Given how you've been losing the weight, a swimsuit-clad Greek summer must be a very realistic goal. I wish you all the best in 2008 for achieving it. You will do it!

Hi Auburn

Thanks for visiting and your words of encouragement.

I must admit that I can so easily see me in Greece this summer - but I doubt that hubby will give up his job and go for longer than a couple of weeks. My friend Maria (who phoned earlier today) was telling me that her hubby acquired some goats so now they have 75 goats (they didnt have any before) and apparently they are so cute. She says when I next go out we can play with her goats.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Hey Hun,

Thanks for dropping by my diary! Congrats on the 10lb loss- you are truly one determined trooper, I wish I had your determination and motivation- God, I could use it, haha! Happy new year, let's make this one worth it!!

Hi omega!

I just joined the forum yesterday and introduced myself in newcomers. I mentioned being a PCO lady desperately seeking motivation to stick with losing weight abd Bellaryna suggested I look up ur diary, and after skimming over ur entries, I am absolutely in awe of you!!!

I am going to start my own diary and i really do hope u will drop in often for inspiration, as I will continue to do with urs!

You have already helped me, just by being a role-model and I wish u success every step of the way!

Cheers,

Sam!

Hi Sam

Thanks for dropping by and saying such nice things.

I have just raced over to your diary and put a reasonably long posting to give you a push in what I think is the right direction for you. I put it in your diary so that you can easily refer to it if you think "what else did Margaret suggest".

Good luck. PCOS is a difficult thing to cope with - and losing weight is something that I wish that I had achieved at your age. A specialist said to me once "Life is not fair for PCOS ladies". I think that just about sums it up.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Hello Margaret~
I see that my new friend found you. I am so glad. I think that you will be able to help her greatly. What with your experince with the PCOS and all.
Well there won't be any walking here today. The Snow Gremlin came last night and dropped another 3 inches on top of the 7 that we already had. They are calling for a huge warm-up on Monday of 58*. I guess we'll see if it actually happens. As I have to think that that would be to huge of a difference. As well as I would then need Noah's Ark to get around!!!
Hope you are having a great day!
Catch ya later~

Howdy Margaret,

Just popping in to wish you a good evening.

Bella, I hear you with the snow. We've gotten about 8 inches (20.32cm) or so over the past 3 days here. I just heard on the news that some areas south of us got over 16inches of snow in the past 2 days! That's 40.64 centimeters for those who think in metric...lol.

It soooo sucks!!! Of course the kids ar loving it. I just hope they have school tomorrow. 'Cuz it's been a loooooog 2 weeks already! hahaha

Hiya Margaret!
Just thought I would pop in... Your doing so fantabulous!
Congrats!

I plan to buy a swim suit in June or the end of May. I hope that I will be down ten to fifteen pounds!

I hope you have a WONDERFUL New Year! and may many losses come your way! Congrats on what you have lost!

Love yas
always
Natalie jo

Good Afternoon Margaret!! Just popping by to wish you a GREAT rest of your week, I hope your New Years was awesome!!

I'm going to the gym tonight, I hope my body doesn't go into SHOCK! LOL LOL take care and I'll be stopping by to check in again later!
CHOW
Kim

Howdy-Do Margaret the Motivator!

Have A Goal Reachin' Wed. Doll!

I made it in time for the BL Challenge! *WooT!*

Thankyou for visiting.

Dawn

Thanks for sending Sam to me. She seems to be a very nice young woman in her twenties. I have given her some advice. Whether she chooses to follow it or not will be her decision. That snow sounds cold. Thankfully we dont have anything like that here yet. If you cannot get out and walk maybe you should challenge your kids to a snowball fight - that could give you some good exercise if you could face going out in it......

Kimberly

Good evening to you too. Your snow sounds cold too.

Natalie Jo

Thanks. I have no idea what size of swimsuit I would take. I am going to leave it until just before I need one before I buy a new one - then I will know what size I want.

Kim

Have fun at the gym. You spend so much time there normally it will be like a home from home (just with hard work and exhaustion thrown in). Our new year was quiet - just hubby and me in front of the television. We change tv channels with the satellite dish every hour and watch the fire works as new year hits other countries (Greece / Turkey at 10pm, central europe at 11pm) - we are just a pair of big kids who like to see the fireworks. New Years Day was just like the average Sunday in this house.

Stacy

I am so pleased that you made it to the challenge. We can take bets on how long it will be before Kimberly makes me count my calories.

Take care
Love
Margaret

So December came to an end and I finally get around to making a monthly report.

I am pretty pleased with my achievements over the month of December.

I did not expect my weight loss to be anything like what I actually got. This is because my weight loss is skewed and the week when I could hope for my main loss for the month happened to contain Christmas.
After 8 days when I didnt lose anything - I suddenly started to lose weight well over Christmas itself.

On 1st Dec my weight was 12st 10.2 lbs i.e. 178.2 pounds
On 31st Dec my weight is 12st 0.2 lbs i.e. 168.2 pounds

During the month of December I have lost 10 pounds

During December I passed the following milestones:
Weight is now under twelve and a half stone.
Weight is now in the 160s.
BMI under 30 - I am overweight and not obese.

In order to achieve this rate of loss I have been consistently reasonably firm regarding my food. I did however indulge in occasional pieces of naughty food over the Christmas holidays
I did slightly less walking than normal over the Christmas holidays - I even had a day when I didnt go out on a walk at all. The first day that I didnt go on a minimum 3 mile walk since I was ill on 3rd June.

My pedometer tells me that during the month I have walked a total of 301.09 miles
I have taken 795,750 steps

This averages as a daily rate of 25,669 steps, 9.71 miles

I also attend 2 exercise classes per week until the holiday period.

I am very pleased with my loss over the month.

well done!!!

3 milestones in amonth is amazing---especially when its december!! and 10pounds as well!! good on you!

you should be pleased. it is absolutely brilliant!

keep it up!

;-)

x

And so you should be!!!! That is a fantastic achievement!

LOL! Just call me Dr. Evil....Muuuhhaaaaaaaaaa!!! *sits twiddling her fingers whilst thinking up various calorie-counting bonuses with which to torture poor Margaret.*