Omega's journey

My weight just doesnt seem to want to come further down yet. 9st8.6 after my walk today. I am just hoping that it comes a bit further down over the next few days. I am still 2.4 pounds up from my low weight.

I admit that I have been hitting the cereal too much (am back on the honey shreddies!!!). How I can eat cereal like it is a junk food - I do not know!!!! If it doesnt come down further by Wednesday - that will be the reason why!

I am pleased that you enjoyed the history program. The French were our traditional enemy in centuries gone by. I had heard before that story of the origin of that gesture.

On Saturday we went about 50 miles away to a re-enactment event featuring loads of people dressed up in 18th century clothes. There were a couple of museums there too - one on Oates that went to the Antarctic and another one on someone called Gilbert White who wrote an old natural history book that Darwin used as a reference when he was coming up with his theories. All in all - we had a very pleasant time.

We have had a much quieter day today. We toyed with going out to an event at Osterley (which is quite near here) - but in the end decided not to bother. Rod decided that he would prefer to play with the computer.
 
*Grabs megaphone and shouts across the pond* "Put those honey shreddies down, lady!" :smilielol5:

Your weekend sounded like a lot of fun. I love to do things like that. Did you take any pics?

Yes, the French did like to take sides against you quite a bit. For instance when they came to our aid during the American Revolution. A lot of Americans like to insult the French, but they should keep in mind that if it weren't for the French coming to our aid, we would not have won, and would probably have the queen for our head of state instead of George Bush. Damn French!! :smilielol5:
 
It's terrible - my weight isnt coming down and I can only stop from eating cereal by going out and walking. I have walked to Twickenham and back this morning (pedometer now up to 11.86 miles) so might not bother with afternoon laps - it will depend if I can stop eating or not. If I go out walking again - my stepcount will get pretty high.

I think that Rod took one or two photos of people dressed up as soldiers. He hasnt loaded them up yet. I will show if any come out well.

I am not surprised that you want to blame the French. It is just such fun to follow traditions like that! I think that it keeps us in touch with our ancestors.

I must admit that I am perfectly happy to live in a monarchy. The Queen and her family are not perfect (there again - who is?) and I have to say that Charles irritates me at times (e.g. his stupid "defender of the faiths idea) - but I have never wished that we had a president instead. At least a monarch is from a suitable family background and is trained and educated for the role from birth. They know what is in store for them and know that they have to behave accordingly. It would be hard to deny that the Queen works hard for a woman of her age representing her people in an ambassadorial role at an age where many would be sitting back and leaving work to younger people. In this respect - she is only beaten by her mother's track record.
 
Good Morning M~
Ahhhh I love reading about all your historical stuff. I just love the 18th century in general I think. Though I know it was a barbaric time it still must have been romantic. Or at least I would like to hope so.
I have been playing around with the idea of getting a pedometer. As soon as the kids are back in school I plan to pick back up on my walking. Right now all they do is complain, complain, complain. :toetap05:
It's too hot, I am thirsty, my feet hurt.........on and on and on. LOL
So I figured it is best to forgo the walking for now. Besides they will be back in school in 22 days.
I am nervous and excited all at the same time this year. As my youngest will be starting school leaving me at home by myself for the first time in 9 years.
I am looking forward to riding my bike, walking and taking hikes. And of course the occasional nap here and there. LOL :biggrinjester:
Hope you can put down the Honey Shreddies. I know what it is like to have something in the house and even though you know shouldn't eat it/them you do anyway. :blush5:
Have a great day M!
 
Hi Dawn

In some ways it will be sad for you when your youngest starts school and closes that chapter of your life. New chapters involving your children are opening all the time and I am sure that you will find much pleasure in those.

You will gain freedom when they all go to school after the holidays. I am sure that you will enjoy exercising that freedom. When you get the opportunity to restart your walking - I am sure that you will benefit from wearing a pedometer. Some people just wear theirs for exercise walks - but they really miss a trick. The fact is that if you wear it all the time you find yourself doing a little extra walking around the house or doing those mundane tasks that fill up our day. They all burn calories.

I hate the way that some food items speak to us and entice us to eat them irrespective of whether we are hungry or not. It is almost like that food item is determined that we should be fatter than we would like to be.

You speak of life in the 18th century. I am quite fortunate in that I know what many of my ancestors were doing in the 18th century - it was not particularly any more romantic than time today for my lot (and the barbaric era had been and gone for my lot too).

This may amuse you. Joseph Backhouse was my great great great great great grandfather. His daughter Mary married George Roper.

Here is Joseph's will where he clearly is comfortable about leaving posessions to Mary (in an era where a woman had no property and on marriage everything that she had was legally the property of her husband) and he clearly did not think much of Mary's husband - my great great great great grandfather.

In the name of God Amen. I Joseph Backhouse of Hillhouse in the Parish of Holme Cultram and in the county of Cumberland being weak in body but of sound memory (blessed be God) for the same Do this fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight do make and publish this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say) first I give and bequeath to my son John Backhouse a Kist in the barn and my best suit of wearing apparel. I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Backhouse one shilling. I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Roper the yearly income of a sixty fourth part of a vessel that Joseph Hayton is master of to the care of my said daughter not to be subject to her husband to have any concern with it enduring her natural life and after her decease to go to my grand daughter Ester Roper. Give to my daughter Ester Langcake a cow. Give unto my beloved wife Ester Backhouse all the goods in the fore kitchen and parlour except a round table in the parlour, and three pounds a year enduring her natural life. I give unto my servant maid Sarah Millar ten shillings and six pence.
I give and devise unto my son Joseph Backhouse a parcel of freehold ground commonly known and called by the name of Crakehill with all the appertenances there unto belonging. To have and to hold to the said Joseph Backhouse his heirs and assigns for ever.
Also I give unto Joseph Backhouse aforesaid all my foggage or after crop in ////// To have and to hold to the said Joseph Backhouse his heirs and assigns for ever.
And lastly onto all the rest, residue and remainder of my personal estate, goods and chattels of what kind or nature so ever I give and bequeath the same to my said son Joseph Backhouse whom I do hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I the said Joseph Backhouse have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Joseph Backhouse

Signed sealed and delivered by the said Joseph Backhouse as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who were present at the signing sealing thereof

Nathan Tordiff witness
John Glaister witness
John Peat witness

Proved 19th May 1772
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Awesome!
How cool for you that you have such a wonderful piece of your history.
I think your right in believing that your 5th great grandpa did not like his Son-in-Law to well! LOL
I also found it interesting that he gave so much more to the servant girl than he did to (I assume) his son.
Unfortunate for me I have no records of my family. At least nothing like that.
On my dad's side is Cherokee Indian and on my mom's it would be anyone's guess since her dad was adopted. And back in those days no one ever, ever, ever talked about the adoption.
Thanks for posting the will. I really found it to be very interesting.

Omega said:
Hi Dawn

In some ways it will be sad for you when your youngest starts school and closes that chapter of your life. New chapters involving your children are opening all the time and I am sure that you will find much pleasure in those.

You will gain freedom when they all go to school after the holidays. I am sure that you will enjoy exercising that freedom. When you get the opportunity to restart your walking - I am sure that you will benefit from wearing a pedometer. Some people just wear theirs for exercise walks - but they really miss a trick. The fact is that if you wear it all the time you find yourself doing a little extra walking around the house or doing those mundane tasks that fill up our day. They all burn calories.

I hate the way that some food items speak to us and entice us to eat them irrespective of whether we are hungry or not. It is almost like that food item is determined that we should be fatter than we would like to be.

You speak of life in the 18th century. I am quite fortunate in that I know what many of my ancestors were doing in the 18th century - it was not particularly any more romantic than time today for my lot (and the barbaric era had been and gone for my lot too).

This may amuse you. Joseph Backhouse was my great great great great great grandfather. His daughter Mary married George Roper.

Here is Joseph's will where he clearly is comfortable about leaving posessions to Mary (in an era where a woman had no property and on marriage everything that she had was legally the property of her husband) and he clearly did not think much of Mary's husband - my great great great great grandfather.
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Did you win the battle against the honey shreddies yesterday? :D Keeping my fingers crossed for ya. :)

I also found that will interesting. Perhaps he thought the SIL would take the money and gamble with it or take it from his wife. Yah, it doesn't sound like he held the one son in too high esteem either. Leaving him a shilling is kind of like leaving someone a $ today, isn't it? A slap in the face to put it nicely.
 
Hi Margaret! The family will was very interesting! My own relatives left the UK around 1775 for Canada - and were shipwrecked in the process! One of my ancestors was Lucy Maude Montgomery, who wrote a famous series called Anne of Green Gables. But the really funny part is that on my mum's side we are related to Buffalo Bill, who was a famous American frontiersman! Among other things *ahem*. hee hee

Sorry your scale is not cooperating just now. I second your pal Kimberly in saying: PUT DOWN THE HONEY SHREDDIES! lol isn't it strange the things we crave sometimes. I wish that I would have wild cravings for vegetables, but in all of my 38 years this has never been the case. My best advice at the mo' is for you to toss the Shreddies out of the box into a rubbish bin until they no longer pose a threat! :smash: Er...then you can get a NEW box...

All for now, do take good care.
Janice
 
Thanks for visiting. I found all sorts of really great wills and things when I did an in depth study of my family history. Firstly - I used all the censuses to get a view of the family over the years prior to my knowledge - then parish records showed BMD information. Searching the county records office for key names around the time of their death provided any wills that had been applied. You never know quite what will turn up next. One of my direct ancestors hit the newspapers because she was a bigamist - but I view it as she kind of granted herself a divorce.

Dawn
I guess that there is bound to be records somewhere associated with the adoption - because I imagine that records would have existed at the time even if no-one wanted to talk about it. It is great that you have Cherokee Indian heritage too - as that gives a whole extra cultural history for you to explore.

Kimberly
I have now had two days when the only cereal that I have had is my weetabix. This is a huge achievement - and I have to say that I have been tempted a lot. Walking to Twickenham and back was a good move on Monday - and Tuesday is always my busy day. My weight hasnt come down yet. On the theory that there might be some form of water retention going on too (which I would have expected up until about now), or any toilet requirements I have increased my water consumption which would rectify both these issues. Taking a sample weight of 137 - this gives 68.5 fluid ounces which is the same as 2.02 litres. I was drinking 2.5 litres of water every day (which should be more than enough). Over the past two days I have increased this to 3 litres while I get this sorted out.

It can be truly fascinating to look through the old wills - getting an insight to the way that these ancestors thought of each other. If you had been spending more time in the UK I would have suggested that you visited one or two county record offices to see what you could dig up here. If you have the key names, parish where they lived and when they died - it is quite easy to look up what wills if any may exist. People were often not leaving a fortune - but may well have written a will just the same.

Janice
It is great that you have a shipwreck, a famous author and a famous frontiersman in your ancestry. It is reputed that we are related to Fletcher Christian - but I never found the connection. He most certainly had associations with a village where my family lived. Both names Fletcher and Christian are used as christian names in my family (local custom uses many surnames as christian names in later generations).

The annoying thing about cereal is that I transfer from one cereal to another. If we dont have any honey shreddies in the house I eat too much of whatever else there is. The thing is that Rod will not transfer his cereal wishes over towards weetabix (which is healthy and does not pose a threat as I can happily limit it to my standard serving every day). I cannot ban him from having any cereal in the house. Whatever other cereal is in the house is a threat to me. My solution in times of weakness is to eat the whole box so that it is not there to tempt me the next day. This is not a good move.

My best solution is to go out walking. Even I have never resorted to popping into a shop, buying a box of cereal - and walking along the road munching my way through the cereal. I cannot go out today as Rod has arranged for something to be delivered. This means that there is more danger than I would like today. I already know where I will be walking outdoors tomorrow. On Friday we will be travelling to Newcastle.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Ah, yes, the husband and parents do sometimes make losing weight difficult..lol. :ack2: I currently have brownies, tons of ice cream and chocolate covered ice cream bars in the house among other temptations. I could easily consume 4,000 calories per day and gain tons of lbs if I were to give in. If I were you, I'd start practising eating small amounts of foods that you find hard to eat in moderation in getting ready for maintenance. :)

Anyway, with the will power you exhibited during our outings, I am sure you can muster up the strength to keep away from the cereal. :D Drinking more water is an excellent idea.

I am not sure about my lineage far enough back to track down anything in England yet. I think I'd have to go back as far as the 17th century, b/c I believe they came over ages ago.
 
ABBAgirl said:
One of my ancestors was Lucy Maude Montgomery, who wrote a famous series called Anne of Green Gables.
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That's one of my favorite series!!!
I have never actually read the books, just only seen the movies that were made for PBS.
Though I could watch 'em again and again!
 
Thanks for visiting.

bikinibound said:
If I were you, I'd start practising eating small amounts of foods that you find hard to eat in moderation in getting ready for maintenance. :)
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I am so bad at portion control with certain foods that there is a severe danger that I will never get to maintenance (even though I am so close) if I allow myself too much leeway yet. I think that is something that I will have to practice for maintenance when I am in maintenance.

I did manage to keep off all cereal other than my 3 weetabix on Wednesday. Had a good day foodwise.

bikinibound said:
Drinking more water is an excellent idea.
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Drank 3 litres of water again Wednesday. I am looking forward to reducing that to 2.5 litres when my weight settles.

Interestingly - my weight had got under the weight where I calculated that 2 litres should be sufficient and I did reduce to 2 litres. I was having other liquids too though. Thinking things through this was not wise as I knew that I was retaining water at the time - but it is easy to be wise in retrospect. My weight shot up by 1.8 pounds the next day! The penny didnt drop and I had 2 litres of water the following day too - and then another gain! Then I put things back to 2.5 litres as I realised with the gain it was no longer quite enough water.

bikinibound said:
I am not sure about my lineage far enough back to track down anything in England yet. I think I'd have to go back as far as the 17th century, b/c I believe they came over ages ago.
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What you need are some rare Christian names. There have been many times that I have blessed the Alphas and Omegas and the fact that we use surnames as Christian names. Names like Barwise Little do stand out from the crowd. It really does make the task so much easier. Genes reunited is a great website for finding other people's trees which give lots of ideas - and people can send you evidence that really helps put the tree together. If you get seriously into it - "Ancestry" is great - but can be quite expensive. I was lucky in that the Cumberland list on rootsweb used to let each other know whenever Ancestry did a free three day promotion. I made good use of those and got a whole heap of records without paying anything for them. I have done comparitively little in the way of family history research since starting to lose weight - although I do still get contacted by distant cousins - who are told by relatives "speak to Margaret". It is actually quite nice as some second cousins got in touch that we had totally lost track of (this happens in big families).
 
You are so close Margaret, you can practically smell it! And after your surgery you will be tiny!!! I know there is still a long time of waiting in front of you, but still, keep that thoughtm because all that skin is bound to weigh a lot!

I bought myself (in an impulsive and rather stupid way) some cheese sticks and now I can't stop eating them, they are so yummy (kind of like your shreddies!). So memo to self: don't buy food that will stand in your way! If it's not there you don;t really miss it that badly.

Have a great end of the week, Camy
 
Congrats on staying away from the cereal! :hurray:

We don't have any unusual christian names in the family other than Hiram..lol. Actually, I don't think I even need to visit those sites, as I'm nearly positive a distant relative has all of it done already. I just need to link up with her line--I think her gggf and mine are the same. I've just been too lazy to bother to do it. :blush5:
 
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