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
I did not see any surnames on the reiver list, so I suspect mine were too busy getting drunk in the local pubs. :party: However, my surname suggests that my English ancestors came from the SW part of England--not the North.

Actually, the ancestor in the story was an uncle down the line--not a grandfather, so I would still be here even if he hadn't been the town drunk. :D

Take care of the ankle. It might be good to slow the pace down as you've down, and maybe give it a rest for one day. I hope Val's advice helps!

Thanks for the afternoon cuppa. :biggrinjester:
 
Hee hee hee! Cute, I like that!

I've always thought that the tribes of the British Isles pre-Rome were very similar to the tribes of the Americans pre-invasion ;) I get sick of people nowadys whining for peace, because from my education in anthropology, waring for power, wealth, and resources are pretty much a package-deal with humankind. It just gets more global and complex with the increase in complexity of civilizations. *shrugs* Nothing I can really do about human nature except get by as personally peaceful as I see fit :)
 
Nice of you both to pop back in for a chat.

Kimberly

Hubby's ancestors were all sedate southerners too. Every town needs a drunk and it is nice to know that someone from your family was there and willing to fill this important role.

I would like to think that my ankle will sort itself out soon. It has been annoying me for a week now. I think that we are witnessing stubborn Margaret vs an ankle. I feel comfortable about cutting back on my speed but I like to keep my distance at a level I think is acceptable. I can judge that from my stepcount.

I just get a bit twitchy about not walking....

Valerie

I suppose everyone invaded England. There was the Romans, Scandinavians and French. Heaven knows how my ancestry developed because deep history records are just not there for the vast majority of us. I only have verbal history for the Little line which is only properly documented back to a 1759 marriage. The person in question was born 1732 - I know not where. The earliest line I can directly trace through records goes to 1663. Further than that all I can do is see where the surnames lead.

I cannot help but feel that the modern requirement for people to apologise for the actions of apparent ancestors leads nowhere. No-one is alive today that benefited or suffered from historical atrocities. I am quite sure that my ancestors carried out more than their fair share of them - but will have suffered from some too. I have certainly no intention of apologising for it - they were a product of the society in which they lived.

I agree with your concept of getting by peacefully today. Now and the future is the only era we can influence. No-one can change the past.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
hey sorry to hear about the ankle but you are still doing great and that weight has just come of in the last week! well done!! :hurray:

have a good week

;-)

x
 
HI

Sorry i havent popped in for a while

Congrats on the new low!!!
Sorry your ankle is sore but reducing the speed and maybe some steps till it gets better is a good idea
I understand why you dont want to stop walking but maybe do 5 laps round the block instead of 6 till its better

Have a good weekend
Sarah
 
Thanks for visiting. I have not been on the computer much today. Hubby is doing a lot of computer rebuilding. I have been out quite a bit too. I managed to get a free Body Jam class at a local gym and I spent a bit of time there talking to people and seeing what facilities they had. I also had a free health check and the fitness instructor said that I was in "tip top shape". My ankle has been much better today after the ankle exercises. The ankle hurt when I did the exercises before and after the walk and class but not during the walk or class.

Valerie

I have spent quite a lot of days going through records at Carlisle records office which holds a lot of historical records for Cumbria. It can be quite entertaining reading the old wills and other records. I am sure that you would be surprised how much you can find out. Thanks again for the ankle exercise idea.

Angel

I am sure that I noticed that you have lost some weight too. Congratulations yourself!

Sarah

For the first time since Christmas I didnt do any laps in the afternoon. This was really because I was out for so long on my morning walk and all the time that I spent at the gym. Hubby would not have been pleased if I had gone straight back out. I only came back from my morning walk at 3.30pm. Back to laps tomorrow if I dont sneak into any more classes!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Friday 25/01/08

It didn’t rain. My left ankle is still playing me up a bit. Hubby had done 5,000 steps and his knee was playing up so we didn’t go out walking together.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = 5 times
Extra exercises = keep fit class
Weight = 11st 10.0lbs (i.e. 164.0 pounds)
Steps = 33,589
Distance = 12.98 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.
Started to do daily ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Challenge requires that I drink sufficient water.

Calculation (allow extra for weight to wiggle up during the week not that I want it to go that high)
168/2 = 84 * 29.5735 = 2484.174 ml = 2.49 litres
So 2.5 litres of water covers me.

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 large handful honey Shreddies
1 large handful honey Shreddies
Pork loin steak, tin of baked beans
1 large handfuls of raisins
1 large handfuls of raisins
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Saturday 26/01/08

Relieved that no-one in my team was eliminated in the challenge. One team member had an emergency and left updating their data to two minutes before the deadline. If three had gone I would have been certainly in the new bottom three and at risk of elimination next week - despite max bonus and exercise points and losing weight every week!

It didn’t rain. Hubby took a computer out of action for the main of the day - and gave me very little chance to look in.

The local free paper said that the local leisure centre (which is built on land at a local senior school) was having an open day and that there were some free classes. I thought that it was too good an opportunity to miss so I got in touch. I had an enjoyable visit and got a free 1 hour body jam class out of it which I enjoyed. I hadn’t realised that it had some latin dance influence – so those bits were easy. Enjoyed jumping around! Got quite red and sweaty.

Then I sat for about 20 minutes while I was talking to someone about what the deal was if I were to join up. Then I went in for a free health check with the lad in the gym. My blood pressure was on the border between optimal and healthy and he said that he was sure that if I hadn’t just done a body jam class it would have been a definite optimal. Then it was a respiratory test were I had to blow into a tube. He said that mine was excellent. Then he put me on the scales – but I knew how that was going to go and told him my weight before I got on and said that I knew that I was overweight. He concluded that if I liked my weight as it was it was difficult to argue that my health would improve by losing more weight and that the BMI was such whereby it could be accounted for different weight of organs. I told him that I had every intention of losing more weight. He said that was fine – but as far as their tests go I was in “tip top shape”. I was quite pleased with all that.

I am quite seriously thinking of joining. I got a special deal quoted to me of £29 per month (they earlier spoke of a higher price). For that I get the use of the gym and swimming pool and also as many classes as I like. The classes sound really appealing but they are just about all on a night time. That is because the school do not like them doing the classes during the day. I spoke to the gym manager about the daytime classes thing. If they had classes during the day it would be a “no-brainer” and I would sign up today. Hubby gets a vote in what we do on an evening and he does not want to join up and he does not really want me to do that type of thing on an evening – although he does say that it is up to me. As luck would have it – the daytime classes they do run clash with my Monday and Friday keep fit class which I enjoy.

I managed to get three free class passes – so I will go to a few evening classes and see how popular they are at home.

I didnt do any laps round the block as I had been out ages and done 3 hours of exercise which is all I normally do on a Saturday. That meant that my stepcount was down on the day.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = body jam class
Weight = 11st 9.4lbs (i.e. 163.4 pounds)
Steps = 23,062
Distance = 8.91 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.
Continued ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Challenge requires that I drink sufficient water.

Calculation (allow extra for weight to wiggle up during the week not that I want it to go that high)
168/2 = 84 * 29.5735 = 2484.174 ml = 2.49 litres
So 2.5 litres of water covers me.

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 large handful honey Shreddies
½ large handful honey Shreddies
150 ml crumbed ham
Mackerel, new potatoes, sweetcorn
½ large handfuls of raisins
1 large handfuls of raisins
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Sounds like you had fun at the gym Saturday. That price sounds pretty reasonable to me, but if the classes don't fit your schedule, I can see why you wouldn't want to join.

CONGRATS ON THE NEW LOWS!! :party:

You are on the verge of the 150s!! You truly are a weight loss machine. :)
 
Hi Kimberly

It would be just perfect if they ran more daytime classes. There is a limit to how much money I want to spend on getting healthy (bearing in mind that I am economically inactive and living off savings) and if I spend too much I would feel that I ought to work to replenish the savings which would be counter-productive (I will do more exercise if not working). In addition - if I get stressed I would probably eat! I am pretty much spending as much as I am comfortable to spend. The price (£29 per month so £7.25 per week in a 4 week month) would be easy enough to justify if I cancelled doing something. I pay £7.50 per session for yoga on a Tuesday and £6.25 per session for keep fit on a Monday. I had already decided to stop yoga on a Tuesday and do Weight Watchers which is on at the same time at Easter (when I would have to pay for classes for the next term). Weight Watchers costs £5.50 per week. If I also cancelled my Monday keep fit class at Easter I could pay for the gym and go to aqua on a Monday at the same time as the keep fit class which is apparently water aerobics - "a fun and invigorating all over body workout in the water designed to effectively burn calories with minimal impact on the body". I am pretty tempted to do that. One of my friends recommended aqua to me some months ago. It would be handy to have gym facilities available to me - even if it just meant that I could walk the mile there and the mile home and use the treadmill for 4.5 miles on a day with heavy rain or worse. Obviously my use would not be limited to this - but it would be an immediate opportunity for gain.

When I talk to hubby about classes in the evening - he is very negative about me being out after dark. It is a shame because they have lots of classes that sound lots of fun: body attack, yoga, legs bums tums, body balance, pilates, latin dancing, body jam, and loads of others. All they have in the daytime is the use of the pool and gym and aqua at the same time as I am doing keep fit Monday and Friday and one active circuits session on a Thursday afternoon.

I will definitely use one of the vouchers to try an evening aqua class to see if I like it before I decide to discontinue something that I like.

It seems silly for hubby to object to me being out at a time that my parents were comfortable in me being out as a child - but that is how it is!

Thanks for your congratulations. I must admit - I am quite pleased as to how my weight has been reducing lately. My weight loss is always skewed and this is the part of the month that I lose most before it all grinds to a halt. I work hard to get my loss but I am lucky to be getting a decent monthly loss this far into a long term project. I am hoping to have a "normal" BMI and approaching goal by my birthday in July. Forthcoming milestones are getting to 11 and a half stone (161 pounds) and getting into the 150s. I could easily have to wait two weeks or more - it just depends how quickly everything grinds to a halt.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Margaret-YOU are PHENOMENAL!! I think it sounds like you have a great marriage, sometimes the hubbies reasoning doesnt make sense but I think it means more that we respect their opinion when they feel strongly (maybe he feels like a baby saying that you have all day to do your thing and HE wants you at night LOL) it sounds like you are great at doing that and hve your budget all figured out! We are just embarking on a budgeting plan, foolishly never having done so before. Your weight loss is truly amazing. I see that you have that time where you 'grind to a halt' too, I am experiencing this but trying to jump start things to at least even out, I hope! I did water aerobics a bit and then alot when I was pregnant and I LOVED it. I also think you could benefit from lifting light weights, it helps to build muscles which burns more calories!

I have a PCOS lady friend whom I have not talked to in a hwile but she lost similarly to you and was doing great, I need to check in on her, I know it can be extra challenging for you all which makes it all the more impressive!

keep up teh great work
 
Hi Mom2

Thanks for visiting again. I freely admit that I have a great marriage. Hubby isnt perfect - but who is? I am not! Hubby and I have been married for well over 20 years and we get along fine. We all have our little foibles. He takes the attitude that he is happy for me to not work and spend my daytimes being as focused as I want on my weight loss project. He even is willing to put up with the fact that I freely admit that I win no "domestic goddess" prizes. The house is basically having to wait for other than truly urgent housework to be done. All that he asks is that I spend my evenings with him and he says that he is concerned regarding my safety if I go out at night. Many women my age (I will be 49 this year) complain that their hubby grunts twice and that is the limit to their communication for the day.

I strongly suspect that no other husband of a member of this forum is more supportive than my hubby.

The ideal solution would have been if he had wanted to join the gym and go and walk on the treadmill or something while I did Latin Dance or similar. He however said that he was not interested.

My weight loss is most certainly skewed. I post my weight every day on the weigh every day club and also I post my weightloss weekly in the 2 pound a week challenge and various others. A cursory glance will show you quite how skewed my weight loss is. I tend to have a good spell and then it all grinds to a halt or I gain. When the challenge started I was at the halt or gain part of the month. I am fortunate then if I do not gain on the previous week.

I dont mention it in my diary but I do a bit with light weights. I have little wrist, ankle and hand weights - and I do use some (normally wrist) every day for about half an hour. The tops of your arms are a problem area for women of my age (even those that have never been morbidly obese). I am quietly quite pleased at the way that my arms are now.

I hope that your PCOS friend is doing well. There are quite a few PCOS ladies on this forum. Weight loss can be extra difficult for us - but I suppose with the health risks that are associated with PCOS we have more to gain than the average lady if we can achieve a normal weight.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
:waving:Hi, Margaret! Wow, you are doing FANTASTICALLY well with your weight loss! Soon you will be out of the 160s entirely! It seems to me that you are absolutely zooming:auto: to your goal!

Glad you are/have joined a gym and taking classes! I think that you must have an interesting life, and I wish we lived close enough to have tea together! Thank you for being such an encouragement to me.

:grouphug:
Janice
 
Is it that dangerous at night in your neighborhood? I often don't get home from the gym until after dark. I think your H just wants you home with him. :D

My H is pretty supportive of my weight loss efforts, too. He tells me nearly daily how well I've done, and encourages me. He has never tried to sabotage my efforts. He is very interested in nutrition and fitness, so we have a lot to talk about these days. In fact, he admitted the other day that I probably know more about the subject than he does. :D

I think joining the gym would be cheaper than your current expeditures, as you could go during the day and use all the equipment so that you wouldn't need to take any night classes. I mean, with all the weights, ellipticals, treadmills, bikes, etc you would have plenty of variety in addition to your walks. I cannot believe they don't have any daytime yoga or pilates type classes. Seems strange to me. But, if you enjoy the keep fit type classes, etc more than you would the variety in other things, you should keep things as they are. :)
 
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