Omega's journey

Hi ya ray of sunshine! :D

OK, I'm a lil confused..:confused: lol

Did ya make the 100 lb. lost mark yesterday?!?!

I hope ya did!!! :jump:

I'm so excited for ya! :hug2:

That is neat about your ole friend.. Are you guys gonna team up and do this together maybe?
 
Hi Stacy

Yes - I got there. Weighed again today (Saturday) and again for the second day running it got to 193.8 pounds. Of course that was after my walk and I have eaten and drank loads of water since then so I am not setting foot near those scales until tomorrow.

As far as I am concerned if the scales have said that today - that is my weight for today!

My schoolfriend and I have said that we will stay a lot more in touch and discuss weight and stuff together. The only problem is that we have both moved away from where we grew up - but we go there sometimes. I live 300 miles away and have elderly parents who live there. She lives 100 miles away from there but has a son at university there and has never been able to face giving up her parents house after their death so her son is there. It means that we both have somewhere to stay if we can co-ordinate things so that we go up there at the same time.

I hope that you are having a better day today.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Lagniappe

Thanks for visiting my diary.

Before you get some sort of complex about the distances that I walk I had better say that I am really lucky in that I am able to devote most of my time towards my weight loss project. I am not currently working so do not have to take a huge chunk out of my day to do that. I did work full time for many years - but am not doing that currently.

The vitamins that I take are as follows:
a one a day multivitamin
omega 3 fish oil
garlic oil
starflower oil
I am currently also taking echinacea because my husband had the sniffles last week but will stop that in a day or two.

The main reason for my choice of vitamins is that I am trying to feed my skin. I am hoping that it will deal with a lot of weight loss. So far I havent too much loose skin for my loss of weight (a bit at the top of my legs) and I want to end up with as little loose skin as possible. Make sure that zinc is in the multivitamin as it helps the skin.

Best wishes
Margaret
 
Saturday 20/10/07

Fine but chilly weather again for my walk. Wore both socks (although I wore sandals because I prefer them for walking if dry weather) and gloves!!!

Got a good stepcount in – boosted because I got some shopping in at Tescos.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 5 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 11.8lbs (i.e. 193.8 pounds)
Steps = 36,429
Distance = 13.51 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements – plus Echinacea
Continued my creaming regime – but only did one 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.
40 grapes
1 glass grapefruit juice
1 pork loin chop, 1 tin baked beans
2 very large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Yer so welcome! :hug2:

I hope you get more puter time today/this evening! :rotflmao:

My son loves Age of Empires!

~Have A Super Great Day/Night!~ :hug2:
 
Hey Margaret,
Congrats on 100 pounds lost! Thats awesome!

Its not quite chilly here, rather warm yesterday and even warmer at night. I had both windows open. And today was in the seventies and it probably will be warm tonight ..seeing as it is supposed to be in the seventies and sunny tomorrow ...

So you are wearing gloves lol ..wowser ..it must be getting chilly over there...
what was the temperture today? Was it windy?

We are supposed to touch down to the fifties this week ..and pretty much stay in the sixties for the rest of fall ..which is fine with me ..when the fifties hit .. I will just start wearing my scarf and such ..

ttylater hun
love yas
always
natalie jo
 
Hi Natalie Jo

Thanks for the congratulations. It really is great to be down here - and fingers crossed thus far it is holding. Often I find that I wiggle upwards after a new low and I have recently been hitting a plateau every few pounds so it is quite possible that I hit a new low and then wiggle up a pound or so then dont get back there for a week.

I know that I still have a long way to go - and that many people consider themselves huge at my size (indeed I was like that pre-PCOS - I remember thinking I was fat when I weighed 9 st i.e. 126 pounds) - but I keep feeling my side in disbelief at how thin it feels and looking down at how thin my legs are and thinking they look skinny. Everything in life is comparitive.

We are indeed getting frost overnight here. It has killed off most of what remained of our vegetables in the garden. I have been remiss regarding the garden this year - spent too much time out walking - but I have no regrets. I will live with the vegetable wastage. A load of tomatoes, spinach and runner beans have gone into the compost that I should have put into jars for the winter. We will be buying inferior tinned vegetables. I am making no chutney this year for the first year in ages. We have about 12 jars left from last year and that will cater for guests for the next year. We are better off not eating it ourselves - it is all calories!

You are lucky having decent weather yet. I am having to wrap up against the cold in the morning - although thankfully it is fairly bright by 9 a.m. so my walk is quite enjoyable. By afternoon I can leave off the gloves and socks. It needs to be enjoyable as I hate to think what would happen were I to stop walking. I dont think that it would just be that I would stop losing. I think that I would put all the weight straight back on. I am not parting with any of my bigger clothes until I have held off the weight for at least two years.

I dont know what the temperature has been and it hasnt been too windy - just really cold. We have had the central heating on non stop for days.

In England we tend to be comparitively lucky with the weather though. Although it can be uncomfortable we do not tend to have the same extremes that many people have to contend with.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Sunday 21/10/07

Fine but chilly weather again for my walk. Wore both socks and gloves again – I think that this is how it will be until the spring.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 5 times (on three laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 10.4lbs (i.e. 192.4 pounds)
Steps = 33,100
Distance = 12.27 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – but only did one 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.
40 grapes
1 glass grapefruit juice
1 glass orange juice
1 roast chicken breast, 1 parsnip, 3 carrots, 4 new potatoes,95g peas, gravy
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
I don't think you'll wiggle back up.. ;)

Yer full of energy and doin' great!

So very proud of you sweetie! :hug2:

Have A Super Great Night! :)

*Stacy
 
Thanks Stacy. I would like to think that you were right - but I know how often I plateau - and quite regularly I drop to a new low then nudge up a pound or two for a few days before it stabalises. The fact that I may have been so saintly it is stupid never seems to have an influence. I only ever feel safe under a milestone when I am about three pounds under it!
 
Monday 22/10/07

Chilly again – there’s a surprise!! No keep fit class because it is half term.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one lap my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 10.6lbs (i.e. 192.6 pounds)
Steps = 30,413
Distance = 11.28 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
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.
200g chicken, half a cucumber, 5 tomatoes
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
1 wine gum
 
Hi Margaret,

Thanks for dropping in my diary. It's my fist day back for a few months, so it's nice to get such a warm message! I replied to you on my diary before I saw that you had one of your own. I love the diet coke too, but luckily hubby dislikes it. I buy it in cans - more expensive, but I only allow myself one can a day, and it is always fresh and bubbly from a can. I have it with my dinner, and have water the rest of the day. I tell myself that I am going for quality rather than quantity, and having a can seems more of a luxury than drinking some from the bottle somehow.

Manda
 
Hi Omega,
Thanks for stopping by my diary and dropping off the encouragement! I really needed that right now. You are doing so wonderful, Congrats on the 100lb mark. What a goal to reach. Hope you have a great day. Talk to you later.

TTFN
 
Hello Margaret!! great job on making it to ONEDERLAND! that's what we call it here when you reach into the 100's, SUPER JOB! you must be just amazed when you look into the mirror now. I know your hubby must be thinking the same thing when he looks at you too, I'm sure he's quite taken by it, or at least I know my hubby would be. SO when do you get to do some clothes shopping?? You know a little reward for making it to a mark on your journey. Oh before I forget I read that you or is it your hubby who likes to play Age of the Empires?? My sons have been playing that for years!! I bought them the game WOW it must be 6 years ago or more, they still pull it out every now and again and play it, they are hooked currently on that WOW game, Im not a big gamer myself, but they seem to love it. I do play a game on our playstation 3 called Dark Kingdom, that is FUN! my hubby plays that with me, but I'm really crazy using the controller, so he gets a little excited when I play. :rotflmao: I hope you get a nice walk in today, and I hope your weather isn't to bad. Lots of love
Kim
 
Omega said:
Thanks Stacy. I would like to think that you were right - but I know how often I plateau - and quite regularly I drop to a new low then nudge up a pound or two for a few days before it stabalises. The fact that I may have been so saintly it is stupid never seems to have an influence. I only ever feel safe under a milestone when I am about three pounds under it!
Click to expand...

I understand... ;)

Well, here's rootin' for ya ta get 3 lbs. under and then more and more!! :jump:

You can do it! :hug2:

~*Have A Goal Reachin' Tuesday!*~ :D
 
Margaret,
I've just finished reading your entire journal. Wow!
You have truly inspired me! I hope you realize what an inspiration you are to people. :)

I read that you are 5'3. I am 5'1. And I'm about the same weight as you are currently. I am wondering about when you started walking. How far were you able to walk when you first started? I wonder what the difference is between speed and distance? Do you try to pick up speed every time or do you try to keep a good pace, but increase your distance? I find that because my legs are so short, if I set the treadmill to 2.5 I am doing a fast jog. I think I would much rather walk
at a slower pace, but for a longer distance.

Anyhow, I'm SO proud of you, and I just wanted to let you know what an inspiration you are!
 
Hi everyone

It is really lovely to hear from you all. I really appreciate all your good wishes.

Manda - or 2/3 ME - I love that name
I know what you mean about cans being a bit of a luxury. The trouble is that the cans are 330ml and I never end up able to drink 330ml at the end of the day - I am so full of water. And anyway I am a born cheat. I would still take a mouthfull when fetching a glass of pop for my husband. He is still going through bottles of the stuff every day. Our fridge permanently has one current and four chilling bottles of it.

Freaksgirl and Lagniappe
Thanks for your congratulations.

Kim
My husband tells me he is proud of what I have achieved. I still have a lot of weight that I want to lose though - so now that I have finally found something that works I want to keep on going to the size that I was happiest. Even though I have lost a lot of weight by just about everyone's standards - I am still higher than most people with a serious weight problem ever get to be. I have never felt comfortable since becoming a big person. I just got to think that I had no choice in the matter. As far as clothes shopping goes I am inclined to get only the barest minimum at the minute. My size has changed so many times this year. You have to remember that I shop and wear UK sized clothes (surprise, surprise). The numbers appear to be different from what you have in USA. In February I was size 30 to 32. This is as big as Evans - the main shop here for big people - go up to. The majority of my clothes are this size. Basically clothes sizes are even numbers. I am now wearing size 18. I want to keep going downwards. Whilst on the project I have not stayed at any size for very long. If I can manage to keep going downwards I will save the bulk of my shopping spree for when I get to where I want to be. Before PCOS hit I was size 12 - but I do not see my bust ever going down to that without surgery.

My husband is indeed a computer games addict. He is now talking of getting Call of Duty 4 - out soon. In fact he likes everything to do with computers. If he is not playing games he is taking one apart to mess around with the insides - i.e. upgrading / enhancing it.

Today's walk was generally quite pleasant, thankfully, although I think that we have the colder weather now until the Spring.

Stacy
Thanks. I want us all to get 3 lbs under and more and more. With luck and with hard work we can all have a goal reachin day (and week etc).

Time2change
What a sweet comment.

When I first started walking I started from a zero start. I left my last job a few years ago and had spent two summers in Greece - there is a village there where I have always felt very comfortable. I felt less comfortable when I returned to England. I got so that I rarely left the house - it ended up so that apart from visiting friends and family I was going out of the house / garden once a week by car to go grocery shopping. That is what I mean when I say a zero start. I doubt that my step count got up to 1000 most days.

I suddenly determined that things were to change.

At first I just left the house and walked round the block. The road that I live on is a crescent and it comes from a straight road forming a capital D shape. I now do a number of these every day. I am not sure exactly how long it is but I guess it is between 0.65 to 0.75 miles. I didnt care about speed. All I really cared about was getting from A to B. Whatever the experts say, in my experience a stroll is vastly better than nothing. I built things up. I had so many days when I did that - then I stretched it and went along the straight bit as far as a newsagent shop. Then I increased it again - be it twice round the block or as far as a little parade of shops and back (0.8 miles each way). Slowly things built up. You see my stamina was improving. Also in a matter of a few weeks I found that I had speeded up a bit.

I certainly do not jog now. In fact I suspect that it would kill me to jog - I am not going there at this size. Dont believe anyone who tells you that you have to jog / run to lose weight through exercise - I am living proof - but you do have to put in time. I do step out quite quickly and I do go as far as gives me aching legs. Then I rest for a couple of hours and go back out again. I am very fortunate in that I am still not working so not having to juggle earning a living into my quite gruelling schedule. I compare myself to an athlete in training - the biggest athlete that is ever seen.

I would strongly suggest that you get a pedometer and if the weather is fine go out for a walk. Then your body will dictate the speed - not a number on a treadmill. When you find the right speed for you in a natural environment maybe you can find it on a treadmill.

Go for the longer hours approach and see how it works for you. It has certainly worked for me.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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