Omega's journey

Hi Mal

I think that you are one of very few people that can claim to know more than me about walking their skinny self anywhere or for that matter walking themselves skinny!

It's funny that you should say that though. I keep commenting to my husband on how I just cannot believe how skinny I feel. I keep feeling my side in disbelief that it just doesnt feel "fat" there. Daft when I know that I have as many rolls of fat on me and am still "obese" by BMI.

I love the feeling when I get back from a walk and think - whether I lose weight or not, I deserve to because I have put in my miles today.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Morning English Rose!
How are you doing today?
Hubby feeling better yet?
I know what you mean about feeling down the side of ya and thinking dang I am "feeling" good.
I try to keep in mind what I "use" to feel like and always remember what an accomplishment it has been.
Before you know it you will have walked yourself right down to a supermodel!!!
Keep it up girlie!!
 
Omega said:
I keep commenting to my husband on how I just cannot believe how skinny I feel. I keep feeling my side in disbelief that it just doesnt feel "fat" there. Daft when I know that I have as many rolls of fat on me and am still "obese" by BMI.
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I know what you mean. I feel skinnier now at 150 than I ever did at 115. :p
 
Hi Bellaryna and Phoebe

I am sure that I am beating these germs. I am filling less paper hankies and have only had one lot of paracetemol today.

Hubby is fine. He mutters on that I may have infected him again - but I am not so sure!

It really is strange about the idea of feeling so much thinner.

It seems so strange that I never appreciated being this size on the way up. I was convinced that I looked and was very fat.

The thing is that when I was in my twenties I remember being convinced that I looked fat when I was 9 stones. That is 126 pounds. My husband and I can actually remember me being that weight and me aligning myself to the Garfield "I'm not overweight - I'm undertall".

So many things in life are a matter of perspective.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi MoonGoddess

Thanks for visiting.

Nothing makes you appreciate the slenderness of weighing 176.6 pounds like having started the year at 294 pounds. Pretty much all weight levels take on a new pespective.

But I find this concept true for so many aspects of life. Just about everything in fact!

I find the concept of age a con. How can I be 48 years old and still feel young? When I was a teenager I thought that people this age were ancient.

Take care
Margaret
 
Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better. :)

It was interesting to hear you all talk about how you feel about yourselves these days. I certainly feel better about myself at my current weight than I did when I last weighed this. I guess b/c then I was gaining weight, and now I'm losing it. I still don't think I look thin, however I usually feel thin. Strange.

Just a gentle reminder to get the bio-oil massage in. :)

I see that hubby joined you for a bit in the walking today. :hurray:
 
Omega said:
Thanks for visiting.

Kimberly

I am sorry that you are coming down with this cold. I hope that you manage to fend it off before it takes hold and that you feel better soon. It is Wednesday morning now and I am hoping that it is improving a bit. I didnt go through quite as many paper hankies yesterday and at least I managed to get my creaming done to an average level. I normally miss off one of the bio-oil massages - especially now that the days are shorter. It sounds daft - but there just isnt time to do the creaming in the afternoons if you want to get most of the walking in before it gets dark.

My weight is taking a pleasant downwards trend - although weighing every day you get used to seeing it wiggle both down and up. It is always nice to see a new low for the first time though. My next milestone will be twelve and a half stone.

My accent was always more northern than geordie. The reason for that is that my heritage is pretty much purely Cumbrian. When I was a young child we headed over to Cumbria (Cumberland as it was then) pretty much on a weekly basis. I had lots of aunties and uncles that we used to stay with just about every weekend. This meant that the geordie kids thought that I had an odd accent. The daft thing is that the Cumbrian kids thought the same.

As I headed south my accent undeniably softened. This is due in part to the fact that I spent a lot of time with my husband - who has a lovely west London accent. Also the fact that I have worked with people from all over everywhere.

My cousins accuse my of talking like a southerner. People that I have worked with here say that you cannot miss my northern accent.

I would say that my accent is undeniably a softened northern accent. I suspect that many would be uncertain whether it was noth-eastern or north-western.

Certainly if you ever see me posting on the creaming regime that I have missed off more than a bio-oil massage - you can know that I am definitely dropping a ball which should not be dropped. A bit of nagging never goes amiss in such circumstances. I am asking a lot of my skin and do want it to try and cope with a lot of punishment. I do think that the creaming and massaging helps. I have loose skin - but less than I thought that I would have at this stage of the game.

Natalie Jo

It is absolutely ages since I bought any new clothes. Luckily I had a big trunk full of all sorts of big sized clothes at different sizes that I had grown out of. After I started losing weight - I was able to play dress-ups in my clothes from when my weight was going up. I found a few outfits to wear and wore those for the next month or two. Then I went through the trunk again.

I am now down to the sizes that I sent most of my clothes to charity shops. I was so certain I would never be as light as this again. A good problem - but a problem just the same. I have a dress and two leisure suits and some t shirts. I am living in these clothes because I want to lose more weight and save my money for when I am the size that I want to be.

Dont think of your whole size in pounds at this stage. I dont honestly think that it helps. It is just a number. Remember - I have been there. I think that if you spend too much time thinking about that number it can convince you that the task is impossible - or at least too hard. At least that is how it was for me.

You know that you are a big girl. You know that your health would benefit if you were to lose some weight. Leave it at that. That is all you really need to think about.

Weigh yourself just the same. Make a note of the number just the same so that you can track your progress. Just try not to think too hard about the number or the size of project that you would really like it to be.

Yes - you know that you would be better off if you lost 100 pounds - but your health would be improving if you lost 10 pounds. Deal with that and then look into the next chunk.

I am pleased that you have decided to do some walking. I am convinced that it will be the deciding factor regarding whether your weight loss project is successful or not. This is certainly the case for me, and I do think that we have much in common.

I am out walking every day.
Frankie is out walking every day.
I do hope that you will make time to come out walking every day too.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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Margaret! Your right! I went out for fifteen minutes in the pitch black, freezing my butt off .. I was dressed for it...but my hat would not fit over my ears ...lol

Thanks for your kind words hun

I am happy you have lost so much weight and are still going strong .. I definitely will take your pointers with me when I go walking ... tomorrow I am going to try twenty to twenty five minutes tomorrow

and I was thinking of you ... Janice, Frankie, Rah ..etc ...when I was out ...

Lots of love
always
natalie jo :seeya:
 
Kimberly, are you nagging? :biggrinjester:

lol

Hi Margaret!

:grouphug:

This may make ya laugh!

JJ shared it at my place this evening. {In the Chit-Chat Cafe section}




I sure hope the icky-poo's leave ya quickly. :hug2:

Your outlook and spirit are just fantastic Margaret and I'm so super glad we've met!

*Smoochies from far away for now* :smilielol5:

*Sprays Lysol*

;)
 
Thanks for calling in and leaving good wishes for me. I certainly hope that things are going well for you. Thankfully I seem to be beating these germs. I have a lovely red patch just under my nose - but this is only to be expected. I am taking care of it - you know what a fan of creaming I am. At least it isnt on my nose - that would just be too Christmassy!!!

Kimberly

I wish that you were feeling a bit better too.

It is so funny - when I touch my side I think - that feels so much thinner than it did. In reality, now that I come to think about it, I am now down to a size which I passed through so quickly it was all a blur on the way up. There are whole stones that I have no memory of being weighed. I do remember that I felt pretty lousy during that general period.

As far as what I look like goes - I know that I do not look thin - but I also know that I look a lot more "normal" than I did.

I managed the bio-oil massage - thanks for the gentle hint.

As far as hubby and his walking goes - we have to take these things one day at a time. I tend to commit to a program of events whereas he only commits to an event. He did put on a jacket yesterday that he had not worn for over a month and said that it fastened better than last time. I am hoping that this will encourage him.

Natalie Jo

Well done for going out walking. I am convinced that it will be of enormous benefit to you.

I am also pleased that you are going walking again tomorrow. Remember - a number of us will be out walking too - whatever the weather. We can all be together in spirit even if in different continents. Together we can become the sizes and shapes that we want to be.

Stacy

Kimberly is allowed to nag - and she has been shown how by the best!

The cartoon is indeed very amusing.

I am certainly super glad that we all met too.

I hope that the lysol keeps you safe and germ free. You are being attacked on all sides - not only by hubby but over the internet too.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Wednesday 05/12/07

Thankfully the germs appear to be retreating.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 5 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 12st 8.6lbs (i.e. 176.6 pounds)
Steps = 27,742
Distance = 10.50 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed bio-oil massage

My Food / Drink:

For this week’s challenge I basically need 90g protein

1 banana ===2g prot
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk ===17.3g prot
150g caramelised onion marmalade ham ===30.5g prot
2 handfuls honey Shreddies ===5.8g prot
40 grapes
pork loin steak, tin of baked beans ===27.3g+17.6g prot
1 large handful of raisins ===3g prot
1 glass grapefruit juice ===0.8g prot
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola

So this was 104.3g protein


Husband’s food / drink
2 slices bread, olive spread, tuna mayonnaise and sweetcorn sandwich filler
2 low fat yoghurts
2 large bowl coco pops, skimmed milk
pork loin steak, tin of baked beans
small handful raisins
3 funsize chocolate bars
lots of diet cola
wine gums
 
Omega said:
How can I be 48 years old and still feel young? When I was a teenager I thought that people this age were ancient.
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Ah, so true. I'm also 48 and recall well how I once thought anyone this age might as well be 70. Now 65 seems old to me, but it may not once I get there :)
 
It certainly makes you seriously ponder the question of at what age you become middle-aged and how long you then have to live if that was the middle of your life.
 
Hey there Margaret!

Good to see the germs are leaving your area! I'm still stuck with mine a little longer I'm afraid. I took a sinus tab, so I'm currently in a slight fog, but wanted to run by and check in on you!

Looks like your still walking along and doing well, I'm happy to read that. Hope your down some more pounds this week!!

Have a wonderful day!
Kim
 
Hi Kim

Thanks for popping by. I am sorry that you are still ill.

Yes - I am eccentric enough to be still out walking.

My weight.....
Well it seems down - but you can never be sure. I weigh every day so you see more new lows, but you also see it wiggle back the other way again.

The points for the challenge are far from certain. Recent weighings:
Saturday... 01/12/2007 12st10.2
Sunday..... 02/12/2007 12st10.2
Monday..... 03/12/2007 12st9.4
Tuesday.... 04/12/2007 12st8.8
Wednesday 05/12/2007 12st8.6
Thursday... 06/12/2007 12st9.6

It's always fun when they head back up!

Keep warm and remember to take some honey and your echinacea.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Yeah, I find it strange when it goes down like 2 pounds, and you eat good all week, and you exercise and then bam, one pound just finds its way back up there, hmmmmm our bodies are a mystery to me!

Yeah, I'm working throw this crud, but the weekend is coming up fast, so I'm ready to relax. AHhhhhh, I drank hot tea last night with honey, it was really good, my H has a cousin up north who has bees and well he makes us honey and sends it along every year, I just love it!

Good Luck on Saturday, I think you'll weigh in just fine!
 
:seeya:

Hi ya.

I agree - I bet yer weigh-in will be great!

You work hard and plan well.

:hug2:

~*Have A Goal Reachin' Thursday!*~ ;)
 
With weighing - you never know until you get on those scales. There sometimes is no logic to it at all.

I hope that you are feeling better soon. I know how much you enjoy your weekend family time.

Honey is always better if you know who looks after the bees.

My honey is Greek. My friend Maria keeps bees in the little village in South Rhodes where we spent two entire summers and have been on numerous holidays. We get our honey from her.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Stacy

You crept in there.
I hope that your Thursday is goal reachin' too.

I just want everyone to have a good loss on the scales on Saturday - whatever the team.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Margaret,
I tried to post in here earlier but it kept saying cannot find server..:ack2: So here I am now..lol

Glad to hear the germs are on the way out! I wish I could say the same..lol

Aren't those weight fluctuations fun? Mine appears to be going down atm, so I hope it continues on that trend for awhile.

I forgot to mention before about your accent that it's funny how people hear things differently. We always hear other accents before our own, it seems. My H thought (until he was 23) that Australians were the only people that had no accent. Isn't that hilarious? After spending time away from his homeland, he now can "hear" Aussie accents. But the funny thing is that his Aussie friends tell him he kinda sounds like a Yank now, yet Americans still think he sounds very Australian (well, sometimes English b/c he doesn't have a Steve Irwin/Crocodile Dundee accent).
 
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