Omega's journey

Wednesday 21/11/07

Husband cannot walk too well as he has a sore foot so he didn’t come out for a walk. He wore a pedometer and did 2,469 steps all day – but he had no real opportunity to increase that.

Logically my husband should be able to lose weight on a quite high amount of calories so bearing in mind that I refuse to count my own calories I was not sure whether I was being strictly fair or not.

I don’t know what if anything extra he had to eat at work – I know he took with him:
2 slices of wholemeal bread – spread with olive spread and made into sandwiches with thick sliced roast pork
2 low fat fruit yoghurts
4 clementines
He got home and had lots of cheese and biscuits (cheddar and edam)
For his main meal he had a ready made moussaka 1,034 calories

Anyway – he had bought the moussaka at the weekend so that was not too much of a problem – it will be interesting to see what he buys next weekend.

I did however check out the cheese that I put away and calculate that he probably had about 800 calories of cheese.

Bearing in mind the cholesterol in cheese – I could not help myself and I pointed out the calories in cheese.

After a bit of a gentle discussion (nothing in any way heated and I think that he was surprised to see the calories on the packet) he later told me that I could throw away the rest of the cheese. Part of me thought that he was really sweet and part of me felt that I had been mean considering that he could probably have the cheese on his calories (but it would do his cholesterol no good whatsoever).

I haven’t actually thrown it away yet – but have hidden it elsewhere in the fridge…

It was a good night’s television with Binge Britain and Diet Doctors on channel 5. Diet Doctors focused on a PCOS lady so that was particularly interesting. Husband played computer games while I watched TV.


General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 5 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 0.6lbs (i.e. 182.6 pounds)
Steps = 29,360
Distance = 10.88 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage

Food / Drink:

Challenge gives a bonus if I have 3 cups of vegetables

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
3 handfuls honey Shreddies
40 grapes
150g crumbed ham, 1+ cup cucumber, 2 cups tomatoes
1 glass grapefruit juice
1 large handful of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
~*Best Wishes for a Happy Thursday*~

:hug2:

I hope yer hubby feels better soon!

(Yer in no way mean btw...lol)

He knows that as well. ;)

*******

My Fav. BBC Show is Keeping Up Appearances!

OMG, I just LOVE Hyacinth Bucket {of course pronounced - Bouquet} :rofl:

That shows cracks me up!

I love the one when they take the cruise on ship!

:biggrinjester:
 
Hi Stacy

Thanks for popping by.

It's funny how you can feel mean sometimes when you give good but unwelcome advice. I felt just like that.

I havent seen Keeping up appearances in a while - but it was funny. One of my cousins Ashlyn is very houseproud and likes everything just so. Her sister Deborah used to sometimes refer to her as Mrs Bucket after that show...

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
hey margaret!

don't feel bad about the cheese, my family would do the same thing, and i know it's not to be mean, it's just them looking out for me. i'm sure your hubby feels the same way.

i had a chance to look at your photos and they're absolutely amazing and so very motivating!! you're doing a fantastic job!! keep up the awesome work! :hurray:

have a great day!
 
Margaret, just popped in to say HI and hope things are going well. We're doing our thanksgiving feast today and the house is full of this wonderful aroma. We're doing the traditional turkey thing, along with oyster stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and cranberries along with more traditional New Orleans dishes like shrimp & andouille jambalaya and corn maque choux. I'm sure to overeat but will eat a very light lunch to compensate. Hope you have a great day!
 
Thanks for visiting my diary and giving me support.

Starryeyed

Thanks for your kind and supportive comment about my photos.

Lagniappe

I hope that you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving. It sounds lots of fun - like getting an extra Christmas. Dont worry about any weight gain if you over-indulge - it would be purely temporary.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Margaret,

I just wanted to thank you for posting in my journal, and I have read alot of yours and am so happy for you. And like you, I hope walking works for me.

I can relate to your husband and cheese. My Dad is dutch and we grew up with alot of cheese - I adore the stuff: stinky, wash rind, hard, soft, you name it. Now I only have low fat cottage cheese in the fridge and some shaved parmesan for the odd occasion, as I would surely eat it all, as sad as it sounds. The only way to keep me 'honest' so to speak is to just not have any cheese.

Best wishes,
Frankie
 
Hi Frankie

Thanks for visiting my diary and giving me encouragement.

I have every confidence that walking will work for you. It honestly is the only difference between this project and so many failed projects of the past. I started many of those if anything more determined to succeed - and counted calories so studiously. I even started walking on one of them and stopped when told that walking at any pace that I could manage could not help.

It is annoying that cheese tastes so good - I love it too but axed it completely from my diet when I noticed that I put on weight every time I had even the smallest morsel of it.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thursday 22/11/07

My husband was so good he is bound to lose weight based on today’s efforts. I am so pleased.


General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 7 times (on TWO laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 0.4lbs (i.e. 182.4 pounds)
Steps = 30,907
Distance = 11.46 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage

My Food / Drink:

Challenge gives a bonus if I have 3 cups of vegetables

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 handful honey Shreddies
1 handful Kellogs crunchy nut clusters
40 grapes
salmon fillet, 2 boiled new potatoes, 1 cup cauliflower, 1 cup sweetcorn and peas
1 cup raw veg: cucumber, celery, carrot
1 large handful of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Husband’s food / drink
2 slices of wholemeal bread spread with olive spread with thick sliced pork in sandwiches
2 low fat fruit yoghurts
4 satsumas
1 very large bowlful of coco pops with skimmed milk
1 very large bowlful of crunchy nut clusters with skimmed milk
salmon fillet, 2 boiled new potatoes, 1 cup cauliflower, 1 cup sweetcorn and peas
lots of diet cola
quite a few wine gums - doubt more than 15 though @ 20 cal each
 
Hi Margaret,

Ooooo! - you are SO close to being in the 12's now. One more day or so and you'll be there :D Good to see the tweaks have gotten the scale moving again.

I don't think it was mean to point out the *evils* of cheese to your husband. When you're dealing with a food so high in calories and saturated fat I think it's best to be aware of exactly what you're getting when you eat large amounts of it. When you love a food I think it is very easy to be in denial about the quantity you are eating and what it amounts to caloriewise - I know it's something I've done too often in the past. Pointing out things like that does no harm in my book.

If your husband hasn't put on any weight this year then I suppose it means he must be eating at maintenance, in which case it could be interesting to add up his calories and see what that maintenance figure is. Then all he'd have to do is shave off 500 calories per day and - voila! - he'd start losing a pound a week (well, that's the theory anyway!;)) He might not even notice a reduction like that so it might be worth trying.

I thought you'd enjoy this week's Diet Doctors! :D There seemed to be a lot of good information there. The lady in question lost an awful lot of weight for someone with PCOS but I guess there are varying degrees of it and I imagine it affects people in different ways too. The woman who did the bread binge was interesting too. I thought it would take a much bigger toll of her than it actually did - some of the human lab rats don't even get to the end of their two week experiment because their binge food makes them so ill! She only put on about 4 pounds in weight eating a loaf a day for a fortnight - I reckon I could put on that much per week eating all that bread :eek:

Anyway, keep up the good work! I know you will be celebrating being in the 12's any minute now...:D
 
Hi Avenue

Thanks for visiting and your words of encouragement.

I am still hovering above in the ounces - but it surely will be any day now!!!!

I am convinced that if my husband continues to eat like he did yesterday and walks what he did yesterday (about 1.5 miles) he should lose weight with what he is doing. The problem is that all his favourite foods are things like belly pork, breast of lamb etc. Basically all the most fattening things. He also adores creamy trifles, crisps and chocolate treats. The problem will be the next time he really wants one of those really fattening dishes. I have never really liked them - so he has always had to do them for himself while I do something else for me. He has always been happy to cook - so him cooking his own meal has never been a problem for him. In so many ways it is a shame because so many men drink and he has no wish for alcohol at all. Many a Christmas goes by without a single alcoholic drink passing his lips.

I enjoyed those television programs.

I too was surprised at how little the bread binge woman put on. I think that the bread binge woman put on so little because she was eating it dry.

Most people at least put butter on it - and often turn it into sandwiches which dramatically increases how fattening it is. No wonder the fresh bread, butter and cheese that I used to love did not love me.

I was surprised that they did not tell the PCOS lady to get lasered. She wasnt so hairy really - but some lasering would have been a good idea.

The general treatment for PCOS that she was on was the birth control pill dianette. It is supposed to help to cancel out some of the effects of PCOS. I only took it for a short time while they tried to restart me ovulating. I took the attitude that the last thing that someone who wanted children should do is permanently take a birth control pill for the rest of their life. My chances were never high - but I could not see the point in actively making them zero.

Her start BMI was less than my start BMI - and they kept referring to her as a heart attack waiting to happen. I am really so pleased that I am dealing with this now.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Howdy Matgerett,
Glad to hear your hubby is taking his 1st steps
in the right direction!No doubt in my mind that you 2 are going to
be 1 heck of a team.Have a wonderful day Tammy:grouphug:
 
Omega said:
Hi Avenue

Thanks for visiting and your words of encouragement.

I am still hovering above in the ounces - but it surely will be any day now!!!!

I am convinced that if my husband continues to eat like he did yesterday and walks what he did yesterday (about 1.5 miles) he should lose weight with what he is doing. The problem is that all his favourite foods are things like belly pork, breast of lamb etc. Basically all the most fattening things. He also adores creamy trifles, crisps and chocolate treats. The problem will be the next time he really wants one of those really fattening dishes. I have never really liked them - so he has always had to do them for himself while I do something else for me. He has always been happy to cook - so him cooking his own meal has never been a problem for him. In so many ways it is a shame because so many men drink and he has no wish for alcohol at all. Many a Christmas goes by without a single alcoholic drink passing his lips.

I enjoyed those television programs.

I too was surprised at how little the bread binge woman put on. I think that the bread binge woman put on so little because she was eating it dry.

Most people at least put butter on it - and often turn it into sandwiches which dramatically increases how fattening it is. No wonder the fresh bread, butter and cheese that I used to love did not love me.

I was surprised that they did not tell the PCOS lady to get lasered. She wasnt so hairy really - but some lasering would have been a good idea.

The general treatment for PCOS that she was on was the birth control pill dianette. It is supposed to help to cancel out some of the effects of PCOS. I only took it for a short time while they tried to restart me ovulating. I took the attitude that the last thing that someone who wanted children should do is permanently take a birth control pill for the rest of their life. My chances were never high - but I could not see the point in actively making them zero.

Her start BMI was less than my start BMI - and they kept referring to her as a heart attack waiting to happen. I am really so pleased that I am dealing with this now.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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Hey Margaret,
I have finally cut some sugar out of my diet, so my eyes are getting better... no oozing out of the corner of my eyes.

Its going to be a long journey, but I am finally ready to take it, you know?
Its going to be hard to resist temptation, but with friends like you I will do mightly arlight...

Its great your husband has joined you! It sounds like his diet is becoming wonderful, he is really giving it a go......
congrats!
and congrats on being in the 180s again! I can't wait till I reach the point where I am average! lol :party:

love yas
always
natalie jo :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
 
Hi Margaret,

Yay! Hubby is still making the effort to be more active and watch his eating. :party:

What are satsumas? I asked my Aussie H, and he'd heard of it, but didn't know what it was.

I also love Keeping Up Appearances. Patricia Routledge is hilarious. I saw her as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest when we lived in Melbourne. I swear that role was made for her. She said she'd always wanted to play Lady Bracknell.

The American version of the BBC (PBS) shows some British comedies on Satureday nights here. My H and I used to watch them a lot, but it seems they keep running the same ones over and over. They used to show the Brittas Empire which I loved. I believe there's one called Waiting for God--about people in a retirement home. That was pretty funny. I love Brittish humour. :biggrinjester:
 
Tammy, Natalie Jo, Kimberly and Frankie

Thanks once again for visiting my diary and for all your good wishes.

It is still quite early days for my husband - and I know that he is trying his best. Unfortunately he has now caught cold - the students at the college where he works keep sniffling in front of him and giving him their germs.

So now we are both on the echinacea again!

Unfortunately it means that he does not feel like coming out walking - and I doubt that he will want to for a few days.

Foodwise he is finishing up the food bought last weekend - but we are discussing how we can buy something a bit healthier next time for him.

Natalie Jo

I am pleased that your eyes are improving - it is amazing how sugar can hurt us.

We are on a difficult journey - and it does take a lot of determination and hard work - but I am sure that we can all get there together.

Being "overweight" is not appreciated enough by the skinny people. As an "obese" person - I cannot wait to be "overweight". We can all get there and move from there to where we want to be eventually.

Kimberly

So you know what satsumas are. We get quite a few of those little oranges here - all either satsumas, tangerines or clementines. We go for whatever is supposed to be sweet and easy to peel.

Patricia Routledge - I can imagine that:
A handbag!!!!!:)

The whole English speaking world probably shows much the same TV. I must say that in my opinion the standard of the BBC has gone down. It used to be a lot better than in it is now. It makes me resent paying the license fee. I tend to watch quite a lot of stuff on channel 4 and 5. The only soaps that I like are Australian - neighbours, home and away. I know that it is mindless - but it amuses me.

Frankie

I am always more than happy to help. If you have any questions - just ask.
 
Friday 23/11/07

Husband has blocked nose and was not feeling too well. Hardly surprisingly - he didn’t want to walk.

He bought the chicken wings last weekend – he has agreed next time to buy a whole chicken and have half that for a meal. I think that will be better because there will be less skin

I hope we don’t but any more crunchy nut clusters – they taste too nice. I keep wanting to nibble some.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 5 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 0.6lbs (i.e. 182.6 pounds)
Steps = 29,317
Distance = 10.87 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage

My Food / Drink:

Challenge gives a bonus if I have 3 cups of vegetables

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 handful honey Shreddies
half handful Kellogs crunchy nut clusters
40 grapes
150g crumbed ham 1+cup cucumber, 2 cups tomatoes
1 large handful of sultanas
1 glass orange and grapefruit juice
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Husband’s food / drink
2 slices of wholemeal bread spread with olive spread with thick sliced pork in sandwiches
2 low fat fruit yoghurts
4 satsumas
2 very large bowlfuls of crunchy nut clusters with skimmed milk
1kg chicken wings roasted with 224 calories of salsa dip
lots of diet cola
 
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