Hi 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) 😆 Just dropping in quickly SAMM I am with you the 4-3 or that extra fast day per week and on the ADF the extra 1 every 2 weeks or 7 fast days a fortnight is significant in awakening those fat burning genes and also align with Jojo in that the 19/5 has also been an absolute find and very doable….Nama dear oh dear I hope the injury is on the mend poor ol OH what a good strong man you have 😉
Have a groovy weekend everyone
Peace RT

We have enough useless pollies too, Purple. we don’t need yours. Do you think the UK wants Abbot back?
All this talk about fingers reminds me of my little granson’s favourite book of last November.

Ten little fingers and ten little toes
Baby has them as everyone knows
and the corollary
Nama has ten too, but one’s a litle sore
Eat your veges cooked as they’re very dangerous raw.
Wiwi

XX Wiwi

What, P, your PM doesn’t qualify as a top pollie? No, we won’t keep him, he’s back your way later today.

No question as to who gives the little ones kisses and bandaids in your house, then, Nama.

Keep your fingers safe, everyone.

Was talking to my mate in North, he lives in Whangarei, still not got a job, but he is doing a course for woodworking.

Auto correct. Grrrr

Slept all day . Going to sleep all night then eat.

this is getting easier every week.
thinking I may start a bathing ritual to help keep hydrated during the 27hr tea water fasts..
after jumping rope of course

Watch the way he turns his head from side to side, Barata, going, “ah ah ah ah ah”. Backyard sprinkler! 😉

Good morning! I am just off to our local market, once again I shall be looking for kale. I have looked all over and not managed to find it. I will keep trying.

We have had a lovely breakfast of greek yogurt (one small pot between us) with blueberries. A brazil nut and half a walnut. Then it’s vegetable soup for dinner.

The sun is shining and the strong wind we had has dropped. Great for the childrens carnival parade scheduled for later today. Life is good.

Morning Amazon (and any others up)
Just in from a gorgeous dinner in a garden restaurant with friends. Balmy 23 deg summer evening (last one for the year ;( ) The food was great and the company excellent, but the piece de resistance was running into a student of mine from 7 years ago, with his parents. They were effusive in their praise of “how good I looked” and “what had I done”. I just said “I retired”. I’d hate to admit all the weight I have shed as well. Boy, does it do your ego a lot of good getting unsolicited praise like that!!!!
Happy girl! Purple 🙂

We could probably put an international fts band together, Happy. And no, my ex pupil and family were slender Asians. No need to promote 5:2. They said they would not have recognised me…how embarrassing. Got a big hug from the boy when they left. Sweet. The long term joys of teaching. 🙂 P

27 hours of fasting over !
This is my feed day!
500 calories every four hours then start another 27 hour fast. Ending when i go to work on monday.

the second big goal besides fasting is the exercise.
Trying for a doable 2000 calories a week of exercise.
I have 3 fast days so not much energy on the those days i don’t count the walking in calorie counts.
I try to get a doable 200 x 3 of lifting or skipping on the fast days. For 600
then on the feed days try for the remaining 1400 by 4.
350 cals of exercise on feed days. I try to get them done as i possibly can . That way they are not on my mind, and i can give my other life goals attention. Again with weights and skipping rope. I’m starting to go skip after Evertime i eat for about ten minutes. Unless I’m going to the gym.

I just cant say how hard it was in the beginning trying to skip rope again . But after 1 year its the fastest way to get 150 cals burned hiit included without interfering with my schedule for people and places.
i try to go to gym to get the compound lifting . Again the compound lifting saves time by making multiple muscle group movements . Like bending over to pick up a bar of 150lbs lifting it to knees squatting lifting to neck. Standing then lifting over head…

This simply saves time.
So my schedule for Saturday is
eat breakfast and skip rope.
eat lunch then lift weights
eat with friends and lift weights again
eat at 8- 9 pm with family then skip.

so sleeping most of the time sunday is welcomed.
Finding if i go skip rope while others are eating i can avoid seeing the foods. But really most of the skipping is right before i go back to work .. I know I get really hungry on the second skip session on a water fast day. So I do it right before breaking the fast. Or right before going to sleep.
This has worked well so many times it’s becoming clockwork. And that’s what I desire. Getting to weekly goals like clockwork

Thanks amazon.
Simcoeluv pointed out that even obese people live longer than average lifespans when they exercise continuously into old ages.
With that in mind I decided to both. Lose fat and keep exercising.
Fasting 3 days
Feeding on health and healing foods 4 days
Walking on the job for NEAT
Skipping for HIIT
Compound Lifting for weight bearing exercise and strength training.

It was just a matter of fitting it I to the routine. I’ll weigh in tommorrow. With updated stats.
Keep on keepin on.

Good morning fellow fasters.

Looks like there might be a drop or two of rain today (had a very heavy downpour yesterday which lasted all of about three minutes if that, just enough to settle some of the dust).

Had a FD yesterday, didn’t mean to it just happened, lol, in that was busy in the morning, had to race out for a first aid thing at work (I’m on call) back home around 2pm so had the left over from the night before and other than water or black, unsweetened coffee I didn’t have anything else all day/night. Still not hungry now so will keep going with water/coffee today and try to go until dinner tonight (but not fussed if I don’t make it that far but will have that as my aim) that way it will give a bit of a boost to my weigh in next Friday (hopefully).

Wine, sorry I can’t answer your question, but just letting you know I’ve read it 😀

SAMM personally I don’t know how you can sleep so much on a day … I have difficulty getting 5 or 6 hours over night and rarely more than 1 hour during the day … really I’m just a little jealous as I’d love to be able to sleep even one day a week like that 😀

PVE put me down for cymbals please that’s about the sum total of my musicality … yes I can keep rhythm … need to for dancing which I love but don’t do much of … just I don’t know any other musical instruments – oh wait maybe the triangle 😆

Amazon are you using measurements too? If not start taking them so that even now as the scales stall the tape measure can still be your friend as you reshape your body 😀

PVE I don’t think of a sprinkler with the head turning, mouth open, I think of the Laughing Clowns at the sideshows where you put a ball in the mouth and win a prize (if a child) … boy what a prize we all got!

AO,I’ve been taking measurements.

Some people seem to need less sleep than others, and these days I find that I sleep better if I’ve done some exercise. I guess that SAMM sleeps so much because his job is physically demanding, plus all the exercise and other demands of life making him really tired. He also does shifts which I used to do and I found it enabled me to sleep anytime.
Are you tired AO, do you feel you don’t get enough sleep? If so have you tried to work out why. Sometimes it can be something as simple as the wrong mattress or curtains/blinds letting too much light in.

I was searching through the smileys and found this which made me laugh

Hi Amazon
A good walk in the evening is excellent for me to sleep. Any excessive exercise often results in injuries that stop me sleeping 🙁
I shifted the worm farm and did some shovelling on Friday and hardly slept all night with a sore neck and shoulder.
Last night, I slept like a log after walking, swimming and 1/2 bottle of wine. 🙂 P

Amazon, sometimes I’m still tired, but most times not … just I’d love to laze around in bed for a time but as soon as I’m awake I have to be up these days … many years ago I could just turn over and go back to sleep.

I need to be very careful as even walking I get hurt as I am carrying a very painful groin injury (tendons) which my remedial masseuse is slowly resolving but it will take a while to fully resolve (which is why I can’t do much exercise but I do what I can), I’ve been known to start to take a step in a supermarket and being unable to move for a minute or two due to pain but that is getting less and less (to begin with I could only walk short times at work but as the weight started coming off and the massages started taking effect I’ve been able to walk a lot more which I now do at work every day).

If anyone else is thinking of “treating” themselves to kebab and chips ……… don’t do it. It’s not worth it. Just saying.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Happy fasting Amazon. Sunday night here, so my Monday fast has just started. Finished Sunday with a little honey mead with coffee 😉 P

Hi 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) 😆

Well my 4 week EOD study of one is over and despite my best efforts I couldn’t & didn’t quite match the predicted 4 week loss of 5.4kg 😥 I did however achieve a very respectable 4.4kg loss 😎 and have arrived safely at the final goal the brag book is
Start 96.0 kg BMI 29.6
Week 1 – 2.3kg = 93.7 kg
Week 2 – 1.1kg = 92.6 kg
Week 3 – 1.3kg = 91.3 kg
Week 4 -1.8kg = 89.5 kg
Week 5 – .08kg = 88.7 kg
Week 6 – 1.5kg = 87.2 kg
Week 7 – 1.4kg = 85.8 kg
Week 8 – 1.1kg = 84.7 kg
Week 9 – 1.2kg = 83.5 kg
Week 10 – 1.4kg = 82.1kg
Week 11 – 1.2kg = 80.9 kg
Week 12 – 1.3kg = 79.6 kg
Week 13 – 1.1kg = 78.5 kg
Week 14 – nil = 78.5 kg
Week 15 – 1.1kg = 77.4 kg
Week 16 – 1.3kg = 76.1 kg
Week 17 – 1.1kg = 75 kg
Week 18 – 600g = 74.4 kg
Week 19 – 400g = 74 kg
Weeks 20/24 – 4.4kg = 69.6 kg
24 weeks of Intermittent Fasting is 26kg of fat loss that is about -1.1kg a week and the last 4 weeks on the EOD I have a BMI of 21.5 thank you all for being such a huge part of my journey please let me continue to be a part of yours.
“There is nothing else you can do to your body that is as powerful as fasting”
Peace RT

RT,

Congratulations! You’ve done brilliantly. A new you in such a short space of time.

Welcome to maintenance 🙂

RT … AWESOME results, so glad you are part of our journey too. Yes, please stay and “play” now you’re at maintenance … would miss your posts too much 😀

Morning everyone else. Not very chatty this morning, still waking up. Have an early start today so need to get my A into Gear and get moving.

Hope to chat more later 😀

Well done on the fish and chip meal Jojo. Over time, it is really important for all of us to be able to use self control when faced with food that we used to gobble down mindlessly. It truly is the hardest lesson to learn. Top work, mate. P 🙂

Hi Jojo,

What a frustrating afternoon you’ve had.

Have you looked on the Apple website, you might find a solution there for your phone problems.

I am trying very hard to keep out of the kitchen and make it through to bed time without ruining my FD. I’ll be tucked up in bed by 10pm!

Hello all,

Wow RT, so very happy for you! You must be on cloud 9 today!! Heartiest congratulations. Such a wonderful result in such a short time, but you deserve it as you have been very disciplined from day 1. Please don’t leave us, your warmth and humour is greatly valued. Fancy over 2lb each and every week…you have proved it can be done and more than earned your stripes for being on this particular thread!!! I want what you’re having!

I hope your Sunday improved Jojo, so annoying when people let you down at the last minute.
Wee that is a moment to treasure with your dear Dad.

Monday morning in Melbourne is a glorious one, heading for 25 today, like being in California here lately.
Have a great week everyone!