Omega's journey

I hated being on the dianette - because I was scared of it....

My specialist told me that the version of the pill that I went on as I turned 27 was instrumental in the arrival of my PCOS symptoms that all turned up at once at that time. Up until that point I was of normal size / weight and had no facial hair or any problems really. I have only recently been able to get into my wedding ring.

I am not saying that I didnt have the cysts - but they caused me no problems. I didnt know about them - I guess that I was just one of the 1 in 10 females that they tell of having PCOS. If 1 in 10 were having their life turned upside down it would be in all the papers.

My hormones suddenly went crackers and I gained weight like you wouldnt believe possible. I also felt ill and had a period a lot of the time.

The notion of being on another version of the pill did not appeal at all. I cannot say that I had any bad symptoms from the dianette and I did have reduced hair growth during that time - but I was pleased to come off it as soon as I could.
 
maleficent said:
No we dont....

What thread are you trying to rate - take a screen shot of it and show where the rate the thread isn't there - it might nto be there on all forums but it's not disabled on aperson by person basis
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I took a screen shot (cntrl/prt scr) but couldnt paste it into a PM or into my diary.

Is there an email address where I can email it in so that someone sees this problem. Alternatively I could just let you know via PM if I want to add a vote for stars and someone do it for me.
 
Log out and see if the option for thread ratings are there...

I'm on a mac and even not logged in at all - i see that feature on safari or firefox -

it could be something in internet exploder..

Try it in Firefox and see fi they show up there..
 
Mal - Thanks for the suggestion - I will try it when I am at home - but am away from home for the next week and doubt that I will get the opportunity for such experimentation. This is freshly logged on at a different computer and I cannot see any extra headings in that area...

I can see that one of the diaries that I wanted to upgrade has acquired stars - thanks if it was you that did that for me...

I also note that I can see more lovely rep messages - 20 now - I would also like to thank whoever did that. It is lovely to see the nice messages - I actually prefer the messages than the number.
 
I also note that I can see more lovely rep messages - 20 now - I would also like to thank whoever did that. It is lovely to see the nice messages - I actually prefer the messages than the number.
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the admin made that change...

I'm actually curious to know what you think the stars mean? do you think that it means a thread is more read worthy? People rarely read the stickied threads -what makes a 5 star diary more read worthy than a no star diary? So what do you think the purpose of the stars is?
 
I really do like the increased number of messages. I would love to keep them all forever - but I guess that I am just that "memento keeping" type of person.

As for the stars - I just wanted to give a few friends a few stars or more stars. I certainly had no intention of dishing them out to all my friends - but I did think that some were as worthy as any on the forum (and more worthy than many) whilst not being rated as such with stars. If you have a rating system - then it is only right to be able to use it if you want to...

Although I personally do not currently pay attention to such matters when picking what to read - I know that when I joined the forum I did check to see which were rated better and checked some of those first. I am sure that many new people will do the same.

I simply view it as an alternative to rep which does not have the overhead of building up a big number. Many times in the past people have said things that were very worthy - but I have not given out rep. Other times in a different mood I give out rep for comments which are equally worthy - so I suppose my mood is part of the decision making process.
 
:party: HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY!! :party:

Hope you're having a great day! I think it's wonderful you made it to goal weight before today. :hurray: What a fantastic accomplishment. :)

You deserve to celebrate! :party:

:cheers2: Here's to you!
 
Thanks Kimberly. I have to say that it is strange to think of myself as half a century old. I really do not feel old at all. I still feel young. I hate to think of myself as middle aged - but I have to think how many years over 100 I realistically expect to exist if I were to push out that milestone into the future.

Reaching goal weight is great at any age. :party:
 
Hey, I just wanted to stop by and thank you for taking the time to say hey to me on my introduction. I'm seeing so many success stories here, it is inspiring.

Hope to see you around.
 
Thanks Bil and Cord for dropping by.

Bil - With the determination that you have shown in recovering from your stroke - I am sure that you will soon notch up a weight loss that will inspire others. As you will have seen from the success stories - all the information is here - the only real thing that you need to do is apply it and you get great results. Good luck.

Cord - It is lovely to see you here. I am so pleased to see the astounding results that you are getting now. This weeks results are absolutely brilliant.
 
Well July was not a wonderful month for weight control for me. I ended up on the high side of my range. I have to try and think of it as a success. Many people would have put on weight during a July that included:
1/ 23rd wedding anniversary
2/ 50th birthday
3/ over a week away from home

Part of me is quite pleased to have ended it within any sort of reach of my goal weight...

Remembering my goal weight is 9stone i.e. 126 pounds - August started ok - with a weigh in at Slimming World on Tuesday (4th) afternoon of 9st2 i.e. 128 pounds. However on Friday I had a bad eating day when I ticked my nutritional boxes but went above my happy range on calories. I ate too many fat free yoghurts and fruit. Not the worst sin possible if going to have an uncontrolled eating binge because of stress and depression - but not a good feeling just the same. I felt totally traumatised and turned to food which did not feel good at all.

It was a giant relief that I managed to break it over the weekend.

We are heading away from home again today for another two weeks. I would dearly like to lose weight this time instead of gaining - but we will see what happens.

Weight control is so much easier in months when nothing special happens. You stay at home and have less opportunities for temptation. We enjoy them but I often pay the price later at the scales...
 
I doubt you'll remember me, I used to follow your journal about a year ago but for various reasons I've not been on so much.

Anyway, glad to see you're doing great :)
 
Hi Lally

Of course I remember you. Thanks for dropping by.

I have hardly been by my own journal much recently. I mainly hang out in the challenges section these days. I just was not getting round to visiting journals the way that I used to.

I hope that things are going well for you.

Take care

Love
Margaret
 
Hello my lady friend. I have been caught up in my little world and did not realize that you had started posting in your previously all but abandoned diary here. I feel as though I've missed an opportunity to spam your diary with my brand of off color and occasionally provacative humor and such.

Well, no more! I am here now, and you won't be rid of me easily!

Looking around I see some of the usual suspects hanging out here, Kimberly, Cord... Yup, I'll have to hang out in here too on occasion.
 
Hi Karl

Nice to see you here - thanks for visiting. The truth is that I had abandoned the diary - but then noticed that friends had started coming here again so came back.

Your humour is certainly most welcome - and I do not blush as quickly as people may think....

Cord has only visited the once - but Kimberly has been a good friend for a large part of this journey. We even met up and went walking together when she came over to England last summer.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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