Omega's journey

Thanks for visiting. Well I have to admit to feeling a little sad. I saw Kimberly for a brief spell this afternoon and waved bye-bye as I watched her car head onto the motorway and away from the London area. It has been such fun spending time with her - almost like me having a holiday without ever going away.

The weather is sunny and bright today - so much so that I was tempted into wearing shorts. This means that the new low that I got today is false. Today's weight was 9st9.2 (i.e. 135.2 pounds) - but when you consider that I am wearing skimpier clothes I am probably slightly heavier than yesterday. Having said that - it is a joy to be able to wear anything that you could vaguely describe as skimpy.

Liz
Always a pleasure to see you here. Your own achievement always impresses me. Whilst not quite at goal yet - we both have it in our sights. Interestingly - we have both done it by turning ourselves into what many would have described a couple of years ago as the most unlikely of athletes.

Dawn
Fingers crossed!!! It would be such good fun.

Janice
We are both so close to goal. It will not be long before we are both going to WW for free. It really is great that we can get these tiny clothes on these days. One of my friends here has just lost a lot of weight and she was telling me that her husband keeps thinking that her clothes are those of her 8 year old's because they are so small!

It has been really great seeing Kimberly. I would really encourage others to meet up with WLF chums if the opportunity arises. When you think about it - we have been so close for so many months and so many changes - it is more strange that you have friends that you feel so close to that you havent actually met up with in real life.

Anke
The truth is that there are so many amazing people on this forum - that are achieving what many would assume was impossible. My weightloss is far from unique - I can name quite a number that have lost more than me. I honestly believe that there are many many people on this forum who could easily compare favourably against the people interviewed in the various slimming magazines.

I must admit that I am relieved not to be letting our team down. I can certainly cope with the 1000mg calcium challenge better than a no carbonated drinks challenge. It has been so hot today that I wore my shorts. I got thirstier than normal while out walking and was very happy to buy a small bottle of diet coke while out on my travels.

Becky
I am so impressed at your weightloss since you got back on track.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Margaret and congratulations on the size 10 jeans!!!! What an achievement! I am so pleased for you and you must fell fantastic!

Go Margaret!!:hurray:
 
Hello
I know how you feel watching Kimberly driving away.
I had the same sorta thing happen with me when I had to end our visit as well. I wanted to be able to stay longer and visit more but time was up.
I am hoping that maybe at some point we will be able to get together again sometime.
How wonderful for you that you were able to get into your "skimpy" shorts! It always feels good to get into something that we have not for a long time.
Hope you had a good walk today.
 
Dawn - I am hoping that she is enjoying the rest of her holiday. The weather is still pretty good - so hopefully she will be. I miss that girl - she is not here and not on the forum either.

I ought to mention that my shorts - while skimpy for anything that I wear - are not skimpy compared to what the younger women wear. I would hate to give anyone the wrong impression. I am not doing a middle-aged Daisy Duke impression here!!!

The weather is bright again Thursday - so it will be another day in shorts.
 
I have some great news. Rod has placed an order for a treadmill for me. It is a big solid one so that we can both use it. It is a Tunturi T60F



Heaven knows where we are going to put it. I think that the living room is going to be the only option - but in all honesty the most important thing is that we have one. Rod has not been going out walking and he thinks that he would use a treadmill at home. I would dearly love him to regain his former fitness as I have. I dont care that it will turn our only living room into something that looks more like a gym than anything else.

Thankfully it folds so it might not monopolise the room totally when not in actual use.

It will be great for me when the weather is poor as I will be able to avoid the worst of my drowned rat days next winter.

I dont know when it will be delivered. Watch this space!
 
That's fabulous Margaret! If I am not mistaken, this is quite supportive coming from your husband, I hope you both make great use of it!
 
Thanks Anke.

My husband is very supportive. He fights the same battles - having a BMI larger than my BMI at the start of my project. He has the same type of relationship with food and tendency to binge not to mention turn to food for comfort in times of stress. Add in the sweet tooth and you can see that we were/are not an attraction of opposites. We developed bad habits together. Now that I am trying to be good (he tries but finds it harder than me) there is temptation for me if he succumbs to temptation.

I really wish that he could be as successful as I have been. My biggest fear lies in the fact that Rod is now within a year of the age that his father was when he died from a heart attack caused by morbid obesity. I do not want history to repeat itself.
 
Wow, that's pretty scary. Sounds like he's also realised what needs to be done, though. You should both be proud! :)
 
Really scary stuff!!!

We have been together for over 23 years and I really cannot imagine life without him.

I am just hoping that the treadmill does the trick and gets him walking. I know that walking has made the biggest difference to my own weight loss project. He cannot walk as far as me (he has problems with his legs) - but he can certainly walk more than he is currently doing. Every little helps.
 
I have been missing for a while, and I come back to find that you are halfway out of 130's! WOW Margaret!!!! As always, I am completely amazed by you!
 
Thanks Tyly - but I cannot help but notice that you still have a slimmer BMI than me. You are doing amazingly well yourself. Clearly the running really agrees with you.
 
I'm jealous of the treadmill. I want to try actually running a little, but I'm too embarrassed and wibbly to do it anywhere except in the privacy of my own home.

I actually have dreams about running sometimes, and they're wonderful--because I suddenly start running and then go, like in flying dreams, "Oh, yes, I can do this."

I want that to be real someday.

Sophie
 
I am so much thinner than I was - but I still havent tried to run yet. Kimberly was zipping across the roads with the traffic coming much quicker than me. I keep thinking to myself that I should be able to run now - but then I put it off a little. I will probably give it a go when I get the treadmill.

I know that I felt a little awkward the first time that I was going to do aerobics - but I went for low impact at first and really enjoyed it. I know what you mean about being aware of the way we wobble. My boobs are such that they will always wobble until surgery intervenes. I am in danger of knocking myself out if I jump up in the air!!!!!!

I must say that if I had fancied running to the same extent that I fancied aerobics - I would have done it long ago. I started aerobics last summer. I suggest that if running is your dream you do it sooner rather than later. You may always feel a little self-conscious. We have the power to make our dreams come true (or give it a jolly good try!)
 
Hello,
I've just read through your diary, and I am very impressed. I love walking as well. Last night, after having studied all day, I needed to get moving. I went outside and started walking, and didn't end up back at my house for an hour and a half. I used to not count walks as 'real' exercise, but I'm glad to see it has had so much of an effect on your weight loss. Thats encouraging for me. And I wonder if thats why my weight was down half a pound this morning.

I'd love to get a treadmill as well. Its my favorite machine at the gym. but I don't have any room or money for it currently. It would be nice to have for when the gym is closed though. Oh well. I'm a slave to their hours, for now.

I notice we're at a similar weight, and yours keeps dropping. I will use you as my inspiration to keep going.
 
Walking has had a dramatic effect on my weightloss. I walk between 11 and 12 miles each day and it has been my only form of exercise since an operation that I had in mid April. I am just about to start up my other exercise again - but have been under doctors orders not to do anything strenuous plus not to bend, lift, stretch or carry anything. In that time I have come down from 147 (just before the op) and got rid of an 8.5 post surgery gain which I think was a mixture of swelling and water retention from saline drips.

Whilst walking is certainly beneficial for weightloss - other exercise (strength training) will help us improve our muscle tone. I have certainly noticed my arms become more flabby looking since April. I have confidence that they will soon improve now that I can do other exercise.

It is great that we are a similar weight - and great that we are both motivated to improve ourselves. The fact is that we pretty much know what we have to do to make it happen - firm control of our food (eating healthily at a sensible calorie level) and exercise. It will take hard work - but together we can make it happen.
 
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