yes true when i lost weight first tym i was well happy!!! i was losing weight well i hope i get back on track now that the hols r here. u shud invest in sum clothes now lol. im sure the 30s r way toooo big on u! i bet u feel really gud in ure new jogging bottoms. cant wait till i can buy sum new clothes and feel gud.

thanx margaret

x

Hi Kimberly and Angel

Thanks for visiting. I bet you can guess who bought herself 4 pairs of knickers at Tesco when she was getting the groceries today. They cost £2.50 and I say it was money well spent. I looked at the nighties - but none said "buy me" so I thought that I would check out one of the other supermarkets over the next week or two. We are not limited to Tesco just because a Tesco Extra is within walking distance from home.

I am determined to keep things up where-ever possible over the holidays - I have come too far to lose it all now. The problem is that when we are away the days will be too full for me to do the levels of walking that I do at home. I normally say when I am in Newcastle that I will aim to do 10,000 steps per day. Normally I have said that and then made sure that I have been out on a 6 mile walk each morning - including on the days that we travel. This time hubby wants us to set off in the morning and I am not sure that I will get out on a walk of that nature after the journey. There are several days when I do not know if there will be an opportunity for me to get out on my walk. If there is an opportunity I will take it. I will make every effort to try and take over the food organisation when I am there - but you never have the same degree of control that you have in your own house and your own kitchen. I think that I have mentioned that my family are all very thin. They pretty much can eat what they like and never put on an ounce. This in itself can make eating with them difficult.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Hi Margaret.

Yer such a strong woman and so together, I'm sure you're going to do just fine and not have any issues. Especially when it comes to gaining.

You're on fire right now!

Yer one heck of a lady!



Hope yer havin' a lovely Saturday evening.

Hi Stacy

You say the sweetest things. I certainly will be doing my walking if it is at all possible - you know what it is like when you are focused (some would say obsessed)!

It is going to be a challenge when hubby and I are surrounded by skinny people all intent on stuffing their faces. We all enjoy Christmas - but from a weight loss perspective it would be so much easier if there wasnt going to be a Christmas this year and we could just stay at home and eat our normal food and do the normal walks. I will enjoy seeing people and I will enjoy having all the nice things - but I will not enjoy getting back on track afterwards - or the worry that I might not be able to!!!

Take care
Love
Margaret

Saturday 15/12/07

Nice bright weather. My pedometer robbed me of a mile on my morning walk and some more steps later. I think that my clothes were blocking it. I don’t really care as my body knows how many steps I really did and that is all that counts.


General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 6 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 12st 5.6lbs (i.e. 173.6 pounds)
Steps = 26,540
Distance = 10.07 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage

My Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
2 large handfuls honey Shreddies
pork loin steak, tin of baked beans
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola

This might be a really silly question, but what is a weetabix?

Hi Kellye

Weetabix is a breakfast cereal which I really like.

:: The Weetabix Food Company

It comes in individual wheat biscuits that you have with milk and sweetener in a cereal bow. As it comes in blocks or biscuits there is no measuring involved.
They suggest people have 2 weetabix wheat biscuits - but I have 3 and lots of skimmed milk.

I am always ready for a good bowlful when I get in from a 6.3 mile walk.

Stacy said that she saw them in her supermarket in Texas and thought of me - so they probably can get them over there.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Cool, thanks for clearing that up!

So basically it's like a giant Wheaties.

Man, you walk SO much. I applaud your dedication!

I imagine so - but wheaties are something that are foreign to me!!!

I do walk a lot - but you go to the gym each day. We both have to be very similarly focused in order to make our dreams become reality.

u deserve sum new clothes after the distance uve cum.

im thinkin as long as i maintain my weight durin these hols its cool. i am gonna try n excercise evryday though. im sure ull fynd a way to do ure walkin the way ure motivated its amazin.

hah same with my family. all sticks man and they eat loads. i dunno wer i got my genes from. oh well jus hav to lose it and control my eatin.

x

Hi Angel

Maintenance over christmas is an achievement in itself. Most skinny people put on weight over christmas so if we stay the same we are ahead of the game.

Exercising every day is a great plan. I will try and go on a 6 mile walk most days but it will be tricky on the days that we travel and a couple of other days when we are invited to friends for the whole day. You cant really turn up at someone's house and say - "I'll just pop out for a 6 mile walk while you all talk among yourselves!" Saying "anyone fancy a 6 mile walk" doesnt always meet success either.

One of my before photos (link on p21 of my diary) has me with my mother and cousin so you can see how wrong my genes went. My father is skinnier again than them! Somewhere there is an anorexic that desperately belongs in my family!

I must admit that I am quite taken with how reasonable supermarket clothes are. I think that I will be checking out a few supermarkets over the next week or so. I am so pleased with my new jogging pants I cant stop wearing them. I'm washing them again tonight so that I can wear them for the keep fit class tomorrow. That is where the woman was that said my other outfit looked like a marquee last week. I think that she was saying it in a nice way about the amount of weight that I have lost.

Take care
Love
Margaret

lol ihave that problem when ppl offer food. its rude to say no all the tym biut then how much exctly shud u take. hmm confuses me.

i cudnt get 2 ure pics but i take ure wurd it. well soon enuff ull be the one hu belongs with all them skinny ppl. ull b one ov em. lol/

its great when othha ppl c a difference. i bet it dus luk lyk a marquee in agud way. u hav lost soo much weight!!

x

Hi Angel

I tend to take the attitude that if it is a rare occasion (e.g. if I only see people say 3 times a year) then I try to put things on a kind of semi-hold. I try not to let it impact on the exercise part if at all possible - but sometimes it is an all day event and really hard to slot in a walk. No-one wants to get up at 6am to go for a walk. If at a restaurant I try to pick something healthy. The best bet is for them to come to me so I can make sure that there is something suitable for them and me. If I am at their house I smile and say what nice food it is and basically eat whatever I am given.

If it is a more regular event - then I am more determined to try and make sure that it is not going to have much of an impact on my project. I make sure that the timing is such that I can get my long walk in and I push harder for me to do the catering (or pick the restaurant). I am more picky about what I can eat if they are catering. My project is too important for me to sacrifice it over trying to be polite. A true friend will want me to succeed in my project.

The daft thing with my family is that even when I was size 12 I always seemed to look chunky compared to some of my family.

I have lost such a lot of weight now that everyone comments on it. I was so huge. There is still a long way to go though.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Margaret
Glad you are still doing so well, and remain totally committed to your new, healthy life! You remain one of my top inspirations You are so full of sage advice & encouragement! Thanks, my friend.

xxo Janice

I agree that true friends will want what's best for you, and won't be offended if you don't eat what's served.

I sort of know how you feel about your family gatherings. While most of my family is overweight--they still pig out on the holidays and don't really care about my temptation. In a way, I think they try to get me to eat more b/c it makes them feel better--since I'm losing weight and they're not. But I doubt they even realize it--probably done subconsciously.

I think that while you're gone, your plan is very sensible--just do the best you can. That's all any of us can ask of ourselves.

Also, I believe you hit a new low on the scale, am I right?