Oh Weemam that’s hilarious, you will have to whistle as you come up behind your husband now! And I think all the females on this thread agree re the thrill of old clothes now fitting, I don’t think most of the blokes are that interested in what they are wearing. I hope you got your barrels sorted, are you talking about the door closing mechanism? I am really trying to picture you with a screwdriver….

Amazon that’s so impressive throwing out home made cake. I could have helped you with finishing it! My sweet tooth for chocolates and desserts has miraculously diminished since on 5:2, wish the same thing would happen with cake!

12.45am here so must get to bed, early start tomorrow.
Cheers all x

nama yes that’s what I meant . Our youngest now has his own home and I don’t think he shuts any inside doors now lol . He has CP and he used to just push the doors closed and not turn the handles . so the lock in the barrel broke on one and we got stuck in the kitchen. It was like something out of a comedy film as I was running out the back and in the front and trying to get in with a screwdriver lol . They are mostly 15 pane glass doors so I though it better to replace all the barrels . feels good now 🙂 .

glad you like the creaky stairs guys 🙂

Wee xx

Had to go back to read the post about your ribs JoJo.
Not recommending anything to anyone , we’ll because it would be me just guessing any way. Perhaps return to 16/8 untill your bone issues are healed. Not sure how close you are to the macro nutrition ratio.
But I would fast only from the carbs.

My daughters silly cat , falls asleep on my back looking over my shoulder as I read from the iPad or type a post. He’s a long warm kitty, glad he’s there , cause my my heating blanket has went kaput. What snuggler he is falling asleep cheek to cheek.

Jojo you feel a wee bit under the weather pal . Not surprising as you are in pain . Just take it easy on the ribs please .

I am not a pizza fan (Ross is ) But I just thought doing a veggie version would be something a wee bit different .

SAMM I love all animals pal but sadly in the last few years I have become allergic to them . :(.

Wee xx

AO, I would guess that the majority of patients just think the nurse is a bit eccentric, but as a former health service professional I view her rather differently. I’m sure she knows what she is doing but her demeanour and her strange way of explaining things do not fill me with confidence. She is also exceedingly slow……..

Hi SAMM you only weigh in monthly yeah that’s right isn’t it?

Hi everyone, was just reading all of your posts, i recently read a very interesting article about where the fat really goes when you lose weight and this says that it’s actually not so much in sweat as it is in the water vapour that we exhale. It also talked about two different types of fat which I found very interesting. Here’s the link to the article in case anyone is interested :

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2015/01/09/fat-burning.aspx

So far my week has been good, much better than last week, tomorrow (Thursday) is a fast day for me so I will be having lovely butternut squash soup.

Jojo lucky you! Turkey is a lovely place (so I’ve heard, never been there myself!) make sure to relax and enjoy and soak up plenty of vitamin D from the sun 🙂

Just a big thank you to all of you for being so supportive, I may not post much but I am reading all of your posts everyday and they’re all funny and inspirational 🙂

Hi everyone

Jojo, sorry to hear you were feeling down but, as AO says, the wonderful thing about this WOL is we can just get up and start again the next time without being completely derailed. A little backsliding I think helps to reset the resolve. Your trip to Turkey sounds wonderful to look forward to.

Ply, like AO I’ve never had to shovel the stuff thank goodness. It would be very good exercise with the reward of a hot soak. A few years ago we were in Jasper, Canada, got off the bus about 6pm to -30C and windy. That was the first time I had ever experienced such cold, or having my scarf freeze solid from my breath.

RT, you and SAMM are such good sources of information. Just by chance I managed the recommended nutrition before and after weight training – a small can of tuna and some strawberries about an hour beforehand, then a small grilled steak and salad for dinner afterwards.

Very pleased to see the scales 1.5kg less than Tuesday morning after two days with total intake of 780C, although recognise that at least some apparent loss due to water held as a consequence of being a carb glutton in the lead up. Such a relief to fast and get back into routine. Now not having breakfast on weekdays, allowed myself a white coffee at lunchtime yesterday but still came in under 400C.

Keep up the good work everyone. N

Amazon, pleased to hear you’re in stereo again.

Jojo, of all of us, you seem to be having a rollercoaster ride through life. You can’t have the highs without the lows…? These things are sent to try us? Etc…! Love the fact you just say b**ger it, I’ll have another holiday!

Wee, you’re now in stealth mode!

Ply, can’t compete with your snow or shovelling heroics, but…it has snowed here in the night, enough that I will have to shovel (scrape!)/ brush an area before the hens will venture out. Joy…..

And on the subject of ladies, I hope you are enjoying yours AO? And starting to see personalities emerge.

SAMM, I have cats now, but my boy who died 2 years ago was a regular fixture on my shoulder, to the extent that I would walk around with him draped on me and frequently woke up to find I was wearing a cat hat with him purring soporifically in my ear.

And SAMM, I admire your restraint. Half a brazil nut? Really?! I can stop at perhaps 10 halves…

Nicky, great that you’re back in the fasting groove and seeing results.

I fasted at the start of the week and keep on with 16:8, and am still nicely at my maintenance weight. Won’t be long before you’re all be at yours.

Nicky when I read what you said to Wee I could just imagine her sneaking up on her OH and then blasting him with one of those footy hooters lol . Glad to hear also that you’re losing more 🙂 … I’m waiting for the morning to see how well (or not) that I’ve gone this week, but I would be very disappointed if there is no loss 😀

Keirra agree that stress is not a good way to lose weight, but if I were you for this time I’d take it but try to make it a planned loss for next week 😀 as let’s face it there will be times when a loss just doesn’t occur on the scales … oh, yes, I hope you measure as well as often if the scales don’t go down the tape measure does 😀

Morning all.

It’s a very cold but beautiful morning here. I’m tucked up on the sofa watching tennis, but will be venturing out to the gym after the match.
Have a good day everyone, especially if like me you are fasting 🙂

I agree with Kierra about Mercola’s article FoodAddict, but there are lots of claims and counterclaims about the authors credentials. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago…/Dr-Joseph-Mercola-Visionary-or-Quack/
I have read a lot of his stuff and tend to believe he is a genuine voice and standing up to “big Pharma” but he seems to have the traditional medicos rattled! Interesting and thought provoking. Obviously the food industry is big business too and would not like what he says about processed food. The only thing that worries me is that he also has a vested interest in his claims and markets lots of products and pills! I guess we can all just keep reading and making our own judgements. He can’t be all ‘snake oil salesman’ if he is recommending fasting!

We are out the door at 7am tomorrow as husband working a few hours in Yarrawonga, a Victorian country town on the Murray River, then we will backtrack an hour to our place at Jamieson. Hopefully things will be quieter up there now as school kids start going back from tomorrow. A nice relaxing weekend coming up. Scales looking much more promising thus far this week, I had better behave and not dine on coffee and cake tomorrow whilst the breadwinner is working! My camera is already in the car so that will keep me out of trouble!

Jojo please take care and hang in there, I am sure the quieter you take things, the quicker you will heal. Hopefully your pain will improve quickly. It must be so very frustrating for you when you are such an active person.

Great your ears are sorted Amazon, nasty experience having someone that didn’t inspire confidence poking around in your ears! I thought of you today when I saw ear plugs whilst picking out some new swimming goggles.

AO you are so sweet, thanks for enquiring about my sleep! I will only get 6 hrs tonight but don’t seem to need as much now I am retired from shift work. Still it’s a three hour drive in the morning and I will probably sleep for two of them!

Cheers X

Hi Wee, I heard someone the other day talk about making oatmeal in a rice cooker!

AMAZON!

I love brazil nuts!
But read the warning lable please!

Hmmm.
Another wAy to pUt It.
Plants may be mindless . But trees have more evolved defences. The brazil nut tree is no exception. The nuts can be toxic if taken in large quantities. Just like cane sugar. A little bit is ok , but If someone were take 200 packets it would be a problem. Brazil nuts are likethat . Only good in moderation. Plus when I shop online for a whole month I want to buy more avocados and apricots than more brazil nuts that could be more harmful than beneficial. On days I don’t eat meat. I eat two!

Oh. I. On feed day, but too tired to make the best of it. So tired , feet feel like black eyes. Laying down In my breath heated covers , Zzzzzz
Will eAt wasbi deviled eggs when I wake up. Didn’t think this weeks experimental 4:3 could turn into 4:3 w/1 day 500 calories restriction . Enterering into journal and I’m closed eyed for many hours””

Hope idont dream about being at work again , seems terreible waste of dream time.
I like my dreams when I’ve had hummus – chickpeas, they’re. Hmm hmmm sweeter!
Maybe just coincidence . Zzzzzz

Amazon,

I think it may have been me with the dangerous brazil nut consumption not you… I haven’t worked with ionizing radiation or radioactive isotopes, so perhaps I should be worried. I am trying to curb my brazil but binging, I’m down to a bag of (maybe 10) carob covered brazil nuts in a sitting perhaps once every 6 weeks now 🙂

On a serious note! I don’t want to poison myself. But I do wonder, as with the calories in nuts, whether the selenium in them is all available to me? If I can’t extract all the calories from a raw nut, it would seem to make sense that other things were similarly bound up/ unavailable?

Jojo, you are amazing! I love how you share your knowledge and talents. A true educator!

I made a cranberyy-orange-almond bread using the boiled orange technique. I peeled the zest off before boiling, then boiled the orange for about an hour and ground it up in the food processor with the zest and added it to the rest of the batter.
It turned out pretty well for a Paleo-friendly recipe. (no dairy, flour, sugar) One of my coworkers and also an old friend and her wife follow the Paleo diet, so I like to make them treats every so often. Like most Paleo sweets, it was very moist and dense, but the flavor was good!

Good morning fellow fasters, you know who you all are 😀

RT as I said it’s not going to continue morning and night weighing as too much for me … plus 9 out of 10 times I forget, however I am doing the every morning one as I like to see that I’m on track.

Today 1.2kg down but that’s because I accidentally had an extra FD this week as even though I didn’t I could have eaten more later however chose not to because (a) I wasn’t hungry and (b) I really didn’t need anything more. Not sure how I went with the measurements as I haven’t logged them just yet, will let you know after … maybe … 😆

Great going Wee with your purchases, always nice to get good quality for lower prices along with long warranties 😀

Amazon I remember going swimming during winter in the UK as a child with my Aunt. After the swim and before we left the baths she always bought me a Bovril to “warm me through” – do they still have dispensers for this there? It used to be a coin operated one with a cardboard cup (from memory) and we used to wrap our hands around it and carefully drink it (it was very hot). Thinking of this also brought back memories that we also used to wear bathing caps too. Oh gosh I could also almost “smell” them as we got the thin rubbery ones, yellow from memory, and they were very inexpensive but would also only last a few sessions.

Edited to add that overall there’s 3cm less of me this week … maybe last week’s measurements weren’t quite accurate, who knows, all I know is I also feel lots thinner this week and this seems to hold up that view.

Morning/ evening fts.
We used to eay hot potato chips, dipped in ice cream, to warm up after a swim at the public “baths”. I tried to teach my granddaughter this delicious habit last week, but she is apparently too sophisticated 😉 P

P, hot potato chips and ice cream?! Really? Sounds disgusting. Did you enjoy it? And did it warm you up?

Lots of food talk today, but had to share this. I made a cauliflower dish the other night and had a lot of leftover florets. I simmered them until soft and put them aside, not knowing what I would do with them. Tonight I was making chicken & broccoli Alfredo (my usual light version) for my husband, and decided to try using the cauliflower. I puréed the cooked florets in a blender with about a cup of water until super-smooth, then added it to a pan with garlic and onion that had been sautéed. Grated in a bit of Parmesan, some lowfat milk, and Voila!, lowfat, low cal “Alfredo” sauce! I have some more purée that I am going to use to thicken some chicken chili over the weekend.
The cauliflower has very little tast and a velvety texture. Definitely going to look for more ways to use it! How I wish we all lived close together so we could share food and meals!

I am probably overly excited because it was an accidental discovery, Wee, and my husband can be a little bit childlike at times when it comes to eating his vegetables!