Good morning/afternoon/evening fts.

Ply, snap wrt cauli ‘sauce’. A week or so ago I had some left over, along with roasted onion and capsicum and whizzed them up with a dash of Worcester sauce – yummo! Even my darling daughter, who detests brassicas in any form, didn’t detect the cauli (about 50% of the mix) and asked for the recipe 😆

Amazon, very envious that your gym has a pool, hope your ears didn’t suffer from earplug absence. Public (heated) pools are all a long way from here.

Beautiful sunny mild morning, heading for a top of 29C later in town, although that translates to about 25C here in the Adelaide Hills. This relatively mild weather is lovely so enjoying it while it lasts. Perth predicted for 37C today so we could get that next week.

Am so excited to discover that Emel and I actually live in the same village! HOODATHORTIT, as they say in the classics, that we ‘meet’ on a forum on the other side of the world to discover we live quite close. We are meeting for coffee this morning. Hope with Emel’s approval to take a pic and will post on the FTI FB page.

Have a good one everyone. N

Thanks Ply, now driving up the Hume Highway thinking about yummy cauliflower, what a great idea for a white sauce with no butter or flour! We often have cauliflower mashed instead of potato, you have taken it a step further!

Purple I can’t get my head around chips and ice cream, both yum but in opposite seasons! Reminds me a bit of my kiwi sis in law who puts a slice of hard cheese on top of fruit cake. The ice cream and chips must be a NSW thing!

Mmmm..cheese and fruitcake 😉
My son makes sate toast…vegemite, peanut butter and honey 🙁
Weird lot, our mob! 🙂 P

My Papa( granddad) used to take a penguin biscuit in his bread sandwiches with him when he worked in the coal mines .

Wee xx

Nicky and Ply

Thanks for the Cauliflower ideas. I am in the middle of my second fast for the week. Floors cleaned and washed, ironing all done. No more diversionary work to do. 😉 Have lasted 20 hours without food. Looking forward to my vegetable soup in 10 minutes. Then we play 9 holes of golf. 😆

Cheers, Bay 🙂

Mmmmmmm, cauliflower cheese, butter & sugar sandwiches (a childhood staple but with brown sugar and a banana if we were really lucky!) and cheese & fruitcake. Good thing it’s not a fast day for me. So many wonderful ideas for keeping the calories down too so thanks for the recipes & ideas. I’m rapt to say I’ve had another really good week and am down 1.4kg. I only weigh once a week (otherwise would either obsess, or eat at the slightest increase if I’d been ‘good’). So YAH!!!!! I now have less than 30kg still to lose, a mammoth amount to go and more than some of you weigh for all I know 🙂 but I’ve lost 14.2kg (approx. 33lbs) with 5:2 and I am really happy with that. I’m only a couple of kg over my last lowest weight and that feels good as I did despair after 3 years that I’d even get back there again. I plan to go even further and one day reach goal. Still on track for spring so fingers crossed (and mouth SHUT when required). Happy fasting all!!

Morning all.

FD again for me, and I’m having some fresh mackerel with gooseberry sauce for dinner, an idea I got from a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall programme in his series about using fruit more.

Nicki, I searched for a gym with a pool as I knew that it was the only way I would swim regularly, because I never get round to going. About 50% of the gyms in this area (and there are many) have pools, so it was a case of finding one that had everything I wanted, at the right price, and not too far from home. It is a nice pool with a jacuzzi at one end, and a sauna, steam room and saunarium along one side. All I need is a cocktail bar 😉
I hope you had a good time with Emel. It is indeed a small world, especially as I have a friend who lives in the hills not far from where you work.

I love cauliflower and use it a lot. I have a nice recipe for an Indian style cauliflower curry which is a real favourite. I also like cauliflower soup. Cauliflower cheese is a favourite too, and I make a low calorie version with a fat free bechamel sauce, onions and mushrooms, and just put cheese on the top, and I have it as a vegetarian main course. I’m going to try using cauli mash next time I make a cottage pie.

Comespring, well done on your weight loss, it feels good doesn’t it.

Ice cream and crisps…yuck!
Marmite…..I’m in the hate it camp, but I love Vegemite 😛

Well done Bay. If you need more distraction you could come and clean my place 😆

Have a great day/evening everyone.

Why do you find it so hard Bay?

I guess if you knew you would have done something about it :doh:

Hi Amazon

You may like to have a look at what I wrote on the Maintenance thread about this today. I think it’s a mystery exactly why, but maybe I need a new challenge that will replace the original weight loss challenge. I think I am an All or Nothing type personality which means that 5:2 is very doable for me. But now that the original weight loss has been achieved, I don’t need to be strict. And therefore it takes more discipline for me to stay on track 🙄 definitely a first World problem.

Maybe I will join Happy in a sugar free Lent just to have a new challenge to aim for. 😉

Cheers, Bay 🙂

Or even eye! off. The Wye being a large river in the UK…

I am sorry to say I still have a sweet tooyh but I am very careful what I eat. My failing is ice cream but I am very happy with how my weight is going .
yesterday I did a fast with under 80 calories . that included a sugar free jelly 🙂 .
I still call that a liquid fast as it was bovril and water .

Today I made myself a wee chocolate cake in the microwave with golden linseed and chocolate whey protein powder . Yummy and very filling and around 200 calories and 2 carbs . I loved it .

Still a lot of snow lying but the roads are all clear now . . have a lovely day everyone .

The wee laugh for Today I discovered when I hunch up my shoulders I have a space where I can lay something . I tried a pound coin in the space lol . I know it sounds mad and YES I know I have always had bones (as other half so kindly pointed out) but I have never seen these ones before . I am so happy lol xx

Morning Fast Trackers
Nicky Emel comespring and Aussie O in South Australia Nama & Keirra in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA and Hello World (You know Who You) 😆
AO yes I take your point on the weighing in caper 💡 and well done on the weight loss and the measurements down 3cm in a week is fantastic the silly bugger that I am I did not take any measurements at all anywhere nor did I take a selfie 😥 newbies take it from me make sure you do !! Comespring outstanding stuff keep on keeping on Nicky and emel got the mojo on finally that is a good news story I am glad it went well as I live and breath is that you 😆
Week 19 &I am down 400 grams this week now 74kg I am taking a break from the Saturday scales of justice for a month (Feb) I have Dr Krista Vardys Every Other Day Diet eBook and have switched to her program for a trial or a study of one if you like 😉 ME it is one meal a day of 500cal or a 400cal meal and a 100cal snack I am on the one meal a day dinner of 500cal followed by whatever you like the next day so to TDEE. I don’t get close to that now so no dramas there I follow 19/5 daily and have reworked my walk to push it out to around 7750 steps a trip x2 morning and afternoon so over 15000 steps a day now the suggested weight loss is 12lb/5.4kg for a month or 3lb/1.4kg a week and it is said to be especially good at burning visceral tummy fat on the trial of EOD diet the average male showed a decrease of the waistline of 5” (12.7cm) which is ideal for me I will of course report back fast friends. BTW those grated hard boiled eggs and warm fried onions where amazing a total taste sensation they rocked my world and blew my mind big time and I did not share one crumb of it either 😎 my bad 😳 greed is good Amazon you know your stuff thankyou.
Have a groovy weekend every one full of peace love and happiness
RT

RT,
I knew you would love the egg and onions. I like it spread on a big thick slice of bread 😆

I’m going to brave the scales tomorrow 😮

Happy, I found the recipe on the BBC website and doctored it to suit 5:2 as the original had cream in the sauce and oil on the fish. Why would you want to oil oily fish………..
There are numerous recipes on line for mackerel and gooseberries.
I cooked the berries with a tablespoonful of elderflower cordial, a splash of water and a small amount of Stevia. It should be sour, but I tasted it and thought it needed a tiny bit of sweetness.
The mackerel was spread with grain mustard on the flesh side and then grilled skin side up until cooked.
I removed the skin, which I wouldn’t have done if it wasn’t a FD, and put the fish and sauce on a bed of green salad.

I only used half of the sauce which was made with a 350g punnet of gooseberies found in the bottom of my freezer, so tomorrow I’m going to add some more stevia and mix it into yoghurt for a healthy gooseberry fool!

Well said, Happy, sorry for the mixup over sugar free Lent. 😉

All of us on the Maintainers thread are continuing to stay at goal weight. We periodically discuss what our motivation is, and if we need to find another reason to keep fasting two days a week. I really enjoy my Monday fast, and it’s only ever the second one in the week that causes me to say I find it hard. 🙄

Last night when I wrote the post, I was tired and feeling low after fasting all Friday. Today I’ve woken up feeling good. And it could be that it is the sugar withdrawal on the second fast day that causes me to feel low. Am seriously thinking of going sugar free with Lichtle and FFS.

Sorry for inflicting my low mood on you. 😥 Will keep such meanderings for the Maintenance Chatbox in the future.

Cheers, all. Bay 🙂

Hi Bay,

No need to apologise re: Lent. It has already been pointed out to me that I appeared to give the impression I was going to join in… I know people do give up things for Lent, but I had to Google Lent to understand why 🙂

Amazon,

It’s so bloomin cold here at the moment, I really don’t want to go rummaging in the freezer for gooseberries. Not even sure there’s any in there… And the fruit freezer is in the shed and I’ll get hot aches before I even get there… Mmm, looks good though 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!

Morning everyone, RT you’re right re measurements, if I hadn’t done that I’d have been pretty upset a few times because the scales either didn’t budge or went to wrong way but the tape measure saved me each time (all three from memory).

I’m finding that now that I’ve embraced working with my goal weight TDEE and BMR that the weight is coming off steadily rather than 1kg, 100g, 200g, 0g I’m now getting 800g to 1.2kg each week at the moment so very happy with this.

I’m charging my fitbit while typing this all out and doing other internet things. Have cleaned out my craft room ready for new table to arrive (no more trestles for working on after today 😀 ).

Happy and Bay I’m almost sugar free now, only usually have something sweet on Fridays but think I should aim to be totally sugar free from next weigh day for a month’s trial and see from there perhaps extend for another month etc.

Boy I haven’t had gooseberries for years … I remember picking them for Mum to make a pudding for a Sunday during the season, we also grew black currants (I think they’re called blue berries now), and raspberries, I think there were others but I can’t recall them. When we went to England last my Aunt had raspberries just outside the back door and we’d pick one or two on our way through (each way) and munch on them … can’t beat freshly picked fruit … yumm!

Hi AO

Sugar free, wow! Blueberries are different to black currants. Black currants are sharper in flavour and more purple in juice. Blueberries grow wild in Scandinavia.

Cheers, Bay 🙂

Morning/evening all.

The tennis might be hotting up but the temprature in Melbourne is going in the opposite direction…….

I have to pay some attention to the flat and do some serious cleaning today :yuck:

My scales are cheap and cheerful, and I don’t think they are very accurate. I need to give some thought to buying a decent set.

It is really interesting the way our tastes are changing with this WOE. I thought I might regret chucking out the Christmas cake but in fact I feel relieved that I don’t have to eat any more of it.

Have a good day/evening everyone

Well done all you lovely loosers . I have lost too but I will wait until Monday to check exactly how much . .

My back has still wee twinges so I am still being careful how I lift and turn but getting on with everyday life OK .If it is still like this in a couple of weeks I will get a Dr appointment to see IF it is part of the RA .

When I was wee we called gooseberrys “hairy grapes ” because that’s what they looked like or goosegogs.
The sun is shining here and the main roads are fine so I am going to pay dad another wee visit . Then we will either take him out ,or if he is still in bed we will go to Aldi ( for a wee change) .

Well I am off to do my hair and get reaDY .
I love having all of the clothes that were put away because they were too wee but fit now . I have so much to pick from now ..

have a lovely day everyone

Wee xx

Hi All,
I’m just checking in…. I’ve just finished my 3rd week doing 5:2. Gotta say I’m loving it. I have tried so many diets but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. 2 days a week is so doable. I’m going to spend the first 6-8 weeks just getting used to having 500 cals on 2 days a week before I start to experiment.
Your posts keep me motivated and on track… I’m reading them all the time.
Well done everyone on your weight losses and/or inches lost.
I have just written all my measurements down (should’ve done it when I started) but already I can fit into my pre-pregnancy jeans (still a little tight so I can only wear them if I stand up all day!)Think I’ve lost just over 3Kg so that’s a plus.
I’m off on a rare night out tonight as me and my husband are going out to celebrate our 1st year anniversary…. I’m drinking lots of water and eating low calorie food in anticipation for a meal out.
Catch up with you all soon. Have a lovely weekend.
Wineaholic.xxxx

ply