Omega's journey

Hi Amber

I am so sorry to hear about your stepmother. You must all be so worried about her. I do hope that her prognosis improves.

I got so very lucky. I think that I must be one of the luckiest people alive. Not only did I get quickly to the hospital when things went wrong - I had an ultrasound scan the previous week so was able to tell the triage nurse that I was sure that it was my bowel because I knew it was on the move and was pretty sure that there was a hernia there somewhere.

I quickly got passed through to surgical assessment and they operated quickly. They didnt need to cut any bits away - just untangle it and put everything back into the right place. The fact that I have lost so much weight meant that there was no question as to whether I was fit for the operation and I have sailed through a really good and uneventful recovery.

If I had still been at my biggest weight this could have all gone so much worse it is truly scary.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
I agree you were so lucky! Just imagine if you had not started this project and had been heavier. I'm so glad it was not a worst case scenario. Everything fell into place and it got to be the best case scenario!
 
I know!!!! It frightens the life out of me. It is only 14 months ago that my weight was literally double what it is now.

None of us know what will happen next.

My big worry is that it will be something happening to Rod because he is still at his biggest size. He thinks that I am nagging him when I mention it though.
 
Any nagging you may do to Rod is out of love and concern for his well being. So don't feel guilty about it. :)

The area I walk in is not completely out in the boondocks, so I would feel very strange trying to find a place to pee in private...lol. The only people I know along my walk are right next to us, so I could just use my own toilet. There is a lady about a 3/4 mile down the road who I would ask in a dire emergancy, but her house is on such a long driveway, that it wouldn't be much sooner than just high tailing it to my own house..lmao. There really aren't many people along the way to meet, as their houses are set back from the road quite a bit. Oh wait--I just thought of someone else whose door I'd knock on...lmao. She is the grandmother of a former co-worker, and I sometimes chat with her when she's out working in her beautiful garden. :D She lives a little over a mile from me.

I told my mom about our team name the other day, and she thought that was really funny. :D

It's funny how things often work out for the best--as in you losing all that weight before your operation, and getting to the hospital in time to avoid anything life-threatening happening. :)
 
Thanks for visiting.

Amber
He eats healthily when he eats what I cook for him. Granted this means that on some days he eats healthily. Unfortunately he is comfortable about shopping for food for himself and he can cook - this means that he sometimes goes for things that would certainly not be my choice.

Kimberly
All this dashing for a pee that you do is probably why you can run and I cannot! It obviously has it's benefits.

I'm pleased that we managed to amuse your mother. You invented the name - I would never have managed to come up with anything so good.

I knew for ages that my waist wasnt right - and I even managed to research and think that it could be a hernia before the ultrasound scan. I never thought for one minute that a hernia that had been like that for ages could suddenly turn into an emergency situation though! We never know what could be just round the corner for any of us. I really think that my guardian angel has been looking after me so that I got all that weight off in time. No-one at the hospital could believe how much weight that I have lost until they saw me naked (I am talking medical staff here - I wasnt doing a strip to entertain the other patients or anything).

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Margaret~
So glad to hear that you are back to "almost normal". LOL :biggrinjester:
I am so psyched that we are in the final 3!!! I am going to do all I can this week to hit a new low. With that said MIL arrives tomorrow and I am sure at some point this week will be cooking us a meal. I will just have to be really conservative in what I eat. :drool5:
I won't be able to get any walking in today. At least that I can tell since I will mostly be stuck inside "preparing" the house. LOL
Maybe tonight. Who knows.
Well I hope that your day is going splendidly for you.
Ciao
 
Hi Dawn

It is really great that our team made it to the last three teams. I dont know quite how we have done it - other teams seem to have won occasional weeks - but we have never managed that. When you are as deep as we are into long term projects - great weight loss is always hard. I am just hoping that this week will be our week if we can just resist all the goodies that tempt us.

Rather you than me - having a MIL come to stay. All I can say is - I wont say mine is a witch - but heaven help us if she mislays her broomstick!

I was going to suggest that you time the feast for Friday so that you have done your challenge weighing and can basically eat what you like from a challenge perspective - but then I remembered how busy you are - especially at weekends when you work those long hours - so I suspect that it will all happen any day now. Try and focus on challenge glory as you refuse the wonderful food that you have spent all day putting together.

Either that - or turn the meal into a low calorie feast and put the whole family on a diet whether they know it or not.

Everyone can eat an awful lot of food if we are talking a roast with lots of boiled veg. A whole heap of fresh fruit with or without sugar free jelly and / or low fat yoghurt really can make a great dessert.

If she comments just say that you are all firmly into eating healthily. Mutter something about your body being a temple if you must.

I can understand how exercise will be difficult for you - it must be tricky to run a house, look after kids, work and prepare for guests. Much more than I ever try. I just do my walking and inform Rod that the house can look after itself. I have done 50% of the challenge quota - so the team should be covered if you cannot do as much as you would like.

I have done the most walking today for quite a while. I really feel good about my stepcount and feel great so I cannot see a problem with it. At this rate my walking will be up to normal steps in a few days which will really please me.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hmm..what does Rod think of you doing strip teases for the hospital staff? :smilielol5:

Luckily, I rarely feel the need to go while I'm out walking. But strangely enough, when I walk in the door, that's when I suddenly realize I have to go. :p

That's great that you got your walking up so quickly. I know how important that is to you, so I'm sure you are very happy about it. :)

Let's hope the temptation gods are kind to us this week. I've been very good today, for a change. :D
 
Glad you've gotten your step count up with no ill effects Margaret. I agree, walking is known to be very beneficial after surgery. Generally its not usual to walk 13 miles, but who's to say its bad :rofl:.

Good luck on the challenge.
 
Thanks for visiting.

Kimberly
Rod knows exactly what to expect of me - and has long appreciated my stripping abilities.

I called in at the adult education centre this morning. I was able to thank the ladies in the office for organising my refund - and I got to use the facilities when I was there.

I must admit to being very pleased with my stepcounts. Walking is so central to my maintenance plan that I have no confidence in my ability to not gain tons if I am not feeling that I am walking enough.

Well done for being good. If only I could resist those damned honey shreddies!

Claudia
Thanks for the good wishes for Omega-3. We need all the luck that we can get - but we will try our very best. I am amazed that we got this far.

Now you are exaggerating - I am not even trying to walk 13 miles a day at the minute. I will be quite happy to get built up so that I can do an average of 11 miles a day! I am pretty pleased with 9.75 miles yesterday.

I was perfectly open with the hospital that I wanted to get back to doing 11 miles a day quite quickly and they agreed that I could do that as long as I did it in stages and watched how I went. I have to say that it is pretty hard to see how my recovery could have gone better. I suspect that a lot of people would benefit from doing more walking.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hey,
doing great I see, and I am happy. I think walking will help you recover quickly from the surgery, if you don't overdo it.

I always cook healthy meals (well with my issues I have no choice about it!!) and my guests (mainly young people my age) always comment how healthy we eat. One even left once joking that she was going past McD afterwards because that much healthy food was going to confuse her body completely!
I like it, I cook for my little ones oftentimes and I am happy that I can provide them with healthy meals and I won't have to change my cooking habits when the man finally gives in and gives me a baby ;)!
We have always said that when he come back from Africa we may try (we will both be 25 by then, he will have finished studying and I will be in my last 3 months with a guaranteed job afterwards, so I can take a year out and go back to that job afterwards). And both of us being former overweight people (not massively so, but overweight enough to be unhappy in our bodies) we agree that nutrition will be most important for the kid(s).

OK, I need to go and study for my last exam... only 1 more to go!! Incredible! Have a brilliant week!
Camy
 
Wow Margaret!!!
9.75 miles already!!!
I have to really work at it to get in 6 miles. I imagine that once my youngest goes to school this fall I will be able to get in more but for the time being unless we are going to the library, video store or McD's he sees no reason to walk so far! LOL
Walking just to walk is not his cup of tea!
Way to go on getting back into the "step of things". hahaha
 
Thanks for visiting.

Camy
People may think that I am overdoing things when they see my stepcount - but I am truly not. I dont try to go quickly - just take my time with a couple of very long gentle walks.

Great nutrition is important for everyone to stay healthy. It is too easy to just eat whatever you fancy and not ensure that the balance is right. You can eat a million calories and still end up malnourished - because you miss out on a whole load of good things that you should have had. Great nutrition is particularly important for someone with your medical issues. It is no fun you getting ill so regularly - just because there was a hidden element in your food.

Happy studying - and good luck in your last exam.

Dawn
I think that I need to mention that when I say that I walked 9.75 miles yesterday - that is counting every step of the day. That means that all those hidden steps around the house, popping to the local shop and round the supermarket get added in. I would say that my exercise walks were about 6.2 miles and 1.8 miles. I wear my pedometers from when I get dressed in the morning to when I get undressed at night. I believe that the "every step of the day" total is most interesting because it is what the body truly appreciates for exercise. It would be possible to do an exercise walk and then sit on your bum for the rest of the day and do very little more steps. With the amount of exercise and the amount of housework that you do - I reckon that your "every step of the day" stepcount would be enormous.

Less extra tasks today - but I have both my exercise walks in - and my pedometer is showing more than 9 miles. I am pretty pleased with that again.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Monday 28/04/08


General Data:

Morning walk = about 6.2 miles
Round the block = 3 times plus
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 6.8 lbs (i.e. 146.8 pounds)
Steps = 25,222
Distance = 9.75 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Basic eating plan

1 banana 2g prot
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk 17.3g prot
3 handfuls honey shreddies 8.7g prot
1 handful honey shreddies 2.9g prot
1 thin pork loin steak 16.5g prot
2 clementines 2g prot
1 pear 0.5g prot
1 pear 0.5g prot
1 apple 0.45g prot
40 grapes 0.9g prot
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Breaded plaice 18.6g prot, baked beans 17.6g prot
2 plums 0.9g prot
 
Hi Margaret,

Thanks for stopping by my journal. And wow, you are such an inspiration to me. You started off about where I am now and have came so far. Very encouraging. Do you have any before and almost there pictures? I'd love to see them.

Dani
 
Good morning Honey Shreddie Queen. :biggrinjester:

I'm sure you'll do what needs to be done to post a loss this week. :)

I'm just impressed that you've gotten your exercise up there as quickly as you have. :hurray:

Have a great Wednesday (TLD)!
 
Thanks for visiting.

Dani
I last shared photos on page 124 of my diary which celebrated me getting to half my start weight. Unfortunately my camera keeps thinking that I am a middle aged lady - just because I am 48 years old. It doesnt realise that I feel exactly the same as I did in my twenties so I should look a lot younger! My weight has been pretty static since then because I was rushed into hospital and had to have emergency surgery. I had a huge post-op gain which I have only just got rid of.

Kimberly
I hope that I can post a loss this week - but the honey shreddies will not help. I had far too many of them yesterday. I think that I am officially addicted. It was just one of those days when I kept going back for more and more and more and more......
Terrible timing! I will try to do better today!

On the postive side - my stepcount was good for Tuesday!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Margaret,

You look incredible in the photos, like a new person. I really hope that in about 20 years that I'll feel the same way I do now. I do feel all right, it's just this extra 150 lbs that I'm carrying around that doesn't make me feel as good as I should. But anyway, congrats on getting rid of the weight you gained. You are SUCH an inspiration... I'm so glad you're here in these forums.

Dani
 
Thanks Dani!

You must believe that it does take hard work and effort (nothing in life really worth having is too easy) - but it is perfectly possible for you to lose those 150 pounds in a healthy way and have the kind of figure that you currently dream of. I have been working on my project for 14 months - so it was all done in quite a short time too.

I have good days and bad days like everyone else - but as long as the good days go well and the bad days are not too regular and not too bad - I think that things are going fine.

Walking really is central to everything for me. If I manage to go on a nice long walk each day - I know that I am ok. You must understand that I have a major fear about it all going back on again - like happened at the end of so many failed diets over the past twenty years.

There are quite a lot of people on this forum who have lost a lot of weight - maleficent, wishes, invariant, niapage to name but a few.
 
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